Perro Aguayo Jr. is going to return at TripleMania in some sort of an angle, unless it falls through at the last minute. There have been previous negotiations to bring him back and do an interpromotional angle with him leading the Perros Del Mal group that have fallen through, and last year the return of El Hijo del Santo, originally thought to be full-time, ended up being him put over saving the promotion from the evil hands of Konnan, and after being put over as the savior, he left the promotion.
Now, the last information I was told is Perro was to appear at Monday’s taping in Leon, to tease a greater Perros del Mal run in on TripleMania. Perro did not appear in Leon, so the assumption is this whole thing is off, in a repeat of what happened in February.
However, today is Wednesday, TripleMania is Sunday, so they can change their minds again. and again. and again. This does not even seem worth discussing again, but it is also hard to completely ignore.
I still believe Perro needs to make a deal with someone, because what leverage he currently has is slipping away. The thing is, I’ve believed the same thing for a long time and they’ve clearly believed different.
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]
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.
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.
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.)
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.
AAA TV (MON) 05/31 Domo de la Feria de Leon [AAA]
1) Mari Apache, Mascarita Divina, Relampago, Yuriko b Decnnis, Mini Histeria, Polvo de Estrellas, Rain
2) Cuervo, Escoria, Ozz b Alan Stone, Chris Stone, El Elegido
3) Jack Evans, Joe Lider, Nicho el Millionario NC Alex Koslov, Chessman, Kenzo Suzuki
4) Dr. Wagner Jr. & La Parka Jr. DQ Electroshock & Silver King
5) Hernandez, LA Park, Zorro b Cibernético, Heavy Metal, Octagón
2010 AAA TV Recap
Projected Air Date (#941) – new schedule after last week’s all recap show
Mexico: 06/13
US: 06/26
Taping was last night, but AAA didn’t get results up until tonight and didn’t want to just stick with the Dos de Tres details in case they explained the finish for the tercera. Nope, no finish. This is the fourth straight taping with a no contest or a draw finish.
Mari pinned Rain clean after a Mari Apache brainbuster and a senton con giro.
The new trio of Stones & Elegido got off to a bad start. Elegido accidentally hit Chris, Alan got angry at Elegido, and Scoria DDTed Alan for the win. No metal fingernails involved.
Konnan interfered in the tercera, and Nicho bled a bunch. Not sure why it was a no contest, just that it was.
Semimain ended in a DQ when Silver King pulled his brother’s mask. Silver King is now claiming that their father always knew Silver King would be a great wrestler, but didn’t think Dr. Wagner Junior had what it takes to be great. I don’t that this works with these two guys.
Dos de Tres notes fans where throwing bottles at the rudos in the main event, and Park threw those bottles back at them. They also did a spot where Marisela Pena slapped Park for rudo actions in front of her. Hernandez pinned Metal clean with the Border Toss. The Legion swarmed the ring after the match, and Parka & Wagner made the save.
They seem to have set up Wagner/Silver and Wagner/Legion for post TripleMania. Of course, he doesn’t need the belt for those. There were reports that Electroshock didn’t have the belt with him for this show which will air after TripleMania, but then again, they could just be covering their bases.
IWRG (SUN) 05/30 Arena Naucalpan [The Gladiatores]
1) Dinamic Black b Alan Extreme
2) Comando Negro & Eterno b Daga & Hijo del Pantera
3) Cerebro Negro, Dr. Cerebro, Trauma II DQ Avisman, El Hijo del Diablo, Gringo Loco [lumberjack strap]
4) Bombero Infernal, Maldito Jr., Samot b Oficial 911, Oficial AK47, Oficial Fierro
5) Fuerza Guerrera, Máscara Año 2000 Jr., Veneno DQ El Elegido, Gato Eveready, Pimpinela Escarlata
Match came down to concepts Mascara & Elegido. With the refs distracted, Elegido pulled Mascara’s mask and covered for him. Referee counted the three count, and Elegido popped up to celebrate – revealing Mascara’s unmasked face underneath him. (Usually, they drop the mask on loser to cover him up.) Referee noticed the unmasked Mascara and called the DQ. Elegido can’t even cheat right!
Team Fireman beat the Oficials in straight falls, though the first fall was won via a lot of mask ripping (so much so that Ak47 left the match to get a new mask), and the second was won with feet on the ropes. This is setting up a title match.
Third match randomly a one fall lumberjack strap match, with Trauma II replacing La Roca (maybe still CMLL bound?) Hijo del Diablo faked a low blow, got cuaght.
R de Rudo caught Mistico on one his uber-honest days, and those interviews are already fun. Bullet points!
Mistico says the people like the idea of teaming with Averno and thought it was going to do great business, Averno liked the idea, and Mistico liked how it proved Volador couldn’t take his spot. (It seems pretty clear that whoever rejected the idea of Mistico as a rudo, it wasn’t Mistico.)
Mistico’s lesson from the feud with Volador: he’s better than Volador as a tecnico and as a rudo
Mistico is confused why he’s not facing Independent guys on Sin Salida. He would like to face them; many of them come with masks and Mistico would love to face on of them for the masks in a main event. (He’s thinking more along the lines of vs Averno or vs Volador for the Anniversary.)
Mistico very much does not like the idea of the Dinamitas – he calls them burnt cartridges – and Rayo de Jalisco had his moment but it’s time for the young people. Mistico will fight them to keep his spot in the main event.
Mistico is the best.
Atlantis talked to ESTO about his title match versus Volador tonight, saying this is his first chance at a singles title in two years. Not quite true, he lost his title to Texano just last year. Atlantis also says he’s never had a chance at winning a national championship; Atlantis won the national middleweight title in 1984. Alantis says his match will be good, and hopefully he’s right on that one.
La Sombra lost to Kota Ibushi in today’s Best of Super Juniors match, keeping him at 1-1 and 2 points. Good sign he’s not finishing ahead of Ibushi. I hadn’t thought about this before Sunday, but – if Sombra ended up with wins over Tiger Mask and Jushin Liger (the two people in his block who are names in Mexico) and no one else, that’d be better than beating everyone else and losing to just those two, assuming he didn’t make the semifinals. And maybe it’s is even better than making the semifinal.
Arena Colonial in Nuevo Laredo is closing after five years.
IWRG’s poster for Thursday promotes wrestlers from the “Dragon Grate” promotion. Even if it’s spelled right, Nosawa is from All Japan. Not that it probably makes a difference. Not on the poster, but added according to SuperLuchas: AYUMI vs Tomoka Nakagawa.
CMLL (MON) 06/07 Arena Puebla
1) King Jaguar, Lestat, Tigre Rojo Jr. vs Akron, Fuerza Chicana, Toro Bill Sr.
2) Ángel de Plata, Fabián el Gitano, Sensei vs Dr. X, Hooligan, Nitro
3) Dalys la Caribeña, Lady Apache, Luna Mágica vs Mima Shimoda, Princesa Blanca, Princesa Sujei
4) La Máscara, Rayo de Jalisco Jr., Toscano vs Máscara Año 2000, Olímpico, Universo 2000
5) Strong Man vs Héctor Garza
Good lord.
Update: They changed the card. Hector and Rayo had better things to do, maybe.
CMLL (MON) 06/07 Arena Puebla
1) King Jaguar, Lestat, Tigre Rojo Jr. vs Akron, Fuerza Chicana, Toro Bill Sr.
2) Ángel de Plata, Fabián el Gitano, Sensei vs Dr. X, Hooligan, Nitro
3) Dalys la Caribeña, Lady Apache, Luna Mágica vs Mima Shimoda, Princesa Blanca, Princesa Sujei
4) Blue Panther, La Máscara, Toscano vs Olímpico, Shigeo Okumura, Taichi
5) Brazo de Plata, Shocker, Strong Man vs Gigante Bernard, Máscara Año 2000, Universo 2000
Gives me back some hope that Rayo is just showing up for the Sin Salida show and then disappearing. This is still awful.
– 05/29 CMLL 52MX
– 05/29 WWC – includes the Carlos Colon talk about his son’s issues
– 05/29 AAA – cruiserweight trios is said to be pretty good
– 05/29 AAA on MexicoTV – this, and the one from Sunday, are older AAA replays airing as “Lucha Mania” (same name as the IWRG show). They’ve been airing for a great while, but they (or the cable company) recently fixed something, so now I can edit and upload the videos.
The shows are really 2 one hour shows stapled together, with the vignettes and even most of the in-ring non-wrestling bits removed. They move matches around to fit their time requirement but generally are following one taping to the next. I have not watched these yet, but they should be the end of the 07/01/2007 taping and probably all of the 07/06 taping. I’m pretty sure this is on the internet somewhere already and so I’m not sure if I’m going to keep posting these unless something that didn’t air turns up.
