 The annual "Leyenda de Plata" tournament is held in honor of lucha libre legend El Santo and is one of CMLL's most important annual tournaments.The tournament consists of a "torneo cibernetico" elimination match as the first round and the winner of that match would face the previous' year's winner in the finals.For the 2016 tournament CMLL it was originally announced that the 2015 tournament winner, Negro Casas, was part of the initial field, but later replaced him with Dragon Lee to keep the original format intact.