Month: September 2003

Stuart reports that Dr. Wagner and Silver King will be working the next (10/05 – 10/26) All Japan tour. Meanwhile, Ricky Marvin will be teaming with (now AAA worker) Juventued Guerrera on NOAH’s October (10/11-11/1) tour. Atlantis will be in Michinoku Pro around this time as well, although I don’t have the dates in front of me.

There’s been some speculation about a New Japan running a G1 Junior Tag league as a compain to the normal G1 Tag league on it’s next tour (10/15-11/03) – if they did, I wonder if any CMLL guys would be free for it, given how many are already leaving. CMLL’s big roster should give them plenty of wrestlers to fill out cards, and I’m sure they could spare some of the midcard guys without blinking, but if a top tag team went over – and I’m thinking about Rey and Ultimo’s previous trip and maybe being invited back – CMLL would be running low on top rudos. Or maybe at least those who could have quality matches.

Hey, look – NJPW.com has a montage of pictures from another website to show Rocky Romero as “CMLL Would Super Fly Heavy Weight Title”. I wonder where they idea for combining a promotion’s pictures into one big one to tell the story.

That’d be really funny if CMLL asked them to take it down (but then they’d be after me next)

(I have no idea why they’re putting full names on the pages again. And I’m trying to get in the mode to post shorter/frequenter so things don’t slip my mind as much.)

I keep forgetting to mention:

Lucha Xtreme Wrestling, LXW, is promoting a card in Queens, NY featuring a couple CMLL guys on 09/27.

– Shocker vs. Jerry Lynn
– La Parka vs. Justin Credible (w/ Jason Knight & Veronica Caine)
– Angel vs. Supreme
– Josh Prohibition & MDogg20 vs. Scorpio Sky & Quicksilver
– Super Dragon vs. Taro
– Jardi Frantz vs. Rey Bucanero vs. Smokey Charmichael
– Justice Pain vs. Altar Boy Luke

More matches to be announce. A lot more Xtreme than Lucha to me, but if you’re doing it in NY, that makes some money sense. You’d think they’d find something better to do with Bucanero and why do you not have a trios match on a Lucha show, but at least Shocker gets his annual NY apperance.

Now, if only someone could do it right and get Ultimo and Rey on the same US indy show…

So Vampiro showed up in NWA-TNA tonight (as Raven’s mystery opponent, helping Shane Douglas beat him in a hair/hair match), and all I can think is “hey, so is he *really* the NWA LH Champion now?

According to the current Galavision listings, and due to the FIFA Women’s World Cup, CMLL will seemingly not air this week. There is a 2 hour lucha show on Sunday, but if last week is the new pattern, that’ll just be AAA. There is no show Saturday or Sunday overnight.

This past week’s lucha recap is up.

Your new CMLL Super Light Heavyweight Champion is – NJPW-LA’s Rocky Romero? Rocky and Volador Jr. were the final two survivors of the 9/5 Cibernetico, and the guy who’s was supposed to be wrestling his last match for CMLL next week won one of their belts.

I’m guessing that this whole title, or at the very least the first champion, was to help cement whatever arrangement NJPW, the LA Dojo and CMLL have. Even if Rocky never defends the title in Japan, just being mentioned as champion brings attention to that connection. If they really wanted to just reward the Spectacular Moments crew, they could’ve just moved one of the many floating titles – Dr. X’s Mexican Welterweight and Felino CMLL Welterweight would be my two picks – instead of creating another one. I’m sure someone in CMLL will eventually win the SLH title, but maybe not soon and maybe that wasn’t the point of creating it.

I’m no NJPW expert, but I wonder if he’ll be able to succsefully defend it in Japan. Thinking about the Pitbull’s status last time in Japan, I’m only seeming them as higher than Taguchi and maybe equals to Inoue in the Junior ranks. Maybe that’ll change?

They could always run an angle that has Rocky returning sometime soon after this week (which was his announced last date in for the time being)

Final Card for the (latest) 70th Annivesery Show [* – my guess]
– Tarzan Boy vs Shocker* in a hair/hair match
– Pierroth* vs Violencia in a hair/mask match
– Hijo Del Perro Aguayo and Negro Casas vs Ultimo Guerrero and Rey Bucanero (c) * for the CMLL Tag Team Champions
– Havana Brothers vs Ricky Marvin/Volador Jr/Virus *
– Rayo de Jalisco/Atlantis/Super Porky * vs Dr. Wagner Jr./Cien Caras/Emilio Charles
– Felino/Sagrado/Angel Azetca * vs Averno/Mephisto/Arkangel

I think most of the people I’ve seen picking see new tag team champions, but I can’t bear to even consider that. You know it’s a big show when that group is working second from the bottom. I don’t think it gets much bigger than the battle of the Angels. Or maybe not.

Bob Barnett was correct – the new Galavision lucha sched took effect this week. However, in moving CMLL to Sunday’s (where it shouldn’t be any more clipped than what airs on Televisa – which is a problem with Televisa), they managed to skip a week in taping and the Heat/Wagner match I was looking forward to. I’ve barely watched it, but it sounds good and I’ve heard good things, so the fact that they’re not repeating lucha any more is kinda annoying.