the big story: the best known man to wear the Huracan Ramirez mask, Daniel Garcia, passed away on 11/01. He was 54.
There were a lot of obits covering Garcia’s life, and explaining the legal issues which led to him having to cede his gimmick. As one of the most famous men in the history of lucha libre, Huracan was on the cover of all the legal magazines., and Box Y Lucha pretty much dedicated the whole magazine to him.
Garcia’s son in law, Axxel, was very distraught about Huracan’s passing, as they were close. Huracan’s wife took solace in Huracan having being honored multiple times while he was alive. Unless I’m blanking on one, there hasn’t been an official tribute show for Huracan, but there was a remarkable old school AULL match decided to his memory.
Plenty of indy wrestlers kept using the Huracan Ramirez gimmick, with an uptick of business.
Averno has busy week: When Alex Koslov won a cibernetico to gain a Middleweight Title shot, it set up a pretty busy weekend for Averno with two title matches (though CMLL had a bit or a problem recalling Averno was Middleweight champion.)
The Friday Arena Mexico Tag Team title match was actually just CMLL getting a good Mistico win to promote the debut of the music video he was appearing in, so Averno had really no shot of winning two titles. However, he did keep the middleweight one with a good defense vs Koslov.
CMLL vs Indies: CMLL ran it’s teleton show on 11/20. The concept didn’t sound great, the lineup wasn’t great, and the show was run worse than usual for some reason. But, they drew good (holiday, people who aren’t usually in front of a big crowd) so it was nice for the charity.
AAA also used one of it’s normal TV taping into a teleton special, plugging the charity and asking for donations thru the show.
Safari -> Hombre Sin Nombre -> Efesto: After a year of being the man with no name, CMLL announced he was becoming Efesto (sometimes Ephesto) and starting a partnership with Averno & Mephisto. I still haven’t actually seen him in action, but I assume he’s the same Safari as always.
Other CMLL:
LA Park and Dr. Wagner were suspended in Leon for unauthorized crowd brawling in; LA Park blamed it on drunk fans…Shocker had kinda started and stalled turning tecnico during his return, and Shocker tries to explain it…CMLL ran a wrestlers only bodybuilding contest to encourage fitness among it’s wrestlers; my workplace just does weight loss contests…Negro Casas and Texano Jr. go to NJPW and win every match except the one that matters (best case scenario)..
Cibernetico starts the Hellbrothers: Things started picking up in AAA as they approached the year end show. Cibernetico returned, inviting Chessman to join his new Hellbrothers group. Charly Manson also joined – he was wearing the gear before the group even started. The group officially debuted the same taping Chessman and the Dark Family finally dropped the Atomicos titles to Mexicools. The Sect team had managed to keep the belts over Juvi’s team multiple times despite nearly self destructing as a team, but this time it all fell apart. Surprisingly, Cibernetico was scheduled to return on the TV taping before the Guerra de Titantes.
Other AAA: Gran Apache kidnapped his grandson, continuing the Apaches/Billy Boy feud from earlier this year, with Billy Boy and Fabi Apache starting to turn against each other when they couldn’t get their son back…the teased Intocable/Alan Stone and Scorpio Jr./Brazo de Plata hair matches were converted into one big four way hair match, and the only other noteworthy match announced for Guerra de Titanes was a mystery trio versus the top tecnicos, though it didn’t turn out to be much.
Other: AULL dropped from TV net AULL got dropped from a cable network – was this just a temporary thing? People are still seeing them at least on the other station they’re on…Fantasma de la Quebrada no-shows a mask match in Acapulco he was supposed to lose to Pirata Morgan, claiming money issues….Nicho was back working indies…TNA announced a spot show in Monterrey; the lineup didn’t include any AAA wrestlers, and they’d go back and forth about that…Parade!
