Day: January 20, 2009

02/01 GALLI show

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GALLI
GALLI

This is back in Addison, IL. This looks to be a fun card, and I totally love employing the strategy of Johnny Cash in “One Piece at a Time”. Don’t tell Quack, we’re sneaking another midwest CHIKARA show out of the (wrestle) factory and hopefully all the pieces will fit when we put it back together. (I don’t know if it works as return on investment for the local promotion, but I sure hope so.)

However, 02/01? February 1st? Really? There’s a little other event on that day people like to call the Super Bowl, which starts about the same time as the 3rd match on this show. Why are you running against the Super Bowl? Even on the same day is iffy, but if that’s the only day you can do it, why not try it run it early enough so people might be able to do both? There’s no way this will work out as well as it should.

This is a show I’d really like to go to, but there’s not a chance I will. I’m sure there will be people who don’t really care about football who will go, but there’s many more who won’t.

Celebrate El Santo with Los Campeones de la Lucha Libre

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Campeons de la Lucha Libre
Campeons de la Lucha Libre

On the odd chance you’re not going to be in Columbia drawing pictures of El Santo on the 25th anniversary of his past, there’s another function worth checking out.

On February 5th, Los Angeles’ Egyptian Theater will be showing FWAK’s Los Camepons de Lucha Libre – it’s first public screening in the US, I think – with the creators talking about the film. Plus, since it’s Santo’s day, a bonus Santo movie.

Show starts at 7:30. Tickets are $10 for GA, $8 for Students. Worth checking out if you’re in the area and/or you find Dragon Rojo Jr. awesome. More info at loscampeones.net and AmericanCinematheque.com

AAA returning to California in March/April

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(rejected title: “I thought things like this weren’t supposed to happen with Obama in charge!”)

AAA just announced it via their website:

03/27 – Fresno (Savemart Center)
03/28 – Sacramento (Arco Arena)
03/29 – San Jose (HP Pavillion)

04/04 – Los Angeles (LA Sports Arena)
04/05 – San Diego (San Diego Sports Arena)

That’s all the info I have – prices, lineups TBA.

2008 AAA Records

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The story here has to be the Psycho Circus. Even with all the wacky manipulation of the win streak (going up seven each week, despite not actually wrestling outside of the TV tapings early on), the legit number looks to be pretty impressive. Killer Clown did lose on AAA + Indy random teams show, but I can not find a loss for either Zombie Clown or Psycho Clown. There might be one out there for Zombie that I’m forgetting, based on the mention of this streak in a recently Wrestling Observer (which said only Psycho was undefeated.) Psycho does have the most known matches of the two, 44 Wins and 88 Unknowns which can safely be assumed to be wins in this situation. That’s a 132 match undefeated streak on the year. (Zombie is at 130.)

Just for fun, I checked DDTDigest’s Win/Loss records for 1998. I forget if Goldberg had any more wins after taking his loss in Starrcade that year, but he did have 134 confirmed wins (and 5 NDs) in addition to that 1 loss. I think we can safely assume that, had AAA being posting it’s spot show lineups on a website for the full year, the Psycho Circus would be easily past 134. Probably could find 3 more matches if you were truly concerned about it.

In straight recorded wins, the Clowns are actually not in the lead. Alex Koslv is, at 67, because CMLL wins get recorded more often (works that way when you have 3 shows a week.) Of AAA full timers, Parka leads the way with 50, Cibernetico is at 46 and then the Clowns come thru. On the other end of the scale, Mascartia de la Muerte got only 2 offical wins. Tied with three is the eclectic trio of Mini Chessman, Jesse of the Night Queens, and Vampiro.

Kenzo Suzuki lead the way in losses is no huge surprise. That’s sort of his role right now, and he excelled at it with 44 losses. Chessman being second is kind of a surprise, because tecnicos usually don’t end up on this part of the list and that’s what Chessman was most of the year. He had 36 losses, and Cuervo and Mesias tied for 33.

Clowns were top in Win Percentage, just ahead of two Parkas (the mini and the full size) and one Mistico clone (Argenis). On the other side, Mini Chessman won only 16% of the team.

Leading the way in most matches was La Parka Jr. at 190, which may explain why his shoulder never gets any better. Chessman, who really should be equally as broken, had 183 and Cibernetico was third at 166 despite missing stretches.

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01/20: Puebla, Charly

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Waiting for full results of last night’s Puebla show to turn up too. What we do know is Sombra retained his title and Mistico challenged Sangre for a shot at his title. Sangre needs to start running and never look back, no good can come of that match.

In other news I feel like I’m missing part of: Charly Manson may OR may not be already back in AAA. There’s an interview in the latest Luchas 2000 (#454), where he said he was going to stick with AAA after all, changing his mind (and getting a better offer) after the new of his jump to Perros del Mal hit the internet. However, just last night, KrisZ noted an interview where Charly said he was going to the Perros because they’d let him work as a referee while he was rehabbing and AAA wouldn’t let hm do anything. (The Luchas 2000 article has Charly saying AAA’s doctors gave him the green light.) Something’s not adding up here.

Looking ahead, ESTO and Ovaciones preview today’s Arena Mexico card. Not as much going on compared to recent shows, even with the Panther/Mistico/Marco vs V3/Averno/Mephisto main event.

The 02/08 show in Tabasco with Cibernetico/Juvi vs Wagner/Fuerza is off. (That’s the one with the WWE Minis title on the line.) Article says Cibernetico took a booking in the US instead, but spends more time running down the card of the show that’s no longer happening than explaining the situation.

WagnerMania has recaps of el Toreo shows in Neza and Arena Lopez Mateos as well as video of the Hora Cero minis cage match.

Apaculo wrestlers Super Loco, Nemesis and Principe Vegueta are threatening to lead a sit-in protest after their promotion’s wrestling ring was kicked out of it’s building. They’d been using the building for the last three years, but the newly authority of sports in town is evicting them so they can use the building for a basketball league instead. The luchadors case seems to be that they were there first, they’re willing to move the ring (donated by AAA!) out for special occasions, there are other places to play basketball and the sports council will not work with them.

Dos de Tres January 2009 has >Abismo Negro on the cover.

Ohtani’s Jacket is not a big fan of Volador & Sombra vs Averno & Mephisto.

LuchaWorld has Robert on CMLL TV 07/21/07 and 08/11 & 08/12/07 FSE, plus KrisZ’s news update.

01/18 AAA TV Results (Guanajuato )

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AAA TV (SUN) 01/18 Parque de Beisbol de Guanajuato [Ovaciones, AAA: 1 & 2, 4 5]
1) Billy Boy, Cinthia Moreno, Oriental b Fabi Apache, Gran Apache, Mari Apache
2) Rio Bravo, Tigre Cota, Tito Santana II DQ Aerostar, el Ángel, Laredo Kid
3) Alex Koslov, Rocky Romero, X-Pac vs Jack Evans, Teddy Hart, Zorro
4) Chessman, Killer Clown, Psycho Clown, Zombie Clown b Cuervo, Escoria, Espíritu, Ozz [MEX ATOMICO]
5) Abismo Negro, La Parka Jr., Mesias b Black Abyss, Electro Shock, Konnan

2009 AAA TV Chart
Projected Air Date (#874)
Mexico: 01/25
US: 02/14

AAA’s not gotten around to posting full results, but Arturo Rivera’s column in Ovaciones today goes thru the card sufficiently. May have to edit later on.

La Parka Jr. replaced Gronda in the main event, which is fine by me. The idea is AAA’s side is now stronger with Abismo back and Mesias on their side. tecnicos won and Black Abyss got strechered out thanks to Mesias.

There’s some angle with Konnan, AAA, and money issues I don’t quite understand. But I’m just forewarning you of vignettes and promos.

Psycho Clown pinned Ozz for the title change. Arturo has the win total at 260. Chessman & the Psycho Circus are the 17th Champions. Chessman is champion for a third time. Unless there’s a big surprise under one of the masks, it’s the first championship any of the Circus has one. It’s also the first team of Clowns to win these championships, despite previous Payaso teams being top contenders for extended periods. Dark Family/La Secta held the championship for nearly 20 months with zero successful defenses.

Only mention of the tercera is that DMex won.

I think new rudo Billy Boy won the opener (busting open Gran Apache) and it sounds like he ran in the second match to get a piece of Laredo Kid (maybe also, to get himself a new feud), ripping up Laredo’s mask for the DQ.