CMLL Line - 09/28/03 (#94)

Note: In Galavision order, this aired 2 weeks after #95. If you're just looking through the index, this is in taping order.

Notes: this is technically A Ras De Lona (In Other Action - clipped) but hey, I like these guys so I'll do it anyway. We join in at the start of fall 3.

Guapos are beating down tecnicos to start the fall, focusing of course on Vampiro. Terrible and Magica hold him for Shocker to run at, but Vampiro breaks out to hit his big boot and clear house. Shot for Magic, another boot for Shocker, and it looks like Niebla snuck into take out Terrible. Face comeback on. Tecnicos won fall one, Rudos won fall two. Lots of kicking, very little of it Vampiro. He's winded, but he wants Shocker. Shocker back in and trying to get the crowd to chant for him. Crowd: "VAMPIRO!" Shocker punches Vampiro, but still no Shocker chants. Shocker yells, and Vampiro comes back with a chop. Shocker with a right hand. Vampiro with a double chop. Shocker with a windup and right misses, Vampiro with a hamstring kick times 3, spin kick to the chest! Shocker rolls out, Vamp after him with a pescado, Shocker moves, Vamp lands on his feet.  Shocker ambushes him with a forearm, whip, reversed and Shocker goes into the post. Back in the ring, the remaining tecnicos miss dropkicks on the rudos. Rudos whip Tecnicos at each other, it's reversed and Guapos manage to back elbow their opponents. Guapos are all doing the red thing again. General corner beatdowns, with Magica and Terrible not in a particular hurry. They do the lift up dropkick for Magica on Lizmark, and Terrible gives Niebla with a corner clothesline. Again, going the other way - Niebla blocks the dropkick and powerbombs Magica, and Lizmark moves out of the way of the corner charge. Nelbina on Magica, Lizmark with a Northern Lights Suplex. Magica's done (1:20) and Terrible takes a three count (1:22). Shocker did make it back in, but so did Vampiro - when Shocker's clothesline missed, he decided he had enough of this and took off out of the ring. And then all the way up the stage. Shocker half dared Vampiro to follow him, and half just walked off. Vampiro didn't like the idea of chasing him and kinda just hung around on the ramp wanting Shocker to come back. Tecnicos got some more shots in post match. 

Notes: Rudos use a horrible new version of We Will Rock You. I mean, I'm sure this band is a nice band full of cool people with the best intentions, and I'm not some huge Queen fan, but there's Songs That No One Shall Attempt To Cover, and We Will Rock You is one of them. No one needed a rap part. Either Rey is wearing some really dark yet plastic looking makeup, or he got one a Hurricane-like mask. I wonder how the decision gets made that Averno gets a valet but Mephisto does not. This one of those matches that could have a good reason setting it up (that I've forgotten by the time I actually watch it), but doesn't really need it. (Because it's the Infernales vs GDI!)

Violencia gets to do the pre-match huddle/celebration with the tag champions. Lucky him! Rey will start - against all three? Well, not by the time we get back from the crowd shot - wait, it's not a clip? WOW. Okay, Rey vs Averno. Circle. Lockup. Averno with a armdrag, Rey with a hiptoss. Elbow drop but Averno is gone, armdrag by Averno, Rey with a double leg, kick away, Averno with a double leg, kick away, standoff. Tags - Mephisto and Violencia. Lockup, break. Lockup, Violencia with a waistlock and throw down. Armbar - no, Mep with an armdrag out. Violencia right back up with a big clothesline. He's pumped. Armbar, into a hammerlock, Mep tries back elbowing out, that does work so how about a jumping snap mare. Armdrag, Violencia armdrag, dueling dropkicks miss, and we have another standoff. Violencia, not impressed, slaps Mep in the face. Mep slaps right back. Yell. Face to face again. Forehead to forehead. Violencia pushes him away - and tags. Satanico and Ultimo. Satanico rallies the crowd. Ultimo poses on the middle buckle. Satanico poses on the middle buckle. I think he got more of a reaction - so does Ultimo, so he does it again. He's not happy with the crowd for cheering Satanico over him. Lockup, Satanico with a headlock, hipblock takeover into an armbar. Ultimo to his feet but stuck in a headlock. Satanico shot off, and back with a shoulderblock. Satanico off the ropes, shoulderblock, off the ropes, Rey hits a jumping swinging knee to the back, and pulls of his best slingshot Stunner yet (key: it looked less like a spot and more like something that fit!) Hold for Ultimo to dropkick, and then bum rush the Junior Infernales on the apron. While they other two are on the floor, all the rudo after Satanico - whip, double boot, Rey and Violencia suplex Satanico up so Ultimo can sneak under and spinebuster, holding him in place for Rey and Violencia to hit simultaneous elbow drops. Satanico is rolled to his feet and double booted out by GdI. Junior Infernales back in - Ultimo sits back while the other two win the battle. Double whip - 3 on 2 spinebuster! That's new. THREE ON TWO CRAB! That'll do it! (3:46) Awesome! Rabid tecnico faction (w/giant polar bear mascot!) is doing the Rey forearm celebration, hmm. I think they just love both teams equally, but that's unusual. Maybe they should just turn this guys total tecnico (and then give some stale guys rudo turns?) Replays.

Technically-Rudos still in charge as we start up fall two. Satanico takes a corner whip and corner clothesline from Ultimo, Rolling out of the way before Violencia could hit whatever he wanted to hit. Mep's turn - spinebuster lift by Ultimo, chopped down by Violencia. Ultimo gives Mep a slingshot, Rey clotheslines him back onto Ultimo's knees and heads up - top rope rolling senton! I love that combo. Mephisto perhaps does not. Wow, that really is just very dark makeup on Rey. Averno in - corner whip, corner clothesline by Violencia is avoided, and GdI take a double boot when they charge in. I think Averno tries for the handspring flip over a (GdI) double clothesline, but can't get over even with the (non-subtle) help of Rey and Ultimo - he ends up trapped on top of the clothesline, so Rey and Ultimo each grab an end. Not sure what to do with Averno, Ultimo and Rey discuss, and opt for Rey to toss Averno's head up and Ultimo to avoid taking a 'rana by powerbombing Averno. Rey's part goes fine, Ultimo's does not. Comeback is on, as Rey finds out when he gets steamrolled by a clothesline form Averno. Ultimo is stomped out, and Violencia is loaded in the ring. Double whip into a back elbow, then a double whip into a double hiptoss bounced off the ropes and turned into a front slam. Hold for a running boot from Satanico. Rey in and not fairing so well. Double whip into a back elbow again. It looks like they're going for that double hiptoss bounce off the ropes into a front suplex, but they instead sit Rey on the top rope in mid move. I think what's supposed to happen next is an Mephisto assisted high running dropkick to knock Rey to the floor, but Averno lets to soon and Rey just kinda falls in the ring before the dropkick really gets to him. Luckily, we keep going instead of staring at the mistake - Rey rolls out, Ultimo in. Crowd does get on them a little bit. Ultimo pounds Satanico with open hand slaps, whip, reversed, Double hiptoss powerbombs by the Junior Infernales. Everyone grab an appendage submission by the Infernales and that does it (2:06) Funny that the established team wasn't hitting on as high level as the two guys who are used to teaming with each and not the other guy, but the Infernales were going for some high degree of difficulty things. They of course show a replay of the blown dropkick spot, because this show is weird on blown spots.

Third fall. No side in control as we come back, but it'll be the captains to start the deciding fall. Ultimo ambushes Satanico as he turns to the crowd. Corner whip, corner forearm. Open hand slap times four, corner whip, charge into a Satanico boot. Satanico fired up out of the corner, dropping Ultimo with a bulldog. Going for the mask! and Rey breaks that up with chops of his own. Punch battle end when Rey goes for a kick - Satanico catches that. If the Mysterio-esqe spine tattoo wasn't a clue that Rey was watching his SmackDown! brand shows, the WWE Cruiserweight Standard Issue kick catch enziguri sure is! Satanico tumbles out of the ring, Averno into to take his place. Rey ducks a clothesline and catches a crossbody. Rey's would like to show how much more he's learned as he lifts Averno up into a standing fireman's carry, but Averno slips out before we see which variation of the DVD Rey prefers. Averno with a waistlock, Rey misses a back elbow big time and take as a clothesline. And so does Averno, as Violencia comes into clothesline him. Now it's Violencia time to get a standing Fireman's carry - and spin around? Eh.  Averno is dropped haphazardly, and Violencia goes for his mask, giving Mephisto his chance to get in and break something up. Chop, whip, reversed, head down too soon so Mep dropkicks it. Now everyone's up and soon they've split in pairs for open hand slapping. Mep gets bored with fighting Violencia and goes after Ultimo (I guess?), splitting up the pairs. Bad decision - they were all even until that switch, and then GdI's side took control. Averno gets kneed out of the ring by Violencia, then squashes him with a slingshot somersault plancha. While GdI work over Satanico, Mep runs to help his partner slingshot tope on Violencia! That looked nice. Rey apparently turns to Ultimo and says "My turn to fly out of the ring at a unsafe velocity!", because Ultimo sets up for the monkey flip - yep, monkey flipping somersault plancha to the outside on both of the Junior Infernales, almost clearing them both by accident. He kinda pulls then down on the way after, while taking out front row people. Ultimo and Satanico slugging it out in the ring, all Satanico. Corner whip, reversed, Ultimo pauses before charging in and gets a flapjack for his trouble. Satanico goes for his standing figure four cover, but Rey is back in to break that up and knock him down. Now Rey and Ultimo and Satanico team up - let's calling a standing figure four with armbars?, because it's tough to see for sure from this angle. Satanico gives up before he can get any help (2:30) and GdI/Violencia will take it. This didn't change the world but it was pretty good. Replays of the dives.  Not in order. Are we going to get a good shot of that finishing hold. Eventually yes, but not enough for me to give a good explanation of it. 

3	Black Tiger, Super Crazy, Dr. Wagner (c) vs Atlantis, Sagrado, Heat 06/27/03, Arena Mexico					81
	1	trios	3:46 3:49	Heat Octopus Tiger Sagrado pin Super Crazy	Had the potential for a pretty good match, and when things weren't going wrong it was fine, but there was so many spots that were off that it detracted quite a bit
	2		:46	Wagner pin Atlantis
	3		4:53	Heat cross knee scissors hold Wagner
	T		9:28	winner (x-x)

Notes: Dr. Wagner's entrance gets clipped out for God knows what reason. Wagner tries to make up for it by beating up Atlantis on the ramp (after Atlantis threw his cape at Wagner), but Atlantis escaped out of the way for at least a moment. Atlantis taunts while he's ahead, and ends up getting forearmed in the back by Super Crazy. Crazy walks off to let Wagner do whatever he wants with Atlantis; what Wagner does is knock him into Crazy as he's walking away. Crazy rightly blames Atlantis for it, and has Wagner hold Atlantis so he can punch him. Sagrado shows all the signs of a typical CMLL tecnico (ie: he's in no hurry to save his partner if it means a short introduction.) Also, he can't get his cape off. Tiger mockingly holds open the middle rope for Sagrado - ah, no, it's for Crazy to slip out and beat him. Sagrado gets posted as Atlantis is getting beat in the ring. Heat is also in no hurry. MUST POSE. MUST POSE. Must take stairs one at a time. Now, slightly hurry. CLIP

And we're still doing the pre-match beatdown - we only clipped out the rest of Heat's song, I guess. Tiger's laid out Head on the stage, Atlantis is laying in the ring, and Sagrado - is standing on the apron, reach for a tag? Um, dude? Crazy knocks him off the apron anyway. Rudos are more in celebratory mood than a move mood, although Wager does get in a dropkick to the head on a seated Atlantis. Wagner's eventually left with Atlantis in the ring. Right hand. Whip, reversed, Atlantis with a flapjack. Powerbomb - no, either Wagner escaped or Atlantis did an Alley-Oop move. Eh. Tag to Heat, tag to Tiger. Charge at each other- Tiger slides low, Heat flips over him high. Tiger charges again into a drop toe hold. Big swinging kick to the head! Tiger takes a moment to recover while Tiger poses. Charge, and Heat gets booted. Chop, whip, reversed, Heat goes for a dropkick but Tiger breaks the timing by doing the spin in the ropes. Tiger off the other ropes, Heat forward rolls to his feet and dropkicks Tiger down. Tags out - Sagrado and Crazy. Did I ever tell you that this wasn't the first guy to use the Sagrado gimmick? Funny things you learn looking through old lucha reports. Sagrado with a trip, off the ropes, cartwheel over, Crazy takes him down with a wheel kick. Wagner likes it. Warrior is pumped up near the ropes. corner whip, corner clothesline. Corner whip, Sagrado runs up the corner, hops towards the center of the ropes, (loses his balance), drops to the apron, black Crazy' punch, uses Crazy too hiptoss himself back in on his feet, armdrag for Crazy, and dropkicks him out. Sagrado does a dive tease, pose, and tag to Atlantis. Wagner back in for his side, having completely gone in a circle. Wagner poses. Charging clotheslines, neither goes down. Charge again, and Wanger powerslams Atlantis. Chop, yell at the crowd. Corner whip, charge, Atlantis kips up and out, and back in for a monkey flip. Charge, tilt-a-whirl is reversed into Atlantis armdrag. Wagner charges into the Atlántida, but Tiger and Crazy breaks that up. Heat in, Heat misses a dropkick. Double whip, double clothesline ducked, Tiger tossed Heat and Heat dropkicks Crazy. Tiger tires an elbow drop on Heat but he's gone; Sagrado tries a top rope splash on Tiger but Tiger's gone. Everyone takes a moment to break, and then the two rudos try to corner whip Sagrado and Heat into each other. Sagrado leapfrogs Heat, Heat puts the Octopus on Tiger, Sagrado (having stopped after the leapfrog and needed to be waved by Crazy) goes to the top rope and turns while jumping for a 'rana, almost completely blowing it. I'd say 90% blowing it (and nearly landing really hard on his head.) Crazy has to fake like that meant to happen, and now he's got a Boston Crab, but oh no Sagrado is rolling through into a pin. Looks as bad as It sounded. Heat gets his submission (3:46) and Atlantis holds off Wagner to Sagrado can get his pin (3:49). He did get a negative reaction for such an obviously blown spot, but Atlantis and Wagner get the crowd back o the match by feigning a brawl about five rows back into the crowd only for the referee prevent it. Replays are clipped, and thank god they are.

Second fall. Polar Bear likes it. Rudos immediately go on beatdown - hey, double leapfrog. Atlantis takes a Crazy backdrop, Tiger powerbomb and hol for the Wagner dropkick to the head. Sagrado brought in. He's being held - what, Wagner is going to pin Atlantis? Well, he hasn't moved since that dropkick, so might as well try. One two three (:46) Wagner rolls out Atlantis, and he must be legit hurt for the fall to end that quick. It didn't seem like we got a clipped fall there, although that certainly could be possible. Replays: they put the heat on the dropkick to the head, but going back and watching it in slow motion, you can see Atlantis' head bouncing off the mat on that low height powerbomb, which is never good. 

Third fall, though the rudos are just picking up where they left off on Sagrado. This has all the makings of a car wreck situation - Atlantis is standing but loopy on the outside, Sagrado is either nervous, unskilled or having a bad night, and Heat's a non-regular who may or may not speak the language - but they do have a pretty good set of rudos in there. Sagrado takes a corner whip, and Crazy (after a pointless flip) gets whipped in with a splash. He holds Sagrado in place so Wagner and Tiger can slide out, trip up Sagrado, and crotch him on the post. Magically, that's not a DQ. Heat - seemingly talking to Atlantis before - comes back in and stares at Wagner, only to get dropkicked by Crazy. Corner whip, Wagner clothesline. Tiger assisted high dropkick, Crazy springboard dropkick. Everyone POSE. All of these guys have worked with Heat before, right? I think so. Wagner picks Heat back up, but gets strikes to the gut, a back heel kick to the midsection and a suplex for his trouble. Heat retreats to the corner for something, but forget that Tiger was still around to get him. Heat's partners are in the corner, although Atlantis kneeling rather than standing for a tag. Tiger with forearms for Heat, off the ropes, into Heat's swinging heel kick. Heat off the ropes, into a fireman's carry, slipping down into a waistlock, Tiger tries a standing switch, Heat escapes and use a jumping enziguri (which may or may not have actually hit - leaning towards not.) Tiger is thrown from the ring, and Atlantis is back in for his side, taunting the two standing rudos. He's got Crazy. Wristlock, Crazy turn it to an armbar, Atlantis turns it into a whip, tilt-awhirl backbreaker! Crazy sells it like he's been stabbed many times. Atlantis puts on a half crab, but Tiger breaks it up with a kick to the side of the head. Tiger with a slap, off the rope, Atlantis off the other set of ropes, Tiger off those set of ropes, Atlantis drops down, Tiger comes back with a wheel kick. Tiger with a corner whip, reversed, Tiger climbs up in the corner, Atlantis right after him with an Atlantisphere! (Second rope headstand headscissors.) Atlantis going to the second rope, jumping off for (let's say it was a) monkey flip to tag Tiger out. Sagrado back in (are they booing him?), nice running tope on Tiger! Crazy and Atlantis - Crazy kicks Atlantis away, then runs into a monkey flip to the floor. Atlantis get running - Atlantis tope! Crazy goes two rows into the crowd. That leaves - Heat and Wagner. Wagner not in a hurry to take him on, but Heat brings it with a dropkick. Corner whip, reversed, Wagner runs into a kick, Heat to the second rope, missile dropkick is sidestepped. Wagner La Majistral One two NO! Wagner isn't happy. Chop. Corner whip, Heat dusk the clothesline, reverses a sorta-flapjack into a dropkick. One two no. Heat with a waistlock, Wagner back elbows out, off the ropes, into a dropkick to the knee form Heat. Heat makes a "break him!" motion, kick to the chest, kick to the chest, off the ropes, scoop takes him past Wagner, Wagner turns, kick catch rolling legbar! Wagner is in a lot of pain and can't find the ropes. Atlantis and Sagrado keep the ring free - and Wagner taps out! (4:53) Someone in the WWE needs to steal that because it's such a sweet looking move. Replays.

Spectacular Moments and Next Week (which of course would be completely pointless in this one) appear clipped out. We come back from break with one more set of replays.

Rating: Bases on the quality of the finish, ring work, internal/external storyline, consistency and my whims. Also, various other (random) factors that I can't think of right now. 0-100 for matches.

Closing Notes: 

1. I think the Infernales/GdI match here was to tease for the upcoming trios torunament, but I don't remember.
2. As was the Guapos cameo
3. Sagrado...needs work. Definetly.
4. No Boricuas! No Capos! No Rayo! Great show.