Month: June 2009

06/15 Arena Puebla Lineup

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CMLL (MON) 06/15 Arena Puebla
1) Black Tiger, Blue Center, Centella de Oro vs Ares, Espiritu Maligno, Siki Osama
2) Pequeño Universo 2000, Pequeño Warrior, Pierrothito vs Bam Bam, Pequeño Olímpico, Shockercito
3) Blue Panther, Sagrado, Shocker vs Dos Caras Jr., Naito, Yujiro
4) Hector Garza, La Sombra, Volador Jr. vs Felino, Mr. Niebla, Negro Casas
5) Ultimo Guerrero vs Averno

No tag team title match here yet. Also, CMLL hints towards Shocker vs UG for the Heavyweight champion as a future Tuesday main event, so hope you’re in a mood for lots of UG singles main events.

Naucalpan, Puebla, links

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IWRG (SUN) 06/07 Arena Naucalpan [The Gladiatores]
1) Comando Gama & Comando Negro b Galactik & Mascara Magnifica
2) Exodia & Pendulo b Black Thunder & Latino
3) Avisman & Tetsuya Bushi b Freelance & Turbo
4) Oficial 911, Oficial AK47, Xibalba b Bobby Lee Jr., Trauma I, Trauma II
5) Angelico, Olimpico, Tinieblas Jr. b Arlequin, Arlequin Verde, Ricky Cruzz

Tecnicos won the main event with no incident. Xiblaba replaced Fierro, out due to injury. Trauma I joined him, being strechered out after taking a kick to the head and being down in the ring for minutes. Zatura was at ringside early in the match, discussing something with the commissioners, and got into a fight with the Traumas. He came back for the finish, costing Bobby and Trauma II to the match. Trauma II and Zatura discussed a lightweight title match.

Freelance and Turbo lost in straight falls due to Freelance accidentally kicking Turbo. They’re feuding now, not sure who went rudo.

CMLL (MON) 06/08 Arena Puebla [KrisZ]
2) Astro Boy, Guerrero Maya Jr., Hijo de Ultraman b Puma King, René Guajardo Jr., Tiger Kid
3) Pequeño Damian 666, Pequeño Violencia, Pierrothito b Bracito de Oro, Electrico, Shockercito
4) Felino, Mr. Niebla, Negro Casas b La Sombra, Shocker, Volador Jr.
5) Atlantis, Misterioso II, Ultimo Guerrero DQ Averno, Terrible, Texano Jr.

Semimian set up Felino/Negro vs Sombra/Volador for the tag titles. Averno fouled UG for the main event DQ.

Marco Corleone says he’s thrilled to be getting a shot at the tag titles at TripleMania, after never getting a title match in CMLL. Marco says he’s talked to Vampiro about his mainstream success and hopes to emulate it. He’s still friends with his friends in CMLL.

Blue Panther talks about the start of his career. He was a big fan of the Pink Panther cartoon!

Ovaciones talked to Electroshock about TripleMania on Wednesday. He thinks the Legion is going to win for sure, because they have the best wrestler in the world on their side (Konnan.) Today, Ovaciones has an interview with Mephisto, about winning the Welterweight title last week.

Local wrestlers in Salamanca are talking about Psicosis II running a TV taping there, on June 28th. Local guys are mentioned, but it also says it’ll feature wrestlers from AAA and CMLL. Maybe formerly from AAA and CMLL.

Box Y Lucha interviews Horus among other features of the latest Cotorreando show.

Hablando de Catch talks to Martha Villaobos about her promotion.

AAA has an article on masks La Parka Jr. has won. Oddly, they include the mask he won as Karis La Momia, when they just talked about Karis La Momia being someone from the past long gone a month ago. AAA also mentions Mini Abismo Negro being on every show since he’s been here except the last one. Uh, triangle match for the minis title anyone?

Dr. Wagner and Mesias dicussed who was going to win at TripleMania on Tercea Caiada.

As noted previously, Elegido has quietly replaced Gran Apache on the TripleMania card.

TripleMania will also be in HD.. This month’s Ras de Lona has Santo returning to AAA.

LuchaWorld has Robert on 03/05/08 AAA and 03/15/08 CMLL, and KrisZ’s news update.

06/13-14 Lucha Times

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Box. Everything is on at the time it usually it is.

AAA-US: All 3 cruiserweight semifinals, and a return.

52MX: Minis & random rudos vs random tecnicos

FOX/LATV: Women’s trios, and No Limit/Warrior vs Trios Champs. I’ll start listing the LATV rerun next week unless they start airing a new episode.

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CMLL: Universal tournament, a seemingly pointless trios with Panther/Sombra/Toscano vs Atlantis/Warrior/Niebla, and Shocker vs Dos.

AAA-Mex: Guest referee for TripleMania revealed, after TripleMania

C3: Top 4 includes more Tuareg/Angels

Puebla: I’ll guess no semimain.

Konnan cleared for TripleMania? Mexico & GDL results

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Compromise today; 3 stories worthwhile to write about right now, and everything else gets held over for a day while I write the lucha times post.

According to AAA (and via Box Y Lucha), Konnan is cleared to participate at TripleMania. Of course, from Day 1 of this suspension, AAA’s said Konnan would be free to participate at TripleMania. The only difference this time is they’re saying they went to a judge who threw out the charges. The judge pointed out the incident would’ve been under the jurisdiction of the Box Y Lucha commission in Tamaulipas (since that’s where the fight happened), and not in Mexico City, and there was no complaint actually filed in Tamaulipas.

The problem here is there’s no third party confirming this, and the Record version of the article quotes Fantasma as being completely unaware of any change as late night.

The judgment makes sense and it’s not a surprise – I’ve been saying for the last week or more than Konnan’s going to end up making this show.

The problem is, I find it hard to believe something occurred just because AAA said it happened, especially since they’ve been talking as if there had been no need for a legal case up to this point.

If pattern holds to form, Fantasma interviews will turn up tomorrow saying it hasn’t happened. However, the Box Y Lucha article does say this story is supposed to be reported on Thursday and Friday, so maybe we’ll get that third party confirmation.

CMLL (TUE) 06/09 Arena Mexico [ESTO]
2) Dark Angel, Estrella Magica, Sahori b Amapola, La Nazi, La Seductora
3) Arkangel de la Muerte, Loco Max, Skandalo b Angel Azteca Jr., Angel de Oro, Angel de Plata
4) Felino, Heavy Metal, Lizmark Jr. b Mascara Dorada, Metro, Mictlan
5) Blue Panther, Shocker, Toscano b Naito, Ultimo Guerrero, Yujiro

Rudos won the second, tecnicos took the second, and Shocker beat UG cleanly in the third. Tecnicas won the second match in straight falls.

CMLL (TUE) 06/09 Arena Coliseo Guadalajara [MT, Fuego en el Ring]
6) Dos Caras Jr. & Mephisto b Hector Garza & Maximo

Fixed.

Rudos took the first, tecnicos the second, rudos clean the third. Maximo, not Garza, feuded with Dos during the match and both recaps focused on their antics instead of talking about any of the undercard.

This arena announced a week long celebration of cultural events (and a boxing show) starting June 16th, including the anniversary show on the 21nd and movies on the 22nd.

CMLL/AAA Top 10s

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I always read all the comments, even if I didn’t remember to reply to them. Here’s one now:

I’m really trying to figure out some kind of ranking of CMLL (based on how the company pushes/ranks them, not ability or anything else. Kinda like how Cena is obviously #1 of WWE, with the next 5 quite clearly being HHH, Edge, Taker, Orton and Batista in debatable order). Obviously Mistico would be #1, with Ultimo Guerrero #2? From comments I’ve read Shocker would have been really high a few years ago, but less so now? Who ranks higher for the rudos, Averno, Atlantis or Negro Casas? Can anyone give me a rough idea what the top 10 of CMLL is?

Thought about this last night, and scribbled a top 10. Let’s see what I had, and please remember this is us trying to estimate how CMLL sees things right at this moment, not how we’d like to see them.

  1. Mistico
  2. Ultimo Guerrero
  3. Negro Casas
  4. Dos Caras Jr.
  5. Shocker
  6. Averno
  7. Hector Garza
  8. Mr. Niebla
  9. Blue Panther
  10. Texano Jr.

Sombra probably would be 10, but Texano kinda has to be after last week’s tournament. I don’t believe it’ll be the same a month from now.

CMLL believes Shocker is #2 tecnico (hey, he won Tuesday!), and he’s doing an even feud with Dos (who’s position is less arguable, I hope.)

What I wrote for AAA

  1. Konnan
  2. Joaquin Roldan
  3. Maricela Pena
  4. Dr. Wagner Jr.
  5. Mesias
  6. La Parka
  7. Latin Lover
  8. Marco Corleone
  9. Silver King
  10. Electroshock

and probably Zorro and X-Pac and Jack in that order, if you insist on only wrestlers, but that wouldn’t be truly accurate in terms of TV. 

I’m not sure Santo should be considered if he’s just in for one show, but I guess just between Parka and Latin if I had to put him somewhere.

CMLL on Televisa #925 (05/23)

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taped 05/22

I got these via files instead of YouTube (which I end up turning into files anyway), so you’re on you’re own for links.

– Hijo del Fantasma, La Mascara ©, Mascara Dorada vs Black Warrior ©, Dragon Rojo Jr., Sangre Azteca – super fun. Tecnicos held their own, but this was carried by Poder Mexica as an efficent killing machine. They’ve reached the point where they know and trust where their partners are going to be on moves, so there’s no more pauses, looks, or match stalling discussions. This Trio was working

– Blue Panther, La Sombra, Volador Jr. © vs Averno ©, Ephesto, Mephisto – this was just a match, outside of Averno submitting to DIZZYNESS. Who knew, all this time, it wasn’t the armbar that Mistico was beating him with, but the big spin part of La Mistica?

– Dos Caras Jr. ©, Negro Casas, Ultimo Guerrero vs Hector Garza, Mistico ©, Shocker – a waste of Shocker. Actually, if this was 2001-03? Shocker, this still would not be working. The Guapos were much more interesting doing a not too dissimilar act.