big news or misprint?

Update: Alexis confirms the lineup is correct: Mr. Niebla is returning to CMLL. Wow.

As seen on ESTO’s lucha libre page (click on Sunday’s lineup to get it.) Check out the main event if it doesn’t immediately pop out at you.

Honestly? I have no idea. It’d be an awfully weird moment to jump – he seems to be in a better spot in AAA than he was in CMLL for a long time. Maybe this really is a battle and someone threw some money around (not knowing the mask match was off?) Maybe it’s just confusion and it’s someone else.

(Thanks to Robert.)

big news or missprint?

As seen on ESTO’s lucha libre page (click on Sunday’s lineup to get it.) Check out the main event if it doesn’t immediately pop out at you.

Honestly? I have no idea. It’d be an awfully weird moment to jump – he seems to be in a better spot in AAA than he was in CMLL for a long time. Maybe this really is a battle and someone threw some money around (not knowing the mask match was off?) Maybe it’s just confusion and it’s someone else.

(Thanks to Robert.)

World X Cup Team No Show

I think I said a while back that I didn’t believe CMLL wrestlers would actually be in TNA until they actually got in the ring. The press conference swayed me a little bit, but I should’ve stuck with my original instinct and been actually right about something.

TNA knew something was wrong yesterday, judging from their preview for this week’s Impact. Here’s a short version of it

– Also, Thursday’s broadcast will feature a preview of the upcoming World X Cup Tournament as Doi and Yoshino of Team Japan (representing the Dragon Gate promotion) will take on The Motor City Machineguns!

That’s the only mention of the World X Cup. No mention of the CMLL guys, despite previously being mentioned as working this set of tapings. You’d think they’d warrant a mention if they were being flown in.

According to Superluchas (which is down at the moment), none of Team Mexico made it to Florida. (superluchas) This kinda of thing has happened enough that everyone knew work visas would be the problem and had to be taken care of in time, and yet here we are. Colossal failure. Don’t know who’s fault it is (though I’m sure it’ll come out quick if people are angry enough), but the losers are the wrestlers as usual – doesn’t matter how good you can work if the rest of the world thinks you’re unreliable.

Alex Koslov made it fine, but then he’s a guy who may just be more used to dealing with visa issues. Heck, he moved from Russia to the US, so he may still be on Russia paperwork or he may be on a US visa in Mexico. Either way, working in another country constantly means he’s already taking care of his immigration issues. Doesn’t seem like anyone else was as proactive.

If the TNA teaser is correct and they’re only doing preview matches for the World X Cup tonight and tommorow, these things can still be resolved in the two weeks before the next set of tapings. I wouldn’t count on it. It’s tough not to be cynical when it comes to lucha wrestlers of any note wrestling outside of Mexico.

06/09: Monterrey, Guadalajara

The rumor mill says this upcoming Sunday’s Coliseo show is being turned into an Arena Mexico show with a new card, but I haven’t seen anything from CMLL on it yet.

indy (SUN) 06/08 Arena Coliseo Monterrey [RFC]
1) Halcon Pergrino b Atomo (Monterrey)
2) Gato Fantasma & Rey Pantera b Sark War & Tacua
3) Dranser & Furor b Azteca Warrior & Scravos
4) Voltaje Negro b Dralion, Black Diamond
5) Mosco De La Merced II & Virus b Hijo de Trueno & Volador Jr.

The original Mosco is back in AAA, so I think this is the second Mosco here in Monterrey. But who knows.

CMLL (SUN) 06/08 Arena Coliseo Guadalajara
5) Exterminador (Guadalajara) b Lider [hair]
7) Dos Caras Jr. b Último Guerrero [CMLL HEAVY]

Dos locked on his cross armbreaker for the win in the first fall. Ultimo stole a quick second fall using a pin wiht his feet on the ropes. In the third fall, Dos actually used the German Suplex for the win. Sounds like he got put over strong.

Ovaciones writes about hair matches at TripleMania, right next to the giant ad for TripleMania.

Luchas 2000 #423 hypes the big cage match, but the cover also teases Silver King to AAA (in Superluchas, he says he’d listen to AAA and let’s the reader think he may be the mystery man, but probably isn’t) and Super Calo leaving AAA (which is shame for AAA.)

AAA has a bio of Bobby Lashley, as well as a picture that looks borrowed from WWE.

I think I may be updating the software which runs the blog portion of this site. We’ll see how quickly it can go. The idea is to maintain everything now and just make it easier for me. If the site looks funky tonight, that is what’s going on.