AAA Mini Line - 11/18/06

Interview: Estrellita wants Tiffany's hair.

Match 1: Gran Apache (c), Mini Charly Manson, Polvo de Estrella, Tiffany vs Estrellita, Mascarita Divina, Oriental (c), Pimpinela Escarlata
Plaza de Toros, Orizaba, Veracruz, 10/14/06

Winner: Tecnicos (Oriental La Majistral Apache)
Match Time: 13:19 
Notes: Beat down at about 5:30. Estrellita starts the comeback by backdropping out of corner whips. Gran Apache stops her by attempting to choke the life out of her, but the other tecnicos make the save in time. Tecnicos celebrate, and the rudos attack them from behind to continue the beatdown. Mascara Divina eventually just dropkicks his way out of it, and we get dives from pretty much everyone. Mascarita Divina goes last, with an Asai Moonsault. Captains are left in, and after cutting big moves, Oriental hits a DDT out of a powerbomb reversal and cradles Apache for the win. That cradle was odd - it was mostly a La Majistral, with Apache helpful hooking his arm around Oriental's leg so he could do the move in one motion. 

Interview: Juvi tries cutting a serious promo. The Sect is the past, the Mexican Powers are the future, and they're going to win the Atomicos titles.  

Match 2: Cuervo, Escoria, Ozz, Scoria vs Crazy Boy, Joe Lider, Juventud Guerrera, Psicosis II
Plaza de Toros, Orizaba, Veracruz, 10/14/06

Winner: Mexican Powers (Lider Storm Cuervo)
Match Time: 12:48
Notes: This isn't a title match. Mexican Powers dance on the entrance stage, and then get jumped going into the ring. This is the match with the long lingering shots of Joe Lider's scarred up back, if you're looking for it. (Why?) Comeback (~3:30) is Dark Family setting up for stereo big sits on Lider and Juvi, but then opting to stand around for a while so the Mexipowers can grab chairs and attack them. Why doesn't everyone grab chairs? Oh, because it's supposed to be illegal. Why can't Psicosis hold onto a chair and swing it? Doesn't it hurt more if you just wildly throw it at them. Do you think Juvi's demanded a Mexican Powers referee? I'd be shocked if he hadn't. It's mostly a tecnico showcase, though rudos get spots in like always, with Copetes stepping in every so often to remind us he's an LLL referee in this match, form there. Lider does not look good. It breaks down at about the 10 minute mark in to a free for all. Lider does a quebrada which would've hit nothing, and Cuervo hits him in the face for a near fall. Copetes slow counts on a Lider Storm - and it's still a 3. Why did you count 3? 

Noti AAA:
- a moment of applause for Antonio Pena.  Joaquin Roldan talks.
- Boxer Miguel Angel Gonzalez visited a show.
- Last week's debut of Brazo de Plata Jr. and the Pirata Morgans.
- Cibernetico got a new bike. Not the bike.
- Intocable is still recovering from the piledriver on the last show - they speak to him via telephone.

Interview: Super Porky, re: Scorpio Jr.

Match 3: Alan Stone, Scoripo Jr. vs Brazo de Plata, Brazo de Plata Jr. in a bull terrier match
Plaza de Toros, Orizaba, Veracruz, 10/14/06

Winner: Tecnicos (Porky touches all six corners)
Match Time: 14:25
Other Match Notes: They show the Platas dancing with the crowd - which they just showed during the last interview. The woman actually gets dropped when the Gupoas jump the Platas. Scorpio actually is able to push Porky in the ring, which is pretty implausible. Porky's busted open within seconds of getting in the ring. This is a bull terrier match, but they actually ring the bell before it's hooked on anyone but Porky. 

Only the Platas get hooked into collars early, and it's the Guapos beating them down and busting them open. Alan breaks his mirror over Junior, and then some chairs. Once Scorpio finally puts his collar on, Porky is able to use it to his advantage. Alan still doesn't get his collar on, and yet Junior is able to chase him around half the ring and back to the stage - that's one long chain. Junior slams him onto the padding of the steps - perhaps that's not the most effective thing he could done. AAA guys have some crappy chair shots, by and large. Scorpio's bleeding too. Oh, Alan and Junior are on a completely separate chain - that explains why he was able to go so far. Anyway, Junior and Alan do spots while Porky and Scorpio sit in the corner  for the most part, the rudos take over, and then Alan gets to do more spots, tying Junior up in the corner with the chain. Junior's looking pretty brutalized, with his mask torn and tried up in the corner with changes - the problem is, that doesn't leave enough chain to actually reach in the other corner. While that's being sorted out, the mysterious masked man in the Guapo U shirt shows up. With his 2x5, but not his American Flag. Copetes will allow it. Lots of shot to Plata's gut. Scorpio and Porky are doing not much. Oriental makes a belated save, and the masked man - let's call him Chris - sells big on a dropkick, before finally being taken out with a tope. Oriental comes back to trip up Alan when going for a moonsault, and then all help Porky do a middle rope splash on Alan, and a top rope splash on Scorpio, though he gets lost in the process. Oriental helps Porky walks around the ring to get six - the first time someone got two. 

Post match, the Chris Stone Under A Mask tries to escape, but the tecnicos bring him back. They don't actually think to go for the mask till they get in the ring, and when he covers that up, they yank off his shirt and go for his pants next. That flattens him out for a Porky Splash. They get his mask off them, but he uses the shards of the Guapos shirt to cover up his face. Enough is revealed the announcers figure it out, and only the does Alan Stone figure out - that's his brother! He apparently had no idea. Now that Scorpio and Alan know who it is, they try to pull him to safety, only for him to get smashed by Porky one again. Scorpio doesn't seem to buy the idea that Alan didn't know it was Chris any more than I did, but they get over. Alan says "mi hermano!" roughly fifty times in the one minute walk to the back.

Super Porky talks nice about Antonio Pena.

Interview: In this interview, Antifaz explains why he joined the Vipers. Apparently, it's because they're the best.

Match 4: Abismo Negro, Antifaz, Charly Manson, Histeria vs El Angel, Elegido, Laredo Kid, Mascara Divina
Plaza de Toros, Orizaba, Veracruz, 10/14/06

Winner: Rudos (Abismo double underhook piledriver Angel; Manson/Histeria camel clutch/reverse figure four Elegido)
Match Time: 19:03
Other Match Notes: Elegido takes off his outfit at the stage for no reason - oh, it's because they're going to punk him out in a second, and he has to get in his pose. This match is Laredo's initiation to the midcard - he gets abused, even spanked. Rudos hang all the tecnicos in corners for simultaneous dropkicks to the head, but it loses something when it takes so long to set up. The second dropkick, where the tecnicos all lift up and the rudos miss and somehow crotch themselves on the post, is really not good. That comeback is at the 7:30 mark. Despite the comeback, Laredo Kid still ends up getting beat up by Abismo; Laredo's comeback isn't really good, which helps. Abismo attempts to piledriver Laredo, but first Laredo won't go up with him, and then Hijo de Tirantes breaks it up. Abismo teases punching him, but no. Tecnico showcase - Angel's stuff again, but Divina whiffs badly on an dropkick to Antifaz. Elegido's too good. I think you know this. Elegido and Antifaz in at the same time is a event to me. Elegido gets his trunks pulled down, check. Laredo's too hurting to actually do anything when they tag in. Charlie makes fun of him. Why did he come in if he was that hurt? Of course, once he starts running, he's perfectly okay. Dive is a springboard tornillo and looks tight. Hijo de Tirantes cuts off a Mascara Divina dive later, for no reason, except to set up Divina using him as a springboard. Angel and Abismo Negro have an extended sequence to end it, and it sure looks exactly like a piledriver to end it, just from a different setup. They count it. They take care of Elegido to finish it. 

Angel gets stretched out. That piledriver looked fiercer than the normal ones. 

Interview: Konnan and "Prime Time". His name is Elix - or not. Anyway, they ask him questions in English and he answers it in English, and I'm not getting anything more out of than usual. Konnan does his usual anti-"clown" speech. Down with Konnan! Up with clowns! Elix is good there pretending he has any idea what's going on.

Match 5: Gronda II, La Parka Jr. (c), Zorro vs Prime Time, Konnan, Muerte Cibernetica (c)
Plaza de Toros, Orizaba, Veracruz, 10/14/06

Winner: Tecnicos (Park pins Muerte)
Match Time: 8:55
Other Match Notes: Arturo introduces Prime Time as "the best wrestling in the world." So he must do the website. He also tells Prime Time that they're friends. Good to know. Konnan gets Eye of the Tiger. Konnan's limping around the ring. Gronda has wacky entrance gear. He looks to have lost some weight. I think they later say that La Parka Jr. is the best pound for pound wrestler in the world - I must be misunderstanding that. Just after intros and before the first break, it seems like the tecnicos have jumped the rudos, but the tecnicos have already rallied back when they're back from break

I think they call him "Alex Skipper" during the match. Seeing him and Groon have an exchange is quite something. Gronda in the middle of not selling when Konnan rushes in to beat him down. Gronda gets a quick comeback, but that's still odd to see. Replay shows Konnan making sure the double clothesline Gronda tries doesn't actually come close to hitting him. I learn during this match that Elix has yet to learn how to work as a heel. It's also great that Elix does all sorts of high tech moves, and Muerte gets the heat (for a bit) with a suplex. La Parka comes back and ends up doing the most pathetic slow motion tope ever. He took seven slow steps to get across the ring. The other tecnicos quickly got the other rudos in submission holds (Gronda uses a devastating front facelock on Konnan) to kill time - need a couple spots before that, because they have to wait for Parka and Muerte to get back in the ring before they can even wait for them to do their end spots. Which Parka seems lost thru. What's with him? He's never good, but he's usually not this completely lost. In this same vein, Muerte's low blow mule kick gets blown, Parka getting mule kicked in the shin instead, Parka falling down anyway. The camera cuts away for a bit, and it's back on them when Muerte has a camel clutch locked on and is going for the mask. Music plays - hey, it's Chessman. Hey, it's Chessman getting attacked by the Sect before he even makes it to the ring. Way to go Chessman. Let's look at Konnan, who really should be choked out at this point and kinda looks like he would be okay with that. Hey, it's the Mexican Powers. They attack the Sect, Chessman comes in to spit red mist at Muerte Cibernetico - Hijo de Tirantes stares at this, realizes he probably shouldn't be, and looks around for something else to look at - and Chessman chairshots Muerte too. Muerte falls back into a Parka inside cradle. Sorta, that looks blown and Parka just has an arm on Muerte while Muerte has his legs on Parka. That's it, and thank goodness.     

Elix has a Gots To Get My Move In moment, so he does it to Zorro. I'm sure that got him over. Elix puts on a Rings of Skipper submission on Zorro for - I don't know. You'd think this is part of an Elix Skipper /Zorro feud, but it's clearly not. Some of the Sect are wandering around the ring, some of it is standing off with the Mexican powers - there's kinda half a rudo beatdown going on here. Gronda is down - did Konnan low blow him when we weren't looking? It's possible. Anyway, with twenty guys around ringside, Muerte starts yelling at Chessman on the microphone. Muerte wants a one on one match with Chessman, and then starts channeling Pierroth. So they talk and talk and I'm done with this one.