This special edition of CMLL's Super Viernes show featured one of the last matches in Mexico of long-time Japanese professional wrestler Jushin "Thunder" Liger.

After graduating high school in the early 1980s, Keiichi Yamada would apply to New Japan Pro-Wrestling's (NJPW) dojo in the hope of becoming a professional wrestler.

[2] By his own account, he was almost starving while studying in Mexico, due to this NJPW officials who were visiting took pity on him and asked him to come back to Japan to train in their dojo.

On July 20 he worked a CMLL and Lucha Libre Real co-promoted show, where he first faced 10 wrestlers in individual 10 minute matches.

[9] His final match in Mexico was on July 21 at a CMLL, Legend, and Universal Wrestling Entertainment show where he teamed up with Místico to defeat Carístico and Último Guerrero.