Month: March 2006

No Aficion recap in Ovaciones today. There’s a short article about the FBI’s domination on their weekend visit (they’re totally coming back) and a longer article where Mistico wonders how he’s made so many rudo rivals. He’s got no problem going mask for mask with Black Warrior.

CMLL (SUN) 03/05 Arena Coliseo Guadalajara Results [KrisZ]
1) Furia Nazi b Virgo
2) Metro (G) b Destroyer
3) Egipico b Danger
4) Cesar Dantes, Malefico b Neutrón, Tony Rivera
5) Dark Angel, Luna Magica, Sahori b Hiroka, La Nazi, Medusa
6) Dos Caras Jr., Mr. Niebla b Atlantis, Último Guerrero

indy (THU) 03/09 Arena Olimpico Laguna de Gomez Palacio Lineup [Siglo]
1) Black Rock & Camorra Iran vs Oso Negro Jr., & Flashman
2) La Amenaza & Super Prunk vs Baby Olmos & Diamante Negro
3) Muerte Siniestra, Mister Guerrero, Cavernario Galindo Jr. vs Stuka I, Piloto Negro, el Ranchero
4) LA Park, Virus, Brillante Jr. vs Black Tiger, Dr. X, Espanto V

Box Y Lucha #2756 is up
– Cover has Warrior ripping Mistico’s mask, though you get Santo at the computer too.
– Poster has a great bloody picture of Villano III and Brazo de Platino.
– A brief mention of famous deaths in March, including Anibal.
– Santo’s Rivals: Tarzan Lopez. The author retells the story of the first Arena Coliseo DF show, with a main event of Lopez (NWA World Middleweight Champion at the time) versus Santo (both National Welterweight and National Middleweight Champion). Tarzan Lopez smoked Santo in two straight falls, which made Santo realize he still need to improve lots if he was going to be a top guy.
– Brazo de Oro talks about hitting 30 years of ewrestling last October. He figures his best year was in 1979 when he was named wrestler of the year based on his light heavyweight title matches with Anibal and good matches with Solitario, Villano III, Gran Hamada and Perro Aguayo Jr. Brazo de Oro says his big pride nowadays is his family, and specifically his son La Mascara. (So there you go.) He hints at retiring soon.
– Black Warrior sets the record straight: Mistico turned on him by being a horrible tag partner and costing them the titles. It’s all Mistico’s fault.
– LA Park celebrates beating Black Tiger more. He says it was the hardest fight he’s had, and he finished in “happy blood” because he won the mask.
– Miss Janeth is pleased but not surprised she won Reina de Reinas.
– Rambo tells another story from his early days in lucha libre
– promo for a 03/18 OLX show.

(brief) Interview with CMLL ring announcer Armando Gaytan

In Monterrey, US-style football clubs are running lucha shows to pay for their teams. First show is tommorow, with a main event of Super Konnan vs Konnan Big. Tickets are 100 pesos ($9.33 US), and the teams get half of each ticket they sell.

LUCHAS 2000 has a special edition out this week, featuring many women wearing very little. That’s one way to go.

All the shows are off their normal time, even GdR. Check your listings.

Saturday: Split feed, with both shows off set due to futbol. This is the Mistico/Atlantis #1, which would have more meaning if I didn’t already see the ones after.

Sunday: An hour early. They skipped the Gran Alterntiva Tournament Rematch first time thru, and – in a special note to those expecting to see the five skipped episodes – they don’t pick up episodes they missed the first time. This should be the LdA tournament, which was way too much crammed into one Arena Mexico show.

GdR: Wacky times – 10:00 pm ET on Saturday, 11:30 am on Sunday. There’s a futbol game on Saturday, but there’s no particular reason on Sunday.

This show will be good if you want more Stamboli in your life.

CMLL (TUE) 03/07 Arena Coliseo Results [ova]
1) Bracito de Oro, Mini Fantasy b Fire, Sombrita
2) Artillero, Jeque, Super Comando b Danger, Kronos, Trueno
3) Arkangel de la Muerte, Dr. X, Hooligan b Mascara Purpura, Tigre Blanco, Tigre Metálico
4) Felino, Sagrado, Satánico vs el Hijo del Pierroth, Emilio Charles Jr., Misterioso II
5) La Máscara, Mistico, Negro Casas b Averno, Mephisto, Olimpico
Negro grabbed the ropes to pin Olimpico

CMLL (MON) 03/06 Arena Puebla Results [KrisZ]
1) Mafia, Murcielago b Forajido, Kirvan
2) Ares, Fuerza Tiger, Karisma b Siki Osama, Tigre Rojo, Zigma
3) Black Terry, Bobby Jack, Toro Bill Jr. b Asturiano, Tigre, Tony Rivera
4) Misterioso II, Shigeo Okumura, Terrible b Felino, La Máscara, Sagrado
5) Averno, el Hijo del Perro Aguayo, Mephisto b Blue Panther, Dr. Wagner Jr., Heavy Metal

indy (MON) 03/06 Arena 4 Caminos Nuevo Laredo Results [lo mejor de lucha libre]
1) Penumbra, Escarlata Rojo b Street Boy & Fly Metal
2) Tsunami, Insolito, Estrella de Plata b Chacala, Black Mamba, Muerte Subita
3) Rio Bravo, Oscuridad, Tito Santana b Maravilla Lopez, Alan, Decnis
4) Corazon de Barrio, Antifaz, Hator DQ Laredo Kid, Brzo, Astuto
5) Abismo Negro, Sangre Chicana, Humberto Garza Jr. b Shocker, Scorpio Jr., Zumbido

Ain’t It Cool News posted e-mails from people who’ve seen the rough cut of Nacho Libre. Those people gave it an unfavorable review, so far.

Reading the lines and reading in between lines of the last couple of Observers, it sounds like TNA wants to bring in Mistico for their upcoming World X Cup series of matches/shows. It’s far from a certainty – TNA is supplying wrestlers to AAA and so CMLL isn’t going to be happy helping out a promotion who’s helping out their competition, and something will have to be done. Something’s going to have to get ironed out, and there’s a lot of time between now and May (when the World X Cup is supposed to be happening) for plans to change many times.

Let’s assume they work it out somehow and Mistico comes in. If they’re running it like they’ve run it in the past, it’ll be a team of 4, and they’ll be looking for flashy guys. Who’d you team him with?

I guess this depends on what the point of Team Mexico.

Getting The Band Back Together: For long time TNA recognition, fill out the rest of the spots with previous Team Mexico members: Heavy Metal, Mr. Aguila and Hector Garza, Juventud Guerrera. That last spot is iffy – Abismo is the only one who didn’t end up jumping from AAA but would be a better fit.

Top Workers: Ultimo Guerrero, Rey Bucanero, Dr. Wagner. This is all quite fictional, but I can’t imagine Santo in TNA as hard as I try. While I think bringing in top guys would be cool to me, I don’t know how much name value they’d be worth to the TNA’s fanbase. Just like AAA bringing in Ron Killings and Samoa Joe this week, I’m sure there are internet/international savvy people who know who the outsiders are and may be impressed by them, but there doesn’t seem to be enough crossover fans to make it worth bringing them in for a one-shot. (It’s a whole different story if this was part of educating people on the lucha stars to make money down the road, which doesn’t seem likely unless they get more TV time.)

Spot-tastic: Volador Jr., Mr. Aguila, and Stuka Jr. (though you could argue with that last spot.) This would be quite the high flying move exhibition that they may be looking for. You could probably fit a Virus or Misterioso or a Tigre here too; there’s people to choose from if you’re going this route. This wouldn’t be a good option if you’re trying to just push Mistico rather than the whole team, because he could get overshadowed or at least not stand out as much. You could go the other way…

los Guerreros: Hooligan, Sangre Azteca, Loco Max. Focus on bump taking rudos to be the bump taking enforcers while Mistico does Gretsky work. Hooligan and Sangre are obvious must haves, but you could play around with the last spot. You may have to slightly over think this, though. I don’t know how well the TNA fans would accept a guy who’s named “Dr. X”, for instance.

Budget Plan: I have no idea what anyone makes, but if all you’re really concerned is getting Mistico over and just want three good guys to fill out the team, TNA really could just canvass the segundas and openers and pull three guys from there. Of the top of my head, Caligula, Mesala and Flecha would be fine.

There’s other ways you can go, but those are my ideas. My big idea, and if you happen to know anyone in TNA, please pass it along: Make sure the lucha guys actually have their visas. And then double check and triple check and check five more times.

Ovaciones previews the Coliseo and Aficion cards today. They point out the oddness of the Aficion card:

CMLL (TUE) 03/07 Arena Aficion
1) Astro Boy, Kid Tiger vs Leon Guerrero, Skandalo
2) Chris Hero, Claudio Catagnoli vs Batman, Skayde
Claudio is still listed as a North American!
3) Rey Bucanero, Titan vs Black Warrior, Exotico
Warrior’s now a rudo, but he’s teaming with tecnico ‘Exotico’ – it’s going to be a long night for him.
4) Dr. Wagner Jr., Silver King vs Mascara Ano 2000, Universo 2000
Silver King was a rudo here when he was working as Black Tiger, but I think they’ll forget that.

The note on Arena Coliseo show points out it’s La Mascara’s first main event.

This Sunday’s Arena Solidaridad will be a Texano Sr. tribute, with Texano Jr. and Santo on the card.

The newest Super Lucha (#151) cover has made it’s way on the boards:

You may not be able to make it out at that size, but Juvi’s wearing a Captain Charisma t-shirt. It’s kinda a in-joke and kinda Juvi being Juvi; according to the WON, he called Christian and tried sucking and playing off a non-existent friendship up to get a shot in TNA.

Box Y Lucha’s main site appears to be down, while the forum is still up. Maybe they’re doing a redesign?

A little more later.