Day: May 24, 2006

Do you love the AAA? Good for you. This is your weekend. (Meanwhile, I think GALA has ripped out my heart. But that’s okay.)

Saturday: It’s a 3 hour slot once again, so we’re still with AAA. This should be the first taping of the ’06 year, including the Zumdido/Histera tournament final. Chui recapped the show on his site; I guess I could index all Robert’s AAA recaps, but I’ve lost the will to live and all.

Sunday: If Galavision was run by non-dumb people, they could probably skip a recap episode when they’re months behind new episodes. But they won’t, and so this will be the 2005 AAA recap (which I’m guessing should’ve aired before the episode which aired this past week.)

GdR: The main event tag match is a given. They’ve been showing the semi-main event, and GdR seems to be put together by someone different than the Televisa shows (which have de-emphaized the Rey tecnico turn, counter to how it’s been played up live), so I think they’ll keep the pattern.

They’ve been hitting the Wagner/Mistico team so hard on Sundays/CAN52MX, I’m guessing the person in charge of that show isn’t the same one running the Friday/Televisa ones – it’s being run no differently than the other weekly/biweekly spot shows (Puebla, Guadalajara, Queretaro), where they just try to reflect what’s going on but have free reign to also run their own stuff.

I’m not sure what that means, or if that means anything, and maybe that’s the way it’s always been but I didn’t notice it because it was on TV (that I was watching.) It strikes me just as odd that, even throwing out the rest of the week, a company can’t book the top three matches on Friday and the top three matches on Sunday with one coherent vision. Six matches is harder than I thought.

It’s going around! (still)

I neglected mentioning this earlier, but CMLL.com announced today that LA Park is suspended 15 days for his actions last Friday. (Not sure if that starts today or back to last Friday.) Also, the referees in the match – Baby Richard and Terror Chino – are also suspended for allowing Park to use “prohibited devices” (chairs.) Terms of their suspensions weren’t mentioned – I guess maybe just this week?

Check previous posts for the Gran Alternativa teams and shuffled Arena Mexico card.

CMLL (TUE) 05/23 Arena Coliseo Results [alexis, ovaciones]
1) Rayo Tapatio I, Rayo Tapatio II b Vaquero, Zayco
2) Kronos, Metro, Tony Rivera b Apocalipsis, Hooligan, Jeque
3) Hiroka, La Nazi, Rosa Negra b Mima Shimoda, Princesa Blanca, Sahori
4) Felino, Pantera, Virus b Hombre sin Nombre, Masada, Misterioso II
5) Blue Panther, Heavy Metal, Negro Casas DQ Averno, Black Warrior, Mephisto
Warrior low blowed Negro and covered him, but the refs caught him.

AAA TV (THU) 05/18 Gimnasio Agustin Millian, Toluca, EdM Results [Robert]
1) Espantapajaros I, Espantapajaros II, Espantapajaros III b Chiva Rayada I, Chiva Rayada II, Ultraman Jr.
2) Cuervo, Espiritu, Ozz, Scoria b Laredo Kid, Nemesis, Rey Cometa, Super Fly
Cuervo dropkicked Espiritu by accident
3) Pimpinela Escarlata NC Cassandro
The ref – Piero – got taken out, so no finish. They set up a hair match for sometime in the future.
4) Scorpio Jr., Shocker, Zumbdio b Crazy Boy, Juventued Guerrera, Psicosis
X-Pac low blowed Juvi to set up a feud between two very stable individuals
5) Chessman L Vampiro and Zorro and Intocable and X-Pac and Muerte Cibernetica [cage]
Zorro was the last one out. This was just a cage match – nothing special

AAA TV (SAT) 05/20 Monumental Plaza de Toros, Teziutlan, Puebla Results [Robert]
1) Oriental DQ Toro Irisson
2) La Parkita, Octagoncito DQ Mini Abismo Negro, Mini Chessman
Chessman interfered, causing the DQ
3) Gran Apache, May Flowers, Pimpinela Escarlata, Polvo de Esterllas b Alan, Billy Boy, Casandro, Decnnis
The SWERVE is Apache saying Billy Boy is not the real father of Fabi Apache’s father, and Apache knows who it really is.
4) Laredo Kid, Nemesis, Rey Cometa, Super Fly b Cuervo, Espiritu, Ozz, Escoria
This time, they lost when Chessman accidentaly blew red mist in Escoria’s eyes
5) Crazy Boy, Juventud Guerrera, Psicosis b Scorpio Jr., Shocker, Zumbido
6) Intocable, La Parka Jr., Vampiro DQ Chessman, Cibernetico, Muerte Cibernetica
Rudos DQed for excessive violence on Parka.

It’s going around!

CMLL.com posted an modified Arena Mexico lineup for this Friday, with an explaination that LA Park was suspended for his actions in the main event last week. That match appeared to be a complete mask ripping brawl, with Park beating down Wagner with chair shots before he even made it to the ring. (You could see where CMLL had grounds for such an action.) Interestingly, there are changes to the card which seem unrelated to LA Park.

The old card:
1) Bam Bam, Shockercito, Ultimo Dragonicto vs Fire, Mini Violencia, Pierrothito
2) Dark Angel, Marcela, Mima Shimoda vs Amapola, Hiroka, Medusa
3) Felino, Heavy Metal, Negro Casas vs Averno, Mephisto, Rey Bucanero
4) Mistico, Mr. Niebla, Ultimo Dragon vs Apolo Dantes, Black Warrior, Tarzan Boy
5) Blue Panther, Dr. Wagner Jr., Hijo de Lizmark vs Atlantis, LA Park, Ultimo Guerrero

The new card:
1) Bam Bam, Shockercito, Ultimo Dragonicto vs Fire, Mini Violencia, Pierrothito
2) Dark Angel, Marcela, Mima Shimoda vs Amapola, Hiroka, Medusa
3) Blue Panther, Mr. Niebla, Último Dragón vs Apolo Dantés, Misterioso II, Tarzan Boy
4) Felino, Heavy Metal, Negro Casas vs Averno, Mephisto, Rey Bucanero
5) Dr. Wagner Jr., Hijo de Lizmark, Mistico vs Atlantis, Black Warrior, Último Guerrero

With no Park around, they’ve bumped up both Mistico and Black Warrior to be the main event rivalary, and they’ve switched the 3rd and 4th matches because the new tercera doens’t have an issue.

Teams for Gran Alternativa have been announced

* Heavy Metal & Texano Jr.
* Negro Casas & Maximo
* Dos Caras Jr. & Volador Jr.
* Lizmark Jr. & Mascara Purpura
* Rey Bucanero & Loco Max
* Perro Aguayo Jr. & Misterioso II
* Hector Garza & Hombre Sin Nombre (note that Garza is actually younger than HsSafari)
* Ultimo Guerrero & Nitro

Sangre Azteca is no longer listed (replaced by Nitro); have fun in Japan!

While I don’t think Loco Max is winning this, I think his chances of making the final got better. And even if Rey turns again this week (which I sorta figure he will), he’ll at be a rudo for at least one meek more.

There’s not an obvious winner to me. Maximo makes sense in some ways, but they’ve already moved him up on spot shows and the like – he doesn’t need the benefit. It’s too soon for Purpura (though I’d rather see guys like him and Rey Tigre in here rather than Safari.) Safari, Loco and Nitro are guys stuck on the midcard treadmill and it’d be a shock for them to break loose. Texano won the G1 Junior last year and they didn’t really do much follow up, so it’d hard to believe he’d win another tournament.

Volador Jr. vs Misterioso would make since as a final to set up a singles feud, but their partners don’t match up too well. They seem to like both guys, and I think they join Maximo as the better possibilites, but there’s no particular momenteum behind either one of them.

Tournament is 06/02.