10/31-11/01 Lucha Times

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This week is confusing. And probably wrong. So the usual.

AAA-US: into the post HdI tapings, with the Xalapa taping that’s been seen a bunch in Mexico.

52MX: no carry over, so we start fresh – guessing Tuareg and Poder Mexica turn up here.

CMLL-MEX: Televisa’s site lists this as a 2h30m slot, and AAA with a 3h30m slot. I find this doubtful. Just assume top 3 and move on.

AAA-MEX: it should be the Leon taping, but if they skip the Cuernavaca show, they’ve skipped the setup for the next two months. Gotta be that Cuernavaca taping. Odd that it’s Thursday by the time most of you will read this, and AAA hasn’t even rolled out the force majure explanation for the rerun last week.

CMLL-FSE: Women and Porky? I’m giving Alan the Porky/V5 feud, a cruel thing to do to a nice person. Strangely, this is on Sunday morning at 9 AM; World Series games are changing a few things here…

AAA-FSE: like this show, which is listed as a new one, airs at 11 pm on Saturday. They have new matches to air – maybe the Wagner and Apache ones?

C3 (SAT): top 4, including Mistico/UG and Avernos/No Limit Villanos. You know, if they’re going to do this trio for six more weeks, please give me one match with Naito and Yujiro as Villano Roku and Villano Shichi.

C3 (SUN): special noon show to air the Yujiro/Warrior match. (Wonder what this will mean for the eventual Negro/Mistico airing.) It’s 2 hours, and there were four matches who didn’t air on TDN, easy enough.

Puebla: listed as a 4pm start again. Good week to leave the main event out.

Monterrey: Alex/Teddy vs Jack/Rocky, plus a FILL title match and a hair match.

Japan vs Hell, Garza/Terrible, AAA

indy (FRI) 10/23 Wild West Ballroom, El Paso, Texas
1) Principle RBD DRAW Drako
2) Metro & Pequeno Suicida b Duke & Hermes Jr.
3) Black Panther & Maquina 45 Jr. b Peluchin Maldad & Scorpio Jr.
4) Crazy Boy 32, Muneco Infernal, Takeda DQ Cinta De Oro, Rocky Star, Tigre Sagrado
5) Casandro, El Hijo Del Santo, Mr. Leo b Bestia II, Bestia Jr., Mystico

Finally! This is the show where Santo was awarded a plaque for hitting 27 years of wrestling. You may have seen photos looking around. DQ in the semimain was for Takeda taking off his own mask and throwing it to Cintia de Oro

CMLL (TUE) 10/27 Arena Mexico [ALAN, ESTO]
1) Apocalipsis & Ramstein b Delta & Trueno
2) Leono, Metálico, Tony Rivera b Calígula, Hooligan, Méssala
3) Dr. X, Skándalo, Vangelis b Fabián el Gitano, Flash, Rouge
4) Averno, Ephesto, Mephisto DQ Naito, Ray Mendoza Jr., Yujiro
5) La Máscara, Místico, Volador Jr. b Atlantis, Heavy Metal, Último Guerrero

No Limit Villanos lost in straight falls, getting DQed in the second for pulling Averno’s match. They appear to be building up Naito vs Mephisto for Mephisto’s (take a guess) NWA World Welterweight Championship.

CMLL (TUE) 10/27 Arena Coliseo Guadalajara [Fuego en el Ring
1) El Divino & Meteoro b Relampago Azul & Skaxy
2) Angelo & Magnum b Ebola & Malefico
3) Mr. Trueno & Rey Trueno b Astaroth & Metal Blanco
4) Hijo del Fantasma, Sagrado, Toscano b Felino, Negro Casas, Shigeo Okumura
5) Héctor Garza & Shocker DQ Terrible & Texano Jr.

Terrible fouled Garza. Okumura replaced Black Warrior, who has predictably disappeared from the face of the earth since losing to Yujiro. The music group Banda el Recodo were watching the show, and threw masks to the fans to promote their upcoming shows.

Yesterday, AAA posted an article designed primarily to antagonize others. (They’ve clearly been reading this blog too long.) Responding to last Friday’s Perros press conference, the articles claims AAA holds the rights to characters who’ve left; specifically Alebrije, Histeria, and Psicosis in this article. The Histeria and Psicosis info is nothing new, just pointing out that the men with the identities now are not the originals (Super Crazy & Nicho) and so can’t really claim to have created the character. The bit about Alebrije is a bit different, with El Mexicano (said to be part of the programming department) explaining how Pena created the look, but Alebrije wanted absolutely nothing to do with it at first. You could sort of see his point, because he was Mascara Sagrada at the time, and that seems like a safer bet. AAA’s point is Alebrije shouldn’t claim to own something he wanted nothing to do with.

All the like/dislike, mean/not-mean stuff really doesn’t matter. If AAA has a piece of paper proving they own the character, they do. They probably do, but who knows with Antonio Pena.

Did I miss something, or is the last line in this note about AAA wrestlers at a movie premiere the first time they’ve mentioned AAA’s movie won’t be out until next year?

Ras de Lona #69 has Sombra, Stuka, and Dragon Rojo talking about their trip to Monaco. Poor Misterioso. Somehow, Porky doesn’t show up until after the meal. Also, Fantasma mentions he speaks English and French and can understand a little Italian. That’s impressive, but it makes me wonder who was the translator for the Sombra/Dorada/Terrible/Ephesto crew. Neither of the tecnicos would’ve been out of (whatever the equivalent of) high school by the time they started wrestling, so they probably weren’t picking up extra languages on the side. Maybe Terrible?

The Gladiadores has video interviews with Dr. Wagner Jr. and Flor Metalica, plus video from the Perros press conference. There’s also a bio of the Huracan Ramriez (Daniel Garcia).

Mascara Dorada and Sombra, visited children in the hospital.

An article on the Arena Juba show with Santo/Demon says they’ll now be in a bull terrier match. Looks like Latin Lover is off the card.

Paraiso de la Lucha Libre has photos from a toy/clothing drive for children hosted by Crazy Star and attended by many indy luchadors.

Kcidis illustrates Ultimo Guerrero getting run over by Strong Man. Kcidis notes Ultimo Guerrero was eventually able to beat Liger, but he’s not beat Strong Man. To me, that clearly means Strong Man > Jushin Liger.

CMLL (MON) 11/02 Arena Puebla
1) Aguila Guerrera, Espiritu Maligno, Sauron vs Black Tiger, Blue Center, SWAT
2) Molotov, Sensei, Trueno vs Durango Kid, Puma King, Tercer Kid
3) Ángel de Oro, Ángel de Plata, Rouge vs Loco Max, Nitro, Virus
4) Brazo de Plata, Hijo del Fantasma, Sagrado vs Felino, Misterioso II, Mr. Niebla
5) Terrible & Texano Jr. vs La Sombra & Volador Jr. [CMLL TAG]

Tercer Kid?

11/20 AAA TV Lineup (Acapulco)

Taping was canceled.

AAA TV (FRI) 11/20 Centro de Convenciones Teotihuacan de Acapulco, Guerrero [Events Acapulco]
1) Aerostar, Cinthia Moreno, Crazy Boy vs Billy Boy, Sexy Star, Tito Santana
2) Fabi Apache & Mari Apache vs Nikki Roxx & Rain
3) Mini Abismo Negro, Mini Histeria, Mini Psicosis vs Mascarita Divina, Mini Charly Manson, Octagoncito
4) Jack Evans & Vampiro vs Joe Lider & Nicho el Millionario
5) El Mesías, Extreme Tiger, Rocky Romero vs Alex Koslov, Chessman, Konnan
6) La Parka Jr., Marco Corleone, Octagón, Pimpinela Escarlata vs Dr. Wagner Jr., Electroshock, Silver King, Último Gladiador

2009 AAA TV Schedule
Projected Air Date (#915?)
Mexico: 11/29?
US: 12/22?

Lineup may be wrong on the 3rd and 4th, because the names are near unreadable on the poster. I would also assume Nikki Roxx does not actually appear, unless she’s the mystery person in Veracruz on Friday. Also, the poster doesn’t actually mention a building; that’s the one the ran the last time here. Note the the poster also mentions Cibernetico will be appearing.

Not a lot going on here that we don’t already know – this could a taping they did today without changing anything, except they’ll probably want to do a big deal with Vampiro’s return besides just having face the Hermandad. (Why would stick a guy with back problems in with Lider, anyway? As always, Joe Lider must be the greatest guy to know, it’s the only reasonable explanation.) It doesn’t tell much about the Guerra de Titanes plans, except I’d wager on Koslov/Tiger as a title match at some point.

More interesting to scheduling nerds is this taping, and last night’s announcement of Guerra de Titanes to take place 12/11 in Madero. Doing some fuzzy math, that probably means there’s 8 tapings less this year, including both the one on Friday and the usual year ending taping in Chilpancingo. Of course, airing a repeat last week could change all of this again.