Starting in 1999 CMLL honored not just their founder during the show, but also a second lucha libre legend, making it their version of a Hall of Fame event.

For the 2010 show CMLL commemorated the life and career of wrestler Ray Mendoza, the father of Los Villanos (I, II, III, IV and V).

Since 1996 the Mexican wrestling company Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (Spanish for "World Wrestling Council"; CMLL) has held a show in March each year to commemorate the passing of CMLL founder Salvador Lutteroth who died in March 1987.

The Homenaje a Dos Leyendas show 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.

[7] On February 12, 2010 Místico lost the Mexican National Light Heavyweight Championship to Volador Jr. losing two falls to one.

[9] On March 4, 2010, it was announced that Místico and El Felino would team up to face Volador Jr. and La Sombra as the main event match of Homenaje a Dos Leyendas.

[10] The full card for Homenaje a Dos Leyendas, which beyond the main event did not focus on any of the current storylines in CMLL.

For the 2010 show CMLL commemorated the life and career of José Díaz Velázquez, known under the ring name Ray Mendoza.