Day: June 7, 2010

666, CIMA & a rooster win titles, Masked Warriors

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666 Mexico (SAT) 06/05 Salon Mundet de Azcapotzalco [R de Rudo]
1) Guerrero Universal b Aslan, Nocturno
2) 300 b Xtreme Mask, Corteo
3) Enrqiue Chimeyo b Andy Barrow Jr.
4) Majestik, Mini Zumbido, Sombra Vengadora II, Sombra Vengadora Jr. b Pillo, Rex Dragon, Sepulcro, Sepulcro Jr.
5) Freelance, Hiram, Rran Alebrije b Andy Barrow, Bobby Villalobos, Killer
6) Quidam DQ Katharsis [666 WELTER]

666 is a small Japanese promotion who decided to have a Mexican branch. I have no idea. Main event ended when both wrestlers pulled each other’s masks. The referee, who had been behind champion Quidam all match, decided he won by DQ.

CMLL (SUN) 06/06 Arena Coliseo Guadalajara [Fuego en el Ring]
1) Black Metal (GDL) b Nocturno
2) Nube Roja & Tondar b Quca & Titanio
3) Infierno & León Blanco b Angelo & Metatrón
4) Delta & Diamante b Dragón Rojo Jr. & Pólvora
5) Gallo b Mr. Trueno [OCCIDENTE LH]
6) Blue Panther, Sagrado, Toscano DQ Atlantis, Rey Bucanero, Último Guerrero

Tecnicos took the first, rudos the second, and UG fouled Sagrado in the third.

The replay of the final was not without issues. Gallo took the first fall. Mr. Trueno took the second, but actually, it was Rey Trueno who had pulled a switch with his brother during the fall, changing masks along the way. Mr. Trueno started the third and wrestled the rest of the way. During the third fall, Mr. Trueno tossed his mask to Gallo to draw the DQ, but the referee caught on, grabbed the mask, and put it on Mr. Trueno to force the match to go on. That’s a new one. Gallo eventually took the fall for the title.

IWRG (SUN) 06/06 Arena Naucalpan [DJ Spectro]
1) Eterno b Máscara Magnífica
2) Daga & Hijo del Pantera b Alan Extreme & Magia Negra
3) Aerostar, Laredo Kid, Súper Fly b Cerebro Negro, Freelance, Suicida
4) Hijo de Pirata Morgan & Pirata Morgan b Trauma I & Trauma II and Maldito Jr. & Tozawa and El Hijo del Diablo & Gringo Loco
5) CIMA b Dr. Cerebro [IWRG WELTER]

Black Terry Jr. went to TripleMania, so no videos of this show unless TeleFormula actually shows a new episode someday. Not totally sure about the teams in the four way tag, except the Piratas beat the Traumas.

CIMA picks up the Welterweight Championship for the second time; he beat Dr. Cerbero for it back in 1998, in the pre-Toryumon days. CIMA is out of town after these days, but it looks like DragonGate and IWRG will be doing more in the future. IWRG was doing nothing with this title and only brought it back to get it to CIMA, so it affects them very little. It would be neat if IWRG actually beat someone in a promotion feud but there’s no expectation of that happening. DragonGate Mexico should be entertaining, anyway.

As expected, the Los Perros run in last night seems to have united AAA & the Legion against them. The post match press conference was Marisela, Octagon, Dorian and Konnan all talking about coming together to fight off the Perros. Dorian made peace with his mom, though Konnan doesn’t seem to like the idea of the Legion working with AAA. They made a point of noting all the new champions; with all of them being non-Legion, I think the “Legion wins all the titles before the end of the year” plot has been dropped.

The Press-Enterprise has photos of the Masked Warriors taping. Turnout looks pretty good. A post on SoCal Uncensored says it was 80% full. It was good day for selling lucha libre tickets. Looks like Rellik worked the show. Haven’t seen results from this show yet.

LuchaWorld has KrisZ’s news update.

06/06 CMLL Arena Mexico Results (Sin Salida)

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CMLL (SUN) 06/06 Arena Mexico [La WagnerMania, Notimex, Espaldas Planas, Cesar, SuperLuchas, Ovaciones (PDF), @CMLLmagazine]
1) Demus 316 & Pierrothito b Bam Bam & Shockercito
2) Metro, Rush, Stuka Jr. b Histeria, Maniaco, Monsther
3) Hijo del Fantasma, La Máscara, Shocker DQ El Alebrije, Olímpico, Psicosis
4) Máscara Dorada, Místico, Mr. Águila DQ Averno, Negro Casas, Volador Jr. [Relevos Increíbles]
5) Gigante Bernard, Máscara Año 2000, Universo 2000 b Brazo de Plata, Rayo de Jalisco Jr., Strong Man
6) Máximo b Taichi [hair]

Not sure if/when this is air. Usual practice is the relevos match and hair match go to Fox Sports, and Olimpico/Fantasma and Bernard/Strong Man go to 52MX, but they may run it differently for it being a major show.

Maximo blocked a ‘rana and powerbombed Taichi for the deciding pinfall. Taichi cried while his head was shaved.

Bernard destroyed Strong Man, attacking his left arm enroute to a win. It read like they were writing Strong Man out for the moment, but he is scheduled to be in Puebla tonight for a near rematch of this semimain (Shocker in for Rayo.)

The most interesting development of the night was Volador’s apparent rudo turn. Before the fourth match, Averno made one last appeal for Mistico team with him again, but Mistico refused. Averno and Volador then revealed matching masks, and Volador worked the match completely as a rudo. It remains to be seen if this will carry over from this match – it may be Volador will just be a rudo when he faces Mistico, so they can continue doing those matches – but it came off as a full rudo turn here. Volador attempted to toss his mask to Mistico to draw the DQ, but Tirantes Sr. caught him and called for the DQ. Mask challenges all around. Doing a mask match out of this for the Anniversary show is far quicker than CMLL likes, but there’s nothing else on this level for an Anniversary main event.

Tirantes Sr. worked a couple matches on this show, but refereed them without bias. No rudo spots; if anything, they made sure to set up him in situations where he could make the rudo call just to have him not do it and prove a point.

Hector Garza ran in the tercera, attacking his old Angeles Rebeldes friends just as it looked like Alebrije was going to submit to the reinera. The tecnicos and Monito were all laid out after that match.

Shockercito was hurt after the opener; sounded like Demus’ double underhook piledriver was his finish.

Crowd was said to be 90% full, which means CMLL probably beat AAA in number of tickets sold. AAA charged more for their tickets, so they easily had the larger gate.

06/06 AAA TV Results (DF) – TripleMania

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Update: AAA says LA Park won. HOORAY.

one last run thru

AAA TV (SUN) 06/06 Palacio de los Deportes, DF [Black Terry Jr. (flickr), Luchas2000, Estrellas del Ring, MedioTiempo, Luchando Libre, La WagnerMania, SuperLuchas]
1) Octagoncito b Mini Abismo Negro, Mini Charly Manson, Mascarita Divina, Mini Histeria, Mascarita Sagrada, La Parkita, Mini Chessman, Mini Psicosis [AAA MINI, Ladder]
2) Jennifer Blade, Rain, Sexy Star b Cinthia Moreno, Fabi Apache, Mari Apache [loser is a maid]
3) Silver King & Último Gladiador b Atsushi Aoki & Go Shiozaki and James Storm & Robert Roode and Joe Lider & Nicho el Millionario [AAA TAG]
4) Alex Koslov, Chessman, Hernandez b Heavy Metal, Octagón, Pimpinela Escarlata [seconds hair, cage]
5) Abyss & Cibernético b Vampiro & Zorro
6) Jack Evans b Nosawa, Christopher Daniels, Extreme Tiger [AAA CRUISER]
7) Dr. Wagner Jr. b Electroshock [AAA HEAVY]
8) LA Park defeated La Parka Jr. [identity]

Air Date Wild Guesses:
Mexico: 12/26, 01/02/10
US: 01/08/10, 01/15

Video seems to be slowly going up here

WarriorsX2000 says he’s putting the video up on this page on Wednesday.

Putting the main event together

  • Still waiting for the official AAA results. However, all the mainstream press is under the impression LA Park won the main event and is now La Parka. Most of the fans at the building believed this too – many of them left after the main event ended, and whatever Maricela Pena announced wasn’t done until after El Tri performed. The show went over four hours, so it’s no surprise people left instead of sticking around the concert, and they probably planned the timing of the announcement with that in mind.
  • Regardless of what they end up calling this finish, LA Park is going to spend the rest of his life claiming he won this match and no one much is going to argue with him. AAA must be supremely confident Park is not walking out on them, because Park has everything he wants out of this feud at the moment.
  • In a post show press conference, Dorian Roldan said LA Park won the match. That should not be read as a heel character backing up his man, because it appears Dorian turned tecnico as part of the finish. Add to that Konnan and Vampiro having issues in Vampiro’s match, and AAA may be in the midst of a widespread reshuffling of tecnico vs rudo sides.
  • The Perros del Mal appearance would’ve been more dramatic if AAA & Los Perros had not told everyone it was happening. It wasn’t just the internet hardcores who knew, because the initial AAA press release got picked up in the papers and was talked about in previews of the show. Perro said they still considered LA Park one of them, strongly hinting at a run in this match, so it was just a matter of waiting for the spot to happen. It did not help AAA sell out the show – consensus is between 85% and 90%, still good numbers but not the full house.The Perros run-in featured just about everyone who was available to run in, including Super Crazy and midcard guys like Pesadilla & Ragde, a guy in a black ski mask who might have forgotten his actual mask (Leo?), and Damian 666’s yet-to-debut son (who many assumed was a new Pequeno Damian 666.) X-Fly had his belt, and I’m rooting for it to somehow end up back with AAA before this angle is over. Skayde’s crew was not there, and I don’t think the minis were there either. Charly Manson, Hijo del Lizmark, (Super) Nova and Marco Corleone were all in California for the Masked Warrior shows, so we probably won’t know if/how they fit in here until the next TV taping on 06/13.In a bit where everyone was wearing black pants and a black Perros del Mal shirt, Black Warrior wore the whitest white vest and pants he could possibly find, and no Perros del Mal logo. Somewhere, Sangre Azteca just nods his head sadly.
  • The Perros del Mal run in was completely like an Invasion, and they appear to be setting up a AAA vs Perros del Mal War. Which means half of what Perro Aguayo Jr. said at his press conference was a lie, and calls question into the other half (they’re not going away as a promotion.) I wonder if other sites will call him on that this morning?

And everything else, based on reading results and listening to the stream

  1. AAA did not do a great job explaining what was going on in a few matches. This was one – AAA would talk about Abismo defending against all the minis, but who those minis were rarely clarified.The minis had issues reaching the belt – too high, ladder too low – and La Parkita (shoulder), Mini Histeria (neck? head?) and Mini Abismo Negro (unclear? excuse for losing?) were all mentioned as injured after this match.
  2. Hijo de Tirantes refereed this mach, and directly helped the rudas to win. That was the finish to the hair match, and I suspect this was a lot the same quality as that match. After the match, Gran Apache appeared to argue the finish, but Konnan ordered the tecnicas to go to the back and start their 30 days of maid service right now.Konnan was all over the show. He did color commentary, talked about the background of all the international guys, got involved in matches and may have still be communicating with backstage. There were long stretches during matches where he didn’t anything, but then that might have not been because he was talking to someone else as much as having too many commentators (Jesus Zingia, Dr. Morales, Arturo Rivera, Konnan – and there might have been one more.)
  3. Announcers were embarrassingly ill prepared for the Japanese team. They started to announce them as “Nosawa”, then went silent for a long time, before someone figured out Go and Aoti’s actual names. During the match, they didn’t even try to use their names. They weren’t much better with Beer Money, though at least when Arturo asked Konnan halfway during the match which one was which, Konnan was able to explain it to them. If you did not already know the outsider teams (and most people watching this show would not), you would’ve found it very hard to care about themMatch sounded like it was good. Both four ways were elimination style, and the followed the usual pattern of the team who eliminates another team is the next team to lose. Order of elimination was Team NOAH, Heramandad (with Konnan interfering) and Beer Money clean to Silver King & Ultimo GladiadorIn another invasion angle that was given away well ahead of time, IWRG’s Mascara Ano 2000 Jr. & Hijo de Cien Caras (actually the brother of LA Park) attacked the new champions after the match. These two sides have been feuding in IWRG, and they’re probably doing a tag title match there in the next couple of weeks. Dinamitas Juniors got promo time to explain the angle (which needed to be done), so this was a pretty nice bit for IWRG.
  4. AAA must’ve sent out a press release updating the match listings, because LuchandoLibre knew this was a cage match. AAA’s own site did not list this as a cage match, and the TV episodes did not make that clear. Putting up a cage and taking it down added a lot of dead time to a show that was already lengthy. Without having seen the match, it’s tough to tell if it was worth it. They did use the cage to do some spots, including a Hernandez dive and Chessman doing a moonsault. Order of escape was Octagon, Alex, Pimpi, Herndanez and Chessman. It was a bit of a surprise to see Heavy Metal to take the loss.Piero got his head shaved after the match, and was bald when he refereed the title match later on. As usual on the big shows, Copetes reappeared to work as a unbiased referee.
  5. Abyss & Cibernetico vs Vampiro & Zorro was the match it figured to be. Finish continued the Konnan/Vampiro issue they’ve talked about since Vampiro returned. Konnan tried to throw powder at Cibernetico but got Vampiro, and Cibernetico chokeslammed him for the win.The Legion ran out to attack Cibernetico after the match, but Cibernetico fought them all off. At the time, that seemed really odd, but now they might have been closing a door. Hermandad helped him out a bit as well. After that was over, Vampiro and Konnan argued at the announce desk.
  6. Cruiserweight Title match also sounded good, though it had a strange moment. Opening match tecnico Relampago appeared in an Extreme Tiger mask, then took it off. This confused Tiger (and to be fair, also the rest of the universe), which led to his pin. Relampago is apparently now a rudo, and perhaps this means Extreme Tiger is being moved away from the Cruiserweight Title for the time being.Order of elimination was Nosawa (all the Japanese guys went down first), Tiger, and Daniels. Crowd was very happy with Jack winning the title.
  7. After a cage match, a brawl, and a high spot match, Wagner vs Electroshock worked a slow technical match. It was getting late by this point, and the crowd was not happy with their dedication to mat work, booing portions of this match. Wagner eventually got the win and the title clean with a Wagner Driver.Mesias returned to present Dr. Wagner Jr. with a title. If they’re setting up another Wanger vs Mesias match, I may shut the site down. Electroshock was gracious in defeat, shaking Wagner’s hands.
  8. Crowd seemed more behind Park all night. Match was booked with the idea they’d be behind Parka.Just to go over the end game: Original referee (Copetes?) is knocked out of the ring. Rudo Park gets the advantage and gives Parka a martiente. Parka never moves for the rest of the show. Joaquin Roldan hits the ring to protest this move, and Park shoves him down, though he wipes out Dorian while an elbow swinging around. Park goes to grab the referee to make the count, but he’s still out. Dorian recovers, picks up a chair, and hits Park with it three times, laying out LA Park. Halloween and Damian rush out from the back, clear out Dorian, and drag LA Park on top of Parka. Hijo de Tirantes is right behind the Perros, and counts the pins. The rest of the Perros hit the ring after the match and celebrate, with the AAA wrestlers only turning up later.