02/21: Box Y Lucha, Halcon recaps

Ovaciones previews Pachuca’s card.

Box Y Lucha #2754 is up.
– Cover has a big picture of Perro Aguayo and is all CMLL
– Poster are of Olimpico and Mr. Aguila, Terrible and Hector Garza taunting Dr. Wagner
– Blue Panther talks about reaching 27 years of wrestling last October. He’s quite modest.
– A column takes issue with a discussion of Santo’s major moments in a recent TV show. The 5 major ones brought up previously were
* Debuting in 1942 in Arena Mexico
* Winning the Welterweight Title
* Unmasking Black Shadow
* Being on the debut show for Arena Coliseo
* His match of the year with Medico Asesino in 1956

The column suggests these seminal moments should also included:
* unmasking Halcon Negro
* unmasking Espanto I
and more they want to discuss in the weeks ahead.
– Terrible talks about his part in a new Pepsi commercial. Terrible also says he and Sangre Azteca will soon be in a soap opera, though they have no idea how big their parts will be. Yes, Sangre Azteca in a soap opera.
– Sangre Azteca doesn’t talk about his soap opera chances, instead focusing on his trips to Japan. It was a drastic change, but worth it because he’s matured much as a fighter and a person. Kuroneko was the one who brought him over to Japan, and was helpful when he was there. Sangre says he was scheduled to do another tour, but it was not possible after Kuroneko’s death. Sangre feels he still has a lot to learn in CMLL, and he’ll continue giving 100%
– Perro Aguayo Jr. talks about the greatness of Perro Del Mal. Before, they were looked as a plague, but now everyone wants to be part of them. Tarzan’s a good fighter, but he’s not a rival for the likes of PdM. He had the opportunity to change, but preferred to go with GdA, and the Perros don’t’ need him anyway. Perro Jr. says Arena Mexico used to be a tecnico arena, but they’ve turned it completely rudo except for two or three confused people. It’s been hard work, but Perro thinks they’ve fulfilled all the goals they’ve focused on.
– Nitro, Dr. X, and Sangre Azteca talk about their work as a trios. They’ve been teaming two years, they feel like they’ve gelled, and they want the Mexican Trios title right.
– Octagon talks about Texano, and an AAA Tribute show they’re running on 03/01.
– Ice Killer reminds people he’s still wrestling.
– Another story from the road by Rambo.
– Mini Kahoz, who’s been wrestling in 3 years, expects to debut in AAA in March or April. Octagon got him in.
– Bio of Alfonso Moreno Herrera, wrestler and father of the Moreno clan in AAA, who died 7 years ago last week.
– Marcela says she went to wrestling as a kid, and Lizmark was her favorite wrestler. She was also a fan of Satancio, el Faron, and the Dinamitas. She started trained with Martha Villaobos at 13 or 14, and her mother wasn’t too pleased at first.

Halcon #54 is up

Box Y Lucha hosts a chat a 2ish today with CMLL valet Roxana. I hope they have the webcam (and the profanity filter) working for this one.
– Photos of Wagner in Naucalpan, Misterio Jr. in Japan, AAA receiving an award, and Misterio signing autographs in Dallas
– Interview with Canek Jr. He went to shows all the time growing up, studying and training while there. His father was never against him learning wrestling, as long as he got a degree (and he did, in tourism.) He trained 11 years before his debut match – his father trained him, and now he trains with Satanico. He was nervous in his first match, because it was a big match. In his free time, Canek Jr. likes playing 3 on 3 basketball. His goal is to keep the Canek name strong, and he figures he’ll continue his families feud with the Dos Caras family – they’ve teamed and not gotten already.
– Q&A with Leobrado Magadan. He thinks his best work was on the Villano III/Atlantis show. He’s also a college professor in his space time, teaching classes in English and communication. Leobrado’s favorite type of woman is “sexy”.
– Recap from last week’s Arena Queretaro show, with even more pictures.
– Interview with Loco Max. He grew up going to Arena Naucalpan and Toreo de Cuatro Caminos, and moved to Puebla when he was 16. He trained for two years before starting, worked around Puebla for a while, and got brought to Mexico City by Shocker. He hurt his knee and breastbone in his debut, so for a while he thought it was going to be his farewell as well. He got the Loco Max name and idea from a comic book. He’s happy with his career so far, having won the Mexican Lightweight Title, won the mask of Caliber and wrestled in Arena Coliseo and Arena Mexico. The only time he doens’t love wrestling is when he gets hurt.
– Fact sheet on Molotov. I didn’t know he was Olimpus’ cousin.
– Short interview with Shockercito.

Jacqueline Moore, ex-WWF, works LLF 2006 debut show on 03/03. I’ve said this before: LLF is an odd group.

There’s a lucha libre themed fighter (read: masked – though it’d be it cool if he does La Mistica!) in the upcoming Virtua Fighter 5.

CMLL’s forum, which got hacked a while ago and never quite repaired, was closed down for the time being.

The Awards will be up around 2pm CST.