Ovaciones has this newsbit:
Por las obras que se realizan sobre la calle de Perú, en el Centro Histórico, la Arena Coliseo cerrará sus puertas y a partir del 6 de noviembre las funciones de martes se trasladarán a la Arena México, mientras que los domingos será a partir del 2 de diciembre.
and google is not a lot of help parsing the grammar of run on sentences. (People unfortunate to have to translate this blog into Spanish know this well.) It’s been rumored on lucha boards this week that CMLL was going to stop running Arena Coliseo, and that appears to be the news here. If I’m understanding correctly, CMLL will be running the Tuesday and Sunday shows at Arena Mexico for the month of November (starting Tuesday 11/06, ending Sunday 12/02) due to road construction in front of Arena Coliseo. This reads like a situation out of CMLL’s hands, but there are going to be some very empty looking buildings for those Tuesday Coliseo shows.
Naturally, CMLL has nothing about this on their site. Maybe tommorow, since tonight would be the last Tuesday Coliseo show for some time.
Arturo Rivera says El Fantasma will be taking Canek’s place in the Santo show. (Six more spots to fix.) They’re negotiating with Televisa to get the show on TV.
Mascarita Dorada will debut in Arena Mexico next Friday.
indy (FRI) 10/26 Auditorio de Tijuana [PANCHO.CACHONDO @ Satanico’s mansion]
4) Hijo de Kendo L Hijo de Rey Misterio, Angel Negro Jr., Kiss Jr., Bobby Lee Jr., Black Shadow Jr., Hijo del Faraon [cage, mask]
Hijo de Kendo is Mario Ortiz from Tijuana.
indy (SUN) 10/28 Arena Coliseo Monterrey [RFC]
1) La Bandida b Paty Rey
2) Chakos & Hijo de Trueno b Abogado del Diablo & Azteca Warrior
3) Androide & Mr. Secuestro b Ejecutor & Errante Solitario
4) Angel Amor & Casanova b Gavilan Negro & Maldito
5) Dr. Wagner Jr. & Mano Negra b Super Astro & Ultraman Jr.
CMLL (THU) 11/01 Arena Isbael de Cuervanaca [Dark Atlantis @ box y lucha]
1) Mascara Purpura vs Sangre Azteca [MEX WELTER]
2) LA Park vs Mascara Ano 2000 [hair, mask]
Luchas 2000 #392 teases Santo vs Pentagon Black and Rayo Jr. returning to CMLL. I was afraid of that.
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I also read they aren’t running Tuesday shows any more during this time period. We’ll see when next week’s lineups get released or someone decides to say something from CMLL. Hopefully they can take a break from this in-depth booking meetings to comment.
In today’s example of Rob knows how to run CMLL better than everyone in charge of the company put together: If I was booking the CMLL mini division, I’d give them a niche of their own so their matches could stand out. My idea? Lightning matches. Every mini’s match = 1 fall w/ a 10 minute time limit. It gives them the opportunity to go all out in every match and most 3 falls mini’s matches barely get over 10 minutes anyhow. It’s how the women succeeded in the first place.
They’re supposed to be running Arena Mexico three times a week for the time being. Sounds like overkill to me. I mean, I know CMLL runs the DF three times a week, but the same building three times is too much.