Three news items.
– Atlantis will meet Ultimo Guerrero for his CMLL LH Title next Tuesday in Arena Coliseo. This is your standard “I pinned you in a trios!” challenge, with the background of Atlantis and Blue Panther having beat Ultimo and Rey Bucanero for the tag team titles.
– CMLL plans on running another edition of it’s Gran Alterntiva tournament on upcoming Arena Mexico shows.
The Gran Alternativa features established guys teaming up with young undercards to give more exposure to the up and comers. Well, that’s what they try for, anyway. Winning kid gets to be in a big match. It seems to usually be a straight tag team tournament, though I think they ran it league style at least once.
I think the last one – or the last one to make TV much – was way back it 2001 where Psicodelico Jr. won. You can see the long term impatct there. I can’t shake the impression that there’s another once since then I’ve forgotten about. I’ll try to track down some info before it starts.
Anyway, I’m guessing this all boils down to having a one-night tag team tournament dominate the Arena Mexico card next week or the week after that. Probably get some fun pairings and Rayo/Universo buildup in the process.
Of course, both of these things will probably not make air due to the Olympics.
– Tickets go on sale for Rayo vs Universo on the 23rd, 24 days before the event.
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24 day pre-sale is unheard of in Mexico. You know for Atlantis/V-III you couldn’t get tickets till 4 days before the show and still it only sold out the day of the match. This will probably be the same thing though I doubt we’ll have any way of getting any info on how much tickets were pre-sold and such.
As for the Gran Alternativa, I’ll save you some time. Alan Stone won the 2003 tourney, teaming with Villano IV. Sicodelico Jr. is just an awful example b/c he blows.:P Tigre Blanco won the year before and is the current National Welterweight Champ. Scratch that, he was. Every winner has had something good happen to them. You GOTTA figure this year Mistico wins. Who else can possibly stand a chance?
Rob