CMLL (TUE) 06/23 Arena Mexico [ESTO, Record, CMLL]
1) Principe Valiente & Trueno b Caligula & Semental
2) Guerrero Maya Jr., Starman, Valiente b Caligula, Hooligan, Méssala
3) Arkangel de la Muerte, Dr. X, Vangelis b Angel Azteca Jr., Angel de Oro, Fabian el Gitano
4) Heavy Metal, Misterioso II, Virus b Mascara Dorada, Mictlan, Sagrado
5) Averno, Ephesto, Mephisto b Hijo del Fantasma, La Mascara, La Sombra
Not much of note up top, but Hijo de Ultraman, Rayo Tapatios and Carrona were all MIA from the first two matches. Maybe Caligula in the opener is actually a typo, they both start with C. Valiente worked as a fill in the segunda; outside of major shows with guys shuffled lower than usual, he hasn’t been that low since September of 2007.
CMLL (TUE) 06/23 Arena Coliseo Guadalajara [Fuego en el Ring, MT, MT]
1) Novato b Relampago
2) Metatron DCO Rafaga
3) Palacio Negro b Saturno
4) Casanova b Asesino Negro
5) Mascara Magica & Satanico b Metal Blanco & Neutron
6) Princesa Blanca b Lady Apache [MEX WOMEN]
7) Naito, Shigeo Okumura, Yujiro b Blue Panther, Toscano, Volador Jr.
Verano de Escandalo 2009 will take place on August 16 in Monterrey. That’s a month earlier than they ran the show last year, which allows them to space it out more from the Pena Memorial show.
Gamespot says the AAA video game IS coming to the US. Article loses points for misidentifying the La Parka, gains them all back by wondering if Guapito is in the game. Note that the article says late 2009 or early 2010, where we’ve heard just late 2009 up to this point.
Mistico says lucha libre wrestlers peak at 20 years in, so he does not yet consider himself an all time great.
SuperLuchas is selling Histeria and Psicosis masks.
Cesar rolls with posts looking forward to Juvi’s responce to Konnan’s latest comments, on the death of the indpendent movement, and how wrestlers need big promotions to be stars, and vice versa.
A Costa Rica paper previews the AAA show there. Tickets go from 15000 to 55000. For those who can’t convert from colonoes, that’s 26.25 to 96.25 US, or 348.84 to 1278.09 MEX. More than TripleMania?
Solar has a new website. With store! Yay, doing a website to make money, that’s actually how it’s supposed to work.
Ras de Lona #51 is mostly on the Stuka/Fantasma/Sangre/Rojo trip to Europe. Amused to see Hijo del Fantasma, while his associates were yelling in spanish at the camera, do interviews in completely fine English; he’s the guy WWE should’ve actually taken, glad they didn’t.
Lucha Libre will be in the Louvre in Paria, modeling a collection of clothes from a Mexican designer. Cassandor and Santo will be wrestling at a show Friday and Saturday to promote the collection.
Ohtani’s Jacket watches last week’s Arena Puebla, and seems to like the locals mathc baove the minis. Meanwhile, any time I have to watch lucha, I’m fighting my way thru TripleMania. I need to work a trade!
LuchaWorld has Robert on AAA 04/10/08 in Toluca and CMLL’s Record show from 05/14/08. Figure they’ll end up doing the show with them next year. Next epdition of Slamming’ Stan is tomorrow.
Via el Maritnete: video of Konnan Big vs Cibernetico . Watch at your own risk.
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The article from Cesar pretty much outs, Juvi & Konnan as Bi. It also infers that they were fighting over Jack.
@worldofluchalibre: Con…gra…tu…lations?… to Jack… I think…
Juvi and Konnan bi? No way! ;)
Konnan is so homophobic in interviews it’s no shocker and everyone already knows about Juvi.
To be fair (yes, even to the dumbass running AAA)… Cesar writing a blog entry doesn’t confirm anything.
It was Caligula last night. He’s in the cmll.com photos. He didn’t work the segunda – Dragon Rojo Jr. replaced him. I hope b/c things got switched up they air the entire show b/c the matches had to be shortened.
Do we know what’s up with the Rayos Tapatios? They no-showed the Arena Puebla Fan Appreciation show as well. Have they jumped to the PdM? Is this the big swing in momentum Perrito has been waiting for?
“Amused to see Hijo del Fantasma, while his associates were yelling in spanish at the camera, do interviews in completely fine English; he’s the guy WWE should’ve actually taken, glad they didn’t.”
You better have not just jynxed things…
So how does one get to address OJ’s posts without being allowed to register to prowrestlingonly? I hate to keep hijacking the blog for responses.
1) Who led OJ to believe that mini’s match was the second coming of the greatest mini’s match ever?
2) You can’t say Tzuki brought the match down b/c Tzuki showing up automatically makes the match at least **3/4 since it’s so rare.
3) Universito 2000 is faaaaaaaar from a veteran. He’s actually the greenest guy in the match and did absolutely nothing at all except almost kill Tzuki by tossing him like an untrained worker would. Just be thankful Tzuki is indestructable.
4) Likewise I don’t get the pimping of the opener which seemed like a total mail-in. How does a Puebla opener involving Espiritu not involve a single moment with him trying to die? Even though it was mailed-in, I thought it was decent enough but I expect way more from this crew since they are so talented.
5) Remind me again how a blog titled ‘Great Lucha’ has turned into a blog pointing out which matches are not good and how bad current Lucha Libre is?:P
Anyways, even though it seems I tend to disagree with OJ far more than I agree with him these days – I will say that I look forward to all his reviews b/c he doesn’t seem to play the blind favorite card (i.e. Atlantis is in the match = it rules no matter what) and unlike some he seems to actually watch the matches he discusses.
Stuka looked like a huge dork with his own shirt on at the the airport.
@Tony Galvan: That was bad, but Dragon Rojo’s pink/white shirt was up there.
You think tagging with Warrior, some of that fashion sense would rub off.
Rob,
I read that the minis match was more like late 90s minis than 2000s minis and thus I was expecting something different after the matwork, but it was a good match. I don’t mind Tzuki in the least, but he can’t work the mat and I wasn’t interested in seeing the usual Tzuki stuff in this particular match.
Didn’t know Pequeño Universo 2000’s not a veteran. I thought he was great in tandem with Pierrothito. You like Pierrothito, right? What about Siki Osama? In my view, those are the best type of rudos.
Espiritu took a bump through the ropes in that match. But I don’t wanna see guys bump right now. Espiritu’s a good enough worker that he doesn’t need to do insane bumps. I think Freelance has been much better since he stopped taking so many crazy landings.
I only really called it Great Lucha because someone on DVDVR rubbished lucha. If I only ever wrote about “great” lucha, I would make about two or three entries a year. I’ve stopped watching and writing about stuff that I know I won’t like, but it hasn’t been a particularly good year for matches. I’ve been trying to tone down my criticisms of the current stuff.
“I read that the minis match was more like late 90s minis than 2000s minis and thus I was expecting something different after the matwork, but it was a good match.”
Well whoever wrote that steered you on the wrong track I guess. I saw it as a good match and nothing more than that. I can think of a lot of better efforts from these guys just in the past 18 months.
“You like Pierrothito, right? What about Siki Osama? In my view, those are the best type of rudos.”
Pierrothito is the best mini rudo in Mexico. Yes, better than Pequeno Damian and Mini Abismo. Osama is also pretty great and I’m shocked at his size he never got the chance to be called up to the main roster. Perhaps he doesn’t want to leave home.
I’m curious to read your Zatura/Trauma II thoughts.