I forgot to post the updated lucha times. Which is actually okay, because they just changed it anyway. So check it out now.
Quick News:
Lizmark Jr. challenges Ultimo for the CMLL LH Title on Tuesday.
Silva is back on 10/3.
Takemura has been called back to NJ – well, at least to the NJPW dojo in LA.
The really good Havana Brothers matches have made TV after all.
(They changed the interface again? This is worse.)
Konnan’s take on Negro Casas, Shocker, and their non-appearance on NWA-TNA, via an interview on WO.com.
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Q: I know at one point you tried booking Negro Casas and Shocker on
NWA/TNA but it fell through. What happened?
Ashenoff: “It was because of another promoter, but this goes way back
to how Latinos have been treated … We had already talked to Negro to come
in, but he did not tell (EMLL promoter) Paco Alonso. He had heard he was
going to be in a tournament and we were booking Negro and Shocker against
each other, but it actually was going to be a four-way match. This (U.S.)
promoter called Shocker and said, ‘Look, I’m going to be using you for a lot
of dates and you can make a lot of money with me.’ I still don’t know who
this guy is but he told Shocker, ‘They’re going to put you against Negro and
job one of you guys out.’ So Shocker says he can’t go because this promoter
he’s already signed a contract with that he can’t wrestle (in the U.S.) for
anybody else. I told him there are only two games in town – (NWA/TNA) and
the WWF. There’s no other promotion anybody gives a damn about, but he tells
me he just can’t go. Then Negro was going to tell Paco the truth since it
had been announced that he was going there. Paco asked Negro if Konnan was
there and he said yeah. Paco told him, ‘If Konnan is involved, they have to
talk to me personally.’ Paco heard these guys were going there to do jobs
and were tired of his guys doing that.”
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Meltzer had the same confusion about Shocker’s unknown US Promoter, so I had assumed Shocker was doing a cover story and it was all Konnan’s fault. (it’s easy to blame Konnan. Sorry.) But maybe Shocker knows something the rest of us don’t.
The other thing that sticks out is the “[CMLL] guys” going there to do jobs – all the lucha guys who had been in NWA-TNA were freelancers to one extent or another. If you had to pick, Super Crazy’s a CMLL guy but he does a lot of outside dates, and while FdT and Juvi were on good terms with CMLL at the time, they’re outsiders. Maybe that’s close enough to cause annoyance, I dunno.
Back later.
When I watching the late night lucha, there was a commerical that kept airing for a weekend sports wrapup show called Accion. Among all the normal things you’d expect on a Mexican sports show, they’d included lucha highlights. That’s all it takes for me to TiVo things now a days.
They did in fact air about 30 seconds of CMLL footage – and it was up to date stuff, from Friday’s Arena Mexico show. Quick clips of the Blue Demon Cibernetico, finishing with Shocker pinning Ultimo Guerrero (so that fued doesn’t die), Shocker having a pin attempt on Tarzan Boy but Ultimo messing it up from outside, and Tarzan Boy getting the cradle victory on Shocker to win the tournament (and what looks like a belt, with a Blue Demon face.) Intrestingly (or not), Alfonso Morales did the annoucing for both this and the AAA clips (which featured Lizmark Sr. among others).
So, if you’re desperate for clips of up to date stuff, there you go – watch Accion and don’t blink. And enjoy the many futbol highlights.
I *think* this was a repeat of the AAA from earlier today and Sunday – they had the same bit where Hijo del Solatiro gets his masked pulled but they blur it out. Which probably means I’m staying up to three to see the opening match of last week’s CMLL again…
Hey, what do you know, it IS Last Sunday’s episode. So are they moving the replay here? Are the moving the Sunday episode here? Are they up to something else and it was just too late to advertise it? Will they do this for two weeks and never mention again?
Like *I* know.
There are things conspring against any chance of decent sleep tonight, so I’m staying up and watching this. AAA is on first. I tried to go through KrisZ’s results to figure out when this aired, but nothing matched the Ray Man/two people I’ve already forget vs Pimpenla/two other transvestites we got. I don’t even remember the match – I flipped over to an IROC race I think I’ve seen twice already instead of it.
AAA sure kills a lot of time with the Nitro Girls. I mean, I’d heard that before but I’m not sure I really believed it till now. What’s the point?
They’re actually airing ads for lucha libre tommorow (well, later today) with the lineups for the two big matches: GdI vs Atlantis/Lizmark/Vampiro and FdT vs Satanico/Casas/Porky. And that actually matches what I’ve got! That’s pretty good work – I wonder what’s up?
Oh man, I wonder if they’re only showing CMLL in those ads because now AAA is at this wacky hour and then CMLL is during the day? That’d be awesome! So let’s assume no.
More in a half hour or so, when I figure out what hour two will be.
Late TV Note: Galavision is airing a lucha libre show at 3AM-5AM EST, tonight (Saturday). Set your VCR because I have absolutely no clue what will be on.
It’d been a wish of mine that they’d complement the clipped version of the show with a late night unclipped aring, but I don’t think anyone’s been reading my mind lately. Probably, this is a repeat of some kind, but I guess we wait and see.