Salvador Lutteroth, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Salvador Lutteroth

Mexican wrestling promoter

Date of Birth: 21-Mar-1897

Date of Death: 05-Sep-1987

Profession: sports administrator

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Salvador Lutteroth (March 21, 1897 – September 5, 1987; born Salvador Lutteroth González) was a Mexican professional wrestling promoter of the mid-twentieth century.
Lutteroth's promotion, Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre (EMLL), has been the dominant Mexican promotion since its founding in 1933, until Lutteroth left the company in the 1950s.
Under its current name of Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), it is, to date, the longest running active professional wrestling promotion in the world presenting three weekly matches.
Lutteroth was known as the "father of lucha libre," and, in his position as promoter and booker of the dominant promotion, was the most powerful man in Mexican wrestling, and one of the most powerful wrestling executives in the world.
He was, in large part, responsible for the widespread fame of the most famous Mexican professional wrestlers of the mid-twentieth century, such as Octavio Gaona,the first Mexican wrestler to win the middle weight championship of the world defeating Gus Kalio, Carlos Tarzan Lopez, El Santo, Gori Guerrero, Rene Guajardo, Karlof Lagarde, Enrique Yañez and the international league wrestler Medico Asesino, Rito Romero, Dorrel Dickson and Mil Mascaras, who wrestled in the United States, Japan and Europe.