News from today’s press conference:
– The Anniversary show – September 30th, giving them another week to build it up – is a cage match, with 10 wrestlers.
- Negro Casas
- Felino
- Rush
- Blue Panther
- Rey Bucanero
- Terrible
- Texano
- Hector Garza
- Maximo
- Mr. Aguila
Exactly as suspected. The match was originally presented as Blue Panther & Rush vs Felino & Negro Casas, with everyone else demanding to be involved in turn. No Shocker, who tweeted he was working at his restaurant just as everyone was making challenges. Felino is the favorite to lose.
The rest of the card was not announced. Tickets are on sale. Cheap ones are 64 Mexico Pesos ($5), most expensive are 704 ($54 USD). That’s a cheaper low end ticket than usual for an Anniversary show.
– The Leyenda de Plata is returning, and returning directly after the current tournament has finished. It’ll be a 24 (!) man tournament, with blocks on 09/23 and 09/30 and the final on 10/07.
Unless they’ve changed the formats again, that 09/30 block is going to be strange; a third of the roster will be in GDL for their cage match (just mentioned in passing here) and ten guys will be in the main event cage match. The best 12 man cibernetico I can came up with is La Máscara, Averno, Máscara Dorada, Mephisto, Dragón Rojo Jr., Brazo de Plata, Ephesto, Diamante, Rey Escorpion Negro Jr., Olímpico, Metro and Sangre Azteca (with Shocker, Strong Man, Stuka Jr. and Virus as alternatives.) I’d suspect minis and women’s matches also on the Anniversary if only because there won’t be that many men.
Previous tournaments have featured the winner defending the title in the final. Mistico won the last three, so that won’t be happening. Given CMLL’s current policy of cutting out Mistico, Santo and Perro from history whenever possible, the only former winners they will be hyping are Scorpio Jr. (great for him!), Negro Casas, Black Warrior, Felino and Atlantis.
With this tournament and the previous return of the Leyenda de Azul, CMLL’s switched from ignoring Demon & Santo to trying to annoy them. And this will.
– Atlantis & Guerrero Maya asked for a tag title rematch. Ultimo Guerrero refused, complained about Maya using the name Guerrero, and inisisted on a singles match with Atlantis. CMLL.com seems to skip the refusal/singles match part.
– Ray, the new CMLL-REINA International Juniors Women’s champion, will come to Mexico on September 26.
– There were also promos to hype Volador/Sombra and Warrior/Demus.
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Terrible will lose his hair to Texano Jr., I wish.
Cubsfan are you going to mention the new costume Mistico is wearing in internation WWE photos? I’d say that confirms him coming back to the company.
@Wirehead: I meant “international”
Any word on Hijo del Santo’s stand on this?
Now we just need someone to bring up TNA to hit the trifecta of useless topics.
There. I did it.
You could have brought up New Japan wrestlers the CMLL guys will job to. Any chance Lyger will be brought in for the Leyenda Azul tournament?
Liger debuts on this weeks Friday, so there should be a good chance that he is in the tournament.
They should have put Toscano in so Rush can beat him and he can finally turn rudo.
Too bad I’ll be missing this show. Going to FCW that night to see Zach Ryder and Dolph.
Luis Ignascio (original Sín Cara) has returned to Smackdown tapings to face the fake Sín Cara! Very likely this will end in a mask vs mask match at the October tapings in México. The bad attendance continues.
http://superluchas.net/2011/09/13/imagenes-sin-cara-original-mistico-regresa-a-smackdown/#more-150614
@Arakas: To be fair regarding the attendence that pic obviously shows the hard camera side. Otherwise I can’t wait to see them face each other at the Mexico tapings.
Looks good i will go for blue panther losin his hair, and for the leyenda de plata i think will be one of the generacion dorada guys who will or even averno.
@Wirehead: where are the pics of Sin Mistico’s new costume?
I have come up with a theory that Cubs books CMLL, and then pre-announces what is going to happen at big shows so he can then be like: oh look, I predicted that to happen!
10 man hair cage match indeed…
Man… people have said a lot of mean things about Cubs throughout the history of this blog but accusing him of booking CMLL may be the absolute worst. That’s harsh…
@Rob: Harsh and could get him into trouble with some angry fans… Weren’t you the only one that got Cubs into trouble? What is going on here?
Well my hope is that my latest blog post gets attributed to Cubs, Dragon Rojo reads it then gets booked on the next DGUSA Chicago show and calls Cubs out over the house mic. It could happen!
We need Cesar to chime in with his thoughts. I’m anxious to hear how excited he is to pay to see Maximo in a hair match again on the biggest show of the year.
@Dan: Go to Sin Cara’s official fansite to see it. It’s sin-cara.net