CMLL Mini Line - 07/23/05 (#180)
Recapped: 11/19/05
Nothing's going in this show. I'm going try to do it super quick.
Welcome To The Show Vignette: Shocker
Match 1: Nitro, Veneno, Arkangel vs Satanico, Safari, Zumbido
Arena Coliseo, 02/15/05
Winner: Tecnicos (2-1)
Match Time: 9:23
Approx Rating: They had somewhere to be, and it was not in the ring.
Notes: This is Zumbido's last CMLL (TV) match to date, though none
of us knew it at the time. We join post introductions. Veneno did a long stall
bit with Satanico in the corner after Hooligan got pinned, so long that everyone
(including the production) thought the fall was over. As they do the replays,
you can hear more fighting and a pinfall being counted. Break.
Whistle is clipped out to start the second fall. Rudos get the beatdown by just beating up Satanico while Safari and Zumbido are celebrating, and they just leave him to get beat, then take their turns coming in. Hooligan teases a powerbomb or whatever on Safari, but never pulls him up - Safari instead goes to one knee and Hooligan just grabs a hammerlock. Huh.
Beatdown continues into the third fall, but only for a moment before Zumbido starts his own comeback of Zumbido moves - springboard dropkick and double jump plancha to the floor. The fall is over almost instantly after, with Satanico pinning Hooligan with about nothing and Hooligan doing most of the work on getting himself pinned. They fight more after the match for no particular reason. I have no idea why they choose to air this. Replays.
Match 2: Mistico, Negro Casas (c), Black Warrior vs Ultimo Guerrero (c), Rey Bucanero, Averno
Arena Mexico, 02/18/05
Winner: Tecnicos (2-1)
Match Time: 10:27
Approx Rating: 83. Fun for the shortness, finishes. Good sell for next
week's singles match.
Other Match Notes: Ultimo punks out Mistico on the stage as Mistico's
entering. Averno's wasn't wise to this, because he's still got on his entrance
monk's robe as he runs out to help out. Ultimo beats Mistico to the ramp,
presses him, spins him around, and tosses him in the ring! That was pretty neat.
First fall is all beatdown, with Ultimo going after Mistico and ripping his mask. Mistico has frosted tips, and while I do not approve, I am not surprised. Averno takes it to Negro Casas, and surprisingly doesn't get killed for trying. Lots of throwing people out underneath the bottom rope leads to Mistico getting pressed over the top rope - hitting the rope as he's going over and spinning to the floor with no one to catch him, of course - and that's a DQ. (2:17) Negro and the ref hurry to check on him, because they all know he may be dead. Even the rudos are a little worried for a second, before they remember they're rudos. Ultimo picks up Mistico, presses him again, and tosses him into the apron! I think Ultimo came with a plan to toss around Mistico like a ragdoll, and sure is working. Rudos do the GdI huddle dance in the ring. Averno's outfit is his red and blue ones brought together in the middle. Replays show Mistico grabbed the top rope to land more safely, but that's what backfired and man him go spin crazy. You live, you learn, you die in a horrible fashion.
They have a new Segunda Caida sign! Good. I was worried there. More Rudo triple teaming. Mistico is still dead when it's his turn, but the rudos helpful grab him form outside the ring and pull him in. Tecnicos make the comeback just before the rudos crotch Mistico on the post. Mistico goes wild on Ultimo, getting him with two good dropkicks before yanking his mask. Averno takes the Warrior DDT on the ramp. Mistico is shredding Ultimo's mask - he rallies back to stop it, and takes the knee bump to the floor. Mistico gets him with a corner plancha. Negro and Warrior seem to have things in hand in the ring, but Rey tosses Warrior in the corner, and Averno reverses La Majistral into one of his own. Simultaneous pins do it. (2:32)
Third fall is standard tecnicos getting the better of rudos. Averno gets the better of Negro some more, but finally pays for it with the dropkick to the face. Mistico vs Ultimo is last, with Mistico feeling hurt even before he runs into an Ultimo chokeslam. Mistico gets more ragdoll treatment, but fires up. 619, check. Mistico tries to go for a cross armbreaker, but Ultimo lifts him up by one arm, and starts climbing the ropes, before Mistico scissors them both out of the ring. Averno and Negro exchange headbutts, both hurting a bunch from Negro's. This ruins the horns on Averno's head, too. Averno takes a hard run into the post, but Rey spears Negro as he goes for the Thesz Press! That ends that. Warrior and Rey in there now, Warrior into looking particularly good. Rey sends him to the floor, but when he slides out, Warrior slides in, and Warrior nails Rey and the first row with a tope. Ultimo is back in, but Mistico isn't. No one is, actually. There's Mistico, running late, but getting the up and over Code Red, one two NO. Mistico goes for his move, but Ultimo escapes, tosses him up, and low blow uppercuts him. He's covers, but he's caught. (DQ 5:38) Ultimo makes a one on one challenge to Mistico, which we'd get next week.
Stellar Moments
Combination: Brazo de Plata Jr. tries a top rope plancha, but gets a double
dropkick form Sangre and Ramstein
Lance: Sangre Azteca frogsplashes Maximo
Painful: Taguchi takes the Negro Casas dropkick to the face. Welcome to
CMLL!
Key: Averno gives Devil Wings to Mistico, then give shim a wacky bow and
arrow variant
Rudo: Perro destroys an innocent VCR. The cables are still hanging from
the VCR as he's using it.
Match 3: Cien Caras (c), Mascara Ano 2000, Universo 2000 vs
Pierroth, Vampiro (c), Black Tiger
Arena Mexico, 02/18/05
Winner: Capos (2-1)
Match Time: 12:09
Approx Rating: usual.
Other Match Notes: This is build to the hair/hair match, except we've got
no Perros available. Announcer says Mascara Aņo has 20 sons. Man's been busy.
La Nazi comes out alone as an obvious decoy. Yep, while thee Capos are looking
at her, the International Trios strike from the crowd.
Vampiro's side beatdown to start. Black Tiger actually wastes no time in ending it, with a top rope moonsault on Mascara. One two three. (1:17) Cien gets held and kicked till he gives up, and that's that. (1:33) I like having Black Tiger around. He doesn't screw around. Vamp gives Universo a fisherman's buster for no particular reason and gets a pin counted, even though it's over. Break.
replays. Second fall. Beatdown. Is Universo bleeding? Vampiro's beating him on the outside, and I can't tell if it's the hair or his forehead. I think it's just the hair looking odd. No, no, he's really busted open. That's odd. Must be legit, because it's a weird place for it. Black Tiger accidentally gets La Nazi instead of Universo on a wheel kick, and that's the comeback. A weight belt gets brought in and used. Universo and Vampiro brawl outside and on the ramp for a while., but Capos aren't actually in winning the fall. Everyone gets a turn at being triple teamed. Vampiro eventually takes a double team powerbomb to end it. (6:29) Though they still beat up the other two some more. Replays of belt shots, and Vampiro taking the powerbomb.
Capos beatdown goes on. The big blue step gets brought into play. It randomly settles down into a normal match, and most everyone's looking tired at his point. Black Tiger ends up missing his moonsault on Mascara, and Mascara covers him for a pinfall. (3:59). Cien powerbombs Pierroth to finish. (4:07) More fighting post match.
You can see the end bumper screen from the vignette they cut out right before they go into:
Match 4: Shocker (c), Dr. Wagner, Dos Caras Jr. vs Hector
Garza (c), Terrible, Tarzan Boy
Arena Mexico, 02/18/05
Winner: 2-1
Match Time: 14:31
Approx Rating: Fine. 81.
Other Match Notes: Of note, this is the trios champions on the heel side,
and they're all wearing their belts. Hector Garza is wearing the "Si Pepe
El Toro es Inocente, Hector Garza Tambien!" shirt. Why Terrible gets
last entrance of all the people here, I can't hope to understand. Although his
dancing almost makes it work. Match does not start with a beatdown, how odd. Dos
Caras Jr. is colored like he's Veneno Jr. here, all yellow and
black.
Opening exchanges are Terrible/Wagner (pretty good) and then Shocker/Garza, which turns into funny Monito bits. Monito is dropkicked off the apron (on to Shocker), so Monito wants a piece of Garza and Shocker has to hold him back. Shocker and Monito argue about who gets to fight, and Monito wins that argument. Garza makes fun of Monito - swinging punches which are way too tall and such, going and all four knees, and getting mad when Monito slaps him in the face. Garza kicks Monito, and Shocker is in to slap him. After Shocker poses, he and Wagner do stereo Dr. Wagner poses. And then so does Monito. Garza won't fight Caras, so he yanks his tights, which the women approve. Garza then will fight but it ends immediately with a German Suplex. (4:19) That was seriously a one move exchange, and they were checking on Garza's neck after. Which, the replay shows, they should - it wasn't high speed, but it was hurtful.
Terrible and Wagner, with Terrible knocking down Wagner and doing the pose. Long look at Hector's shirt. Dr. Morales does not agree. Shocker takes over on Terrible, Terrible gets booted and we switch to Garza and Dos. Guess Hector's feeling better. Well enough to sucker Dos into getting attacked from behind. Tarzan, Terrible a, and Shocker all end up in, and Dos prevents the beatdown by escaping double teams. Dos Caras looks good here. Well, until he tries a stomp and whiffs. Tarzan sells an enziguri like Wily E. Coyote, pausing in mid fall to be stunned about how much that hurt. Rudos finally get the beatdown going, though Wagner puts up quite a fight on Terrible before he's able to turn it around. Shocker is given a double superplex, and a Terrible splash for the pin. (5:33) Replays.
Beatdown goes on. Garza tries to do something to Monito, but he's down and won't get up, so Garza just kicks him in the butt. Dos Caras gets hung in the tree of woe for a while, but pulls himself up to escape a dropkick. Shocker rushes the ring to spear Garza and start the comeback, but we look at Dos right himself and walking around outside the ring. Garza gets slammed on the floor by Shocker and splashed by Monito. Wagner gives Terrible a big powerbomb, but Terrible actually kicks out at two. Settles into a Garza/Dos sequence. Dos hits a climb up the ropes enziguri, which I haven't seen before, and barely make makes it on a over the top rope tope - looked bad, as he was pointed down and headed there by the time he finally hit Garza. Chaos breaks out with the other four. Shocker ends up getting Terrible in a camel clutch for Wagner's dropkick, and then they both get pins: Shocker's hammerlock/headscissors rollup on Terrible (4:37) and a Wagner Driver on Tarzan. (4:39). Out to pose oddly is - Mr. Incredible? I'm sure this made sense if we had seen that vignette. It's just some guy in the Mr. Incredible suit, posing, given Shocker a thumbs up, and running back off. Shocker spots him, and he and Wagner are sorta confused. Shocker just wants to know if he was the only one who saw that, or if the drugs kicked in. Break.
Replays. Everyone mills around and walks off. There's a replay of Mr. Incredible, just to be sure. That's it.