Day: June 1, 2008

06/01: Guadalajara, Lineups

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News To Come?: Luchando Libre talks about Abismo Negro being off the TripleMania card. They mention they’ve heard the reason, but haven’t had it confirmed and prefer not to say anything out of respect for Abismo and AAA, and it’s very possible Abismo (or the cage match) may yet be added to the show. I dunno.

CMLL (SUN) 06/01 Arena Coliseo Guadalajara [MT]
6) Alex Koslov, Heavy Metal, Shocker b Mephisto, Mr. Águila, Toscano

Yes, Toscano did show up for a match. YAY. Rudos took the first, tecnicos took the second, Mephisto had a pin on Shocker in the third but the ref was busy, and Shocker rolled him up for the win.

Accion was very soccer heavy. No lucha highlights.

Ovaciones coverage is a lot of previewing: tonight’s IWRG show, tonight’s CMLL show, Tuesday’s CMLL show, this block of teams in the trios tourament and the final card for TripleMania.

Ultimo Guerrero talked to Notimex. He’s getting a work visa all worked out, yay for not traveling illegally. UG says he wishes he had a larger team (like, bigger guys), but then he’s kinda also unfamiliar with who he’s going to fight here. Either UG gets some tapes or I’m no longer supporting him for team captain. UG takes a moment to also challenge Blue Panther, the Villanos and Negro Casas for matches.

Blue Demon speaks very vaguely about NWA Mexico, as “Santo, and other independent wrestlers.”

SuperLuchas has, at last count, four different posts talking about Mexico’s Cablevision dropping CAN52 (which is a much bigger deal there as their only WWE carrier than it is for our one hour of CMLL.) As it turns out, Cablevision is owned by Televisa, and CAN52 is just a pawn in a bigger MVS/Televisa dispute. It does come back to the GdR show – if the station can’t get picked up enough to be profitable, it’ll be toast sooner or later.

Lineups, with a lot of help from the latest SuperLuchas

CMLL (MON) 06/02 Arena Puebla
1) King Jaguar, SWAT, Toro Bill Jr. vs Aguila Guerrera, Ares, Espiritu Maligno
2) Cetnella de Oro, el Tigre, Toro Bill vs Karsima, Negro Navarro, Policeman
3) Flash, Máscara Púrpura, Máximo, Stuka Jr., Súper Nova vs Arkangel de la Muerte, Dr. X, Euforia, Hooligan, Nosferatu [ciber]
4) el Hijo del Perro Aguayo, Terrible, Texano Jr. vs Atlantis, Rey Bucanero, Último Guerrero
5) Mephisto vs La Sombra [NWA WELTER]

Huh. (Shrug.) ‘kay!

IWRG (THU) 06/05 Arena Nauclapan
1) Avisman & Halcon 2000 vs Black Thunder & Judas el Tradior
2) Josseline & Lady Rabbit vs Dama de Negro & Flor Metalica
3) Marco Rivera, Miss Gaviota, Star Boy vs Cerebro Negro, Dr. Cerebro, Karloff Lagarde Jr.
4) Fantasma de la Ópera, Freelance, Multifacético vs Black Terry, el Hijo del Pierroth, Masada
5) Hijo del Cien Caras, Mascara Ano 2000 Jr., Ricky Cruzz vs ?, El Dandy, Solar I

IT BEGINS. At least the first women’s match isn’t one for the title, that’s always dumb. And it’s sort of makeup for the tecnica team there not getting their annual AAA TV appearance of being in the Reina de Reinas battle royal. Do you think Masada will be very confused when the Hijo de Pierroth teams with this time is a differnet guy than the one from last time he was around, or will he just shrug it off?

IWRG (SUN) 06/08 Arena Nauclapan
1) Eragon vs Venom
2) Miss Gavitora & Rey de Corazones vs Trauma I & Trauma II
3) Freelance, Marco Rivera, Star Boy vs El Dandy, Septiembre Negro, Veneno
4) Black Terry vs Fuerza Guerrera
5) Blue Demon Jr., el Hijo Del Anibal, Multifacético vs el Hijo del Pierroth, Máscara Año 2000, Ricky Cruz

The angle for the singles match is Terry helped Fuerza beat Multifacetico for his belt, but Fuerza was unhappy to get such help.

CMLL (SUN) 06/08 Arena Coliseo
1) Catedratico & Soberano vs Corsario & Hechicreo
2) Mascarita Dorada, Pequeno Ninja, Tzuki vs Nino de Acero, Pequeño Violencia, Pierrothito
3) Axel, Mictlán, Stuka Jr. vs Caifan Rockero I, Ohara, Shigeo Okumura
4) Felino, La Sombra, Volador Jr. vs Damián 666, Misterioso II, Mr. Águila
5) Blue Panther, Héctor Garza, Marco Corelone vs Terrible, Texano Jr., Villano V

This is clearly a case where CMLL made a point of telling us the guys in the opener were debuting, so we don’t just assume they’re being bumped off for an added match during the week. They’re probably just here for one week before they get spread out into the regular novatos rotation – who all must be busy doing something else, or we wouldn’t be getting rookie on rookie action.

AAA #829

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taped 03/16, aired in the US on 04/19

This was not the PPV it was promised to be, but I kinda watched both this episode and next episode thinking about how it’d come across if it was a PPV. There’s things that would have to be addressed – does it still air on Galavision a few weeks later? are they able to fit everything in without commercials? – but I imagine the final product would be much the same as what aired on TV.

I don’t think I would’ve been too enthused about buying the show going in – there were no sure great matches and I don’t find myself that into the AAA storylines to make it work. However, after watching the shows, I think I would’ve been pretty content with Rey de Reyes if cost me somewhere in the $20-$25 range. More than I would’ve thought. I’m hoping, if the webcast of TripleMania is a reality (iffy), it’s around that range. (Free would also be nice.)

Someone move spent some time thinking out the Zorro and Pirata Morgan semifinals, because they were both well laid out. (Those were also the two were the participants seemed to understand breaking up the pinfall does not actually help them.) I was down on Pirata making the tournament, figuring one of his ‘sons’ could’ve gotten more out of being filler, but Pirata Sr. was used a lot smarter than filter here and made his match work. In his semifinal and the final, Zorro came off as the star they want him to be. His matches were good, and it was vital that he got the clean wins. For at least this night, AAA did everything they could to make Zorro seem like a top guy and it worked great.

I’m not nearly high on the Cibernetico vs Mesias match. Putting aside the weirdest timed commercial break ever, I think they totally misread the type of the match for this situation. This was billed as Cibernetico’s big revenge moment, with the title also happening to be involved – it wasn’t the time or the place or the right two guys for a technical championship match. Everything had been built about hate, and we ended up getting armbar reversal spots.

Chessman spear on Ozz came off great. It felt like they were setting up Mesias in a tecnico direction after this, but obviously that didn’t stick.

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05/30 AAA TV Results (Cancun)

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Previous: 05/02 (Veracruz), 05/19 (Leon), 05/25 (Morelia)

AAA TV (FRI) 05/30 Plaza de Toros Cancun [luchandolibre]
1) Ayako Hamada, Gran Apache, Mari Apache b Billy Boy, Estrellita, Fabi Apache
2) Extreme Tiger & Halloween b Crazy Boy & Juventud Guerrera and Joe Lider & Nicho el Millionario
3) Jack Evans & Teddy Hart b Mesias & Ozz
4) Electro Shock & Kenzo Suzuki b Alan Stone & La Parka Jr.
5) Konnan & Zorro b Chessman & Cibernetico

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

It rained pretty bad through out this outdoor taping. It sounds like the crowd was down and so was the action.

After the main event, Prez Roldan ran out to help save Cibernetico from a Legion beating, only to get beat up himself. La Parka Jr. made the save. Pretty good night for the Legion, taking the top 3 matches.

The original lineup had an Abismo Negro/Octagon/Porky vs Vipers match which doesn’t appear in these results. They might have just yanked the whole thing with no Abismo, but that probably means an unlisted dark match will air.

Opener was listed with slightly different teams as a relevos incredible match, but they switched it to a straight trios match. Billy was busted open by the end of the match.

Annoucned Future Tapings
– 06/01 Merida
– 06/13 DF/TripleMania
– hopefully post TripleMania starts to leak soon