Month: January 2006

Our long national nightmare is over, for tonight (or this afternoon), AAA will crown a new Mexican National Middleweight Champion. At least in theory, you can never be too sure with AAA. Finalists in the tournament (which I think may have actually been a real bracketed tournament, though I can’t seem to put the bracket together) are Zumbido and Histeria. Histeria does an interview today, explaining why he’s going to win. He also closes the door on the whole Psi-Histeria bit (which may have already been done on TV for all I know), explaining he gave the Psicosis gimmick control papers to Antonio Pena, for he is the true owner of the gimmick. (I hate AAA.)

AAA (SUN) 01/29 Plaza de Toros, Salamanca, Guanajuato
1) Billy Boy, Martha Villalobos, Mascarita Sagrada, May Flowers vs Gran Apache, Mini Abismo Negro, Polvo de Esterllas, Tiffany
2) Zumbido vs Psicosis [MEX MW, Final]
3) Electro Shock, Intocable, Zorro vs Charly Manson, Chessman, Espíritu
4) La Parka Jr., Mascara Sagrada Jr., Octagón vs El Brazo, Espectro Jr., Pirata Morgan
5) Vampiro vs Shocker vs Cibernetico [bull terrier]

In another article, Ovaciones randomly reveals the CMLL Heavyweight rankings
c) Universo 2000
1) Mr. Niebla
2) Dos Caras Jr.
3) Hector Garza

This sets up the trios match with Niebla, Dos and Lizmark against Universo, Tarzan and Atlantis tonight, and the already scheduled singles match between Niebla and Universo next Sunday. I’m hoping those don’t make GdR but they surely will.

The rest of Ovaciones is lineups for Arena Coliseo and IWRG on Sunday, and Arena Puebla on Monday. Full lineups tommorow.

Victor Manuel Mar, known as Black Cat and Kuroneko, passed away on 01/28 at 3am in Tokyo. He wrestled in AAA, as part of Gringos Loco, and in NJPW, where he later became a referee and company official. More information about him can be found at Puroresu Fan, Wrestling Observer, Black Cat’s official site, and the LuchaWiki. CMLL.com has posted a note wishing their condolences to his family.

Having spent his career in both Mexico and Japan, Black Cat also seemed to serve as a liaison between NJPW and CMLL in the last few years, as their cross promotion has gotten stronger. He was present, along with Chono, at the Leyenda de Azul tournament (where the World G1 concept was figured out), and often is visible accompanied NJPW wrestlers when they wrestled in CMLL rings. He’ll appear again in that role this March and April on Galavision, when the matches with Shinsuke Nakamura and Hiroshi Tanahashi debut on US television.

CMLL (FRI) 01/27 Arena Mexico Results
1) Kronos, Valiente b Calígula, Mesala
2) Amapola, Hiroka, Princesa Sujei DQ Dark Angel, India Sioux, Luna Magica
Amapola pulled her own mask off and threw it to Dark Angel. The ref only saw Dark Angel with the mask and called for the DQ. Dark Angel wants a singles match with her.
3) Black Warrior, Blue Panther, Volador Jr. b Apolo Dantés, Hombre Sin Nombre, Misterioso II
CMLL.com pushes a second generation Volador/Misterioso rivalry here.
4) Heavy Metal, Mistico, Negro Casas b Averno, Mephisto, Olímpico
Mistico pinned Averno for the win.
5) Máscara Año 2000, Tarzan Boy, Universo 2000 b Damián 666, Héctor Garza, Mr. Águila
6) el Hijo del Perro Aguayo b Atlantis
Atlantis won fall one, could’ve won fall two but was too over confident, and Perro won fall three clean. Perro demanded a NWA LH title shot for next week, and it is indeed scheduled for next Friday.

CMLL on Galavision is airing the scheduled episode.

Guerreros del Ring has
01/20 Mexico: Dark Angel, India Sioux, Sahori b Amapola, Hiroka, La Nazi
01/22 Coliseo: Atlantis, Olímpico, Último Guerrero DQ Heavy Metal, Mistico, Negro Casas

VS

CMLL (FRI) 01/27 Arena Mexico Lineup
1) Kronos, Valiente vs Calígula, Mesala
2) Dark Angel, India Sioux, Luna Magica vs Amapola, Hiroka, Princesa Sujei
3) Black Warrior, Blue Panther, Volador Jr. vs Apolo Dantés, Hombre Sin Nombre, Misterioso II
4) Heavy Metal, Mistico, Negro Casas vs Averno, Mephisto, Olímpico
5) Máscara Año 2000, Tarzan Boy, Universo 2000 vs Damián 666, Héctor Garza, Mr. Águila
6) Atlantis vs el Hijo del Perro Aguayo

Same back and forth in Ovaciones as earlier this week. I’m not sure where they’re going from here, if they’re going anywhere. Wonder if it’ll go 4 falls again?

CMLL (TUE) 01/24 Arena Aficion Results [ova]
1) Medic’s I, Medic’s III vs Despiado, Tigerman
2) India Sioux, Luna Magica DQ Amapola, La Nazi
3) Villano IV, Villano V b Brazo de Platino, Super Brazo
4) Atlantis, Último Guerrero b Blue Panther, Último Dragón

La Nazi shoved the ref, getting her team DQed. Sounds like usual Villanos/Brazos match. Rudos low blowed Blue Panther to get the win in the main event.

indy (SUN) 01/29 Arena Solidaridad Results
1) Eclipse vs Norteno and Norteno Jr and Aguila del Norte and Furia and Pegasso and Arkangel (Solidaridad) and Aguilera and Cubano and Chamaco Ortiz and Venganza [cage, hair, mask]
2) Simply Lucious vs Princesa Sujei and Poly Star [2006 Solidaridad Cup, cage]
3) Gato Volador, Silver Star vs Koko Viper, Memo Valles [1 Solidaridad TAG]
4) Caifane I, Caifane II, Hector Garza vs Diluvio Negro I, Diluvio Negro II, Heavy Metal
5) Damian 666, Hijo del Perro Aguayo vs Blue Panther, Super Parka

The Box Y Lucha Chat with Octagon, first pushed back, now is canceled.

I’ve been reading articles to try and figure out what’s up with Latin Lover. Google News Mexico has a ton of them, if you’d like to read them yourselves.

Latin suffered a complete right tricep tear, when dancing (maybe just rehearing) on a non-wrestling event. Surgery went fine, and his arm will be immobilized for 5-6 weeks while he recovers. He’s going to for sure take a week off to rest and recover, but is considering trying to make his (non-wrestling) appearances while still hurt.

This is the same type of injury WWE’s Batista recently suffered, though I don’t know how severity matches up (though ‘complete’ sounds pretty bad.) Early reports mistaken had it as an Achilles Tendon tear, which where the confusion came.

While this is a injury suffered outside of wrestling and one he should be able to return from, Latin Lover is considering retiring from wrestling. His family doesn’t want him to do it anymore, and he’s tired of wrestling related surgeries (he says this one was his 8th total) in general.

On a completely different note, they’ve added footage of the WWE in Mexico (probably the stuff they’re showing on TV) to the interview with Rey on WWE.com

Update: Meltzer is saying Latin has offically retired.