Day: September 18, 2008

09/18: GDL, Annivesary

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Got busy again today. Hopefully tomorrow is better. Reminder: live chat for the Anniversary show, starting around 7:45 pm CST. I’m planning for, like, 2 people to show up, so not really planning much at all. People are spotting it still on PPV, so we might actually have something to talk about.

Am I the only one surprised there’s no big Legends of 75 presentation tomorrow? They’ve been them all year, so it would make sense to bring names back for this show too. In other ‘hype’ articles, Panico says Perro and Mistico demanded to be on the Anniversary show in some way, and they’re sorta allies with the guys in the mask match.

CMLL (SUN) 09/14 Arena Coliseo Guadalajara
1) Fraile de la Muerte b Impostor
2) Nube Roja & Samurai b Egipico & Güero Loco
3) Malefico, Máscara Mágica, Toxico b Magnum, Metal Blanco, Metatron [quarterfinal, torneo]
4) Flash, Leon Blanco, Sagrado b Cien Caras Jr., Mr. Trueno, Rey Trueno [quarterfinal, torneo]
5) Malefico, Máscara Mágica, Toxico b Flash, Leon Blanco, Sagrado [semifinal, torneo]
6) Terrible, Villano IV, Villano V b Atlantis, Olímpico, Último Guerrero

V4 and V5 yanked Atlantis and UG’s masks and rolled them up for the win.

CMLL (TUE) 09/16 Arena Coliseo Guadalajara
1) Ebola b Thunder Boy
2) Rafaga b Carlo Roggi
3) Depredador & Exterminador b Metal Blanco & Palacio Negro
4) Cien Caras Jr. & Euforia b Casanova & Rayman
5) Damián 666 & Mr. Águila b Gallo & Máximo
6) Marco Corelone b Texano Jr.

In the semimain, Damian faked a foul to win the second fall. Gallo tried to fake a foul in the third, but ended up getting fouled for real and pinned for the loss. Main event had Marco knock over the ref by accident. Texano took advantage to foul Marco, but Marco fouled him back before the referee recovered and covered for the pin.

Quick notes/corrections from Tuesday’s Arena Mexico show.
– it was Goddess who Sujei beat, not Apache, and she did it with a rope grab.
– Loco Max turned in the second fall, so it was a semifinal sweep for the rudos

(Notimex) Dr. Wagner hypes up his big singles match with LA Park: “I would have liked something else.” I’m fired up for that match now! Actually, it’s more along the lines of Wagner wishing this was a mask match. Wagner says he’s not been told to wrestle cleaner, because if they tell him he will because it’s an anniversary how. He’s also willing to defend his title against Terrible. Helpful random challenge, I guess.

(ESTO) Ultimo Guerrero could care less about the trios match; he wants a mask vs hair match versus Alex Shelley win or lose. I hope UG keeps talking about it because they’ve actually agreed on that match happening, but that doesn’t seem like SOP.

(Reforma via Jazzo) Lady Apache is sad and disappointing there’s no women’s match on the show. Lady Apache is sure the women are at the level to compete on the show, and sure the show would be better with the women AND the minis on it.

a fine job everyone’s doing selling this show. No wonder tickets are half off.

El Sol de San Luis confirms AAA taping there on 10/15, says lineup will be announced “something between today and tomorrow.” Meanwhile, AAA’s website says the winner of Chessman vs Cibernetico vs Mesias gets the next title shot. I’m rooting for Cibernetico to get a title shot against himself. At least it’d be a new feud.

Generic histoy of lucha libre in eight paragrpahs article. And another. ESTO looks back at recent big anniversaries. I’d love for someone to write about an anniversary before Cien/Rayo besides the first on the Shadow/Santo match.

(Reforma via Jazzo) luchadors pick the winner of tommorow’s match:
* Canek: tie, but since there can’t be a tie, Villano V
* Dos Caras: Blue Panther
* Pierroth: fearing a tie
* Super Muneco: Blue Panther

MEDINA TV (TUE) 09/16 Arena Neza [Luchando Libre]
1) Luis Cirio & Tony Cirio b Super Payaso I & Super Payaso II
2) Arana Negra & Deslizador de Plata b Kagura & Lukan
3) Flor Metalica & Rossy Moreno b Crazy Star & Esther Moreno
4) Fantastick, Principe Azteca, Turbo b Boricua I, Boricua II, Boricua III
5) Tonia Jackson, La Rata, Toxico AAA b Canek Jr., Huracan Ramirez Jr., Ultramán Jr.
6) Angel Blanco Jr., El Hijo del Solitario, Groon XXX b Espanto Jr., Head Hunter I, Septiembre Negro II

Link has video clips from the show. Canek Jr. finally turned on Huracan after their loss.

SoloLuchas picks the second match of Tommorow’s show. They need to speed it up a little. Sololuchas also looks back at Villano III vs Atlantis, not an anniversary match (but a Villano mask match.)

Wrestling Observer has their CMLL on FSE recap

LuchaWorld recaps a bad CMLL TV from ’06, the early ’06 AAA tapings from Salamanca and Puebla, and IWRG in March.

75th Anniversary Show Preview

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Before we go forward, let’s go back. Last five Anniversary main events:

2003 – Shocker beat Tarzan for his hair, Pierroth beat Violencia for his mask. Pierroth had been pushed hard all year (and prior), but Violencia wasn’t much. That match wouldn’t have worked alone, but Shocker (at his peak) and Tarzan (way up there, and won the previous year main) was really two of the top guys, who’d been opponents regularly going back to early 2002, having an really important match.

2004 – Universo 2000 loses his match to Canek, with Dr. Wagner Jr. and Rayo de Jalisco Jr. also involved. Even though it’s a multi-man match and those usually lose something, there was no sucker in the bunch. Universo was slightly lower the rest, so it wasn’t a big surprise he lost, but I do remember suggestions Canek might lose it (around the time it was changed to a fourway), and it was far different then usual situation of promising a big deal and delivering a little. Universo was a top guy years, always near the very top. If/when the other guys lose their mask someday, it’ll be huge news. This was a very big match.

2005 – Hector Garza loses his hair to Universo 2000 with Perro Aguayo Jr. also involved. This was more usual – Garza wasn’t on the same level, and the match existed to do a big match while putting off the big match they were actually building to (because no one had agreed to lose yet?) Still, the Perros were a hot rudo act, they ran a big angle to set it up being a triangle instead of a tag, and Garza wasn’t a guy who lost his hair a lot at this point.

2006 – Mistico takes Black Warrior’s mask. Black Warrior wasn’t really used as a top guy until this feud, but he was pushed as one for the 9-10 months leading up to the feud, trading wins and beating a guy who hadn’t really been beaten before this. Mistico was Mistico – he was in the hot Santo zone where no challenger would really be thought to have a chance, but you’d have to see it because it was Mistico in a big match. The promotion revolved around this feud, as much as CMLL ever revolves around one feud.

and then, last year and this

2007 – Blue Panther takes Lizmark Jr.’s mask – a quicky rudo turn that doesn’t have much behind, a tease of this direct match, CMLL backing off the match and doing a multiman cage match for lack of any idea, and Panther beating Lizmark in the end anyway. Both guys are among many who appear in semis and mains, drifting aimlessly without much momentum. The match only means anything becuase everyone (besides Villano V) else who would lose would mean something, but even then it’s iffy. CMLL makes no attempt at anything else on the card.

(and at this point, if you’re concerned about reading what probably will happen this year, you probably shouldn’t click on the link)

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CMLL FSE #109 (09/07)

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taped 08/31, aired 09/07

The Amapola/Lady Apache match may be good, but the matches leading up to it haven’t been. Of course, I prefer really good matches to lead up to a title match and they prefer controversy and they may be better at drawing money than I (uh, they definitely are!)

If these recaps look really short, a power outage killed the first draft and I was smart enough the second time to know it wasn’t worth typing a lot for them. If I was really smart, I wouldn’t be typing a lot any time.