Traditionally EMLL/CMLL holds their major events on Friday nights, replacing their regularly scheduled Super Viernes show.
[6] On the day of the anniversary show, EMLL owner Salvador Lutteroth won 40,000 pesos in the Mexican National Lottery, allowing him to purchase Arena Modelo and start to renovate it for future use.
The event featured an undetermined number of professional wrestling matches with different wrestlers involved in pre-existing scripted feuds, plots and storylines.
[7] Due to the nature of keeping mainly paper records of wrestling at the time no documentation has been found for some of the matches of the show.
[4][9] In the semi-main event Ray Ryan, nicknamed El Tigre ("The Tiger"), from the United States of America was disqualified for excessive violence against his opponent, French-Canadian Stephan Berne.