Lucha Times

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.