Ovaciones previews tonight’s Arena Mexico card. The big story is if Poder Mexica beats Sagrado, Sombra and La Mascara, they’re probably getting a shot at the Mexican National Trios titles (of which La Mascara is not actually champ – that’s Volador instead.) The article also notes that next week’s show is the Fan Appreciation show, and it kinda needs a main event, so Poder Mexica stands a pretty good shot tonight.
There’s also a note about Metro, who’s mentioned to be a new version of the gimmick (as CMLL’s Hi5 site said), so no Fabian or Neutron. No real speculation about the name, but it’ll probably be obvious quickly.
The newest Box Y Lucha (#2907) has an article with Tony Salazar saying Explosivo is not dead. It was very odd that none of the magazines appeared to report his death, which I figured was because they couldn’t confirm it or overturn it. Looks like they can now. I have idea what may have happened here but would like to read more before saying somthing dumb.
Arena Coliseo Guadalajara announced it’s 2008 awards. It sounds like three people were nominated and the fans got to vote for the winner. Fans love the el Gallo (supposedly)
Novato: Plata (runner ups Rafaga & Palacio Negro)
Wrestler: Gallo (runner ups Atlantis, Blue Panther)
Trio: Averno, Mephisto, Ephesto (Gallo, Stuka Jr., Hijo del Fantasma and Toxico, Malefico, Mascara Magica)
Team: Leon Blanco & Gallo (Texano Jr. & Terrible and Metal Blanco, Palacio Negro)
Rudo: Exterminador (Frayle de la Muerte, Guero Loco)
Tecnico: Gallo (Metal Blanco, Metalik)
Special awards include one for Cien Caras to honor his career. Cien was excited to win and talked about hsi career with MT.
The Torreon Box Y Lucha comission is talking about traveling to shows and tesing new wrestlers to earn their license, which apparently hasn’t been done in years.
Ohtani’s Jacket raves about Black Terry in the Oficials vs Cerebros/Terry DF Trios title match.
LuchaWorld has KrisZ’s news update and Robert on CMLL MVS shows from the last week of August ’07 and the first week of September ’07