Month: March 2008

03/08-10 Lucha Times

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box. This weekend is daylight savings time in the US.

AAA US: Abismo vs Niebla, take 1. Legion vs Alan, Charly, and Alebrije in the main event.

FSE US: Women’s Trios. Valiente in action.

CAN52: ULTIMO GUERRERO VS MARCO CORELONE.

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CMLL MEX: Top 3, or maybe top 2 if the torneo goes long.

AAA MEX: Orizaba taping, with four more qualifying for Rey de Reyes. It’s only a 1:45 show, so I’m guessing the Pirata/Barrios and Revelos AAA matches get bumped at least.

FSE MEX: Either the tercera or semimain will be skipped, because it makes more sense to include the women’s trio to set up the title match. I’m guessing the tecnicos vs Guerreros match sticks.

CadenaTres: Minis to start, title match to finish. If someone’s recording this show this week, upload it some place the Mentallo fans can get it.

IWRG on Azteca: Uh, the minis match and the main event? Tough to call when they haven’t announced more than 3 matches.

03/04: Mexico, Mesias to return tonight

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CMLL (TUE) 03/04 Arena Mexico
1) Calígula & Zayco DQ Sombra de Plata & Trueno
2) Bam Bam, Mascarita Dorada, Último Dragoncito DQ Mr. Aguilita, Pequeño Damian 666, Pequeño Halloween
3) Fabian el Gitano, Felino, Máximo b Mentallo, Ohara, Shigeo Okumura
4) Averno, el Hijo del Perro Aguayo, Mephisto b Negro Casas, Sagrado, Volador Jr.
5) Rey Bucanero b Mr. Águila [CMLL LH]

Ovaciones has TIMES for the title match
1st fall: 3 minutes
2nd fall: 2 minutes
3rd fall: 4:19 minutes
(total 9:26)

The report didn’t think too highly of the match. Reforma echos the complaints, saying neither guy showcased much. Mr. Aguila suffered a hip injury in the third fall, which may have cut it short.

Ovaciones (still green) and Reforma (good level) are split on Mentallo. Fabian replaced Stuka Jr. in the match, which never helps.

Mini Damian yanked Dorada’s mask in the minis match. Novato rudos lost via excessive violence, beating Sombra de Plata up too much after Trueno had left the match injured.

ESTO confirms what the Observer had reported a while back: Eddie Guerrero will be inducted into the AAA Hall of Fame at Rey de Reyes. Arturo Rivera has random thoughts from the Orizaba taping. AAA tapings again tonight in SLP, and their website promotes Mesias’ third coming. Theortically, this is to promote his Rey de Reyes appearance, but this taping won’t air till the day after the major show.

(Reforma via Jazzo) Canek returns to action tonight at the first IWRG/Azteca taping. He’s missed most of a year with surgery on each knee, and tells the people he really shouldn’t be back for two months more. If he doesn’t feel right after this match, he’ll take those two months off.

Noticias Oaxaca has a bio of local wrestler Birdman. Not, not the lawyer.

The latest edition of Tercera Cuerda podcast has the Mini Perros del Mal. Dr. Wagner will be on CUC (university radio) Thursday at 11AM.

Ford is running with a Hispanic campaign, matching it’s cars with (fictional) luchadors. Champeons del Camino include El Galan, Senor Piedra, Dragon Techno, Galan and Super Viba and the commercials will air on Univision, Telemundo and other spanish language media.

Sergio Ossio has been posting some interesting history pieces on daily or more on Superluchas, like this one on the Brazos vs the Villanos.

03/21 Arena Mexico (Dos Leyenda PPV) complete lineup

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CMLL (FRI) 03/21 Arena Mexico [ESTO]
1) Dark Angel, Marcela, Sahori vs Hiroka, Mima Shimoda, Princesa Sujei
2) Bam Bam, Mascarita Dorada, Tzuki vs Pequeño Damian 666, Pequeño Violencia, Pierrothito
3) Grey Shadow, La Sombra, Sagrado vs Olímpico, Rey Bucanero, Sangre Azteca
4) Blue Panther, Negro Casas, Volador Jr. vs Mr. Águila, Terrible, Villano V
5) Atlantis, Místico, Último Guerrero vs Averno, LA Park, Mephisto [relevos incredible]
6) Héctor Garza vs el Hijo del Perro Aguayo [hair]

Tickets are on sale now on ticketmaster, prices going from $65 to $490 ($6 to $46US)

Not much news from what we didn’t already know. Nice to see the minis get on there, and I hope the feuding mini rudo factions have put aside their differences. (Did we ever find out what went down in Neza? I don’t think so.) There’s other matches in the undercard which could be good if things break right, but no sure bets.

I’m already reading way too much into Dark Angel being on the card and Amapola not, as far as what it means to Sunday’s title match.

03/09 AAA TV Lineup (Texcoco)

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Previous: 02/15 (Queretaro), 02/23 (Minatitlan), 03/01 (Orizaba)

AAA TV (SUN) 03/09 Plaza de Toros Silverio Perez, Texcoco, EdM
1) Ángel Mortal, Gallego, Mr. Cóndor vs Argenis, Gato Eveready, Pegasso
2) Joe Lider, Juventud Guerrera, Ultimo Gladiador vs Killer Clown, Psycho Clown, Zombie Clown
3) Billy Boy & Super Fly vs Antifaz del Norte & Histeria and Chris Stone & Super Calo [Rey de Reyes, qualifying]
4) Kenzo Suzuki, X-Pac, Zorro vs Extreme Tiger, Halloween, TJ Xtreme
5) ?, Intocable, Octagón vs Decnnis, Scorpio Jr., Zumbido
6) Charly Manson, Chessman, Cibernetico vs Abismo Negro, Head Hunter I, Ron Killings

Projected Air Date (#828)
Mexico: 03/24/08
US: 04/12/08

Cibernetico’s return to the ring. On TV, anyway. Look, Zorro even gets one last win before the agony starts.

I’m thinking the ? is more “we were hoping to have La Parka Jr. back by now” than an actual surprise.

Clowns win, check. I think Abismo wins his way into Rey de Reyes on the show before, bringing Psicosis with him, and so Billy and Super Fly sneak in to even it out. Billy’s going to feel really odd not losing his hair at Rey de Reyes this year.

Upcoming Tapings
03/16: Plaza de Toros Monumental, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon (Rey de Reyes)

03/04: Guadalajara, Colombia

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CMLL

CMLL (SUN) 03/02 Arena Coliseo Guadalajara [CMLL, MT]
1) Golden & Thunder Boy b Milenio & Valentin Mayo
2) Guero Loco & Impostor b Idolo & Virgo
3) Exterminador (Guadalajara), Infierno, Super Maquina b Casanova, Magnum, Metal Blanco
4) Gallo, Leon Blanco, Metalik b Malefico, Máscara Mágica, Toxico
5) Grey Shadow & Místico DQ Averno & Mephisto

CMLL says Averno lost to La Mistica, MT says Mephisto yanked Mistico’s mask just before the submission. About the same.

Sunday’s Arena Coliseo card has been changed from having a women’s trios to only having Dark Angel vs Amapola for the title. Considering the other four were Blanca, Sahori, La Nazi and Medussa, that’s a win. I’m thinking they might still save the title change for Arena Mexico, but I don’t feel strongly about it.

Tonight’s the big Rey Bucanero vs Mr. Aguila battle for the CMLL Light Heavyweight Championshp. In Reforma, Rey blames incompetent refereeing for last week’s loss, but that’s all in the past. Tonight’s match, Rey says, looks to be a technical fight. (So we’ve got a finish involving a foul.)

Ovaciones has a short bio of Mentallo, making his Arena Mexico debut today. Canadians may be taking over CMLL.

WAT (FRI) 02/29 Coliseo El Campin, Bogota, Colombia [colombiandragon Colombiandragon @ el Martinete]
1) Comando DRAW Monje Rebelde
2) Stallone b Catedratico
3) Tony Guerrero DQ Spartako
4) Dick Misterio & Nightman b Enterrador 1 & Maluk
5) Sagitario vs Gemelo Halcon I, Gemelo Halcon II, Fishman, Hercules Negro [WAT Panam]

STALLONE.

Wrestlingdom.com says the Reyes de Reyes atomico is now a tag match. We’ll see.

Wrestlers (and boxers, and MMAs) have until Thursday to renew their license.

El Siglo de Torreon previews Saturday’s Wagner Promotions show. Meanwhile, the commissioner of sports in Torreon says again there will be no boxing or wrestling in (his) Auditorio Municipal Torreon. Basketball, volleyball and martiar arts only.

On the cover of the newest AAA’s Dos de Tres: Rey Misterio Jr.. I didn’t know they could do that.

indy (SUN) 03/16 Arena Coliseo Monterrey [RFC]
1) Konnan Big vs Recta

Recta, you may be surprised to hear, is a guy from TV. So unlike Konnan Big. It’s a guy from Televisa Monterrey in case you’re trying to remember which network they’re with that moment.

AAA (MON) 03/31 Domo de la Feria de Leon [am.com.mx]
1) Mini Dizzy & Octagoncito vs Mascarita de la Muerte & Mini Histeria
2) Billy Boy & Estrellita vs Gran Apache & Lady Apache
3) Alan Stone, Chris Stone, Super Calo vs Killer Clown, Psycho Clown, Zombie Clown
4) Espíritu, Mesias, Zorro vs Charly Manson, Chessman, Cibernetico

The show here scheduled for last night was “postponed to later this month, due to logistics”. Huh. Anyway, they get a better card the second try.

IWRG & TV Azteca talk about the new show

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Ovaciones has details on the IWRG/Azteca show.
– Even though it’s going to be IWRG running things, the shows are going to be called “Lucha Azteca”
– The program will air on Channel 7 (TV Azteca) starting Saturday, at 11 AM. It’s a one hour show.
– It will NOT air Mexico City.
– Silver King, Dr. Wagner Jr., Mascara Ano 2000, Tarzan Boy, Rayman, Turbo, Gronda, Pantera and LA Park are some of the non-IWRG regulars mentioned as working here. The usual mix of IWRG guys (Oficials, Jr. Capos) and UMLL indepedents (Hijos de Solitario and Anibal, Negro Navarro) round out the list. I guess we’ll know if CMLL has any issues with that by Friday.
– Announced taping schedule looks something like this:

03/05 Roots Magic Club: for 03/08, 03/15, 03/22?
03/22 Tampico: for 03/29, 04/05
04/06 Arena Naucalpan: for 04/12, 04/19
04/16 Roots Magic Club: for 04/26, 05/03
05/02 Centro Banamex/Lucha Libre Expo: for 05/10, 05/17
and two tapings per month for the rest of the year, if this keeps up. They’ve got 10 tapings planned, which takes them thru July.

RFC posted one press release, Black Terry Jr. has a longer version, where they mention running in 14 different cities. That’s a lot of expansion. Now that I’ve give up on it, there’s a IWRG roster too. I think if we’ve got Mini Skayde running around, they need to get the bigger Skayde showing up too.

I’ve seen a video feed for TV Azteca 7, but I’m not sure if this is Mexico City (and IWRG will be blocked out) or not. I couldn’t get it running myself.

IWRG’s website is down, but has been for a few days. Maybe they can get Azteca to do that for them.