Several wrestlers and CMLL ring girls wear the traditional Calavera face paint during the shows.

CMLL Día de Muertos (Spanish for "Day of the Dead") is the collective name of a series of annually occurring lucha libre (or professional wrestling) supercard shows promoted by Mexican professional wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL). Starting in 2014, CMLL has held specially themed shows to celebrate Día de Muertos with a special edition of their CMLL Super Viernes show closest to November 2. Some years the celebrations extended to shows held on Saturday and Sunday as well but the focal point has been the Friday night shows in Arena México. There has been a total of eleven events promoted focusing on the Día de Muertos celebration, with the first taking place in 2014.

The October 31, 2014 Día de Muertos show was the first of CMLL's Dia de los Muertos celebrations and began a tradition of CMLL holding a major show to celebrate the Latin American holiday. As part of their Dia de los Muerte celebrations CMLL admitted all children in costumes for free for the show.[1] CMLL held a second Dia de los Muerte celebration on Sunday November 2 as well. Both shows included the Edcanes, CMLL's ring girls and various wrestlers dressed up in traditional Día de Muertos garb. In 2014, CMLL also turned the basement of Arena México into a haunted house attraction before each show.[2]

Dates, venues, and main events

Event Date City Venue Main Event Ref(s).
2014 October 31 Mexico City Arena México Último Guerrero vs. Rush [3]
2015 October 30 Volador Jr. vs. La Sombra for the NWA World Historic Welterweight Championship [4]
2016 October 29 Valiente vs. Volador Jr. for the 2016 Universal Championship [5]
2017 November 3 Carístico, Rush and Volador Jr. vs. Los Guerreros Laguneros (Euforia, Gran Guerrero and Último Guerrero) [6][7]
2018 November 2 Diamante Azul, L. A. Park and Michael Elgin vs. King Phoenix, Penta 0M and Último Guerrero in a six-man Relevos increíbles match [8][9][10]
2019 November 1 La Alianza de Plata y Oro (Carístico and Místico) vs. Los Guerreros Lagunero (Euforia and Gran Guerrero) (c) for the CMLL World Tag Team Championship [11]
November 3 Nueva Generacion Dinamitas (El Cuatrero and Forastero) and Gran Guerrero vs. Carístico, Místico and Soberano Jr.  
2020 October 30 El Terrible vs. Euforia [12]
2021 November 2 Felino vs. Místico vs. Volador Jr. vs. Valiente vs. Ángel de Oro vs. Gran Guerrero vs. Templario vs. Atlantis Jr. vs. Gemelo Diablo I vs. Gemelo Diablo II
2022 November 4 El Terrible vs. Stuka Jr. for the CMLL Rey del Inframundo Championship
2023 November 3 Stuka Jr. vs. El Barbaro Cavernario vs. for the CMLL Rey del Inframundo Championship
(c) – refers to the champion(s) heading into the match

References

  1. ↑ Redaccion (October 22, 2014). "Doble festejo del Día de Muertos en el CMLL". MedioTiempoo (in Spanish). MSN. Retrieved October 22, 2014.
  2. ↑ Redaccion (October 29, 2014). "Recorrido de 'espanto' en la Arena México". MedioTiempo (in Spanish). MSN. Retrieved October 29, 2014.
  3. ↑ Reducindo, Miguel (October 31, 2014). "Sorpresa de Día de Muertos en la Arena México ¡¡¡ Aparecio L.A. Park!!!" [Surprise at Day of the Dead in Arena Mexico! L.A. Park appears]. Estrellas del Ring (in Spanish). Retrieved October 29, 2018.
  4. ↑ "CMLL Super Viernes". CageMatch. October 30, 2019. Retrieved October 5, 2019.
  5. ↑ Valdés, Apolo (October 29, 2016). "¡Gran sorpresa! Valiente campeón universal del CMLL" [Major surprise! Valiente is the CMLL Universal Champion]. MedioTiempo (in Spanish). MSN. Retrieved October 29, 2018.
  6. ↑ Dark Angelita (November 10, 2017). "CMLL: Una mirada semanal al CMLL (del 2 al 8 de noviembre de 2017)" [CMLL: A weekly look at the CMLL (from November 2 to 8, 2017)]. Súper Luchas (in Spanish). Retrieved August 8, 2018.
  7. ↑ Valdés, Apolo (November 4, 2017). "Sansón se proclamó el primer Rey del Inframundo en el CMLL" [Sansón is crowned the first CMLL King of the underworld]. MedioTiempo (in Spanish). MSN. Retrieved October 3, 2018.
  8. ↑ Rosas Plata, Arturo (November 3, 2018). "Sansón, bicampeón del inframundo". Ovaciones (in Spanish). Archived from the original on November 4, 2018. Retrieved November 4, 2018.
  9. ↑ "Sansón se mantuvo como Rey del Inframundo en el CMLL". MedioTiempo (in Spanish). MSN. November 3, 2018. Retrieved November 4, 2018.
  10. ↑ Lizarraga, Alfonso (November 3, 2018). "Sansón continúa como campeón del Inframundo". The Gladiatores (in Spanish). Retrieved November 4, 2018.
  11. ↑ @VideosOficialesCMLL (November 1, 2019). "LUCHA LIBRE VIERNES ESPECTACULAR DIA DE MUERTOS 1 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2019 FUNCION COMPLETA" (in Spanish). YouTube. Retrieved November 2, 2019.
  12. ↑ VideosOficialesCMLL (September 26, 2020). "CMLL Octubre" (in Spanish). YouTube. Retrieved September 27, 2020.
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