CMLL Día de Muertos (2017)

CMLL Día de Muertos (2017)
Official poster for the event
Promotion	Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre
Date	November 3, 2017[1]
City	Mexico City, Mexico[1]
Venue	Arena México[1]
Event chronology
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Día de Muertos chronology
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The CMLL Día de Muertos(2017) (Spanish for "Day of the Dead") is professional wrestling supercard event scripted and produced by the Mexican Lucha Libre promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL). The show took place on November 3, 2017 at CMLL's main venue, Arena México, in Mexico City, Mexico and celebrated the Mexican Day of the Dead holiday that ends on November 2 each year. For the event several wrestlers wore traditional Día de Muertos face and body paint. From the fourth match on the losing wrestlers would be dragged to El Inframundo ("The Underworld"), a side entrance in the arena. by a group of wrestlers dressed up as minions of the ruler of the underworld.

The main event was a Six-man "Lucha Libre rules" tag team match where Los Guerreros Laguneros (Euforia, Gran Guerrero and Último Guerrero) defeated Carístico, Rush and Volador Jr. by disqualification. The semi-main event was an eight-man elimination match for the Rey del Inframundo ("King of the Underworld") Championship, a championship created specifically for the show. The match was won by Sansón, lastly eliminating his long-time rival Soberano Jr. Also on the show, reigning CMLL World Women's Champion Dalys la Caribeña successfully defended her championship against four-time champion Marcela. The show included three additional matches.

Production

Background

The October 31, 2014 Día de Muertos show was the first of Mexican professional wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre's Dia de los Muertos ("Day of the Dead") celebrations in 2014 and began a tradition of CMLL holding a major show to celebrate the Latin American holiday. As part of their Dia de los Muerte celebrations CMLL admitted all kids in costumes for free for the show.^[2] CMLL held a second Dia de los Muerte celebration on Sunday November 2 as well. Both shows included the Edcanes, CMLL's ring girls and various wrestlers dressed up in traditional Día de Muertos garb. In 2014, CMLL also turned the basement of Arena México into a haunted house attraction before each show.^[3] CMLL has held one or more shows to celebrate the holiday annually since 2014, with 2018 marking the fourth year in a row.^[4]

Storylines

The Dia de Muertos 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.^[5]

Results

No.	Results[1][6][7]	Stipulations
1	Astral and Robin defeated Artillero and Espanto Jr.	Best two-out-of-three falls tag team match
2	Drone, Esfinge and Rey Cometa defeated La Dinastia Casas (Puma and Tiger) and Virus	Six-man "Lucha Libre rules" tag team match
3	La Peste Negra (Bárbaro Cavernario and Negro Casas) and Shocker defeated Ángel de Oro, Niebla Roja and Stuka Jr.	Six-man "Lucha Libre rules" tag team match
4	Dalys la Caribeña (c) defeated Marcela	Best two-out-of-three falls match for the CMLL World Women's Championship
5	Sansón defeated El Cuatrero, Diamante Azul, Forastero, Hechicero, Místico, Soberano Jr. and Valiente	Eight-man torneo cibernetico elimination match for the Rey del Inframundo Championship
6	Los Guerreros Laguneros (Euforia, Gran Guerrero and Último Guerrero) defeated Carístico, Rush and Volador Jr. by disqualification	Six-man "Lucha Libre rules" tag team match
(c)  – the champion(s) heading into the match

Rey del Inframundo order of elimination

Order	Wrestler[1][7]	Eliminated by[1][7]
1	Forastero	Valiente
2	Valiente	Hechicero
3	Hechicero	Diamante Azul
4	Diamante Azul	El Cuatrero and Sansón
5	Mistico	Sansón
6	El Cuatrero	El Soberano Jr.
7	El Soberano Jr.	Sansón
1	Winner	Sansón

See also

• 2017 in professional wrestling

References

1. Dark Angelita (November 10, 2017). "CMLL: Una mirada semanal al CMLL (del 2 al 8 de noviembre de 2017)". SuperLuchas (in Spanish). Retrieved August 8, 2018.
2. Redaccion (October 22, 2014). "Doble festejo del Día de Muertos en el CMLL". MedioTiempoo (in Spanish). MSN. Retrieved October 22, 2014.
3. Redaccion (October 29, 2014). "Recorrido de 'espanto' en la Arena México". MedioTiempo (in Spanish). MSN. Retrieved October 29, 2014.
4. Valdés, Apolo (October 29, 2016). "¡Gran sorpresa! Valiente campeón universal del CMLL" [Major surprise! Valiente is the CMLL Universal Champion]. MedioTiempo (in Spanish). MSN. Retrieved October 29, 2018.
5. 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: HarperCollins Publishers. p. 31. ISBN 978-0-06-085583-3. featuring clearly distinguished good guys and bad guys, or técnicos and rudos
6. "CMLL Super Viernes Dia de Muertos". CageMatch. November 3, 2017. Retrieved October 4, 2018.
7. Valdés, Apolo (November 4, 2017). "Sansón se proclamó el primer Rey del Inframundo en el CMLL". MedioTiempo (in Spanish). MSN. Retrieved October 3, 2018.