Remember this past year’s Gran Alternativa? Final was Atlantis & La Mascara going over Dr. Wagner Jr. & Misterioso II, as part of the big La Mascara push but also a big part of the build to climax Atlantis vs Wagner Jr. in a mask/mask match. They took the tag match on the road and did at the various CMLL and CMLL-affiliated spot shows, most notably in Puebla, even after the Wagner/Atlantis mask match was off. Seemed like the crowd enjoyed the match.
We may yet get a mask match out of that matchup, but it won’t be Wagner and Atlantis. In today’s Ovaciones, La Mascara challenges Misterioso II to a mask match. Mask challenges should normally be ignored, because it’s an attention grabbing line which they can escape delivering upon, but I think this one might be for real. La Mascara isn’t facing Misterioso this week at Arena Mexico (which is the nominal context for the interview), so there was no reason for his name to come up unless Mascara (or CMLL) wanted to set something up.
It helps that was have an End of Year show coming, no matches announced and no big matches even hinted upon. La Mascara vs Misterioso II certainly isn’t a main event match in ’05. However, make it a ‘new’ match paired with a ‘old’ Perro Jr. vs Universo hair/hair match, and you’d get a reasonable (by their standards) CMLL major card.
I’m not as strongly anti-La Mascara as Henrik, but I dislike this idea and his participation (La Mascara, not Henrik) in it greatly. Obviously, a guy named La Mascara doesn’t stand a good* chance of losing his mask, and Misterioso’s odds of winning go to about nil when you factor in favored family members. La Mascara’s got a belt, he doesn’t need a mask, and if Misterioso is losing his mask to a young tecnico junior who already has a belt, it should be Mistico.
* – Magica and Y2K aside
On the odd chance this is Misterioso II beating La Mascara, I’m all in favor of this idea (and it’d be a good thing to do before doing Mistico/Misterioso.) However, I think I’ve got a better chance of being completely wrong about this match happening before that’ll happen.
There’s a story about an AAA show “yesterday”, which is odd because I couldn’t find any AAA show (or any promotion) on Wednesday this week, but it’s AAA so you never know. I’m still confused when I read the rest of it, but I think I’ve figured out Cibernetico has formed his own group called La Secta Cibernetica (with Charly Manson and Chessman) but keeps stalling on a singles match challenge from Vampiro. In the main event, Cibernetico, Abismo Negro, and Charly Manson beat La Parka, Octagon and Zorro when Cibernetico faked a foul.
El Halcon Net #44 is up.
– Notes, including Cien Caras with El Hijo del Cien Caras
– Inteview with Averno. They’re back to interviewing wrestlers. Hooray. Put Averno in the “children who started training in wrestling like the parent(s) withOUT permission” group, though it sounds like it was only a short time before his dad agreed to train him. He trained for four years before his first match. Not much you don’t already known: he’s content with what he accomplished as Recnor Latino, he (and Mephisto) split with Satanico so they could have their own separate identities, people see him as a good wrestler and he’s happy to hear it.
– Q&A with Tigre Blanco. His favorite movie is Men of Honor, which I thought was good but not great.
– LLF results; looks like an 8 women tournament.
– Sangre Azteca poster
– Interview with indy wrestler Mente Rockera
– Pictures of people without their masks – which does include Cerebro Negro.
