Day: January 11, 2006

2005 Tapatia Awards Discussion: Best Tecnico, Best Rudo

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Schedule of Discussion:
Monday: Best Wrestler
Tuesday: Best Promotion, Best Rivalary
Wednesday: Best Tecnico, Best Rudo
Thursday: Best Legend, Best Female, Most Improved, Most Underutilized
Friday: Best Match, Best Singles Match, Best Non-Singles match
Next Monday: Who won in other awards (perhaps)

Today’s nominees are a lot easier to isolate, I believe. It’s seems like repetition of Best Wrestler, but because you have to distinguish yourself as either a tecnico or a rudo, those who wrestled as a tweener (Shocker) and those who switched back and forth depending on the match (Universo) are non-factors here, while those who connected with the crowd despite not being in an important role (PorkY) might get a few votes.

Everything can be broke into groups. Everything!

Best Tecnico

recent DVDMB thread on this topic

The Idols Of The Year: Mistico was compared to Rey Mysterio Jr., and Dr. Wagner was compared to Steve Austin in terms of popularity. That’s like, really really good. It’s a debate who’s 1, but it’s tough to see either being left off.

Novelty Acts: Groon, until he actually wrestled. Dark Angel, possibly.

Eternal crowd favorites: Negro Casas, Santo, LA Park, La Parka, Latin Lover, Brazo de Plata, Maximo (new addition), Mascarita Sagrada, Vampiro

Near Misses: Dos Caras Jr. will probably scoot up to the next level soon, Texano Jr. and La Mascara were guys they hope move up levels, and there’s plenty of juniors who didn’t get much attention from the promoters.

Best Rudos

recent DVDMB thread on this topic

No need to look past the leaders of the two strong factions

Perros Del Mal: Perro Aguayo Jr. and Hector Garza were top threats to tecnicos. Not so strong on the others; Halloween and Damian’s biggest moments were in a rudo/rudo feud, so it didn’t really depend strong on their rudoness. Terrible seemed to disappear during the year, and Blue Demon wasn’t around much.

Guerreros del Infernal/Atlantis: Ultimo Guerrero is a rudo’s rudo. Rey Bucanero and Tarzan Boy were the usual selves. Atlantis finally committed to the turn a bit too late to consider here.

Aren’t fun to watch, but apparently fun to boo: Canek, Pierroth

Eternal AAA crowd favorites (by rudo fans): Cibernetico, Chessman, Abismo Negro (didn’t turn till late), Mini Abismo Negro

Lucha TImes

thecubsfan

Normal times, all around.

Saturday: Unlike last years, the 2005 Gran Alternativa should make Galavision, this week. This doubles as the start of a month of Atlantis vs Wagner action, leading up to a NWA Light Heavyweight title match which in turn was supposed to set up the mask match. Also, Dark Angel debuts – as a rudo, in a tag match opposite Lady Apache, a quite different direction than they ended up taking things.

Sunday: Ultimo Guerrero vs Dos Caras Jr. (1 of 2) airs this week – I thought that match was good the first time thru.

GdR: I have no idea. There’s no preview for next week on last week’s show, so I just picked some matches. I’ve got a clean 36% chance of picking one of them.

01/11 news

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No much news, but lots of results.

IWRG (THU) 01/05 Arena Naucalpan Results [iwrg]
1) Rey Estruendo b Kid Tiger
2) Panterita, Freezbe b Super Colt, Black Jaguar
3) Coco Rojo, Coco Verde, Cocothecu Blanco b Pirata Morgan Jr., Kaleth, Nemesis
4) Enterrador, Cyborg, Xibalva b Matrix, Star Boy, Suicida
5) Scorpio Jr., Veneno, Cerebro Negro b Heavy Metal, Negro Casas, Felino [IWRG TRIOS]

New Champions, if you couldn’t tell by the photo.

IWRG (SUN) 01/08 Arena Naucalpan Results [iwrg]
1) Antaris b Rey Estrunendo
2) Ultramega, Galactik b Fantasma de la Opera, Carta Brava
3) Avisman, Marco Rivera, Star Boy b Pirata Morgan Jr., Kaleth, Némesis
4) Enterrador, Negro Navarro, Black Terry b Coco Rojo, Coco Verde, Coco Blanco
5) Tarzan Boy, Rey Bucanero, Dr. X, Loco Max b Scorpio Jr., Veneno, Dr. Cerebro, Cerebro Negro

And GdA want a shot at the Trios titles now. Good they’re paying attention.

indy (SUN) 01/08 Arena Coliseo Monterrey Results [KrisZ]
1) Llamarada, La Sombra b Psicopata, Rey Infernal
2) Iron, Pancho Tequilla, Sangre Chicana Jr. DQ Mongol Chino, Monje Negro Jr., Vaquero Romo
3) Angel del Amor, el Gargol, Konan Plus DQ Ares, Corazon de Barrio, Medico
4) Casandro, Antifaz, Zumbido b Sangre Chicana, Pimpinela, Casanova

CMLL (SUN) 01/08 Arena Coliseo Guadalajara Results [KrisZ]
1) Furia Nazi DQ Fantasma de la Muerte
2) Depredador, Fraile de la Muerte b Golden, Rockero
3) Ringo Mendoza, Nube Roja b Magnum, Infierno
4) Cien Caras Jr., Bestia Salvaje, Malefico b Volador Jr., Kronos, Neutron
5) Brazo de Plata, Negro Casas b Pierroth, Hijo de Pierroth

CMLL (MON) 01/09 Arena Puebla Results [KrisZ]
1) Asturiano, Blue Center, Kirvan b Mr. Rafaga, Fuerza Tiger, Black Master
2) Tigre Blanco, Tigre Metalico, Tigre Rojo b Apocalipsis, Toro Billy Jr., Tarahumara
3) Marcela b Amapola [CMLL WOMAN]
4) Atlantis, Tarzan Boy, Olimpico b Blue Panther, La Mascara, Felino
5) Averno, Mephisto, Damian 666 b Mistico, Dos Caras Jr., Mr. Niebla

Averno challenged for another shot at the NWA MW Title. That’d be try #5 by my count.

CMLL (TUE) 01/10 Arena Coliseo Results
1) Shockercito, Ultimo Dragoncito b Sombrita, Mini Damian 666
2) Ramstein, Caligula, Mesala b Starman, Molotov, Danger
3) Virus, Tony Rivera, Chamaco Valaguez Jr. b Loco Max, Arkangel, Apocalipsis
4) Black Warrior, Felino, Lizmark b Terrible, Okumura, Emilio Charles
5) Ultimo Guerrero, Averno, Mephisto b Mistico, Dr. Wagner Jr., Blue Panther

Mistico got bloodied up (for the first time in Coliseo) by the rudos. Warrior again teased going rudo, and Felino got stretched out of his match. Chamaco replaced Starman.

AAA (SUN) 01/15 Arena Coliseo Monterrey Lineup [luchalibre]
1) Laredo Kid & Hombre Sin Miedo vs Oscuridad & Rio Bravo
2) Hator, Antifaz, Corazon de Barrio vs Ozz, Cuervo, Escoria
3) Zorro & Pimpinela vs Charly Manson & Casandro
4) Parka, Octagon, Intocable vs Zumbido, Shocker, Alan Stone
5) Vampiro & Abismo Negro vs Cibernetico & Chessman

Felino was stretched out of his match, and Warrior teased a rudo turn again. Mistico was busted open (for the first time in Arena Coliseo.)

Los Hermanos Dinamita are said to have an offical website at http://www.loshermanosdinamita.tk/, except they quickly exceeded their bandwidth (I guess), so who knows.

Both the CMLL Arena Mexico card and the updated WWE cards (which have to be quite rebooked at this point) may be publicized tomorrow.

In between five hundred other things, I updated the links on the sidebar. Yay for me.