CMLL on Fox Sports (Mexico) #206 (07/17/2010)

taped 07/11/2010, Arena Coliseo

Do not watch this show. Do not purchase this show. (Sorry Fredo.) Do not speak of this show – any acknowledgment of this show can only hurt. Horrible, horrible stuff, probably the worst episode of lucha television I’ve watched this year. Yes, including AAA.

The opener – Blue Panther, Shocker, Super Porky vs Atlantis, Negro Casas, Rey Bucanero – was half effort Super Porky comedy for four minutes, and absolutely no more. I don’t know if a devilish editor decided to cut out anything that was good and leave the rest to fill time, but I fear the possibility of this being the best four minutes.

What a fool I was to go out of my way to watch this for Mistico vs Volador. This was an outright horrendous match, maybe it too the worst match I’ve seen this year. These two may have not known they were going to have this match on this day – they did know far in enough advance for Volador to tape a promo – but they’ve worked often against each other this year that they should’ve been able to put together some semblance of a match on short notice. This was no semblance of a match, just each guys taking turns staring each other, doing a headscissors, staring at each other, doing a dive, and coming back in to stare at each other some more. And what they were doing wasn’t even good – Mistico hurting his ankle caused things to fall apart even more, but they were botching spots long before. Tirantes’ rudo refereeing was the least objectionable part of this match.

I don’t know if this means these guys are incapable of doing a match they’re not ready for (they would seem to have plenty of practice at that), or if they couldn’t figure out how to do a tecnico vs tecnico match (Tirantes was cheating for Volador, but Volador wasn’t especially a rudo), or if they actually hate each other and were just trying to make each other like a fool. I do know why they didn’t hype this much. This stuff shouldn’t get out.

There’s a few things I’m curious about. One is that spot over there – did they just both bail on the Spanish Fly? Was it the world’s worst reversal? Crowd decided it was something they needed to loudly boo – and another is why neither man could do more one move without gasping for air for thirty seconds. Large portions of this match were one going doing a headscissors, that guy getting up slowly and standing there catching his breath, the other guy getting up even more slowly and catching his breath. It was as if they had both retired, stopped doing any cardio work, and then came back 30 years later to do one last match against each other. If this is how these guys are going to wrestle when they’re old men, I hope they make a lot of money right now and absolutely do not wrestle when they’re old men.

This had to be their fifth show of the day or something. Even people who don’t like these guys would be astounded to see them this poor. A Mr. Niebla in no condition to perform might have performed better than these two.

Everyone is going to have bad nights. But this seemed something beyond that. AVOID.