''Juicio Final'' (2019) (

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for "Final Judgement" 2019) was a

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produced by

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(CMLL), which took take place on May 31, 2019, at

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in Mexico City, Mexico. The 2019 Juicio Final event was the fifteenth event promoted under the Juicio Final chronology. The main event, a '' Lucha de Apuesta'' ("Bet match"), saw

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defeat

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, forcing him to have all his hair shaved off as a result of his loss. The seven-match show also featured an additional ''Lucha de Apuesta'' where Mexican female wrestler

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defeated Japanese women's wrestling star

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. Also on the show, ''

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'' ( Euforia and

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) defeated

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and Valiente to win the

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and

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defeated

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in a ''Lucha de Apuesta'' where the loser was forced to retire from wrestling.

Production

Background

For decades

, the main venue of the Mexican

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(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"

show on the first or second Friday of December in lieu of their normal '' Super Viernes'' show. 1955 was the first year where CMLL used the name "''El Juicio Final''" ("The Final Judgement") for their year-end supershow. Until 2000 the ''Jucio Final'' name was always used for the year end show, but since 2000 has at times been used for shows outside of December. It is not 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

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which is CMLL's main venue, its "home".

Storylines

The Juicio Final event featured seven

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with different wrestlers involved in pre-existing

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feuds and storylines. Wrestlers portrayed

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(referred to as ''rudos'' in Mexican

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, those that portray the "bad guys") or

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(''técnicos'' in Mexican lucha libre, the "good guy" characters) as they participated in a series of tension-building events, which culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.

Results

References

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