Month: May 2008

05/26: Coliseo, LLF, IWRG. lineups

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CMLL

CMLL (SUN) 05/25 Arena Coliseo [ovaciones]
1) Molotov & Trueno b Calígula & Méssala
2) Bronco II, Loco Max, Virus b Flash, Neutrón, Soberano Jr.
3) Hooligan, Sangre Azteca, Satánico b Grey Shadow, Metalik, Stuka Jr.
4) Negro Casas, Shocker, Volador Jr. b Averno, Mephisto, Olimpico
5) Alex Koslov b Rey Bucanero [CMLL LH]

Ovaciones says this is defense #10 for Rey.

Volador replaced Dos, Olimpico replaced Villano V in the semimain. Tecnicos won in straight falls.

Hooligan replaced Olimpico in the third match. Ovaciones results lists Soberano Jr., but that’s gotta be Hijo de Soberano.

Marco Rivera says TripleMania will be on Sky PPV in Mexico. It will not be on US PPV – there’s actually a women’s boxing match listed for that night. The reasoning of bringing in Lashley and Danielson was on request of a person on the US side who wanted more US names to make the PPV marketable. I don’t know that those two really mean a lot – Lashley didn’t mean much to WWE’s buyrates and it’s not like ROH is doing great numbers – but they probably didn’t have tons of options either. Anyway, we’ll have to wait and see what this means for the event airing on Televisa (and in the US) down the road.

LLF (FRI) 05/23 Arena Femenil Monterrey [SuperLuchas]
1) La Bandida b Venadita [qf, torneo, LLF Juvenil]
2) Perla Negra b Dama de Hierro [qf, torneo, LLF Juvenil]
3) Lady Puma b La Rebelde [qf, torneo, LLF Juvenil]
4) Angelica b La Bombon [qf, torneo, LLF Juvenil]
5) La Bandida b Perla Negra [sf, torneo, LLF Juvenil]
6) Angelica b Lady Puma [sf, torneo, LLF Juvenil]
7) Angelica b La Bandida [final, torneo, LLF Juvenil]
8) American Angel & La Chacala b Lady Dinamita & Polly Star

IWRG (THU) 05/22 Arena Naucalapan [Super Luchas #265]
1) Quarterback b Halcon 2000
2) Gallo Tapatio Jr. & Yack b Nemesis IWRG & Rockero del Diablo
3) Demony, Septiembre Negro II, Veneno b Centauro, Fantasma de la Ópera, Zatura
4) Multifacético, Rayman, Silver King b Mascara Ano 2000 Jr., Negro Navarro, Universo 2000
5) Dr. Wagner Jr. b Máscara Año 2000 [UWA HEAVY]

IWRG (SUN) 05/25 Arena Naucalpan [DINO @ box y lucha]
1) Gemelo Fantastico I & Gemelo Fantastico II b Judas el Traidor & Rockero del Diablo
2) Septiembre Negro II, Trauma I, Trauma I b Andros, Gallo Tapatio Jr., Goleador
3) Oficial 911, Oficial AK47, Oficial Fierro b Coco Chips, Coco Verde, Cocolores [EdM TRIOS]
4) Multifacético b Dr. Cerebro [IWRG IC WELTER]
5) Fantasma, Hijo del Fantasma, Ultramán Jr. b Hijo de Pierroth, Mascara Sagrada, Veneno

The WON says the CMLL team for TNA’s World X-Cup will be Volador Jr., Ultimo Guerrero, Averno and Rey Bucanero. Seeing as we still haven’t had that CMLL/TNA press conference, I wouldn’t take the list too seriously.

Victor has a recap of Llaves y Candados

Lineups, many via Super Luchas #265

CMLL (MON) 05/26 Arena Puebla
1) Toro Bill Jr. & Toro Bill Sr. vs Fuerza Chicana & Mr. Rafaga
2) Asturiano, Blue Center, Lestat vs Furia Chicana, Negro Navarro, Siki osama
3) Bam Bam, Mascarita Dorada, Peuqeno Ninja vs Mini Universo 2000, Pequeño Damian 666, Pierrothito
4) La Sombra, Sagrado, Volador Jr. vs Damián 666, Mephisto, Mr. Águila
5) Heavy Metal, Marco Corelone, Místico vs Averno, Terrible, Texano Jr.

IWRG (THU) 05/29 Arena Naucalpan
1) Jack & Rey de Corazones vs Trauma I & Trauma II
2) Aeroman vs Dr. Cerebro, Marco Rivera, Freelance, Turbo, Star Boy, Halcon 2000, Black Thunder, Gallo Tapatio Jr., Avisman [IWRG LIGHT, ciber]
3) Oficial 911, Oficial AK47, Oficial Fierro vs Demony, Septiembre Negro II, Veneno [EdM Trios]
4) Multifacético vs Fuerza Guerrera [IWRG IC WELTER]
5) Hijo del Cien Caras & Mascara Ano 2000 Jr. vs El Dandy & Silver King

IWRG did not need another title. Couldn’t they have just stripped Mistico or Negro Casas?

AULL (SAT) 05/31 Arena Lopez Mateos
1) Hijo del Valiente & Valiente Jr. vs Sol de Oriente & Violento
2) Josseline & Yeska vs Flor Metalicoa & La Seductora
3) Juan el Ranchero, Terry 2000, Yakuza vs Rocky Santana, Sadico, Tonia Jackson Jr.
4) Robin Maravilla, Tony Rivera, Villano III vs Fuerza Guerrera, Mano Negra, Sadico
5) Dr. Wagner Jr., Silver King, Solar I vs Hijo del Cien Caras, LA Park, Mascara Ano 2000 Jr.

CMLL (SUN) 06/01 Arena Coliseo
1) Starman & Trueno vs Apocalipsis & Ramstein
2) Dark Angel, Luna Mágica, Marcela vs Amapola, Medussa, Princesa Sujei
3) Felino, Leono, Súper Nova vs Arkangel de la Muerte, Diamante Negro Jr., Virus
4) Grey Shadow, La Máscara, Sagrado vs Ephesto, Olímpico, Sangre Azteca
5) Dos Caras Jr., LA Park, Negro Casas vs Black Warrior, Rey Bucanero, Universo 2000

AULL (SUN) 06/01 Arena Lopez Mateos
1) Angel de Plata vs Mendoza Jr.
2) Dragon Sagrado, Rey Misterio, Toruguillo Ninja vs Iron Master, Misterio, Sol de Oriente
3) Jose Caporal, Juan el Ranchero, Super Panda vs Cerebro Maligno, Epitafio, Herejia
4) Chucho el Roto, King Star Tiger, Robin Maravilla vs el Macho, Rey Krymen, Sepulturero I
5) Super Astro, Ultraman, Yakuza vs Atlantis, Rocky Santana, Sadico

IWRG (SUN) 06/01 Arena Naucalpan
1) Avisman & Halcon 2000 vs ? & Quarterback
2) Chico Che & Jack vs Trauma I & Trauma II
3) La Gaviota, Marco Rivera, Star Boy vs Oficial 911, Oficial AK47, Oficial Fierro
4) Freelance, Multifacético, Zatura vs Dr. Cerebro, Masada, Veneno
5) El Fantasma, el Hijo Del Anibal, Fantasma Jr. vs Fuerza Guerrera, Hijo del Cien Caras, Mascara Ano 2000 Jr.
6) Rayman, Rayo de Jalisco Jr., Silver King vs LA Park, Máscara Año 2000, Ricky Cruzz

CMLL Tercera Guerra (SAT) 06/14 Plaza Monumental Monterrey [RFC]
1) Dranser & Scravos vs Dralion & Morvius and Azteca Warrior & Furor and Hijo de Trueno & Silver Star
2) Mascarita Dorada & Último Dragoncito vs Pequeño Damian 666 & Pierrothito
3) Hijo de Matematico & Hijo del Fantasma vs Billy Blade & Gangrel
4) ?, Felino, Heavy Metal, Rey Misterio Sr. vs Averno, Mephisto, Pierroth, Terrible
5) Joey Mercury, Marco Corelone, Místico vs Black Warrior, Hardcore Kid, LA Park

Yes, someone thought “I NEED to fly in Hardcore Kid to sell some tickets.”

05/25 AAA TV Results (Michoacan)

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Previous: 04/30 (Aguscalientes), 05/02 (Veracruz), 05/19 (Leon)

AAA TV (SUN) 05/25 Plaza de Toros Palacio del Arte, Morelia, Michoacan [hardcore vampire @ el Martiente]
1) Angel Dorado II, Angel Dorado Jr., Arhgo b Darh Maul, Maniac II, Obituary Jr.
2) Barba Roja, Hijo de Pirata Morgan, Pirata Morgan, Pirata Morgan Jr. b Aerostar, el Ángel, Gato Eveready, Pegasso
3) Ayako Hamada b Cinthia Moreno, La Diabólica, Estrellita, Carlos Amano [Reina de Reinas, SF]
4) Mari Apache b Martha Villalobos, Sexy Star, Chikayo Nagashima, Sonoko Kato [Reina de Reinas, SF]
5) Fabi Apache b Dianmite Kansai, Mayumi Ozaki, Akino, Vicky Carranza [Reina de Reinas, SF]
6) Chessman, La Parka Jr., Super Fly DQ Jack Evans, Konnan, Teddy Hart
7) Fabi Apache b Mari Apache, Ayako Hamada [Reina de Reinas, final]
8) Cibernetico b Kenzo Suzuki

Projected Air Date (#839)
Mexico: 06/08
US: 06/28

DQ was for Kenzo interfering to foul La Parka JR.

Upcoming announced taping
– 05/30 Cancun
– 06/01 Merida
– 06/13 DF – TripleMania

05/25: GALLI, NotiMex, Accion

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quick GALLI results
0) Usual “People Driving In From Iowa” Novatos match
1) Emperador & Amenza del Siglo b Pinocho & Mr. Zeus [GALLI TAG, torneo, 1st]
2) Tony Scarpone b Dan Lawerence
3) Nemesis (GALLI) & Centella de de Oro (GALLI) b Resistencia & Venganza [GALLI TAG, torneo, 1st]
4) Meteoro I, Meteoro II b Pentagono del Infierno & Demencia [GALLI TAG, torneo, 1st]
5) Gringo Loco & Chilango b Tigre & Slayer [GALLI TAG, torneo, 1st]
6) Negrotistico (w/a fat manager playing the part of Bill Alfonso) b Jerry Lynn
– Negrotistico is now 10-0. He asked for and will receive a shot at the GALLI title
7) Diablo Robotico (?) & Samoan Love Machine b Joey Marx & Samuray [GALLI TAG, torneo, 1st]
– “Diablo Robotico” is what’s listed on the program, but the guy was doing a Disco Stu gimmick
8) Golden Star & Quinto Sol b Funebre & Yakuza [GALLI TAG, torneo, 1st]
– after the match, Yakuza & Funebre attacked their rivals. Yakuza gave Golden Star a martiente and is now suspended.

Next show is their 1st anniversary show at the Addison Community Center on June 6th, with the Negrotistico/Charly match and the conclusion of the tag team title tournament (I think.) Tickets are discounted to $10 GA, $15 ringside. If you’re interested enough in lucha libre to be reading this site and are in the area, you really ought to make your way out.

NotiMex has a few articles wrapping up Friday’s show
– Toscano admits Heavy Metal was the better man in this (quick) match, but it’s one battle and not the war. He feels ugly without his hair.

– Heavy Metal was thrilled not just to get the win, but win a hair match in Arena Mexico, the most important place in lucha libre. Pepe Casas was a surprise guest for the show – apparently sitting in the crowd, not sure if he made TV – and Heavy was pretty happy to have him there.

– Mistico & Hector Garza feel they proved the doubters wrong, by excelling as a team in a short time. Mephisto is definite sure his team wasn’t over confident, but Mistico just knows them too well.

Today’s Ovaciones coverage includes a preview of tonight’s Alex/Rey match, an small article on Blue Demon’s charity race for the fight against juvenile cancer (which has gotten a lot of coverage) and a quick note on WWE attendence – supposedly just over 10K. Meanwhile, Notimex says more than 15,000. This is why I find it hard to take any attendance figure seriously.

Both the WWE shows and Blue Demon’s 10K made Accion’s Top 10 segment. CMLL highlights the triangle hair match. To answer Oddessa’s question, Mrs. Toscano didn’t appear because everyone was driven on the back of motorcycles for whatever reason (also strangely including Guerrero del Futuro driving Toscano’s.) Perro looked dominant in the clips, Toscano got in a springboard dive, and Metal did a pres slam and a casita for the win. Heavy Metal’s not only not wearing the shirt anymore, he also seems to have acquired a lot of muscle mass. AAA’s highlights were from Leon – which means their website was wrong and so are all my future projections – of the Chessman/Ciberentico vs Evans/Hart tag match. The highlight of the clips was Dr. Alfonso Morales inabilitly to tell the rudos apart (they do have matching gear and all you white boys look alike), and settling for calling both Jack Evans. Jack Evans was everywhere in this match, including a great handspring dive to the floor. If they’re doing something with Chessman, it didn’t play into the finish here – Cibernetico got Teddy clean with the chokeslam, but Hijo de Tirantes was checking on Jack and Chessman elsewhere and completely missed Zorro coming in to give Cibernetico a chair shot and drag Teddy on top for the win.

In a hype interview for tonight’s AAA show in Oaxaca, the local AAA promoter said the event was originally scheduled to take place in Tijuana, but President Roldan visited Oaxaca and decided it must happen there.

The Whitter Daily news has an article on the EWF group in CMLL. A Havana Pitbull makes an appearance in the first sentence.

Tommorow’s a holiday where I live, but I’m sure I’ll be posting the usual stuff.

CMLL FSE #85

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taped 03/26, aired 04/06

I think my opinion on the whole Dr. Wagner/CMLL is heavily colored by my dislike for the wrestler Dr. Wagner has become in 2008. He spent most of the main event doing all he could to make sure the crowd paid attention to him, and not the feud everyone else was working to get over. Wagner has no interest in selling, really no interest in doing anything except what will get the fans to chant his name at that moment. I think Atlantis was actually thrilled to work with him at the end, just because he knew they wouldn’t be doing anything at all.

I understand the wrestling business can be nasty and there are real advantages to beefing up your own profile at the direct expense of others, but that doesn’t mean it’s fun to watch in action. (And when a guy is so clearly out for number one, it makes it really hard to believe him a couple weeks later where he’s claiming to represent more than that.) Wagner’s become the worst example of all that’s problematic of the current CMLL style (stopping the match for chants like you’re panhandling for a reaction, disinterest in doing more than the same exact sequences every match, promos centered around catchphrases and worthless challenges) and worst of indy lucha (living off the name and past achievements for eternity.) It doesn’t have to be that way, it’s not like Wagner is shot, and that makes it even more frustrating.

I don’t begrudge Dr. Wagner for doing it a way he thinks works and makes him money. But I don’t mind him doing it someplace far off my TV set either.

It was nice to see the novatos here. Not just because they were different, but they were fun and you don’t actually get too many straight tag matches here.

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06/13 Arena Mexico (Jucio Final cage match) announced

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Remember when this was supposed to be an all masked man match? CMLL would like you to forget that now.

The run of the mill tecnicos vs Perros match from Friday is being spun out into a cage match three weeks ago.

In the cage so far
– Damian 666
– Terrible
– Texano Jr.
– Alex Koslov
– Negro Casas
– Perro Aguayo Jr.
– Heavy Metal

Blue Panther is NOT in the cage, because this is a hair only deal (so far) and whatever plan there was for him and V5 seems to have been lost. Perro and Heavy were not in the cage match but we’re pretending they still have issues from Friday.

They’re one tecnico short – Marco? Shocker? Hector? Mistico? (Yea, probably Mistico.)

Damian would appear to the most likely rudo to lose, and probably Negro for the tecnicos.

AAA #827

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I’m out today. I’ll get in news when I can, but just so there’s something up here…

taped 03/05, aired in the US 04/05

Minis match was good, probably the best trios they’ve had post-Dorada. It helps that they’re not sidetracked by a turn and can just do their normal stuff.

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Really odd that they gave away the final participants for Rey de Reyes, who wouldn’t qualify until the following week of TV. It kinda makes sense because Rey de Reyes would be starting just as next week’s TV is ending. People going to the event wouldn’t probably see the TV show and see Billy and Super Fly qualify, but it’s not something they’ve done in the past and they do sort of treat the TV show as ‘live’. With AAA, I’m not even sure if they meant to give those two away or if they just lost track, but it seems like there should’ve been a more elegant way to handle the situation (like just saying “the winning team of next week’s match” so people would understand how the winners got there even if they didn’t see the winners get there.)

Even though the Apache angle was fun, this was a definite step back for the Clowns. They’re facing people they should’ve advanced past just for the sake of the Apache angle.

Abismo was pretty much a jerk and Psicosis had full right to turn on him, though it didn’t really make sense for them to fight in the context of the fight, and it didn’t make sense for Alebrije to break it up. I don’t know where Gronda went for the last few minutes of that match, but I hope he’s happy there and never returns.

The funny thing about the mixed trios was Zorro and Kenzo acting disinterested bit while Juvi was living it. He so did not want to be in this match, to the point where I wonder if Zorro’s “I’m better than this, give me better matches” lines might have been cribbed from a Guerrera speech earlier that day. That seemed to be attitude Juvi was displaying. Meanwhile, Billy worked a million miles an hour and no one cared.

Triangle main event was okay. They could get anyone really cheap to do as much or more than Konnan can do in the ring, and Konnan probably would be happy about it, so I still can’t believe he’s wrestling. At some point, you know X-Pac’s not going to be there and you should have a new, workable, plan. AAA seems to have an idea on how work the multi-team tags fine enough, but they keep playing with teams breaking up pinfalls like it’s first pinfall wins when it turns out to be elimination. That’s one of those things that should only need to happen once before they either change the rules or change their strategies, but it came up a bit in Rey de Reyes.