Day: October 14, 2007

10/14: lineups, highlights

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CMLL (MON) 10/15 Arena Puebla
1) the Tigre & Zigma vs Aguila Guerrera & Mr. Rafaga
2) Coco Blanco, Coco Rojo, Coco Verde vs Blade, Espiritu Maligno, Policeman
3) India Sioux, Lady Apache, Marcela vs Amapola, Hiroka, Mima Shimoda
4) Felino, La Mascara, Volador Jr. vs Averno, Mephisto, Texano Jr.
5) Hijo del Perro Aguayo, Villano III, Villano V vs Negro Casas, Shocker, Sombra

Wagner was originally announced in Sombra’s spot.

CMLL (SUN) 10/21 Arena Coliseo
1) El Charro & Espiitu Norteno vs El Maligno & Rafles II
2) Astro Boy, Sensei, Tony Rivera vs Apocalipsis, Artillero, Polvora
3) Fabian el Gitano, Leono, Valiente vs Hooligan, Mr. Mexico, Skandalo
4) Felino, La Mascara, Marco Corelone vs Misterioso II, Samurai Shiro, Virus
5) Averno, Black Warrior, Olimpico vs Mistico, Rey Bucanero, Shocker

Opener is a dummy match, so we’re getting a match based on something that went down tonight. (That also means Tony Rivera is now working openers; sucks for him.) Ovaciones teased Mistico vs Averno (title unification) in it’s preview, so perhaps that’s the match. Nah.

Among other things of note in Arturo Rivera’s Sunday column is Laredo Kid’s injury magically becoming less severe as the week goes by. It’s listed as six week injury here, with Rivera basically explaining “his family is poor, so he’s going to rush back.” Couldn’t they just pay him for four months what they normally would’ve paid him, since he got hurt on their clock? Crazy talk, I know. Arturo buries Latin Lover, so he’s done here for sure (for this week.)

Accion’s CMLL clips were from the main even of Arena Mexico, naturally. Shocker and Ultimo Guerrero are doing the Shocker/UG spot again, that’s amusing. Mistico & Negro go for the usual win, Guerreros cheat them out of it, and that sets up the rematch next week. Seems like we can pencil in a title match for 10/26 too. AAA’s highlights were the Villahermosa main event. Somehow, Chessman and X-Pac battled on the top of a trailer truck. Zorro superkicked Chessman off for his token big bump (Chessman missed on of the two tables) and they beat Charly for the win.

I’m sure I saw my TiVo recording DeporTV, but it wasn’t there when I went to watch it later. I must’ve screwed something up. Anyway, you can see last week’s clips, including unaired Rey de Air highlights on their website.

CMLL FSE #58

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CMLL FSE #58, aired on 10/07 in the US, taped 09/09

So Emilio wins last week in two straight falls, screwing Purpura in the last fall, and then he wins this week 2-0, screwing Purpura in the last fall, and that’s the difference getting to watch the show makes. There’s no way Purpura isn’t winning the hair match next week, because no one would bother to bury a guy that much, they’d just drop him.

The story seems to be Purpura’s not in Emilio’s league, as shown in the finish and spoke about in Emilio’s promos. I guess the idea is if Purpura beats him, he rises to Emilio’s level – but I tend to believe it’ll be more like Emilio dropping to Purpura’s level. I guess we’ll see.

Opener wasn’t really really bad (it was just bad), and that’s kinda disappointing.

CMLL CAN52 #98

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CMLL CAN52 GdR #98, aired in the US on 10/06, taped on 09/28

This trios tournament was better than your typical CMLL tournament, in that we had no three minute matches (besides the battle royal.) It wasn’t anything special, and it’s an odd footnote for Wagner to go out on, but it was fine enough. Odd that the Guerreros had to cheat to beat the Villanos, but the tecnicos put down the (non-Aguayo) Perros clean, and not even with big moves.

AAA #645

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AAA #645, aired in the US on 10/06, taped on 09/09.

So weird to have a show with no Cibernetico and no Mesias. I’m not complaining in the least.

It’s kinda of amazing AAA didn’t put over the Sect stronger going into the dome cage match, to at least pretend Ozz and company might win. At this point, the Mexican Powers have nothing of note (and certaintly nothing that’s supposed to draw the show) for Verano de Escandlo and the Sect still can’t get a clean win on them. The Sect wins the cage match, but it’s a minor detail in the Chessman/Zorro stuff. Maybe they’re just trying to focus on the numbers, but I don’t think they’ve hit it hard enough that Cuervo, Ozz, Escoria and Espiritu would have a 4-3 edge in the cage; it wasn’t obvious until the results of the show came in.

As long as we’re booking Santo’s fictional promotion and pretending they’ve got lots of money they want to spend on wrestling, I gotta figure Latin Lover vs Abismo Negro in an apuesta match has a better chance of finally happening there than in AAA, since it seems to be moving no closer. (Maybe that’s why it seemed downplayed here.)

This reminds me, I should put up a 09/09 results entry just to have it listed.