Day: August 20, 2006

Accion highlights were done by Jorge Pietrasanta, and I have no idea who that is.

CMLL: Main event. Hey, it’s Latin Lover. Perro’s low blow was quite violent. Dos tried to break up the pin by stomping the referee (instead, of say, stomping the pin!), but no luck.

AAA: Zorro, Gronda, La Parka Jr. vs Muerte, Electro and Chessman from Morelia (08/06). This is the first I’ve actually seen of the Zorro mask,a nd it looks quite odd. Muerte gets in a blatant low blow, Copetes coutns the pin, but Tirnates beats him to the arm raise and so there’s a DQ.

Guess what’s on everyone’s cover this week?
– Box Y Lucha #2780 has Latin Lover, new Perro del Mal
– Luchas 2000 #331 has Latin Lover, new Perro del Mal
– Super Luchas #175 has Latin Lover, new Perro del Mal (more from Super Luchas here – Tony Salazar uses Vista?)

Guerreros del Ring appears to do their covers shots weeks ahead of time. But I think they might try to change this week.

Latin Lover’s bio is still up on Triple A’s website, but they don’t move that fast. If it’s up a month from now, I’d only be slightly surprised.

from yesterday

The women’s mask match nearly got more time than some of the recent shows have gotten entirely. It was certainty not the disaster I was worried about; it was a competent match with some good spots. I don’t think there’s a point to doing this unless you can put on a great match (to make the the concept mean more in the future) or a drawing match (which this was surely not.) But the fans did get into it and I enjoyed it, and I can’t really ask for more than that.

Best possible match between these two, I’m sure. I may rip this one later and upload it somewhere.

2/3rds of the opener seemed like they were building a Stuka/Arkangel match, and then they forget in the end. Arkangel seemed to have problems with Tony he didn’t have with anyone else, so I’m leaning towards blaming Stuka. Hooligan really didn’t do much here and wasn’t spotlighted.

Last week’s episode. I timed the women’s match for sub 6 minutes, and it was not even a great six minutes. I’m moving the mask match onto my TiVo right at this moment, but don’t want to watch it, because I’m so very scared. Like to “this may end women’s wrestling in CMLL for another decade” levels. On the other hand, Dark Angel has looked as good as ever in this most recent run.

The tag team title match was as good a stuff they’ve had on this show in quite a while. Only the second fall was microscopically short; they split the time up to create two more above average length falls. (Of course, I wish they just dumped the pointless interviews and gave them 25 minutes, but doesn’t seem like we’ve got a chance of that.) It was missing a bit of drama at the end to turn into a great match, but it still was a pretty fine encoutner.

I don’t know how to break this to you, Robert, but they’ve cut out the opening clip montage. Of all the things they could cut out on these shows…

I’ll catch up on (at least) the other reacp in the morning.