06/10: notes, el halcon

Remember how I said “Mephisto took Lizmark’s mask and showed it off a dangerous amount”? CMLL.com suggests that we may be heading to a double mask match between the two teams here. I’m trying to look at the bright side of that possibility, thinking how it would make the Assassins if they took the Lizmark’s masks, and it’s not impossible with Lizmark Sr. close to retiring (see below) and Lizmark Jr. being a flake, but the possible (and likely) miscarriage of justice if that match were to happen makes me want that match never ever to happen.

Accion didn’t air in it’s scheduled timeslot. While Gala doesn’t have the World Cup games, it appears they’re airing a lot of World Cup related programming and guess that’s what happened here; I’m taping the 4:30am version, so notes on it tomorrow.

El Halcon #64 is up. Inside
– Interview with Lizmark. Lizmark says he’s a “moment” away from announcing his retirement, though gives no more details than that. The most special title Atlantis won was the National Welterweight, because that was his goal when he started his career. Lizmark explains his colors as blue for the sea, and silver for the sun. The translation must not be working on that one, or I clearly have lost touch with the color of the sun. (I was thinking maybe huge silver for the ship he named himself after?)
– Interview with Misterioso II. Misterioso is his uncle, which I believe I knew and forgot. He was taught by Dr. Wagner, which is why he ended up going rudo; you learn those type of things with Dr. Wagner. He’d actually been rudo all his career before he came to CMLL. (I wonder if it also explains the partnership with Dr. Wagner Jr. in last year’s GA?) Misterioso remembers Dr. Wagner as a very demanding teacher who expected you to be prepared 100%. He debuted in 1995 in Torreon, Coahuila as Super Spider. He’s yet to win a title, but while in Torreon, he’s taken the masks of Mr. Bold & Blond Furi and the hairs of Flecha Veloz and la Amenaza.
– Interview with Metro. He’s changed his gear because he was working out hard in the gym and wanted to show it more; two hours of workout a day and low carbs, he explains. He’s hoping to gain more weight to move him to the light heavyweight division.
– Interview with Rosa Negra. She explains that she was someone else (who was unmasked) before taking this gimmick, but doesn’t say who – just that she went to Japan in the old identity and would like to go back under the new one. She’s been trained by Charrito de Oro and Maria del Angel. She was inspired to become a wrestler by Irma Gonzalez and Lola Gonzalez. Rosa Negra has no trademark move yet, but she’s working on inventing one. Outside the ring, she’s married and has 4 kids.
– Q&A with Molotov! He’s beaten Atlentado for a mask. Molotov has a finisher, but hasn’t thought of a name for it yet. Molotov says that Olimpus is his cousin, and it sounds like Molotov might be the son of someone we might know – Molotov skips revealing his father’s name for one.

No one says this directly, but

CMLL’s got the lineups for this week. Dos Caras vs Ultimo Guerrero is indeed main eventing Tuesday. Friday is Park/Wagner in a singles main event; it seems positioned as a set up to a mask match, but that doesn’t seem likely (at least at Arena Mexico.) Sunday has the Reyes de Aires match, which we’ve discussed a lot in the comments. I expect another match to be added to the show; they’ve got the trainees dark match listed on the card, and that’s usually a sign they’re setting a sixth match (probably tonight) to bump everything down.

The mystery of the week is Crazy Boy, last scene as a part of the Mexicools in AAA (as of last Sunday), is back in CMLL. (Maybe not back? Maybe they just thought he was injured all this time.) It’s not just a left field jump because it’s a guy jumping back and forth in such a short time, but because AAA suited him better. The ‘mexican extreme’ style fits in better there and he was higher up on the card (it sounded like he was upset to have to start from the bottom in CMLL after being a ‘star’ on the indies.) The jump goes against all the info we’ve got, which means there’s important info we’re missing…

(A slightly lesser mystery is why he wasn’t just thrown in the Reyes De Aires.)

Update: Alexis says here that it’s Crazy Boy being listed is a mistake. (*shrug*)

That cibernetico better make GdR. As is the way of things, that episode would happen to be the first one of my next DVD set, but I figure I’ll rip it and put on YouTube or something.

Misterioso II is only on one DF show this week, in the second match on Arena Mexico. So they pushed him for a whole week! YAY BOOKING.

This was apparently a line in last week’s Observer, re the GdI split

This should be interesting because it’s not a secret that Bucanero, who is expected to get over huge in this role, is not happy in the promotion

Maybe not a secret to you, but the rest of us…I can’t imagine where he’d fit in AAA right now, but if they don’t get behind him as part of the tecnico turn in a big way, I’d think about a jump if I were Rey. For whatever reason, the positioning of the tecnicos seem a lot more clout/senority based (with the exception of Mistico) and the roods more slotted by merit (though that’s not perfect); if Rey’s working terceras three months from now, he’s probably going to be doing it three years from now too and it’s worth the risk to jump.

Nacho Libre links
– Slam has an interview with Fray Tormenta. He’s not getting any money from the film.
– Boston Globe writes about Santo in the movies. They also have an article on Boston-area fans and particpants in lucha libre. They talk to Nikkie Roxx and to the people at from parts unknown.
– Similarly, Arizona Republic has a list of local lucha connections.
– the Empire Wrestling Federation and a radio station in Redlands, CA, inspired by the movie, are running a charity show to raise money for a displaced youth center. There will be at least one lucha libre-styled tag match.
(thanks to mikeinformer)