Month: June 2009

TripleMania notes, IWRG Thursday results, lineups

thecubsfan 14 Comments

Lots of TripleMania reports and news
– Record has stories on each match: Extreme Tiger as ‘welter’weight champ, Zorro not taking all ten shots, AAA beating the Legion, Wagner winning the AAA mega title, Lider & Nicho winning the tag titles, and the crowd for TripleMania running into the crowd for music group Cafe Tacvba.

Konnan says he’ll continue in AAA. He’ll when people get tired of him. (Yea, I know.) Santo just was there to steal the glory. Zorro is out of the Foreign Legion.

Santo says he’ll continue to support AAA, but it sounds like he’s like staying independent.

– Luchando Libre runs thru the show, giving the most praise to the Wagner/Mesias match and the production of the show

– SuperLuchas has photos of the show.

– Cesar says the AAA fans came to TripleMania to see ex-CMLL wrestlers, and looks at the things the day after, like how wrestling is clearly not doing as well as it was two years ago.

– Ovaciones has a two page recap of the show.

Videos are turning up slowly. The Mesias/Wagner match is in the previous comments, and the trailer that aired for the AAA video game is on YouTube, via todoluchas.com.

IWRG (THU) 06/11 Arena Naucalpan [Al Filo del Ring]
1) Halcon 2000 b Osiris
2) Galactik & Jack b Epidemia & Heavy Boy
3) Barba Roja, Hijo de Pirata Morgan, Pirata Morgan Jr. b Freelance, Pendulo, Trauma I
4) Trauma II b Zatura
5) Black Terry & Dr. Cerebro b Fuerza Guerrera & Juventud Guerrera

Semimain sets up a title match next week. (Zatura is lightweight champ.) Presumbably the main event is setting up the main event.

El Siglo de Torreon has a bio of local wrestler Sexy Piscis. Critica of Panama interviews local legend Idolo.

AAA notes Antonio Pena’s birthday with a short history.

Star Fire (warning immediate pointless annoying music) is out with a knee injury.

Box Y Lucha looks at Charro Aguayo & Canek versus the world.

Super Luchas 319 has Ultimo Guerrero with the title.

LuchaWorld has KrisZ’s news update.

CMLL (TUE) 06/16 Arena Coliseo Guadalajara
1) Plata vs Hierro
2) Nube Roja vs Malefico
3) Palacio Negro vs Rey Trueno
4) Gallo & Metatron vs Mascara Magica & Satanico
5) Dark Angel, Lady Apache, Zeuxis vs Amapola, Princesa Blanca, Princesa Sujei
6) Hector Garza & Maximo vs Dos Caras Jr. & Mephisto

IWRG (THU) 06/18 Arena Naucalpan
1) Galactik & Halcon 2000 vs Comando Gama & Comando Negro
2) Exodia & Jack vs Azoka & Sauron
3) Chico Che, Rigo, Trauma I vs Barba Roja, Hijo de Pirata Morgan, Pirata Morgan Jr.
4) Zatura vs Trauma II [IWRG IC Light]
5) Juventud Guerrera vs Dr. Cerebro

No idea who Rigo is.

IWRG (SUN) 06/21 Arena Naucalpan
1) Exodia & Galactik vs Comando Gama & Comando Negro
2) Chico Che, Goleador, Rigo vs Black Terry, Dr. Cerebro, Judas el Traidor
3) Freelance, Suicida, Turbo vs Avisman, Black Thunder, Tetsuya Bushi
4) Oficial 911, Oficial AK47, Tinieblas Jr. vs Mascara Ano 2000 Jr., Ricky Cruzz, Veneno

And no idea why Tinieblas, a tecnico last here, is now filling in with the Oficials. Except if the Oficials are meant to be tecnicos for a night.

06/13 AAA PPV Results (Mexico City – TripleMania)

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AAA TV (SAT) 06/13 Palacio de Los Deportes [AAA]
1) Aerostar, Laredo Kid, Super Fly b Killer Clown, Psycho Clown, Zombie Clown
2) Billy Boy, Mini Abismo Negro, Polvo de Esterllas, Sexy Star b El Elegido, Fabi Apache, Octagoncito, Pimpinela Escarlata
3) Cuervo, Ozz, Zorro b Charly Manson, Rocky Romero, X-Pac
4) Extreme Tiger b Alex Koslov and Alan Stone and Crazy Boy [AAA CRUISER, hardcore]
5) Joe Lider & Nicho el Millionario b Latin Lover & Marco Corleone [AAA TAG]
6) Dr. Wagner Jr. b Mesias [AAA HEAVY, UWA Heavy]
7) El Hijo del Santo, Jack Evans, La Parka Jr., Octagon, Vampiro b Chessman, Electro Shock, Kenzo Suzuki, Silver King, Teddy Hart [cage, control of AAA]

PPV Only.

So, I’ve gone over these and will again in a few minutes, but this post is just so it’s easy to find six months from now when I can’t remember who got hurt in the opener.

Super Fly was the one who got hurt, though AAA doesn’t mention it in the recap. Super Fly was wearing the mask of his father, El Seminarista. Aerostar wore a split mask, with half of it as Abismo Negro. Psycho Clowns are still undefeated.

Sexi Star had a new look, and pulled Elegido’s mask. Billy cradled him for the win. Sexi kept attacking Fabi after the match, and Gran Apache and Mari ran Star and Bily off.

Zorro was beat directly by X-Pac with a (second) X-Factor. He refused to take his cane shots at first, then only took three (or four?) before taking the cane and turning it on the tecnicos. Cuervo shows up to help the rudos, and Aero, Laredo and Pimpi failed in helping the tecnicos.

It was in here where Marisela slapped Zorro, not the other way around as I had yesterday. Maybe that’s the explanation for what happened later?

Alex was first out of the four way for the Cruiserweight title, which was under elimination rules. Alex tried to take the title with him, but was stopped. Alan was eliminated next, and Xtreme Tiger hit a 450 to the floor on Crazy Boy. Tiger snuck in before the 20 count to win the title.

If Tiger had not snuck in, would the match have been a draw? Would Alex have won the title? (“It doesn’t matter because it wasn’t going to be a draw.”)

While the live account mentions how Tirantes tripped up Marco at an important moment, allowing Lider and Nicho to get the best of him, the post-show recap hypes Hermandad as an unbeatable team, having defeated all AAA competition.

Similarly, the live PBP on AAA’s site was pretty clear on Wagner being the easy crowd favorite (and other reports agreed), but the recap link above says it was 50/50. Mesias survived one Wagner Driver, but not a second.

Silver King wrestled the match with face paint in the design of his mask.

Parka was handcuffed to the cage early in the match, with Konnan (backstage) popping up on the video screen to say he had a key. Instead of trashing the key or flushing it or something, Konnan held onto it. Nicho & Lider helped him and the Legion, but the AAA tecnicos and Cien Caras were able to take the key and unlock Parka.

AAA’s recap has the order of escape Vamp, Kenzo, Teddy, Jack (big dive), Octagon, Chessman, Electroshock. That left Parka & Santo vs Silver King and, even though every bit of story has been leading to a Parka/Silver confrontation to end it all, they did Santo/Silver King instead.

This is when Zorro showed up, in his old mask. Konnan was trying to help, but Zorro handed his stick to Roldan, who got in his shot. Santo escaped to be the big hero, and AAA celebrated.

TripleMania Live Chat & Results

thecubsfan 56 Comments

Show is over: comments are open below, and I’ll do the regular results post once more detailed notes come out tomorrow.

For those interested, we’ll be chatting about TripleMania, as it happens. You can find that chat here, and it’s live right now. Show is scheduled to start at 8:30 and will probably last close to midnight. (As it turns out, almost to 1 AM.)

AAA is hosting their own live results (+video?) on their site. There is no live video feed for the show, as far as anyone’s found, and AAA hasn’t done anything with their video.

Results will also be updated here, and at @luchablog.

Completed
1) Killer Clown, Psycho Clown, Zombie Clown b Aerostar, Laredo Kid, Super Fly
– Super Fly was strechered out. His partners were concerned, despite Super Fly’s recent attitude

2) Billy Boy, Mini Abismo Negro, Polvo de Esterllas, Sexy Star b El Elegido, Fabi Apache, Octagoncito, Pimpinela Escarlata
– Sexi has a new outfit, got good reviews
– Billy wrestled in street clothes (maybe not wrestled much?)
– Sexi yanked Elegido’s mask, and Billy cradled him for the win.
– Mari Apache ran into attack Sexi after the match, and the tecnicos celebrated with Elegido dancing.

– AAA holds a moment of applause for Abismo Negro, Antonio Pena, and Mitsuharu Misawa

– Vignette with Zorro visiting his psychologist. The Sect turn up, so that match must be next.

3) Charly Manson, Rocky Romero, X-Pac b Cuervo Scoria, Ozz, Zorro – Zorro kicked out of X-Factor, but not a second.
– Both X-Pac and Romero cane Zorro, hard
– Zorro gets the cane, and uses it to beat up the tecnicos. Cuervo appears here (but not in the match) to help out the rudos. Pimpi and Fuerza Aerea (Aerostar/Laredo) try to make the save, get beat.
– Marisela Pena got tangentially hit in all of this. HMMMM.

4) Extreme Tiger b Crazy Boy, Alan Stone, Alex Koslov [AAA CRUISER, hardcore]
– Alex eliminated after Alan puts him (and Tiger) thru a table.
– Tiger beats Alan
– Tiger beats Crazy with a 450 splash on the floor. Tiger barely beats the count in – but what would’ve happened if he didn’t? A draw? Alex gets his title back?
– lots of table and ladder spots

5) Joe Lider & Nicho el Millionario b Latin Lover & Marco Corleone [AAA TAG]
– Latin was booed.
– Marco went to dive onto the rudos, but Tirantes tripped him up. Marco went after him, but Lider tripped him and Nicho pinned him for the win.

6) Dr. Wagner Jr. b Mesias [AAA HEAVY, UWA Heavy]
– usual main event, with chairs being used on the outside for no DQ
– AAA’s site notes the crowd is firmly behind Wagner
– both men bleed
– Mesias kicks out of a Wagner Driver
– Mesias does NOT kick out of a second one.
– Match goes around 35 minutes.

7) El Hijo del Santo, Jack Evans, La Parka Jr., Octagon, Vampiro b Chessman, Electro Shock, Kenzo Suzuki, Silver King, Teddy Hart [cage, control of AAA]
– Kenzo out first
– Octagon out after him
– Parka is handcuffed to the cage
– Konnan pops up on the video screen to reveal he’s got the key
– Cien runs backstage to get that key
– Teddy leaves during this bit.
– Marco, Charly, and DMX attack Konnan and get the key, handing it to Cien to run it to the ring
– Meanwhile, Lider & Nicho prevent the AAA guys form getting out of the cage
– Cien comes back, AAA turns the tide with Jack doing a big dive on the guys
– Chessman is out next
– Konnan comes to ringside, and lays out Cien and Roldan with a chair.
– Down to Electro, Silver King vs Santo, Parka
– Electro escapes
– Konnan tries to use a fire extinguisher on Santo
– Zorro shows up – wearing his old mask?- and helped Roldan attack Konnan!.
– Parka escapes, Silver King stopping Santo instead
– King and Santo fight, Santo stops him and escapes for the win. Konnan is done, Roldans control AAA.

UG b Mistico, interviews, lineups

thecubsfan 39 Comments

Other places are more qualified to talk about this, but I’d just like to point you to go look for them if you’ve not yet heard about legendary Japanese pro wrestler Mitsuharu Misawa passed away this past evening in Japan, from a heart attack after taking a back suplex. Misawa wrestled in Mexico as Kamikaze Misawa very earlier in his career. Misawa spearheaded the NOAH group, and I have no idea how/if this will change their relationship with AAA.

CMLL (FRI) 06/12 Arena Mexico [SuperLuchas, ESTO, cesar, Ovaciones, Box Y Lucha]
1) Pequeño Damian 666, Pequeño Warrior, Pierrothito b Mascarita Dorada, Pequeño Olímpico, Shockercito
2) Maximo, Sagrado, Valiente b Misterioso II, Shigeo Okumura, Virus
3) Atlantis, Black Warrior, Mr. Niebla b Blue Panther, La Sombra, Toscano
4) Hector Garza b Mephisto [CMLL Universal, eightfinal]
5) Mistico b Ephesto [CMLL Universal, eightfinal]
6) Ultimo Guerrero b Volador Jr. [CMLL Universal, eightfinal]
7) Negro Casas b La Mascara [CMLL Universal, eightfinal]
8) Hector Garza b Mistico [CMLL Universal, quarterfinal]
9) Ultimo Guerrero b Negro Casas [CMLL Universal, quarterfinal]
10) Ultimo Guerrero b Mistico [CMLL Universal, semifinal]
11) Shocker DQ Dos Caras Jr.

Not the overwhelming tecnico show of most Kid’s Days.

Main event was a battle of guys faking fouls. Dos got the first fall by faking one, Shocker tied it up with an armbreaker, and faked his own foul for the win.

Story of the tournament (and the only one people write much about) was the final. Mistico sent UG out with a headscissors and followed with a tornillo, but UG moved out of the way and Mistico hit the floor unimpeded. Guerrero brought back in, added a Guerrero Special, and got the clean pin. Mistico was strechered out after. As Alan noted in the comments last night, this is the first (documented) match ever where Ultimo Guerrero defated Mistico in a singles match – he was at least 0-10 before this.

Longest tournament match was, oddly, the Garza/Mephisto match to lead off the tournament at 7:11. It was the only match over 5 minutes.

CMLL (FRI) 06/12 Arena Mexico
1) Pequeño Damian 666, Pequeño Warrior, Pierrothito b Mascarita Dorada, Pequeño Olímpico, Shockercito
2) Maximo, Sagrado, Valiente b Misterioso II, Shigeo Okumura, Virus
3) Atlantis, Black Warrior, Mr. Niebla b Blue Panther, La Sombra, Toscano
4) Hector Garza b Mephisto [CMLL Universal, eightfinal]
5) Mistico b Ephesto [CMLL Universal, eightfinal]
6) Ultimo Guerrero b Volador Jr. [CMLL Universal, eightfinal]
7) Negro Casas b La Mascara [CMLL Universal, eightfinal]
8) Hector Garza b Mistico [CMLL Universal, quarterfinal]
9) Ultimo Guerrero b Negro Casas [CMLL Universal, quarterfinal]
10) Ultimo Guerrero b Mistico [CMLL Universal, semifinal]
11) Shocker DQ Dos Caras Jr.


Box Y Lucha article reposts
– As expected, Mistico took the first oppurinty he could to say he was misquoted about leaving CMLL, but he’s still definite about wanting to main event this year’s anniversary show.
– La Nazi explains she’s been out with knee and back injuries. She’s wanted to visit Pierroth, but she can’t actually find them.
– Super Crazy talks about dropping out of school at 14 to work, so he could pay for his wrestling school.
– Bengala, who says the programming department came up with his name. That would confirm it’s a new one. He’s been wrestling four years.
– The new Metro talks about training with the olympic wrestling committee before starting in pro wrestling.
– Villano III talks about wrestling the Hippies.

Fuego en el Ring interviews Kid Tiger. He explains he turned rudo because Puma Kid pointed out it was better than facing each other all the time. That sounds believable. In the seemingly ever changing family relations, Tiger Kid refers to Puma as his cousin (not his brother) and says Felino’s so much his favorite uncle, it’s like he is his father.

AAA talks to Dr. Wagner about wrestling in TripleMania tonight.

Canek, when discussing an appearance in Tabasco, declares that Wagner is afraid of him, that the golden age of wrestling is not over because he’s still around, that the WWE in Mexico is a fad and will be gone in three years, and that he’s still at the top of lucha libre.

Kcidis draws Konnan, unafraid of ghosts.

Proyeccion Luchistica has an interview with indy wrestler Black Falcon., and a video interview with the junior Piratas

LuchandoLibre has their picks for Zorro/X-Pac trios, Cruiserweight title match, and Tag title match. I must’ve missed a couple here, or they’re coming later today.

CMLL (TUE) 06/16 Arena Mexico
1) Astro Boy & Principe Valiente vs Camorra & Cholo
2) Bronco, Hooligan, Polvora vs Guerrero Maya Jr., Hijo de Ultraman, Metalico
3) Fabian el Gitano, Leono, Stuka Jr. vs Dr. X, Euforia, Nosferatu
4) Metro, Mictlan, Valiente vs Misterioso II, Shigeo Okumura, Virus
5) Naito, Ultimo Guerrero, Yujiro vs Blue Panther, Shocker, Toscano

Shocker/UG continues. Okumura in the semimain? It’s not as though someone else makes more sense, it’s a lesser amount of rudos on this show.

CMLL (FRI) 06/19 Arena Mexico
1) Bengala & Sensei vs Inquisidor & Semental
2) Arkangel de la Muerte, Hooligan, Skandalo vs Flash, Pegasso, Rey Cometa
3) Dark Angel vs Princesa Sujei [lightning]
4) La Mascara, Maximo, Sagrado vs Averno, Ephesto, Mephisto
5) Hector Garza, Mistico, Volador Jr. vs Felino, Mr. Niebla, Negro Casas
6) Texano Jr. vs Ultimo Guerrero [CMLL UNIVERSAL]

With the tournament almost over, the lightning match returns. Mistico continues to fight the Pesat Negra. Can Texano beat Ultimo Guerrero without it feeling like a massive fluke?

Different poll than usual this time; you can check as many answers as you believe true. It’s really 8 yes/no polls folded into one

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AAA says they’ll start coverage of TripleMania at 8:30; we’ll probably start coverage here a little bit before then. Check the site for a post, and maybe some links. Live results will also be out on twitter.

Mexico previews, Konnan b Fantasma, Poder Mexico abroad

thecubsfan 10 Comments

CMLL (FRI) 06/12 Arena Mexico
1) Mascarita Dorada, Pequeño Olímpico, Shockercito vs Pequeño Damian 666, Pequeño Warrior, Pierrothito
2) Maximo, Sagrado, Valiente vs Misterioso II, Shigeo Okumura, Virus
3) Mistico vs Ultimo Guerrero, Hector Garza, Volador Jr., La Mascara, Negro Casas, Mephisto, Ephesto [CMLL UNIVERSAL, torneo]
4) Blue Panther, La Sombra, Toscano vs Atlantis, Black Warrior, Mr. Niebla
5) Shocker vs Dos Caras Jr.

Previews: ESTO, Ovaciones. The show starts at 6:30 to air Atlantis’ movie.

Talked about the Universal tournament in the last post down. I wonder if they’ll break it up around the other matches: do the first round matches before the Mr. Niebla trios, semifinals after, and maybe finals as the actual main event (especially if Dos is supposed to go over.)

Minis opener should be good. CMLL still lists the main event without any stipulation, though it might still end up being super libre. With UG and Shocker feuding on Tuesday, the long term plan here might be for the heavyweight title to go UG -> Shocker -> Dos. Even it’s not, the feud’s clearly not going to end tonight.

This is not that exciting of a lineup, but because of the ticket prices (some news stories say kids are getting free, but CMLL still has it as 1 peso tickets), it ought to be a sell out. Maybe they’ll make some of the money back on concessions with people coming in early for the movie, and maybe they’ll wear people out before TripleMania.

Fantasma and Juvi chimed in on Konnan being free to appear at TripleMania. Fantasma comes off as backtracking, saying he never had a problem with Konnan & Jack, and were just following what authorities were telling them to do (which ones?) Fantasma says Silver King is still banned from wearing his mask. We’ll see. (The Gladiatores has a seemingly unrelated podcast with Fantasma about his career.)

Juvi still says he’s going to sue and try to get Konnan deported, and that’s probably the last we’ll hear about that. Meanwhile, Juvi is talking about restarting his promotion again.

Basler Zeitung writes about Stuka, Fantasma, Dragon and Sangre at the Hot Air Festival, complete with video. I like how they mention the match started with “an apparently typical Mexican half hour delay.” They’ve gone to indy shows, I see.

Hablando de Catch talks to Damian 666, Halloween, and Mr. Aguila about AAA’s Chihuahueños del Mal. More interesting to me is Halloween saying he and Damian did not speak for a year and a half after he left CMLL.

AAA looks back at Cibernetico losing his mask, Kenzo losing his hair, a Pentagon losing his mask, Tirantes losing his hair and Electro & Lady Apache losing their hair at past TripleManias. No one’s losing their hair or mask this year (except for Silver King, I guess.) In advance of the big AAA video game reveal, there’s information some bits of info in an article, though not much new since the Dos de Tres article. Designed on Unreal Engine 3, 360/PS3 versions this year, Wii/DS/PSP next, focused on AAA style. I’m going to have to buy this just because I will not believe it exists unless I have it my hand.

AAA will be doing live updates of TripleMania on their website starting at 8:30 on Saturday.

LuchandoLibre has the opener and the Fabi/Billy segunda.

Cesar wonders if Mistico vs Felino will still main event an anniversary show, but perhaps Mexico City’s instead of GDL.

WagnerMania has a bio of Rolando Vera.

Segunda Caida checks out IWRG on 05/28/09.

LuchaWorld has Robert on CMLL C3 03/01/08 and CMLL TV 03/22/08, as well as KrisZ’s news update.

picking Block B of the Universal tournament

thecubsfan 12 Comments

Last week’s winner was an unlikely one. Unlikely enough to knock out a lot of the possibilities for this week.

Highly unlikely, given Texano Jr. is the other finalist

* Mephisto – got his big win for the year anyway
* Ephesto – got his big win for the year anyway
* Negro Casas – not in Texano’s group, but match wouldn’t work at this point.

Very slightly more likely

* Ultimo Guerrero – possible because the Avernos/Guerreros
* La Mascara – only works if they decided to make the finals of the Universal tournament should be a tercera.

Alternates to the obvious
* Hector Garza – though, if the tournament to crown the best champion ends with Texano Jr. vs Hector Garza, the terrorists have won. Hector feels like one of the guys who just exists in the upper midcard, but doesn’t really mean anything. Texano beating Hector would not mean a lot of Texano (unless they went on to do a hair/hair match), and Hector beating Texano would not mean a lot.
* Volador Jr. – this, on the other hand, would be quite different to have Volador/Texano on top – new stars, maybe even a new feud.

Impossibly obvious

* Mistico – duh

It’s Kid’s Day, so Mistico will be as over as he is on any day of the year. On the other hand, it’s clear that Mistico was not picked to win this tournament when it was announced (because he wasn’t in the tournament at that point) and most promotions probably would not consider putting him over here. Winning the overall tournament doesn’t help him Mistico, and Texano beating him would be too big of a step up for Texano for the fans to accept (though there would be those happy for Mistico to lose at any time.) If Volador or Garza or anyone else, you probably end up with a new rivalry you can follow up with. Mistico’s already feuding with half a dozen guys to no end.

Still, those things are true in the Leyenda de Plata tournament every year, and Mistico’s won three straight times. It’s tough to bet against the man. I’m picking Volador, because a tournament where Negro Casas cheats to beat Mistico and Volador beats Negro in the final would continue one feud and nicely springboard Volador in to next week’s final. (Plus, he’s the number #2 tecnico.) I just don’t feel sure about it.

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