Month: March 2005

03/31 news

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Back to daily stealing from Ovaciones.

Bucanero did end up accepting Mistico’s challenge for a singles match (though not for a hair/mask match). They meet in the main event of Arena Coliseo next Tuesday. The rest of the card hasn’t been announced.

In addition to the usual Monday show in Puebla, CMLL is adding another show “every fifteen days”, which is an odd schedule. First added show is tommorow

CMLL 04/01 (FRI) Arena Puebla Lineup
1) King Jaguar & Iron vs Ares & Black Masters
2) Tiger Rojo & Zigma vs Toro Bill & Toro Bill Jr.
3) Tsuki, Shockercito, Mini Olimpico vs Mini Pierroth, Mini Volencia, Espectrito
4) La Mascara, Black Warrior, Volador Jr. vs Rey Bucanero, Okumura, Taguchi
5) Dos Caras Jr., Negro Casas and Mistico vs Hector Garza, Tarzan Boy and Vampiro

That goes head to head with an AAA show. While nothing of importance, it’s at least the level of the usual Arena Coliseo show. Tarzan Boy goes from here to Guatemala for a show on 04/03.

Your Daily Gronda Update: the bit this week says Gronda left AAA because he wasn’t a good tecnico – which still means he’s just going to LLL, I believe.

Upcoming Congress Theatre shows

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I didn’t hear anything about the OELL shows or a Congress Theatre show which I didn’t even know about but was apparently the same day?

The next lucha show in the area seems to be ELL-MEX (I’m guessing!) at Congress Theatre on 04/09 (SAT). Over on CW, there’s this post over on CW.com’s board.

The lucha card for April 9th has been changed due to conflicts of schedules so Dr Wagner Jr,Vampiro,Psicosis and Blue Demon Jr WILL NOT be at this card[though Blue Jr is scheduled for a May card for LUCHAVAVOOM in the same theatre] and these guys are now replaced by Tinieblas and his mascot Alushe,Super Porky,Emilio Charles,Scorpio,and Bestia Salvaje.

It’s gotta be a new Alushe, right? Tickets are $15 and $25. Bell time is listed at 6 PM. How often do you get to see the Taliban in Chicago? (Wait, don’t answer that.)

(In a weird hilarious concidence, I’m going to a Shins concert on the five days later – which is also at Congress. Can’t get away from the building.)

The Lucha Va Voom show refered to in that post is listed on their site, and is the Cinco De Mayo show Dave Meltzer refered to a few days ago.

TicketWeb actually expands on the lineup a little bit. Blue Demon Jr. & Solar vs Rey Misterio & Psicosis will be the main event, and is being advertised as Nicho’s last match before heading to WWE. Semi-main has super minis Tzuki and Mascarita Sagrada not only appearing in the same place at the same time (so it’d going to be quite a trick for one guy to be both this time!) taking out Cassandro and Misterioso. What a strange match, Misterioso’s gotta be ticked he signed that contract. Chilango, Durango, and the ladies are also listed. Hosts are the Guy From Beat The Geeks and SpongeBob (and five billion other voice roles, wow.)

Per usual, tickets are bit more pricey for Va Voom shows, $20 and $40 ringside. Unlike the last time they unoffically did a LVV show at Congress, it’s “18 and older” show.

news from Ovaciones!

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Assuming I’m not the last to figure this out, the site is now ova.com.mx. Or it is at least until they forget to renew this domain.

CMLL TUE (03/29) Arena Coliseo Results
1) Caligula/Messala b Espiritu/Karisma
2) Neutron/StarMAN/Sombra de Plata b Ramstein/Super Comando/Jeque
3) Alan/Texano/Maximo b Loco/Holligan/Masada
4) Porky/Brazo de Oro/Satanico b Taguchi/Okumura/Bestia
5) Shocker/Mistico/Warrior dq Tarzan/Ultimo/Bucanero
Rey, who earlier made fun of Mistico’s size and paid for it, got sick of Mistico outsmarting him and pulled his mask. Mistico challenged him to a mask/hair match.

– the first reteaming of Felino and Heavy Metal will be in Naucaplan, a day before their Arena Mexico match. They’re also working together on Sunday in San Bartolo.

– Shocker vs Vampiro is the actual main event of the Arena Coliseo show on Sunday. Dunno why CMLL.com seems to leave off the main event of Arena Coliseo shows when there’s a tag team tournament underneath.

– No update on Gronda, but they way they phrase – as a Cibernetico/LLL plot – makes it sound like an angle.

– El Matemático (65 years young) will retire on 04/16 at the 62th Anniversary of Arena Coliseo (Guadalajara? It’s a Saturday, so it can’t be Mexico City – they don’t actually mention a name and there must be twenty Arena Coliseo’s in Mexico.) He’ll be teaming with Matemático Jr., Kung Fu Jr and Gallo Tapado Jr. versus Talismán Jr., Talismán, Fuerza Guerrera and Black Terry.

– There are rumors Vampiro’s on his way out, but CMLL says they’ve got him signed till May.

Medico Asensino

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La Arena has add a bio of Medico Asensino. Worth reading.

There’s also, among many others, a profile of Hooligan added. I think a correction was made on his family tree in the last few months: Hooligan and Safari are brothers, but neither are related to Ultimo Guerrero.

(Which is good, because it used to bug me that they were listed as related – not that I knew better, of course, but because Guerrero and Safari were such stylistically different wrestlers in my eyes; I can’t think of a real set of brothers where that actually happened.)

03/29 News

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Notes: Updates have been slower since Ovaciones disappeared. CMLL.com doesn’t have much to add, so there’s not much to talk about. I am working my way thru recaps, so something else besides this results and the lineup should be up this week.

Some news from the Arena Mexico show

CMLL FRI (03/25) Arena Mexico results [KrisZ]
1) Texano/Maximo b Loco Max/Hooligan
2) Black Warrior/Zumbido/Sagrado b Taguchi/Okumura/Masada
3) Rey/Averno/Mephisto b Atlantis/Negro/Panther
Averno and Mephisto challenged the tag champions for a match next week off this result. Challenge was accepted.
4) Nitro/Dr. X/Sangre Azteca b Felino/Volador/Safari to become the Mexican National Trios Championship
This came as a slight suprise to me. Rudos, who were joinined in celebration by the rest of the Guerreros, are the 26th Champions. Dr. X is a double champion, still having a claim on the Mexican National Welterweight Title.
5) LA Park/Heavy Metal/Shocker DQ Halloween/Damien/Perro Aguayo Jr.
Perro low blowed Heavy Metal. There’s a mention of their past fights, but it’s not the current direction – Universo 2000 attacked Perro post match, looking for revenge on behalf of his family. Figures.

CMLL TUE (03/29) Arena Coliseo Lineup
1) Espiritu/Karisma vs Caligula/Messala
2) Neutron/StarMAN/Sombra de Plata vs Ramstein/Super Comando/Jeque
3) Alan/Texano/Maximo vs Loco/Holligan/Masada
4) Porky/Brazo de Oro/Satanico vs Taguchi/Okumura/Bestia
5) Shocker/Mistico/Warrior vs Tarzan/Ultimo/Bucanero

CMLL FRI (04/01) Arena Mexico Lineup
1) Valiente/Meteorix vs Polvora/Vaquero
2) Misterioso/Zumbido/Sagrado vs Dr. X/Nitro/Sangre Azteca
3) Universo 2000/Mascara 2000/Apolo Dantes vs Perro Jr./Canek/Pierroth
4) Heavy Metal/Mr. Niebla/Felino vs Damian/Halloween/Black Tiger
5) Atlantis & Blue Panther vs Averno & Mephisto for the CMLL Tag Team Championship

CMLL SUN (04/03) Arena Coliseo Lineup
1) Rayos Tapatios vs Flecha & Koreano
2) Tony Rivera/Tigre Metalico/Tigre Blanco vs Rey Infierno/Zayco/Guerrero del Futuro
3) 8 Team Tournament: Rayo/Niebla, Los Brazos, Ultimo/Rey, Yellow Wave, Satanico/Safari, Alan/La Mascara, Pierroth/el Hijo del Pierroth, Terrible/Bestia.
Haven’t seen Ultimo and Rey team up much lately. Probably wouldn’t be if Olimpico was healthy.

This Week’s “He’s Leaving AAA! Maybe” person: Gronda.

lucha times

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Followup to Robert, because he had a good point: My theory is the fans will show up to Big Matches, so it’s best to conserve them when you don’t need them, and they didn’t need to use up another one obviously. I don’t know that you could’ve turned something into a Big Match down the road just because they were the semi-main (or if the fans would’ve been neccesarily cared about another big match – maybe they were just there for Perro Sr. and could care less about anything else?)

I do grant I know so little about the CMLL live audience I could be completely wrong here.

Did I tell you all I put luchatimes up Tuesday?

Oh, I didn’t becuase I thought I’ve totally scrwed the TLN listings. An e-mail from two weeks from Tokage has me on the right track, I think.

My computer choking on Frontpage isn’t helping things. Guess it’s time to figure of Mozilla has a good editor.

TLN: If the hair/hair match was last week, the Rocky Romero/Virus match should be this week.

Saturday: My guess is they’ll air the show they were supposed to air last week, the second Best Of Show. I had figured on two AAA weeks based on Alfredo’s lack of tapes for two weeks on WHV, which may be smart or may be blind luck, I dunno. Either way, last week’s AAA takes care of one of those weeks right there.

Sunday: Capos vs Pierroths! CAN IT POSSIBLY GET BIGGER THAN THIS