The history of lucha libre, or professional wrestling in Mexico goes all the way back to the early 1900s where individual promoters would hold shows on a local basis in various Mexican states. In 1933 Salvador Lutteroth created Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre and in subsequent years took EMLL to a national level. In the 1930s and 1940s various Mexican starts to create lucha libre commissions, often as an extension of the existing Boxing commissions, responsible for overview of lucha libre in each state, licensing wrestlers and ensuring the rules are being enforced. In the State of Mexico lucha libre was not officially sanctioned in late 1962, with the first lucha libre show in the State of Mexico held in December 1962. The Mexicanwrestling promotionInternational Wrestling Revolution Group has on occasion held a major show in December to commemorate the "birth" of Lucha Libre in their home state. It is unclear exactly when IWRG started to mark the Anniversary, records confirm that they held a show to commemorate the event starting in 2010 commemorating the 48th Anniversary of Lucha Libre in Estadio de Mexico, possibly prior to that. The 2015 show was for the 53rd anniversary and was held on December 16, 2015, in Arena Naucalpan, Naucalpan, State of Mexico where IWRG holds almost all of their major lucha libre shows.
Storylines
The event featured five professional wrestling matches with different wrestlers involved in pre-existing scripted feuds, plots and storylines. Wrestlers were portrayed as either heels or faces as they followed a series of tension-building events, which culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.
Event
In the opening match, a best two-out-of-three falls tag team match, Alas de Acero and Aramís defeated Los Ángelesde la Muerte two falls to one. The second match of the night introduced a new "Dr. Karontes" to the public, after having previously worked as "Mini Karontes" elsewhere. Dr. Karontes, Hip Hop Man and Imposible defeated the trio of Kaling Black, Látigo, and Rocket Rojo. In the third match of the night, Los Insoportables defeated longtime rivals Los Mariachis Locos two falls to one. The fourth match of the night featured 3 second-generation wrestlers as El Hijo de Mascara Sagrada teamed up with Emperador Azteca to face off against Halloween Jr., Canis Lupus and Tony Rivera. The match ended when Halloween Jr. fouled El Hijo de Mascara Sagrada, causing his team to be disqualified. After the match Halloween Jr. Canis Lupus and Rivera stole the masks of their opponents. The main event match was originally supposed to include Titán and Tritón from Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre teaming up with Argos for the match. For unexplained reasons neither of the two CMLL wrestlers showed up for the show, which meant that IWRG had Argos team up with Crazy Boy and Danny Casas to take on La Famila de Tijuana. La Famila won the match after Damián 666 fouled Argos without the referee seeing it, pinning him seconds later. After the match fans threw money in the ring in appreciation of the match they had just watched.
