Villano beat Payasos, CMLL off Galavision

AULL (SUN) 12/18/2011 Arena Lopez Mateos [Black Terry Jr. (flickr), Estrellas del Ring]
1) Lady Rabbit & Super Panda b Felina Metalika & Tigre de Bronce [semifinal]
2) Big Mama & Juan el Ranchero b Mujer Panera & Tortuguillo Ninja [semifinal]
3) Big Mama & Juan el Ranchero b Lady Rabbit & Super Panda [final]
4) Chucho el Roto, Iron Love, Karma, Terry 2000 b Chicho del Barrio, Epitafio, Ronny Ventura, Tormento
Karma replaced Robin Maravilla, Chico del Barrio replaced Cerebro Maligno
5) Herejía b Yakuza [AULL WELTER]
Herejia won falls 1/3, with his feet on the ropes in the last, to win the title.
6) Judas el Traidor, Mike Segura, Rocky Santana vs Ángel o Demonio, Daga, Super Mega
Originally a four way, but instead a trios without Super Crazy (Angel o Demonio’s partner) & Sadico (Santana’s partner). Good match, money thrown in.
7) Ray Mendoza Jr., Villano III, Villano IV b Coco Amarillo, Coco Azul, Coco Rojo
Ray Mendoza’s first match back from injury. Villano took 2/3, Mendoza sneaking in a foul on Coco Amarillo.

Ray Mendoza says he’s still not 100%.

Super Vaquero lost his match in Monterrey.

Other News

CMLL is not on the schedule in the Galavision US next week. They’re running a 10 hour marathon of Pequeno Gigantes. (It’s also not on the schedule the week after, but Galavision tends to just send in a repeat of it’s schedule and shouldn’t be taken as definite.) It may simply be a holiday thing, but we won’t know for sure of a couple weeks. It is listed on the schedule in Mexico.

There’s a story bouncing around on websites that Arena Coliseo has been sold. This does not appear to be the case, but just people piling rumor upon the previous rumor  from around the Anniversary show: the Lutteroth family was going to sell both buildings to Carlos Slim. (Slim would be buying the buildings not for lucha libre, but just to own Televisa’s parking lot, part of the CMLL property.) There have also been rumors about CMLL selling Arena Coliseo Guadalajara. None of these appear to be true. Enough people have brought them up that some shred of truth buried deep inside, but nothing’s actually happened. CMLL, as it’s way, has ignored all of this talk. They did mention to Ovaciones that Arena Coliseo will get some maintenance work done during it’s down time.

La Catedral doesn’t like the new the new arrangement of TRT. It’s not a problem with Tiger himself, but Tiger changing the group from what it was originally conceived – a group of mean tough guys – in a softer direction. It was really Bucanero’s inclusion that set it up in that direction, and I agree that the group seems to exist now more to continue the El Luchador angle than because they have any specific plan for the trio.

Tomorrow’s AAA taping remains a mystery show. This week should still be fairly busy, with that taping, the IWRG year end shows, and the CMLL heavyweight title tournament, but things should slow down after that. I’m hoping to get up an improved list of the best matches of the year list (and I’d like to figure out a way of making it easier to track on a weekly basis) and some of the end of year stuff I’ve done in past years.

Rob has highlights of 01/04/11 and 01/11/11 CMLL.

Links

• Despite being missing from the ring, Estrellita still has a new photo gallery on CMLL.com
• Luchas 2000 #600 has AAA, CMLL and Todo x el Todo on the cover.

Lineups

CMLL (SUN) 12/25/2011 Arena Coliseo Guadalajara
1) Meteoro vs Relampago
2) El Divino vs Acertijo
3) León Blanco vs Virgo, Esfinge, Evola, Mr. Trueno, Black Metal, Leo, Exterminador, Rey Trueno, Infierno [cibernetico]
4) Máscara Dorada, Titán, Triton vs Malefico, Mr. Águila, Psicosis

If Mascara Dorada can’t get his fellow tapatios a win here, I’d be very concerned. What really sucks for them is not the losses, but Titan & Triton have been cut down to working only one match a week since this storyline has started. That’s not a big help to the wallet.

Speaking of money, CMLL’s down to sending five guys here. It is Christmas and maybe they didn’t want to have people travel – Psicosis is the only who’s not a Guadalajara native – but they were sending sixteen guys three months ago.