Background For decades
Arena México, the main venue of the Mexican
professional wrestling promotion Consejo 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. 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 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 in
Mexico City, Mexico which is CMLL's main venue, its "home".
Storylines The event featured six
professional wrestling matches with different wrestlers involved in pre-existing
scripted feuds,
plots and
storylines. Wrestlers were portrayed as either
heels (referred to as
rudos in Mexico, those that portray the "bad guys") or
faces (
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==