Month: April 2008

04/04: Mexico preview, Puebla, lineups, notes

thecubsfan 13 Comments


Mr. Reyes for the Gladiatores

Mr. Reyes has more photos from last night’s IWRG show and the recap shows in up in the Gladiator next week.

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

ESTO hypes LA Park vs UG. Notimex talks up Mistico & Hector teaming up. Ovaciones profiles Axxel, as does ESTO. Everyone’s now spelling his name with one ‘x’, so I’ll break down and join them at some point soon. They keep pushing “grandson of Santo, son (in law) of Huracan Ramirez”, as if to indicate it makes him greater than simply being a nieto de Santo. ESMAS is giving away tickets to the show to the first five people who email. They’re long gone by now, but this seems to be a weekly thing.

CMLL (MON) 03/31 Arena Puebla [hugo999]
1) Black Terry, Fuerza Chicana, Negro Navarro b Centella de Oro, Lestat, the Tiger
2) Asturiano, Mascarita Dorada, Shockercito b Espiritu Maligno, Pequeño Damian 666, Pequeño Halloween
3) Loco Max, Nitro, Skandalo b Máximo, Metálico, Stuka Jr.
4) Averno, Mephisto, Texano Jr. b Grey Shadow, La Sombra, Valiente
5) Místico & Último Guerrero b Dr. Wagner Jr. & Terrible [ri]

When they can get along while being forced to team up, Mistico and UG win a bunch. Tecnicos won the second in two falls. Asturiano challenges for a minis title shot. He’s listed at 5’4″, but what the heck. Mini Damian’s close to that.

ESTO’s TripleMania announcement story says wrestlers from TNA and NOAH will be included. I’d assume that was at least half wrong, but triplea’s site has the same thing.

Ovaciones says CMLL will be holding Kids Day on 04/30. It’s a Wednesday at Arena Mexico (and they’re just not running on Tuesday.) Atlantis, Mistico and Perros del Mal are scheduled.

Abismo Negro says he’s neither tecnico nor rudo, he’s a universal luchador. Abismo Negro vows to fight Rey Misterio Jr. for the Televisa Luchador of the Year award. Abismo Negro says a lot of things I don’t pay attention too. Box Y Lucha #2864 has the three nominees on the cover.

AAA CANTU (MON) 03/31 Arena Cuatro Caminos de Nuevo Laredo [RFC]
1) Hombre Sin Miedo, Laredo Kid, Sangre Chicana DQ Decnnis, Scorpio Jr., Zumbido
2) Brazo de Plata, La Parka Jr., Octagón b Antifaz del Norte, Mr. Niebla, Psicosis II

CMLL (SAT) 04/05 Arena Solidaridad [INUYASHA 3000 @ box y lucha]
1) Caifan 69, Terrible, Texano Jr. vs Diluvio Negro, Hijo del Trueno, La Sombra
2) Místico & Volador Jr. vs Averno & Mephisto

CMLL (SUN) 04/06 Arena Neza
1) Súper Camaleón & Súper Tri vs Angel Perverso & Ministro
2) Chac Mool & Rayo Tapatío I vs Calígula & Méssala
3) Bam Bam & Mascarita Dorada vs Pequeño Damian 666 & Pequeño Halloween

There’s an unannounced main event.

CMLL (SUN) 04/06 Gimnasio Nuevo Leon [INUYASHA 3000 @ box y lucha]
1) Neutron Jr., Stuka Jr., Tigre Universitario vs Arkangel de la Muerte, Rey Hechicero, Vaquero

AAA CANTU (MON) 04/07 Arena Cuatro Caminos de Nuevo Laredo [RFC]
1) Babe Rap, Principe Diamante, Street Boy vs Black Mamba, Rio Bravo, Tito Santana II
2) Casandro, Pimpinela Escarlata, Yuriko vs Astuto, Hombre Sin Miedo, Tigre Cota
3) Laredo Kid & Sangre Chicana vs Jaque Mate & Scorpio Jr.
4) Kenzo Suzuki, Mesias, Zorro vs Charly Manson, Chessman, Cibernetico

Jaque Mate told SuperLuchas that he was retiring within a year.

UMLL (SAT) 04/19 Centro de Espectaculos El Circulo [GuyVer @ el Martiente]
1) El Hijo Del Santo & Rey Misterio Sr. vs Hijo del Cien Caras & Super Parka

That’s Santo’s 25th Anniversary show. Tickets look expensive – $19 to $66 is more of a US play scale.

ESTO also runs the same Coliseo history article from Ovaciones earlier in the week.

WWE’s announced lineups for it’s WWE RAW tour in the end of May this week. They’re six weeks away lineups, which gives them time to change no less than three times.

La Oreja writes about Shocker and Sangre Azteca visiting a new children’s hospital in Neza. Ovaciones wrote about this yesterady and noted Black Warrior and Olimpico were also supposed to be there and did not show.

Mas_Solitario @ el Martiente reposts an 2004 el Halcon net article about the Dark Angel/Princesa Sujei mask match, which took place 4 years ago Wednesday. I miss when that website updated.

CMLL FSE #84

thecubsfan 16 Comments

taped 03/09, aired 03/30 in the US

http://www.sendspace.com/file/jjw61i

When I was watching the minis match, it felt like it was in the bottom quarter of those that have aired, but it’s tough for me to put a finger on a single reason why. I like the idea of having guys of different shapes and weights in the division, but Bracito de Plata didn’t do much for me but be fat and I was kinda left thinking of his upside as “guy who should be losing his mask to Mini Halloween or Mini Damian any time now.” I dug Fire here more than I have in the past.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/wzy1to

Amapola/Marcela matches have generally been better than this Amapola/Dark Angel match, but I would like to see it again with more time and it’s the most complete Dark Angel match in a while. Marcela and Amapola don’t get enough times for their matches either, but Sarah and Amapola were trying enough variety of stuff that I wanted to see all they would do if given more of an opportunity/less editing.

CMLL CAN52 #123

thecubsfan

taped 03/23, aired 03/29

http://www.sendspace.com/file/4tbci5

Volador/UG was better than Perro/Aguayo and Marco/UG. It had all the same problems all the big CMLL singles matches seem to have (short short long fall sequence, match cut down so much that guys are selling dead tied from the start of the third whistle for no reason, at least there wasn’t as move rest move rest as usual) but I still thought it was enjoyable.

I’d like someone to mix it up and give me a big tag or a big trios match on this show instead of everything ending in the a 50-85% performance singles match, but I take what I can get.

CMLL FSE #83

thecubsfan

taped 03/02, aired 03/23 in the US

This one’s still not on the schedule to repeat yet, so I’m going with what I have – a version with no sound, and a missing fall of the opener. It’s just that way sometimes.

Not that this show is so hurt by it. The women’s match was not so different than other ones in the lead up to Amapola/Dark Angel and it’s not like I wasn’t going to watch the title match next week because I didn’t get the third fall here. (Still, why take out the deciding fall ever?) Main event was as long as most and worked out okay->good, but there wasn’t a lot new brought to the table.

CMLL CAN52 #122

thecubsfan

taped 03/16, aired 03/22

What went wrong this week:

There’s been better Virusfernales matches to than this one. Main event was good, but nothing you need to go out of you way to see by a long shot. The most interesting thing was the Out Of Costume (but only seen from behind) Monito. He’s treated like a human cartoon, even on the relative lucha libre scale, and so it was just distracting to see him as a normal person (that I really couldn’t focus on what he said this week, or next.)

The second most interesting thing was Ultimo Dragon out right stealing Alex’s Stop sign bit. I’m sure Alex is okay with it.

This is as good place to mention as any that if anyone wanted to figure out regular finishing holds to update Trademark Moves field on the wiki, the easiest thing to do would be to go thru these recaps and just look at the stats for each match. The data is all there, and easy to extract since it’s just looking at the finish listings, it’s just a matter of collating it for each wrestler. It’s not a lot of work, it’s just another idea I have with a bunch of other ideas stacked in front of it.

Worst newest great idea: mimic fantasy sports player trackers, so that all the wcard pages have a list of recent news items attached to them. It’s just take twice the work of what I’m doing now + a bunch of time for set up, but it’d be so useful when it’s up and running and would help fill the hole of lack of profile updates on the wiki. I’d totally blow off everything to start doing it, if there weren’t 20 other projects I’ve got in various states of unfinished-ness. It’s kinda frustrating.

CMLL FSE #82

thecubsfan

taped 02/24, aired 03/16 in the US

I don’t think they knew Panther was feuding with Villano V at this point. Grey Shadow’s MVS debut was only remarkable for the over complicated stunner combo (rule of lucha libre = keep the moves simple and make the submissions complicated) and the English promo.

It made me wish I could figure out why my PC is having a tough time capturing my VCR – I’m ditching all the VHS I’ve found laying around, but I want to transfer some to DVD and the best way for me to do that is recapturing it on my computer. My computer’s just not seeing any video there (even though this same method worked perfectly when capturing stuff over from my TiVo, before they turned file transfer on.) The added benefit of redoing the video is I’d be able to have some old clips to play around with, like the last First interview I heard Rocky Romero do on CMLL TV. That one was far more memorable than anything on here. (or more memorable than this last paragraph.)