Month: April 2004

Split feed on the Saturday show; East Coast feed gets the show before two soccer games, West Coast gets it after them. I’m thinking the late night show was/is the response to complaints about moving the show around so much.

Same split feed deal for Sunday, although it’s only one game (and a two hour offset) that time. If they air in order, the really good episode featuring the non-clipped remians of a Blue Demon Cibernetico and the usual awesome Marvin/Volador/Virus vs Havana Brothers match should be on the show.

Recaps of 04/03 and 04/10. Sorta. Let me know, okay? I’ll explain if you want to know, but maybe you could hazard a decent guess if you’ve followed along.

No huge news coming out of last Friday’s Arena Mexic show; typical event when you’ve got next week already booked. Results go like this:

1 Sombra de Plata and Explosivo d Mesala and Caligula
2 Tigre Blanco, Tony Rivera and Brazo de Oro d Mr. Mexico, Nosawa and Masada
3 Mascara Magica, Shocker, Perro Aguayo d. Terrible, Ultimo Guerrero, Rey Bucanero
4 Vampiro, Tarzan Boy, Pierroth d. Rayo de Jalisco, Atlantis, Blue Panther
5 Mr. Niebla, Lizmark Jr., Zumbido d. Black Tiger, Dr. Wagner Jr., Super Crazy

Weird match order. Must’ve wanted to give the push to the Crazy/Zumbido hair/hair match, but..

The big 4/30 card looks like this:

What’s missing from that picture? No Zumbido/Crazy mention.

I’ve got Terrible (long term plan to go for the Shocker match – of course, I thought they were long term planning Perro Sr./Universo last major card and was off there) and Zumbido (NJ wouldn’t want Crazy to come in for the Super Juniors bald – see, that’s a rumor I completely made up right there) in the hair matches. The undercard is so random trios generator that there’s probably not point in picking them, I think. FWIW, Box Y Lucha’s articles make a big deal out of a possible Terrible/Satanico’s alliance.

Antifaz was reportedly ticked about the non-positive reaction to him in his WWE Monterry match versus Damian (loudest when he missed a spot.) He complained about the fans, said WWE is all show and no wrestling, and Damien and him could’ve had a better match if they had more time. So he’s not going any more north any time soon, I figure.

Next US (LLL – but not AAA’s LLL) Lucha Shows
– 06/18, RBL Center in Raleigh
– 06/19, Cricket Arena in Charlotte
– 06/20, Gwinnette Arena in Atlanta
Gwinnette’s main event is Santo/Porky vs Parka/Nicho. Villanos, Blue Demon and others Brazos. Because that’s Friday/Saturday/Sunday, I’d guess not many top CMLL guys because of Arena Mexico/Coliseo bookings.

Masada and Nosawa are scheduled to work the opening match of NJPW’s 05/13 show, versus Jado and Gedo. The twist is that Jado and Gedo are the guys Takemura is hanging out with in Japan, while Masada and Nosawa were the guys he hung out with Mexico, so how (if?) he’ll get involved.

This could also mean that Masada and Nosawa are in NJ’s Super Junior tournament – Rocky Romero and American Dragon are working that show, then working the tournament (which starts 8 days later – Dragon gets to wrestle at the Dome in between), so that same could be true. But Masada and Nosawa in the Super Juniors? They’re good but that’d be a letdown, I’d guess.

Back later tonight or tommorow with lucha times and a little bit more.

Last week, Galavision skipped CMLL’s return to Arena Mexico episode. The main event there, as you probably already know, was the first Park/Shocker vs GdI tag match, where Rey messed up his knee real bad when he was caught in a ringside chair and hit with a tope at the same time.

They skipped ahead to the following week’s episode, and because we got segments with the Guapos talking about Bucanero’s injury, a replay of the injury (and the finish of the match) during Stellar Moments, and Ultimo and Tarzan visiting Rey in the hospital (complete with Knee Surgery cam), it was probably not a issue of not wanting to show a major issue (they’ve not shyed away from that before) but just the usual wrong tape problems that have happened often before. They could air the missing episode this week, or they could skip over it entirely, you never can tell with these things.

Almost as a nice makeup, assuming they care, they aired the initial Havana Brothers vs Volador/Virus/Marvin trios match show on Vuelta this week. Including the hilariously bad promo by the Havana Brothers pre-match.

Since they went out of order on the Saturday show, and they went out of order on the Sunday show, my chance of being correct this week are really low. The one thing I am pretty confident about is that the shows are on at the ‘normal’ time this week, so maybe you just want to tune in and hope you get something good.

As promised, the OMLL match list of the tape JTron sent to me – somewhat so you can make fun of my spelling. It’s a really ugly HTML file, you’ve been warned.

I’m traveling on Wednesday, but I’m going to try and grab a match tonight and a match tommorow, at least, and a lot more on Friday. Maybe I should post it as I do it just so I stay on track? This needs to be done well before May 1 and I’m way behind that goal.

The next big CMLL show is only two weeks ago. April 30th will be their celebration of Arena Mexico’s 48th anniversity, and they’re really hedging everything on a celebration of one anniversary or another if they’re celebrating a 48. It’s also the 30th anniversity of Satanico’s debut, but they didn’t play that up on the newsbit I saw.

Anyway, that card breaks down like this

1. Shockercito & Tzuki vs Espectrito & Fire
2. Misterioso II/Ricky Marvin/Volador Jr. vs Arkangel/Sangre Azteca/Violencia
3. Atlantis/Mr. Niebla/Satanico vs Averno/Mephisto/Rey Bucanero
   Averno and Mephisto will actually debut their new outfits here
4. Canek/L.A. Park/Shocker vs Dr. Wagner Jr./Tarzan Boy/Ultimo Guerrero
5. Zumbido vs Super Crazy in a hair/hair match


After their breakup last week, they feuding against each other in a trios match and threw out challenge. Seems like a total rush job to add another stakes match to the card.

6. Terrible vs Mascara Magica in a hair/hair match
   These two signed the contract on the 15th.

The Arena Mexico results from this past week

1. Rayos Tapatios d. Koreano/Ramstein by DQ
2. Neutron/Tony Rivera/Virus d. Dr. X/Nitro/Sangre Azteca
3. Averno/Mephisto/Olimpico d. Felino/Negro Casas/Volador Jr.
4. Atlantis/Mr. Niebla/Zumbido d. Black Tiger/Emilio Charles Jr./Super Crazy
5. L.A. Park/Mascara Magica/Shocker vs Damian el Terrible/Rey Bucanero/Universo 2000 (Terrible DQ)

This week’s Arena Mexico Card

1. Explosivo, Sombra de Plata vs Mesala, Caligula
2. Tony Rivera, Tigre Blanco, Brazo de Oro vs Mr. Mexico, Masada, Nosawa
3. Rayo de Jalisco, Atlantis, Blue Panther vs Vampiro, Tarzan Boy, Pierroth
4. Lizmark Jr., Mr. Niebla, Zumbido vs Black Tiger, Super Crazy, Dr. Wagner
5. El Hijo de Perro Aguayo, Shocker, Mascara Magica vs Ultimo Guerrero, Terrible and Rey Bucanero

All shows between 4/18 and 4/27 will be Kids Shows – kids will get a toy and free entrance to the 4/30 show.

As an outcropping from their failed teaming last week, Shocker and Olimpico met this past Sunday in an Arena Coliseo singles match. It’d certinatly be an upset if Olimpico won Ultimo Guerrero defended his CMLL LH title against L.A. Park in Guadalajara yesteday as well. No results for either yet.

I don’t have much OMLL done, except I did figure out a match list. I’ll post it later.

Two in a week. Like I’m working hard or something.

Anyway, I liked this show, probably more than I would’ve if I just saw it in isolation because angles were continued and that’s not something we get a lot of. Well, at least in not Pierroth situations. Speaking of, this Universo/Perro feud got many many times better when you replaced Pierroth with the Guapos as Perro’s allies, which as you would think. The opener was fun too.

Lucha Times has also been updated. They’re doing a split feed to accommodate some afternoon soccer, so if you’re one of those who get the pacific feed, expect the lucha to be quite off from usual. I think if I recorded the last order for the reruns, I’d have this order right, but I didn’t so it’s just a guess. Alas.

OMLL next? I sure hope so.