AAA #910 (10/31)

taped at Arena Xalapa on 10/09/2009. This was the short version of this show.

Laredo Kid, Octagón, Súper Fly vs Cuervo, Escoria, Ozz – HOORAY, they finished off the Super Fly rudo turn angle. In a completely unsatisfying way, but an actual conclusion to a storyline in AAA should be noted and praised. (Unlike this match.)

Dr. Wagner Jr., Electroshock, Último Gladiador vs Go Shiozaki, Kenzo Suzuki, Sugi – by the time you’re reading this, everyone’s forgetting Go Shiozaki was in Mexico. Except for the battle on the bridge! (And maybe the mumps.) In typical AAA fashion, there was so little done to build up the foreigner coming in for these shows that one wonders what the point for AAA (the point for NOAH was “hey, look, he’s a star in Mexico too!” but no he wasn’t.) The one exception to this is Sugi, who they actually genuinely tried, and then he broke. Before he left, AAA was so positive that Sugi would be back that I almost believe them. Almost!

Sugi goes out losing to Electroshock. Of course he does.

El Mesías, La Parka Jr., Marco Corleone vs Cibernético, Joe Lider, Nicho el Millionario – in hindsight, because that’s the only sight I’ve got when I’m putting up month+ old recaps, it’s kinda amazing how cleanly they put over Cibernetico here when he was going to end up far out of the title picture. Perhaps that wasn’t the plan at the time?

The second angle of Cibernetico/Konnan kinda worked in parts, but didn’t make sense as a concept – why were they taping it in the first place? Where was “Cibernetico walking down the hallway, talking about Antonio Pena, unmasked wrestlers clearly in the background” ever going to air? It did end up flipping the story around from what the Pirate Security Camera Video told (Konnan bleeding AAA so much that it hurts to see that dork Cibernetico win) to what actually happened (Konnan is the dork).