Day: October 14, 2009

AAA #904 (09/19) – Verano de Escandalo, part 1

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taped 08/21/2009

No explanation, or even a hint that something’s changes, for the Psycho Clowns names or Ultimo Gladiador’s look or alignment. Six writers, you think one could bother.

Killer Murder Clown, Psycho Clown ©, Zombie Monster Clown vs Kenzo Suzuki ©, Oriental, Sugi – more anticlimactic finish? The Yakuza’s push or the end of this match?

Extreme Tiger vs Jack Evans and Rocky Romero and Teddy Hart and Alex Koslov for the AAA World Cruiserweight Championship (and part 2) – hey, look a big injury angle that’ll be completely ignored the next show. Don’t see that often.

This picked up nicely down the stretch, and I’ve really been enjoying Koslov the last few weeks. He’s acting like a proper rudo, getting beat up and cheating to win, and it’s a big difference than the heel stuff on these shows.

La Parka Jr., Marco Corleone, Octagon vs Electroshock, Silver King, Ultimo Gladiador – this went exactly the right time; I appreciate them not trying to get everything in, because it usually drags when they do that and no one really needs to see everything (much less everything every match, because then it just turns into Teddy Hart’s Checklist of Moves.)

Aerostar vs Fabi Apache, Billy Boy, Sexy Star for the mask and a hair in a cage match (and part 2)- better than I expected; not the mess most lucha cage matches were, and better than the other one. Billy looks disinterested, but does hold up his end in the match, Fabi and Aero are good and Sexi Star is Sexi Star.

We spent 100x more discussing the foreign women than the impact they had on the show. They really could’ve picked any three women out of wrestling school and had them mean the same thing. (And since two seem not to be coming back, they might as well.) You don’t really need to fly good wrestlers in if they’re only going to stomp people for about a minute and not actually have wrestling matches. There were a lot cheaper ways to overshadow the finish here.

The Esther Moreno stuff is going to go into the pile of angle setups that went nowhere, right?

Puebla, GDL, Leon, 12 Corazones

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CMLL (MON) 10/12 Arena Puebla [Fuego en el Ring]
1) Asturiano & King Jaguar b Alarido & Ares
2) Diamante & Guerrero Maya Jr. b Calígula & Méssala
3) Pequeño Damian 666 & Pequeño Warrior b Eléctrico & Tzuki
4) Volador Jr. b Mephisto, Averno, La Máscara, Texano, Valiente, Black Warrior, Sagrado, Ephesto, Máscara Dorada, Sangre Azteca, Flash [cibernetico]
5) La Sombra, Místico, Strong Man DQ Felino, Mr. Niebla, Negro Casas

Niebla tried tossing his mask to Strong Man for the DQ, but the refs figured it out and DQed Niebla. Niebla challenged Strong Man to a singles match for next week, which would be remarkable. Kcidis already has an illustration of this.

Semimain did turn out to be a cibernetico. Volador was last tecnico standing against both Averno & Mephisto, but got the moonsault slam on Averno and a ‘rana on Mephisto for the win. Match was said to be good. Sangre/Dorada was the required double elimination pinfall.

CMLL (TUE) 10/13 Arena Coliseo Guadalajara [Informador, Fuego en el Ring]
1) Angelo & Saturno b Ebola & Egipcio
2) Acertijo & Malefico b Metal Blanco & Samurai
3) Ángel del Mal & Máscara Mágica b Gallo & Horus
4) Nosferatu & Vangelis b Ángel de Oro & Ángel de Plata
5) Héctor Garza, La Máscara, Strong Man b Naito, Terrible, Yujiro

Strong Man beat both of No Limit for the win.

Princesa Blanca retained the Mexican Women’s Championship last night. CMLL has photos but not results up.

AAA posted the lineup for the Monday Leon taping. Minis opener is Octagoncito/Divina/Charly vs Abismo/Psicosis/Histeria, and everything else is as it was.

Box Y Lucha says the other AAA teams on the 12 Corazones show were Sexi Star & Billy Boy, Fabi Apache & Aerostar, Estrellita & Elegido, Jenny (edecan?) & Gronda (!!), with Marco Corleone as one of the hosts. Clearly this show isn’t fixed, because there’s no way Brazo & Hechicera win over those couples unless it somehow legit. Plenty of pictures here, but of course video is blocked for people in the US. Looks like there was a random Gran Apache/Billy Boy fight, as tends to happen. It does appear like it’s all Elegido’s fault that Estrellita still isn’t making it back onto TV.

Early previews for Friday’s hair match: Ovaciones, Box Y Lucha.

The Gladiatores has an interview with Ultimo Dragon about his career.

The random Japanese women with Bushi on last Sunday’s IWRG show were Revolucion Amandra, Atsuko Emoto, Tomoka Nakagawa, and Kyoko Kimura, who will be wresting with IWRG and on a mystery Toryumon show over the next two weeks. I think Emoto is wrestling for CHIKARA (just not as Emoto) this weekend.

LuchandoLibre points to Tiger Mask IV talking about Canek.

There’s a lucha libre reality show airing in Tampico, though it sounds less like reality and more like people pretending to be real. Which is a lot like reality shows, actually.

Gotonami’s lucha libre lineup blog is moving to http://jikolucha.blog18.fc2.com/.

Cronicas y Leyendas de la Lucha Libre looks back at Nitron and Liger in 1991.

Luchas2000 491 previews the upcoming CMLL stip matches, and also has an interview with Groon XXX. Groon says he expected to be in the main events like the star he clearly is, so when AAA had him third from the top facing an imposter, they were totally disrespecting him. (Where did Groon work on the Perros show? Third from the top.) Groon spends 2/3rs of the interview ripping AAA, then says Esther Moreno (past/current? significant other) is staying with AAA. Maybe not after that interview, plus I’d guess Esther was brought back just to sweeten the deal for Groon.

Speaking of Perros del mal, they have their own facebook page, with a promise of updating their website “soon”. They’re still saying the first episode airs Saturday at 9pm Central Time on Canal 4 Televisa. Right now, Televisa lists that slot as the last half hour of La Rosa del Caribe. Something’s not right here; if Morales and Riano were not at the TV taping, and if the Perro weren’t so insistent about the show (to the point where they’re going to look bad if it doesn’t come off), I’d think this was all made up. On the other hand, it’s not like Televisa is ever that good about listings.

Totally random story of the day: Chris Bosh of the Toronto Raptors (that’s basketball), successfully sued someone who had registered the chrisbosh.com domain and was holding it hostage. You’re not allowed to domain squat other people’s names, and so Bosh and his legal team got the rights to that domain…plus all the other domains they were hording. Most of it’s basketball players, but there’s MMA fighters and other completely random names. Most random? eloctagon.com! AAA ought to either read this post or this pdf, since Bosh’s people are giving this all back to the rightful people for free.