EMLL: 1957-05

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EMLL (WED) 05/01/1957 Arena Coliseo [Box y Lucha 266A, Box y Lucha 267A]
1) Juan Diaz b Taro Hito
2) Humberto Garza DRAW Chivo García
3) Manuel Robles b Murciélago Velazquez
4) Gorilla Flores b Enrique Villa
5) Carnicero Butcher b Ivan el Terrible
6) Tarzán López b Carlos Moreno
7) Black Shadow & Blue Demon b Espectro & Karloff Lagarde
Tecnicos took ⅓.

Event Notes: Wednesday holiday show.

EMLL (WED) 05/01/1957 Arena Coliseo Acapulco, Acapulco, Guerrero [Box y Lucha 266A, Box y Lucha 269A]
1) Canelo Segura vs Jalisco González
2) Abundio Braulio b Red Man [mask]
Red Man is Jim Lopez.
3) Chabela Romero b Dama Enmascarada
4) El Gladiador vs Chico Casasola

EMLL (FRI) 05/03/1957 Arena México [Box y Lucha 267A, Box y Lucha 269A, Clinch 242, RB, SL 259] Attendance: 10000
1) Akio Yoshihara b Chico Veloz
Rated a 6 ½
2) Chale Romero b Orquídea
Rated a 6.
3) Dr. Castro DRAW Canelo Segura.
Rated a 6 ¾
4) Ray Mendoza b Tony López
Tony Lopez replaced El Caballero. Rated a 6 ½ .
5) Karloff Lagarde b Rubén Juárez
Lagarde won with what reads like a heart punch, Juarez selling temporary paralysis. Rated a 7.
6) Enrique Llanes & Rolando Vera b Cavernario Galindo & El Gladiador
straight falls, DQ in the first, which Box y Lucha thought was unfair - it was just normal rudo tactics. Rated a 7 ½ .
7) El Enfermero b Black Killer [mask]
Enfermero took ⅓. Black Killer is Luiz Marquez Munoz, who previously wrestled as Chimuelo Marquez.

Event Notes: 10,000 attendence. Rated a 7.

EMLL (SUN) 05/05/1957 Arena Coliseo [Box y Lucha 267A, Box y Lucha 268A, Lucha Libre 111]
1) El Coyote DRAW Taro Hito
rated 7
2) Antonio Ramírez b Juan Diaz
Rated a 6 ¼
3) Pepe Mendieta DQ El Verdugo
Strange. Mendieta wins fall one. Verdugo starts messing with Pepe’s shoes, trying to untie them. Mendieta responds by pulling down Verdugo’s pants. Verdugo is enraged and beats up Mendieta until the referee stops the match via DQ. rated a 6 ¾
4) Chico Casasola b Ivan el Terrible
Rated a 6 ¾ .
5) Huroki Sito & Sugi Sito b Black Shadow & Tarzán López
Rated a 7 ¼ .

EMLL (SUN) 05/05/1957 Arena México [Lucha Libre 117]
1) Pepe Mendieta DQ Verdugo
straight falls, last by excessive violence

EMLL , FLORES (TUE) 05/07/1957 Arena Aficion [Box y Lucha 268A]
1) Bobby Ramírez b Jabali
2) Charro Lopez b Karis La Momia

EMLL (TUE) 05/07/1957 Arena Coliseo [Box y Lucha 267A, Box y Lucha 268A]
1) Chamaco Vega b José Munoz
2) Red Man b Jaibo García
3) Chico Veloz b Antonio Ramírez
4) Frankenstein & Gori Casanova b Humberto Garza & Rubén Juárez
5) Carnicero Grimaldo b Manuel Robles

EMLL (FRI) 05/10/1957 Arena Coliseo [Box y Lucha 268A, Box y Lucha 269A]
1) José Cruz b Coyote
Jose Cruz (“Shadowito”, incorrectly believed to be the younger brother of Black Shadow), is getting rookie of the year talk. Match rated 6 ¼
2) Rudy García b Mar Allah
rated 6 ¾
3) Dr. Castro b Chale Romero
Rated 6 ¾
4) Dory Dixon DRAW Karloff Lagarde
top 4 matches set by battle royal. Rated 6 ¾
5) Jorge Allende b Espectro
Espectro wanted an immediate mask/hair match with a five minute limit, but the commission said nope. Rated 7.
6) Enrique Llanes b Ray Mendoza
Rated 7 1/4
7) Blue Demon b Enfermero
Rated 7 ½

EMLL (SAT) 05/11/1957 Arena Puebla [Box y Lucha 268A]
1) Enrique Llanes & Tarzán López vs Huroki Sito & Sugi Sito
2) Black Shadow vs Karloff Lagarde

EMLL (SUN) 05/12/1957 Arena Coliseo [Box y Lucha 268A]
1) Tony Sugar b Guapo Rodríguez
rated 6 ¼
2) Gori Casanova b Chico Veloz
rated 6 ¾
3) Ivan el Terrible b Pepe Mendieta
Ivan took ⅓. rated 6 ½
4) El Verdugo b Canelo Segura
rated 7 ¼
5) Black Shadow & Rolando Vera b Huroki Sito & Sugi Sito
Rated 7 ¾

EMLL , FLORES (TUE) 05/14/1957 Arena Aficion [Box y Lucha 268A]
1) Troglodita Flores b Juan Diaz
Flores returning to wrestling as a sub for Luis Hernandez
2) Rosa Williams © b Toña La Tapatia [MEX WOMEN]
Rosa took ⅔

EMLL (TUE) 05/14/1957 Arena Coliseo [Box y Lucha 268A, Box y Lucha 269A]
1) Gorila Osorio b Chamaco Vega
2) Orquídea b Red Man
Red Man lost his mask on 05/01 in Acapulco but still wore it here.
3) Carnicero Grimaldo b Antonio Ramírez
4) Frankenstein b Enrique Vera
5) Manuel Robles b Tony López
Tony Lopez might be the short lived El Caballero based on being his nickname here

EMLL (FRI) 05/17/1957 Arena Coliseo [Box y Lucha 269A, Box y Lucha 270A, Box y Lucha 3536, Clinch 242]
1) José Cruz b Guapo Rodríguez
2) El Pirata b Akio Yoshihara
return el El Pirata (Adolfo Moreno), who’d been mentioned as wrestling in South America
3) Chico García TLDRAW Murciélago Velazquez
20 minutes
4) Dr. Castro b El Verdugo
5) Karloff Lagarde b Jorge Allende
6) Enrique Llanes & Tarzán López b Frank Butcher & Ray Mendoza [MEX TAG, quarterfinal]
rated 7 ½
7) Black Shadow & Blue Demon b Chico Casasola & El Enfermero [MEX TAG, quarterfinal]
rated 7 ½

Event Notes: Clinch 242 says this was Arena Mexico, but it's Arena Coliseo in the Box y Luchas

EMLL (SAT) 05/18/1957 Distrito Federal [Halcon Mensual 4]
1) Karloff Lagarde b Blue Demon
debut of Lagarde

Event Notes: probably Coliseo

EMLL (SUN) 05/19/1957 Arena Coliseo [Box y Lucha 269A, Box y Lucha 270A]
1) Jaibo García vs Wama
2) Tony Barbetta vs Daniel Aldana
3) Manuel Robles vs Enrique Villa
4) Gladiador & Gorilita Flores b Jalisco González & Tarzán López
Gladiador & Flores didn’t get along even despite winning. Box y Lucha says they were divided on rating this 6 or 7.
5) Espectro b Sugi Sito
Recap credits Espectro taking advantage of a Sito misake to pull an upset. rated 7 ¾

Event Notes: no results for the undercard

EMLL (MON) 05/20/1957 Arena Puebla [Box y Lucha 269A]
1) Sugi Sito & Taki Sito vs El Enfermero & Enrique Llanes
Taki Sito is Manuel Robles using his original name

EMLL (MON) 05/20/1957 Tampico, Tamaulipas [Box y Lucha 269A]
1) Canelo Segura & Jorge Allende vs Karis La Momia & Karloff Lagarde

EMLL (TUE) 05/21/1957 Arena Coliseo [Box y Lucha 269A]
1) Mar Allah b Chamaco Vera
2) Taro Hito b Astucia
3) El Costeño DQ Ramsés
Ramses, debuting, looks awful similiar to El Santo with gold instead of silver. EMLL is talking him up but he’s got a long way to go be the new Santo. Straight falls, Ramses getting DQed in the second (which is also like early Santo)
4) Juan Diaz & Orquídea b El Pirata & Gori Casanova
5) Huroki Sito b Carnicero Grimaldo
Sito took 2/3

Event Notes: said to have the best turnout for Tuesday shows in this season, credited to the main eventers.

EMLL (FRI) 05/24/1957 Arena Coliseo [Box y Lucha 270A, Box y Lucha 271A, Clinch 242]
1) Jaibo García b Gorila Osorio
Rated a 6 ¼
2) Eskimo Blancarte b Chico Veloz
Rated a 6
3) Chivo García b Bobby Rolando
Rated a 6 ¾
4) Pepe Mendieta b Frankenstein
Rated a 7.
5) Ivan el Terrible b Carlos Moreno
Rated a 7.
6) Huroki Sito & Sugi Sito b Cavernario Galindo & Gladiador [MEX TAG, quarterfinal]
straight falls. Rated a 7. Gladiador appeared to be drunk, brawls with Galindo outside the ring, and hits commission Balindo trying to break it up, and had to be taken away by police officers after the match.
7) Espectro & Karloff Lagarde b Dorrel Dixon & Rolando Vera [MEX TAG, quarterfinal]
Espectro & Karloff took ⅔. Rated a 7.

EMLL (SAT) 05/25/1957 Arena Coliseo [Box y Lucha 3536]
1) Espectro & Karloff Lagarde b Dorrel Dixon & Rolando Vera [MEX TAG, quarterfinal]
2) Enrique Llanes & Tarzán López b Frank Butcher & Ray Mendoza [MEX TAG, quarterfinal]

Event Notes: unclear why this is 25 and not 24. unclear which location, taking a guess

EMLL (SUN) 05/26/1957 Arena Coliseo [Box y Lucha 270A, Box y Lucha 271A]
1) Rudy Castillo b Kid Vanegas
Rated a 6. Kid Vanegas’ first name is Arssacio.
2) Manuel Robles TLDRAW Jorge Allende
Rated a 7
3) Ray Mendoza b Gorilita Flores
Rated a 6 ½
4) Enrique Llanes b Enfermero
straight falls. Rated a 7 ¼

Event Notes: top four matches set by battle royal

EMLL (TUE) 05/28/1957 Arena Coliseo [Box y Lucha 270A, Box y Lucha 271A, Clinch 242]
1) Coyote b Rudy Tinoco [MEX LIGHT, 8f]
2) Mar Allah b José Munoz [MEX LIGHT, 8f]
3) José Cruz b Pery Lopez [MEX LIGHT, 8f]
4) Juan Diaz b Guapo Rodríguez [MEX LIGHT, 8f]
straight falls
5) Carnicero Grimaldo & Gori Casanova b Enrique Villa & Orquídea
took ⅔

EMLL (FRI) 05/31/1957 Arena Coliseo [Box y Lucha 271A, Box y Lucha 272A, Box y Lucha 3536, Clinch 242]
1) Jaibo García b Tony Sugar
Rated 6
2) Antonio Ramírez b Coyote
Coyote replaced El Pirata. Rated 6 ½
3) Chivo García b Dientes Hernández
Rated 6 ¾
4) Canelo Segura b Dr. Castro
Rated 7.
5) El Enfermero b Gorilita Flores
Rated 6 ¾
6) Cavernario Galindo b Dorrel Dixon
Galindo took ⅓. Rated 7.
7) Enrique Llanes & Tarzán López b Huroki Sito & Sugi Sito [MEX TAG, semifinal]
rated 7 ½

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