This show sounds good – Infernales vs Stuka/Flash, Jauria vs Mistico/Sombra/Dorada. It was not.
Our never ending Arena Coliseo Tag feud probably shouldn’t have been bothered to air, as short and irrelevant as it was. Plus, when the main event is an exciting high flyers teaming up, then maybe the undercard shouldn’t be exciting high flyers teaming up (lesser version.)
Mascara Dorada blew a springboard (quite possibly because of bad ropes) and his confidence is shot. Elsewhere, Robert anointed Mascara Dorada as Sagrado 2003, and that’s pretty fair. The problem is not just the work for him (though that’s a big problem), but switching him from Metalik to the new gimmick and moving him up 2-3 slots has just been harmful. Fans get more into wrestlers when they fell like they’ve earned their way to a position, and hasn’t just been handed it by the programmers. They’re quicker to turn on a guy in those spots too, because there’s no history of being good at what they do when they falter, there’s no good impressions to work off of – it’s what happened with Grey Shadow too.
So now we’re talking about combining the worst elements of two of the biggest failed tecnico pushes in recent years. All he needs to do is have terrible singles matches to blow off feuds and we can make the Leono comparison as well.
I have hope Mascara Dorada will rebound at some point, but it’s a long way off. And I’m not sure this push was done well even if the wrestler was capable of holding up his end; the best case for Dorada, as he’s been used, is to be a upper midcard tecnico. They have plenty of those guys already and don’t do much with them.
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