In today’s Reforma (via Jazzo), Blue Demon Jr. says Hijos de Anibal and Solitario did not meet his standards at the first NWA-Mexico show. The first NWA-Mexico show? He mentions the event being last Wednesday in Leon, so I’m presuming the Domo de la Feria de Leon show was it. It’s the quietest launch of a promotion ever, to the point where it’s hard to believe this was actually a show by that promotion, and not something Blue Demon is just retroactively calling it an NWA show to make it look as though the promotion actually exists. Look at the lineup:
NWA (WED) 04/30 Domo de la Feria de Leon
1) Cien Caras Jr. & Hijo del Cien Caras b Black Terry & Shu el Guerrero
2) Dos Caras Sr. & El Hijo del Solitario b el Hijo Del Anibal & Mano Negra
3) El Hijo Del Santo & Mil Mascaras b Blue Demon Jr. & Máscara Sagrada
It’s the UMLL/Todos x el Todos crew with Black Terry and Shu el Guerrero joining in. Absolutely nothing new going on. Getting back to Demon’s point, he was surprised and disappointed that Solitario and Anibal were bad despite having two maestros to work against and he can’t book them for semifinals if they’re going to wrestle like that. Demon has worked on shows with those two and worked against them for I don’t know how many years – how can he just now be figuring this out? They’ve always been what they are now. This whole article is confounding.
Demon says there’s a couple week break, and then there are NWA shows in Queretaro, San Luis and perhaps Morelia. He hopes to make it to DF just before or after the Olympics. I would suggest not going to the NWA’s Mexico page for more info.
If I may go off track for a second, this sort of thing is why there’s not going to be a third major group any time soon (unless someone comes in with lots of money they’d like to lose very quickly.) Wagner, Demon, Santo may actually be difference makers, but everyone’s got their own agenda and none of them are strong enough to do it alone. If you pooled their resources – Blue Demon takes his NWA affiliation to IWRG, who supplies wrestlers better than those exiled from major companies, and Santo and Wagner could work their part time to draw. What Mexico has now is a lot of people who want to be their own king and achieve that, but only over a very small kingdom.
Discover more from luchablog
Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.
“What Mexico has now is a lot of people who want to be their own king and achieve that, but only over a very small kingdom.”
Amen, Cubs. Well put.
It’s like another UWA revival mixed with EVEN MORE washed up veterans. Didn’t work in 1995. Didn’t work in 1998 when Santo first tried it himself. Didn’t work in 2001 or 2002. Won’t work in 2008. It’s embarassing for everyone involved in the project and Demon Jr. will take the biggest hit.
All three of those matches look beyond awful. I haven’t seen Santo work in a while but surely he has enough left in him to not be grouped with that group of stiffs. Just suck it up, go apologize to Paco and resume your career properly teaming with Mistico in Arena Mexico.
It took Blue Demon Jr. 10-15 years to figure out how crappy Hijo del Solitario is. That’s pretty freakin’ funny. That just shows how this is going to join the long list of failed attempts at creating a new lucha promotion.
Its amazing that Hijo Del Santo nor Blue Demon Jr. have made an attempt to get Dr. Cerebro or Micke Segura to work these shows. Those guys were pretty much exiled from IWRG and they’re better than anyone you’ll find that isn’t affiliated with CMLL or AAA.
I have a THEORY about Segura being back in IWRG already but I’m not telling anyone till I’m right.