Puebla, Guadalajara, Mexico, TripleMania, Masked Warriors

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

In the third, Mistico distracted the referee and Garza snuck in a foul for the win. Which set up a singles match for next week, until they changed their mind later in the afternoon.

Vangelis pinned Sagrado clean. It’s rough being Sagrado.

Tecnicas (with Dalis instead of Dark Angel) seemed to be rolling to a win, but Sujei reversed Apache’s powerbomb into an armbar for the win.

CMLL (TUE) 06/01 Arena Coliseo Guadalajara [Fuego en el Ring]
1) Cerveruz b Nube Roja
2) Ángel del Mal & León Blanco b Angelo & Magnum
3) Gallo & Metal Blanco b Drago & Malefico
4) Stuka Jr. & Valiente DQ Shigeo Okumura & Taichi
5) Blue Panther, Máscara Dorada, Místico b Héctor Garza, Terrible, Texano

Mistico beat Texano with La Mistica.

Taichi fouled Valiente for the DQ.

CMLL (TUE) 06/01 Arena Mexico [@cmllmagazine, Photos in Cancun]
1) Principe & Robin b Cholo & Inquisidor
2) Arkangel de la Muerte, Loco Max, Skándalo b Ángel Azteca, Ángel de Oro, Ángel de Plata
3) Brazo de Plata, Hijo del Fantasma, Sagrado DQ El Alebrije, Olímpico, Ray Mendoza Jr.
4) Averno, Ephesto, Mephisto DQ Felino, Negro Casas, Rey Bucanero
5) Volador Jr. b Atlantis [MEX LH]

Volador took 1 and 3 to retain the title.

In the rudo/rudo beattle, Bucanero had Epehsto beat, but Epehsto tossed his mask to Rey to gain the DQ. Rey has suddenly remembered Epehsto took his title, broke his knee, and put him out for many months. Rey wants a rematch for the light heavyweight title.

Threatening outside invader Olimpico kissed the CMLL mat, because he was so happy to be back. Doesn’t quite seem like a guy who thinks the Indepedents are better than CMLL. His team lost in straight falls, Olimpico yanking Fantamsa’s mask in the second.

The principal four wrestlers for TripleMania talked to the press yesterday to hype up the event. Seems to be more interest in Park/Parka than Electro/Wagner, which is no big surprise.

• TripleMania is no big deal to LA Park, since he’s been on the best events in the world and faced such stars as Sabu, Sandman, and Tank Abbott. Still, he’s rooting for a sellout to prove how he’s a big star, since it didn’t sell out yesterday. Park says he’ll wait until after TripleMania to decide if he’s sticking around. There’s talk this week that people in AAA may have already had their own discussion about those matters.
• For MedioTiempo, La Parka Jr. points out the Park saying he was never going to AAA about two weeks before he debuted in AAA. In this interview, LA Park plants the seeds of complaining about the referee screwing him later.
• LA Park tells R de Rudo he’s been working with boxer Erik Morales to lose weight in preparation for his match. He thinks his son really needs to gain weight, though he notes he started out really thin himself. His son asked him how he gained the weight, and LA Park attributes it to meeting his wife and eating three good meals a day.
• Electroshock tells Notimex that “it’s crazy for me to be a Triplemania main event”. Electroshock also says 80% of the people think he will lose, but he’ll learn from the loss if he happens to lose. This is not a confident man, but with reason.
• AAA has a teaser of a joint La Parka Jr. & LA Park interview for Tercera Caida.

With both this show and Sin Salida, we should probably do a chat Sunday night. Time TBA.

This is as good place for the video of the day.

This is the previously mentioned fight with a fan LA Park got into in Arena Coliseo Monterrey. Unless there was something that happened before this video started, the fan clearly started the problem. You can certainly argue Park was in his rights here (and you can definitely argue it’s hilarious.) The bigger issue is AAA requested Park not get into trouble while in the promotion, and this is a little bit of trouble. The bottle throwing on Monday might also be a little bit of trouble.

Fuego en el Ring follows up on the fail of a tournament final for the Occidente Light Heavyweight championship. Sounds like the fans were greatly displeased. Satanico explains it’s 0% his fault and 100% the local box y lucha commission’s fault – they regulate the Occidente championships and they’re the ones who didn’t have any rule in place to deal with a draw, and they’re the ones who had hold of the title belt. That’s the other problem – fans never saw a title belt (and so though the whole thing was a fraud) and Gallo says he never actually saw the belt (but figures there must’ve been one, since it’s CMLL and all.) Satanico’s explanation is the commission was holding the belt during the match to award to the winner. When there was no winner, Mr. Trueno grabbed the belt for himself and ran off with it, but was forced to give it back in the locker room. Satanico says there’s no way they would’ve done this on purpose, but now they’ll have to bump a match from this Sunday’s show to make room for this. This Sunday’s show happens to be a fan appreciation show, a massive coincidence.

Tuesday’s Perros del Mal show appears to have ended without a foul!

Ovaciones has a big interview with Mascara Dorada. He talks about being Metalik, about his trip to Japan, and not being sure if he can trust either Mistico or Mr. Aguila in his trios match on Sunday. Again, everyone seems to have questions about Mistico, except when they’re actually in a match with him. (Dorada decides that since Mistico is CMLL, he’s probably not going to turn on him here.) Dorada is picking Maximo over Taichi on Sunday.

This photo of Gigante Bernard looks a bit more like John Tenta. All Americans look alike, it’s a thing. (Yes, I know.)

This Sunday’s first MTV2 Lucha Libre USA show is now giving out two free tickets if you buy two tickets. I’m thinking tickets aren’t going so fast. Oh well.

G4TV has an interview with the developers of the Lucha Libre AAA: Heroes of the Ring game. They used Apache as the motion capture guy! HOORAY! I like the concept of “more popularity = bigger moves”, except it’s clearly unrealistic when it comes to La Parka Jr. over the last decade.

In a Reforma interview reposted an interview from Reforma, Trauma II says he and his brother are not interested in going to CMLL. The Traumas are among the usual group who work the Toryumon shows, so it was no surprise to see them working Arena Mexico with CMLL wrestlers, except it was a surprise to the author, who assumed they thought it meant it was more. Trauma II says he wasn’t impressed by the CMLL guys and the Traumas were more popular than some of the CMLL stars. The Traumas say their more interested in independent matches. Later in that thread, there’s a discussion of a rumor of the Traumas being in CMLL’s school at one point, but leaving after wanting to work their own style instead of CMLL’s style.

The Gladiatores has an interview with Comando Negro, carrying on a great line of Comandos in IWRG.

LuchaWorld has KrisZ’s news update.