CMLL (TUE) 12/28 Arena Mexico [CMLL]
1) Disturbio & Mortiz b Freesbe & Robin
2) Enrique Vera Jr., Metal Blanco, Palacio Negro b Hijo del Signo, Puma King, Tiger Kid
3) Diamante, Metro, Sagrado b Arkángel de la Muerte, Cancerbero, Demus 3:16
4) Máximo, Rush, Valiente b Pólvora, Sangre Azteca, Shigeo Okumura
5) Héctor Garza, Terrible, Texano b La Máscara, Rotoporky, Toscano
Rudos appear to have won clean in the main event. How odd!
Sangre Azteca & Polvora continue to have issues, and their team lost in straight falls.
Vera & Signo made their debuts in the second match.
AAA (SAT) 12/25 Auditorio Municipal Torreon [WagnerMania]
1) Mini Chessman & Sexy Star b Dama De Hierro & Mascarita Divina
2) Laredo Kid & Pimpinela Escarlata b Tigre Cota & Tito Santana
3) Silver King & Zorro b Dr. Wagner Jr. & El Elegido
4) Pierroth Jr. b Joe Lider [hair, mask]
A Wagner promotion show, the annual Christmas one here. There were a couple more undercard matches unreported. Poor turnout for this, though I think it may look worse than it actually is since all the shots show the empty grandstands and not the full-ish sections near ringside.
Still no word who the Pierroth Jr. was – the only picture of him is from far away. Lider showed up in IWRG the next day with just the sides of his head cut, not far off from his normal look, and it didn’t make any sense for him to lose. Silver King & Relampago ran in to help Pierroth Jr. I wonder if it was perhaps someone very familiar under the mask, and the promotion was worried about an angry response to an anti-climatic reveal. Lucha promotions don’t usually worry about that, but there’s not many reasons to do what they did.
Zorro fouled Wagner for the pin. Wagner wants a title shot on the next show here. No date for that.
Molotov will replace Guerrero Maya in this Saturday’s Reyes del Aires. ESTO says Maya will be out an indefinite time due to contracting hepatitis, and they’re still waiting to find out what type it is. The lead story in the article is the first confirmation someone in CMLL knows Mistico is headed to Japan next month. I was getting a little bit concerned.
When Lucha Libre USA announced it’s first show at the Hard Rock in Albuquerque, it was promoted as the new home for all the tapings. One taping later, they’ve announced a show for San Manuel Casino in California on 01/20. No mention of it being a TV taping, but all the shows they’ve announced previously were at least planned to be TV tapings.
Nikita reviewed Low Rider vs Drastick Boy. Low Rider turns up in DTU/PdM/IWL early matches, but actually started out as a US indy guy who moved down to Mexico (and is some how related to Super Crazy.)
Links
- Lucha Libre AAA is down to $29.99 at Best Buy.
- Cesar is running a series of debunking rumors about Mistico: nepotism, cloning and his mythology. I think the internet may have peaked when he referred to the core booking duo as “Pinky and the Brain.”
- Nogales luchador Anarky talks about his first year of wrestling.
- This poster for an Xalapa show looks is really well designed.
- Box Y Lucha #3006 has Shocker, Dragon Rojo and Dr. X
Lineups
CMLL (TUE) 01/04 Arena Mexico
1) Astro Boy & Höruz vs Apocalipsis & Semental
2) Dragon Lee, Fabián el Gitano, Starman vs Arkángel de la Muerte, Bobby Zavala, Skándalo
3) Goya Kong, Lluvia, Marcela vs Amapola, Princesa Blanca, Zeuxis
4) Ángel de Oro, Metro, Sagrado vs Misterioso II, Pólvora, Sangre Azteca
5) La Máscara, Máximo, Místico vs El Alebrije, Olímpico, Psicosis
Segunda debuts of the week are Rush’s brother and a trainee of Arkangel, who just happens to be teaming with Arkangel.
Whoever is booking these shows wants to make life hard for Sangre Azteca.