CMLL on Televisa #1025 (04/23/2011)

that's a finish

taped @ Arena Mexico, 04/15/2011

file: here
recap: here

Metal Blanco vs Guerrero Maya Jr.: For two guys who really have been around about the same time, Guerrero Maya is so much more complete wrestler. I think it helps which guys you work with and which guys train you. This was pretty consistent. I’d pay large amounts of money to see Shocker’s notes.

Delta vs Dragon Lee (and part 2): Dragon Lee is a guy who can do exciting flips, but has no idea when he should be doing them. It’s neat to do the standing SSP in the opening kickout at zero, it’s effective if he saved it for a late fall. This was better than it should’ve been, and I guess that has to go to Delta’s credit.

Puebla, wrestle mass, Cometa

Porra Fresa’s report on Monday’s Puebla show does confirm that Niebla made the show (hooray) but Mascarita Dorada did not. Pequeno Halcon filled in for him, which means they knew about it far in advance not to have to use a local. Guerrero Maya/Delta was said to be the best match of the show.

The annual mass for deceased luchadors at Arena Coliseo was held today. Fabian el Gitano was to be honored.

Rey Cometa gave a professional mask to a fan. I know we’re all disappointed he hasn’t won in Forjando un Idolo, but things like this article (just existing to make Cometa seem like a bigger star) and Cometa being one of the guys sent to Brazil shows CMLL is behind him a bit, which is much more than used to be.

CMLL luchadors visited a children’s hospital. Blue Demon Jr. is doing the same thing.

DJ Spectro looks back at the 1978 Arena Mexico Anniversary show, with Harley Race defending the NWA Heavyweight Title vs Halcon Ortiz (father of Super Halcon Jr.) I never knew the heavyweight title was defended in Arena Mexico.

Box y Lucha #3023 has Ultimo Guerrero vs Goto on the cover.

CMLL in NJPW
04/28: Davey Richards, Rocky Romero (O), Mascara Dorada b Prince Devitt, Jushin Liger, Kushida (X)

AAA in AJPW
04/27: Junior Tag League: Kaz Hayasi & KAI (O) [9]  b Super Crazy & Bushi (X) [6]

Forjando un Idolo

Links

Lineups

IWRG (THU) 04/28/2011 Arena Naucalpan
1) Dragon Fly & Saruman vs Alan Extreme & Vampiro Metálico
2) Dinamic Black, Eterno, Golden Magic vs Carta Brava Jr., El Pollo Asesino, Fresero Jr.
3) Hijo de Pirata Morgan & Pirata Morgan vs Negro Navarro & Trauma I [IWRG IC TAG]
4) Hijo del Dr. Wagner Jr., Ray Mendoza Jr., Villano IV vs Bestia 666, Damián 666, X-Fly

Title match they’ve set up the last few weeks.

04/27 AAA TV Results (Zacapoaxtla)

AAA TV (WED) 04/27/2011 Plaza De Toros Batallon De Zacapoaxtla, Zacapoaxtla, Puebla [Record, Mi Lucha Libre (5), Mi Lucha Libre (1-3)]
1) Jennifer Blake, La Hechicera, Sexy Star b Fabi Apache, Lolita, Mari Apache
Sexi Star beat Fabi Apache with a moonsault. This I need to see.
2) Mini Psicosis b Octagoncito [AAA MINI]
New champion! Mascarita Divina and Mini Histeria were seconds and interfered in the match before Psicosis won with a German suplex. Mini Psicosis is the fourth champion.
3) Electroshock, Extreme Tiger, Jack Evans b Chessman, Silver King, Último Gladiador
Electroshock pinned Silver King.
4) Cuervo, Drago, Ozz b Billy el Malo, Cibernético, Escoria
Scoria, replacing Charly Manson here (and probably for a long while) took the loss to Drago here. After the match, Cibernetico sent a message to Parka that Zorro wasn’t the only one with prophetic visions – he sees Parka suffering a lot in the future. No mention of whatever Parka stole from Cibernetico.
5) El Mesías, Joe Lider, La Parka b Damián 666, Halloween, LA Park
Park was just about to put Mesias thru a table (of wood and chairs) when Zorro appears on the stage, yelling to Park about the title. This distracted Park into being powerbombed by Mesias thru that table for the loss. Zorro was supposed to be in this match, but was replaced by Damian. Bizarros attacked the tecnicos post match, with the tecnicos from the last two matches making the save

2011 AAA TV Chart
Projected Air Date (#988)
Mexico: 05/08
US: 05/21

That minis title switch deserves some extra attention, because it seems so random. It’s odd to have a title change with zero build, and it’s odd who won the title. Mini Psicosis is the third most important guy in his own trio. This is unlikely the start of a longer feud (AAA’s not into doing feuds, more not into doing minis feuds, and anyway Octagoncito has already won a Mini Psicosis mask.) If Octagoncito was hurt and had to go away for a while, AAA would be perfectly fine just putting the title on ice for a while, as they did with Mini Charly’s title reign. Octagoncito really can’t leave AAA without giving up his whole identity to start from scratch (I *think* he’s left before and not even tried that), so that seems doubtful. Octagoncito as champion set up eventually rematches with Mini Abismo Negro when he returns. Mini Psicosis as champ sets up Mascarita Divina or Mini Charly, not nearly as good. Interviews have strongly hinted that Mini Abismo is the leader of the minis, and it’d be surprising for someone in that spot to be behind a title change that’d cause himself to slip to the background.

It’s AAA, so it’s genuinely possible they have a great idea for Mini Psicosis as a champion, well thought out and everything, which they’ll then forget about in about five minutes. (Escoria’s loaded fist!) But there usually is at least the start of a plan.

Next taping is Saturday, their first time back in Chilpancingo in about 16 months. There’s still no card out for it. Damian had said Perro Aguayo Jr. was scheduled for that card but may now appear just to do a promo, but that’s all we’ve got. It’s Kid’s Day, so one would assume a minis match, which might give us more info on those plans. AAA’s running at least 3 other spot shows for the busiest day of the year; I’m not sure if it’ll mean people work multiple shows, but Mesias, Zorro, Cibernetico, the Air Force, Decnnis, Chessman and Super Fly are among those not listed anywhere yet.

CMLL on CadenaTres #175 (04/09/2011)

recap: here
YouTube: 1 2 (Astral/Pierrothito 4 min in) 3 4 (Valiente/Polvora starts here)5 6 7 8

taped @ Arena Mexico, 04/05/2011

I reviewed all the matches, but these are the matches that actually matter.

Pierrothito vs Astral for the Mexican National Lightweight Championship: Pierrothito looked great here, and Astral didn’t look bad, so Pierrothito must’ve been great. Crowd was way into the match, another testament to Pierrothito here. Much better than it should’ve been, would’ve liked to see more of it. Can’t believe Pierrothito was the only one who did a dive in this match. Would’ve liked to see a longer version of this match, but it might be possible that editing helped.

Valiente vs Pólvora for the Mexican National Welterweight Championship: Also much better than I would’ve expected, which is a testament to Valiente here. This is a good match, but the end of the third fall didn’t come together as well as I’d like. The Valiente Special is so important, it’s tough to believe the match is going to end until he pulls it out (maybe he’d be better off using that one early and saving the tope for late), and there was no real point after that dive where it felt like Polvora might actually win. Polvora had two moves that could win for him, the Polvora Driver (he won with in the first fall, never tried to go back for it) and the counter dropkick (which he landed, but made no attempt to win.) He could’ve used something else, but there was a missing portion where Polvora did use something else. Like in between Valiente his move the first time and the second time.

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