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What I need are big belt and hair graphics, I think.
So this is your PPV lineup. With just as obvious main event outcome – Mexicans always beat the foreigners – and almost the same semi event, this show lacks a bit of drama. Quick thoughts
1: This is Flash’s debut in Arena Mexico (at least under that name), and they’ve made a point of bringing it up. It’d have a chance at being a show stealer, but I can’t imagine it getting much time. (Pick: tecnicos)
2: The women should get a little more time than last time thru, but I don’t expect much more to come of it. If they’re actually going to go with Dark Angel vs Hiroka (which, the more think about it, even as over Dark Angel is, that’s still a foreigner vs foreigner feud and might be a tough sell – I’m just trying to think of reasons why they haven’t) in ’07, they may want to hint that way already. No Lady Apache, so this has a total disconnect from the Sunday title match. (Pick: tecnicas)
3: It’s the Get A Whole Bunch Of Names On The Card match. Yay for paydays. Technically, it’s people versus their theortical arch rivals: Wagner/Park works, Rey/Olimpico and Eclipse/Dos only do so in theory (Pick: rudos, I guess.)
4: I love Averno & Mephisto. I dislike HSN Safari, so of course he’s Efesto and partners with Averno & Mephisto. Life is unfair. Hopefully he listens to his not-brother Ultimo and brings it to a new level. I think this match will go the longest of the night (though with 6 matches, I’m betting none go over 16 minutes), because it seems like one that – without Dragon – will be repeated in spot shows for a while next year. Efesto’s gotta get the win in his first night as a new man.
5: You know, if it was Mr. Aguila instead of Garza, it’d be a step down in star power but a lot more believable a win and would make me like the idea of a title change that much more – it’d be neat to have trios champions who actually have trios matches outside of the rare title program. It seems as though the Perros are due a win back already – the Guerreros have pretty much rolled over them the whole year – so I’m expecting title change. It’s not a big deal, because these belts still have no momentum. How they work the match is more interesting than the finish – they’ve been trying to do the Guerreros as the Home Team Tecnicos in this encounters, and the fans are more on the Perros side. Maybe they’ll catch up?
6: My guess Universo/Corelone will be downplayed, and I don’t think we’re going to see much publicly between them. I’m guessing both of them will be eliminated going into the finish, Marco will sneak back in to low blow Shocker, and Universo will sneak back in to Black Hammer Kenzo and put Shocker on top for the win.
There’s another viewpoint here; Chui briefly mentioned it in the comments, and he expands on the “Shocker is MIA” story over on DVDVR. If this is all true, I hope Shocker can get his life together.
This will not be a MOTYC.
I will not be around this evening, so no live PPV updates. I recommend checking the Box Y Lucha forum or other message boards, because someone will surely be posting their own notes. Feel free to discuss the show here in the comments.
I’ll post the results probably late tonight, but there won’t be any GdR lineups until late Saturday.
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i want Los Perros to win the Trios titles
Shocker better show up – even if he’s wasted!
In fairness the show looks like it could be pretty good. I was pleasantly surprised with the last PPV, especially after Volador pulled out, so hopefully this one also delivers as it’s a stronger card (workrate wise) on paper.
I would have had something like Metron/Sagrado/Purpura V Sangre/Misterioso/Koslov instead of the women and had Blue Panther replacing Ultimo Dragon, to make it an absolutely awesome lineup, but c’est la vie… :)
I only hope that if there’s a really short match slot like the previous PPV, it goes to the women again and not to Los Guillereros!
Reports said that Shocker and Corleon were seen in Arena Mexico… so the main event should be as planned… I don’t see it that clear that local guys are going over, this could be like Lady Apache vs Hiroka and foreigners winning to building them up for a later monster heel run… after all, the way this was built, made more sense for Bucanero to be there.
Where’s Hijo del Perro Aguayo? I would think he’d be on this show. And better yet, Where’s Lady Apache?
No word on today’s big show yet… on the lesser show, Shocker & Universo won, so expect to see, yet again, Perro Sr teaming with ‘rrito vs Andres and Carmelo on March.
I wonder if Chilpancingo’s newspaper has a website…
Jindrak and Kenzo lost there hair. It’s on meltzer’s site.
Oh shit – Ovaciones says the main went half an hour. Unless Shocker was on fire that sounds…not so good :(
Also says there was a challenge for the tag titles from the cuarta but doesn’t say who – I would assume Volador & Mistico, and hope that it is because that could have MOTY written all over it.
Volador & Mistico challenging the CMLL Champs Mistico and Negro Casas? Something is wrong there…
I don’t really keep up to date with who the title holders are as there’s that many of them going around – just automatically assumed it must have been Averno & Mephisto. Might have been lost in translation.
OTROS RESULTADOS
Místico, Volador y Último Dragón vencieron a Averno, Mephisto y Ephesto, lucha que terminó con reto por la corona de parejas del CMLL, que ostentan los rudos.
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Ovaciones said that rudos are the champs, which is wrong, is THEIR mistake…
Ocampo has the recap in his blog, not in the ByL or any other forum this time… he has the main event at 22 minutes, although I think that would include the time between falls (if any) and the cut of hair since his fall time had 4′, 4′ and 8′. He said that foreigners were supported or that the crowd was not 100% behind the local guys. Not a clean ending, of course, and not a full house, which would be the first stip match from the year not to have a full house save the overpriced aniversary.
I think your info on Corleone and Suzuki may be out of date. You don’t have any free TV matches listed for them for December, but I’m 100% sure I’ve seen them on Fox Sports en Espanol on their CMLL show within the last two weeks. In fact I commented to my friend Killa Kev how it suddenly felt like I was watching Velocity from 2-3 years ago instead of lucha libre.
Yea, it’s out of date. The cron program that’s supposed to update those pages isn’t working due to my hosting company. I’m going to wait till I jump servers to get it all running again.
It’s even more like Velocity when Ultimo Dragon is around. They should get Shannon Moore too.