Juicio Final (1977) (
Spanish for "Final Judgement" 1977) was a
professional wrestlingsupercard show, scripted and produced by
Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), which took place on December 9, 1977, 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.
For the 1977 Juicio Final main event the teams of
El Faraón/
Ringo Mendoza and Joe Palardy/
Perro Aguayo faced off in a Lucha de Apuestas with all four wrestlers' hair on the line. Faraón and Mendoza won the match, leading to Palardy and Aguayo having all their hair shaved off afterwards. In the semi-main event match
Ultraman and
Fishman wrestled to a double count out in a match for the
Mexican National Welterweight Championship. The show featured four additional matches.
Production
Background
For decades
Arena México, the main venue of the Mexican
professional wrestling promotionConsejo 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. The first year when CMLL used the name "El Juicio Final" ("The Final Judgement") for their year-end supershow was 1955.[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. 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 1977 Juicio Final show featured seven
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]
^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. HarperCollins Publishers. pp. 41–50.
ISBN978-0-06-085583-3.
^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.
ISBN978-0-06-085583-3. featuring clearly distinguished good guys and bad guys, or técnicos and rudos
Juicio Final (1977) (
Spanish for "Final Judgement" 1977) was a
professional wrestlingsupercard show, scripted and produced by
Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), which took place on December 9, 1977, 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.
For the 1977 Juicio Final main event the teams of
El Faraón/
Ringo Mendoza and Joe Palardy/
Perro Aguayo faced off in a Lucha de Apuestas with all four wrestlers' hair on the line. Faraón and Mendoza won the match, leading to Palardy and Aguayo having all their hair shaved off afterwards. In the semi-main event match
Ultraman and
Fishman wrestled to a double count out in a match for the
Mexican National Welterweight Championship. The show featured four additional matches.
Production
Background
For decades
Arena México, the main venue of the Mexican
professional wrestling promotionConsejo 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. The first year when CMLL used the name "El Juicio Final" ("The Final Judgement") for their year-end supershow was 1955.[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. 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 1977 Juicio Final show featured seven
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]
^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. HarperCollins Publishers. pp. 41–50.
ISBN978-0-06-085583-3.
^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.
ISBN978-0-06-085583-3. featuring clearly distinguished good guys and bad guys, or técnicos and rudos