The following is a list of professional wrestling attendance records in Mexico. The list is dominated by the now defunct Mexican ''

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'' promotion Universal Wrestling Association (1975–1995) which was the main rival of Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre (EMLL, now Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL)), Mexico's oldest professional wrestling promotion, during the 1970s and '80s. The country's modern two biggest promotions, CMLL and Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA, originally Asistencia Asesoría y Administración), have seven and six events on the list, respectively. The U.S.-based

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, which has controlled the industry in North America since 2002, has been slowly making inroads into the country holding several successful ''

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'' and '' SmackDown'' television tapings at the El Palacio de los Deportes in Mexico City between 2006 and 2011. According to this list, 3 events are from AAA's flagship

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(PPV) event series, which since 1994's

Triplemanía II-C Triplemanía II-C was a major ''lucha libre'', or professional wrestling event Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) that took place at the '' El Toreo'' bullfighting arena in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico on May 27, 1994. The show was t ...

has been held exclusively in

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s that typically have a

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of at least 20,000 people or more. The event series was created by Antonio Peña after breaking away from CMLL in 1992. All but eleven of the events have been held in Mexico's

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Mexico City Mexico City ( es, link=no, Ciudad de México, ; abbr.: CDMX; Nahuatl: ''Altepetl Mexico'') is the capital and largest city of Mexico, and the most populous city in North America. One of the world's alpha cities, it is located in the Valley o ...

, while seven additional events have been held in the

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, and one each in

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, Nayarit, and

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Events and attendances

Historical

Footnotes

References

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External links

Supercards & Tournaments: MexicoWrestling attendance records in Mexico at Wrestlingdata.com
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