Day: July 27, 2012

IWRG (THU) 07/26/2012 Arena Naucalpan [Black Terry Jr. (flickr), IWRG]
1) Infierno Kid b Galaxy
2) Centvrión & Charly Madrid b Imposible & Matrix Jr.
Charly Madrid returned from an elbow injury. Matrix Jr. replaced John Crazy.
3) Alan Extreme, Black Terry, Bombero Infernal b Danny Casas, Dr. Cerebro, Suicida
Rudos took 1/3, Bombero Infernal submitted Danny Casas.
4) Oficial 911, Oficial AK47, Oficial Fierro b Oficial Factor, Oficial Rayan, Oficial Spartan [EdM Trios]
Oficials took 1/3 from Comando Elite to win the titles back for the second time. They lost these belts 3.5 years ago. AK-47 caught Factor with a counter dropkick to get the win
5) Fuerza Guerrera, Hijo de Pirata Morgan, Pirata Morgan DQ Damián 666, Head Hunter, Pete Powers
Pete Powers replaced X-Fly, but X-Fly & Bestia 666 turned up in the crowd during the show. FdT took the first, Pirates took the second, then the Piratas attacked Bestia and X-Fly in between falls. Pirata had Damian about ready to submit in the third, but Bestia & X-Fly ran in for the DQ.

TVC Deportes wasn’t taping this week (and probably the next two) due to the olympics, so Black Terry Jr. is free to upload them.

IWRG sure seems to have a lot of set trios, and a some IWRG Trios titles that are vacant and waiting for a tournament.

The Arena Mexico show is canceled.

AAA tapes in Queretaro, and should have no such problems.  The main event is the last Mascara Ano 2000 Jr. vs Dr. Wagner Jr. match before their TripleMania match, and will air that same day. It’s probably not going to end well for Wagner. The rest of the show is more place keeping stuff not involving the major players on TripleMania. Consejo and Psycho Clowns continue their feud, and Octagon and La Park remember theirs. The newest Alebrije debuts, facing the also debuting Demon Rockers, one of who may be Semental.

Rob has highlights of 07/10/12 CMLL C3.

Links

• Sombra, Mascara and Averno are supposed to appear tonight in Mission, Texas, though Sombra was supposed to be in Arena Mexico too.
• Wagner hypes his match with Mascara Ano 2000 Jr.
• Fenix and Dark Dragon talk about their rivalry leading into TripleMania.
• Texano and La Parka talk about TripleMania in a video.
• Psycho Circus want to prove they’re better than Consejo.
• Monterrey has Chicanas vs Chicanas and another Konnan King Tournament.
• Interview with Super Parka.
• Cronicas y Leyendas looks back at Gemelos Diablo vs Rubi Ruvalcaba & Coloso Colosetti.

Lineups

IWRG (THU) 08/02/2012 Arena Naucalpan
***Festival de Mascaras***
1) Centvrión, Chicano, Panterita vs Comando Negro, Eita, Imposible
2) Dr. Cerebro, Orito, Trauma II vs El Hijo del Diablo, Eterno, Oficial AK47
3) La Cobra, Pantera, Veneno vs Alan Extreme, Black Terry, Temerario Infernal
La Cobra is debuting.
4) Villano III, Villano IV, Villano V vs Cuchillo, Kahoz, Rambo
5) Canek, Octagón, Solar I vs Cien Caras Jr., Fuerza Guerrera, Negro Navarro

The annual “everyone wears their old masks” show, though it seems like less unmasked people than normal. I wonder if Black Terry has an old mask he might wear. It’s also a Villano III tribute show, one of many.

Various lucha reporters on twitter – Apolo Valdes, Enrique Yniesta, the Tercera Caida account – are stating tonight’s CMLL show at Arena Mexico has been canceled. The lineup would’ve been:

CMLL (FRI) 07/27/2012 Arena Mexico
1) Bengala & Leono vs Apocalipsis & Inquisidor
2) Hombre Bala Jr., Sensei, Super Halcon Jr. vs Cancerbero, Raziel, Skándalo
3) Eléctrico vs Demus 3:16 [lightning]
4) Diamante, Fuego, Triton vs Hijo del Signo, Misterioso Jr., Vangelis
5) La Sombra, Máscara Dorada, Shocker vs Mr. Niebla, Rey Bucanero, Terrible
6) Atlantis, Diamante Azul, Titán vs Dragón Rojo Jr., Negro Casas, Último Guerrero

The cancellation has no direct relationship to CMLL. There’s a 24 hour protest (Yo Soy 132) blockade taking place in front of the nearby headquarters of the Televisa network. In the recent election, Televisa was accused of using it’s overwhelming domination of Mexican TV to promote the eventually presidential winner thru it’s news coverage while  downplaying opposition or ignoring criticism. Televisa denies all of this. The evidence seems to point in the protesters favor (and Televisa is apparently not covering the protest in front of it’s offices.) You can read more about the protest here.

Arena Mexico is located two blocks away from Televisa’s offices. It’s close enough that Televisa uses Arena Mexico for parking (so much so that there have been occasional rumors over the years of Televisa buying Arena Mexico just for that parking lot.) It sounds like the arena is still accessible, but the police have closed off streets in the area to control the crowd. A lot of CMLL’s fans are literally walk up fans who wouldn’t be driving, but it’s possible someone decided they just didn’t want to add another 5 to 8,000 people to the scene.

This particular show has a lineup which could’ve produced some really fun matches, but does not seem like a critical show to the stories CMLL has been telling. Missing last week’s show would’ve been bad, because they wouldn’t be able to do the Terrible/Rush angle in front of their largest audience for another month. Missing next week’s show would’ve been tragic, screwing up a month worth’s of build to the new Mistico debut. The biggest thing that looked in the cards for tonight’s show is maybe Atlantis & Titan beating the Guerreros again and setting up a tag team title match in the near future.

It’s exceptionally rare for CMLL to cancel shows. CMLL hasn’t actually said anything put out anything themselves, but they have let the press know the show’s canceled. The last CMLL canceled shows were during the H1N1 epidemic in late April and early May 2009, and you have to go very far back to find ones before those.

This  is a 24 hour protest, so it should not affect any other show. CMLL’s not back in Arena Mexico until Tuesday. It will have no effect on CMLL’s television coverage this weekend, but it leaves the CMLL shows on Televisa and Fox Sports without new matches for next weekend. They could eliminate the one week delay between taping and airing, they could air matches from Puebla (pre-empted on TVC Deportes due to the Olympics) or they could just air old material. It’ll probably be the last option.

Update:

La funciòn de este viernes 27 de julio,serà cancelada para seguridad de toda nuestra aficiòn.Por su comprensiòn.Gracias

— Lucha Libre CMLL (@CMLL_OFICIAL) July 27, 2012