Month: December 2009

CMLL (SUN) 12/27 Arena Coliseo Guadalajara [Fuego en el Ring]
0) Guerrero Romano b Owen
1) Titanio b El Divino
2) Metatrón & Saturno b Exterminador & Malefico
3) Gallo & Metal Blanco b Ángel del Mal & Ebola
4) Shigeo Okumura & Vangelis b Ángel de Oro & Ángel de Plata
5) Brazo de Plata, La Máscara, Volador Jr. b Averno, Mephisto, Rey Bucanero

Rey Bucanero replaced Ephesto, got squashed by Porky for the loss.

AAA says http://www.youtube.com/parka20091 is it’s new offical youTube site of AAA classics. They also look back at March & April.

Ultimo Guerrero plans on making 2010 even better than 2009, by starting the year by winning the Junior Heavyweight Tag Titles.

Sportimes interviews Puebla wrestler SWAT, fails to get correct spelling of his name.

Cesar previews the last and first Arena Mexico cards of the year(s).

While Incognito has been pretty much confirmed as one part of a (unmasked) local tag team on ECW two weeks ago, SuperLuchas wonders if his tag team partner might have been Super Nova.

Ohtani’s Jacket looks back at Felino vs Hijo del Santo from 1996.

Cronicas Y Leyendas looks back at Great Muta in Mexico, all the way back in 2006.

DJ Spectro is closing up shop.

LuchaWorld has KrisZ’s news update.

CMLL (SUN) 01/03 Arena Coliseo
1) Principe & Súper Camaleón vs Cholo & Ramstein
2) Metálico, Molotov, Sensei vs Dr. X, Hooligan, Nitro
3) Bam Bam, Eléctrico, Mascarita Dorada vs Pequeño Universo 2000, Pequeño Violencia, Pequeño Warrior
4) Flash, Leono, Rush vs Cancerbero, Raciel, Virus
5) Brazo de Plata, Shocker, Toscano vs Dragon Rojo Jr., Ray Mendoza Jr., Rey Bucanero

That’s a weak semimain event. Maybe they’re adding a match and changing the card (Ramstein in a match always seems like a fakeout) , but there’s no obvious match to be added.

CMLL (FRI) 12/25 Arena Mexico [ESTO, Cesar]
1) Camorra & Inquisidor b Delta & Trueno
2) Lady Apache, Lluvia, Marcela DQ Hiroka, La Comandante, Princesa Sujei
3) Sangre Azteca b Fuego [lightning]
4) Pequeño Damian 666, Pequeño Nitro, Pequeño Warrior b Mascarita Dorada, Pequeño Olímpico, Shockercito
5) La Máscara, Sagrado, Valiente b Felino, Mr. Niebla, Negro Casas
6) Brazo de Plata, Místico, Volador Jr. b Atlantis, Rey Bucanero, Último Guerrero

ESTO says good attendance, though it’s hard to know what exactly that means for the gate, given all the free tickets. Porky sat on Atlantis for the pinfall in the main event. DQ in the semimain was for Hiroka accidentally kicking the referee when aiming for Marcela.

In other Christmas shows – haven’t seen results yet, but Black Terry Jr.’s pictures indicate the Oficials retained their IWRG trios titles.

Charly Manson talks about his feud with X-Fly to TabascoHoy. Wonder where they’ll end up doing that hair match.

Cronicas Y Leyendas writes about Latin Lover’s debut and Satanico taking Kato Kung Lee’s hair.

Lineups

CMLL (TUE) 12/29 Arena Mexico
1) Apolo Estrada Jr. & Astro Boy vs Disturbio & Inquisidor
2) Dalis la Caribeña, Estrella Mágica, Lluvia vs Amapola, La Seductora, Zeuxis
3) Delta, Leono, Valiente vs Dragon Rojo Jr., Misterioso II, Sangre Azteca and Diamante, Pegasso, Rey Cometa and Fabián el Gitano, Máximo, Rush [MEX TRIOS, tournament]
4) La Máscara, Stuka Jr., Volador Jr. vs Averno, Ephesto, Mephisto

– Delta, Leono, Valiente have teamed 0 times
– Diamante, Pegasso, Rey Cometa have teamed 0 times
– Fabian, Maximo and Rouge have teamed 0 times

Poder Mexica has to win this, but I’m totally unsure they will.

CMLL (FRI) 01/01 Arena Mexico
1) Guerrero Maya Jr. & Starman vs Artillero & Súper Comando
2) Ángel Azteca Jr., Ángel de Oro, Ángel de Plata vs Arkangel de la Muerte, Loco Max, Skándalo
3) Marcela vs Hiroka [lightning]
4) Máximo, Metro, Stuka Jr. vs Euforia, Pólvora, Virus
5) La Máscara, Sagrado, Toscano vs Dragon Rojo Jr., Rey Bucanero, Sangre Azteca
6) Brazo de Plata, Máscara Dorada, Místico vs Mephisto, Terrible, Texano Jr.

They built the lighting match up, which is a bit surprising. Nothing much eles going on.

Cesar’s 2009 CMLL in review turns into an epic rant on the complete failures of all the independent promotions.

Hector Garza is willing to risk not just the trios championships versus the Guerreros, but Fantasma and Mascara’s masks. I’m sure his teammates really appreciate that.

Cronicas Y Leyendas looks at
Perro Sr. vs Faron in 1978, and Perro Sr. & Faraon teaming in 1985. Things change. Also, Fishman winning back the welterweight title in 1977, and Canek, wrestler of the year 1978.

Not much today, obviously. Probably a recap a little later.

New Japan has posted their final lineup for the 01/04 Tokyo Dome show. Averno & Ultimo Guerrero will be getting a shot at the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team titles, versus current champions Ryusuke Taguchi and Prince Devitt. A title change seems pretty unlikely, but it should be a good match.

The thing is – and I tried to explain this once today and failed so don’t expect much – CMLL is so strict about separation between tecnicos and rudos. So much so they can’t be seen together on all the foreign tour highlights they show, and that the editing pretends they tecnicos and rudos might have taken separate flights all the way from Mexico City to France. Here, in an actual match, two guys who should be feuding will be teaming up and CMLL has no problem with it. I’m not sure if that means they just see rudo/rudo as a different thing, or if they’ve just dropped the Hijo de Avernos/Guerreros feud without telling anyone (and at the oddest time, since Rey Bucanero returning should’ve actually heated it up again.)

Sangre Azteca thinks Poder Mexica is in the tournament for the Mexican Trios championship. Just by the numbers, he might be right, but we’ll see. Meanwhile, Misterioso is demanding a shot at Ultimo Guerrero’s heavyweight championship. Misterioso does seem like he’s moved up weight divisions lately.

The NWA emailed me – and SuperLuchas, apparently – to say the Auditorio Muncipal de Tampico show poster is a fraud. It did seem like a odd way for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship to be defended (though guys like Loco Castillo are regularly in that area and that building), and the NWA would know Blue Demon’s schedule better than the rest of us.

The Gladiatores has interviews with Eduardo Soto & Marcos Medina from EAW, Psicosis II, Capitan Muerte, and Zatura.

AAA has it’s look back at Feburary 2009, including the big Silver King turn on on La Parka Jr., which got paid off with – I dunno. They were both in the cage match, they talked about a mask match, that’s about it.

Estrellas del Ring look at 2009 for Los Pierroths.

Proyeccion Luchistica has his pick for Rudo of 2009.

Cesar previews CMLL’s Christmas Day card. Lineup, I mean. I would like a preview of any lucha holiday greeting card, but I’m thinking no on that one.

CMLL (MON) 12/28 Arena Puebla
1) Black Tiger & Centella de Oro vs Mr. Rafaga & Sauron
2) Apocalipsis, Puma King, Tiger Kid vs Delta, Molotov, Trueno
3) Arkangel de la Muerte, Loco Max, Skándalo vs Ángel Azteca Jr., Ángel de Oro, Ángel de Plata
4) Metro, Sagrado, Valiente vs Dragon Rojo Jr., Euforia, Shigeo Okumura
5) Rey Bucanero, Sangre Azteca, Último Guerrero vs La Máscara, Místico, Shocker