taped 01/13. No videos this time.
I wasn’t as sold on this show as I was the first one, but this was a lot more CMLL regular heavy, so I shouldn’t be too surprised.
* I know the locals only exist to be filler, but I don’t see the point of putting the regular novatos over them, especially rudo ones. No one in Puebla is going to care if they CMLL guys lose by the time they’re supposed to care about them (a long time from now, if ever, and possibly a new gimmick by then), but the Puebla guys are back there next week.
* Shockercito looked good for this first match with out the mask, and the rudos minis were pretty effective. Not sold at all on Nino de Acero and Bam Bam was far in the background here.
* Poder Mexica is so fun for many reasons, but I like to pretend it’s a battle for Dragon Rojo Jr’s soul. He’s got Mr. Reliable (but a little too predictable) Sangre Azteca on one side, and the other has a guy prone to stretches of being super awesome and stretches of disappearing off the planet in Black Warrior. One can learn a lot from these two men (and these two men can do some covering while you’re learning) and they’re not polar opposites, but it’s a mixture of different personalities they rarely get in a trio.
* never ever roll out of the ring on Ephesto. You will pay.
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The opener wasn’t as bad as I remembered it being. I guess I was just disapointed at first to see we didn’t get the usual blowaway match with the locals much like it seems you were. Camorra is gonna need a new look since his mask is exactly like Skandalo’s new mask. Did we ever deduce if this Camorra is the same guy who worked IWRG under that name?
Mini’s also weren’t as bad as I originally remembered. Maybe I was just in a bad mood the morning I watched it? Shockercito looked great and Bam Bam was rudoing it up which was awesome. No tecnico should ever superkick Pequeno Violencia and then laugh at his possible broken jaw! TURN BAM BAM ALREADY!
Semi-main did nothing at all for me. Tecnicos didn’t look interested at all and if not for Poder Mexica’s dancing it would have been a waste of 20 minutes of TV time.
Main event was perfectly acceptable and a fine setup for the title match the following week. I want to believe Garza/Shocker were doing less than usual to not take away the focus from Sombra/Mephisto but I know better.