La Parka had himself an interesting past couple of days. He got himself arrested during a barroom brawl this past Tuesday. It is near the bottom of the page past all the shills.
I’ve also got up a new review of older lucha. Not that old, as it only goes back to 3/2001 and is the EMLL pay-per-view. I’m going to try and get the other 2 EMLL PPV shows from that year written up. The optimist in me says it would be up by 2004, but the realist thinks that St. Patrick’s Day is far more likely.
Let me quote from the Observer:
“It’s expected that New Japan will send Bryan Danielson (American Dragon) here for a few months in 2004.”
This has the possiblity to be so fun I might actually buy the tapes ahead of time rather than wait for the shows to air (sometime in 2007.)
Quickly:
– In another Observer note, there apparently was a survey run at Arena Mexico run in October, and one of the things CMLL found out is that ~85% thought the biggest problem was not enough young guys in the main events. Which would explain why the big push for young guys getting bigger matches in Arena Coliseo and guys such as Volador and Virus showing up in higher places on the card.
– Emilio Charles Jr. did retain the CMLL Middleweight Title over Sagrado, but you probably knew that.
– Lucha aired the anniversey show – but apparently I misread and the listing on WMV was for a 90 minute version. They went the standard 60 on both shows, so the tag team title match was cut, but the Super Light Trios match aired all three falls (as that was a taping issue on the one WMV’s offering.)
(If you don’t read the root of the domain, my laptop’s hard drive fried. I won’t be catching up CMLL reports till the new one comes in. Also, this is apparently purple on some systems and I deeply apologize for that.)
Averno and Mephisto, as part of their break from Satanico and all things Infernales, are going to run a contest for a fans to submit new image ideas for them. Winners gets front row seats in Arena Mexico for three months. Of course, the last time they did something like this, it was for Hombre Sin Nombre and they never got around to resolving it.
Other than that, not much going on. The LA Park match (Pierroth’s team winning) did air in Mexico, so it should make it’s way here around March. Emilio Charles will defend his CMLL Middleweight Title versus Sagrado tommorow in Arena Coliseo. The first Friday Arena Coliseo show is headlined by a rematch of that main event and Atlantis/Vamprio/Felino (as an all title holder team) vs Super Crazy/Averno/Mephisto as the semifinal.
When I update lucha times (sometime tommorow? if I have time.), I’m going go on the assumption that they just pushed the Annivesery show back to this week. Vuelta was the regularlly scheduled rerun.
So, the overnight airing started 15 minutes late, which is one thing. There was a telethon, it going late is not entirely unprecdented.
The other thing is that, probably just by random choice, they’ve decided reair #94 (06/27/03 – Tiger/Crazy/Wagner vs Heat/Sagrado/Atlantis as the hyped match) instead of a new episode;.
That means my listing is wrong, but since I put a wrong link there and no one ever noticed, I guess y’all can’t be too bothered about it.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Sunday’s airing turned out to be a newer one. But who knows. It kinda does make sense not to waste a new episode in a week where only people who TiVo (or something) catch it, but at the same time, it’s not like they exactly have a shortage of new episodes to air.
Bob Barnett says Ricky Marvin has left CMLL to work NOAH full time.
I just noticed the other night, that out of the CMLL babyface undercard trio they were pushing a few months ago (and just got to our TV), Virus has a title, Volador Jr. has a title, and Marvin – the guy they’ve pushed the most previously – does not. Maybe that should’ve been a sign.
They’re running a telethon on GALA all day long Saturday, so the only time the new episode will air is the overnight 3-5AM slot. (Assuming they air a new episode.) They also skipped ahead to the Mexico/Japan Gran Prix last week on Vuelta, so I’ve adjusted the schedule for that as well.