taped 2011-10-16 @ Arena Mexico
Random foul leads quickly a singles match, which is slightly better than no match at all.
Day: November 2, 2011
Mascara vs Averno (again!), Villano V
CMLL (TUE) 11/01/2011 Arena Mexico [CMLL, Kaiser Sports]
***Fan Apperciation Day, November (TUE)***
1) Bengala & Camaleón b Cholo & Ramstein
2) Demus 3:16, Pequeño Nitro, Pierrothito b Astral, Eléctrico, Último Dragoncito
Ultimo Dragoncito replaced Pequeno Maximo
3) Loco Max, Nitro, Skándalo b Diamante, Fuego, Guerrero Maya Jr.
4) Delta, Máximo, Super Porky DQ El Alebrije, Olímpico, Shigeo Okumura
Okumura replaced Histeria. Tecnicos took 2/3. Olimpico fouled Maximo for the DQ.
5) La Máscara, La Sombra, Rush b Averno, Psicosis, Volador Jr.
Tecnicos took 2/3. Mascara got Averno with the campana again. He challenged for Averno’s NWA title. Averno agreed – as long as it happened behind closed doors and none of the people could see it. The people booed.
Averno’s had good experience in matches without fans of late.
Volador is…Darth Maul?
Other News
I’m not purposefully trying to do short updates, but there’s not a lot going on this week.
Villano V is out of the hospital, after spending four days there with kidney damage. He’s unsure if he’ll make the Todos x el Todos show, though he plans to talk Hijo del Santo about Villano IV maybe taking his place. (Link via Box Y Lucha’s forum.)
Kaiser Sports notes a few familiar names were missing from or downplayed in CMLL’s Dia de los Muertos artwork. People play politics even when choosing which dead to honor.
top six stories the last two weeks
- Both promotions did not have a show on Televisa. CMLL moved it’s big matches over to Fox Sports, but kept it top secret. AAA actually got a two hour slot on regional Televisa channels, a vast improvement assuming their fans found it. With the PanAm games over, things go back to normal (1 hour shows that are cut down to about 40 minutes after commercials) on Galavision.
- CMLL drew horribly the last two weeks. This is sounds like a droning point this year, but it’s gotten noticeable worse since June and sunk to new levels the last few shows. It may have cost Pato Soria his job in Guadalajara, after a loaded Friday night show there did no particular business, and the Sunday show was strangely canceled.
- Many luchadors worked out for WWE during their trip to Mexico. Their are varying reports on who, who well they did, and what they were offered, but CMLL has not appeared to taken any action against their own wrestlers who tried out and no one has said they’re leaving WWE. Yet.
- A&E’s El Luchador series first two episodes aired, following the “real” lives of Felino, Rey Bucanero, Shocker and Magnus. It’s obviously scripted in areas, and the show weirdly decided Panico would be a better fit on reality show if he wore a black mask, but it’s still interesting in itself. CMLL is hoping it will help their business, but it’s not clear watching the show how they expect to work.
- Lucha Libre USA seems to be canceled again, replaced with shows that have been repeated on MTV2 many times over. The promotion says they’ve taken themselves off air looking for a better timeslot. Previously, they said 10/22 episode was not the season finale as listed on on screen guides, but they don’t appear to actually be airing any episodes any time soon. They did tape more than a dozen episodes which haven’t made it to air.
- Octagon & La Parka explained their rudo turns. Octagon was offended by booking low on cards or not at all, while La Parka was angered by the fans repeatedly cheering rudos LA Park and Cibernetico over him.
Other Stories
- AAA announced their November TV schedule, which indicated AAA thinks they’ll be back to two hour TV shows in the near future.
- Marcela finally beat Amapola for the CMLL Women’s Championship. It only took 13 tries and 4 years!
- Ozz & Cuervo improbably won the AJPW Tag Team Titles when the team they were facing turned on each other.
- Tinieblas and Hijo del Santo are hyping shows built around them, which they say will save lucha libre
- IWL ran a show with 65 luchadors over 13 matches, though their best young wrestler (Daga) somehow only did a run-in.
- Oficals are feuding with newer Oficials in IWRG.
- Silueta won the CMLL REINA International Juniors Title
- Low Rider had a TNA tryout, thanks to Hernandez, unless you ask Hernandez, who says Low Rider didn’t.
- People who kept titles: Palacio Negro, Trauma I, Jushin Liger, Golden Magic, Sadico
Lucha Libre USA: Masked Warriors: 2011-10-22
taped 2011-01-22 @ Hard Rock Casino, Albuquerque, New Mexico
It was quite a season. The highs, the lows, the other two episodes. I am going to miss this show for being a somewhat moderate point between AAA’s constant seriousness and CMLL’s indifference, finding a sweet spot of goofiness. Lucha Libre USA did their best to get personallities over; I wasn’t always a fan of which personalities they chose and what directions they took them, but they tried hard and they tried hard with pretty much everyone. There needs to be more people wrapped in their own capes and carried away in lucha libre.
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