Month: May 2006

alexis via cmll.com

The big news is CMLL announcing the Gran Alternativa participants. Names, and ages for fun.

* Mascara Purura (unknown, sometimes seems about 18)
* Misteriso II (unknown)
* Texano Jr. (21)
* Maximo (25)
* Volador Jr. (25)
* Sangre Azteca (33)
* Loco Max (34)
* Hombre Sin Nombre (40)

Yea, there’s no way HSN should be in there. The context is we’re completely unaware he’s Safari and has been around for approximately a billion years. And it’s not like they couldn’t find another rudo to fill the spot; Super Comando’s not doing anything important.

Early guess is Sangre Azteca, but I think Maximo’s another good possibility.

The tournament will not held till 06/02. I suspect we’ll hear about the partners next week. I wish they would release brackets before hand so we could have all sorts of predicting fun. I don’t think a lot of people are interested in the seeding battle royal and tournaments shows always feel rushed, they could save about 10 minutes by just skipping it and announcing matchups.

Speaking of things that are made up, remember how Ultimo and Wagner fought in the main event of Arena Puebla on Monday? Coincidentally, the UWA (which, technically, is dead) released it’s Heavyweight rankings to Ovaciones today.

champ: Dr. Wagner Jr.
1) Ultimo Guerrero
2) Rayo de Jalisco Jr.
3) Canek
4) Dos Caras Jr.
5) Damian 666

Damian? ANYWAY, since the stars have aligned, Arena Puebla will hold a UWA Heavyweight Championship match between Dr. Wagner and Ultimo Guerrero. Ovaciones points out Ultimo is on a title match streak (of 1), beating Garza in Arena Mexico. To counter for the Doc, I’ll point out the last time these two met in a championship match, Dr. Wagner Jr. beat Ultimo Guerrero for the NWA Light Heavyweight Championship.

Speaking of championships, Octagon and La Parka Jr. retained their Mexican Tag Championships over Charly Manson and Alan Stone (filling in for Electroshock; I believe the Observer recently had a note about him possibly on the way out, again) on Monday. Fabi appeared for the first time in a year, after a maternity absence.

AZTECA (WED) 05/17 Arena Xalapa Results
1) Aguila de Plata, Aguila Dorado b Cherokee, Relampago
2) Jaguar, Lobo Solitario, Samurai b Dragon Infernal, Guerrero del Infierno, Perro Mocho Jr.
3) Maximo, Sagrado, Texano Jr. b Caballero Negro Jr., Nitro, Skandalo
4) Villano IV, Villano V b Brazo de Oro, Brazo de Plata
Villano cheated to win.
5) Dos Caras Jr., Dr. Wagner Jr., Mil Mascaras DQ Canek, Canek Jr., Rey Bucanero
Canek low blowed Dr. Wagner.

CMLL (TUE) 05/16 Arena Queretaro Results [Latin Deadman; with pictures]
1) Caballero Aguila b Wild Kiss
2) Principe Valiente Jr., Ursus b Corsario, Zayco
3) Diana La Cazdora, Lady Apache DQ Amapola, Medusa
Medusa replaced Hiroka. Shimoda, not scheduled, ran in and attacked Lady Apache to cause the DQ.
4) Ultimo Dragon, Volador Jr. b Rambo, Sangre Azteca
5) Dos Caras Jr., Lizmark Jr. b Johnny Stamboli, Mark Jindrak

Is this Hajime Ohara‘s blog, or someone following him? Either way, they must be still partying after the title win, because it hasn’t yet been updated this week.

More links: A Ras De Lona has a nice looking site, and a blog

Luchas 2000 #317 provides your bloody AAA face of the week (Charly getting Zorro.)

If you’re aggregating this post as part of Nacho Libre hype, I would very much like free tickets. I’d love to find some way to see this ahead of time so I can write a (hopefully!) happy review of it before it comes out, but I lack any and all connections. If you’re can help, get a hold of me at thecubsfan AT thecubsfan DOT com

NJPW.com redid their website, and includes profiles of some men who are never ever going back. Who do they have Safari related to in his profile? If you look around enough, you can find profiles of Silver King and Black Tiger III – that’s keeping it real. (There’s a Negro Casas bio, but no FELINO bio. The world’s anti-Felino bias is so unfair!)

All the ex-participants bios are up to date as of around their last appearance, which leaves you with things like Chris Benoit‘s latest career highlight listed is WCW TV champion. That is seriously great. I spent about twenty minutes screwing around and going “Hey, Kid Romeo! I recall him!”. (Just with Kid Romeo, over and over.)

I’ve got no real idea what will air Saturday, but Something Is Up. What we know for sure is Galavision has a 3 hour block for lucha this Saturday (for both the early airing and the late night airing.) I’m not sure what this means, but I’m not sure what episode should be next in airing order. No tape has ever turned up from Mexico for this week of programing, but since it’s the first week of no Arena Mexico and the following week is a Best Of, maybe this could be a Best Of. OR they could simply be airing a three hour show they skipped. OR AAA could be back, since they are doing a three hour program and those shows weren’t airing because no one wanted to cut them down.

Galavision doesn’t offer any answers, so I don’t really have one either until about 2 minutes into program. I’ve listed my guess on what would air, if it was a normal week of tapings, but I think that’s the least likely off all posibilites.

Sunday’s show is much more straight forward: it’s the second half of the Leyenda de Plata, at the normal time.

BTW, lucha is on the 06-07 Galavision lineup, though they don’t mention the overnight slot. I’m figuring that’s just an oversight.

Guerreros del Ring is a much easier guess. There was some talk that AJPW might not want the Mutoh match to air on TV, but rudopolis’ report said it did, so I presume the atomicos match from Coliseo will also air here. Mistico vs Mephisto is the lock of locks.

CMLL (TUE) 05/16 Arena Coliseo Results
1) Fantasy, Mini Olimpico b Fire, Pierrothito
2) Chamaco Valaguez Jr., Tigre Blanco, Tigre Metalico b Apocalipsis, Jeque, Ramstein
3) Mascara Purpura, Metro, Tony Rivera b Dr. X, Hooligan, Mr. Mexico
4) Felino, Maximo, Virus DQ Hombre Sin Nombre, Okumura, Pierroth
5) Heavy Metal, Mr. Niebla, Negro Casas b Damian 666, Mr. Aguila, Terrible

Ovaciones says Mima Shimoda plans on staying in Mexico for two months. She’s working out at the Toryumon gym (where Negro Navarro is mentioned as training.)

Super Luchas Grafico #13 also is a Rey Misteriso Jr. special.

Moonlight Hall, in El Paso, TX, is running a lucha libre show (and may have been for a while) next Thursday.

Ain’t It Cool News has another screening review of Nacho Libre; it’s looking good after they’ve done some fine tuning.

Best Of Super Luchas results (offical, not so offical but helpful!); winner got a spot in the NJPW’s Super Junior Tournament

Shamu Jr.----------
                   |Shamu Jr.----------
No Fear------------                    |
                                       |Fuego--------------
Fuego--------------                    |                   |
                   |Fuego--------------                    |
Impacto------------                                        |
                                                           |Fuego
Phoenix Star-------                                        |
                   |Phoenix Star-------                    |
Guerrero de Sangre-                    |                   |
                                       |Chilango-----------
Chilango-----------                    |
                   |Chilango-----------
Alex Koslov--------

Fuego is apparently So Cal luchadore Durango Kid in a new gimmick. (So do I get partial credit?) Koslov was filling in for someone.

The brackets for the other NJPW-LA tournament for a spot, to be held this weekend (with my picks)

Black Tiger IV--
                |Black Tiger IV--
Alex Koslov-----                 |
                                 |Black Tiger IV--
Jimmy Rave------                 |                |
                |The Cobra II----                 |
The Cobra II----                                  |
                                                  |Black Tiger IV
Joey Ryan-------                                  |
                |Joey Ryan-------                 |
Roderick Strong-                 |                |
                                 |Joey Ryan-------
Scorpio Sky-----                 |
                |Karl Anderson---
Karl Anderson---

The winner is a ‘duh’ situation, and if it’s not Ryan in the finals with him, it’s probably his first round opponent. Isn’t the Cobra II one of Puma’s gimmicks? I swear this happened before.

CMLL (MON) 05/15 Arena Puebla Results [hugo999]
1) Ares, Karisma b Fenix, Iron
2) Murcielago, Siki Osama, Toro Bill Jr. b the Tigre, Tigre Rojo, Zigma
3) Asuriano, Virus, Volador Jr. b Escandalo, Nitro, Sangre Azteca
4) Dos Caras Jr., Mr. Niebla, Ultimo Dragon DQ Johnny Stamboli, Mark Jindrak, Terrible
Dos took off his mask and threw it the Italians behind the ref’s back for the win.
5) Rey Bucanero, Tarzan Boy, Último Guerrero b Damián 666, Dr. Wagner Jr., Mr. Águila
Ultimo pinned Dr. Wagner.

indy [PYCV?] (SUN) 05/14 Poliforum Zamna, Merida Results
1) Super Muneco b Boricua [hair]
2) Dos Caras, Tinieblas Sr. b Villano III, Villano IV
3) Blue Demon Jr., Mascara Sagrada, Mil Mascaras DQ Atlantis, Canek, Cien Caras

Box Y Lucha #2766 is up: cover looks neat, I think. Poster has a picture of the women’s tag, and Dos Caras Jr.

The theme this week is teachers; May 15 was Teacher’s Day in Mexico

– Satanico talks about training with Diablo Velasco (5 days a week, 9 am to 7 pm, 5 years)
– After wrestling, Dientes Hernández taught history and math
– the life of a current wrestling teacher, who’s identity couldn’t be revealed. He does say he’s a wrestler who hasn’t wrestled since 12/05 due to spine issues (HMMM – nah; they do say he’s got a school south of Mexico City), and has a great one line story: His ex-wife demanded he chose between her and lucha. (Note “ex-wife.”) This wrestling teacher was taught by El Enfermero and Raul Reyes. To be a perfect teacher, this one believes, you must give everything and the students must be allowed to question, refute and demand.
– Hurcan Ramirez talks about his present job, working at a special ed school.
– Franco Colombo talks about helping training current stars of CMLL (Ultimo, Rey, Olimpico, Mephisto, Mistico, Misterioso, Volador Jr., La Mascara, Maximo); he’s currently got a group of 25 wrestlers who will work with him for 4 months, and then they’re handed off to another teacher and he starts with another group.
– Pancho Villalobos talks about his work training people. Both him and Colombo concerned about people who get a little training and then declare themselves wrestlers or trainers. Pancho feels it takes three years of training to become an authentic wrestler.
– Ringo Mendoza is also a trainer. Ringo emphasis he’s not just teaching them to fight, but how to conduct themselves outside the ring.
– Rambo thanks all who taught him

There’s also a bio about Matematico (the 04/16 Coliseo show was his retirement match) and Abdullah the Butcher.