La Mascara will face Averno in a mask vs mask match on June 17th. The show will use the Jucio Final name. The rest of the card will be announced later.
Those two have been feuding for over a month, in mask ripping matches. It’s a surprise that it’s happening in that CMLL loves to start feuds in this direction but often does not follow thru on them to their logical conclusion. Times are tougher and CMLL needed (wanted) a match to compete with TripleMania, taking place the next night, and this is the most meaningful match of any current feud. (Blue Panther/Negro Casas might actually be a bigger match, but those masks are worth more than these hair.) CMLL will still need a notable semimain to sell out Arena Mexico, but this is a better start than Dos Leyendas.
There is no strong favorite here. After five years of feuding with Mistico, it’s hard to believe Averno would lose his mask to La Mascara. Mascara has been pushed harder the last year, but he’s still at least a step below Sombra & Mascara Dorada; either of them would seem better choices for knocking off Averno. La Mascara not having a mask would be weird (though neither Mascara Magica nor Mascara Ano 2000 changed their names after losing theirs.) He’s not a guy near the end of his career cashing in, he’s a guy who probably has many more years in front of him and losing his mask would probably prevent him from moving any higher up. I lean towards Averno winning, setting up a bigger mask match down the road, but I do not feel strongly about it.
La Mascara vs Averno happening now means there’s no obvious ongoing feud set up for Anniversary. It being the June match means the end point of Rayo Tapatios vs Hombre Bala/Guerrero Maya/Dragon Lee is unclear (unless they run that on the Sunday after TripleMania, which I believe is still a real possibility.)
The other big news from the press conference is the NWA World Historic Light Heavyweight Championship has been vacated. Shocker won that from Texano back on December 13, then injured the knee the following week on a dive. The hope was Shocker would be back around now and be able to participate in next month’s Universal tournament – he was even advertised for Arena Mexico two weekends ago – but apparently he’s not going to be able to make it. (Officially, it’s vacant due to lack of defenses.) The Universal tournament is really the tail that’s wagging the CMLL dog, but this means there will be yet another tournament sometime very soon.
Today is AAA’s TV taping in Toluca. The AAA Trios tournament continues on, with the Perros del Mal vs the Air Force and Bizarros vs team IWRG. Electroshock & Heavy Metal put aside their feud to team up against Maniacos Chessman & Ultimo Gladiador. Main event is scheduled to be Mesias & Wagner vs LA Park & Zorro, but the rudos aren’t much friends and Zorro isn’t much wrestling lately.
Forjando un Idolo
CMLL in Japan
05/26: Best of Super Juniors – Mascara Dorada [3] CO Jushin Lyger [0] (3:18)
Good start! These tiger/lion hybrids are no problem. (Sombra beat Lyger the same way last year.) Mascara Dorada has a few days off to celebrate; no show Friday and he’s got the show off on Saturday. Next match is Sunday vs TAKA Michinoku, who lost his opening match.
This may or may not mean anything, but Ayumi forfeited her NEO titles in preparation to challenge Amapola for her CMLL Women’s title. NEO has closed at the end of the year, but Ayumi had kept the titles until now. Maybe this is just the Mexican ethos, but luchadors are usually reluctant to give up the even the least meaningful titles possible, unless they might be getting a new one.
Other News
Perros del Mal held a press conference to hype Sunday’s third anniversary show this Sunday. (Scroll down for the full lineup.) TVC Deportes announced the show will air live on their channel, which is sometimes broadcast on uStream. (See the sidebar for that.) Perro Jr. figures that being lighter than Clowns is a big advantage, and his team will all climb out first, leaving the Clowns to fight themselves.
On his Facebook page, Rellik (well, Johnny Stamboli) apparently complains Lucha Libre USA isn’t honoring his contract, not paying what they agreed to pay him. I guess he won’t be on the taping this weekend!
LuchaWorld has KrisZ’s news update and Alfredo’s weekly ramblings.
Rob has highlights of the first half of March 2001 AAA.
Links
- Hijo del Pirata Morgan talks about his start and his name changes (Drake Morgan!)
- Dorian Roldan & AAA point out video of the turn on Zorro.
- X-Fly wants to be a four belt champion. He’s got disturbingly high odds of accomplishing it.
- Dark Angel talks about her career.
- The longer version of Crazy Boy message about DTU.
- Mesias is in the top 5 of Record’s rankings, should thank Zorro.
- Nino de Fuego, who wrestled in all those trios with Fenix & Dark Dragon before they made it to AAA, announced he was changing his name to Ikaro on Tuesday night.
- Sign up for a your Lucha Libre Expo booth before June 2nd and get 10% and other gifts.
- The new edition of Bajos Las Capuchas is up.
Lineup
PdM (SUN) 05/29/2011 Plan Sexenal
***3rd Anniversary Show***
1) Dinastía vs Drastik Boy
2) Celestial & Cósmico vs Mr. Aguilita & Talisman Jr.
3) el Ángel, Golden Magic, Skayde vs Ek Balam, Maldito Jr., Samot
4) Black Fire & Low Rider vs Pesadilla & Ragde
5) Tony Rivera, Turbo, Zumbi vs Bestia 666, Halloween, X-Fly
6) Monster Clown, Murder Clown, Psycho Clown vs Damián 666, el Hijo del Perro Aguayo, Super Crazy [cage, hair, mask]
I still expect someone not in the main event to lose. Should be a fun show, hope the feed is up.
CMLL (TUE) 05/31/2011 Arena Mexico
1) Freesbe & Trueno vs Camorra & Zayco
2) Fantasy, Mascarita Dorada, Shockercito vs Demus 3:16, Pequeño Universo 2000, Pequeño Warrior
3) Virus vs Tiger Kid, Fuego, Pegasso, Sensei, Metal Blanco, Dragon Lee, Super Halcon Jr. [cibernetico, CMLL SL, semifinal]
4) Sagrado, Sangre Azteca, Stuka Jr. vs Shigeo Okumura, Vangelis, Yoshihashi
5) Máximo, Rush, Super Porky vs Héctor Garza, Psicosis, Volador Jr.
Tough to pick who’s going to advance. Virus is a former champion and would allow for an interesting rudo/tecnico battle. Fuego has been hot lately. Another match with Metal Blanco would build off Forjando un Idolo (impossible!) Dragon Lee exists. Super Halcon Jr. might have been downgraded to Halcon Jr., that’s what they’re using on the posters lately.
06/07 is probably a Fan Appreciation Show, and likely one with two title matches. Besides the Super Light final, main event follows up on this week’s issue between Volador & Rush. It’s been less dramatic than Fantasma (because he is still in main events), but Volador has just been hanging around for months. Maybe the lesson is “don’t appropriate John Cena hand signals for yourself”?
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Has Johhny Stamboli worked for any promotion and not complained about his pay?
Anyway, is there going to be a chat for the PdM show?
@New Talking Wall: I’d like to, but no idea if the TVC Deportes feed will be running for the show and there’s no point in doing one if it won’t.
I cannot see the guy who was the laughingstock of the CMLL shows in Japan winning the mask of their (arguable) ace rudo. Mascara will lose his mask in a hard fought match, and then become the top young guy in the company with hair that is in play – he is a Brazo afterall.
@Nikita:
If La Mascara loses, that means have lost a stip match on back to back major shows. Anything is possible.
I meant Brazos would have lost on back to back stip cards.
I strongly feel that La Mascara is going to lose his mask and think it’s a smart idea. I feel his mask doesn’t really make him being that it’s not very unique. I think it could actually help him out alot to get a reboost by getting rid of the mask almost in a Mictlan sort of way but on abigger scale. Wouldn’t be against him just making a complete change and losing the mask flipping out destroying his second who maybe inadvertently leads to his loss and hgoing rudo, but I maybe thinking to hard here:)
@DragonGateFan: A La Mascara rudo turn would be interesting,where La Mascara disowns his family & competely destroying anyone with the name Brazo.
@Calabcd44: See that just adds to what could really be a fun angle, if only good’ol Robin could become the Brazo family defender after Porky and Maximo fail against Mascara.
Also forgot to say I think he should drop the La Mascara name if we loses aswell, would serve no purpose.
Rellik is complaining about being mistreated? Did I fall asleep on the train ride home and wake up in 2009 or 2008 or 2006 or 2004? For a guy who has accomplished zero in this business he sure thinks very highly of himself and for some reason those darn promoters just love taking advantage of him! Poor guy. He should go work for IWL.
Didn’t Fantasma and Mephisto start feuding again? Why didn’t they make the mask match a tag match and have Fantasma drop his mask before his supposed move to WWE? La Mascara withouth a mask is just weird.
I’ve noticed the dark angel says very beautiful stuff on her interviews; however, that’s not even half of what she does in real life: She always speaks brave words about courage, discipline, passion for wrestling and other stuff that are not reflected in real life, specially in TNA where she’s happy jobbing people who are by far worst wrestlers than her. She’s also permanently losing on house shows and being part of a crappy group that promotes the hatred and racism towards Mexican people in which she dresses quite slutty and gets no major role.
What do you think dude? Am I wrong?
@Rob: didnt he suffer a humiliating injury?
@CM93: I dunno if I would call it humiliating, but he broke his tailbone (and maybe tore up some stuff inside) doing a legdrop from the ring to the floor while working as “Johnny the Bull” in the Mamalukes tag team. For some reason I wanna say he was doing the legdrop to Terry Funk of all people…
@Arakas: I don’t really watch TNA at all, but isn’t she half of the Women’s tag champs? I think she held them once before with Hamada, didn’t she? Her angle/gimmick might somewhat be race-baiting, but I wouldnt say that they are burying her… especially compare to how TNA can totally bury a chick by leaving her off tv to starve, which they aren’t doing with Stock at all.
@Tim: I think we might have an Anniversario main event… Fantasma vs. Mephisto… any takers?
@Nikita: What are you looking to bet?
@Rob: bet a Canadian dollar!
@Rob: Nothing…. yet. It might not be considered a big enough match for Anniversario. But I cannot see a big apuesta on the horizon, aside from Panther/Casas, which I think might not be big enough for Anniversario as well…
Perhaps Mascara Dorada will have revenge for his Generacion de Oro colleague and unmask Averno.
Since the Homenaje main event followed only two or three weeks of feuding, it is not surprising that there is nothing on the horizon yet.
@Nikita:
This was for the dude, but anyways thanks for replying.
She was Knockouts tag team champion with Taylor Wilde just because Angelina had Visa issues with TNA. This time, she’s tag team champion with Rosita just because of the storyline of Velvet Sky and zombie Angelina. It’s her destiny to be part of TBP’s storylines. Her championship match was very lazy with plenty of cheating, dirty tricks and distractions. No wrestling at all.
She has been in 13 house shows so far this year and with 13 defeats. The only explanation is that she’s jobbing and she’s proud of doing that. She also loses very often on TV, sometimes not even with cheating and dirty tricks can she win a match.
I see her more focused on looking pretty for her boyfriend or personal ego rather than wrestling. As long as she gets paid, she doesn’t mind anything and that’s not good at all.
There’s no point in going to other promotions or even Japan just to be facing Princesa Sugehit. As Dark Angel she also doesn’t get anything and this is not recent news.