11/19-20 Lucha Times

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52MX: Rush vs Terrible! Also, one more weird Hector Garza match.

LATV: the C3 show from last week that I can’t get around to watching. Mr. Cacao/Arkangel in the midcard, La Mascara/Averno in the main event.

TF: look, I’m going to keep picking Polvora/Fuego until they air or they air two tapings in a row that make some sense.

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CMLL-Galavision: Dragon Rojo/Lyger in trios, plus a random trios match.

AAA-Regional: They haven’t announced which makes go where this week, but if they do it like last week, the cruiserweights all end up here – opening crew (featuring Daga and the end of Relampago) and Sugi making a rare appearance to team up with Aero & Fenix vs Dark Dragon, La Parka and Super Fly. Casandro debuts in the exoticos match. Chessman & Rudo Octagon vs Wagner & Electro is the match repeated on both.

AAA-main: the exclusive match here is Damain 666/Park vs Mesias/Zorro

FOX: Fuego vs Euforia in a lightning match, Peste Negra vs Panther/Shocker/Porky. They’ve snuck in 3 matches on weeks where the lightning match has ended up here; that’d be a women’s trios. This week.

C3: Averno vs Mascara in trios, TRT vs SSS (Stuka, Sangre, Sagrado, who probably shouldn’t actually use that name), Azteca/Diamante/Lee vs Euforia/Hooligan/Loco which suonds pretty good, and a women’s match.

Mega6: Bam Bam vs Violencia is the swing match, with more Cats vs Joven Tapatios (plus Misterisoo & Gallo) and Atlantis/Fatnasma/Toscano vs the Invasors.

Others: Has anyone figured out how to tell if Multimedios is going to air the Sunday afternoon show? It’s completely at random as far as I can tell. The last night version might have the Mascara Purpura appearance. There’s been no sign of Puebla or Perros on YouTube since they’ve been back, so I’m just guessing wildly that they’re on their usual pace. IWRG definitely has not – they aired the Castle of Terror show this past week, and I’m guess they just go ahead to the next Thursday, but they might skip to catch up again. AYM is listing lucha at 11:30AM on Saturday again, but I don’t even know what promotion it’ll be; this past Tuesday night, they aired a two match show with Mascara Dorada, (tecnico) Alebrije, Pantera versus Crazy Star, Monsther, and Hooligan. I can’t find any record of it happening, but I did see Chucky give Alebrije a samoan drop, so I may just be hallucinating.  (It’s from somewhere in Guanajuato, maybe Irapuato, based on the local names in the opener.)

Panther vs Felino, Shocker’s new trio, CMLL/NJPW, Bobby Lee

CMLL (TUE) 11/15/2011 Arena Coliseo Guadalajara [Fuego en el Ring]
1) Javier Cruz Jr. b Thunder Boy
2) Artillero & Súper Comando b Leo & Robin
3) Bam Bam b Pequeño Violencia [lightning]
recap lists it as straight falls; it had been promoted as a one fall match.
4) Gallo, Metal Blanco, Palacio Negro b Misterioso Jr., Puma King, Tiger
Best match of the night. Tecnicos took 1/3, Gallo pinning Misterioso.
5) Atlantis, Hijo del Fantasma, Valiente DQ El Alebrije, Mr. Águila, Psicosis
2/3 for the tecnicos, Psicosis fouling Atlantis in the second. Valiente replaced Toscano, though they had changed the poster at some point.

Looks like a good crowd.

CMLL Press Conference

Didn’t know this one was coming, and it had a bit of news.

  • Blue Panther challenged Negro Casas to a hair match. Negro was thinking about it when Felino jumped in and asked for the match versus Panther. Panther was willing to do a triangle match, but Negro decided to just let Felino have it. It’ll go down 12/16. Either that winner is facing Negro, or Negro will end up in that match yet.
  • Atlantis, Delta and Guerrero Maya were talking about changing their names to Los Titanes de la Atlantida when they were interrupted by Shocker. If you recall, Shocker was upset with those three men for splitting off from them after he had supported Delta & Guerrero Maya Jr. during Forjando un Idolo, and he vowed to form his own group. Shocker revealed the Nuevo Figura promos were actually for his guys – plural, because he introduced Titan and Triton to CMLL. Metro rounds out the trio. Atlantis & company were angry – how can they Titanes de la Atlantida when there’s a new Titan? – and so they vowed to come up with a new name soon. Looks like everyone will be tecnicos but feuding.

    There’s already a Triton around who’s in IWRG and turns up in Lucha POP and the like. No idea if this is the same guy. CMLL’s used the names before.

  • Lot of Japan talk, as always.

    CMLL revealed which luchadors would be headed to Japan early next year. Valiente, Atlantis and Mascara Dorada will represent CMLL at the annual 01/04 WrestleKingdom Tokyo Dome show. Maybe Lyger/Atlantis vs Valiente/Dorada? Very happy for Vailente to get the opportunity.

    Sombra, Maximo, Volador, Mephisto, Okumura, Diamante, Mascara Dorada, Okumura, Rush, and Misteroso. That’ll be Diamante, Rush and Misterioso’ debut in Japan; Misterioso was actually supposed to face Mistico in Japan during his IWGP Junior Heavyweight championship reign, but that was the trip canceled due to the pig flu. No matches announced yet. I would guess Mascara Dorada vs Mephisto on one night and Sombra vs Volador on the other night. Rush defending his title versus someone – Okumura or maybe a NJPW midcarder? – seems likely too.

    As for the women, La Comandante showed off her REINA Tag Team belt and they discussed Lady Apache & Marcela visiting the promotion this week.

  • general hype for the upcoming title matches and the ciberneticos this Sunday.
  • No mention of the Heavyweight title. It sounded like Blue Panther made a sly remark about Hector, but that’s about it.

Other News

Bobby Lee and the entire lucha libre commission of Leon have resigned, angered about people being allowed to run shows outside their authority (the recent QPPC show here seems to be part of the issue) and the government officials not giving them any power to do anything about it. Bobby Lee also has been the local promoter here, and it read to me like he’s actually upset that anyone else was allowed to run a show in Leon, but that’s just a guess.

Looks like Perros del Mal sold out Arena Aficion. Perro Aguayo Jr. says the Perros are stronger than every.

Fuego en el Ring has an interview with (sort of) CMLL’s Dama de Hierro about enjoying experience in Japan working for REINA. It reads like she adjusted well. She’s headed up December 12. Zeuxis is back in the next couple of days, though she mentioned on Twitter that she’s headed back a third time in January.

LuchaPOP has an 8 luchador single elimination tournament on it’s next show. So far, they’ve announced the Traumas, Negro Navarro, Black Terry, and Atomic Boy.

There’s a luchadora show in Durham, North Carolina this Saturday, and the host is La Sirenta. (No word if Kurt Brown will make it.) More info on the promotion here.

Kcidis has a great cartoon of Dragon Rojo vs Lyger. Darn Angry Birds.

Rob has highlights of 12/07/10 Perros del Mal & 11/01/11 CMLL.

Links

  • Laredo Kid is among those wrestling on a charity show this Saturday for a boy suffering from autism.
  • Black Mamba talks about wrestling in LuchaPOP and other random DF events.
  • GALLI has a show in Elmhurst on 11/27. I want to go to one sometime, but when you’re watching 9 hours of lucha week and doing whatever these posts are, it’s tough to get motivated to see more. (And yet, I’m going to ResistancePro…)

Lineups

CMLL (TUE) 11/22/2011 Arena Mexico
1) Metálico & Soberano Jr. vs Artillero & Súper Comando
2) Dark Angel, Lluvia, Luna Mágica vs La Comandante, Princesa Sugheit, Zeuxis
3) Diamante, Sagrado, Sangre Azteca vs Misterioso Jr., Shigeo Okumura, Vangelis
4) Máximo, Rush, Super Porky vs Rey Bucanero, Terrible, Texano
5) Averno vs La Máscara [NWA MIDDLE]

La Mascara has to be winning this. HAS TO BE.

CMLL (TUE) 11/22/2011 Arena Coliseo Guadalajara
1) El Divino vs Acertijo
2) León Blanco & Magnum vs Evola & Exterminador
3) Astral & Bam Bam vs Pequeño Violencia & Pierrothito
4) Dalis la Caribeña, Estrellita, Goya Kong vs Amapola, Mima Shimoda, Princesa Blanca
5) Ángel de Oro, Atlantis, Hijo del Fantasma vs Felino, Mr. Niebla, Volador Jr.

Two women’s matches in one show. Sshallow on the tecnica side with Marcela and Lady Apache in Japan.

Minis match could be really good. Bam Bam is here a lot.

DTU (SAT) 12/03/2011 Arena Roberto Paz
1) Lanzeloth vs Atomic Star, Nino Hamburguesa, Miedo Extremo
2) Boy Sky Angel & Extreme vs Muerte Infernal & Slayer Pack and Kalibus & Sacristan del Diablo and Jhonky & Radical
3) Kaleth vs Pequeno Cobra, Gus Gus, Draegon
4) Chica Yeye, Chik Tormenta, Flamita vs Bugambilia del Norte, Lily Fighter, Rey Latino
5) Saturno vs Ciclope, Hormiga, Paranoiko, Apocalipsis, Dreyko
6) Roberto Paz Jr. & Shiryu Dragon vs Araña de Plata & Eterno and Aero Boy & Violento Jack
7) Joe Lider vs Pesadilla, Makabre, Demoledor [DTU]

Nino Hamburguesa is the new greatest name in all of Mexico.