| CMLL 81st Anniversary show | |||
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| Promotion | Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre | ||
| Date | September 19, 2014[1][2] Air date: September 19, 2014 (Terra.com)[3] October 19, 2014 (SamuraiTV) | ||
| City | Mexico City, Mexico | ||
| Venue | Arena México | ||
| Attendance | Over 17,000[4] | ||
| Tagline(s) | "La lucha del siglo" ("The match of the century") Sin Salida ("No Escape") | ||
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The CMLL 81st Anniversary Show (Spanish: 81. Aniversario de CMLL) was a major professional wrestling event produced by Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) that took place on September 19, 2014, in CMLL's home arena Arena México in Mexico City, Mexico. The event commemorated the 81st anniversary of the creation of CMLL, which is the oldest professional wrestling promotion in the world. CMLL's anniversary show is their biggest, most important show of the year, comparable to the Super Bowl for the National Football League or WrestleMania for World Wrestling Entertainment. The CMLL Anniversary Show series is the longest-running annual professional wrestling show, starting in 1934.
The main event of the show was a best two-out-of-three falls Lucha de Apuestas, or "bet match" between perennial rivals Atlantis and Último Guerrero, with both wrestlers putting their mask on the line. The show featured five more matches. The show made CMLL only the second promotion in the Americas, after WWE, to draw a $1 million gate.[4]
- ^ Salazar López, Alexis A. (August 2, 2014). "Resultados Arena México Viernes 1º de Agosto '14". Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (in Spanish). Archived from the original on September 17, 2013. Retrieved August 2, 2014.
- ^ Valdés, Apolo (August 2, 2014). "Último Guerrero y Atlantis, por las máscaras en el Aniversario del CMLL". MedioTiempo (in Spanish). Retrieved August 2, 2014.
- ^ "Transmisión EN VIVO del 81 Aniversario CMLL" (in Spanish). Terra.com. September 19, 2014. Retrieved September 19, 2014.
- ^ a b Meltzer, Dave (September 29, 2014). "Sep 22 2014 Wrestling Observer Newsletter: Roman Reigns injury update, Night of Champions, Atlantis vs. Guerrero, huge issue". Wrestling Observer Newsletter. Campbell, California: 7. ISSN 1083-9593.
More than 17,000 fans, a standing room only crowd, paid in excess of $1 million, for CMLL's 81st anniversary show at Arena Mexico in Mexico City. In doing so, CMLL has become only the second promotion ever to run in the North, South or Central America (WWE obviously being the other) to ever draw a $1 million gate.