AAA FULL (SAT) 11/12/2011 Palacio de los Deportes [Black Terry Jr. (flickr), Estrellas del Ring, Notimex, SuperLuchas, The Gladiatores]
1) Cinthia Moreno, Fabi Apache, Lolita b Io Shirai, Jennifer Blake, Sexy Star
2) Octagón & Scorpio Jr. b El Hijo del Medico Asesino & Huracan Ramirez [FULL CHAMP, semifinal] 
battle royal determined teams and seeding. Hijo del Solitario, Monster Clown, and Murder Clown were all announced and did not appear. Nosawa, Jaque Mate and Silver Kain took their places.
3) Chessman & Solar I b Heddi Karaoui & Jaque Mate Jr. [FULL CHAMP, semifinal]
4) Oriental & Silver Kain b Super Calo & Zumbido [FULL CHAMP, semifinal]
5) Axxel & Dos Caras Sr. b Nosawa & Psycho Clown [FULL CHAMP, semifinal]
6) El Hijo de Aníbal & Zorro b Hijo del Lizmark & Pirata Morgan [FULL CHAMP, semifinal]
7) Scorpio Jr. b Octagón, Chessman, Solar I, Silver Kain, Oriental, Axxel, Dos Caras Sr., Zorro, El Hijo de Aníbal [FULL CHAMP]
10 man match. Unclear what the rules were, but Scorpio fouled Zorro for the win. He’s the first champion.
8) Dr. Wagner Jr., El Mesías, La Parka, Tinieblas Jr. b Chavo Guerrero Jr., Cibernético, Electroshock, LA Park
La Parka refused to participate at times, and attacked his partners at other times (even working with LA Park.) Electroshock, who had no problem being a rudo, fouled Tinieblas for the apparent win, but Wagner & Mesias made the save. Tinieblas fouled Electroshock back to get the win.
Lola Gonzalez was honored before the show.
The YouTube link for the tag match is part of an entire channel of El Hijo del Medico Asesino matches. Who would’ve figured such a thing existed?
Estrellas del Ring talked to the new champ and Chavo Guerrero Jr.
CMLL (SUN) 11/13/2011 Arena Mexico [CMLL, La Catedral, Record]
1) Bengala, Höruz, Robin DQ Camorra, Cholo, Zayco
Results corrected. Tecnicos took 1/3, Cholo & Camorra fouling Horuz on the post for the DQ. Zayco was hurt by a huracarrana in the first fall, landing on his head, and taken straight to the hospital.
2) Dragon Lee, Metálico, Sensei DQ Cancerbero, Nosferatu, Raziel
Same as the first match; a rudo (Nosferatu) was hurt in the first fall, and the tecnicos took 1/3, the last by DQ, Raziel fouling Metalico. These finish usually mean they just tried to wrap it up as quick as possible after the injury. Nosferatu hurt himself on a badly missed plancha.
3) Diamante, Metro, Sangre Azteca b Rey Escorpion, Shigeo Okumura, Yoshihashi
2/3 for the tecnicos.
4) Averno, Mephisto, Volador Jr. b Blue Panther, Héctor Garza, Super Porky
Hector Garza quit the company sometime Friday, appeared at Perros offices on Saturday, still came to Arena Coliseo to wrestle his schedule match, and then traveled to the Perros show to make an appearance there. Garza appears to be treated completely normal here, even picking up a pin on Mephisto in the second fall. 1/3 for the rudos. Volador won with a backcracker on Super Porky. I don’t know how he did that and lived.
5) Rush b Terrible [CMLL LH]
As usual, Dragon Lee was his brother’s second. Terrible’s old ally Averno was his second. Terrible took the first, Rush suffering a knee injury in the process. Rush still managed to take a short second fall. Rush won with the same piledriver move he used versus Yoshihashi.
The whole Hector Garza bit is very peculiar. In what promotion do you quit on Saturday and show up on Sunday? The same promotion where people are listed as working shows weeks after they’ve also quit the promotion. I think there’s some very specific labor or union bit involved that would explain this, but I have no idea what it is. That’s the only thing I can figure – I don’t know why Hector would go back to work this show (does this mean he’ll be in Queretaro on Tuesday?) and I don’t know why CMLL let him on the show, and also didn’t insist he was the one taking the loss. All very weird.
Going to hold off on Perros del Mal results until tomorrow, because I think Estrellas del Ring’s results are light a couple undercard matches (or they only ran four matches.) Still plenty of news. As mentioned above, Hector Garza made an appearance on this show, turning up on the main event to make the save for the Perros after Nosawa, Zumbi and the Psycho Circus were getting the better of them. A four way for the Perros Light Heavyweight championship with champion Bestia 666, Eterno, Tony Rivera and Golden Magic turned into a six way with Diva Salvaje and Super Nova both talking the way in, and Super Nova surprisingly came out champion. (Estrellas has an interview with the bloody new champion.) And, in what was billed as Celestial’s last shot for the minis title, he defeated Mr. Aguilita to become Perros del Mal Minis champion.
In Tijuana, Extasis lost his mask, and the first (and now rudo) Hijo del Rey Misterio got the better of the second Hijo del Rey Misterio in their first encounter.
Other News
CHIKARA doesn’t quite fit in with this blog – though maybe it should – but I do want to say that I watched their iPPV tonight and really enjoyed it. To me, CHIKARA”s greatest skill is their ability to make their biggest matches feel extra important. They’re the best at all the little touches and they come off as sincere doing it. Presentation is a big part of performance.
(and again, I don’t know how any one confuses me and @robviper with these kind of posts.)
Last week’s Ras de Lona (and this weke’s Guerreros del Ring show) announced an lucha olimpico tournament to take place on CMLL cards starting 12/06 (a Tuesday show). The participants will be from Arkangel, Ultimo Guerrero, Ringo Mendoza, Hijo del Gladiador and Satanico’s schools. This is probably something that sounds good when throwing around ideas, but it seems like a rough idea to put on TV. CMLL hardcore fans say they want luchadors who are skilled in olympic/amateur style, but they never seem interested in even general lucha libre mat wrestling, much less unscripted matches where takedowns are the big spots (if this is for real, and who knows.) CMLL will have to get over rules for the matches, not to mention (even more!) random new people being put on TV. And, of course, it’s yet another tournament, CMLL for “we have no ideas.”
CMLL’s very obviously focused on the bodybuilding contest this month. They’re spending some time on it on every single CMLL show. That’s their next big show; they might (might!) start the storyline towards the year end show before then, but I wouldn’t expect anything bigger than these title match shows for the rest of the month.
Porra Fresa argues CMLL losing Hector Garza is not really a big deal, because CMLL hasn’t really been drawing much with him. That’s fair, I don’t expect their attendance to be any more hurt here, but it does re-enforce the impression that CMLL is a minor league promotion that people are leaving to get to a better place.
El Universal has an interesting interview with Horuz. He was a part of CMLL’s Generacion75, and sadly notes how many people in that group have progressed far beyond him. Horuz blames himself, citing personal problems and bad decisions. Those cost him the Hijo del Faraon character; El Faraon took it away from him due his level of performance. Horuz feels like he’s learning from his mistakes and hopes to make the Gran Alternativa tournament someday.
SuperLuchas #438 has Hector Garza back with the Perros del Mal. The Revolucionarios en Acción says “Oficial Rayan” comes from “Saving Private Ryan”, with the usual inventive lucha libre spelling. I’d guess Spartan comes from 300, so we just need to guess which movie is next to figure out the trio partner.
Links
- Hija de Karonte will be out with a neck injury for a while, so Perla Negra wins the LLF Copa by default.
Lineups
IWRG (THU) 11/17/2011 Arena Naucalpan
1) ? vs ??
2) Centurión & Eragón vs Alan Extreme & Imposible
3) Bugambilia del Norte, Dinamic Black, Tritón vs Carta Brava Jr., Comando Negro, Eterno
4) Golden Magic, Pantera, Súper Nova vs Apolo Estrada Jr., Black Terry, Hijo de Pirata Morgan
5) Dr. Cerebro, Espíritu, Silver King vs Bestia 666, Damián 666, X-Fly
Dr. Cerbero back here for the first time in a couple months. Black Terry is randomly a rudo (so he can work against Pantera?)
Comando Negro & Dinamic Black are still feuding. Maybe Comando Negro wants one more apuesta match.
IWRG (SUN) 11/20/2011 Arena Naucalpan
1) Eragón & Tritón vs Gemelo Fantastico I & Gemelo Fantastico II
2) Bugambilia del Norte, Centurión, Saruman vs Alan Extreme, Carta Brava Jr., Imposible
3) Multifacético, Trauma II, Zumbi vs Avisman, El Hijo del Diablo, Eterno
4) Apolo Estrada Jr., Cuervo, Ozz vs Cien Caras Jr., Hijo de Máscara Año 2000, Máscara Año 2000 Jr.
5) Pantera vs number one contender [Rey del Ring]
Pantera’s facing the winner of today’s tournament. In the World of IWRG, the Dark Family are still rudos.
Gemelos haven’t been here since March.