AAA Recap - 05/20/06

Match 1: Mini Chessman, Jerrito Estrada, Mini Abismo Negro (c) vs Prince Star, Octagoncito, Mascarita Sagrada AAA (c)
Plaza de Toros, Chilpancingo, Guerrero, 12/17/05

• Sagrada satellite armbar Abismo Negro 

Winner: Tecnicos
Match Time: 20:20
Rating: Pretty good.
Notes: Referee Piero has both LLL and AAA crossed out on his shirt here. Is he with the Guapos? Does he just heel on everyone? Who can say.

A 20 minute match is by far the longest lucha match I've seen this year, I believe. I'm sure it's the longest opening mat work/pre-beatdown section I've seen.  It's the standard, and good, usual mini match stretched out a bit. Prince Star seems more character than luchador here, and Mini Chessman didn't impress me, but Sagrada and Abismo looked their usual good self. During the beatdown, and while Piero was distracted untying Octagoncito from the ropes, Abismo calmly ripped off Sagrada's mask and hit in his own top. Sagrada went to the back, and got a Tinieblas (or a maybe just something looking like a Tinieblas) mask as a replacement and started the comeback. That'd be a great way to change the character's look/gimmick if they had to for legal reasons. NO RUN IN!!!! This must be bizarro AAA.

Vignette: the Black Family and Chessmen hang out in a cemetery and cut a promo.

Match 2: Cuervo (c), Scoria, Ozz vs Decnnis (c), el Costeno, Super Fly
Plaza de Toros, Chilpancingo, Guerrero, 12/17/05

• Rudos DQ for RUN IN by Chessman and maybe Charly Manson 

Winner: Tecnicos
Match Time: (15:36)
Notes: No entrances. Tropicasas is the ref - actually, Piero is too, but they don't show him at the open. They most be congratulating Casas about something. Random collection of tecnicos. Decnnis has dreadlocks to make me hate him more. Super Fly's going to make more appearances after this, but I guess Costeno is just some guy. He looks like A Guy - like someone they pulled out of the crowd, with a soccer jersey and shorts.  

Oddly, and this has to be a GALA problem, I lose the picture for about 4 minutes in the match. It seems to be at the tail end of the beatdown, thru a quick comeback and a Chessman run in - they're awarding the tecnicos the match when the picture shows up again. That's 1 for 2. 

This felt US indy (self-loving standoff, reversed roll up spots in the first section of the match)-ish in a bad way, but didn't annoy me. It was just there. Super Fly looked fine, but didn't stand out  - then again, I might have missed a big dive.  Costeno doing the generic tecnico headscissors sequence really hurts the credibility of that sequence. It doesn't look so hard when a guy who got lost on the way tot he beer stand can do it fine, you know? I can't believe they let him out there looking like such a non-professional. Get some gear! Break.

After a break, the Dark Family family is still beating down the tecnicos. Again the picture goes out for a moment. Looks like Charly Manson got involved - he's got Costeno's ("Pegasso") jersey, so I suspect he's ranting about the horribleness of the gear. Ah, no, they're giving it to the rudo announcer. What a nice gift. Ah, replays. Super Fly does have a nice no hands tope con giro, though he does it at such an angle, you know it's going to go horrible wrong at some point. 

Vignette: El Hijo del Fantasma explains he was pushed this far in the tournament just because his dad is important, and he hopes it keeps up! Or something else entirely, probably about Zumbido.

Match 3: Zumbido vs el Hijo del Fantasma in a Mexican National Middleweight Tournament Semifinal match
Plaza de Toros, Chilpancingo, Guerrero, 12/17/05

Winner: Zumbido (by CO)
Match Time: 11:08
Other Match Notes: No entrances, though we get in ring introductions. Hijo de Tirantes is the ref. As a completely unbiased commissioner, Fantasma is seconding his son. Alan Stone is seconding Zumbido. Break before this gets going. Not that it gets going right after the break. But the idea is there.

Match goes thru two breaks (seemingly stopping the tape), and is okay. There's two badly blown spots that are fully exposed - Zumbido going for a springboard and missing the ropes in the first segment, and Fantasma going for a handspring and not getting any spring - but otherwise the match is okay (but just okay.) Zumbido might have hurt a groin here, or at least aggravated it, based on the way he was acting (only slightly) and how it didn't fit the story.  Guapos are totally the rudos here, but Fantasma has the body language of a little league parent. After Zumbido takes the knee bump to the floor (for the second time) and got hit by a tope, Alan helped Zumbido back in the ring, which drew the ire of Fantasma. They brawled to the stage, where Alan begged off (of course), and Shocker jumped Fantasma. Those three brawled to the ring area, with Hijo de Tirantes trying to break it up, and Zumbido and Fantasma each got visual victories with no ref. Hijo ended up trying to save his father, and all three Guapos beat both of them, which was apparently legal. Zumbido visibly waited till the count got to 18, so he could slide in just in time to win. 

After a break, both sides cut promos but this isn't going anywhere.

Noti AAA
- tie up with APOSTOL promotions
- Middleweight Mexican Championship rematch
- Reina de Reinas preview; they show clips of last year's one, and it's scary how many people I can recognize now that I had no clue about before. 
- Guapos vs JJ; I guess that's JJ cutting a promo in his car, but we can't see him thru his car.

Povlo de Estrellas cuts a promo about something or other!

Match 4: Televisa Deportes, Electroshock (c), Pimpinela Escarlata vs Chessman (C), Charly Manson, Cassandro 
Plaza de Toros, Chilpancingo, Guerrero, 12/17/05

• Cassandro bodyscissors roll Pimpi

Winner: Rudos
Match Time: 13:53
Other Match Notes: TD is one of Mascara Sagrada AAA's five million gimmicks. Electroshock has an ill thought out mouth covering super turtleneck cat extension thing. Charly introduces Cassandro as a special surprise to take on Pimpi. When the music starts, at least some people think it's Brazo de Plata, because it's his music (too.) Refs are Tropicasas and Hijo de Tirantes.

Match is a beatdown early in, with a chair coming into play without any trouble. Match isn't something I got into at all. TD does take a tope to nowhere when Chessman bails out in the endgame. They stretcher him out - was this supposed to be the end of the character? I'm reading into things way too much today. Cass's pin of Pimpi was totally clean to start that feud, and no run in! After a break, they replay TD's death. 

Thru the show, Cibernetico's been wandering thru a cemetery. He eventually pours one out in a grave, and then a mysterious women appears to act mysterious, and the Undertaker's arm pops thru the ground.  Flash to the ring, where Cibernetico is confronted by the Vampirotaker. (It's basically Vampiro in WCW, except paler and with random blood.) They're even using a takeoff of the theme. 

Match 5: Cibernetico vs Vampiro
Plaza de Toros, Chilpancingo, Guerrero, 12/17/05

Winner: Vampiro (via DQ)
Match Time: 9:10
Other Match Notes: Your ref is Hijo de Tirantes.

Vampiro takes an amazing number of unfun back bumps - back suplex in here, a chair shot to the back there - for a guy with a messed up spine. He gets beat down, but gets back up selling nothing. the Dark Family runs out at 8:30, and they actually seem to get the job done. Charly Manson and Chessman mosey in behind them. Hijo de Tirantes is actually about to call for the DQ, but Cibernetico gives him a Rock Bottom at 9:10. (I'll call it there.) Everyone teams up for a genteel looking superbomb, they stomp him down - and he sits up (exactly like Taker), and stands up like nothing's wrong. It doesn't seem to get over strong; the fans pop a lot stronger for the AAA locker room coming out to chase the Sect away. Vampiro is left in the ring with Electro, Zorro, La Parka II and Intocable, but zombie walks away rather than shake hands.