CMLL
IWRG (SUN) 05/18 Arena Naucalpan [the gladiatores]
1) Avisman b Black Thunder
2) Freelance, Gemelo Fantastico I, Gemelo Fantastico II b Judas el Traidor, Karloff Lagarde Jr., Quarterback
3) Centauro, Chico Che, Maroc Rivera b Demony, Hijo del Diablo, Veneno
4) Dr. Cerebro b Fantasma de La Opera [1, IWRG WELTER]
5) el Hijo Del Anibal, Multifacético, Ultramán Jr. b Cerebro Negro, Ciclon Negro, El Hijo del Solitario
6) Fuerza Guerrera, Hijo de Pierroth, Septiembre Negro II b Blue Demon Jr., El Dandy, Mascara Sagrada
MA2K no-showed the main event, and he’s supposed to be in a title match tonight. Everyone but Fuerza and Dandy was a sub based on the original lineup, though many of those ended up in the previously unlisted semimain. If IWRG had a functional website, we might know the deal here, but the lineups they’ve been giving out to the magazines have been holding up less than usual lately.
Dandy probably wishes he missed this show, because he appeared to have a seizure after taking a Fuerza Guerrera powerbomb. IWRG does have a doctor at their shows and he was able to help out enough that Dandy was fine within a few minutes and taken to the hospital for a full evaluation. Match continued, with the tecnicos falling apart and Sagrada turning on Demon for the finish.
Black Terry appeared before the semimain, aplogizing for not wrestling. Since that was the match not listed in the lineup, there must be another accurate lineup that’s just not getting out in time. Multifacetico pinned Solitario, who I’ve forget turned rudo since they didn’t follow up on it a lot.
Dr. Cerbero won the title match in straight falls. Because they’re pushing him big time or because they’re setting him up for a big fall against Multifacetico?
The wrestler in the second match is listed as “Lagrade Jr.” – I’ve presumed it’s Karloff, but I could be off.
Congrats to the Gladiatores on making it two years.
CMLL (SUN) 05/18 Arena Coliseo Guadalajara
1) Palacio Negro & Quazar b Milenio & Relampago
2) Exterminador & Güero Loco b Lider & Nube Roja
3) Casanova, Metal Blanco, Metatron b Infierno, Máscara Mágica, Toxico
4) Metalik b Jeque [hair, mask]
5) Blue Panther & Shocker DQ Mr. Águila & Villano V
6) Villano III b Negro Casas
In the third fall of the main event, Negro bumped the ref, V3 fouled Negro, and the ref counted three even though it was obvious a foul had occurred. The CMLL recapper was very annoyed by the referee’s lack of sight here.
V5 yanked Panther’s mask in the third fall for the DQ. Metalik beat Jeque clean with a top rope headscissors for Jeque’s hair. That’s Jeque’s second hair loss in GDL in about a year.
CMLL (TUE) 05/20 Arena Coliseo Guadalajara
1) Azazel b Golden
2) Danger (Guadalajara) b Virgo
3) Carlo Roggi b Depredador (Guadalajara)
4) Oro II b Super Maquian
5) Magnum b Mafelico
6) Damián 666, Misterioso II, Mr. Águila b Gallo, Leon Blanco, Máximo
7) Atlantis & Lizmark Jr. b Dos Caras Jr. & Marco Corelone
Top two matches had referees being distracted from rudos slipping in low blows on tecnicos for the win. Yay lazy finishes.
Latin Lover is angry with Televisa Monterrey for, as best as I can tell, people on a network’s gossip show ripping his daughter’s birthday party. I think the show said Latin was using the party as self promotion, and Latin was deeply offended- he just got whoever was on his daughter’s list, and TV people shouldn’t be attacking raining on his daughter’s birthday. Latin also mentions he had to turn down the show he was going to do in Argentina, because it would conflict Televisa’s exclusive contract for his services. That contract runs out in October and it doesn’t sound like he’ll be renewing.
(KrisZ, original box y lucha thread here) Arturo Rivera will no longer being announcing for CMLL shows, after being pulled from them by Televisa for making anti-CMLL comments (probably with some pressure from CMLL.) The announcers on the two Televisa shows are supposed to be Televisa employees assigned to their roles by the network – more similar to sports announcers (assigned to the game by the network) than how other wrestling promotions do it (contracted by the promotion itself – I believe this is the situation for the MVS shows.) This seems to be why, when Dr. Morales and Arturo Rivera are otherwise occupied, AAA tends to have very random announcers – it’s Televisa picking the replacements, so AAA can’t just grab a worker and stick them out there for an hour.
In practice, after the AAA/CMLL split, the announce teams started to split apart into CMLL and AAA groups and you’re going to loyal to the people you’re around weekly. Arturo’s also worked spot shows as an special guest/announcer and has said Leobrado Magadan is working in CMLL’s office, so there’s connections deeper than just the announcing. Arturo was brought back to CMLL last year to reunite the pre-split team of Dr. Morales and Arutro Rivera, but it’s no big surprise problems surfaced after the novelty wore off.
I don’t think there will be the same problems with Dr. Morales working on AAA shows – he’s got enough stuff outside of both promotions (boxing coverage he does, and Box Y Lucha itself) that he won’t feel a need to defend one promotion against each other.
Ovaciones (page 22) has an Arturo Rivera column where he discusses Charly Manson’s status (but not his own), and a notes column, including a notice about a team of fake Universo 2000 and Mini Mascara Ano 2000 wrestling in Neza. Why pick that gimmick to fake?
Arena Olimpico Laguna announced tonight’s card has been completely changed. Only local talent is being used, which means no one from the scheduled main event is still on the show. The back story for this is probably pretty routine and ultimately unmemorable, but it’s always a tiny bit frustrating to get this pieces of a larger story. Something happened, but that’s about all I’ll ever know. Points for getting the word out about the lineup changes, at least.
CMLL (SUN) 05/25 Arena Coliseo Monterrey [rfc]
1) Scam 13 vs Voltaje Negro
2) Dralion, Leono, Morivus vs Apolo Estrada Jr., Furor, Nightmare
3) Super Astro & Ultraman vs Negro Navarro & Shu el Guerrero
4) Mongol Chino vs Caifan Rockero I [hair]
5) Diluvio Negro I, Heavy Metal, Hijo del Matematico vs Diamante Negro, Hijo del Negro Navarro, Pierroth
CMLL not exactly working hard on talent for this arena. Which probably means ACM isn’t paying CMLL all that much for talent. Not sure if that’s CMLL’s Leono, who hasn’t been on any cards anywhere this month.
CMLL (FRI) 05/30 Playa Canoazo
1) Lady Apache & Luna Mágica vs Hiroka & Mima Shimoda
2) Bam Bam & Mascarita Dorada vs Halloween & Pequeño Damian 666
3) La Máscara, La Sombra, Místico vs Averno, el Hijo del Perro Aguayo, Mephisto
Besides Robert wondering why the spot shows are getting such awesome minis matches lately, note Lady Apache apparently being back. Haven’t heard anything about her pregnancy in a while.
AAA DTU (SUN) 06/08 Circo Expoferia Guautepec, Hidalgo [DTU]
1) Aguila Misteriosa & Black Sky vs Demente Xtreme & Hormiga
2) La Parkita, Mini Crazy Boy, Muerte Bugana vs Mini Chessman, Mini Espiritu, Mini Joe Lider
3) Aeroboy, Ragde, Violento Jack vs Paranokio, Pasion Cristal, Pimpinea Escarlta
4) Ayako Hamada & Crazy Boy vs Fabi Apache & Joe Lider [extreme]
5) El Alebrije, Intocable, Pesadilla vs Demoledor, Mr. Niebla, Psicosis II
This is a standard AAA show, except DTU’s acting as the local promotion (supplying the undercard, having a mixed tag match be extreme for no particular reason.) Anyway, my point is Intocable’s probably not going into barbed wire here, but it’s funny he’s involved. US Promotions working the same style as DTU would normally have their guys cut promos against the Intocable’s of the world, but DTU’s flipping it and using him to sell some tickets. (And it’ll probably work.)
Victor has a new FSE recap (well, he did three days ago – I’m a little slow.)
