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Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre
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Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre co. ltd is a lucha libre professional wrestling promotion based in Mexico City. The promotion is also referred to by its previous name Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre, founded in 1933, it is the oldest professional wrestling promotion still in existence. CMLL has been nicknamed The serious and the stable, referencing their very conservative booking style, outside of live television broadcasts CMLL, has not shown matches where one of the competitors bleed. CMLL has on occasion fired wrestlers for excessive violence, like the use of chairs, CMLL currently recognizes and promotes twelve World Championships for various weight divisions and classifications, six national level and six regional level championships. The CMLL Anniversary Show series is the longest running annual major show, starting in 1934, CMLL also regularly promotes major events under the names Homenaje a Dos Leyendas, Sin Piedad, Sin Salida, Infierno en el Ring during the year. CMLL has promoted their regular weekly Super Viernes on a basis since the 1930s. Founder Salvador Lutteroth funded the building of Arena Coliseo in 1943, in 1929, Salvador Lutteroth, who at the time was a property inspector for the Mexican Tax department, moved to Ciudad Juárez near the Mexico/U. S. During a trip to El Paso, Texas Lutteroth witnessed a professional wrestling show and was intrigued by the show, four years later Lutteroth, along with his financial backer Francisco Ahumada chartered Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre, the first Mexican owned wrestling promotion in the country. EMLL held their first shown on September 21,1933, considered the birth of Lucha libre, the concept of Lucha Libre quickly became very popular, so much so that the EMLL 1st Anniversary Show drew a sell out crowd of 5,000 paying fans. In 1934, an American wrestler debuted in Mexico under a black, leather mask, through the use of the masks and ring characters EMLL helped create the sacred position of the mask in Lucha libre, making it the ultimate status symbol for luchadors. In the early days of EMLL most of the top names were Americans, each booking office was independent of each other but the main office in Mexico City had the final say if there were disputes over who would be able to book certain wrestlers. In 1942, a masked wrestler clad is silver, simply known as El Santo, the arena, nicknamed the Lagunilla Funnel due to its interior shape would hold over 8,800 spectators when configured for Lucha libre or boxing. Arena Coliseo began hosting EMLLs annual Anniversary shows starting with the 10th Anniversary show, in 1953, Salvador Lutteroth joined the US based National Wrestling Alliance, becoming the official NWA territory for all of Mexico, known as NWA-EMLL outside of Mexico. By joining the NWA, Lutteroth and EMLL gained control of the NWA World Light Heavyweight Championship, as it turns out luck was on Lutteroth and EMLLs side as Lutteroth and the personnel at Arena Coliseo bought a lottery ticket worth 5 million Pesos. Lutteroth used his portion of the winnings to finance the construction of Arena México, Arena México enabled EMLL to broadcast their weekly wrestling shows across Mexico, yielding a popularity explosion for the sport. Starting in 1956, with the EMLL 23rd Anniversary Show all anniversary shows were held in Arena México, over time the arena became known as The Cathedral of Lucha Libre. The two took a number of EMLLs younger wrestlers with them to form Lucha Libre Internacional, S. C, with the creation of the UWA EMLL faced a rival national promotion for the first time. In the mid-1980s, Chavo Lutteroth retired, allowing his nephew Paco Alonso, grandson of Salvador Lutteroth, in the late 1980s EMLL decided to leave the NWA, seeking to distance themselves from the political infighting in the National Wrestling Alliance
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Arkangel de la Muerte
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Arkangel de la Muerte is a luchador enmascarado, or masked professional wrestler, best known for his work in the Mexican professional wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre. He is often referred to as just Arkangel, and previously worked under the ring name Mister Cid until 1991 and his name means Archangel of Death in Spanish. Arkangels real name is not a matter of record, as is often the case with masked wrestlers in Mexico where their private lives are kept a secret from the wrestling fans. His patronymic and matronymic surnames are known as his brother Antonio Pasilla Dorado has been unmasked and revealed his full name, on June 8,1988, Mr. Cid teamed with Pantera II to win the Naucalpan Tag Team Championship in a tournament final against Convoy and Perverso. The team did not last long, with a break up that led to a feud between the two men. On September 4,1988, Pantera II defeated Mr. Cid in a Luchas de Apuesta, mask vs. mask match, forcing Mr. Cid to unmask. A week later Pantera II and Carnelo Casas defeated Mr. Cid and Bestia Verde in another Luchas de Apuesta match, in 1990 Mr. Cid teamed with Canelo Casas to win the Naucalpan Tag Team Championship once more, holding it until 1991. In June 1991 Mr. Cid changed ring characters, becoming Arkangel de la Muerte, as Arkangel he won the Naucalpan Tag Team Championship for a third time, this time while teaming with Guerrero de la Muerte who became a regular partner for Arkangel in the following years. The team also held the Distrito Federal Tag Team Championship at some point in the first half of the 1990s and they would also team with El Felino to hold the Distrito Federal Trios Title in 1991, losing the title to Los Metalicos. By the mind 1990s the de la Muerte tag team had broken up with Arkangel focusing on singles competition instead. On September 25,1998, Arkangel defeated El Torero for the Mexican National Welterweight Championship, bringing the title back to Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre for the first time in five years. Over the next 178 days Arkangel successfully defended the title against Máscara Mágica, El Torero, Astro Rey, Jr. and Pantera before losing the title to Astro Rey, Jr. on March 22,1999. Five months later Arkangel won the CMLL World Welterweight Championship from Super Delfin on a show in Kawasaki, Arkangel defended the title several times, both in Mexico and Japan before losing the belt to Nosawa in January 20001 ending his title reign after at least 875 days. In 2004 Arkangel held the Distrito Federal Welterweight Championship for a period of time before losing the title to Ludwig Star. In 2004 Arkangel de la Muerte became one of the members of a group called Pandilla Guerrera. The Pandilla Guerrera group consisted of wrestlers, teaming together in the hopes of improving their position on the card. When the group saw limited success by the association with Los Guerreros del Infierno they decided to break away from them in 2007. Arkangel, along with Nitro, Doctor X, Hooligan, Loco Max and Skándalo formed a group called Rebeldes del Desierto, Arkangel is the co-leader of the group along with Nitro
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Atlantis (wrestler)
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Atlantis is a Mexican luchador enmascarado, working for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre where he performs as a Técnico. Atlantis was trained by Diablo Velasco, made his debut in 1983 and has always wrestled under the ring name Atlantis. Atlantis has held a number of professional wrestling championships over the years. He has also won the mask of several prominent wrestlers through his career including Kung Fu, Villano III, Último Guerrero, Atlantis earned the nickname El idolo de los Niños as he was always a favorite with the younger fans. In the 1990s Atlantis starred in a couple of Lucha films, including one where he teamed up with Octagón called Octagón y Atlantis, Atlantis made his professional wrestling debut on June 12,1983, after training under world-renowned Mexican wrestling trainer Diablo Velazco for just under a year. He adopted the ring persona of Atlantis, a supposed warrior from the lost city of Atlantis. After working for various Mexican promotions for the first year of his career Atlantis became a regular for Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre, on November 30,1984, Atlantis defeated Jerry Estrada to win the Mexican National Middleweight Championship, the first wrestling title of his career. Atlantis held the Middleweight title for 457 days, with high profile title defenses that helped establish the young wrestlers reputation for good matches. On March 2,1986 Atlantis lost the Middleweight title to Talismán, by 1988 Atlantis had formed a regular tag team with Ángel Azteca and on March 6,1988, the duo defeated Los Infernales (Masakre and MS-1 to win the Mexican National Tag Team Championship. Three months later Atlantis became a champion when he defeated Kung Fu to win the NWA World Middleweight Championship. Atlantis only held the title for 37 days before losing it to Emilio Charles and he quickly regained the title, defeating Charles, Jr. on July 20,1988, and held it for two weeks before losing the title back to Emilio Charles, Jr. On May 25,1990, after an 811-day reign, Atlantis and Ángel Azteca lost the Mexican Nation Tag Team Championship to Pierroth Jr. the loss of the title was used as a storyline motivation for Ángel Azteca turning Rudo (villain or heel by attacking Atlantis. The feud between the two continued off and on over the years until Ángel Aztecas death in 2007, the two fought in several intense and bloody battles, but remained close friends backstage. In 1991 Atlantis starred in a movie called La Fuerza Bruta and soon began filming another movie where he teamed up with Octagón called Octagón y Atlantis. On April 4,1991, Atlantis, Octagón, and Máscara Sagrada, the trio held the title for 94 days before losing it to Los Hermanos Dinamita on August 11,1991. Atlantis was also offered a contract by AAA but decided to stay with the company he had worked for almost his entire career, on March 3,1993, Atlantis lost the NWA World Middleweight title to Mano Negra, as part of a long-running storyline between the two. On November 3,1995, Atlantis teamed with Rayo de Jalisco, the team lost the tag team title in August 1996 but Atlantis and new partner Lizmark won the titles back from La Ola Blanca. Atlantis and Lizmark only held the title for 12 days before the titles were vacated following a match with the Headhunters
