Much to rant about here. Let’s start by killing my credibility and then working it back.
Crazy Boy is better than Chessman. Wait, no, let’s not say things that make people spit out liquids at the screen. The match with Jack/Teddy vs Crazy/Ricky was significantly better than the one with Jack/Teddy vs Chessman/Ricky. It pretty much has nothing to do with Crazy Boy. The match was much tighter than the week prior, and built around keeping him out as along as possible. The finish was just as dumb – remember when Jack & Teddy were good enough to actually beat people on their own? Oh, those long ago days of two months ago – but everything leading up to it was much more enjoyable.
What’s the point of
– bringing back the Mascarita Sagrada gimmick, and then making it a filler? (not saying they should push this guy either, but the character is special enough that it shouldn’t be diluted like this)
– turning Cinthia ruda, and not giving her more wins?
– Billy winning every week, but being in the same spot permanently? I’d actually prefer a program with the Pirates than this limbo.
And then there’s top two matches. Obviously someone had the idea of putting over the young guys for various reasons. It would’ve been nice if they actually did. Doing two finishes with the same guys in the same way on the same show (in the same hour!) kills the impact of either of them. It’s not a big huge surprise upset if it’s happen twice in the last forty minutes.
Even if it was just one, it’s not as if they actually put Super Fly or Aerostar over in any meainingful way. Aerostar knocked himself out a dive, crawled back into the ring hurt, and el Brazo fell into a pin. Electroshock utterly destroyed Super Fly and got pulled into huracanrana for a flash three count. Neither guy appeared on the level on their competition – Super Fly was treated as if he was many levels below Electro with the ease he was handled. Yes, they won, but AAA’s never treated weekly trio wins as meaning anything at all, so it doesn’t have much credibility when talking about these. Neither finish was shown the following week – you only know Super Fly won because Electro comes out and kills him.
If they truly want to build up Super Fly and Aerostar so they’re on the same level as at least upper mid guys like Alan Stone and Elegido (if not higher), they’ve got to be able to get the same offense on the rudos that those guys do. Anything else makes confirms that the aAir FOrce guys aren’t on the level.
The irony here is AAA “helped” their young high flyers exactly how WCW would with the cruiserweights, and there’s plenty of people in this promotion who should know how that worked out. Rey Jr. didn’t get over because people fell backwards into pins for him, he got over because he had awesome matches and he earned wins.
(file note – just for fun, I tried to convert this to commercial-less AVI like the FSE shows, but it’s still 1.2 GB and I figured that was too much. Once I get to the 2h30m shows, it may drop enough to make it close to 1 GB and worthwhile, but should there be anything else I should be trying? Can I safely cut down the screen resolution?)
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That’s a SIX post day. Where’s my prize?
When you see Ciber vs Chessman from VdE, you may actually believe your belief about Crazy Boy > Chessman.
As for the Super Fly stuff–he should be treated as several steps below Electroshock at this point, so I don’t see an issue with getting the crap kicked out of him and getting the lucky pin. At least for now. Eventually he should be getting better and better versus Electro and other upper card rudos, but who knows whether it will actually happen.
320×240 at 512 kbp is plenty watchable–although some people will disagree. Could always up it to 640×480.
At the former, 3h eps without commercials come out to ~ 600-650mb.
Man, I just watched the show following this one and the edits made the show almost unwatchable. I swear they need to either show less matches or find a different way to edit. The same crowd shots over and over gets pretty tiring.
@C: “When you see Ciber vs Chessman from VdE, you may actually believe your belief about Crazy Boy > Chessman.”
Well when the day comes where Crazy Boy faces Cibernetico and has a better match – you might have a point.:P Is there ANYONE that could have a good match with Ciber? Zorro is the only one that has come the closest although I know Cubs would really disagree with that statement.
I haven’t seen the match yet but logic would seem to dictate Ciber should have just thrown Chessman around and in between just moved away as Chessman went to kill himself. If they did the Ciber/Mesias slow start, slow middle, big finish routine… I can see that being awful.
@Rob: True, I doubt Crazy Boy would have a better match with Ciber, but with that evidence not out there… he may still convince himself. :)
Boring start, boring middle, boring ending. Awful. Absolutely awful. Chessman doesn’t even bother killing himself.
I thought Ciber had a good match with Mesias when he put Mesias in the Volcano.