CMLL (FRI) 06/04 Arena Mexico [SuperLuchas, Cesar, Fuego en el Ring, Ovaciones]
1) Astro Boy & Sensei b Mortiz & Semental
2) Pequeño Nitro, Pequeño Violencia, Pequeño Warrior b Astral, Mascarita Dorada, Último Dragoncito
3) Virus b Valiente [lightning]
4) Máscara Dorada, Metro, Stuka Jr. DQ Dragón Rojo Jr., Misterioso II, Sangre Azteca
5) Héctor Garza, Terrible, Texano Jr. b La Máscara, Máximo, Volador Jr.
6) Atlantis, Gigante Bernard, Último Guerrero b Shocker, Strong Man, Toscano
Gigante Bernard continues to be not just undefeated, but perfect. He won last week in straight falls, and won this week in straight falls. The match was built around teasing Bernard/Strong Man. When they finally were left alone in the second, Bernard won clean.
The big angle of the night took place over the 45th and 5th matches. The judges for a world dancing reality show were presented in the ring as a special guests, and one of those judges just happened to be former dancing reality show winner Latin Lover. Latin Lover stuck around to watch from the first row. Poder Mexica made a point of taunting before their match, but that seemed that. After the semimain, Hector Garza extended a handshake to his old friend Latin. Latin accepted it – and Garza attacked. The two brawled on the arena floor, Terrible & Texano aiding Garza until security broke it up. Garza, supposed leader of the Invasors, declared this as his house and warned Latin that he wasn’t going to let him do anything in it. Backstage, Latin talked about coming back to Arena Mexico for a match to settle this.
There’s video of the fight on YouTube. Latin was clearly meant to be a tecnico. Both the tecnico and the rudo fans rejected him, booing him, though some women’s fans were behind him. He doesn’t appear to be part of the Invaders, which is where we thought this was heading when word of his appearance leaked out Friday night. They’ve steadfastly ignored that angle on this show, including Garza himself with those comments.
On Twitter, Dorian Roldan called Latin’s appearance as CMLL “becoming a branch of AAA”. While he made his fame in AAA, Latin was first a very popular wrestler in Monterrey, and then wrestled in CMLL for a few months before joining Pena’s promotion.
Back in the fourth match, tecnicos won when Dragon Rojo fouled Dorada. Rudos made title challenges, tecnicos made mask challenges.
Virus beat Valiente, then asked for a title shot. He’ll get it next week.
Mini Warrior pulled Dorada’s mask and covered him for the win.
Mask Mania says Sin Salida airs on Samurai TV on July 7th, which also means no Infierno en el Ring.
Los Perros del Mal held a press conference to explain their association with AAA. (Reports from R de Rudo and the Gladiatores.) They did not specific what they would be doing at TripleMania, but concentrated on the framework for the partnership. Perro Aguayo Jr. spent most of the press conference repeating that his promotion was not going away or merging into AAA, and not doing an invasion angle, but it was just two like promotions doing inter promotional matches to make things more interesting for the fans. Perro pitched Halloween & Damian vs Nicho & Lider as the sort of dream match which could now be done. (Fun fact: you know who beat Nicho & Lider to win the tag titles? Extreme Tiger and Halloween. None of the possible matches are that new or fresh.) Perro also proposed their heavyweight champion, X-Fly, versus AAA’s heavyweight champion. X-Fly is so over, MedioTiempo thought he was Zumbido. Perro somehow compared Sombra vs Volador to Damian vs Hijo de LA Park in a way I didn’t toally understand, but I think he believes Los Perros top guys are as important as the top guys elsewhere.
That would be something. Based on who was brought up here, I’d expect the Perros crew showing up tomorrow to be Perro, Damian, Halloween, X-Fly, Hijo de LA Park (obvious where he’d get involved; Perro made a point of saying LA Park was still a member of Los Perros) and Super Crazy. I believe it was LuchandoLibre’s Twitter which said Hijo de Lizmark might also be involved, but his name was not brought up here. Neither was Charly Manson.
The Gladiatores and Estrellas del Ring add more details to Thursday’s IWRG show
- IWRG guys refused to tag in and out to Gato Everady, except Pantera. Cats got to stick together.
- Ola Malidita won in straight falls
On a slower day, this would be the headliner: Mistico & Volador belittle the invaders and invasion angle, talk about how they really rather fight each other. Volador says he has no interest in fighting Mr. Aguila, Mistico says Dinamitas are the old lucha and he’s the best lucha. Mistico says the invaders are being given spots they no longer deserve, and have no credibility. This is meant to hype Sin Salida, and fails in every measure. There are quotes from Shocker, who actually builds up the meaning of CMLL defending itself in this feud.
BOSJ update: Sombra lost to Davey Richards via pinfall, dropping him to 2 and 2 and 4 points. If Sombra were to win out against Liger, Kushida and Devitt to reach 10 points, he could get into a tie for the last spot. It’s a long shot.
Juvi has a new CD out. He was signing copies on Friday and will be performing at the Lucha Libre Expo. He says he’s getting the music on iTunes too. Can’t wait.
Ras de Lona notes
- What I assume is Delta’s injury was shown during the highlights of that match. He attempted a inside out springboard diving headscissors onto Nosferatu, but didn’t get his legs wrapped around the rudo’s head and ended up with self powerbomb onto the floor.
- Gigante Bernard explains he was a San Diego Charger, but decided to get into wrestling so he could beat up more people. Also, Universo 2000 had better things to do than show up for his Ras de Lona interview to hype Sin Salida.
- Bernard/Strong Man got a special music video and face to face interview. Gigante Bernard was especially amusing here.
- In a quick news bite, Pequeno Damian 666 was said to be reborn as “Demus 3:16”, which will be a pain to type. At least he keeps the numbers on his head.
- And, there was different lineup for Friday then CMLL announced today.
Kcidis previews Parka vs Park
Cesar is critical of LA Park and previews this week’s lineups.
LuchaWorld has KrisZ’s news update.
Lineups
CMLL (FRI) 06/11 Arena Mexico
1) Metálico & Starman vs Puma King & Tiger Kid
2) Ángel de Oro, Ángel de Plata, Rush vs Cancerbero, Euforia, Raziel
3) Máscara Dorada, Metro, Stuka Jr. vs Dragón Rojo Jr., Misterioso II, Sangre Azteca
4) Valiente vs Virus [MEX WELTER]
5) Brazo de Plata, Rayo de Jalisco Jr., Shocker vs Atlantis, Gigante Bernard, Último Guerrero
6) Hijo del Fantasma, Místico, Negro Casas vs Héctor Garza, Olímpico, Volador Jr.
Ras de Lona had the title match, but also Shocker/Brazo de Plata/Hijo del Fantamsa vs Hector Garza/Mr. Aguila/Olimpico and Strong Man vs Gigante Bernard instead of the top two. That TV show clearly was building to that singles match. Perhaps Strong Man has somewhere else to be? Perhaps Rayo gets the pin on Gigante Bernard instead? Perhaps.
I guess Volador & Mistico won’t be done on Friday. Title match should be awesome.
IWRG (SUN) 06/13 Arena Naucalpan
2) Eragon & Némesis vs Alan Extreme & Comando Negro
3) Chico Che, Freelance, Suicida vs Fishman Jr., Hijo del Signo, Trauma II
4) Hijo del Cien Caras & Máscara Año 2000 vs Hijo de Pirata Morgan & Pirata Morgan [super libre]
5) Monster Clown, Murder Clown, Psycho Clown vs Tinieblas Jr., Trauma I, Veneno
Not sure where the Thursday lineup is. Semimain seems to indicate an outcome to this week’s four way tag match. The team of Tinieblas, Trauma I, and Veneno are the men to end the streak!
Nemesis is a former Junior Pirata. Or was a former Junior Pirata. I can’t keep track any more.
CMLL (SUN) 06/13 Arena Coliseo Guadalajara
1) Tondar vs Titanio
2) El Divino & Leo vs Acertijo & In Memoriam
3) Metal Blanco & Palacio Negro vs Exterminador & Malefico
4) Metro, Rush, Sagrado vs Misterioso II, Pólvora, Shigeo Okumura
5) Hijo del Fantasma, Rayo de Jalisco Jr., Shocker vs Máscara Año 2000, Olímpico, Universo 2000
Rayo’s promised return to Guadalajara
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It took Juvi to combine Nu-Metal and Hip House! We gotta get a copy and get DR LUCH to play it as background music during his next appearance on Figure-4 Daily!
Looks like 52MX is starting out with the Cibernetico. They may just hype Sin Salida instead of airing a second match.
great, great Rey Cometa tornillo
IWRG’s a replay. 6 weeks?
@Alfredo: Yep.
Hooligan took his boot off and beat Fuego with it! This cibernetico, thumbs up – stopping in mid match to promote Sin Salida, not thumbs up.
See the problem with that headscissors to the floor that Delta does is he has no control of his own body since he is using one foot to jump off the ropes. He needs a rudo to catch him perfectly and take a quick snap bump or else the spot looks bad. The first time we saw that move was on… Hooligan. Arguably the best catcher in all of Mexico. But every other time Delta has done the move he has taken bad bumps on his head/neck/shoulder and it’s just surprising it’s taken this long for him to be strechered out because of it.
The other issue of course is that Delta isn’t athletic enough to pull off lots of the spots he does. I like him a lot but he suffers from not knowing his limitations. The clearest example is that match a few weeks back where he was w/ Volador/Sombra against the Triad Del Terror who can do no wrong as catchers. Delta looked awful and was blowing stuff left and right. If he could just calm down and stick to moves he can pull off he has a chance to succeed but if he insists on doing that wacky headscissors to the floor in every match and various springboard variations that he will only hit 1 out of every 5 times… he will fail.
Didn’t people say that about Dorada when he first started?
Am I alone in not being able to hardly tell Fabi and Mari Apache apart?
@Rob: Just saw the Delta spot on the show. He wanted to get up and get going, but Sagrado told him to stay down, and he and the doctor are checking on him. They went to break after Rush eliminated Skandalo, with Delta still down but not yet eliminated. They brought out the stretcher after the match and eliminated him then.
No second match today. They’ve aired more filler (Hiroka announced her retirement for now, the whole Gigante Bernard interview from last week’s Ras de Lona). It seems like they’ve given this match extra time, but it’s tough to tell for sure with how many different ways they’ve broke int up.
@Tim: That’s absolutely true. Dorada was also awful at first because he was trying to do stuff way beyond his abilities at the time. Now that’s he comfortable with who he is facing and with the ring he works in he can do pretty much anything.
Dorada always had the athleticism capable of doing anything though. Delta I’m not so sure. He blew a ton of stuff as Hijo Del Trueno in Monterrey and that was when he was much smaller. Now that he’s “bulked up” it’s gotta make him even less mobile than before.
As for the Apaches… Mari is the fat one.
Did CMLL even explain why Gigante Bernard is teaming with the rudos or did I miss it?
@Tim: I guess your point is that Fabi is gaining weight, not that Mari is losing? I thought Fabi looked ok at Coliseo.
Can you imagine what a child conceived by Demus 3:16 and Hiroka will look like?
@LLL:
Not so much the weight as the same hair style and outfit.
@Tim: Not really. Maybe they’ll say something in the commentary tomorrow.
I’m predicting new footage on LATV today.
Judging by the silence I’m guessing LATV is a repeat?
Horrible time to lose all the midcard stuff from Arena Mex now with the TV show at the worst it’s ever been and a Valiente/Virus + Poder Mexica vs Nat champs feud.
@Rob: Starts in two minutes.
New episode from 5/14 Arena Mexico.
They do so many repeats on LATV and Teleformula, that I can’t figure out any of this stuff out.
This week’s CMLL should be good…Of course, they just went to commercials.:(
Hey Rob, did you pre-order the Juvi cd already?
@Alfredo: I don’t need to, I have connections for a free one!
Some crazy Juvi mark has been all over my youtube lately. He also seems to love Intocable.
Speaking of Intocable… what’s his deal? Retired?
@Rob: He was on one of those Indepedent shows in Monterrey on Monday. Guessing he’s making more money doing whatever else that he’s asking too much to wrestle.
@Rob: He’s wrestling in Juarez tonight. So it LA Park, on the same show.
@Alfredo: Going to a commercial, and not having primera caida in the first segment was a dead giveaway that one of the matches would go just 2 falls.
I figure the Mistico promo was made for LATV, as he’s the top star, and won’t be wrestling on the show any time soon.
Mistico talks too much.
And the streak of openers airing is over.
I lost my pull.
Or Robin is cursed. We’ll find out next weekend.
C3 isn’t afraid to use the camera that can pan the entire audience so the cheap tickets seem to have worked. Looks like 3/4 of the floor seats are taken.
I don’t want to see Cuije w/o Monito! TOTAL SHAM!
Via BTJr. here is the IWRG Thurs card:
Dr. Wagner Jr., Máscara Año 2000 Jr. e Hijo de Cien Caras vs. Silver King, Último Gladiador y Espíritu.
Dr. Cerebro vs. Bombero Infernal
Suicida, Trauma I y Trauma II vs. Hijo del Diablo, Gringo Loco y Avismán
Hijo del Signo y Eterno vs. Imposible y Silver Boy
Imperial vs. Tonatiuh
@Rob: Maybe he was supposed to be there, but Ray Mendoza Jr. ate him?
I’d never thought I would see Alebrije & Cuije wrestling in Arena Mexico on CMLL TV. The CMLL/Independents feud is great just for the Vipers,/Alebrije/Aguila in CMLL. Of course this brings up the question ….. who’s next to jump to CMLL? (crosses fingers for it either to be El Zorro or a member of Fuerza Aerea)
Anyone know the name of the edecan who brought out the Tercera Caida card? Her body is amazing. Can’t find her on cmll.com
That was a good main, third fall especially.
Rob is right about the pan shots.
Wow they are actually airing PARK/Chessman vs Warrior/Shock
ACM on the 13th has La Parka and Heavy Metal vs LA PARK and Zorro.
I keep waiting for the spot. They did a fine job of building it, waiting until the third fall!
You missed it. Happened at the beginning of the 2nd fall.
Did it get shown and I missed it?
Edit: ah, I did!
@Tim: So does LA PARK. Another long promo.
What makes it best is all those kids rushed the ring for an autograph after the match, totally unconcerned about getting close to LA Park.
@LLL:
But PARK is awesome so he gets a pass.
Can we do Triplemania picks? I think PARK loses and the Legion beat him up. I’m hoping for a double turn.
@Tim: I think LA Park will leave Palacio a tecnico. As Cubs points out above, the kids still love him. It really shows when the two Parkas are together, and the bitterness is noted in Parka Jr’s promos. Parka Jr is clearly the less popular.
I think tickets are moving slow. They’ll probably sellout ringside. Prices are about $150-$18. The top tier, section E appears to be blocked off.
Has anyone said a word about Triplemania being a PPV? I still don’t understand why the Mexican offices always put their PPV’s in the Witness Protection Program, so no one knows about them.
@LLL: It’s mentioned on Sky’s site as a PPV, so maybe there are local ads.
@thecubsfan: SKY ran an ad during AAA on Sunday, but not for the PPV. There might be local ads, but we all know it needs hype, kind of like WWE and TNA hype their PPV’s. There has been zero hype about the PPV. Only people who really seem to know are the message board fans. I don’t even think Dorian has said a word about the PPV. It’s crazy.
@thecubsfan What video were you watching. There weren’t any boos for Latin Lover. As a matter of fact I heard people yelling “Latin, Latin”
CMLL is now without a doubt the best wrestling company in the world. They have Latin Lover, Hector Garza, Brazo de Plata, Mistico, Strong Man Anderson. This is good.
OH you know what I just thought of. Can you imagine how awesome it would be if Latin Lover broght Lady Gaga to the ring with him the day he has his big one on one match with Hector Garza? You would have the best wrestler/dancer with the best singer/dancer.
I’m going to try to find Paco D’Alonzo’s number to give him this idea.
XEJ joins CMLL TV 3:00 into Valiente/Virus.
Announcers talk over Valiente/Virus challenging each other and then cut away in the middle for the interview with the fans segment.
This show is so robotic.