Lucha Times

I’m guessing no new GALA lucha this week.

GALA has a UNCAF (CONCACAF Gold Cup qualifying for Central American teams) triple header scheduled for Saturday, along wiht the usual boxing and Mexican League soccer shows. The 2-4p show has been competely bumped off the lineup.

There is the usual 3-5 am airing, but they’ve just aired repeats in the past when the afternoon showing is pre-empted, and I expect the same here. (Though I’ll be taping anyway, because expecations are wrong often enough.)

All the listings have been shifted back a week. If I’m right, we’ll be 91 days behind in the end. The upside is Mistico vs Averno II is now scheduled for my birthday weekend, and I find it suitable for a lucha present. (Reaching…)

Sunday is on the lineup, but moved and split feeded due to a double header and a “history of soccer” (Classic Game?) on the lineup. I think this week really is the minishow, but I haven’t been reading the schedule well on this of late; if I were you, I don’t know that I would trust me.

For fun, and to make this as completely unreadable as possible, my TLN guess of the week has been added to the Lucha Times chart. This week, it’s pretty easy. Or it should be.

02/16 news

Arena Coliseo (TUE) 02/15 Results [whoa.com]
1) Meteorix/Los Rayo Tapatios I & II b Flecha/Polvora/Vaquero
2) Maximo/Chris Stone/Tigre Blanco b Loco Max/Koreano/Guero Loco
3) Satanico/Zumbido/Safari b Nitro/Veneno/Arkangel
4) Atlantis/Niebla/Brazo de Plata b Emilio el Hijo de Pierroth/Bestia/Mephisto
5) Dos Caras Jr. DQ Tarzan Boy
Two falls. Reports are not promising.

Ovaciones noted it was a complete tecnico sweep.

Mistico owns Averno, winning yet again, this time in their Monday night Puebla matchup. The show was held up from starting because they couldn’t arrive (and didn’t finish till midnight as a result) because of a (unrelated, I assume) PAN blockade.

In Guadlajara on Sunday, Shocker retained the CMLL LH Title over Ultimo Guerrero. This week’s card look something like this:

(fixed)


Negro Casas is pushing back his 25th anniversary tour. They’re going to time it to include a major Arena Mexico show.

As a result of a four way match in Tampico last night, Brazo de Platino has lost his identity; I presume this means he’s going to start working as Maximo full time, unless I’ve screwed that up some how.

La Copa Jr. update

The La Copa Jr. nFAQ has been updated with a previous iteration from ’96. Check out the connection to ’05 – the finalists both were scheduled to appear in this year’s show, but had to drop out. Otherwise, 3 carry overs between 9 years, which would be pretty surprising for anything but lucha.

Thanks to Robert for the info.