Day: September 20, 2006

Hey, I got the Fox Sports Espanol episodes.

* 08/13 – opener seemed liked a strong build to a big finish, and then it just sort ended. Main event had little value.
* 08/20 – Hey, a CMLL cibernetico NOT better than Reyes de Aire. This was just okay, though, and the extended Volador/Misterioso sequence teased a pretty good singles match some point down the road. Main event wasn’t much.
* 08/27 – skippable. Probably didn’t miss much from the clipped open. Neither Warrior or Dos are entertaining singles wrestlers, and it doesn’t help that they did a singles match by the numbers a week after Volador and Misterioso essentially did for him. Dos will hopefully grow better than this (though that’s far from a sure thing), but this was about usual for Warrior one on one; I think everyone knows this, but it’s still probably not a good idea to expect Mistico vs Black Warrior to be a MOTY (at least for in ring work alone – the crowd may carry it.)

In my opinion, it’d be better for FSE to join the show in progress – start in the middle of the opener, if you have to cut things out – rather than pull out random falls. We can live without the introduction stuff before we can live without the matches. This may be my biased “they better show the full main event this week” view, and I agree with everyone that it wouldn’t be hard to find another slot to put the show, either first run or a replay, to get that full hour out there.

I think I may be able to get to this week’s GdR this week tommorow, and then I don’t know what.

Gala: Again, a wacky time for the west coast feed.

Rudopolis has a recap of this episode:

With that said, I think AAA was fine, but far from the Chilpancingo, Toluca,(twice), Nvo Progreso, Naucalpan and a few others which are in the top. Show had that double main event thing that is usually not a good idea, but at least Manson and Zumbido were back (maybe momentarily in Zumbidosky’s case) and the show advanced the storylines, nice, Secta turning on Ciber was over a month ago and they have not really done anything with that!!

FSE: 9 PM, and they even have Negro Casas vs Averno listed in the lineups, so we’re sure about that one. (Yay info.) Preceeding the show is an Italian Futbol league game, “Lazio vs. Atalanta”. If I’m reading the Series A league info right, this will actually take place at 9 AM, so you think they could find some time in between to make sure it fits to a two hour window. If they’re getting the main, that means they’re probably getting a segunda, a women’s trio. I seem to have the least problem with lucha women among people who read this site, but I think I’d be okay if they cut all the opener out before they touched the main event.

GdR: If that goes there, that means Shocker makes his first appearance on CAN52. Neither match lined up here looks particularly good.

Ovaciones says Groon was brought in for the annivesary card because they couldn’t get Latin Lover.

I’ve updated the poster for the Congress Show below.

CMLL (TUE) 09/19 Arena Coliseo Results
1) Polvora, Vaquero b Espiritu Maligno, Karisma
2) Leono, Tigre Blanco, Tigre Metalico b Caligula, Jeque, Messala
3) Fabian el Gitano, Oro II, Tony Rivera b Arkangel, Mr. Mexico, Okumura
4) Felino, Metro II, Satanico DQ Alex Koslov, Misterioso, Pierroth
Pierroth got DQed, then attacked the referee for DQing him.
5) Blue Panther, Heavy Metal, Negro Casas DQ Atlantis, Averno, Mephisto
Negro had Averno about done, so Averno fouled him. This feud must continue.

CMLL (SUN) 09/17 Arena Coliseo Guadalajara Results
1) Exterminador, Thunder Boy b Fraile de la Muerte, Imposter
2) Carlo Roggi, Nuba Roja b Danger (Guadalajara), Valentin Mayo
3) Destroyer (Guadalajara), Magnum, Malefico b Leon Blanco, Lider, Mascara Purpura
Lider challenged Destroyer to a hair match for this Sunday.
4) La Mascara, Rayman, Volador Jr. b Hombre Sin Nombre, Mephisto, Olimpico
5) Mistico b Black Warrior
Warrior attacked Mistico before the match, and pulled his mask to roll him up to the first fall. Of course, that meant when Warrior accidently bumped the ref in the third fall, Mistico returned the favor and rolled him up to win.

TV stuff later tonight.