Had this done, had a power outage. Thrilling. Let’s see if I can the news about the hair match up before the hair match takes place.
the Big Story is CMLL.com announcing NJPW’s Shinsuke Nakamura and Hiroshi Tanahashi would work shows for CMLL from 08/29 for a month (maybe thru the 09/23 Arena Mexico show?) As always, I have bare minimum expectations for this situation being taken advantage to the fullest, though I guess they’ve done generally well with NJPW deals: Takemura was really fun in his stint (and should come back!), they stumbled into awesomeness by getting the Havana Brothers from the NJPW-LA branch, and we had The Best Giant Singh versus Giant Silva Match Possible that one time. (We’re lacking on great Taguchi memories at the moment. Any memories – but then I’m way behind on TV.) So maybe? The only thing you can be sure is between the ladies matches and the matches that will focus on these two (hopefully including matches versus Ultimo and Rey and Averno and Mephisto – or maybe they can battle Los Dos Tigres for the mystical Arena Coliseo Tag Team Titles, that’d be fine) is other people are going to be squeezed out for a while.
I guess Nakamura wasn’t kidding when he said he wanted to win the Mexican G1 – he sure is going to be disappointed when he finds out he missed it by a month. Or maybe he didn’t! Those guys are heading to NJPW are going from the 29th to the 12th, so that leads a little time where they’ll be around at the same time as the NJPW guys, and maybe we can do the G1 over again.
Yesterday, Halloween and Damian talked to Ovaciones, promising to retaliate with re-enforcements if Pierroth brings them again this week. Not much else of note.
Pierroth’s interview today was a bit more newsworthy.
– He plans on two more members for his group. The article omits Pierroth II, so I presume he’s one of them.
– He’s not sure if he’ll wrestle for 25 years (which would be 4 more) or till he’s 50 (which would be 3.) You’re stuck with him for a while at any rate.
– He’s dedicating tonight’s win to all his fans in Mexico.
CMLL (TUE) 08/15 Pachua, Hidalgo Results [ova]
1) Lalo Guerrea & Krypton ?? Concord & Tiger Man
2) Titan & Mensajero de la Muerte b Braulio Flores & The Medic’s III
3) Maximo & Tigre Metalico DRAW La Mascara & Neutron
No specifics on the circumstances of the draw. They set up a Tigre/Mascara MEX Welterweight match here.
4) Pierroth, Pierroth Jr., Hijo de Pierroth b Brazos (Plata, Oro, Platino)
elhalconnet #32 is up.
– Part 2 of the Dos Caras (Sr.) interview. There’s this long answer where he talks about CMLL and AAA and Konnan that I can’t make heads or tails of – I think it’s the translation, and I think it’s a “old timers aren’t respected enough by these kids!” speech, but I’m not sure.
– Interview with Nitro, which is great, because I was actually wondering about Nitro this week.
– Even more improbable is a one page interview with La Flecha.
– Results from Arena Mexico, LLF, Solidridad, Queretaro, and Apodaca, which I may repeat here when my food isn’t getting cold.
– the 1 2 3 Fuego notes says the Mistico/Aguayo mask/hair match is only a rumor. KrisZ is never wrong, I will not go against him.
Hair match results when I see ’em.