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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This was also the night that we saw Mr. Niebla use his new “submission” move. What the hell is that? It’s so gay.
The Nieblina? He’s been using that for years and years. It may be weird but it’s not new.
That was the first time I ever saw it.