Month: June 2006

Nothing? Nothing.

CMLL (FRI) 06/30 Arena Mexico
1) Mini Olimpico, Ultimo Dragoncito vs Mini Damian 666, Mini Halloween
2) Neutron, Pantera, Sagrado vs Hombre Sin Nombre, Loco Max, Sangre Azteca
?) Mascara Purpura vs Stuka Jr. [lightning]
3) Felino, La Mascara, Volador Jr. vs Averno, Mephisto, Misterioso II
4) Blue Panther, Mr. Niebla, Silver King vs Kenzo Suzuki, Ohara, Okumura
This is Silver King’s return to Arena Mexico. Did he ever return after WCW? I think I recall reading about an angle bit where he was announced for a match, but walked out before it because he was too Big Time International Star for it, and didn’t return till he became Black Tiger III. I think they booked Kenzo without actually having anything for him to do.
5) Dos Caras Jr., Hijo de Lizmark, Rey Bucanero vs Atlantis, Marco Corleone, Ultimo Guerrero
Of the FBI guys, who would you have ranked last? Who’s here? Exactly.

FWIW, LA Park is known to be working Auditorio Municipal Teoloyucan tonight, but opposite Dr. Wagner Jr. (who wasn’t mentioned as being pulled due to a double booking; why isn’t he booked?) Atlantis and Silver King are both working that show as well, so you’d think it’d be possible for Park to work both. Perhaps there’s a third show?

Ovaciones has been hard on Mascara Purpura all week; I’m hoping whatever trainwreck happened on Sunday makes it on to GdR, just because they’ve built that diaster up better than anything else this week. I don’t disagree with Ovaciones’ general sentiment; Purpura’s seemed like a guy focused on trying impressive spots and could care less about the logic/reasoning behind doing the spots, and his saftey and the saftey of those he’s working with. If he was living in Monterrey, we’d lump him in negatively with the Crazy Boys and Joe Liders. But those guys would be the ones taking the heat, and he’d just be another one of ’em. His main disadvantage is doing it the promotion the Ovaciones lucha beat guy writes; I’m sure he’d say the same if not worse about the stuff the new NGX guys are doing there, but he doesn’t do much AAA stuff.

Obviously, CMLL doesn’t have the same problems with Purpura and must not think he screwed up so badly, or they wouldn’t have given him this match. Maybe it’s not a big deal.

Getting back to AAA – they’ve go their first post-Triplemania TV taping tonight as well.

AAA TV (FRI) 06/30 Gimnasio Miguel Hidalgo de Puebla
1) La Parkita, Mascarita Sagrada, Mini Path Finder vs Jerrito Estrada, Mini Psicosis, Rocky Marvin
2) Billy Boy, Fabi Apche vs Gran Apache, Tiffany [AAA MIXED, #1]
These two were the surviving teams at TripleMania. You’d think Billy would get a win here for revenge over the hair loss, unless they’re breaking up the couple.
3) Crazy Boy, Joe Lider, Juventud Guerrera vs Antifaz, Corazon de Barrio, Hator
4) ???, Intocable, Zorro vs Cuervo, Escoria, Ozz
Again, we’re guessing Extreme Tiger here.
5) ??, La Parka, Octagon vs Chessman, Konnan, Muerte Cibernetica
And Porky here. Though, if Gronda really was back with AAA, you think he’d return on TV first.

Satuday: If they don’t skip an episode (and they have been) it’s Part 1 of the Rey de Reyes episode. If not, it’s part 2. Both episodes have short match lists, and they stretched it two weeks with lots of footage from previous RdRs.

FWIW, it’d take us 12 weeks to catch up if they were to keep skipping every other week. I’d rather they just skip everything and go to TripleMania, but no one listens to me.

Sunday: AAA does the introduction for Magnate following the one match he will ever have. This is how AAA rolls.

FWIW, Galavision’s online lineup says they’re reruning Vuelta Monday morning 3-6a, same as they do the Saturday show. That’s not on my TiVo listings at the moment.

GdR: the main event sounds good…in theory

Nothing much going on today.

Stuka Jr. vs Mascara Purpura in a lightning match (10 minutes, 1 fall) has been added to Friday’s Arena Mexico card as a sixth match. That could be quite fun or quite sad. I wonder who’s booking who dislikes undercard rudos so. I also wonder why I read guys like Satanico (as a trainer) talk about wanting guys to have ground skills and not just high flying spots, and yet they reward a guy who’s only shown high flying spots.

“Gronda” is listed on this weekend’s AAA Arena Coliseo Monterrey show. He could be back. It could be a clone, and they just ‘accidently’ omitted that. Who can say.

IWRG (THU) 06/29 Arena Nauclapan
1) Antaris vs Comando Gama
2) Ave Fenix, Kid Tiger vs Bacteria, Vampiro Metalico
3) Fabian el Gitano, Marco Rivera, Star Boy vs Black Terry, Fantasma de la Opera, Okumura
4) ?, Solar, Tony Rivera vs Bestia Salvaje, Pierroth, Veneno
5) Cerebro Negro, Dr. Cerebro vs Felino, Pantera [IWRG TAG]
Title change? Nah.

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Noticed this paragraph in a story about the Univision sale:

Televisa, which owns 11.4 percent of Univision, has a programming deal with Univision that expires in 2017. But relations between the two have soured over program royalties and the rights to air Televisa’s shows online.

It sounds like Televisa wants more money for it’s programs, or it’ll sell it’s part of the network and look to get out of the deal. But we’ve got a while to go before that happens.

But what about “the rights to air Televisa shows online”? That sounds promising:

Despite complaints from Univision, Televisa plans to air its television programs over the Web in the United States once a provision in its 17-year deal with Univision expires in December.

HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM. Hmmm. (I won’t say it.)

Who the heck signs a 17 year deal, by the way?

This is lazy day speculating for a lazy day. I blame CMLL dropping the ball.

Digressing: If you haven’t been checking, Rudopolis did a big June update with *8* TV show recaps. Reading what’s actually airing helps fill in the gaps of what we’re hearing – like, apparently Brandon is the guy Gran Apache thinks is really Fabi Apache’s baby daddy. I had no idea.