Latin Lover in Arena Mexico, Radio CMLL, IWRG

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IWRG (THU) 11/25 Arena Naucalpan [Mi Lucha Libre, The Gladiatores]
1) Dinamic Black b Imposible
2) Brazo Metalico, Freelance, Saruman b Alan Extreme, Eterno, Hammer
3) Cerebro Negro, Chico Che, Dr. Cerebro DQ Bombero Infernal, Maldito Jr., Samot
4) Ángel Mortal & Gallego b Black Terry & Comando Negro
5) Negro Navarro & Trauma I b Relampago & Villano III and Espíritu & Joe Lider and El Hijo de Aníbal & Veneno

Four way tag match with elimination rules. It came down to Trauma I vs Joe Lider, but Espiritu (eliminated) came back into help and got DQed. Somehow this sets up a Trauma I/Joe Lider match.

Comando Negro was busy. He challenged Chico Che to a hair match, then lost his own match. Gallego was eliminated, and came back in to beat Black Terry.

DQ in the tercera was for Bombero’s team pressing a Cerebro over the top rope. Rarely see that DQ in CMLL and almost never any place else.

CMLL

CMLL (FRI) 11/26 Arena Mexico [SuperLuchas, CMLL, Fuego en el Ring]
1) Durango Kid & Tiger Kid b Bengala & Metálico
2) Eléctrico, Fantasy, Pequeno Maximo b Astral, Bam Bam, Último Dragoncito
3) Marcela b Tiffany [lightning]
4) Delta, Diamante, Metro b Cancerbero, Euforia, Raziel
5) La Sombra, Rush, Strong Man b Misterioso II, Psicosis, Texano
6) Charly Manson, Héctor Garza, Mr. Águila b Atlantis, Rey Bucanero, Último Guerrero

Invasors won the first fall of the main event. The Guerreros had Mr. Aguila surrounded, Aguila fakes a foul, and Tirantes called a DQ for that and for the Guerreros attacking 3 on 1. Second fall had eliminations before the finish: Hector beat UG, Atlantis defeated Charly Manson, and Aguila & Rey were left in the ring. Bucanero had Aguila in an octopus hold for the sure win, but Garza came back in (Tirantes turned around and walked away), broke up the pin, and helped Aguila crawl on top. Fast count too.

After the match, Latin Lover showed up and punched Tiratnes in the face. The Invasors attacked Latin, ripping off his shirt (of course.) Shocker appeared to make the save. This is the third time in recent years where Latin Lover has made a cameo appearance in CMLL and the second time this year, and this one looks like it might actually be followed up in Arena Mexico. Next week’s semimain is now:

5) Latin Lover, Místico, Shocker, Strong Man vs Atlantis, Felino, Héctor Garza, Negro Casas

Mascara Dorada goes missing from the card. This time around, Latin is listed as “Latin Lover” on both CMLL.com and Ras de Lona.

On his blog, Cesar defends CMLL using Latin Lover as reaching media and fans who otherwise wouldn’t be paying attention to lucha libre. CMLL definitely needs to increase it’s appeal now. I suspect Latin will only be very sporadically appearing (and not at all this year after Sin Piedad) and I wouldn’t think about it as more than one appearance at a time. The big idea here is a hair match with Latin and Garza, but there’s no telling if we’ll ever get there. I’d bet they get involved in Friday’s main event too.

Amazing that Rush happened to be in the semimain the day after he won the bodybuilding contest. Strong Man got the deciding pin on Texano.

Metro’s submission is named El Escudo (the Shield.) He got in on Cancerbero as Diamante beat Raziel with a springboard 450 splash.

Marcela beat Tiffany in 8:47. Tirantes was referee, helping Tiffany before they had problems at the end. Hmmm.

No Pequeno Warrior sighting in the minis match. No Shockercito sighting either; Mini Maximo just happened to be around to be his replacement. Electiro got Bam Bam clean with a cristo to win. That sets him up for next week’s mask  match, but would also seem to set up a title match at some point. Bam Bam & Dragoncito wore black outfits, so maybe they were the more rudo-ish of the teams?  Dragoncito’s been wearing the outfit a lot, but Bam Bam kind of looked like how I would expect him to look if he switched to the rudo side.

Last night was the debut of RadioCMLL.com‘s broadcast. I did not have a chance to listen to it, but it sounds like it was a trial run to test things out before next week’s big show. Like microphone levels. The site is still very useful if you missed the show – they’ve posted video of the end (or the post match) of every match last night on their site, and apparently were updating it during the show. Cesar says the radio/video coverage is so good, he’s ending his show reports because they’re not worth the effort when you can actually see all the footage. To me, there’s still a place for live recaps, especially if they’re only going to pose a minute or two of the matches, but probably not in insanely detailed. (And I know there’s a lesson in there for me.)

Ras de Lona items

  • Ultimo Guerrero says he and Dragon Rojo are going to break he and Bucanero’s record for most tag team title defenses and says that is *55*. We’re missing a few. Good luck on that, Dragon Rojo.
  • Metro & Stuka are still under the impression they can pick someone new and just plug them in as champion. This week, Angel de Oro, Delta & Diamante were floated (by Stuka, who must not be really friends with Fuego.) Metro suggested rudos could also be on the ballot. I see they’ve thought this thru!
  • Fantasma and Mephisto talked about Mephisto’s piledriver in Guadalajara this Tuesday. Mephisto did his interview from the top secret Guadalajara announcing station (an editing bay somewhere.)
  • Much like in this Fuego en el Ring interview, La Mascara says he wants to test himself with a mask match with Atlantis or Ultimo Guerrero
  • Lots of Cuije vs Perico hype!

LuchaWorld has KrisZ’s news update.

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38 thoughts to “Latin Lover in Arena Mexico, Radio CMLL, IWRG”

  1. I’ve always felt people who read recaps do it because they want to know if the show is worth watching OR what that person’s opinion is about the show. They could probably watch most of the stuff online nowadays.

  4. Really excited about the Latin return I thought his last interaction with Garza a few months back was amazing and the crowd sounded excited for it last night.I think he is a great addition to 12/3.An eventual hair match with Garza and Latin would be really interesting and I anxious to see where this goes.

  5. If Polvora wants to live past the end of the year I would suggest he never take that monkey flip off the ramp into the ring ever again. There is far too much room for error unless you are being super careful… which is not Metro’s style.

  6. Do you think Latin Lover will be in CMLL long enough to have the Garza/Latin hair match, at say Dos Leyendas 2011?

  11. Now I’m curious if Marcela/Tiffany aired b/c the Momentos/News segment is airing where it normally doesn’t.

  14. Man that is the first IWRG card in months I really want to check out. Let’s hope some of it ends up online

  15. Sadly, it looks like I’m going to miss the GDL stream tonite, but probably will catch ACM.

    GDL repeats tomorrow afternoon at like 6 or 7pm EST no?

  22. Radio CMLL is doing the Tuesday show at 7:30.

    Ras De Lona on bliptv was never updated during the week.

  25. Latin Lover was awesome in CMLL. I love how he has a match next week and he’ll be on the same team as Mistico and Strong Man (and Shocker). That’s so awesome. CMLL is now officially without a doubt the best wrestling company in Mexico.

    The only thing that would have been the cherry on the Sundae to this CMLL episode would be if they had played the Lady Gaga cell phone commercial. Instead we got the Justin Beiber commercial. BOOOOOO!! That guy sucks!!

    I tell ya, and I hope Paco D’Alonzo is reading this, Lady Gaga needs to appear in CMLL. She could team up with Latin Lover and they can face Hector Garza and some other singer, one who is evil, like Katy Perry.

    Latin Lover and Lady Gaga would be a great team. You would have the best wrestler in the world with the best singer/fashionista in the world. And she’s also the best looking woman in the world.

  29. Oh now you’ve done it Daniel…You’ve upset the Katy Perry fans who visit the luchablog. I know for a fact that thecubsfan’s key demographic coincides with Katy Perry fans. I believe there is a pie chart online showing this info. ;)

  30. ACM ended up airing a little after 1 am ct., it was the caifan I/mascara purpura/ el simbolo vs veneno extremo/difunto I & II match

  32. Yes gentleman Katy Perry is nothing more than a shock artist who is attempting to corrupt the youth.

    When I was at Lady Gaga’s concert she prayed to Jesus on stage. You won’t find Katy Perry doing that.

    @Afredo, sorry I didn’t mean to offend the demographic of this site. ha ha ha ha ha

  33. Two very random questions

    1.Is CMLL Puebla TV done or has it just stopped appearing online?

    2.What ever happened to Dr. Cerebro’s trip to Japan in October?

    Thanks for any info.

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