I’ll be Unregular Radio’s Riley Matthews show this Friday at 8pm EST, talking AAA and the Royal Rumble. You can catch the show thru the website, plus send in questions for me to answer, and then listen to me repeatedly stammer thru answers. It should be a fun time!
CMLL (TUE) 01/25/2011 Arena Coliseo Guadalajara [Fuego en el Ring]
1) Nube Roja b In Memoriam
2) Astro Boy & Magnum b Ángel del Mal & Semental
3) Dark Angel, Goya Kong, Silueta b La Seductora, Princesa Sujei, Zeuxis
4) Mr. Trueno b Puma King [OCCIDENTE MIDDLE]
title retained! Trueno even pinned Puma with a casita. Puma demanded a rematch for next week, Trueno declined.
5) Hijo del Fantasma, La Máscara, Máximo b Terrible, Texano, Volador Jr.
Maximo KOed Texano with a kiss for the win.
Boxer Saul Canelo Alvarez was in the crowd. The boxing card here on Saturday is being run by “Canelo Promotions”, so he’s surely got some tie in.
Mr. Trueno credits Satanico’s rudo teachings for the win (though he insists he did it cleanly) and notes that Puma shouldn’t get any more shots since he’s Mr. Trueno has now beat him three straight weeks.
Pegasso has been found! CMLL.com reports he underwent surgery Wednesday night on his right knee. He originally suffered his knee injury on October 29th, rested it a month, and immediately hurt it again in his first week back (11/29 Arena Puebla) on a dive. They’ve been getting medical opinions since. (This doesn’t begin to explain why he was on all those lineups – maybe they were hoping more rest would be enough.) Pegasso is expected back in around 20 days, which means this a relatively mild rehab for something that’s taken him out of action for so long.
Talking to Mi Lucha Libre, the Perros del Mal point out that if they can end the undefeated the streak of the Psycho Circus, they stand a pretty good shot against the Oficials (who clearly didn’t not beat the Clowns.) That actually makes a lot of sense.
El Hijo del Santo was no less than 10 minutes from my house, and I didn’t know about the show. Of course, it was directly against the Bears game and I probably wouldn’t have gone. Also around here, GALLI is running a title tournament on 02/12, and I vow to make a lucha show for the first time in months (unless I have to go to a birthday party, and it looks like I might, uh oh.)
LuchaWorld has KrisZ’s news update.
Links
- Super Fly says Octagon is an old, old man who’s clinging to the past and needs to get out of his way or else.
- Amapola talks about another win. She says sees some people who are on the road to beat her, but doesn’t want to name names.
- Fabi Apache talks about her match vs the Traumas.
- Hijo del Anibal talks about his father and his own’s career.
- El Balam wants to face Murder Clown. They’re in a trios on this weekend’s Arena Aficion show.
- Mask Mania talks about Sombra vs Lyger.
- CMLL will air on the SONY MAX channel, launching in 40 African challenges on 02/01.
- The Globe and Mail does the What Is Lucha Libre article.
- DJ Spectro looks back at Villano III vs Huracan Ramirez.
- UWE plans on running shows every two weeks thru April.
- ESTO interviews DTU’s Keira. Basta has one with Oscar Garica, who’s credited with creating the looks for the Bizarros and the DTU women. DTU does an outstanding job of getting publicity for itself, it’s their biggest strength.
- El Hijo del Santo says El Santo’s favorite football team was the Dallas Cowboys.
Lineup
CMLL (MON) 01/31/2011 Arena Puebla
1) Asturiano & Stigma vs Ares & Espiritu Maligno
2) Metatrón, Sensei, Starman vs Demus 3:16, Dr. X, Durango Kid
3) Fuego, Metro, Sagrado vs Loco Max, Shigeo Okumura, Skándalo
4) La Máscara, La Sombra, Máximo vs Averno, Mephisto, Volador Jr.
5) Atlantis, Negro Casas, Último Guerrero vs Héctor Garza, Mr. Águila, Psicosis
Metatron’s around a lot this week. Think they’re doing a UG/Psicosis feud here, and next week is probably the fan appreciation show.
CMLL (TUE) 02/01/2011 Arena Coliseo Guadalajara
1) Robin vs Nube Roja
2) Metálico & Molotov vs Exterminador & Malefico
3) Rey Cometa & Stuka Jr. vs Mr. Trueno & Rey Trueno
4) Black Metal & Palacio Negro vs Arkángel de la Muerte & Euforia
5) Máximo, Rush, Toscano vs Dragón Rojo Jr., Negro Casas, Rey Bucanero
Metal & Palacio have been shuffled back into the GDL mix, but they’re treated as bigger stars than they were before – they’re not just facing the locals.
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Past weekend
Smackdown 8.1
CMLL 3.2
Boxing Azteca 5.5
Boxing Televisa 10.8
AAA 2.3
Accion 9.7
RAW 8.2
Hey kids, airing four straight weeks of filler material is not good for your ratings.
Didn’t you say something about ending this last year?
@thecubsfan: I was in a bad mood.
@thecubsfan: You’re right about those horrible year-end shows. They looked like crap. Some of the footage came from what looked like a basement with a flat screen on the wall.
But AAA did air in a different timeslot so they get a pass.
The year-end episodes reminded me of something. The summer footage had banners for COMEX promoting AAA masks. What ever happened with that?
Have you seen the new CMLL show, Keith? No joke – more commercials than before. It’s completely unwatchable unless you record it or are actually into the commercials themselves. At this point it’s more like the CMLL portion of the hour and a half is the filler material.
It’s amazing how much crap they try to sell during the commercials and guess what? NONE OF IT IS CMLL RELATED! Fucking retards at Televisa and CMLL.
On the bright side – my x-ray app is bitchin’!!!
@Rob: do people actually buy the things in the commercials?
i cant imagine people buying xray vision for their phones
@Rob: They are doing about 22-23 minutes of commercials per hour. Industry standard is about 16. Televisa is doing this to both CMLL and AAA.
I wonder why? I can only speculate that leading national advertisers aren’t buying CMLL and AAA so the only way to make money is to air all those per-inquiry ads which pay based on the number of people who call the number on the screen.
CMLL and AAA should find other networks for their “flagship” programming. CMLL already has Cadena Tres and Fox Sports as potential partners.
You bring up a good point about none of the stuff being CMLL related. Reminds me of the “Go Home” episode of AAA on the afternoon of Triplemania which aired on PPV. Keep in mind, Televisa owns SKY, the exclusive carrier of Triplemania. Televisa’s announcers didn’t say a word about Mania being a PPV and to show how ignorant they are, they aired SKY ads during AAA that promoted subscriptions instead of the PPV.
The year-end episodes were a little better as far as having less ads. But Sunday’s AAA show was as bad as CMLL’s Saturday show. It’s even worse when Televisa sends the tape to Galavision in the US. Sometimes they toss in some videos(like the GDT package in December) but it’s still a major disadvantage for both CMLL and AAA.
With all that said I still want you to reconsider posting the ratings that mean nothing to anyone except people that barely follow the business and have no idea that the numbers mean nothing (i.e. Dave Meltzer).
Plus they get copied and pasted from the sites you send them to and start annoying threads on the Box y Lucha forum where people read way too much into the numbers they don’t even understand.