CMLL Mini Line - 01/07/06 (#198)
Recapped: 02/10/06
Match 1: Hooligan (c), Koreano, Super Comando vs
Tigre Blanco (c), Tigre Metalico, Stuka Jr.
Arena Coliseo, 06/21/05
Winner: Tecnicos (2-1)
Match Time: 8:30
Approx Rating: 85
Other Match Notes: No entrances. We miss the start looking at the
lineups.
Hooligan and Stuka to start, with Stuka looking good. Clip here? Yea, We come back in mid Comando/Blanco sequence. They're on the mat and they're fine. Comando goes into the ropes on a monkey flip, and that's it for them. Must've cut Metalico/Koreano, because we're back to Stuka and Hooligan. Hooligan wins the shoving battle. Stuka pulls of a great cartwheel into a moonsault off the apron and now I know why I'm watching this, as if I had doubts. Metalico misses a top rope plancha on Comando, Koreano lands a top rope splash on Metalico, and Comando keeps Blanco out while they count three. (2:15) Super Comando puts Blanco in a sorta kneeling Canadian backbreaker variant, and that's good enough to win it. (2:19) Someone please make the Tigres stop both wearing white. It's too confusing for my mind. Hooligan celebrates leading his team to victory.
Blanco and Comando start fall two, but that doesn't look to last long, with Koreano wandering into help. Koreano's wearing his Guerreros tights for this one - so is Hooligan. Beatdown is on, which is very bad news for the already losing tecnicos. Blanco gets a double backdrop, then rolled up so Hooligan can hold him in a bodyscissors while the other two dropkick him in the head. Stuka's turn, and he gets a triple press slam and a double dropkick. Metalico in - Bubba Ray Comando and D-Von Koreano team up for 3D. Hooligan gets in a dropkick to the head. Now who? Blanco's going to try again. Flapjack for him, but when they got for the triple dropkick to the had, Comando and Hooligan get pulled out and attacked. Blanco throws Koreano around by his hair while the other tecnicos get revenge in the ring. Blanco sends Koreano out with a bodyscissors armdrag, , and then sidesteps a Comando dropkick, helping set him up for a Stuka missile dropkick. Hooligan takes a bump bump to the floor when Metalico shoves him off. Stereo suicide somersault slingshot sentons! Stuka gets him a hammerlock reverse Russian legsweep on Super Comando (3:13) and remembers to pull his teammates back in to avoid the count out. The fans count along on this one - and that's it. (3:44) Tecnicos are celebrating even before 20, because the rudos aren't moving. Replays - that looked as safe as diving headfirst towards the ground can look.
Korean' pulls himself together by the time the bell rings, and gets a good stat on Metalico before Metalico turns it all around. Koreano gets sent out a spinning headscissors, Comando on a spinning armdrag. Hooligan is pumped, but flying a long way on hiptosses. Metalico reverses a flapjack to an armdrag, and out goes Koreano. In comes another long crowd shot, so I think we missed something. Blanco and Comando are in, and Commando wants a handshake. No dice, to Comando uses his hand to chop down Blanco instead. Corner whip, Blanco flips out of the corner, and ends up getting a bottom rope springboard spinning headscissors. Blanco rolls to the ropes, flips over them backwards into a headstand on the apron, and turns into a spinning headscissors on Comando! That was cool. Koreano knocks down Stuka with a chest slap, but Stuka manages to give a high backdrop to the floor. That was a crazy bump. Stuka goes up quick and down faster, plancha-ing Koreano on the floor. Hooligan in, and Metalico powerslam him, moving out of the way for a Blanco top rope splash, who moves out of the way for a Comando senton. Not quite like he Comando wanted there. Dos Tigres press slam Comando to Hooligan, who's really getting beat up here. Blanco gets a kneeling abdominal stretch with chinlock on Hooligan while Metalico turns a clothesline into a hammerlock rollup for three. That's that. (2:27) That was a good little sprint with some cool high spots.
Match 2: Averno (c), Mephisto, Mascara Magica vs
Dr. Wagner Jr. (c), Mistico, Ultimo Dragon
Arena Mexico, 06/24/05
Winner: Tecnicos (2-1)
Match Time: 11:19
Approx Rating: 84
Other Match Notes: Rudos are attacking tecnicos as we join. Mascara
Magica is a rudo here, blaming Mistico for leaving him in the cage and costing
him his hair the previous week. Magica, in his black Spiderman tights, drags Mistico
around by his mask while the tag partners work over the other two. Mistico spins
out after taking a posting. Averno and Mep double boot Wagner out of the ring,
and Magica brings in Mistico so they all can work on him. There's a nice throwing
face first powerbomb. Highlights air of Damian being Mascara Magica to cost
Magica his hair the previous week. Back live, everyone is giving Ultimo Dragon a
corner clothesline. Magica lifts Ultimo on the top rope, and throws him off, so
the tag champs can land top rope headbutts on him. No cover, Dragon's rolled
out. Wagner in, and held on the ropes. whip, and triple pump powerbomb for him.
One two three. (3:24). That does it for fall one. After the rudos
celebrate, they go back to working over Dr. Wagner again. Ultimo comes into help
and he's thrown out. Mistico's comes in to help, and the rudos decide to beat
him instead. We watch replays instead. I think Magica went over to the ring
announcers to do an evil laugh. Someone did a pretty random evil laugh. Break.
Attack goes on thru the break, with Mistico taking a big flapjack just as we return. Magica grabs Mistico by the mask, and looks around angrily as the fans chant for Mistico. Magica beats him all the way up the ramp as Averno keeps help from coming. Fireman's carry flapjack on the steps! Now the tecnicos really want to put a stop to this, but they're being held off - Mephisto gets Mistico while the other two put the boots to Wagner and Dragon. They eventually settle on working Wagner over in the ring. Wagner's then set up on the apron, and the champs tag turns whipping each other into Wagner for a clothesline. It backfires for Averno, and he takes big backdrop into the ring, and Mep takes a big hiptoss. Wagner signals Mistico to run, and boosts him up into a big dropkick to Averno - well, in theory. In reality, he kinda tapped him on the way down but it was quite the opposite of good. Wagner must decide he's immediately got to make up for this, because he throws himself from the ramp to the floor with a running tope con giro. Magica and Dragon back in, and Dragon immediately gets Magica with a handspring elbow for three. (2:17). La Mistica looks great, and that's the end of Averno. (2:25) Tied up.
They (where they is mostly Magadan) take time to hype up the ladies tag match for next week between falls. Replays. WHY IN THE WORLD DO YOU SHOW THAT BLOWN DROPKICK? Geeze, that's moronic.
Dragon's ready to go to start the third fall, if only someone will fight him. Empathic attempts to, and his highlight is ducking a wheel kick. Actually, he got in nice chest slaps too before Ultimo Dragon started doing the Ultimo Dragon spots. Averno gets in chest slaps,, but Dragon got in the spinning heel kick. Three Kick Combo on Magica, and that's a clean run. Wagner in, and the rudos are thinking about going home early. The Wagner chant ain't helping things. Wagner has time to climb the corner and pose . Averno compares reactions, and is unhappy. Wagner goes to another corner, cheers, Averno goes, boos. Hmmm. Wagner teases the pose, and then poses. Averno does the pose - and Wagner kicks him in the back. That was dumb. Dr. Morales does the ladies tag match hype again, and they're clearly focusing on Lady Apache. Morales also forgets Amapola's name, but what can you do. Wagner's just gotten the dropkick to the head in as I start paying attention, and Mephisto takes Averno's place. Crowd chants Wagner louder each time they chop him. Corner whip clothesline, corner whip, clothesline, bulldog! Dropkick to the head knocks Mephisto out. Magica in and he's trying chest slaps, but they're not working so well. Wagner rubs his bald head and kicks him down. Off the ropes, dropkick to the side of the head. Camera choose to look at Mistico while Wagner is doing something. How annoying. Wagner sets up Magica on the top rope, and Mistico springboard 'ranas him off. Averno in to take Magica's place, and Magica takes time to point to the crow, who's canting for him and throwing Averno off. Mistico shot off, waved by, trips the handspring and Mephisto sneaks in a dropkick to the back. Tag team champions celebrate, and yank Mistico for a Finlay bomb, but he flips to his feet instead. Mep's faked out, Averno takes a spinning headscissors. Mep hooks Mistico, but he springboards into an armdrag/headscissors combo. Double clothesline misses, Mep tosses Mistico up and he comes down with another twisting headscissors. Mep misses a dropkick, misses a clothesline, and Mistico is going up - tornillo armdrags on Averno! Ultimo in, kickwhamAsaiDDT one two three. (5:07). Wagner ducks Magica's clothesline, catches his boot, pats him on his bald head to annoy him more, and gives him a Dragon Screw Leg Whip. Wagner Driver, with Mistico showing Wagner, one two three. (5:30)
Seccion Azul: This week, Atlantis visited a press conference. Wait, no. I think this is a dealio about recycling and a conservation. Atlantis cares about our kids and our environment! And signing autographs. Look, organic foods! You must cheer a man who likes organic foods.
Stellar Moments
Combination: Ultimo Dragoncito and Mini Olimpico do same side dives
on Mini Pierroth and Fire
Lance: Metro's leaned off the apron, so Sangre can dropkick him hard to
the floor.
Tecnico: Satanico's apron senton
Castigo: GdI with a triple superbomb on Groon.
Spectacular: Mistico with a plancha off the top of the cage. He was up in the
light support, that's nutty.
Vignette: Pierroth meets with Blue Demon Jr. in the war room - Pierroth wants it clear that he's the leader of the Perros - after all, he's Pierroth! Blue Demon isn't so sure about this - he's thinking it's Perro - and just wants to win the match.
Match 3: Pierroth (c), Blue Demon Jr., Hector Garza vs
Rayo de Jalisco Jr. (c), Dos Caras Jr., Hijo de Lizmark
Arena Mexico, 06/24/05
Winner: Tecnicos (2-1)
Match Time: Boring.
Approx Rating: 10:32
Other Match Notes: Introductions. Pierroth is indeed captain here. Demon
is introduced last, and rushes the ring because apparently the fight went on
without him. Beatdown by the rudos. Announcers seem to debate if La Nazi is a
man or women when they get bored here. Can't say I don't get bored - I'm
checking to see if this was Rayo's last Arena Mexico ape prance. (It's not -
that was the tournament a few weeks alter.) Demon gets Dos with a sharpshooter
w/ armbar. (2:59) Hector's working Rayo's mask and Lizmark's on the floor
- and apparently that's enough for the refs to ward the fall. Pierroth grabs
Monito, who's hear for whatever reason, and spins him around the ring. Demon
holds him for a belt shot! That's wrong. Break.
Beatdown goes onto in the second fall till Rayo is left unchecked and double clothesline Demon and Hector. It's really Pierroth's fault for talking to La Nazi for no reason. Belt shots are returned. I'm so interested now, I'm checking out weird repeating matches. Bless Garza, he sells a belt shot huge. In angles which will never go anywhere, Dos and Lizmark are wearing matching tights here. Triple powerbomb on Pierroth to end this fall. (2:18) Monito gets revenge, La Nazi gets a belt shot to the bottom and yells at the fans about it. Replays and replays.
Garza and Rayo start in the ring to start the fall, and Garza sells everything Rayo does as big. Rayo brings a decent tope with him, with at least nice. Demon has punches in bunches for Demon, but Dos rallies back with a monkey flip and a hiptoss and a tilt-a-whirl backbreaker. Lizmark gets Pierroth last, so he lost. There's the superkick. We need the spinaroonie yet. Pierroth reverse a whip and gets some corner chest slaps, but Lizmark turns it around to land his own. Pierroth must have a tough back at this point, because everyone's hitting it. Pierroth knocks Lizmark down, but Dos comes instead to knock Pierroth off the ropes with his enziguri. The rudos go after Dos, and so Lizmark is the one to tope Pierroth (and La Nazi ) on the floor. Demon and Garza double clothesline out Dos, Rayo tries a double clothesline on them but Garza ducks and dropkicks Rayo. Garza mocks the crowd, slams Rayo and heads up. Moonsault, Rayo moves, Garza lands on his feet but drops to the mat on a clothesline anyway. Two count. Headlock. There's the Reverse tope spot for three. (5:00) Demon in - where's Pierroth? - and Dos meets him with a kick, press, and bringing snap suplex because Demon ain't taking no German. One two three. (5:15) Rayo crushed Demon with a legdrop, and now he's folding his arms up Undertaker style so Monito can mock him more. Rayo rolls Garza in the corner, and Monito adds a second rope somersault senton. Monito with a headstand kick and Lizmark helps with a dropkick. Mocking Garza's prayer! Slap to the face! Garza tries for some revenge, but Garza is just too face for him. Dos and Demon grabs at each other's masks some more, and Pierroth decide just to leave! Looks like he's blaming this all on Garza. Replays.
Match 4: Tarzan Boy, Ultimo Guerrero (c), Rey Bucanero vs
LA Park (c), Bronco II, Elektro
Arena Mexico, 06/24/05
Winner: Tecnicos (2-1)
Match Time: 10:36
Approx Rating: Memorable awful.
Other Match Notes: Parka's wearing the red gear and dancing with his valet
on stage. He's got a mascot LA Park! Elektro is spelled with a C in his video.
Bronco has a neighing horse in his music. He dances on stage as well, and on the
way to the ring. The difference of this from his regular alternate gimmicks is
quite vast. Why don't they have a group GdI video? The music just keeps playing
as they get separate entrances - if you ever wanted to hear the guitar solo,
this is the week for you! Bucanero looks like a futuristic old west bandit this
week. They have posed photos of Elektro and Bronco wearing different gear for
the graphics, so there were plans here. Thinking about it now, you've got a main
event team of Park (who is awesome), a new guy they've never heard of but
they're pretending is an international star, and a guy who jumped from AAA.
Ultimo goes after Park as soon as the captains are announced, but the rest really don't do anything. GdI Huddle. CLIP. Ultimo and Park start what we see - STRUT. Ultimo takes offense and works him over with chest slaps. GdI are too busy celebrating this that they miss Park turning it around slapping Ultimo. STRUT! Park has a pretty good sequence with Mistico, but tries for a springboard headscissors one too many times and gets tripped up. Rey and Tarzan clear out the other two tecnicos while Ultimo gives Park the Guerrero Special. That should be that, but Ultimo doesn't cover - they go to beatdown the others. First thing we, at least TV viewers, see of Bronco is taking the GdI Sit. Elektro's hung from the top rope so Tarzan can hit a axhandle to his midsection, and then hung again so Rey can add a top rope senton. one two three. (2:30) Once again, that's good enough. Replays. Elektro's feet were on the ropes when the pin started and the count started, but Ultimo pulled them off. It was pretty obvious. Break.
Rudos still in firm control to start the second fall, working Bronco over with chest slaps. Corner clothesline, rolling clothesline, headstand sit. Elektro in, and the crowd seems a bit cool to him hear. There's the usual combo that ends with a Bucanero Castigo. Park in, and held in the corner. whip, triple boot for him. Bronco back in, lots of talking as they set up for a corner whip, so of course he's sidestepping it. Standard "flip over the double clothesline" sequence with Park and Elektro speaking Ultimo and Rey while Bronco does a Bronco Buster on Tarzan. Notice the irony! Either the alarm is going off again, or someone can't stop doing the horn. Perhaps both. Rey takes a catapult into the ringpost, which is no fun. Park works over Ultimo in the ring as the other four spill out to the crowd. Crowd chants for Park. Ultimo gets him with hard chops, so Park takes off his glove and retaliates. Park gets backdropped to the apron, and gets in a shoulder on Ultimo as he charges in. At this point, Elektro jumps in the ring and tries a senton on Ultimo, except Ultimo's moving out of the way before Elektro's even falling - and the fans turn on Elektro. Loud hissing as Park accidentally slingshots stomps his partner while trying to get Ultimo. Ultimo ends up taking the knee bump out, and Park gets monkey flipped by Elektro into tope con giro to the floor. That's neat. The other four all in - Bronco gets Rey with more elaborate gutwrench suplex (3:53) and Elektro locks a reverse figure four on Tarzan. That's it. (3:57) Elektro won't let go, and Tarzan is moaning in pain. Elektro finally relents, and Tarzan immediately pulls himself out of the ring. Camera doesn't stick with him - wonder if we would've seen him limp. Look at a big banner for the rudos. Replays, which help me figure out what Rey's move was. Rey was rolling out immediately after three. Crowd boos something while we're watching the replays. Break.
Third fall. Ultimo and Elektro, and there's some hooting and a chant that seems to catch Ultimo by surprise, though I can't make it out. The alarm does go off here, annoying alarm that it is. Tarzan comes into help, corner whip for Elektro, Ultimo charges into boots and Elektro blows a forward flip off Ultimo. (If you're playing the "did GdI sandbag Elektro here" game, which I'm half mentioning and fully looking for, you could argue Ultimo should've helped out more here.) Anyway, another blown move isn't going help. Usually wacky rudo mishaps lead to Ultimo almost slapping Tarzan, and then actually slapping Tarzan. hey have a long discussion about while Electro stands there waiting. Crowd boos as Electro gets his 1 on 2 moves in. Rey misses a senton on the way in, and accidentally boosts Elektro into a dropkick on Ultimo. The part of the crowd that's making noise over the alarm is just booing this whole segment now, even as Rey takes the chest slide to the floor. It gets VERY loud when Elektro does his dive tease and pose, to the point where I can't believe he does a double bicep pose - I'd run and hide. There's a clip in here - sound jumps noticeably at least once - and we're back in the midst of Park's outsmarting sequence. Park ends up handing a slingshot tornillo on Ultimo, and then Elektro is back in, so they must've cut out Bronco entirely for the second time. Crowd is booing before anything happens. Chest slap battle. There are now people chanting for Elektro, but maybe in aversive way. Rey gets in some shots to help form the outside, but things backfired like they do. All four non captions come in, with Bronco getting moves in on Rey while Tarzan holds Elektro on the ropes. Bronco tries to slam Rey, Rey slips free, front heel trips Bronco, charges Elektro, Elektro moves, Rey chest slaps Tarzan (which is like the 100th GdI backfire this match) and everyone is completely lost. Rey just kinda walks away, and Elektro taps him with his boot, completely frustrated. I don't think that was what he was expecting - that spot or this match. Crowds senses weakness and boos. Elektro and Bronco appear to be setting up for dives, and we get another crowd shot as the fans boo loud again. Cut back to the ring, where Elektro is serving as a step ladder boost for Bronco to moonsault to the floor, expect they can't get the timing right to save their lives. Luckily, no one dies when they actually do it. Elektro tries a slingshot tope of his own and catches his feet on the top rope (although the camera doesn't do a good job of catching it.) Horrible dive. Can this get any worse? Ultimo and Park back in. Dr. Morales sounds like he can't believe what's going on, and not in a good way. They milk the Park chants to get the crowd back on track, and then Park misses a dropkick. Ultimo tires a bodyscissors and takes a wheelbarrow suplex for two. Ultimo tries to start an Ultimo chant - and it sorta catches from the rudos fans, which is how this is going. We miss a spot looking at Rey, but, Ultimo pushes Park off his shoulders into a face first powerbomb. Now Rey's posing with the Guerrero banner we saw before. I don't think they're letting Bronco and Elektro back in the ring at this point. Ultimo and Park going up in the same corner and fighting - Park top rope superplex! Slow crawling cover, one two NO! Slow count! Ultimo is firing up. Rey is playing with a noisemaker. Park with Code Red, one two three. (4:09) Park and Ultimo tried. As compared to Rey rolling out quickly early, Ultimo is dead and not moving in the ring. Fans started booing as soon as Bronco and especially Elektro got back in the ring. Break.
Rey checks if Ultimo, who's not moving, is dead. Apparently not. There's no post match heat or buzz at all - everyone's filling quietly and quickly out of their seats. They manage to show Elektro's tope - whoa, he didn't catch his feet, it was just a horrible dive completely on his own. They want to call the Code Red an inverted 'rana, but that's not quite right. Maybe an inverted bodyscissors powerbomb but that doesn't quite roll off the tongue. Many replays of the finish. Park goes thru the crowd on his way back, and we get crowd shots from previous action to pad the show out.