Month: August 2005

Not much news from Ovaciones that isn’t old.

Apparently, Blue Demon’s cracking down on those illegally selling his mask – he took all unauthorized masks he found in front of Arena Mexico this week (more than 100) and apparently warned them not to continue.

Shocker’s going to include tecnicos and rudos in his Guapo U. Some suggested names include Antifaz, Zumbido, and Alan Stone. Alan Stone in Guapo U? What a crazy idea!

CMLL.com says Ultimo Guerrero is going to start helping training all the lower card guys – I think he was working with the guys who were in his group previously. They’re really high on the Perro, Mistico, and Wagner team, so it might happen again.

Looks like the scheduled episode is airing on GALA.

CMLL (FRI) 08/19 Arena Mexico “Noche de Perros” Results [ova]
“Near 16000 fans”
1) Sangre Azteca & Nitro b Tigre Blanco & Tigre Metalico
2) Hijo de Pierroth, Taguchi, Okumura b Maximo, Safari, Volador Jr.
3) Negro Casas, Felino, Heavy Metal DQ Rey Bucanero, Averno, Mephisto
4) LA Park, Dos Caras Jr., Ultimo Dragon b Damian 666, Halloween, Tarzan Boy
5) Dr. Wagner Jr., Hijo del Perro Aguayo, Mistico b Atlantis, Ultimo Guerrero, Universo 2000
They played this straight; Perro was a tecnico, not fighting his allies, and Atlantis worked rudo. Perro pinned Universo clean with the Aguayo Double Stomp.
6) Hector Garza b Pierroth [hair/hair]
The whole PdM group (excluding Blue Demon Jr.) showed up with Hector, and “more than 15” Pierroths had their man’s back. The commission stepped in and only allowed one corner person per side; Aguayo and Hijo del Pierroth (which appears to still be Salsero). Hector took the first fall easily, but ended up diving onto Perro in the second fall because of some Pierroth maneuvering – they worked together to take the fall. Hijo was kicked out after the fall, but La Nazi took his place. She hit Hector, which wasn’t enough to hurt him but enough to distract him. Pierroth has the visual pin, but the ref was still caught up with La Nazi, and Perro turned it around. The ref turned to see Hector on top, and counted the pinfall.

Mora (THU) 08/18 Arena Publea Results [KrisZ]
1) Mr. Rafaga b King Jaguar
2) Gallo Tapado Jr. & Kung Fu Jr. b Blackman Jr. & Black Panther
3) Matematico & Ultraman b Negro Navarro & El Signo
4) Blue Demon Jr. & Scorpio Jr. b Rayo de Jalisco III & Lizmark
Scorpio low blowed Rayo III
5) Perro Aguayo Jr. & Ultimo Guerrere DQ Hijo del Santo & Negro Casas [WWA TAG TEAM]
I probably shouldn’t count these belts if I can’t get a consistent champion for them.

PAR (SUN) 08/14 Arena Solidaridad Results [Halcon]
1) Black Soul, Titanik b Juvetud 2000, Sangre de Leon
2) Corazon Adicto I & Super Boy b Venum & Imageni
2) El Vikingo, Okumura, Taguchi b Gitano & Caifanes I & II
3) Diluvio Negro I b Blue Panther
Panther had Diluvio submitting to the fujiwara, but the ref saw neither it, nor Negro’s low blow.
4) Mongol Chino, Head Hunters I & II DQ Centurion Negro, Gato Volador, Silver Star
sounds like Centurion, returning to the arena after being a rudo in his last stint, lasted tecnico for 2/3rds of this match. He low blowed the rudos to lose the match for his team and attacked his partners post match.
5) Hijo de Cien Caras, Cien Caras Jr., Super Parka, Diluvio Negro III b LA Park, Tony Rivera, Corazon de Barrio, La Sombra

(SUN) 08/14 Arena Queretaro Results [Halcon]
1) Rey Centella b Invasor
2) Bulldog Quintero b Cometa Negro
The recap says Quintero is the trainer of the group.
3) El Rojo & Azteca Imperial b El Lince, Hombre sin Rostro
4) Ursus b El Toro
Both were champions of their towns; Ursus ended up with both belts.
5) Super Muneco, Principe Valiente Jr., Zain vs el Hijo del Diablo, Shu el Guerrero, Black Terry

(SAT) 08/13 Arena Santa Rosa, Apodaca, Nuevo Leon Results [Halcon]
La Mascara was supposed to be o this show, but was hurt.
1) Mr. Fuego b Aracnido
2) Lucha Mercurio & Venum b Titanik & Zulu
3) Aurora, Diana La Cazadora, Dark Angel b Luna Magica, La Bruja, Princesa Sugeith
4) Sky, Turbia, Chucho Mar Jr. b Mongo Chino, Caifanes I & II
5) Diluvio Negro I, Llamarada, Ares b Talisman Jr., Tigre Universitario, Silver Star
Negro had his feet on the ropes for the winning pin.

Hector Garza. That’s a surprise to me.

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.