Month: May 2010

All the talk about Maximo vs Taichi brings up Maximo losing his hair to Okumura last year. He’s going to look really dumb if he loses again. The press conference said that match will be the main event, which means the heavyweight match of doom slides to 52MX and the relevos match will be on Fox Sports. Figured something like that would happen. Not really sure which main event I’d rather see, which is a totally offensive statement to Maximo and Taichi. NJPW picked up the story and Taichi says Maximo has accused him of “also being gay”, so clearly tensions are high. The Gladiatores has video of the contract signing. Superluchas wonders why this isn’t Mascara’s spot; my guess is that match is down the road. Kcidis says this one looks very predictable.

Dr. Wagner says Electroshock was a bug in the dark before joining the WagnerManiacos, no one knew who he was until Wagner shined his light on him. Basically, Wagner sees himself as Hector Garza, except he’s still actually the good guy. Meanwhile, Electroshock says he will not accept help from the rest of the Maniacos in his match, and plans on using his technical skill to win. He’s the bad guy.

While TripleMania will only air on PPV in Mexico and not for many months in the United States, a two hour version will air on 06/28 on Japan’s Samurai! TV. (Thanks to Alfredo.) This probably means it’ll be on the internet around 06/29, even if no one rips it straight from the PPV.

CMLL says Atlantis vs Volador is signed for 06/01 (fan appreciation cut prices, twice in a week) but has held off on putting the entire lineup so far.

Brazo de Plata says losing weight helped him beat Asesino Negro, and wouldn’t mind a hair match with Satanico next. I think there’s a line for that one.

El Hijo del Santo and his lawyer dropped by Mexico City’s Attorney General office to work on a lawsuit about copyright violations, but didn’t want to talk about who they were suing. Which surely makes sense from a legal sense, but you don’t usually get much secrecy when walking around in your silver mask.

Speaking of Santo, Perro Aguayo Jr. did a video interview pushing the idea of a Perro vs Santo in a hair vs mask match in Mexico City’s Zocalo city square. That’d be a great visual – wikipedia says they fit 210,000 there for a Shakira concert – though it seems highly unlikely.

Ultimo Guerrero is willing to defend his heavyweight championship against Misterioso (which also seems highly unlikely), and challenges Rayo de Jalisco and Dr. Wagner while he’s at it.

Sexi Star is on billboards promoting the Natural Geographic Tabu show. Sexi and Alex Koslov will chat tonight on TelevisaDeportes.com. Probably not just with each other.

Ohtani’s Jacket returns with a review of Black Terry & Cerebro Negro vs Trauma I & Trauma II.

LuchaWorld has KrisZ’s news update and the Morenos in All Japan Women’s.

Lineup

AAA HEAVY METAL (FRI) 06/18 VD+, Mexico City
1) Metalium vs Destroyer
2) Canelo Casas & Sendero Luminoso vs Cazador & Punker
3) Cinthia Moreno & Fabi Apache vs Jennifer Blade & Sexy Star
4) Cibernético & Heavy Metal vs Kenzo Suzuki & Zorro

First Lucha N’ Roll concert/lucha libre show. The non-AAA wrestlers are said to be Heavy Metal trainees.

CMLL (TUE) 06/01 Arena Coliseo Guadalajara
1) Nube Roja vs Cerveruz
2) Angelo & Magnum vs Ebola & León Blanco
3) Gallo & Metal Blanco vs Asesino Negro & Malefico
4) Stuka Jr. & Valiente vs Shigeo Okumura & Taichi
5) Blue Panther, Máscara Dorada, Místico vs Héctor Garza, Terrible, Texano

Garza gets to team with Terrible and Texano. Suck to be Averno right now – Mistico’s beating you at every occasion, and Hector’s going to steal two of your followers. With both the Light Heavyweight and Welterweight championships in play, perhaps the Occidente tag team champions will also defend sometime this anniversary month.

Saw a tweet last night mentioning CMLL was going to have a press conference today, and couldn’t quite understand what they would have to announce that they couldn’t have just announced last week. Still not sure!

CMLL has added Maximo vs Taichi in a hair versus hair match for their June 6 show. Not so much CMLL vs Invasors on top, unless NJPW has thrown in with the outsiders. This is as random as the rest of the show; there’s been no great Taichi vs Maximo build up to this; last Sunday’s match was the first time they’ve been in the same ring in a month. Maybe it’s a reaction to the less than enthusiastic reaction for the rest of the lineup?

I still think Taichi is losing his hair before he goes back to Japan, but I don’t think he’s going back so soon. Maximo just lost his hair to Okumura last year, this has been established as his role.

CMLL (MON) 05/24 Arena Puebla [Sportimes, CMLL]
1) Black Tiger, Blue Center, Centella de Oro b Mr. Rafaga, Sauron, Toro Bill Jr.
2) Astro Boy, Guerrero Maya Jr., Sensei b Mortiz, Nitro, Zayco
3) Bam Bam, Eléctrico, Mascarita Dorada b Pequeño Damian 666, Pequeño Warrior, Pierrothito
4) Terrible, Texano Jr., Último Guerrero b Hiroshi Tanahashi, Shigeo Okumura, Taichi
5) Strong Man & Volador Jr. DQ Héctor Garza & Místico [Relevos Increíbles]

Mistico might have said Friday that he was done being a rudo, but he was all in black here. Garza fouled Volador for the DQ.

After his loss, Tanahashi thanked all his fans and vowed to return. This works even better if no one still has any idea who Tanahashi is – they should’ve pushed the “Tanahashi, a big star from Hollywood Japan” idea to absurd levels.

Mascarita Dorada showed up! And beat Pequeno Damian.

CMLL (TUE) 05/25 Arena Coliseo Guadalajara [Fuego en el Ring]
1) Thunder Boy & Tondar b Acertijo & Nube Roja
2) In Memoriam & León Blanco b Metatrón & Virgo
3) Hierro, Leo, Palacio Negro b Drago, Ebola, Ráfaga
4) Máscara Dorada & Strong Man b Mephisto & Último Guerrero
5) Brazo de Plata b Asesino Negro [hair]

Fuego calls the main “three rapid falls”.

CMLL (TUE) 05/25 Arena Mexico [@cmllmagazine]
1) Apocalipsis & Cholo b Camaleón & Horus
2) Ángel Azteca, Fabián el Gitano, Leono b Bronco, Durango Kid, Inquisidor
3) Estrella Mágica, Lady Apache, Marcela DQ Amapola, La Seductora, Princesa Sujei
4) Averno, Ephesto, Vangelis b La Máscara, Sagrado, Toscano
5) Atlantis, Hiroshi Tanahashi, Rey Bucanero b Hijo del Fantasma, La Sombra, Volador Jr.

Atlantis pinned Volador, then challenged for a light heavyweight title shot next week. Volador accepted, and that may happen next week. Seemed like they were setting up a tag title match last week, wonder if that changed when the participants in this match changed. (My working guess was Sombra & Voaldor were going to drop the tag team titles after two weeks of Sombra/Volador tension to set up a Volador rudo turn on 06/06. Maybe they dropped that when they changed other things.)

CMLL opted not to compete with AAA in terms of meaningful matches on 06/06,but has decided to undercut them on prices. Adult tickets for the CMLL vs Independientes shows run from $30 to $200MP ($2.30 to $15.44US), with children’s tickets (from the 21st row back) $1 peso each. The cheapest ticket for TripleMania is $15oMP; they’re scaled more like a WWE show.

CMLL rating was a 2.3, down 0.5 from last week, 1.1 from two weeks. Lowest known rating since tracking started.

AAA was 5.5, up 0.2.

Hector Garza, incapable of not causing trouble, thinks Terrible & Texano should ditch the Avernos and team up with him. He also says Aguila should’ve never left CMLL and is happy the best referee that exists is coming to referee the independentes matches.

AAA & a local promoter FULL announced a tournament for the Parejas Increible Tournament at a June 12 spot show in Puebla. (Don’t make a page on the wiki for it; this is a classic title never to be heard from again.) They actually announced it as the first parejas increible championship, which is fair given how much CMLL has tried to pretend the tournament of four months ago didn’t actually happen. Teams are LA Park/La Parka, Dr. Wagner/Mesias (not a parejas increible!), Super Fly/Electro Shock, and Cibernetico/Konnan (not a good idea!) Electroshock is just as surprised he’s teaming with Super Fly as everyone else – that feud has been over for over a year – and says Super Fly had the desire but not the temperament to excel.

Atomix has screen shots of the Wii version of the AAA video game. Unlike that preview art in article long ago, it looks a lot more like the PS3 game, just in standard definition (and no crowd, though that may be the arena they’re in.)

Aeroboy talks up the DTU show this weekend. The four way match is a three stage match. They started with barbed wire, move to light tubes, then finish with light tubes, tacks, spikes, and tables. Sounds pleasant.

Fuego en el Ring has an interview with Martha Villalobos about her promotion and her mother.

According to DJ Spectro, LA wrestler Kiss is in grave condition, bed ridden due to diabetes. DJ Spectro also has articles about Tirantes coming to CMLL, the third part of an interview with El Halcon, the first part of a series on forgotten arenas.

Gladiatores celebrates it’s fourth anniversary.

Kcidis shows how he created the LuchaWorld May cover.

Rob has reviews of Puebla 10/12/09, C3 10/13/09 and IWRG 09/24/09. I think we didn’t count the Puebla Reyes del Aire match because I was in denial about them actually holding the Reyes del Aire with that lineup in Puebla and was sure they were going to run it again in DF. Guess not.

Segunda Caida has a review of the 02/04/10 IWRG show.

LuchaWorld has KrisZ’s news update – including Mistico and other CMLL wrestlers working the undercard of a Santo show?

Lineup

CMLL (MON) 05/31 Arena Puebla
1) Asturiano, Centella de Oro, Milenium vs Cocolores, Espiritu Maligno, Siki Osama
2) Guerrero Maya Jr., Leono, Starman vs Dr. X, Hooligan, Nitro
3) Dark Angel, Lady Apache, Luna Mágica vs Mima Shimoda, Princesa Blanca, Princesa Sujei
4) Sagrado, Toscano, Valiente vs Negro Casas, Rey Bucanero, Vangelis
5) Héctor Garza & Místico vs Strong Man & Volador Jr. [Relevos Increíbles, super libre]

Rematch in super libre. First time Cocolores has been here in two years; surprising they’d bring in another guy with how few locals get to make a show a week.

AAA (SUN) 05/23 Arena Coliseo Monterrey [RFC]
1) Babe Fox b Pedro Navajas
2) Flecha Verde & Neurosis b Euforia (Monterrey) & Principe Guerrero
3) Ángel Dorado, Máscara Púrpura, Sky b Golden Boy, Rey Demonio Jr., Simbolo 2000
4) Fabi Apache, Mari Apache, Tiffany b Hailey Hatred, Jennifer Blade, Rain
5) Cuervo, Espíritu, Ozz DQ Aerostar, La Parka Jr., Laredo Kid
6) Chessman & LA Park b Black Warrior & Electroshock

Though Black Warrior is working with the Perros, he’s also back to appearing on AAA shows in northern Mexico. The actual news here was LA Park getting into an altercation with a fan, which was captured on video and shown on TV news. This is not the first or last time for LA Park, but the thread link notes the fan involved has their own history of similar events. I have not seen the video, but it sounds like it goes very bad for the fan. Do not screw with LA Park!

RFC says the top 4 matches were all taped for TV.

Masked Republic will announce today the Viva La Lucha: Revolution show has been picked up by Dish Network.

Mascara Dorada says winning the trios titles proves Mexico has the best wrestling in the world, and proves they didn’t need Hector Garza as much as Hector thinks. His team knew Tanahashi was tough, so they made sure to take him 3 on 1 at the end. Tanahashi, who’s taking Negro Casas’ place on tonight’s Arena Mexico show, is still confused by losing and would like to return to Mexico at some point. Tanahashi and Sombra are headed to Japan after this show, and Gigante Bernard is in the next couple of days.

In other CMLL changes, the Sunday cibernetico is actually a 12 man match – Dr. X, Hooligan, Delta, and Rey Cometa were meant to be listed in that match, not in their own separate tag. It’ll be interesting to see how this airs on 52MX in a couple weeks – only 4 matches means the opener should turn up.

Despite the higher than usual prices, IWRG had one of it’s larger crowds of the year for Sunday’s show. The Gladiatores has video interviews with opening match wrestler Daga and Director General of IWRG Marco Antonio Moreno; talk about the deal with AAA & IWRG, but sadly no explanation of what the deal is with Teleformula. Congrats to the The Gladiatores on reaching four years, by the way.

While AAA’ s site says it has no idea if both or neither of the AAA teams will be in the tag title match at TripleMania, NOAH’s announced the match as a four way. To be fair, everyone but AAA is saying this is a fourway; don’t know if they still have an angle to run but I can’t imagine when or why.

Power Man took Apolo Chino’s hair in Acapulco.

Kcidis uses a post about the Invasors to show the great Monito tug of war cover again.

Box Y Lucha #2975 has the Sin Salida lineup.

This week’s Ras de Lona is already up.

Segunda Caida reviews 10/22/09 IWRG.

LuchaWorld has KrisZ’s news update.