Background The Mexican
wrestling company Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (Spanish for "World Wrestling Council"; CMLL) has held a number of major shows over the years using the moniker Sin Piedad ("No Pity" or "No Mercy"). CMLL has intermittently held a show billed specifically as Sin Piedad since 2000, primarily using the name for their "end of the year" show in December, although once they held a Sin Piedad show in August as well. CMLL has on occasion used a different name for the end-of-year show but Sin Piedad is the most commonly used name. All Sin Piedad shows have been held in
Arena México in
Mexico City, Mexico which is CMLL's main venue, its "home". The 2018 Sin Piedad was the third first show to be held on New Year's Day after being held on the same day in
2016 and
2017. Starting in 2011 CMLL has been promoting a New Year's Day show with bigger, more prominent and promoted matches, although they did not specifically promote the shows under a special event name, they were simply a special version of their weekly Arena Mexico shows. Starting in 2011 CMLL added at least one high profile match to their shows, slowly building them into a special event. in 2011 the show featured the annual
Reyes del Aire ("Kings of the Air") tournament, won by
Ángel de Oro. In 2012 the January 1 show saw
Hombre Bala Jr. and
Super Halcón Jr. defeated the team known as
Los Rayos Tapatío in a
Luchas de Apuestas, masks vs masks match in what turned out to be
Los Rayos last match in CMLL. The main event of the 2012 was the finals of a tournament for the vacant
CMLL World Heavyweight Championship which was
El Terrible defeat
Rush 17th heavyweight champion. The 2013 start of the year show was highlighted first by then
CMLL World Welterweight Champion Pólvora successfully defending against
Titán and then the team of
Boby Zavala and
Disturbio defeated
Leono and
Tigre Blanco, forcing Leono and Blanco to have their hair shaved off as a result. The 2014 show, the last January 1 show without a specific title saw Super Halcón Jr. win that year's
La Copa Junior tournament. The 2019 Sin Piedad show was the 14th show under the
Sin Piedad label.
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. ==Matches==