Day: April 5, 2008

SuperLuchas’ recap of last night’s Arena Mexico show shares the refrain of Ovaciones’ this morning: LA Park vs Ultimo Guerrero was not good and a lot of people were walking out during it. If you check otu the comments, Ernesto says all four people they had there felt the same way, so this was a pretty widespread feeling.

CMLL.com has a note about this match, with the hardest sell being “this is not the end of this.” As I write this, this newsbite is directly above the one about how LA Park will get a mask match if he wins. That’s not addressed at all in today’s update. I think that’s the problem here – no one cares about this feud at all (they just randomly started a death feud last week, because even the stuff with the PPV was about Mistico), no believes they’re going to have a mask match (to the point where there’s not a single person disappointed the match isn’t going to happen, just using the easy chance to mock CMLL for not living up to these promises yet again) and no one cares about a fake hate feud.

I think it was Steve Sims who was wondering if Dr. Wagner Jr. would be ultimately hurt because CMLL was never paying off his big teased mask matches. It turns it out Wagner’s okay, because he’s Wagner, but everyone who’s not Dr. Wagner is feeling the pain. The people do not believe in rivalries between top masked guys any more because they’re smart enough to remember the dozens of recent ones which never ever go to a conclusion (Averno and Mistico teased a mask match again) and all the brawling and mask ripping isn’t going to make them believe right now. Yea, it does say something negative about UG and Park that they could not get their match over with the crowd (and I’m surprised UG hasn’t been listed as Most Overrated on those lists on DVDVR), but I think it’s just one example of a company wide problem.

At any rate, if they’re following up on Park/UG, they ain’t doing this this week. They’re nowhere to be seen.

CMLL (TUE) 04/08 Arena Mexico
1) Puma King & Semental vs Molotov & Trueno
2) Mascarita Dorada, Pequeño Olímpico, Último Dragoncito vs Fire, Pequeño Black Warrior, Pierrothito
3) Fabián el Gitano, Leono, Tony Rivera vs Mentallo, Ohara, Shigeo Okumura
4) Axel, Máximo, Sagrado vs Olímpico, Sangre Azteca, Virus
5) Alex Koslov, Negro Casas, Shocker vs Damián 666, Mr. Águila, Terrible

This is Axel’s last match before heading to South America. Seems like they’ve figured out Puma King’s name this time around.

CMLL (FRI) 04/11 Arena Mexico
1) Ángel Azteca Jr. & Metálico vs Artillero & Súper Comando
2) Flash, Stuka Jr., Súper Nova vs Diamante Negro, Euforia, Nosferatu
3) Fantasma Jr., La Máscara, Valiente vs Ephesto, Misterioso II, Sangre Azteca
4) Blue Panther, Heavy Metal, Negro Casas vs Terrible, Texano Jr., Villano V
5) Héctor Garza, Marco Corelone, Místico vs Averno, el Hijo del Perro Aguayo, Mephisto

Main event is a revenge match for this week’s rudo win. I presume they’re setting up the tag title rematch here. Panther/V5 resumes. Hijo de Fantasma is starting up here, about the same level as Axxel. I think this is the same one who was in AAA for the Mexican Middleweight Tournament, but I know there’s a Fantasma Jr. and I have no way of keeping them straight.

CMLL CAN52 GdR #124 had
03/28 Mexico: Dark Angel, Goddess, Luna Mágica b Hiroka, Mima Shimoda, Rosa Negra
03/30 Coliseo: Blue Panther, Dos Caras Jr., LA Park DQ Villano III, Villano IV, Villano V
outside the ring: Mr. Aguila

CMLL (FRI) 04/04 Arena Mexico [ovaciones, ESTO, Alvin @ El Martiente]
1) Molotov, Sombra de Plata, Starman b Apocalipsis, Ramstein, Zayco
2) Máscara Púrpura, Stuka Jr., Súper Nova b Loco Max, Ohara, Shigeo Okumura
3) Axxel, La Máscara, Sagrado b Ephesto, Misterioso II, Virus
4) Averno, el Hijo del Perro Aguayo, Mephisto b Héctor Garza, Marco Corelone, Místico
5) LA Park b Último Guerrero

Ovaciones shreds the main event, saying it was the worst fight of the night and of many nights. No one else is so harsh on it. According to what was said last week, this is supposed to mean we get a UG/Park mask match but that seems hard to believe. No one mentions that in their notes, which probably means they didn’t build that stip up in any notable way.

Averno vs Mistico was the the focus of the semimain. Averno yanked Mistico’s mask and pinned him for the win.

Axel looks okay, but Ovaciones notes he used many of Santo and El Hijo del Santo’s moves rather than create his own identity. The people were very accepting of Axxel, and he was giving a bouquet of roses before the match.

SuperLuchas says AAA will be part of the Lucha Libre Expo. They passed on it last year, and this means every major group (and some minor ones) will be involved.

MedioTiempo has an interview with Charly Manson. It does not sound like he now plans on retiring any time soon.

Arturo Rivera’s weekend column.

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