too vital to be numbered
Rush, Angel de Oro and Diamante lost their trios titles to Volador, Psicosis and Olimpico
top stories
- AAA announced Mesias vs Sting and Perros vs Psychos (team vs team) in a domed cage match for Heroes Inmortales.
- CMLL announced a ten man cage match for their Anniversario main event. Reaction ranged between yawning and disgust. Even their own announcers were bagging on the main event.
- Both CMLL & AAA’s main shows on Televisa appear limited to a one hour format for the duration of the NFL season
- CMLL also announced a cage match for Guadalajara for the same night. That show may end up better than the DF one
- Sombra beat Averno in the CMLL Universal Tournament, then went on to defeat Volador to keep his own title a few days later
- Lucha Libre USA announced they’d return to MTV2 on 10/01 at 10am Eastern.
other stories
- CMLL’s Leyenda de Plata tournament, honoring El Santo and originally built around his son, returns for the first time in a few years this Friday
- Demus took Pequeno Warrior’s hair
- Dos Caras’ 40th Anniversary show, featuring him teaming up with his brothers, sold out Arena Naucalpan
- IWL’s #3 iPPV took place, and I still don’t know of anyone who bought it.
- Ultimo Guerrero beat Atlantis in their first singles match, in Puebla
- Avisman lost his hair.
- Golden Magic won the IWRG Welterweight Championship
- Japan’s Ray won the new CMLL-Reina International Junior Championship
- Lady Apache won back the PWR Women’s Championship
- Pierrothito, Princesa Blanca and Okumura kept their titles
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And both shows have about 21 minutes of advertising. Why even bother?
Phil said he might bite the bullet and order the IWL show this weekend but I can’t believe not a single person has stepped up to at least say they ordered the show even if they don’t want to discuss it.
I’m the type of guy that will gladly pay $10 just for a Turbo/Skayde/Black Thunder match but the rest of the card is just such a turn-off. If I knew there was just ONE other match I would enjoy I wouldn’t hesitate paying but just looking at the lineup (where I presume nothing before match #6 was shown?) nothing jumps out as watchable.
And yes I know… I’m just a “stupid internet mark” and the show sold out (which is awesome and I’m happy for IWL) so what do I know? But I thought the entire point of doing iPPV’s was to appeal to the internet audience?
I may end up ordering the IWL show this weekend as well. The difference this time around for me was that I’m a lot busier than I was when the last two PPVs came around, though I have to say the novelty of it has definitely worn off and they’re going to have to really start putting more thought into the booking if they want this to work (which is what we’ve been saying since day one, so…)
I’ll probably check it out for the Skayde match and the tag stuff.