luchawiki.org is back up and open for editing. I encourage people to try it out, and see if I’ve broken anything. I probably have.
luchawiki.com should redirect to the site shortly, but I’m waiting on a DNS change. If you’re seeing something about a suspended page, you need to try luchawiki.org.
Thanks for your patience.
I keep forgetting to mention this, and it’s not going to last too much longer so I better get to it.
CHIKARA is offering a two dollar ($2US) DVD sampler thru SmartMarkVideo. (Deal is only in the US, sorry my friends in Mexico.) It’s 2 hours. It’s 5 matches. It’s really good stuff. If you a person who is interested enough in lucha libre to be reading this blog regularly and have not already checked out CHIKARA, you need to go buy this DVD right now. Stop reading, go do it! Deal ends 10/03, so you need to stop wasting time.
IN FACT, I’m going to make a one time offer. IF you are a regular on this blog (and I know who you are, because there’s really only like 13 of you) who hasn’t seen CHIKARA before, IF you buy this DVD and do not get your $2 worth, you can send it to me, and I’ll paypal you TWO DOLLARS back.
(I am making this deal because I do not expect to be paying any money back, and plus I will not pay your shipping costs so you’d might be losing money on the refund, but the principal is there. Also, it’s TWO DOLLARS. )
Go to SmartMarkVideo, order the DVD, enjoy the DVD. Actually, while you’re at SmartMark, go buy something else that looks good, because there’s no way they’re making money on TWO DOLLAR DVDs.
End free plug.
AAA will be returning to the US on 10/22 in Dallas, TX at the Escapade 2001 night club.
AAA (THU) 10/22 Escapade 2001, Dallas, TX
1) Fabi Apache & Octagoncito vs Mini Abismo Negro & Sexy Star
2) Crazy Boy, Marco Corleone, Súper Fly vs Killer Clown, Psycho Clown, Zombie Clown
3) Jack Evans, La Parka Jr., Laredo Kid vs Ozz, Silver King, Teddy Hart
That’s a lot smaller venue then they were running in California, though they have hosted lucha libre before. Tickets go on sale tomorrow, somewhere. (Thanks to LLL for pointing this out.)
Might not be the only show in the US this year. Apparently, Teddy Hart told the hosts of the Sunday Night Showdown show (on their latest show, around 2:03:50) about upcoming plans for AAA and himself. According to Teddy, AAA and Puerto Rico’s WWC have reached an agreement where each side will be sending a dozen over to work against each other, with a major AAA vs WWC show in Puerto Rico in December. Teddy also says he and Jack will be getting a tryout with WWE’s Florida Championship Wrestling in late October. IMPORTANT NOTE: This is coming from Teddy Hart, involves AAA doing something, plus it’s surely possible something may have gotten misunderstood here – it’s a 50/50 bet at best, and probably shouldn’t be thought about too much until/IF! it actually happens on TV. Even the hosts of the show point that out. Thanks to Latino718 for pointing this out to me.
CMLL (TUE) 09/29 Arena Mexico [ESTO, CMLL]
1) Camorra & Cholo b Freelance? & Súper Camaleón
2) Bronco, Dr. X, Escorpion b Diamante, Fabián el Gitano, Tony Rivera
3) Lady Apache, Lluvia, Marcela DQ Amapola, La Nazi, Princesa Blanca
4) Dragon Rojo Jr., Misterioso II, Sangre Azteca b Máscara Dorada, Sagrado, Stuka Jr.
5) Héctor Garza, Hijo del Fantasma, La Máscara b Atlantis, Heavy Metal, Ray Mendoza Jr.
As suggested, Atlantis and Mendoza could not get along. It appeared Mendoza cost his team the first fall, so Metal took Atlantis side. Rudos managed to get it together for most the second fall, but Mendoza got annoyed with his teammates, they kicked him out of the ring, and the tecnicos pulled them into campanas for the win. Metal and Atlantis beat up V5 after the match.
Semimain sounds good.
No word on the DQ in the women’s match, but I’d assume Blanca pulled Lluvia’s mask again. CMLL mentions the DQ but doesn’t even show a picture of it.
CMLL lists the opening match partner of Super Camaleon as “Freelance”, but it’s a masked guy who doesn’t appear to be the Freelance we all know. It was supposed to be “Freesbee”, and it probably still was, but we’ll wait for the correction.
CMLL (TUE) 09/29 Arena Coliseo Guadalajara [Fuego en el Ring]
1) In Memoria & Relampago Azul b El Divino & Meteoro
2) Angel del Mal & Drago b Idolo & Metatrón
3) Gallo & Palacio Negro b Malefico & Rey Trueno
4) Mictlán & Rouge b Shigeo Okumura & Virus
5) Ephesto, Terrible, Texano b Máximo, Shocker, Toscano
Rudos appeared to have won clean. Rouge hurt himself on a dive in the third fall of the semimain, but was able to recover enough to get his hand raised. Amusing to see Okumura lose here given the push in DF.
The Gladiatores has an interview with Charly Manson, who might have a little to talk about. There’s also a text interview with Oriental about his career and look, and more video interviews with Pantera and a two part interview with UWA wrestler Babe Face
Estrella del Ring has text interviews with Cuernavaca wrestler Eddy Vega and Acapulco’s Captian Atomo.
Hablando de catch takes a look at the work of the primary belt maker in Mexico, Santos Rodriguez and his many belts. He started out as a wrestler, as Estadio de Mexico lightweight champion, who wanted to have a copy of the belt, so he learned how to make them. I didn’t notice this before, but upon close inspection of the CMLL Universal Championship, it appears Rodriguez agrees with those who no longer rate Pluto as a planet.
Kcidis has a picture of Solar.
Ohtani’s Jacket watches Policeman vs Centella de Oro from the Arena Puebla anniversary show
LuchaWorld has KrisZ’s update.
It’s taking forever. I was up to 2am last night and still couldn’t get some of the folders to sync off the old server to my PC.
I’m already putting them up on the new server, but no idea how long uploading the database is going to take, and I can’t do that until I change the DNS, and I don’t want to do that until I get all the files off. The site may be down for editing until this weekend, though I’m obviously hoping for better.
We may have a situation where one of the address points to the old site until I get the new site running, but but I’ll let you know when I get that far.
Not really keen on making this move, but server costs went up 6x last month so I didn’t feel like I had much of a choice. Luchawiki is not a non-profit, it’s a non-revenue, so there’s not exactly money in the budget for such increases. Apologies for any inconvenience.
Update!: Progress is going much better, but these thumbnails are killing me.
Anyway, for the time being