Month: September 2009

09/06 Arena Coliseo results

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CMLL (SUN) 09/06 Arena Coliseo [CMLL, Ovaciones]
1) Sensei & Trueno b Apocalipsis & Camorra
2) Pequeño Damian 666, Pequeño Warrior, Pierrothito b Eléctrico, Pequeño Olímpico, Último Dragoncito
3) Flash, Metro, Rouge b Euforia, Tiger Kid, Virus
4) Atlantis, Black Warrior, Hijo de Lizmark b Mascara Dorada, Mictlán, Sagrado
5) Héctor Garza, La Máscara, Toscano b Naito, Ray Mendoza Jr., Yujiro

Ray Mendoza Jr. got knocked out catching Hector Garza on a plancha. He was taken to the hospital and held for observation.

Atlantis broke out a green outfit in support of the national team.

Who’s the new CMLL opening match wrestler?

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I think I could spin this bit off into it’s own blog. Typos on websites happen all the time – I don’t want to go read that DG recap, because I can only imagine. However, when the identity of the debuting wrestler has been a source of confusion for a week, it’d nice when it’s put to rest. CMLL goes the other way:

CMLL.coms Friday results
CMLL.com's Friday results

I’ll stop now, I promise. (Unless it’s really bad.)

09/06 AAA TV Results (Tula)

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AAA TV (SUN) 09/06 Plaza de Toros Tula, Hidalgo [luchalibreaaa, LuchandoLibre]
1) Decnnis, Mini Abismo Negro, Polvo de Esterllas, Sexy Star b Gato Eveready, Mari Apache, Octagoncito, Pimpinela Escarlata
2) Aerostar & Fabi Apache b Cinthia Moreno & Oriental [AAA MIXED TAG]
3) Chessman & Zorro b Charly Manson & Crazy Boy
4) Groon XXX, Joe Lider, Nicho el Millionario b El Elegido, Gronda, Jack Evans
5) El Mesías, Extreme Tiger, La Parka Jr., Marco Corleone b Dr. Wagner Jr., Electro Shock, Silver King, Último Gladiador

2009 AAA TV Chart
Projected Air Date (#906)
Mexico: 09/27
US: 10/10

Not a lot of angles on this show.

The only really big news coming out of this show was the title change in the second match. Sexi Star interfered, trying to hit Fabi with a chair, and got Cinthia instead. Fabi took advantage for the win. AAA also posted the note officially saying Oriental is done here. Credit to LuchandoLibre for finding that out weeks in advance. Seems like Cinthia is staying. With Esther coming is as a tecnico and a whole bunch of foreign rudos to feud with, maybe this inadvertent chair shot leads to Cinthia being back on the tecnica side. Fabi & Mari can only feud with so many people at one time.

Report says the crowd was 100% against Dr. Wagner in the main event. Gronda and Gronda only wrestled a little bit in their match. Charly bled a lot, again. Decnnis took out Mari with a Michinoku Driver, which means Billy surely owes him.

Next taping is 09/18 in Puebla. Probably won’t get a lineup for that until next week from AAA, but maybe it’ll turn up elsewhere. They’re hinting we may get the Pena lineup soon, but that show is still 3 weeks away.

Edit: See, typos happen to me too.

09/06 Dragon Gate USA @ Congress Theater

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On the way home, I grabbed the healthiest dinner imaginable at 10pm on a Sunday night – steak quesadilla from Taco Bell with a giant Mountain Dew. Seeing as I won’t be sleeping ever again, I figure I might use my time a bit wisely and get this written up while I’m still thinking about it.

non spoiler summary: Dragon Gate USA’s debut show in Chicago was a very strong show. I’ve watched next to nil indy wrestling this year and I’m not big on star ratings, so your millage may vary. To my eyes, it had a match I thought was match of the year caliber, and it also had match which everyone in the world will think is MOTYC. There were three more pretty good matches and a couple OK match. If you’re interested in this style of wrestling, you’ll be very satisfied with the PPV and the DVD, and I’d highly recommend people checking out the next show in Chicago (01/23/10).

The rest of this is going to be the usual 50,000 words length. You’ve been warned.
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San Juan, previews, lineups

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I’m headed to the Dragon Gate US show in a few hours, so I figured I’d do this now and not even have to worry about it whenever I get back. I’ll be twittering about the show @luchablog – count how many people I miss identity! – and probably doing a post about it later. Tomorrow is a holiday here, but there will probably be an update at some point.

CMLL (FRI) 09/04 Arena San Juan Pantitlan [EdR]
1) Halcon Tarin b Espectrito I, Boricua, Malevo, Rey del Espacio II, Colombiano, Nino de Ebano, Caricia, Cachetada, Diva Salvaje, Pegasso Black, Chamaco Badillo, Black Dog, Payaso Kulkitaka
2) Cassandra, Estrella Magica, Luna Mágica b La Nazi, La Seductora, Lady Sensacion
3) Rayo Tapatío II, Tony Rivera, X-Fly b Infinito, Miserable, Ricky Ricon
4) Kai, Starman, Super Brazo, Super Muñeco b Arkangel de la Muerte, Dr. X, Nosawa, Pierko el Boricua

AJPW guys got in and worked the show. Luna Magica is back in the ring, though not on any CMLL lineups yet.

Ovaciones previews this afternoon’s Arena Coliseo show, as Garza preparing for his singles match on Tuesday. Weirdly, they’ve got a different semimian in the article – Sagrado/Dorado/Mictlan vs Lizmark/Mephisto/Ephesto – then in the ad right below the article (Atlantis & Warrior in for Mephisto & Ephesto). Ad also has the minis match as the tercera, which would put it on TV (in theory anyway.)

Meanwhile, AAA tapes TV tonight in Tula, Hidalgo. Hyped main events are Wagnermaniacs vs Mesias & Team AAA and the first Gronda on Gronda action in an official match. Real item of interest is the Aero/Fabi vs Oriental/Cinthia match for the Mixed Tag titles. AAA still hasn’t acknowledged LuchandoLibre’s story about Oriental being done here – AAA’s too busy talking about other people being done in AAA, I guess – but if you’re somehow on the fence about it, SuperLuchas has Oriental working the main event of a Perros show in a couple weeks. I hope he gets ones of those $7000 paydays I’ve been reading about!

In other paragraphs that are just going to result in trouble, AAA has a official hi5 page. The promotional device is set to private. Of course it is! Let’s see if they approve my friend request.

SuperLuchas #330 has more on Mistico & Negro, plus interviews with Scorpio Jr. and Alex Koslov. If I was rating my belief in Alex actually leaving AAA and going back to CMLL from a scale of 1 (staying) for 5 (going), I think the interview dropped me from a 2.0 to 1.5. Posing in front of Arena Mexico counts as trying to hard. (By all rights, I should be thinking it as a 4, so we’ll see.) SuperLuchas times last Sunday’s IWGP title match as going 12:04, off falls of 4:14, 2:41, and 5:09, if the NJPW fans still need that info.

LuchaWorld has KrisZ’s news update

Lineups:

CMLL (TUE) 09/08 Arena Mexico
1) Sensei & Trueno vs Artillero & Súper Comando
2) Ángel Azteca Jr., Angel de Oro, Angel de Plata vs Arkangel de la Muerte, Nitro, Skándalo
3) Mascara Dorada, Sagrado, Stuka Jr. vs Pólvora, Vangelis, Virus
4) La Sombra, Valiente, Volador Jr. vs Dragon Rojo Jr., Misterioso II, Sangre Azteca
5) Héctor Garza vs Mephisto

Polvora in the tercera? Huh. Garza/Mephisto is not a hair/mask match, or a title match for that matter.

IWRG (THU) 09/10 Arena Naucalpan
1) Imperial vs Comando del Diablo
2) Bushi, Exodia, Turbo vs Carta Brava Jr., Gringo Loco, Heavy Boy
3) Avisman vs Freelance
4) Masada & Nosawa vs Bobby Lee Jr. & Suicida
5) Ricky Cruz & Scorpio Jr. vs Máscara Año 2000 & Pirata Morgan

Avisman vs Freelance does not appear to be a title match. Hey, Turbo.

CMLL (FRI) 09/11 Arena Mexico
1) Diamante & Starman vs Camorra & Escorpion
2) Eléctrico, Pequeño Olímpico, Último Dragoncito vs Pequeño Damian 666, Pequeno Nitro, Pierrothito
3) Máximo, Mictlán, Rouge vs Euforia, Nosferatu, Vangelis
4) La Máscara vs Terrible [lightning]
5) Blue Panther, Héctor Garza, Toscano vs Felino, Mr. Niebla, Negro Casas
6) Atlantis, Black Warrior, Último Guerrero vs Jushin Liger, Naito, Yujiro

So much for Liger coming in as a tecnico? Again, he seems very much paired up with UG. No Mistico on the lineup the week before he main events, though he may yet put in an appearance.

CMLL (SUN) 09/13 Arena Coliseo
1) Astro Boy & Molotov vs Disturbio & Semental
2) Guerrero Maya Jr., Pegasso, Rey Cometa vs Arkangel de la Muerte, Loco Max, Skándalo
3) Dark Angel, Lluvia, Marcela vs Hiroka, Mima Shimoda, Princesa Blanca
4) Máximo, Stuka Jr., Valiente vs Dragon Rojo Jr., Sangre Azteca, Shigeo Okumura
5) La Sombra, Místico, Volador Jr. vs Jushin Liger, Tetsuya Naito, Yujiro

It’s “Disturbio” here, so someone figured out his name between the time they sent out the Puebla lineup and these. Always good to see them remembering to do Liger/Mistico on some level.

CMLL (SUN) 09/13 Arena Coliseo Guadalajara
1) Idolo & Thunder Boy vs Güero Loco & Relampago
2) Astaroth & Virgo vs Ebola & Fraile de la Muerte
3) Metal Blanco & Palacio Negro vs Mr. Trueno & Rey Trueno
4) Flash, Mascara Dorada, Sagrado vs Ephesto, Mephisto, Misterioso II
5) Héctor Garza, La Máscara, Toscano vs Atlantis, Mr. Niebla, Último Guerrero

IWRG (SUN) 09/13 Arena Naucalpan
1) Talisman Jr. vs Blasfemia
2) Miss Gaviota & Star Boy vs Insolito & Memphis
3) Gemelo Fantastico I, Gemelo Fantastico II, Jack vs Brandon, Capitán Muerte, Gringo Loco
4) Bushi, Chico Che, Exodia vs Oficial 911, Oficial AK47, Oficial Fierro
5) Ricky Cruz, Stuka I, Trauma I vs Fuerza Guerrera, Juventud Guerrera, Veneno

Looks like Super X vs IWRG is starting back up again, though Stuka I is unexpected.

Who’s the AAA World Mega Champion?

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I really don’t want to pick on AAA, but sometimes they make it impossible.

AAA quality control at work!

You know, just to preemptively respond to the inevitable veiled response, I wish AAA was more willing to laugh at their own mistakes, rather than lash out at anyone who might suggest they’re not most well run promotion in the world. No one’s expecting them to be that – no one’s going to express genuine shock over this in the comments, I’m sure – earnestly trying to be better, while humbly acknowledging mistakes, will win us over.