CMLL #206

02/25, taped 08/26

Took me a little bit longer than I figured. The main trios was pretty fun.

You know, they made the decision to change anniversary main events prior to this week, but if they were even still considering it, Wagner’s price would’ve doubled during the course of the show. He was crazy insane over, and it’s be crazy insane for him to lose his mask to anyone, much less Atlantis at this point.

Edit: Been thinking about it a bit, and I may have underrated the match a point or two. If I was trying to pick one recent match to sell someone on the Lucha Libre style of wrestling, this would be ahead of Mistico/Atlantis no doubt. It’s not the most important match and it doesn’t cover everything, but I think it’s a perfect represenation of whatever era of lucha libre we’re current in.

03/01 Lucha Times

Lots of split feeds and time changes this week. If the only think you tape is the overnight 3AM lucha airing, you’re fine. Otherwise, check my listings or check your listings.

Saturday: They weren’t going to air the next CMLL episode at any rate – it was a three hour episode and they were skipping them. Didn’t think they were going to skip four more, but the episode Gala previews is clearly the episode taped 10/07/2005.

Pretty odd how it works out that all the Tanahashi/Nakamura stuff gets skipped (I don’t think conspiracy and I’m sure NJPW would be annoyed if they know/care).

The person who just watches the show isn’t going to be completely confused about the Atlantis turn – the last match that aired with him had him on the rudo side in the parajes incredible match, and that was basically teasing the new setup.

Technically, it’s nicer to be five weeks closer, but going from 25 weeks to 20 weeks behind doesn’t really feel like it’s any more current. It is a step in the right direction.

Show starts 3PM East (most people) and 5pm Pacific (few who get the west coast feed)

Sunday: This is a tournament show, so you know how that goes. I presume Vuelta will jump ahead just like the Saturday show when it reaches that point but, for the moment, Sunday’s chronologically farther behind Saturday than it has been for quite a while.

West Coast feed is a couple hours later than usual.

GdR on 51MX: No airing on Saturday – it’s pre-empted for an Acapulco Tennis event. It’s on the normal time on Sunday.

If we’re sticking with the second Arena Mexico match and the Sunday main event, the Mexico match doesn’t look great, but Blue Panther’s on TV, so yay for that.

Perro vs Universo for hair on 03/17

Cutting and pasting in case CMLL.com rethinks it and takes it down.

No hay plazo que no se cumpla y será la magna función de Homenaje a Dos Leyendas: Salvador Lutteroth y El Santo, del próximo 17 de marzo en la Arena México cuando se enfrenten cabellera contra cabellera el Hijo del Perro y Universo 2000, batalla que será el platillo principal de un cartel de seis luchas estelares. En las próximas horas se dará a conocer toda la información.

That means Universo 2000 will meet el Hijo del Perro Aguayo on 03/17 – the annual Dos Leyendas show. The card will have six matches, and it sounds like we may get it complete before the week is over.

slightly less major TV: I’m looking at Gala’s preview right now, and they’re going to skip five weeks of TV (which includes the Atlantis turn, the three way hair match, and all of Nakamura and Tanahashi’s appearances.) More later.

03/01 news: Arena Coliseo results, Box Y Lucha, Halcon

AAA (SAT) 02/25 Auditorio Teopanzolco, Cuernavaca, Morelos Results [ova]
1) Ángel Mortal, Gallego, Mr. Cóndor b Némesis, Rey Cometa Jr., Super Fly
2) Alan Stone, Scorpio Jr., Shocker, Zumbido DQ Chessman, Cuervo, Escoria, Ozz
3) Zorro b Electro Shock [MEX Heavy]
Charly Manson interfered, costing his brother the match.
4) Cinthia Moreno b Ozaki and La Diabólica and Martha Villalobos and Miss Janeth and Amano and Nagashima [Reina de Reina INTL]
5) Charly Manson, Cibernetico, Espíritu b Intocable, La Parka Jr., Octagón
Alan Stone fouled Intocable to lead to the win

CMLL (TUE) 02/28 Arena Coliseo Results
1) Molotov, Rayo Tapatío II, Valiente b Polvora, Vaquero, Zayco
2) Danger, Kronos, Leono b Calígula, Jeque, Mesala
3) Hombre Sin Nombre, Hooligan, Shigeo Okumura b Mascara Purpura, Metro, Virus
4) Brazo de Plata, Dr. Wagner Jr., Lizmark Jr. DQ Averno, Mephisto, Olímpico
Olimpico pulled Wagner’s mask.
5) Mr. Niebla b Universo 2000
Rematch for the title next week.

CMLL (WED) 03/01 Arena Coliseo de Acapulco Lineup [KrisZ]
1) Hijo del Texano, Maximo, Sangre Azteca vs Batman, Robin, Superman
2) Brazo de Plata & Mr. Niebla vs Averno & Tarzan Boy
3) Dr. Wagner Jr., Hijo del Lizmark, Mistico vs Atlantis, Pierroth, Ultimo Guerrero

Box Y Lucha #2755 is up.
Cover has a big picture of globe trotting Ultimo Guerrero.
Poster has pics of Hector, Ultimo and Perro.
– Arkangel talks about his past Michinoku Pro tour (02/01 to 02/13). He hopes to go back in March. Arkangel also announces Arkangel Jr. is training and will shorty be annoying the tecnicos.
– Referee Adonois Salazar made his debut in Arena Mexico last week. He’s been a ref for six years, had been working in Coliseo, and was nervous and thrilled to work in Arena Mexico.
– LA Park is suspended in Merida for “little professionalism and lack of physical training” by the local box y lucha commission. (He swore, and there were plenty of women and children at the show.) Anyone who behaves like he did may be arrested and jailed! The commission also recommended to the promoter that he stay away from independent stars and only use guys from AAA and CMLL who’ve proven to be professional
– El Brazo explains why he works other (imitation) gimmicks: he likes doing it and it go over.
– Pentagon Black talks about a three month stint in Japan, returning on 02/13. He says he worked for Dragon Gate with Ultimo Dragon, which doesn’t actually work at all but maybe he just got confused. I’m confused whether he worked as King Siesa or he worked with King Siesa, so let’s call the whole thing off.
– Felino says he has a legal problem which prevents him from wrestling in Arena Mexico for the next two months, but doesn’t explain from there. He’s had a knee injury that’s been bugging him, but it’s now the unspecified legal problem keeping him away. He may work elsewhere in the meantime.
– Mascara Sagrada explains his lack of appearances – he’s been in the US. He talks about appearing in Chicago in the future tense here, so I guess this was done before last week. He hopes to return to Mexico and Mexico City soon, but he’s looking for offers.
– Good bio of Fray Tormenta
– Another Rambo adventure story.
– Box Y Lucha celebrates it own historic writers of the last 72 years.
– Short bio of Santo rival Bobby Bonales
– Article about a fan club that’s putting on tribute/benefit shows.

el Halcon net #55 is up
– News and notes from the week
– Interview with Mascara Ano 2000. He’s very modest about his career. Unmasking Anibal was very big for him – Anibal had been on the first show he went to. He cites his biggest win as defeating David Rey Morgan for the Light Heavyweight Title, because it was a big springboard for his career. He went blond because his family convinced him it was a good idea, but he doesn’t like it very much and plans to switch back on 03/10.
– Second part of the Ricky Marvin interview.
– Q&A with Kronos. Kronos lists his father as Gerado Alvarado Mendoza. He also lists his style as “tecnico-rudo”, so can you really trust him? Kronos, man of mystery that he is, claims he’s used no other names, his best match ever was against Super Porky, he likes teaming up with La Mascara, and the bloodiest fight he ever saw was Brazo vs Villanos.
– Interview with Explosivo. He was working and training in a gym “semiprofessional” wrestlers, and decided if he ever was going to be good, he had to seek out something more -so he started training with Tony Salazar and ended up in Arena Coliseo. His progress is slow, and he just back after taking time off for personal issues.
– Bracito de Oro talks about his career and the different gimmicks he’s used.
– Mascara Purpura fact sheet.
Poster of Olimpico. He’s been working out.

Univison.com has 20 facts about Latin Lover.

This has nothing to do with Lucha Libre, but there’s a bunch of articles today about a Fat Tuesday tradition in Zitlala, Guerrero, Mexico: men of all ages fist fight in the town square.

Tony Rodriguez is the new lucha commissioner of Torreon. The article says he’ll have to stop wrestling and working backstage at wrestling shows, and that some people with other promotions aren’t happy.