Month: May 2006

05/07 news: Accion

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Ovaciones talks to Mistico, who’s got no problem putting his title vs Black Warrior again, but would prefer to take his mask. Usual lineups and such.

Accion highlights
CMLL: highlights from Mistico, Dr. Wagner Jr., Dos Caras Jr. vs Black Warrior, Ultimo Guerrero, Altantis – Warrior takes a big monkey flip to the floor. Wagner’s apron tope con grio is highlights. Warrior, suddenly a genius, realized the perfect way to counter La Mistica is a side slam. One modifed cavernaria later, he’s got a win.
AAA: from last week’s TV Taping in Guadalajara: Ron Killings, Chessman, “Muerte” vs Octagon, La Parka, Intocable. Killings sells Park’s but bump big. They do the skeleton breakdown agian on a Chessman corkscrew pescado. Intocable is very rudoish in yanking off Muerte’s mask and hanging it to La Parka – I guess no AAA tecnico can stand having fake La Parkas around.

CMLL Current Championship Lengths

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It’s hard to explain how my mind got here, but I was wondering how long various CMLL and CMLL visible championships have been held without a change. Longer than I thought – there goes my plans for a “Ultimo has held the belt for 1000 days!” celebration.

(I’ll leave it as an exercise to the reader recalling who’s champion for each title.)

Edit: Let’s add defenses too.

                                 Defense                          
Championship    Won On  Days Held Known # Days per   Last    Last DF  Belt on TV      
CMLL Trios     11/19/04   533        0       N/A     None      None   Nope            
CMLL SL        01/20/06   106        0       N/A     None      None   Champ isn't on T
CMLL Mini      12/09/03   879        3       293   01/02/06    None   Minis aren't on 
CMLL Heavy     10/12/04   571        2       286   02/27/06  05/10/05 Rarely          
CMLL Middle    04/26/04   740        3       247   04/17/05    None   Rarely          
UWA Heavy      06/18/04   687        5       137   02/09/06  03/08/05 Always          
CMLL Welter    04/02/04   764        6       127   05/29/05  05/29/05 Rarely          
NWA Middle     01/01/05   490        6       82    01/16/06  02/11/05 Often           
CMLL Women     09/16/05   232        4       58    04/23/06  04/23/06 Mostly          
CMLL LH        12/13/02   1240       26      48    04/28/06  04/28/06 Occasionally    
NWA LH         07/22/05   288        7       41    02/03/06  02/03/06 Rarely          
Mexican Welter 05/13/05   358        9       40    04/12/06    None   Occasionally    
CMLL TAG       04/14/06    22        1       22    04/24/06    None   Occasionally

Gala TV note

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Gala’s airing the scheduled episode.

Sadly, no one else wanted to drive 12 hours round trip to Michigan indy/lucha show. If you’re going, let the rest of the world know what you thought of the show.

I was thinking about going to the NWA Midwest show (a little of a roundtrip – 1 hour), but I think I’ve got other plans. If you’re going to that one, ask Acid Jazz if he had any idea what was going on during the lucha show.

05/06: Mexico results, GdR lineup

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The main event of last night’s Arena Mexico saw Black Warrior cleanly beat Mistico in the third and deciding fall. With that outcome, Warrior challenged Mistico to another NWA Middleweight Championship match, and it appears to be accepted for next week. That card is shaping up to be a very interesting one.

In the semifinal, the Perros did get some measure of revenge from last week, winning the match when Damian low blowed Rey Bucanero without the refs seeing it, and Perro scooped up the pin. Angered, Rey challenged Perro to a hair match. He, of course, did not accept, but that appears to be the new direction for this rivalary.

CMLL (FRI) 05/05 Arena Mexico Results
1) Rey Tigre, Tigre Blanco, Tigre Metalico b Dr. X, Mr. Mexico, Nitro
2) Maximo, Pantera, Satanico b Hombre Sin Nombre, Masada, Okumura
3) Heavy Metal, La Mascara, Negro Casas b Averno, Misterioso II, Olimpico
4) Damian 666, Hijo del Perro Aguayo, Mr. Aguila b Rey Bucanero, Tarzan Boy, Universo 2000
5) Atlantis, Black Warrior, Ultimo Guerrero b Dos Caras Jr., Dr. Wagner Jr., Mistico

Guerreros del Ring card from today
all from the 04/30 Kids Day show
Blue Panther, Brazo de Plata, Virus b Olímpico, Rey Bucanero, Último Guerrero
Damian 666, Hector Garza, Hijo del Perro Aguayo, Mr. Aguila b Heavy Metal, LA Park, Mistico, Negro Casas

The Steve Sims interview on Figure Four Daily is pretty great. Go download it and take a listen.

CMLL GdR #21

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04/15/06

Just your run of the mill GdR; the Perros match was a little bit better than usual, but nothing to tell your mom about. Just enough of Purpura that I need to find a Purpura showcase match (which may be around here somwhere) just to know if he’s a good crazy high flier or a bad high flier.

GdR (1 = 1 hours + another 1 in a few hours)
04/22 #22 <-- maybe next? can't decide GALA (9 = 18 hours + 2 more in a few hours) 02/04 #203 (07/29/05) 02/12 #204 (08/05/05) 02/19 #206 (08/19/05) 03/04 #213 (10/07/05) 03/18 #215 (10/21/05) 04/08 best of AAA '05 04/15 #218 (11/11/05) 04/22 #219 (11/18/05) 04/29 #221 (12/02/05) (05/05)

05/05 news: Mexico preview

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Happy Cinco de Mayo, or as I like to call it, Ethnic Drinking Day #6.

Ovaciones is in full preview mode for cards tonight. Rey and Tarzan both make “we beat them bad last week, and we’re going to beat them bad this week” comments. I’m in full ‘roll out the card because I have nothing to say’ mode.

CMLL (FRI) 05/05 Arena Mexico
1) Rey Tigre, Tigre Blanco, Tigre Metalico vs Dr. X, Mr. Mexico, Nitro
2) Maximo, Pantera, Satanico vs Hombre Sin Nombre, Masada, Okumura
3) Heavy Metal, La Mascara, Negro Casas vs Averno, Misterioso II, Olimpico
4) Rey Bucanero, Tarzan Boy, Universo 2000 vs Damian 666, Hijo del Perro Aguayo, Mr. Aguila
5) Dos Caras Jr., Dr. Wagner Jr., Mistico vs Atlantis, Black Warrior, Ultimo Guerrero

I don’t know about you, but the finishes to last week’s matches still kind of bug me. They don’t have any big matches set up for the rest of the year, which would be fine if it’s December. Sadly, it is May.

They teased Hector vs Ultimo in a stakes match last week. If they couldn’t get Black Warrior to lose his mask, how would they get Ultimo Guerrero. (He may be close to the Dr. Wagner Jr. level, where his mask is worth so much, no one can afford to pay him to drop it.) Certainly Hector’s not going to lose the title match and the hair match, so I think that’s just a match they’re taking around country for a while.

The main event will surely feature another tease at Wagner and Atlantis, but I think we know the score there. This seems more like a Sunday card with that main event. On Guerreros del Ring, they’d been pushing a Wagner/Mistico team, and they’ve done with trios with Dos before, but it’s typically been Negro and Mistico on Fridays.

With next week’s big showcase being Mexico vs the World, you’d think they wouldn’t have the World all the way done in the segunda this week. Pantera must have a deal where he gets to be in every Arena Mexico which might air on Guerreros del Ring.

Even LOS TIGRES DEL RING can’t get me fired up for this card. I hope something interesting breaks, but I don’t count on it. Next week should be better

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Konnan was on Figure Four Daily, and I thought it was a good interview; all the stuff on Lucha Week has been worth listening to, but Konnan’s story of getting into wrestling was worth the price of admission alone. Today’s show has Dr. Lucha Steve Sims, and I believe it’s a free show, so everyone should check that out.

Dragon-Rojo.com has pictures of last weekend’s AAA taping.

FMLL is running another benefit show for Piloto Suicida this weekend in LA.

As I figured, NJWP-LA’s “La Gran Convocatoria” is pretty much all So Cal lucha workers.

Fuego
Impacto
Shamu Jr.
No Fear
Acero Dorado
Chilango
Guerrero de Sangre
Phoenix Star

The thing I don’t know is who’s the ringer; I have absolutely no proof, but I’d believe NJPW’s got someone working under a false name and mask here more than I’d believe they’re bringing in a guy who’d be a complete unknown in their world (even if they’re talented.) I know I’ve seen Shamu and Chilango at least working for FMLL and Lucha Va Voom in Chicago – I bet I’ve seen more, and would know if I just checked the DVDs I got.