02/24 news: Arena Mexico preview, notes

CMLL (FRI) 02/24 Arena Mexico Lineup
1) Leono, Tigre Metálico vs Apocalipsis, Hooligan
2) Metro, Sagrado, Tony Rivera vs Hombre Sin Nombre, Ohara, Shigeo Okumura
3) Dos Caras Jr., Heavy Metal, Lizmark Jr. vs Apolo Dantés, Máscara Año 2000, Rey Bucnaero
4) Tarzan Boy, Último Guerrero, Universo 2000 vs el Hijo del Perro Aguayo, Héctor Garza, Terrible
5) Black Warrior, Mistico, Negro Casas vs Atlantis, Averno, Mephisto

Ovaciones today has
– an Arena Mexico preview, with the angle of three groups battle for control of CMLL: tecnicos, GdA/Capos lead rudos, and Perros.
– brief hype for the Mexico vs Japan Reina de Reinas match at the next AAA taping. Sides have been changed to Martha Villalobos, La Diabolica, Cinthia Moreno, Miss Janeth vs Mayumi Osaki, Chikayo Nagashima, Carlos Amano, and Dynamite Kansa. I’m sure those names are wrong, but I dunno.
– a couple more details on Arena Aficion.

Things I’ve neglected to get to this week:

* There’s supposed to a FMLL lucha show at Congress tonight, with Mil Mascara headlining. I haven’t heard anything about it since it was announced, and Congress doesn’t have anything listed about it on it’s website, so I don’t have any idea. I wasn’t planning on going, and I’d suggest those interested to call in advance and find out if it’s still on.

* PBS cooking show “Mexico – One Plate At A Time” had a great lucha libre themed show this past week, with footage outside Arena Coliseo and action inside Arena Naucalpan. Of course, I didn’t get to watching it till last night, and it’s not reruning any more times this week, but you may want to keep your eye out for it on again, or you could visit their website to buy the DVD. Thanks to odessa for pointing this out in the first place.

* There’s a lucha/boxing show on Azteca America that was mentioned on Wrestling Observer this website. It airs 10pm EST on Saturdays, run 2 hours and it’s going to be sometimes boxing and sometimes lucha – this week is supposed to be boxing. I don’t know what promotion would be airing, and I’m not sure if I get the channel myself, but I’ll try and check this weekend.

* One of the ideas that came out of the awards was to do some sort of running 2006 Best Matches list to keep track of them thru the year. Instead of doing them on this blog, that sounds like a perfect thing for the wiki – anyone could add the matches as the year goes on and it could be updated whenever someone wants. Anyone want to start this?