Matt Farmer Posted May 31, 2015 Report Share Posted May 31, 2015 I posted this on another message board then figured some here would enjoy reading it. This comes to us from a 2006 edition of Luchas 2000 with DJ Spectro making the list. From the magazine I posted the date and the match/location, then I added some footnotes to some of the matches. Even made some corrections to dates as well. Since the list only reaches 2006 it may be missing a few. If you feel like adding to the list it could make for some interesting discussion. Remember these area only cabelleras versus cabelleras or hair versus hair match. So a match like the AAA/WCW When World's Collide match with Santo & Octagon wrestling Barr & Guerrero would not qualify. At times, I'll write little notes on the matches or events surrounding the match.Los 100 Encuentros de cabelleras mas Apasionantes1) September 25, 1959 Arena Mexico (26th Anniversary)Cavernario Galindo beat Torbellino Blanco. Also on the card Espectro voluntarily unmasked to reveal himself to be Antonio Hernandez Arriaga, who is the uncle to AAA founder Antonio Pena. Cavernario Galindo is one of Mexico's most famous rudos.2) May 20, 1964 Arena MexicoEspanto I beat Dorrel Dixon3) July 30, 1965 Arena MexicoRay Mendoza beat Karloff Lagarde4) August 30, 1965 Arena MexicoRene Guajardo beat Ray MendozaRay Mendoza had recently turned technico and fought his former friends of Lagarde and Guajardo. This match was a massive success as it sold out Arena Mexico and drew more than 150,000 pesos!5) December 10, 1965 Arena MexicoKarloff Lagarde beat Cavernario GalindoOn the same bill Huracan Ramirez took the mask of Scoprio in front of a huge crowd.6) September 2, 1966 Arena MexicoJerry London beat Karloff LagardeThis was EMLL's 33rd Anniversary and sold out Arena Mexico and drew 163,987 pesos and turned thousands of fans away.7) September 30, 1966 Arena MexicoJerry London beat Rene GuajardoDuring this era EMLL would often run numerous cards celebrating their Anniversary. This was another and sold out Arena Mexico. In fact this was the forth straight Friday night sellout at Arena Mexico.8) June 11, 1968 Arena MexicoBlack Shadow beat Dorrel Dixon9) August 20, 1968 Arena MexicoBlack Shadow beat Karloff Lagarde10) April 25, 1969 Arena MexicoRay Mendoza & Black Shadow beat Los Hippies (El Vikingo & Renato Torres)This was the 13th Anniversary to the opening of Arena Mexico. This was actually the semi main event to Rayo de Jalisco defending his NWA World Middleweight Title against El Santo. They drew 200,660 Pesos for a sold out Arena.11) August 6, 1971 Arena MexicoDorrel Dixon & Ray Mednoza beat Rene Guajardo & Katsuhisa Shibata12) September 24, 1971 Arena MexicoRenato Torres beat Ciclon Veloz Jr13) June 29, 1973 Arena MexicoRene Guajardo beat YamamotoYamamoto was better known as Kantaro Hoshino from New Japan Pro Wrestling14) February 5, 1975 Palacio de los Deportes DFRay Mendoza beat Sunny War Cloud15) July 18, 1975 Arena MexicoLos Gemelos Diablos I & II beat Alberto Munoz & Adonis RomanoA semi-main event match between Perro Aguayo successfully defended his NWA World Middleweight Title against Ricky Starr.16) July 26, 1975 Plaza de Toros DFGran Hamada beat Rene GuajardoThis match was part of a massive show headlined by Mil Mascaras defending his IWA Heavyweight Championship against Lou Thesz. Plaza de Toros is a huge bull fight arena that hold around 50,000 people but due to a huge rainstorm that day is kept the crowd to under 15,000 people. There were two more hair matches on the undercard which lead to Lou Thesz remembering wrestling on a wet mat that was covered in hair!17) May 16, 1976 Arena Coliseo, GuadalajaraRingo Mendoza beat Perro Aguayo18) September 24, 1976 Arena MexicoEl Faraon beat Perro AguayoThis was for the 43rd Anniversary of EMLL19) April 22, 1977 Arena MexicoCachorro Mendoza beat Karloff Lagarde20) May 29, 1977 Palacio de los Deportes DFRay Mendoza & Rene Guajardo beat Angel BlancoThis was a relevos suicidas in that it was a six man tag team match. Where Mendoza, Guajardo and Blanco lost to the team of El Solitario & Dr. Wagner and Anibal.21) December 9, 1977 Arena MexicoRingo Mendoza & El Faraon beat Perro Aguayo & Joe Palardi22) January 29, 1978 El Toreo de Cuatro CaminosBabe Face & Scorpio beat Bello Greco & Sergio el HermosoThis was during an era when UWA was so stacked from top to bottom this match, which would normally be featured higher was the second match on a five match card. The main event was Mil Mascaras defending his IWA Heavyweight Title against Temojin el Mongol, better known as Killer Khan.23) February 17, 1978 Arena MexicoTony Salazar beat Carlos Plata24) August 28, 1978 Arena MexicoTony Salazar beat Ringo Mendoza25) December 17, 1978 El Toreo de Cuatro CaminosEl Signo beat Gran Hamada26) March 2, 1979 Arena MexicoHalcon Ortiz beat Pack ChooPack Choo was better known as New Japan Pro Wrestling star Kengo Kimura.27) April 20, 1979 Arena MexicoAlfonso Dantes beat El FaraonThis card was celebrating 23 years of the opening of Arena Mexico. Both the NWA World Middleweight and Welterweight championships were defended on the same night. Ringo Mendoza kept his Middleweight crown by beating Sangre Chicana while Mano Negra lost his Welterweight title to Americo Rocca.28) June 8, 1979 Arena MexicoCarlos Plata & Herodes beat TNT & El Cobarde29) June 15, 1979 Arena MexicoSatoru Sayama beat Alfonso DantesSayama of course is the original Tiger Mask. And there was some real life tension between these two.30) December 2, 1979 El Toreo de Cuatro CaminosLobo Rubio beat Negro NavarroThis was during an era where Negro Navarro could participate in one of these matches.31) June 18, 1980 Arena Naucalpan EDO de MexGran Hamada beat El Polaco32) June 29, 1980 Palacio de los Deportes DFRene Guajardo beat Perro AguayoThis match sold out the huge Sports Palace.33) October 2, 1980 Pista Arena Revolucion DFBobby Lee beat Indio Vitela34) December 5, 1980 Arena MexicoSangre Chicana & Alfonso Dantes beat El Cobarde & El Jalisco I35) October 23, 1981 Arena MexicoHalcon Ortiz beat Herodes36) December 4, 1981 Arena MexicoRingo Mendoza beat El Faraonunderneath this match was a double mask and hair versus mask and hair match with Americo Rocca & Espectro Jr versus Cachorro Mendoza & Alfil.37) June 13, 1982 Arena MexicoLos Misioneros de la Muerte (El Signo & El Texano & Negro Navarro) beat Masa Saito & Kuniaki Kobayashi & George TakanoIn this match the losing team had to all get their head shaved.38) July 2, 1982 Arena MexicoSangre Chicana beat El Satanico39) September 17, 1982 Arena MexicoPerro Aguayo beat Tony SalazarThe 49th Anniversary of Lucha Libre sold out Arena Mexico. This match moved into the main event as this was the famous card where Ric Flair was scheduled to defend his NWA World Championship against Halcon Ortiz.40) October 15, 1982 Arena MexicoAmerico Rocca beat La Fiera41) December 12, 1982 El Toreo de Cuatro CaminosBabe Face beat Ringo Rigby42) February 18, 1983 Arena MexicoEl Jalisco I beat La Fiera43) April 24, 1983 Arena MexicoPirata Morgan beat Cesar Curiel44) July 1, 1983 Arena MexicoMocho Cota & La Fiera beat Ringo & Cachorro MendozaAlso on the undercard Jerry Estrada took the hair of Franco Colombo. But that match didn't make the list.45) September 9, 1983 Arena MexicoGran Cochisse beat Mocho CotaLuchas 2000 got the date wrong as they listed September 4th but the 9th is correct. It was part one of EMLL's 50th Anniversary.46) September 16, 1983 Arena MexicoEl Satanico beat La FieraThis was part two of EMLL's 50th Anniversary and it celebrated Salvador Lutteroth and super trainer Diablo Velasco.47) September 23, 1983 Arena MexicoSangre Chicana beat MS-1Part three of EMLL's 50th Anniversary.48) June 24, 1983 El Toreo de Cuatro CaminosBabe Face beat El SignoThis was a captains lose their hair with Los Tigres del Ring (Babe Face & Scorpio & Luis Mariscal) beat Los Misioneros de la Muerte (El Signo & El Texano & Negro Navarro)49) August 5, 1984 Arena MexicoSangre Chicana beat Tony Salazar50) September 7, 1984 Arena MexicoMocho Cota beat Chamaco Valaguez51) October 26, 1984 Arena MexicoTalisman beat Americo Rocca52) October 26, 1984 Arena MexicoEl Dandy drew Javier CruzBecause the match ended in a draw both men lost their hair.53) April 12, 1985 Arena MexicoHerodes beat Rino Castro54) August 9, 1985 Arena Coliseo, GuadalajaraEl Satanico beat Alfonso Dantes55) December 6, 1985 Arena MexicoEl Dandy beat Gran CochisseIn the main event Solar II took the hood of Belcebu to reveal Juan Manuel Llanes Olivares aka Rey Barbaro.56) March 7, 1986 Arena MexicoMocha Cota beat TalismanLucha 2000 reported that this match took place on February 21, 1986. But the date above is correct.57) February 28, 1986 Arena MexicoSangre Chicana beat Perro AguayoSince the 56th entry is not correct, these two listing should be swapped in Lucha 2000's list. This was the first of five hair versus hair matches between these two. And it was the only time Chicana won. But both men won at the box office as this match set a new record gate for Arena Mexico and turned away thousands of people.58) May 2, 1986 Pavilion Azteca, DFLos Gran Apaches I & II beat Los Mochicanos I & IIThis was for a kids based promotion called AWWA.59) July 4, 1986 Arena MexicoPirata Morgan beat MS-160) September 5, 1986 Arena MexicoLos Misioneros de la Muerte (El Signo & El Texano & Negro Navarro) beat Talisman & El Dandy & Jerry EstradaThis card also marked the debut of Eddy Guerrero to Arena Mexico.61) September 16, 1986 Arena MexicoRingo Mendoza & Tony Salazar & Americo Rocca beat Los Misioneros de la Muerte (El Signo & El Texano & Negro Navarro)A stacked card for their 53rd Anniversary.62) February 15, 1987 El Toreo de Cuatro CaminosPerro Aguayo beat Sangre ChicanaTheir feud continues as their second hair match marked the anniversary of their first match in 1986.63) April 17, 1987 El Toreo de Cuatro CaminosBlack Man beat Rudy Reyna64) July 31, 1987 Arena MexicoJavier Llanes & Americo Rocca & Chamaco Valaguez beat Los Destructores (Emilio Charles Jr & Tony Arce & Vulcano)A triple hair versus hair match. Javier Llanes is the son of Enrique Llanes, who's sister was married to Gori Guerrero. So Javier was the cousin to Chavo, Mando, Hector and Eddy.65) August 2, 1987 El Toreo de Cuatro CaminosScorpio Sr beat TambaI've looked and looked but this has got to be a wrong date. Anyone that has seen Tamba will realize a Hair match doesn't work. I've got a hair match between these two from 1982, which may have been mistaken for and he may have had a little hair then.66) August 28, 1987 El Toreo de Cuatro CaminosPerro Aguayo beat Scorpio Sr67) October 23, 1987 Arena MexicoMS-1 & Masakre beat Herodes & Martin Escobedo68) August 16, 1988 Arena MexicoEl Satanico beat El TexanoCorrect date would be September 16, 198869) September 2, 1988 Arena MexicoMS-1 beat Negro NavarroSo I guess 68 and 69 should be reversed. But it really doesn't matter as this is just the top 100 matches.70) August 18, 1989 Arena MexicoIrma Aguilar beat Martha VillalobosA rare co-main event for a women's match at Arena Mexico. The other match was Pirata Morgan taking the hair of Steve Nelson.71) December 14, 1990 Arena MexicoEl Dandy beat El SatanicoJucio Final was a huge sold out card with the main being a triangle mask match with Octagon & Fuerza Guerrera beating Huracan Ramirez II for his hood.72) December 16, 1990 Arena MexicoLos Texas Rangers I & II beat Americo Rocca & Chamaco Valaguez73) March 3, 1991 Arena MexicoKato Kung Lee beat Kung Fu2nd sellout for Arena Mexico in a 5 consecutive week sellout streak.74) June 2, 1991 El Toreo de Cuatro CaminosPerro Aguayo beat Negro Navarro75) September 6, 1991 Arena MexicoPerro Aguayo & Konnan beat Cien CarasVery famous 58th Anniversary triangle main event. These men put just under 20,000 people into Arena Mexico.76) September 8, 1991 Arena MexicoJerry Estrada beat La Fiera77) June 20, 1993 Arena Coliseo DFTornado Negro beat Aguila India78) April 26, 1994 Plaza de Toros Monumental, AguascalientesHeavy Metal beat Jerry EstradaPart of Triple Mania II.79) October 14, 1994 Arena MexicoEmilio Charles Jr beat Miguelito Perez Jr80) August 30, 1996 Arena MexicoRambo beat Brazo de Oro81) October 18, 1996 Arena MexicoNegro Casas beat Bestia Salvaje82) April 24, 1998 Arena MexicoGran Markus Jr beat Brazo de Oro83) February 25, 2000 Arena MexicoTarzan Boy beat El Satanico84) May 12, 2000 Auditorio de Tijuana, TijuanaNicho el Millionaro beat Rey Misterio SrNicho was the original Psicosis.85) June 29, 2001 Auditorio de Tijuana, TijuanaDamian 666 beat Halloween86) July 29, 2001 Arena MexicoVillano III beat El Signo87) May 31, 2002 Arena MexicoShocker & Mascara Magica beat Katsushi Takemura & Masada88) February 14, 2003 Arena MexicoRicky Marvin beat ZumbidoMarvin won this match by count out. In the main event Ultimo Guerrero beat Shocker in a match defending CMLL Light Heavyweight Title match.89) February 28, 2003 Auditorio de Tijuana, TijuanaRey Misterio Sr beat KissThese two have been feuding for years and years.90) June 20, 2003 Arena MexicoPierroth Jr beat Cien Caras91) October 26, 2003 Arena Solidaridad, MonterreyLatin Lover beat Hector Garza92) April 30, 2004 Arena MexicoZumbido beat Super Crazy93) September 10, 2004 Auditorio de Tijuana, TijuanaShocker beat Halloween94) December 17, 2004 Arena MexicoCien Caras & Mascara Ano 2000 beat Pierroth Jr & Vampiro Canadiense95) July 25, 2005 Arena Puebla, PueblaPierroth Jr beat El Satanico96) December 2, 2005 Arena MexicoUniverso 2000 beat HalloweenWith a very strong undercard including Mistico and Perro Aguayo Jr they sold out Arena Mexico97) December 10, 2005 Plaza de Toros Progresso, GuadalajaraShocker beat Sangre ChicanaPart of AAA Guerra de Titanes they drew 14,000 fans to the bull ring.98) March 17, 2006 Arena MexicoPerro Aguayo Jr beat Universo 2000El Hijo del Perro Aguayo beating Universo 2000 was revenge for him beating his father and forcing him to retire. The grudge match drew a huge crowd.99) April 28, 2006 Arena MexicoTarzan Boy & Rey Bucanero beat Damian 666 & Mr. AguilaThis was the main event celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Arena Mexico and sold out the building. Mr. Aguila is also known by fans of WWF as Essa Rios.100) June 18, 2006 El Toreo de Cuatro CaminosCharly Manson beat ZorroPart of AAA's Triple Mania 15. This hair match was a last man standing cage match. It was part of a main event that also had La Parka taking the maske of Muerte Cibernetico aka Ricky Banderas and sold out El Toreo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted May 31, 2015 Report Share Posted May 31, 2015 I just can't get over how much of this stuff we don't have. I suppose I should just be glad for how much we do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pantherwagner Posted June 1, 2015 Report Share Posted June 1, 2015 No Pirata Morgan vs Masakre or Pirata Morgan vs El Dandy??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Farmer Posted June 1, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 1, 2015 Just a quick disclaimer...I didn't make the list, that was DJ Spectro lol. I'm sure a lot of these were opinions formed upon reading about the matches as I doubt he watched all of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pantherwagner Posted June 2, 2015 Report Share Posted June 2, 2015 Yeah I know that it's not your list. DJ Spectro often has got... interesting opinions on stuff, but he's got a massive magazine collection so he's a true asset to the community. Most Mexicans aren't willing to put in the work that somebody like you does, and those who could won't do it for free because they are used to being paid by the magazines. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Farmer Posted June 2, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 2, 2015 Yeah Lucha history is a little funny. Like you said the magazines have so much influence and it is a different mentality. One thing I do appreciate is their magazines have done a much better job of keeping accurate records. Course there are mistakes, like with dates being off (and these are printed in a magazine) but US magazines didn't even do that much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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