PWI says Hector Garza’s going to be deported, the exact date is unknown. If he doesn’t get his appeal overturned in the next month, he’ll be banned from wrestling in the US till 2015.
Day: January 21, 2005
Who are the chicago lucha promotions ?
updated 01/21
There’s a lot of randomly named interlinked lucha promotions in the Chicago area all the sudden, and a completely different one running (at least in name) the show Saturday. Let me see if I can sort it all out without being too wrong – maybe you’ll be smart and just say “chicago lucha” to be close enough.
Yell if WHEN I’ve said things that don’t appear to be true.
locals
OMLL – The ‘original’ lucha promotion in Chicago, based around in-house trained worked with contributions with (random) Mexico guys. Promoted a small gym show on a regular basis in Chicago but eventually shut down to due to venue problems. JTron produced an award winning * tape of a few of their shows. Regulars now appear on all sorts of lucha (and non-lucha shows), and are refered to as OMLL guys even though there are no current OMLL shows.
* award may be thecubsfan.com’s “2003 Award For Steadest Handheld footage of a wrestling event.”
OELL – Promotion shows out in Cicero and Aurora. Business plan seems to bring in a Star main event match from Mexico and fill out 3-4 undercard matches with local workers. Claims to have promoted shows elsewhere in the Chicago area, but apparently did it under our collective conciousness till the 12/04 shows. Next big shows are at the end of the month, based around a Negro Casas/Virus vs Ultimo Guerrero/Rey Bucanero match.
ELL-MEX – Congress Theatre based promotion. Seems to be running cards with OMLL workers as a weekly cultural arts attraction? Hosting the big 01/22 show, although actually under another group’s banner.
out of towners
Lucha Va Voom – Ran one show at Park West in 11/04 and another one at Congress (which could generously be called the first ELL-MEX show) when they cancelled their Cleveland show. Gave indication they’d be back at some point, but no date scheduled.
FMLL – At least in name (maybe more? unknown), running the 01/22 show and bringing in the talent. Nominally a LA-based lucha promotion taking advantage of it’s proximenty to bring in mostly indepedent workers. The name workers are the draw, but they run angles and title matches underneath.