DF Box Y Lucha Comission: LA Park vs LA Parka was a no contest

In yesterday’s Reforma (reprinted in today’s Siglo de Torreon), the Mexico City Box Y Lucha representative at TripleMania, Jorge Gomez Garnica, says the finish of the LA Park vs La Parka Jr. match was ruled to be a no contest. This is what had been reported by Luchas2000 at the end of the show, but AAA insisted the LA Park won the match.

The explanation is Copetes Salazar was the official referee for the match. He was knocked out, and Hijo de Tirantes materialized to make the final count for LA Park. Gomez Garnica quotes Article 12 & 13 of the Rulebook.

Articles 12 & 13 in the Rulebook are all the powers attributed to Commissioners. If you actually read the rulebook (PDF), it’s a lot of what you would expect and want a real local commission to have: there’s supposed to check to make sure the show is run as and when advertised, report on an incidents between performers and fans, perform weigh ins for title matches, and make sure the match is stopped if a doctor says it needs to be. There’s nothing written in the law about over turning finishes of matches, and it would take a very broad reading of those sections to come up with one.

This is not the first time a back up referee has makes the three count; they’ve been doing for months with Piero and Hijo de Tirantes and there’s been no wave of no contests all over the place.

It’s been done in Mexico City. It’s been done in this same building. It’s been done on TripleMania with the same referee. Two years ago, the show ended with Cibernetico vs Zorro for the Heavyweight Title. Tirantes Senior started as referee, but was wiped out. Konnan tried to take over as referee, but was laid out. Hijo de Tirantes ran to the ring and counted the three count for Cibernetico. Commission was OK with that.

(This same commissioner was also the commissioner on hand for the Mistico vs Volador title match, where Mistico did about dozen different disqualification tactics and generally went insane. Not a no contest.)

As far as the decision, it really doesn’t matter. The DF Commission will be ignored in SLP when AAA tapes there next  Wednesday, and they’ll be ignored when they tape in Jalisco on Sunday. LA Park himself is doing his best to kill the stipulation, saying today he doesn’t really care if La Parka Jr. keeps using the same name and keeps using the same costume, because all LA Park needed to prove he was the better man, and even if someone commission changes the ‘official’ result, the people all know who won.