Day: May 16, 2008

(Record via Marco Rivera) Bobby Lashley has agreed to work TripleMania, according to the paper.

CMLL (FRI) 05/16 Arena Mexico
1) Shockercito & Último Dragoncito vs Pequeño Violencia & Pierrothito
2) Dark Angel, Goddess, Marcela vs Amapola, Hiroka, Princesa Sujei
3) Blue Panther, La Máscara, Valiente vs Damián 666, Mr. Águila, Villano V
4) Heavy Metal, Negro Casas, Shocker vs el Hijo del Perro Aguayo, Terrible, Texano
5) Dos Caras Jr., Héctor Garza, Místico vs Atlantis, Toscano, Último Guerrero

NotiMex preview. ESTO.

This should be all about Metal and Toscano, except they’re in separate matches. Maybe they won’t be by the end? Maybe they’re going to set up Hector/Mistico issues? Perhaps they’re just taking a week off? I dunno. Women’s match should eventually make 52MX and be fun.

Arturo Rivera’s column from earlier in the week made it to the website. He hopes regardless of whomever is working wherever in Monterrey, no one hires Konnan Big. He also implies there was some locker room dispute between Rossy Moreno and Sexy Star before Rossy left AAA.

CMLL (SUN) 05/11 Arena Neza [the gladiatores]
1) Moto Cross & Rey Neza b Dr. Trauma & el Pillo
2) Luis Cirio, Manny Cirio, Tony Cirio b Principe Celeste, Super Insecto, SuperMan
3) Ciber Black & Súper Camaleón DQ Cholo & Yidra
4) Puma King & Teuton b Chac-Mol & Kid Tiger
5) Rayo Tapatío I & Sombra de Plata b Artillero & Súper Comando
6) Místico & Volador Jr. DQ el Hijo del Perro Aguayo & Ephesto

I guess, to balance getting Mistico and Perro, Neza got a night of a thousand novatos in the other matches. Rudos fouled tecnicos in the third fall.

Puma got eliminated in the third fall by Tiger Kid, but snuck back in to help his partner win.

Cholo can’t even get a win in Neza. It’s own fault here, his team got DQed for excessive violence.

After Luis Cirio used a foul for the win, the tecnicos challenges for the Cirio’s trios belts. Super Man was, in fact, a guy in a old Super Man outfit.

Konnan complained to a gossip site that AAA doesn’t give him a private dressing room, massuese and van with driver, like they do with Cibernetico and Latin Lover. This is just a thin attempt to get AAA talked about by gossip TV people (and it worked, so good for Konnan.)

Villano IV is doing a video chat with esmas on Monday.

Box Y Lucha video of the lucha libre expo and interviews with Money Pack and Dance Boy.

AAA (MON) 05/19 Arena Cuatro Cainos Nuevo Laredo
1) La Parkita & Octagoncito vs Mini Charly Manson & Mini Chessman
2) Danna & Street Boy vs Black Mamba & Goya
3) Casandro, May Flowers, Pimpinela Escarlata vs Apolo Estrada Jr., Rey Infernal, Tigre Cota
4) Escoria vs Hombre Sin Miedo
5) El Elegido, Laredo Kid, Octagón vs Cuervo, Escorpion Negro, Zumbido

Lots of news coming out of yesterday’s CMLL press conference. Not the news everyone was expecting; no talk about an alliance with TNA as had been announced, and that said to take place next week.

Instead, the press conference was about pushing next Friday’s double main event and the continuing push of the 75th Anniversary. (A new logo for the year was debuted to highlight that.)

Heavy Metal and Toscano signed the contracts for their hair match and had a bit of a back and forth. Heavy Metal again re-iterated this is not personal and all professional, about seeing who’s better. (Which I’ve come around on – better than faking it’s personal when no one belives it.) Of course, then it got personal, with Heavy Metal bringing up Tarzan beating Negro Casas for his hair back 2002. Metal wasn’t around then*, but he’s avenging his brother now. Toscano told Metal to worry about his own hair, not his brother’s. Metal says that at the end of the match, he’ll offer Toscano a handshake, because he’s a professional, but if Toscano doesn’t shake it, he’ll spit it Toscano’s face instead. OKAY. No word if Metal will prepare for this match by smashing watermelons.

* – Metal actually said something like “I was not in the world wide lucha libre corporation with the most elite luchadors, I was somewhere else.” Still not so happy with AAA.

Who are the Los Angeles Celestials? Well, they may also be los Guardianes del Ring. Ovaciones has the list as

– Marco Corelone
– Volador Jr.
– Sagrado
– Sombra
– Mascara Purpura
– Stuka
– “Metalic” (which probably should be Metalik and not Metalico)
– and Hector Garza as leader

ESTOs version of the story also includes

– Super Nova
– Angel I
– Angel II (we don’t know who ever of these guys are)
– Metal Blanco
– Hijo de Faraon
– Angel Azteca Jr.

Metalik doesn’t get his name spelled right here either.

SuperLuchas version
– Hector Garza
– Sombra
– Volador Jr.
– Sagrado
“will give an opportunity to”
– Super Nova”
– Angel I
– Angel II
– Metalik (spelled correctly!)
– Metal Blanco
– Hijo de Faraon

Surely CMLL’s own site will have this all clear! The group here is called “Los Angels Celstial del Ring” which is a three works too long.
– Hector Garza
– Volador Jr.
– La Sombra
– Super Nova
– Angel I (but NOT Angel II)
– Marco Corelone

No Metalik, no Super Nova, no Stuka, no Mascara Purpura, no half dozen other people.

If you can actually figure out who’s in the group, who’s out of the group, who’s in this second tier group, who’s still just going to be wrestling in Guadalajara so it doesn’t really matter, you’re better than I. I’m going to stick with “all the tecnicos will be teaming together, regardless of group.”

Putting the membership for a second, you will recall this group sounded a lot like one Mistico wanted to create earlier this Spring. It never got out of the newspaper quote/speculation stage, but of course now there’s this group that’s a lot like it. Mistico is upset about his idea being lifted – he feels he was robbed of his idea to boost young wrestlers, and by his own tag team partner. Mistico said he’d reject any offer to join the group, is totally not interested in and does not want to talk about that group. He notes again his group would focused more on younger wrestlers. Garza completely passed off the blame to Paco Alonso, saying the CMLL mandated the group and Garza didn’t come up with it, and he doesn’t know anything. Both guys vowed to be professional for their tag team title match.

This is the second time Mistico’s gone against the script CMLL was working on – it was really strange when he ignored the “commission holding up tag belts and deciding on date” plot to make his own challenge, and this is very strange too. Something’s going on here.

Okay, getting back to the lists. That’s not the only list there’s an issue with:

Ovaciones lists the “Generacion de 75” as Hijo del Fantasma, Hijo del Faraon, Flash, Micltan, Axxel, Tiger Kid, “Puma, Kid” (never gets his name right), Bronco, Skandalo, “Metalic”, and Super Nova. Notimex adds Diamante Negro, Vangelis, Stuka and Angel Azteca Jr. while dropping Metalik. ESTO includes Metalik. Same with SuperLuchas. CMLL gives some of the same names and then trails off with “many more”, the only safe thing to do.

Everyone was at the same press conference, right? Actually, I don’t think it’s the reporting that’s at fault here. When everyone gets it differently, it’s probably the person who’s explaining it.

Also announced at the press conference: Valiente will be out two months with torn ligaments in the knee and a dislocation of the right wrist.