Month: July 2005

Slow day. Tuesday Coliseo results haven’t surfaced. Ovaciones just has an interview with Atlantis, where he’s not saying much he hasn’t said all week. The closest we get to a comment about last week is “both guys are idols, and will have a lot of fans this week.” He hopes it’s a good match. (Me too!)

Things to do:

• Read a super early recap of a CMLL show that won’t air in the US till Thanksgiving. I think he’s got the date a little off, because that matches up with a 06/10 taping, but Victor’s WO.com recaps are good, and a heck of a lot more timely than I am nowadays.
• Check the CMLL/AAA roster discussion on LuchaWorld and figure out who blanked on.
• Or, if you’re living elsewhere around Chicago, help me figure out who’s all working and who’s still around. Got a project I could use the info in.

Really good news about Intcoable. Meltzer says a second operation was a success, and Intocable has been told he’ll be wrestling by November. That’s quite the dramatic turn around.

IWRG (THU) 07/14 Lineup [IWRG]
1) Carta Brava vs Rey Estruendo
2) Galactik & Panterita vs Paramedico & Fantasma de La Opera
3) Avisman, Ultramega, Rey de Corazones vs Pirata Morgan Jr., Nemesis, Kaleth
4) Corporativos (Dr. Cerebro & Cerebro Negro) vs Stripers (Marco Rivera & Star Boy) [IWRG IC TAG]
5) Mistico, Felino, Suicida vs Averno, Pantera, Mephisto

IWRG (SUN) 07/17 Lineup [IWRG]
1) Panterita & Black Solder vs Carta Brava & Rey Estruendo
2) Rey de Corazones & Galactik vs Fantasma De La Opera & Macho II
3) Payasos (Coco Rojo, Coco Verde, Coco Blanco) vs Black Terry, Polizon, Xibalva
4) Fantasma, Hijo del Fantasma, Fantasma Jr. vs Black Tiger, Scorpio Jr., Pantera
5) Veneno vs Cyborg [hair/hair]

Ovaciones has an interview with Atlantis – but doesn’t ask the “Hey, you got booed, how weird was that?” question. There’s doing a photo exhibition of him at the Guerrero Metro station starting next Friday, so this is to promote that and the kids show. They’ll also have a display of some of the trophies he’s won, and the masks he’s taken including Villano III.

(What’s sorta odd is the Metro site lists the exhbition as running from 07/05 to 07/28 – which means they started last Tuesday. I assume they’re just off on the Metro website.)

The Tuesday Arena Coliseo hype article is worked around an interview with Mephisto, but he doesn’t say all that much new. Averno would like another shot at Mistico, as you might expect. Mephisto offers “they’re way too new a pair – let’s see if the fans like them as a team first” as the reason the main event won’t be a title match.

As I think was mentioned before, Groond XXX debuts in Arena Coliseo on 07/24. He’s presuming he’ll face GdI.

Ovaciones also pushes a Matrix/Cyborg title match this week, so they must’ve not gotten the IWRG lineups before they went to print.

Box Y Lucha updated yesterday evening. The cover seems to affirm the speculation that Zumbido is out of AAA already. The poster is El Dandy and it’s not safe for work. It’s quite random, actually.

The website for the site appears to have changed some settings that make it really hard for you to translate the site into English; you keep getting bumped back to the main page instead. It’s not really stopping people from translating, it just takes a couple extra steps.

Inside the 2772th edition:
– Tijuana notes column. Sounds like Rey Mysterio Sr. might be taking some injury time off.
– Notes on the Blue Demon comic. They plan to make available in Japan, Spain, Central and South American and the US. It’s scheduled to be monthly.
– Interview with the children of the Black Shadow. Shadow kept his family and work completely separate, and it wasn’t until they were into their teens till they really understood what their father did for a living.
– Atlantis explains his fight with Dr. Wagner was inevitable; they couldn’t exist on the same side. Dr. Wagner broke one of Atlantis’ ribs before turning tecnico, which Atlantis hasn’t forgotten. He wants Dr. Wagner to stop teasing the mask match and sign the contract. There’s also a “who’s house? MY HOUSE” debate
– Dr. Wagner provides the counterpoint. It is indeed his house. The people love him more than Atlantis, and he only became a tecnico because the people demanded it. Wagner steers the challenge towards a UWA Title match instead of a mask/mask. Wagner claims to still be getting the hang of the tecnico thing, but he will not allow himself to be defamed.
– Interview with Rafa El Maya, who’s been refereeing for the last 22 years (currently in CMLL)
– The Box Y Lucha story is Zumbido no-showed both TV Tapings, and so, if Pena’s any smart, he’ll be cut.
– Interview with Marcela, about her start.

La Mascara defends the Mex Welterweight Title ves Magnum in Arena Coliseo Guadalajara on Sunday.

While superlucha’s board is not up, Ernest O’Campo’s report on last Friday’s Arena Mexico show can be found here. The main page of the forum can be found @ http://miarroba.com/foros/ver.php?id=243340. (Thanks again, Raquel.)

His take on the main event was both sides started the match as tecnicos, but the crowd inexplicably started booing Atlantis. Wagner attacked Ke Monito (who was here with Atlantis) between the first and second falls, and then again between the second and third (taking a stretcher ride that time), and yet they still cheered Wagner and booed Atlantis. Weird. Who will they cheer when they go one on one this week?

Bronco’s apparently changed his outfit, toning down the horse aspects a bit. Best match of the night was the Japan/Virus/Rivera/Maximo one.

CMLL (SUN) 07/10 Arena Coliseo Partial Results [ova]
1) Mini Olimpico & Bracito de Oro ?? Fire & Sombrita
2) Brazo de Plata Jr., Neutron, Argos ?? Hiromi Horiguchi, Guerrero del Futuro, Mogur
3) Arkangel, Veneno, Sangre Azteca b Metro, Tony Rivera, Texano Jr.
4) Rayo de Jalisco, Ultimo Dragon, Brazo de Plata b Universo 2000, Emilio Charles, Olimpico
Low blow finish. Can you believe it?
5) Atlantis, Blue Panther, Negro Casas b Tarzan Boy, Rey Bucanero, Pierroth
Pierroth and GdI made peace before the match, and then Pierroth ended up costing his team by trying to get the pinfall for himself once again. The rudos argued post match. Pierroth better not be turning tecnico.

CMLL (TUE) 07/12 Arena Coliseo Lineup [cmll]
1) Espiritu & Karisma vs Polvora & Artillero
2) Texano Jr, Tony Rivera, StarMAN vs Dr. X, Arkangel, Veneno
3) Sagrado, Metro, Virus vs Okumura, Taguchi, Nitro
4) Dos Caras Jr., Lizmark Sr., Satanico vs Ultimo Guerrero, Olimpico, el Hijo de Pierroth
Thank you, CMLL.com lineup guy, for using the “Sr.”
5) Mistico & Blue Panther vs Averno & Mephisto
Not a title match. Too bad.

CMLL (SUN) 07/17 Arena Coliseo Lineup [cmll]
1) Rayos Tapatios vs Mesala & Caligula
2) StarMan, Kronos, Valiente vs Ramstein, Reyes Veloz, Guerrero Del Futuro
Lucha Insider said Kronos is Brazo de Plata Jr. This is the first we’ve seen of him.
3) Pantera, Trueno, Texano Jr. vs Arkangel, Dr. X, Sangre Azteca
Now who’s Trueno? Not a name I’ve seen anywhere, so I think someone else is getting a new gimmick. Trueno translates to thunder.
4) Felino, Black Warrior, Brazo de Plata vs Hijo de Pierroth, Emilio Charles, Olimpico
5) Atlantis, Blue Panther, Rayo de Jalisco vs Canek, Universo 2000, Mascara 2000

Superlucha’s cover has Atlantis ripping Wagner’s mask, and talk of Crazy Boy joining CMLL under a new identity.

On Sunday, Ovaciones had an interview with Alan Stone and Super Calo. KrisZ has a better summary than I did,

Alan Stone & Super Calo did an interview with Ovaciones yesterday where Calo confirmed that he will be joining his brother in Promociones Antonio Pena but their other brother Chris hasn’t come to terms yet with the company. It looks like though that Chris Stone will be under the Super Calo gimmick.

Having a second Super Calo is weird, but fitting for AAA. Alan is wearing the Intocable-like outfit, because the original plan was just to team those two up. Obviously not happening now.

Robert pointed this out in the comments: Over on the Box Y Lucha forum, there’s a
scan of a CMLL magazine/program they’ve apparently been handing out the last few weeks; it’s listed as issue #4. I would love to subscribe this magazine, but I think I’d like it better if the dates were correct for the results (which appear to be a week off – maybe it’s a print error.) Notice they list an additional opening match for the Coliseo, too prelim for even the website to list! (I’ve added it to the results.)

Ovaciones’ main article is the Arena Mexico preview, with quotes from Atlantis and Mascara. There’s a throw away line about Okumura, Masada and Taguchi having asked for a shot at the CMLL Trios Titles and being close to getting one, but they’re working second match against unrelated foes.

AAA’s not taping this week, so they’ve got people working a couple different shows. In Tlahuac, there’s a Cage of Death match including Picudo and Alan Stone, with Zorro, Hijo de Anibal, Histeria vs Pirata Morgan and surprise partners in the semifinal. In Michoacan, the main event is La Parka & Shocker vs Chessman & Abismo Negro, with Oriental & Oscar Sevilla vs Ozz & Cuervo underneath.

Lucha Insider says NJ is interested in Dos Caras Jr. & Lizmark Jr. (presumably because they’re taller lucha guys; same reason Metro gets teamed up with them and LA Park), slightly interested in Halloween & Damien, and not at all interested in Dr. Wagner Jr. & Silver King (left NJ on bad terms). The post says “for the G1” and others have made the natural assumption that this is for the Three Country G1 tournament talked about the last few weeks, but because we’re talking about everyone in terms of teams, I presume they’re actually referring to the fall G1 Tag Team Tournament. I may be wrong, we’ll see.

CMLL will have a rematch of last week’s women’s tag, Lady Apache & Marcela vs Amapola & Dark Angel, next Friday.

Canek Jr. makes his debut match in Durango on Wednesday, teaming with his father.