By the time I post tomorrow, the World Cup will have gotten underway, and Mexico’s game vs South Africa will probably be over. I’m not sure how this will affect lucha the next month. it will be hard to do angles which capture the attention of the masses – even if Friday is a full fledged Volador turn and a title change, they probably won’t make many Saturday sports sections – but I’m not sure it will hurt attendance as much as it may have in other years. The time zone difference means the late game will usually be done by 4 pm Central Time; fans are not going to have stay home in the evening to catch games live like they might for a western hemisphere World Cup. If Mexico wins, maybe people go out to lucha shows to celebrate. If they lose, maybe they go out to lucha shows to yell at people. Or maybe they just stay home to watch a replay of the game, who knows.
Tomorrow is also the VivaLaLucha PPV. I’m planning on getting it, though I need to pick up an actual cable box tonight if I’m going to pull that off. It’s been a while since I put that poll up – are other people getting it? Is it worth doing a chat to talk about the show while it’s airing?
AAA’s website confirms what we’ve heard elsewhere – “the commission has invalidated the finish of the match”, and everyone’s sticking with the names they had before the match on Sunday. If they had to do this angle, it’s hasn’t been done well, but then even may that may part of the angle. Like one guy agreeing to lose, but only if the announcement of the invalidated finish is made that day, but the other side only being down with that if it’s not made in the ring, and so on until they get reached a settlement, only by making it totally unpalatable to those watching the show.
This is really no different than the Fabi Apache hair cut bit, AAA promoting a stipulation they have no intention of delivering. (The Legion going away after last year’s TripleMania is about the same thing.) I know that’s kind of in AAA’s DNA, but if you’re promising a stipulation and not delivering, that’s actually where a real commission is supposed to get involved. There’s not one of those in Mexico, but no one should care about any major status quo changing stipulation in AAA, because they’ve shown those are the ones that’ll be ignored.
Meanwhile, in a show last night in Sinola, LA Park threw La Parka Jr. over the barricade, then threw a carton of glass bottles at Parka AAA. The bottles flew everywhere, nearly hitting children.
Chico Che beat Bugambila in a hair match at Arena Aficion.
Sombra lost his BOSJ match today to SMASH’s KUSHIDA, which mathematically eliminated him from making the semifinals (unless there are some more injuries.) I know KUSHIDA is the top guy in SMASH, but I figured CMLL was a much bigger deal to NJPW. It didn’t work out that way, but Sombra’s still in line for a good showing if he ambushes Liger on the last day.
Stats for fun: if win/loss/draw had equal chances of happening, chances of top 2 (including ties)
93% Ibushi – clinches tomorrow if Sombra or Davey win
67% Liger – there’s a way he can beat Davey tomorrow, and still be out with a loss to Sombra.
62% Devitt
33% Davey
Misterioso II would be happy to face Gallo for the Occidente Light Heavyweight Championship, but does not break his streak of interviews mentioning Ultimo Guerrero and the Heavyweight championship.
Gigante Bernard tells ESTO that the Mexican fans are the best fans he’s seen, and would like to come back and win a title. All those two falls wins sure seem to indicate they’ve got bigger plans for him than one tour. Bernard leaves on Monday. Bernard tells Fuego that he started as a tecnico because that’s what Paco Alonso told him to do, but prefers to be a rudo. Fuego en el Ring fails to ask how much money he spends on food each day.
Estrellas del Ring has an interview with Acapulco rudo trio Los Depredadores del Ring.
Students in Argentina, protesting the poor condition of their school, attacked a father who happened to be taking his kid to that school. There’s an argument about who started it, and it sounds like it turned into a big deal because it was captured on video and shown everywhere. The twist here is it turns out that the father is rudo Rottweiler of the 100% Lucha show. I think Bill Watts would’ve fired him.
Dos de Tres previews the Day With Monster Clown article in it’s latest edition. It looks so great. Also in great ideas, Atlantis was on a cooking show.
Most random story of the day: A London based painter has an upcoming exhibition, and her work includes paintings of fat luchadors. Her name? Jazmine Velasco, the niece of legendary Guadalajara trainer Diablo Velasco. In this story, Diablo is an uncle who wasn’t very good at wrestling until…
“[Diablo]’s nose was broken and one of his aunties was embarrassed to have this messy nephew so she gave him lots of money to set up a business. He organised body building competitions, appeared with Arnold Schwarzenegger and became super- rich!”
I had never heard this story before.
Segunda Caida takes a look at IWRG 02/11/10. Is the Complete and Accurate History of Cassandro on hiatus while Cassandro is? And can I request a review of one of the 100% Lucha episodes if I get around to posting them next week?
LuchaWorld has a KrisZ’s news update.
Lineup
IWRG (SUN) 06/13 Arena Naucalpan
1) Guizmo vs Halcon 2000
2) Comando Negro & Magia Negra vs Alan Extreme & Dinamic Black
3) Eragon, Freelance, Jack vs Hijo del Signo, Némesis, Trauma II
4) Máscara Año 2000 Jr. & Trauma I vs Hijo de Pirata Morgan & Pirata Morgan [super libre]
5) Monster Clown, Murder Clown, Psycho Clown vs Hijo del Cien Caras, Scorpio Jr., Tinieblas Jr.
Changed card. IWRG poster actually lists Moster Clown and Los Capos Jr. in main event. If they’re doing AAA vs IWRG, they really need to go all the way and give us the big match: Nemesis vs Nemesis.
CMLL (TUE) 06/15 Arena Coliseo Guadalajara
1) Relampago vs Cerveruz
2) Astaroth & Magnum vs Ángel del Mal & Infierno
3) Hierro & Neutrón vs Ebola & Ráfaga
4) Ángel Azteca, Metal Blanco, Rush vs Cancerbero, Euforia, Raziel
5) Shocker & Toscano vs Héctor Garza & Último Guerrero
Actually, CMLL.com lists someone named “Rouge” in the semimain.
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KUSHIDA worked HUSTLE and All-Japan so he has sort of a name in Japan as a top young star.
so LA Park returns to Arena Coliseo Monterrey this weekend! That will be interesting.
KUSHIDA certaintly means more to the Japanese fans then La Sombra. La Sombra was going to be nothing more then the job boy for his block.
@LUKIE: Which is sad and why it’s so god damn annoying when CMLL brings over every no talent scrub from Japan and immediatly pushes them to the top, i.e. Taichi, Goto, Nakamura, Yujiro, etc.
If, and granted, it’s still an “if” at this point…but if Sombra beats Liger, he will be far from a job boy for his block. He walks out of there with wins over Tiger Mask and Jushin Liger; which potentially makes him the challenger for the Middleweight belt when Liger returns to Mexico. The guys he’s lost to so far are guys who figure to be available to appear in NJPW much more than he would, so why wouldn’t he lose to them?
@Victor Sosa: Why would Yujiro and Okumura be given wins over 3 teams including one with Mistico to win the Gran Alternativa?
With the way CMLL treats everyone from New Japan, you would think in exchange Sombra would at least run over everyone in the block before losing in the finals.
Anyways it’s more of a negative statement about how CMLL makes their guys look absolutely awful against any foreigners that are brought in while their guys look like idiots everywhere they get sent.
@Rob:
I completely agree with you that I’d like to see CMLL book their guys more strongly against the NJPW guys. Actually, booking them strongly at all against NJPW guys would be a step in the right direction, IMO.
I just think that calling Sombra a job boy as Lukie did would be a little strong if he ends up with wins against the biggest names in NJPW’s junior division and the names the longtime, hardcore CMLL fan would be most familiar with of everyone in the BOSJ.
Now, by the time the tournament is over, Lukie may be right. I don’t think he’s right yet, that’s all.
I’m looking forward to the vivalalucha ppv, however due to my work and other scheduling I won’t be able to order the PPV repeat until 10am next friday.
Unless of course I wanna catch the viewer’s choice repeats at like 7 and 8 am, through the coming week which is too early for my ass…
I’m really excited about the PPV if only I could make time. My work don’t really allow me for luxurious leisure.