IWRG (THU) 10/14 Arena Naucalpan [Mi Lucha Libre]
3) Black Terry, Cerebro Negro, Dr. Cerebro b Bombero Infernal, Maldito Jr., Samot
4) Avisman, El Hijo del Diablo, Último Gladiador b Freelance, Trauma I, Veneno
5) Biba Kasai, Mini Abismo Negro, Monster Clown, Yuriko DQ Hijo del Cien Caras, Mari Apache, Mascarita Divina, Pasion Kristal
Main event DQ was for a foul on Monster Clown.
Mi Lucha Libre has video of an unmasked Ultimo Gladiador and Trauma I setting up their title match. I think Ultimo Gladiador’s gimmick is “guy trying to completely kill the concept of mask in Mexico.” Why does no one write about this?
IWL (SAT) 10/16 Deportivo Tlalli [Black Terry Jr., Mi Lucha Libre, SuperLuchas, R de Rudo]
1) Golden & Lover Dragon b Extreme Cat & Sol de Oriente
2) Daga & Freelance b Eterno & Fantasma de la Ópera
3) Trauma I & Trauma II b Pesadilla & Ragde and Aeroboy & Violento Jack and Heddi Karoui & Naruto [IWL TAG, tournament]
4) Marco Corleone b Gran Alebrije, Súper Nova, Lizmark Sr., Oriental, Monsther [IWL CONTINENTAL]
5) Blue Demon Jr. b Halloween, Super Crazy [IWL CHAMP, quarterfinal]
Scott Sommers “did not make his flight”, so he was replaced by Halloween & Super Crazy. Blue Demon Jr. still won. One of the other quarterfinals is Colt Cabana and Chuck Palumb0, and I wouldn’t bet on that match happening.
No results for the undercard, but Los Porros stuck around to help Marco win his match.
Extreme Cat was knocked out in his match and everyone was scared a bit, but he did regain consciousness.
OILL PdM AAA (SUN) 10/17 Arena Azteca Budokan [Estrellas del Ring, The Gladiatores]
1) Hell Boy & Sangre de Toro b Comando Rivera & Corcel de Plata
2) Arana de Plata & Elementor b Principe Gitano & Toby
3) Diva Salvaje & Yuriko b el Ángel & Ranger
4) Barrio Latino, Mascara Virtual, Scorpio Jr., Zumbido b Pesadilla, Ragde, X-Fly
5) el Hijo del Perro Aguayo, Halloween, Super Crazy NC Crazy Boy, Joe Lider, Nicho el Millionario
Both the referee and a back up referee got beat up during the match, so that was just the non-finish. Maybe it’s actually still going. Both sides talked about doing an extreme cage match, Zumbido, X-Fly, and Esther Moreno also being included.
Mascara Virtual filled in for Scorpio Jr., who turned up later and got involved in the match anyway. Zumbido had a new Guapito with him, so it was 5 vs 3 win, except I think that side is supposed to be the tecnicos.
Mi Lucha Libre posted video of this show.
LuchaWorld has KrisZ’s news update and a recap of LA’s PWE TV show.
Rob has a review of last week’s CMLL on C3 show (Volador/Mascara) and this past weekends’ 52MX show.
Links
- Espectro II Jr. lost his mask in the Tijuana cage match.
- Black Terry Jr. has video of the Judas el Triador vs El Potro hair match from Coalaco.
- Charly Manson wants Rey Bucanero’s hair next, but is willing to let his friend Mr. Aguila try first.
- On a show in Arena Neza on Saturday, bald Negro Casas defeated Charly Manson via foul. The Gladiatores have a video interview with Charly from that show.
- Pierrothito talks about his loss to Demus 3:16, denying him from joining the major leagues. The night before, they were not only on the same team, but flew back to Mexico City on a plane sitting next to each other, realizing how weird this was.
- Leon luchador Blue Thunder talks about winning a title.
- Various locals luchadors visited Arena Isabel one last time to say goodbye.
- In an nearby area show later in the day, Chamaco Valaguez was honored and beat Nosferatu in the main event trios.
- The LuchaMania expo show in Leon drew 5,000 people on Saturday night, which included a CMLL show
- Cronicas y Leyendas looks at Dos Caras in Japan and El Hijo del Santo’s 28th anniversary.
- An apology on Mas Lucha seems to be referencing a fight between luchadors and fans at a show, though it’s not especially clear.
- Heroes del Ring review from Operation Sports: “This game is fun, but it does not have $60 worth of fun. This game would have been much better served to be $40 instead of a full $60 purchase.”
- And on GamingRing: “Without a doubt I would recommend this as purchase because of the fun that is ensued and the four player online. This is their first game after all and for a first wrestling game, not to mention first game, Slang should be proud.”
- SuperLuchas 386 has bald Negro Casas.
Lineups
IWRG (THU) 10/21 Arena Naucalpan
1) Dinamic Black vs Keshin Black
2) Bugambilia & Miss Gaviota vs Alan Extreme & Magia Negra
3) Black Terry, Daga, Freelance vs Carta Brava Jr., Comando Negro, Eterno
4) Trauma I vs Último Gladiador [AMERICAS LH]
5) Crazy Boy & Joe Lider vs Electroshock & Silver King
Main event sure to show the skill of hitting each other with metal and glass objects until people bleed. Where the skill is “high amounts of masochism”, though I’d guess Electroshock will screw it up and just be sadistic.
CMLL (SUN) 10/24 Arena Coliseo
1) Horus & Tony Rivera vs Artillero & Súper Comando
2) Guerrero Maya Jr., Leono, Molotov vs Bronco, Camorra, Inquisidor
3) Ángel Azteca Jr., Hijo del Fantasma, Máximo, Sagrado, Valiente vs Felino, Mephisto, Rey Bucanero, Shigeo Okumura, Taichi [cibernetico]
4) Fuego & Stuka Jr. vs Delta & Diamante [Arena Coliseo TAG]
5) Atlantis, Negro Casas, Último Guerrero vs La Máscara, Místico, Shocker
CMLL posted the lineup last night, then changed it around a lot this afternoon. Taichi tweeted happily about teaming up with both Okumura & Yoshihashi, and now poor Yoshihashi is nowhere to be seen. Tercera was previously a trios, but they added people to the main event (Negro, UG, La Mascara) and bumped people down into the tercera.
Mistico is appearing in Arena Coliseo about once a month when there’s no storyline feud for him here, so this may be the one time for this month.
Why is Tony Rivera still listed on shows? Did he only tell media people he quit, but never tell CMLL, so they just keep on booking him? It’s amazing.
CMLL (SUN) 10/24 Arena Coliseo Guadalajara
1) Javier Cruz Jr. vs Templario
2) Hierro & Virgo vs Ebola & Rey Trueno
3) Black Metal & Neutrón vs León Blanco & Malefico
4) Pólvora, Sangre Azteca, Vangelis vs Ángel de Oro, Metro, Toscano
5) La Sombra, Máscara Dorada, Rotoporky vs Ephesto, Héctor Garza, Mr. Águila
a show.
IWRG (SUN) 10/24 Arena Naucalpan
1) Centurión vs Keshin Black
2) Bugambilia del Norte & Miss Gaviota vs Comando Negro & Epidemia
3) Centauro, Chico Che, Pollo vs El Hijo del Diablo, Magia Negra, Maligno
4) Hijo del Cien Caras & Máscara Año 2000 Jr. vs Hijo de Pirata Morgan & Pirata Morgan
5) Christian, Gronda, Veneno vs Electroshock, Oficial 911, Oficial AK47
Some different names here. Pollo is the chicken character from the late, unlamented EAW shows, making it’s debut here. (Surely an IWRG guy who was using another gimmick.) Maligno might be his rival. Bugambilia del Norte might be the Bugambilia from Arena Aficiono f late. Centurion should be the Gimnasio Ham Lee rep who finished runner up in last week’s trainee cibernetico.
X-LAW (SAT) 10/30 Arena Lopez Mateos
1) Carta Brava, Cerebro Negro, Fantasma de la Ópera vs Bestia 666, Grendel, Heimdal
2) Angel o Demonio, Leon Rojo, Obett vs Oficial 911, Oficial AK47, Oficial Fierro
3) Super Crazy vs Joe Lider, Shyru Dragon [X-LAW HEAVY EXTREME]
4) Nosawa vs Sabu [X-LAW INT]
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From that Gamingring Review:
“+ Accurate roster”
I think he left out the “for early 2009” part.
Bugambilla was in that Torneo as well. Wasn’t Freelance in EAW as Pollo?
@Rob: Wasn’t Freelance Voltage Negro?
I’m going to be doing an in-depth review of AAA Heroes Del Ring pretty soon with my friend JZbadblood, who somehow had his savefile deleted after unlocking everyone.
PROTIP: Unlocking everyone is a pain in the ass
I know I’m taking the same angle of “This is good, but not $60 good” myself. I feel bad doing that because there are a lot of things the game did that are REALLY COOL but just not enough of it.
@tromataker: How do you unlock Jack? Of course the guy I want to play with seems to be tough to do.
Man, I can’t remember which, but he’s either doing ten dives to the outside in a match on normal difficulty or hitting SuperFly’s finisher 5 times in a match on medium. Do them both; the other unlocks Extreme Tiger, sadly, but if you’re a completist, there you go.
Silver King was the one that was the biggest pain in the ass to unlock since you have to win King of Kings with Espectro Jr to get him. King of Kings finals are harder than a normal match on hard difficulty.
Winning a 2 on 1 on normal with Eligido gets you Marco Corleone. They force you to play as Eligido. That’s a dick move right there.
Also, I should probably mention- Jack looks WEIRD. Like everyone is perfect and he looks like someone chewed up his head or something.
Ah, I didn’t make the connection between the trophy/achievements and unlocking things.
Just got Heroes del Ring. It’s a fun game, probably not gonna play it a lot after SVR comes out/I unlock everything. Favorite finisher is DEFINITELY Zorro’s superkick. How do I unlock Wagner and Silver King? Rudo story mode?
@wakigatame: I believe so, the second to last rudo story match in a handicap match with both of them.
@thecubsfan: Oh fucking fantastic. I can’t get past the 1 vs. 3 against Psycho Clown and whoever the other two guys are. This is the most frustrating story mode I’ve played since the TNA game, and I don’t think that pissed me off as much as this game did. I wish save data copying was possible for this game.
@wakigatame: What you need to do, and this really goes for all the handicap matches, is try and draw a countout win. You just need one guy on the outside when the count runs out to win, and it’s much more likely than getting on a submission without it being broken up.
There’s one version of the Wagner/Silver King battle on the rudo side where there’s no countout, and that’s a lot harder. But use what they give you.
I’ve been trying this off and on with the final guy for the last few days, and have come close but not close enough. But closer than trying it straight up.
Maybe I should blow off recapping and write this for gamefaqs intead.