Juicio Final (1981)

Juicio Final (1981) (Spanish for "Final Judgement" 1993) was a professional wrestling supercard show, scripted and produced by Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), which took place on December 4, 1981, in Arena México, Mexico City, Mexico. The show served as the year-end finale for CMLL before Arena México, CMLL's main venue, closed down for the winter for renovations and to host Circo Atayde. The shows replaced the regular Super Viernes ("Super Friday") shows held by CMLL since the mid-1930s.

Juicio Final (1981)
PromotionEmpresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre
DateDecember 4, 1981
CityMexico City, Mexico
VenueArena México
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Only the outcome of three of the six matches have been recorded, with the remaining three only being documented in event posters. The main event match was a Lucha de Apuestas, or "bet match" which saw Ringo Mendoza winning the match by disqualification as El Faraón landed a foul on Mendoza and as a result El Faraón had his hair shaved off. In the semi-main event the tag team of Américo Rocca and Espectro Jr. defeated Cachorro Mendoza and El Alfil in a match that saw Mendoza shaved bald afterwards while El Alfil was forced to unmask and state his birth name, Mario Saucedo, per lucha libre traditions. The fourth match of the night saw Alfonso Dantés retain the Mexican National Light Heavyweight Championship against Máscara Año 2000.

Production

Background

For decades Arena México, the main venue of the Mexican professional wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), would close down in early December and remain closed into either January or February to allow for renovations as well as letting Circo Atayde occupy the space over the holidays. As a result, CMLL usually held a "end of the year" supercard show on the first or second Friday of December in lieu of their normal Super Viernes show. 1955 was the first year where CMLL used the name "El Juicio Final" ("The Final Judgement") for their year-end supershow.[1][2] It is no longer an annually recurring show, but instead held intermittently sometimes several years apart and not always in the same month of the year either. All Juicio Final shows have been held in Arena México in Mexico City, Mexico which is CMLL's main venue, its "home".[3]

Storylines

The 1981 Juicio Final show featured six professional wrestling matches scripted by CMLL with some wrestlers involved in scripted feuds. The wrestlers portray either heels (referred to as rudos in Mexico, those that play the part of the "bad guys") or faces (técnicos in Mexico, the "good guy" characters) as they perform.[4]

Results
No. Results[5][6][7] Stipulations
1D Scaramouche vs. Celeste (result unknown) Singles match
2D El Supremo and Mocho Cota vs. Franco Colombo and Takasugi (result unknown) Tag team]] match
3D La Fiera and El Satánico vs. Lizmark and Tony Salazar (result unknown) Tag team match
4 Alfonso Dantés (c) defeated Máscara Año 2000 Singles match for the Mexican National Light Heavyweight Championship
5 Américo Rocca and Espectro Jr. defeated El Alfil and Cachorro Mendoza Best two-out-of-three falls Lucha de Apuestas, hair vs. hair match
6 Ringo Mendoza defeated El Faraón by disqualification Best two-out-of-three falls Lucha de Apuestas, hair vs. hair match[8]
  • (c) – refers to the champion(s) heading into the match
  • D – indicates the match was a dark match

References
  1. "EMLL Super Viernes". Wrestling Data. December 2, 1955. Retrieved March 21, 2019.
  2. Salazar, Fernando (May 31, 2019). "Juicio Final nos ha regalado Luchas de Apuestas emblematicas" [Juicio Final has provided some emblematic bet matches]. Record (in Spanish). Retrieved June 1, 2019.
  3. Madigan, Dan (2007). "El nacimient de un sueño (the birth of a dream)". Mondo Lucha A Go-Go: the bizarre & honorable world of wild Mexican wrestling. HarperColins Publisher. pp. 41–50. ISBN 978-0-06-085583-3.
  4. Madigan, Dan (2007). ""Okay... what is Lucha Libre?"". Mondo Lucha a Go Go: the bizarre & honorable world of wild Mexican wrestling. New York, New York: HarperColins Publisher. p. 31. ISBN 978-0-06-085583-3. featuring clearly distinguished good guys and bad guys, or técnicos and rudos
  5. "EMLL Super Viernes". Wrestling Data. December 4, 1981. Retrieved March 21, 2019.
  6. "1981 Especial!". Box y Lucha Magazine (in Spanish). Mexico City, Mexico: Impresora y Encuaderanadora Glem S.A. de C.V. January 7, 1982. pp. 2–28. ISSN 2007-0896. 1501.
  7. Centinela, Teddy (December 4, 2015). "En un día como hoy... 1981: Ringo Mendoza rapa a El Faraón — El Alfil y Cachorro Mendoza pierden máscara y cabellera". Super Luchas (in Spanish). Retrieved October 30, 2019.
  8. Centinela, Teddy (December 10, 2014). "En un día como hoy… Satánico y Sangre Chicana empatan en lucha de cabelleras". SuperLuchas Magazine (in Spanish). Retrieved June 29, 2015.
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