Day: April 14, 2010

06/11 Viva La Lucha Libre PPV (updated, twice!)

thecubsfan 20 Comments

Edit 3: I’m just going to leave all the rest of this here like an archelogical dig. Older edits on the bottom, newer stuff on the top.

Today’s changes

PdM (SUN) 05/02 Sala de Armas Magdalena Mixhuca, DF
1) Turbo vs Black Thunder [NWA MEX LIGHT]
2) Estrellita, Leo, Oriental vs Medussa, Pesadilla, Ragde
3) Nova & Oriental vs El Hijo de Rey Misterio & Groon XXX
4) Mr. Águila vs TJP
5) Damián 666 vs X-Fly, ?, Charly Manson, Halloween [hardcore]
6) El Hijo Del Santo, Latin ♥, Marco Corleone vs Blue Demon Jr., el Hijo del Perro Aguayo, Hijo del Lizmark

That’s the name they have on the poster for Latin Lover. Don’t ask how I can type that.

Lizmark moved to the main event to work opposite Marco, with Latin & Perro against each other too.

Edit 2: The poster turns out to be right; Sabu’s not in that hardcore match right now, but will be in a match on the PPV. Also, it looks like Leo will be in the trios match, not Angel. Anyone want to put over/under on how many edits I end up doing to this post?

Edit:Perros del Mal put up their own lineup, which I’ve added below. Sabu is the mystery person on that poster. No mention of Dreamer. Between the two lineups, we’ve probably got the whole a card, though there’s one match that doesn’t quite work. I’ve edited the post below to make sense of it.

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Website is http://www.vivalalucha.com/; very Perros del Mal banner on the top.  They posted a partial lineup posted so far:

PdM (SUN) 05/02 Sala de Armas Magdalena Mixhuca, DF
1) Turbo vs Black Thunder [NWA MEX LIGHT]
2) Estrellita, Leo, Súper Nova vs Medussa, Pesadilla, Ragde
3) Hijo del Lizmark & Oriental vs El Hijo de Rey Misterio & Groon XXX
4) Mr. Águila vs TJP
5) Damián 666 vs X-Fly, Sabu ?, Charly Manson, Halloween [hardcore]
6) El Hijo Del Santo & Marco Corleone vs Blue Demon Jr. & el Hijo del Perro Aguayo

Poster advertises El Angel, so I would suspect he’s the guy who ends up teaming with Super Nova. (Edit: Or not.) Everyone else is accounted for!

Like the DGUSA PPVs, and ROH PPVs before them, this show will be taped and in advance of airing and repeat many times. This PPV airs in a month DGUSA does not, with the idea that it’d be a regular every other month thing. No price, but it’s probably in the same range as those other shows and depends on the market.

It’s amazing that the Perros del Mal have US PPV, while AAA and CMLL do not. (It’s also amazing that I don’t yet have a way to order this PPV. I’ve got two months to figure it out.)

TJP is TJ Perkins, CMLL Havana Brother of long ago. This is mostly irrelevant to this post, but he’s also working the DGUSA shows and I thought there was some deal where guys had to be PPV exclusive. Probably don’t know what I’m talking about here. His match should be good, and 1/2 should be fun.

PdM (SUN) 05/02 Sala de Armas Magdalena Mixhuca, DF
1) Turbo vs Black Thunder [NWA MEX LIGHT]
2) Estrellita, Leo, Oriental vs Medussa, Pesadilla, Ragde
4) Nova & Oriental vs El Hijo de Rey Misterio & Groon XXX
4) Mr. Águila vs TJP
5) Damián 666 vs X-Fly, Sabu, Charly Manson, Halloween [hardcore]
6) El Hijo Del Santo, Latin ♥, Marco Corleone vs Blue Demon Jr., el Hijo del Perro Aguayo, Hijo del Lizmark

top six stories of the last two weeks

thecubsfan 8 Comments

1) Perros del Mal and Masked Republic to tape US PPV on May 2nd. This is not totally new; a PPV had been announced but the participants, location and date have all changed. Match wise, this is not actually a big show for the Perros – the hair and mask marches will take place in Tijuana the night before – but it’s still overloaded with names and is more important from a business perspective.

2) After the Casas brothers walked out on Mistico in a trios match, Mistico declared he’s back to being 100% tecnico. This was done abruptly, and Mistico continued to cheat to win matches and still was occasionally booked on rudo sides, but it appears he means what he says. With the exception of lingering Volador/Sombra/Mistico tension, it seems as if CMLL is returning to the status quo before the Mistico turn.

3) Electroshock & Silver King turned on Dr. Wagner Jr. Up until now, they build had been towards Electro being kciked out of the group, but when things finally broke down between Wagner & Electro, Silver King surprisingly attacked his brother and threw in with Electroshock. It looks like Ultimo Gladiador will be sticking with the rudos, which leaves Dr. Wagner with…Pimpinela? (Or maybe this is just a clever way to phase out Wagner should he not decide to stay around.)

4) A bunch of ex-AAA wrestlers made a run-in on Monday’s CMLL Arena Puebla show, attacking tecnicos. The group included Histeria, Psicosis, Alebrije, Maniaco Even Cuije was in on the rudo sneak attack, taking out Monito. This is definitely the first part of a bigger story, but the scope of the angle is unknown – will it go beyond Arena Puebla? Will it include other former AAA or current Perros del Mal wrestlers?

5) The AAA video game, “Lucha Libre AAA: Heroes en el Ring 2011” got a US distributor and a release date. Konami will be releasing the game August 8th, and earlier reviews were high on the graphics but not as much on the gameplay. WWE video games sell well and TNA’s game flopped, so brand recognition means a lot, but TNA’s game might have sunk more for the gameplay and the story. This seems like a longshot to do well right away, but it’s a long shot I’m excited for. The trailer is really strong.

6) After a couple weeks of not getting along with his partners, Hector Garza appears headed back to the rudo side. Garza, still trios champ with tecnicos Fantasma and Mascara, is booked on the rudo side on Friday (w/Polvora in the Gran Alternativa) and Sunday (feuding with Strong Man)