Thank god for Fabian el Gitano. He restored some of my faith in lucha libre.
I’ve made the joke about X match between Y’s best match ever, because they just happened to be in a match with five other people being great, but this was Fabian’s best match ever because of Fabian el Gitano. He worked incredibly hard during the final fall with Angel de Oro, pulling out moves I can’t recall ever having seen and playing rudo (which I’m also not sure if he’s ever done.) There was great drama there, and not the teetering towards disaster kind of drama I expected. Angel de Oro was no slacker, but this was Fabian’s finest moment.
The rest of the cage matches were good by cage match standards. Three minutes of brawling before starting to let people go worked better than the usual longer periods of nothingness, and they seemed to space the escapes out enough so there was a solid rhythm to them. Tiger Kid’s turn on Puma King came off well and is exactly the sort of thing they should follow up on, though I’m not sure how mad Puma should really be when he pulled the same thing on Angel de Oro (in another bit that worked well.) Hombre Bala is either a crazy old man or there’s a new Monsther, and I’m still not sure either way. Track this match down.
The opener here was even more butchered up than the one on the last week, and this one looked like it was actualy pretty good. Disappionting.
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