Month: January 2004

This isn’t the new Guapo U class (which, like all second seasons are hyped, has a Much Better Turnout Than Last Time), which will probably take six months to go anywhere, but something far more sinster.

The Guapos are taking in the CMLL Mascot and making him their own mascot de Guaponess. BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

So if I’m leading with that, you know that there’s not much for me to hit here. Dr. x and Mr. Power had a Mexican Welterweight Title match last night in Arena San Juan Pantitlan but I haven’t seen results as of yet. It’s also the Mexican Welterweight Title, which I only remember because it does seem to get brought up once a year.

Arena Mexico’s show looks good, but probably no big news coming out of it. Main’s Atlantis/Panther/Lizmark vs Tarzan/Ultimo/Warrior, with a semi main of Guapos vs Capos.

Apolo Dantes will be taking over as booker of Arena Guadalajara shows. Probably not concidentally, their Sunday show lineups have been added to CMLL.com. This weekend’s main event is a one fall match between Dr. Wagner and LA Park.

Lucha Times is updated. I expect to have last weekend’s CMLL up here around tommorow, this time.

Box Y Lucha has a story on Rey’s knee injury.

Translating it, sounds like they preformed arthroscopic surgery on Rey knee, but it wasn’t extremely serious and he hopes to be back in four to five weeks.

Results from return to Arena Mexico, c&p from KrisZ

1. Pequeno Olimpico/Shockercito/Ultimo Dragoncito beat Espectrito/Pequeno Violencia/Pierrothito
2. Mazada/NOSAWA/Sangre Azteca defeated Olimpico/Safari/Tigre Blanco
3. Fuerza Guerrera/Satanico/Zumbido beat Arkangel de la Muerte/Averno/Mephisto
4. Black Tiger/Dr. Wagner Jr./Universo Dos Mil defeated Atlantis/Mr. Niebla/Volador Jr. (subbing for Vampiro) – Wagner challenged Atlantis to a Mascara contra Mascara match for EMLL’s 71st Anniversary show in September.
5. CMLL Tag Titles: L.A. Par-K & Shocker beat Rey Bucanero & Ultimo Guerrero to win the titles. Bucanero had to be stretchered out with ligament damage to his knee after Shocker dove on Bucanero while his leg was sandwiched in one of the seats, then Par-K dove on Ultimo Guerrero who ran into Shocker who sandwiched Bucanero’s knee again, which really did the damage. The crowd went silent and the wrestlers were walking around confused as Bucanero was screaming in pain, but when the doctor called for the ambulance & stretcher, Bucanero willed his way back into the ring and tried to help his partner, but ended up dropping the fall and the titles to Shocker. This match was reported to be tremendous.

You knew Shocker had to get the win one of these days, though that’s an odd combo. I guess this means Park is around for a while?

Edit: It was a good run while it lasted. Just hope Rey isn’t badly hurt, but every thing I’ve read seems to leave little room for this to be a storyline reason for the finish. (I had wishful thinking comments in this spot previously.)

Atlantis and Dr. Wagner have been challenging each other for mask/mask matches forever, but I faintly remember a WON newsbit about a year ago with long term plans for mask matches and I think Atlantis/Wagner for this year’s annivesary show was on it. Can’t find it now. Joe, do you remember this?

As seen on Puroresu Power, the Mexico section of WWE’s International site announced that the WWE will be having a house show at Arena Monterrey on 4/3, a Saturday. (I believe the promotion that runs there now, using a mix of guys, runs Sundays and runs a different arena in Monterrey, but I may be partially wrong there.)

WWE had announced they were going to run a show in Mexico last year in one of those post-earning release phone confrences – in Mexico City and sometime in the summer – but that didn’t happen. Since they’ve listed it on their website, this one will happen.

Shockingly, it’ll be the RAW side that’s going. Unless they pull something, that means no Eddie, Chavo or Rey. I presume this is because, according to the information they list on the page, only RAW and “WWE Specials” (PPVs, I’d assume) air Nationally. I wonder if there might be a future deal with TV Azteca here, as they’re associated with this arena.

It’ll be intersting to see what they use to draw – maybe Venis gets a big match? Naaah.

I’d be very surprised if non-WWE talent were on a WWE show.

Box y Lucha has a story about Villano III being upset with CMLL. They didn’t book him one week, so he worked some shows in northern Mexico for non-CMLL promotions (which doesn’t seem all that uncommon), and now they’re not returning any of the Villanos’ calls. This may be part of the “we need to push new guys” stuff they’ve talked about of late, and Villano III does refernece that, but given all the old guys who are still around, I’d guess that it was a combinaction of the Villanos being an older act and the Villanos not being politically well connected and doing something even questionable gave whoever wanted them gone all the leverage they needed.

Or at least I would if this was US wrestling.

In nearly as exciting news, La Nazi has a bit part in Denzel Washington’s next movie, Man On Fire.

GdI claim the match tonight versus Shocker and Park would be their 38th defense. Haven’t seen results yet.

This past weekend’s CMLL is up, though like the show, it’s totallly missable. One of those shows where the TV producer is either much too big a fan of Pierroth or Pierroth himself. Really, it wouldn’t kill them not to have him on every single week in complete form.

Lucha Times is also updated, taking you to April.

The Park/Shocker vs Ultimo/Rey match has a chance to be really good with the last three guys. We still haven’t gotten to the Park stuff on TV yet, so who knows how he’s like now.

Black Warrior lost back to back title matches, which isn’t a great week. He chalenged Emilio to a hair/mask dealio after that match, but don’t count on it.

I have no inside sources, but just a strong belief that two guys under lucha masks on the Mole last night just might have been “white guys wearing lucha masks for fun.”

Hey, remember me? Probably not.

The Observer Awards are out and lucha…well, barely made any appearances. CMLL did finish fith for promotion of the year, only 75 votes behind the WWE (and actually having thirteen more first place votes). CMLL on Galavision was fourth for best weekly television shows. The GdI did finish fourth in tag team of the year with 1300 votes, and did have the second highest amount of first place votes.

But besides that, nothing. Not one of the Shocker/Ultimo Guerrero matches even received an honorable mention. Pierroth didn’t show up on either the Worst Wrestler or Word Feud awards. Top ten high fliers included Juventud and Ricky Marvin, but that was likely more for their work in the States and Japan.

If you want to draw a conclusion, I less people are watching lucha. I guess that includes me, too.

In other news, AAA will be sending El Zorro, Psicosis (AAA version), Heavy Metal and Abismo Negro to TNA for the America X-Cop on 1/28. It’ll be a one night tournament with a Mexico vs. the States theme. Seriously, though, Abismo Negro?

Back to CMLL, on 1/16 Atlantis kept the Tohoku Jr. Heavyweight Title by beating Tarzan Boy, and La Parka and Shocker challenged the GdI for a shot at the tag belts, which looks to take place on 1/23. Boo-yah.

I’ll be back, hopefully sooner than I was last time.