taped 03/16, aired in the US 04/26
This was definitely the lesser half of Rey de Reyes.
Ladder match wasn’t as memorably bad as the last one. Joe Lider did find a dumb way to kill himself, but he was far more entertaining to me when Chessman let him climb the ladder to allow him to win (again), only for Chessman to turn on him and throw him off. Playing off something that happened before almost beats doing a highly dangerous spot no one’s going to remember next week.
“Teddy ‘the Terminator'” was also super great. I liked how Teddy and Chessman reached an understanding over moonsaults.
Atomicos was completely pointless. It’s so weird that they bring in and make their matches afterthoughts. Scott Steiner did Scott Steiner like things (while Chavo Sr. did pretty much nothing) and got the win, but it means nothing.
Clowns are stalling at this point, but I think this was going to be a problem all along. There’s no titles to side drain them before they get to the top guys, and the top guys have something better to do, so they’re just stuck in place.