''Juicio Final'' (2001) (
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for "Final Judgement") was a
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(PPV) show event produced by
Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre
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(CMLL) that took place on March 30, 2001 in
Arena México
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,
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. The show was produced with the tag line, Homenaje a Dos Leyendas: El Santo y Salvador Lutteroth (
Spanish
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for "Homage to Two Legends:
El Santo
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and
Salvador Lutteroth
Salvador Lutteroth González (21 March 1897 – 5 September 1987) was a Mexican professional wrestling promoter of the mid-twentieth century. Lutteroth's organization, Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre (EMLL), was the dominant Mexican wrestling pr ...
") to honor and remember CMLL founder Salvador Lutteroth and El Santo, the most famous Mexican wrestler ever.
This was the eleventh time that CMLL used the name "Jucio Final" for one of their major shows.
The following year the March show would be presented only as ''Homenaje a Dos Leyendas: El Santo y Salvador Lutteroth'' once again, with CMLL not using the ''Juicio Final'' show name until 2005.
The show featured six matches in total with the main event of the show being a ''
Lucha de Apuestas
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'', hair vs. mask match. The match saw
Perro Aguayo
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Aguayo was the first person ever ...
put his hair on the line and
Universo 2000
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"bet" his mask on the outcome of the match. The show featured four
Six-man "Lucha Libre rules" tag team matches including a match for the
Mexican National Trios Championship
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and a ''
Mini-Estrella
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''
tag team match
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Production
Background
Since 1996 the Mexican
wrestling company ''
Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre
Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre Co., Ltd. (CMLL; , "World Wrestling Council") is a ''lucha libre'' professional wrestling promotion based in Mexico City. The promotion was previously known as ''Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre'' (''EMLL'') (''Mexi ...
'' (Spanish for "World Wrestling Council"; CMLL) has held a show in March each year to commemorate the passing of CMLL founder
Salvador Lutteroth
Salvador Lutteroth González (21 March 1897 – 5 September 1987) was a Mexican professional wrestling promoter of the mid-twentieth century. Lutteroth's organization, Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre (EMLL), was the dominant Mexican wrestling pr ...
who died in March 1987.
For the first three years the show paid homage to Lutteroth himself, from 1999 through 2004 the show paid homage to Lutteroth and
El Santo
Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta (23 September 1917 – 5 February 1984), known professionally as El Santo or in English The Saint, was a Mexican luchador enmascarado (Spanish for "masked professional wrestler"), actor and folk hero. He is one of the mo ...
, Mexico's most famous wrestler ever and from 2005 forward the show has paid homage to Lutteroth and a different ''leyenda'' ("Legend") each year, celebrating the career and accomplishments of past CMLL stars. Originally billed as ''Homenaje a Salvador Lutteroth'', it has been held under the ''Homenaje a Dos Leyendas'' ("Homage to two legends") since 1999 and is the only show outside of
CMLL's Anniversary shows that CMLL has presented every year since its inception. All ''Homenaje a Dos Leyendas'' shows have been held in
Arena México
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in
Mexico City, Mexico
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which is CMLL's main venue, its "home".
Traditionally CMLL holds their major events on Friday Nights, which means the ''Homenaje a Dos Leyendas'' shows replace their regularly scheduled ''
Super Viernes'' show.
[ The 2001 show was the sixth overall ''Homenaje a Dos Leyendas'' show. The show was also billed as ''Jucio Final'' ("Final Judgement"), an event name or tag line that CMLL has used intermittently since the mid-1950s. 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
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in Mexico City, Mexico
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which is CMLL's main venue, its "home".[
]
Storylines
The ''Juicio Final'' show featured six professional wrestling matches
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with different wrestlers involved in pre-existing scripted
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Back ...
feuds, plots and storylines. Wrestlers were portrayed as either heels
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Structure
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(referred to as ''rudos'' in Mexico, those that portray the "bad guys") or faces
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(''técnicos'' in Mexico, the "good guy" characters) as they followed a series of tension-building events, which culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.
Results
References
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