CMLL Mini Line - 09/25/05 (#191)
Recapped: 04/16/06
Match 1: Hooligan (c), Guëro Loco, Loco Max vs Virus (c), Chris Stone, Chamaco Valaguez Jr.
Arena Coliseo, 04/19/05
Winner: Tecnicos (2-1)
Match Time: 9:53
Approx Rating: Eh. There's nothing wrong with this match, but outside of
Virus being Virus, there's nothing worth seeing. (Maybe having nothing worth
seeing IS something wrong.)
Match Notes: No entrances. Might have been a clip to start with.
I have a (possibly irrational) dislike for Guëro Loco and a perfectly rational dislike of Valaguez, so of course that's who starts. Mat wrestling, and the most compelling thing is Guëro's blue-green lips. Their exchange ends with Guerrero Loco just decide ding to go sit in the crowd. Chris Stone and Hooligan next, and guys really need to cut down on all the 619s. Chris is wearing his half mask for unknown reasons. Nice Asai Moonsault on Chris. Virus and Loco are last. Loco may be very slightly taller. Virus sets him up for a big Chamaco top rope plancha for a pin. (2:35) Virus rolls thru a Guëro Loco sunset flip for a dropkick, and locks on the half crab/armbar to end the fall. (2:46) Replays, and just as the whistle blows to start the next fall, there's a break.
I figure the second fall is going to start right in a beatdown, but they keep with the on on one exchanges. Virus and Loco Max start, with Loco taking a big monkey flip to end it. Guëro and Chamaco in - crowd manages a Chamaco chant. Chamaco evades Guëro on the run, manages an armdrag form the mat, and scares of Guëro when he goes to dive. Hooligan and Chris, with Hooligan actually getting in decent offense for his side. Loco walks in for on partial reason, but I guess that's the beatdown. Guëro and Loco grab Chris for a double team, and Hooligan has to clean up the tecnicos they forget to knock off the apron. Actually, Chamaco helpfully just sands there until Loco takes care of him. Virus is shoved out, and Chamaco is brought in. Corner clotheslines for him. Guëro gets him in an inverted figure four, and that's that. (2:59) Both Chris and Virus get brought in, with Hooligan working over and pining Virus off camera. (3:21) Loco ends up splashing Chris and getting a pin counted, but it's kinda too late. Hooligan stomps Chris out of the ring as we go to replays. Ah, top rope Hooligan splash, there we go.
No break before the third fall. Rudos brawl with the tecnicos outside the ring - Guëro works over Virus for a bit for the cameras - and the rudos eventually come back together in the ring. Virus gets tripled teamed, and this time Chamaco comes into break it up. Double backdrop for him, double clothesline for Virus. Chamaco back in again. Lots of talking before a whip, but they do connect on the double back elbow. Chris in, and Loco Max suckers him so Guëro can attack him from behind. Corner clotheslines for Chris. This beatdown has gone long enough without doing anything neat. Virus in, and he takes corner clotheslines too. Chamaco Valaguez in again. Corner clotheslines for him? Loco directing traffic, what a bad idea. He spends far too long taunting before getting whipped inn, and Chamaco just knocks him down. Clothesline for Hooligan, chest slap for Guëro, and the tecnicos are back. Brawling outside, as usual. Virus and Hooligan bring it back in the ring. Hooligan gets in a clothesline, but Virus grabs him on a back elbow and slides him to the floor on his chest. Loco Max in to take his place, but Virus handstands to the apron. Loco charges, gets an open hand slap, and Virus dives onto Hooligan for a headscissors. Chris tone tries to surprise Loco max with a wheel kick, but he sides steps. Guëro comes in to help, and they both whip Chris into the corner. Loco Max whips Guëro Loco towards Chris and turns to celebrate; meanwhile, Chirrs has caught Guëro Loco and set him on the top rope for Chamaco to do the valaguesa. Loco Max figures out what happened and charges, but right into a Chris Stone tilt-a-whirl backbreaker. Guëro gives (3:25) and Chris gives Loco Max a F5 and a camel clutch. That's that. (3:46) Replays.
Vignette: "Welcome Lizmark" - is somehow a Pierroth bit? La Nazi and Pierroth talk about Lizmark? Perros del Mal? Whatever.
Match 2: Canek (c), Pierroth, Black Tiger vs Dr. Wagner Jr. (c), Dos Caras Jr., Lizmark Sr.
Arena Mexico, 04/22/05
Winner: Rudos (2-1)
Match Time: 10:55
Approx Rating: Actively bad.
Other Match Notes: Wagner is wearing the NWA LH Championship and holding
the UWA Heavyweight Championship; he'd just won it the Sunday previously when
Shocker no-showed (and Shocker's already removed from the background images.)
Lizmark has a happy bouncing tune. Pierroth has new camouflage, which might have
been what the last vignette was about. I can still see him. Rudos attack 2 on 3
because waiting for Black Tiger is no fun. Dos is out of the ring when they try
it and Pierroth uses Wagner's belts, so it almost makes sense. Black Tiger acts
wacky. There's a clip in here as we take a look at the sides.
Rudo beatdown. Tiger helps Pierroth work over Wagner, which reminds me that this one of the rare times we see Tiger and Wagner square off. Canek eventually takes over, and Tiger and Pierroth work over Lizmark in the ring. Nothing but strikes for the first 90 seconds. Canek has a lame clothesline. He slams Wagner, and rips up his mask some. Tiger and Pierroth do the worst double suplex on Wagner (no timing), Canek adds an elbow drop, Pierroth adds a Senton so he can get the pin. (2:31) Yay, one fall down. Let's go two straight for the rudos. Long look at the fans for no particular reason. The guy with Marisol should've rethought his shirt choice this morning; no guy needs their chest highlighted like that. Oh, replays. Very slowly, they get to a break.
Crowd chanting for Wagner, not that he's in or anything. Canek's actually ramming his head into the post multiple times. Meanwhile, Tiger's working over Dos in the ring, including a seated Tornado DDT. Pierroth boots Caras out, and then boots Lizmark as he comes in. Whip, back elbow looks so bad. It's a combined bad effort by both men. Pierroth's following suplex looks magnificent following that horror. Wagner brought in. Ke Monito is at ringside (wearing Guapo overalls) and I never saw him get there; with Shocker's absence, we're starting the period where CMLL felt they had to get Ke Monito out there, but had no idea who to pair him with and it's change from week to week. Pierroth puts his head down too soon and Wagner kicks it, but he's tripped and pulled out by La Nazi. La Nazi holds him for a Black Tiger backdrop pescado, but Wagner moves and Nazi takes it. Comeback is on. They pair up Lizmark and Pierroth again, but I guess you'd rather than than Lizmark vs Canek. Wagner tears up Canek's mask in revenge, while Lizmark gets Pierroth with belt shots. Lizmark just hits him with a belt repeatedly in and out of the ring for a minute. I think they were just happy to find something they could do. Canek puts his head down too soon on a while, Wagner rolls him up, and that's that. (2:47) Wagner and Canek continue the fight on the outside. Atlantis chases Black Tiger towards the entrance with the belt, while Canek and Wagner spill into the front row. Pierroth finds time to talk to the announcers. Replays. Break.
As we return, Pierroth is being brought in the center of the ring for Monito to belt. We must be bored. Lizmark and Pierroth start off, and now that I'm hoping something goes wrong, it doesn't. Everything is open hand slaps and very telegraphed maneuvers which still work. Don't try the dive! Good. Dos and Tiger, and Tiger blowing Dos up with a jumping back elbow. Whip, reversed, Tiger manages to knock Dos down on a shoulderblock for one, but runs into a tilt-a-whirl backbreaker on the next attempt. Tiger and Dos chase each other in and out, and Dos ends up hitting his corner enziguri. Tiger sells it like he's out, an while the referee is concerned, the wrestlers seem not to notice. Wagner and Canek do pose a lot before they wrestle, allowing time for La Nazi to help Tiger back to his corner. Chops. Canek tries a dropkick! Wagner manages to avoid it, but Canek works in a backdrop on Wagner soon after. Canek off the ropes, and he takes a backdrop. Corner whip, Canek brains Wagner with the corner heel kick, connecting to Wagner's face. Wagner's hurting, but rallies to the sound of his chant. Canek's one up in the meantime, and crushes Wagner with a top rope plancha one two no. Wagner up to his feet with no trouble, and ducks a Canek charges, ending him out. There's the apron tope con giro, with Canek making no attempt to catch Wagner. Dos and Pierroth, what a combo. Dos works in a corner dropkick and sets Pierroth on the top for a running up the corner enziguri. Pierroth goes out, and Dos watches him - pescado kinda sorta works, but Pierroth also doesn't try to a catch and kinda goes down second. It looks gory. Lizmark and Black Tiger in, Tiger getting almost overrated on a backdrop and landing in the ropes. Lizmark hits a springboard "dropkick", and then slips on his next springboard attempt, before landing his dropkick. The fans aren't booing Lizmark, and maybe they shouldn't, but this is not a match for his highlight reel. Lizmark clotheslines Tiger out, and Dos takes over for Lizmark, except he's got no one to fight. This match needs to take it on home already. Dos brings in Pierroth, and, complete on his own, German suplexes him for three. (5:11) Is that end? No, though the director doesn't seem to know it, and maybe Dos doesn't know it either. Lizmark reverses a Pierroth 'flapjack' into a small package for three. (5:37) That was suitably awful. Canek/Wagner, the match we want to see, is the match that's happening on the outside. Both guys are pulling off their rival's mask, but they're getting broken up by the refs. Replays. Wagner cuts a promo on Canek - guess what kind of match he wants? Pierroth randomly hits Wagner with a rudo noisemaker, and Lizmark pulls him away, since they're trying to tease a match here. Canek insults Wagner's dad, it seems, and they brawl some more. Everyone brawls. GO HOME. 30 second skip in use now.
Vignette: Atlantis wants YOU to come to his Arena Coliseo Kids show on 04/30. All kids get in free.
Stellar Moments
Spectacular: Stuka with a suicide moonsault on Koreano.
Dive: Alan Stone turns Taguchi over with a tope. This is fun to watch
just for Taguchi's "oh no!" expression as they topple to the floor
Submission: La Mascara gets Dr. X in the rocking horse.
Painful: Perro Aguayo with a top rope double stomp on Universo 2000
Rudo: Negro Casas does not have a happy anniversary.
Match 3: Hector Garza, Perro Aguayo Jr. (c), Terrible vs
Universo 2000 (c), Mascara Magica, Rey Bucanero
Arena Mexico, 04/22/05
Winner: Perros (2-1)
Match Time: 8:33
Approx Rating: Usual brawl.
Other Match Notes: Magica isn't wearing any Guapos gear. Rey and Magica
shouldn't be getting along, but they forget about that at times. Perro's team is
all wearing the standard (but new here) Perros del Mal shirts. Rey meets them on
the ramp, and a crazier than usual brawl breaks out between all six. It helped
that the cameraman was scared for his life for a second.
Perros take the opening edge, taking apart their opposition. Pairs are Universo/Perro, Magica/Terrible, and then Rey and Hector disappear until they start he three on one stuff. Magica's first there, and he's worked over. in the corner, but mounts a belief comeback when the other rudos neglect to help Terrible. Rey takes a sliding dropkick right into someone in the front row. It's a more of a chaotic brawl than your standard beatdown. Terrible puts Magica in a tapatia (huh!), and lets go off the arms so Hector can put him in a Gory Stretch at the same time. Magica gives. (2:57) Perro beats Rey Bucanero from the ramp, and it's time for their own take on Rey's normal sequence: catapult, superkick, running double stomp. He's done. (3:36) Universo's going to get worked over some too, but he escapes to the outside. Replays. Perro and Terrible whip Rey into and over the announce desk, and Miguel keeps announcing like nothing's happening. That's hard work. Rey talks to the announcers as Universo is being worked over by the Perros in the ring some more.
We transition straight into the second fall, with the Perros beatdown still going on. Magica takes corner clotheslines. Perros decide to set him up for a moonsault by Hector, but are incredibly lax about it. Perro goes to the opposite corner to celebrate, leaving Terrible to hold down Magica alone - and that doesn't work when Universo and Rey rush him. They move Magica out of the way, which Garza doesn't realize - he's been too busy slowly climbing and posing towards the crowd. Universo's team leaves Terrible in Magica's pot, so Hector's moonsault is successful, but on his own partner. All of Universo team piles on Hector to cover Terrible, and that's good enough. (1:26) Garza's rolled off the pile, and Universo and Magica hold him down for a pin while Rey strips off his shirt and chases after Perro. (1:35) Perro retreats all the way up the stage to get away from his opposition, but Rey's coming up after him. Referee is checking on Terrible in the ring, who seems to hurry. Perro finally decides to charge Rey, and gets powerslammed for his trouble. Universo and Magica come up to the stage to join him, and bring him back to the ring. Brawl continues between falls, with the Universo squad getting revenge shots. Rey makes sure Garza goes into the announce table, though he doesn't go over it. Universo beats Perro into a front row seat, still occupied.
No break again, and into the third fall. Perro and Universo are left alone in the ring, and Perro's working over Universo with strikes. Corner whip, Perro charges in and lands a clothesline. Perro slaps Universo around. Chop. Whip, Perro puts his head won too soon, and Universo throws him down by the back of his head. Universo dropkicks Perro out, but gets dropped by a Terrible back elbow. Universo rolls out, Magica comes in, under Terrible's clothesline, knocking him down with a plancha. Cover for one. Terrible misses a big boot, but Magica kinda gets him with an armdrag. Terrible connects on his next boot, sending Magica into the corner, but Magica sidesteps a charge and Terrible throws himself out of the ring. Magica turns around to get speed for a dive, but Garza's in and laughing at him. Magica tries to knock Garza down with a shoulderblock, but Garza isn't budged. Garza laughs about it, while Rey sneaks in and they both knock down Garza with a shoulderblock, both off the ropes, Garza leapfrogs both, double clothesline by Garza hits Magica but not Rey. Rey's rallies the crowd. Rey's clothesline is caught, and Garza kicks him in the midsection. Chop, corner whip, Garza tries a splash but meets kicks. Terrible comes in, and Rey uses Terrible as a lift to pull a headscissors on Garza. Terrible's clothesline gets turned into a headlock, and Rey holds on as he runs up the buckle to dropkick Perro on the apron. Bulldog on Terrible. Perro storms and inputs a stop that, holding Rey for a free shot by Garza. Rey moves, and Perro gets kicked in the head. Rey holds Garza in the corner, Terrible charges, Rey moves and Terrible gets his own partner, and Universo spears them both in the corner. Universo messily bulldogs Terrible out of the corner, and Magica and Rey both dropkick Hector as he's now sitting in the corner. Magica whips and tosses Rey to the outside for a plancha, but Terrible and Garza catch him. They set him down, while Magica charges - thru the ropes tope con giro gets Rey only! Well, they're screwed. Universo gets Perro in abdominal stretch, but Perro's help breaks it up. Garza grabs Universo, and Terrible helps - spike powerbomb, Perro adds the double stomp one two three. (3:28) Perro wins again. Replays and break.
Match 4: Blue Demon, Damian 666 (c), Halloween vs
Negro Casas (c), Heavy Metal, Felino
Arena Mexico, 04/22/05
Winner: Rudos (2-1)
Match Time: 8:11
Approx Rating: Average.
Other Match Notes: No entrances; we clip to the end of Halloween
introducing the rudos (mentioning Nicho as part of FdT?) and the Casas brothers
rushing them. Metal's shaved the sides of his head completely again.
Casas beatdown to start; they're ticked about last week. Negro gets in a questionably low dropkick on Halloween in the corner. Demon in, and worked over by Negro and Metal, culminating with knee drops on both arms and a Felino dropkick. Damian tries to double clothesline Felino and Negro, but they don't go down. Negro gets him with a rolling trip and holds him in a camel clutch for a double team dropkick by Negro and Felino. They pose on him and pin - that's quick. (1:04) Break after about two minutes of action; we've got a few of those to get in.
Back for replays and some downtime between falls. Damian storms the ring and attacks Heavy as the other Casas brothers clear out, but Metal end sup landing a handspring back elbow. Damian comes in, Heavy ducks a clothesline and flips him with a clothesline of his own. Demon's turn to be the bumping goon. He puts his head down too soon, so Metal kicks him in the leg (?), then back elbows him. Kinda food. Tag to Felino, who knock down Demon for a zero count. Whip, reversed, Felino dropkicks Demon in the knee on the next pass. Demon rushes out before more can happen, but Halloween's backdrop gets reversed into an armdrag again. Halloween ends up nearly crotching himself on the ropes and asking for a DQ, but no one's paying any attention to him. Damian in, Damian powerslammed, an elbow drop for good measure. Damian is still weaning his PdM shirt. Tag to Negro, who gives him a swinging neckbreaker. Halloween in, Negro ducks the clothesline, swinging neckbreaker for him. Demon in, kick, (a fair bit of talking and) an inverted DDT for him. Rudos take a look at the situation, and decide it's the time in the match for FdT to tease walking out. Wow, they came back this time too. Felino and Halloween start, Felino misses a dropkick, and FdT is both on him. Felino's whipped into Metal, in the ring for no particular reason, but he redeems himself by backdropping his brother to the apron on next whip. Metal kicks FdT away while Felino climbs, and crushes FdT with a double bulldog. That looks no to so good. Metal boosts Felino into a dropkick on Damián, but Halloween's unaccounted for, and gets a spear to Metal's back. Felino tries clothesline Halloween, Halloween ducks, and FdT hit a 3D on Felino. Double submission on Felino ends him (2:39) and Demon gives Negro a double underhook backbreaker for the pin. (2:47) Replays and then the break, just to switch it up.
Rudos in control as we start the third fall. Damian brings Felino over to the announcers to yell a bit. Back in the ring, Heavy's getting worked over. Damian joins Halloween in chopping him. Rudos have no particular plan, and so it immediately backfires - Damián boosts Metal into a dropkick on Demon and Halloween, for no reason. Comeback is on. Heavy gets in the Heavy punch on Damian, while Felino works over Demon (and kicks him questionable low - there's more attention paid to this one, but it doesn't go anywhere.) Negro's out side the ring and not really followed by the camera much, though he seems to tease a dive at one point. Thins settled own to Damián and Metal, with Damián slamming Metal and heading up, only for Metal to join him. Damian tries to fight Damián, but Metal's not having any of it. Halloween sneaks in and under Metal's legs to lift him up. Metal fights that, and Halloween almost loses him. Maybe that's why Halloween walked back towards the corner; there's no other reason except to set up Metal superplexing Damian anyway. Everyone's down, so Felino, Demon and Negro splash people on the other side for covers, one two NO. All six aren't sure who's supposed to be in, but we end up with Felino and Damian. Felino gives Damián a fireman's carry slam, quickly climbs up (almost slipping) and lands a moonsault one two NO. Damian and Felino strike each other, with Felino lightly headbutting Damián into the ropes, and then jamming him with a dropkick, slowly taking Damián to the floor. Felino follows him out for a - I dunno. Looked like it was an up an over sunset flip which fell apart, but Felino's selling it and Damian ain't. Demon and Metal in. Demon clips up Metal, but Metal immediately flips off the top rope to show he's in no pain. Metal sends Demon out with a dropkick, and follows with a tope. (Demon doesn't really catch this week either.) We're down to Negro and Halloween, and Halloween spits on Negro again. Negro slaps him in the face, and it's an open hand slap battle. Halloween turns his back to take off his shirt, and Negro ambushes him form behind with a clothesline. Whip, reversed, plancha is caught by Halloween and turned into a F5. Of all times, now's when they need to show the cane angle from last week. Halloween wants to end this with a spear, but Negro moves and Halloween spears the post. Negro putting on a sharpshooter - and Halloween gives. (3:48) Damian in, and Negro gets the Casas Special on him; camera cuts to the crowd instead of the pin, which confuses things for a moment. Didn't look like the move was blown, seemed more like whoever's choosing the cameras wanted to show a shot of Perro Aguayo Jr. walking to the ring and hit the wrong button. Negro lets go of the cover to stare at him - so are the refs, so it's not like he's losing anything here, and then turns back to Damián to reapply the Majistral. Negro grabs the arm, stands, waits, turns, and there's Halloween to low bow kick him. That could've been a bit faster. Damian covers, refs turn around just to notice the pin, and that's that. (4:20) Negro fails to get his revenge. Metal wants to kill Perro again this week, but he realizes Halloween will get to him before he can do much, so he goes back in the ring to check on Negro. Damian gets the microphone to celebrate. Metal demands a match with someone. Halloween agrees to a singles match for next week.
Break, replays, Casas brothers use Perros shirts for towels, and that's it.