CMLL (TUE) 02/22/2011 Arena Mexico [CMLL]
1) Freesbe & Höruz b Apocalipsis & Mortiz
2) La Comandante, Mima Shimoda, Zeuxis b Estrella Mágica, Lluvia, Luna Mágica
Zeuxis replaced Tiffany, Luna Magica replaced Goya Kong. First Estrella Magica since October, only the third time she’s teamed with her sister in main CMLL rings.
3) Arkángel de la Muerte, Demus 3:16, Hijo del Signo b Euforia, Raziel, Virus
Demus took the first and the third, sneaking in a foul on Virus to take the match, just like the cibernetico that started this. Virus wanted a singles match, and Demus accepted, saying he wanted the chance to prove he had surpassed Virus.
4) Rush b Ephesto [CMLL LH]
New Champion! Dragon Lee seconded his brother, who won his first world championship. A big double stomp set up the final pin.
5) Averno, Mephisto, Último Guerrero b La Máscara, Super Porky, Toscano
La Mascara had Ultimo Guerrero in the campana, but Ultimo reversed it into his own and beat La Mascara with his own hold! Poor La Mascara.
New hero to old hero: in addition to CMLL’s press conference tomorrow at noon, WWE will have a press conference at 2:30 pm in Mexico City. I expect Mistico to appear at the WWE press conference, officially announcing his WWE contract. No idea if he’ll have his new name ready, but at least a brief appearance under the CMLL name. CMLL doesn’t seem to have much high ground to stand on about people taking gimmicks one company developed and using them somewhere else. (Also, RJ says they’ll announce a TV taping in Mexico – their May tour is Wednesday thru Saturday, not their taping days, so maybe sometime in the future?) If I was CMLL, I would pretend I didn’t announce this press conference too, because WWE will steal a lot of the spotlight. All of the spotlight, if they announce Los Renegados vs Maximo & Porky as an actual main event of a major show.
Mistico was advertised for next Tuesday in Arena Queretaro, but they’ve canceled his appearance. So much for working all his scheduled dates.
Box Y Lucha has been running parts of a long interview with Maricela Pena in each weekly’s edition. AAA reposted the most recent part on their website, because it deals with El Hijo del Santo‘s appearance at TripleMania. According to Maricela, Santo’s wife (/agent) came to AAA’s offices to ask for her husband to be added to TripleMania. TripleMania was totally booked at that point, but the Santos wanted to get him in a wrestling match on TV. Maricela says she agreed to include Santo, though she now regrets it, but wanted to know how much Santo wanted to be paid. Santo and his wife said they didn’t care as long as he was on television. Neither Santo or his wife visited AAA’s offices after the show to get paid, but much later came by demanding an astronomical amount. Maricela refused to pay because it was not what they agreed on. And they’ve been arguing since.
If that was all true, it still doesn’t explain why Santo was given the big win on the show. If it was truly already planned out, they would’ve had someone else in that spot (Parka) and if they knew Santo was so desperate to be on TV, they probably didn’t need to give him the win to get him to stick around.
Tickets went on sale for Rey de Reyes today.
Black Terry Jr. posted video of Golden Magica, Hijo del Pantera, Eragon vs Carta Brava, Impossible, Pollo Asesino: fall 1, fall 2, fall 3
Hijo de Rey Misterio will be wrestling in my city on Sunday. It looks like a new one, so I really should finally go to a show. A couple weekends later, Mascarita Dorada and Pierrothito are coming back to the area, along with Low Rider and others. Should go to that one too. We’ll see!
LuchaWorld had a KrisZ’s news update.
Links
- Cesar can’t believe a lucha libre journalist hasn’t yet got an interview with Mistico. He was never on that clown show, by the way.
- The Gladiatores has video of Fantasma’s speech at yesterday’s education/lucha libre for children initiative announcement
- Mi Lucha Libre has group 3 of the Rey de Reyes tournament and visits a Bracito de Platino’s school.
- Toscano is teaching a lucha libre class tonight with Angel de Oro & Sombra. He wants to see more hard hitting “to battle the Japanese.” That hair loss to Naito must still be haunting him.
- Estrella del Ring has video interviews with Chica Tormenta (about her DTU match) and Crazy Star (hoping to return to CMLL)
- Record has a random Solitario bio. I think they’re launching a new Record Luchas section, but it’s half working now.
- Box Y Lucha has edition #3014 an interview with young luchadora Sexy Polvora.
