tournament of sons announced

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CMLL will kick off it’s Arena Mexico with a 16 man singles tournament. (2 eight man tournaments and one final, so it’ll take place over three week.) The gimmick is that it’ll only involve the sons of ‘retired’ wrestlers, and includes quite the varied level of performers. The 01/21 block is listed as

Brazo de Plata
Negro Casas
Misterioso Jr.
Alan Stone
Blue Demon Jr.
Shocker
Hector Garza
Averno
(I gotta believe Garza involvement may be subject to change)

They don’t name names for the second half, so let me see if I can figure 8:

1) El Hijo del Santo
2) El Hijo del Perro Aguayo.
3) Dr. Wagner Jr.
4) Felino
5) Chris Stone
6) Dos Caras Jr.?
7) Apolo Dantes
8) Emilio Charles Jr.

First 7/16th of the tournament is on 01/21, the second 7/16th is on 01/28 and the final is on 02/04.

If you’re wondering when they might do the Canek/Wagner match, 03/21 is announced as the yearly Santo/Lutteroth tribute show. They’re going to be doing a special show in Arena Coliseo during early April to celebrate an anniversary in that building, and the Gran Alternativa tournament is scheduled for May. (Will all these things happen on these dates? Who can say.)

Maximo = Brazo de Platino, son of Brazo de Plata. He says he wanted to forge a new image for himself, and he really liked that Gladiator movie. Really.

Hector Garza arrested

HoustonChronicle (via Luchaworld)

Steroids, amphetmines or other illict- take your guess! When you think about inspections at border crossings and aiprorts, and the rate of drug use in the wrestling business, it’s kind of a surprise this doesn’t happen more often, especially for guys who aren’t living in the US.

Garza isn’t booked on the main CMLL shows this week, but he’s surely got other Mexician bookings. Garza was expected to be on the 01/16 TNA Final Resoultion show, but he wasn’t at the TV taping on Tuesday so maybe they’re changing plans.