top six stories of the last two weeks

1. CMLL announced both Rush vs Terrible and Rey Cometa vs Puma King in apuesta matches for the Anniversary show on September 14. It’s their first double apuesta match show since 2003.
2. The annual Lucha Libre Expo took place. Attendance appeared to be slightly down. The biggest news was the start of a new Perros del Mal vs Bizarros (Cibernetico) feud. Perro and Cibernetico had been sniping on talk shows recently, the AAA Bizarros interfered in the main event of the Perros del Mal show (conveniently allowing them to avoid a finish) and the Perros interfered in the main event of the AAA show. Both fights turned into brawls around the entire expo center.
3. Mistico continued his debut appearances around Mexico, drawing about over half houses on average. The existence of Mistico has not meant instant sellout, but it may have improved business on these shows slightly. CMLL and Mistico suffered a scare when Mistico slipped on a rope bit in Puebla and fell down clutching his knee in what seemed to be a serious injury, but he was back in action two days later.
4. Terrible and Tanahashi advanced to the final of the CMLL Universal tournament, which will take place this Friday.
5. Also on AAA TV taping, their last for four weeks, Zema Ion appeared to tease a title vs title match with Juvi and Samurai del Sol appeared as a surprise wrestler (but was taken out the end of the match.) Vampiro won his first offical AAA match in 3 years, but then lost to Chessman in a surprise quick match, the first time Chessman has actually been able to touch Vampiro in their feud.
6. AAA’s TV has been out of sorts. Two weekends, a rerun aired on TV while part 1 of TripleMania was released on the internet. This past week, a preview of TripleMania and part 1 of TripleMania aired on TV, while nothing was released on the internet (after Part 2 had been billed.) They should be back on track with part 2 on both TV and the internet this week.

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• The big feud not on CMLL’s Anniversary show, Volador vs Mr. Niebla, saw both men win singles matches. It was more a story of Niebla (and Zacarias) cheating Volador in both matches and getting caught once. Volador still has not beaten Niebla himself.
• CMLL announced Generacion 2012: rudos Herdoes Jr., Taurus, Guerrero Negro, Espanto Jr. and Akuma, and tecnicos Genesis and Oro Jr.
• AAA’s Quien Pinta Para La Corona, 2012 version, started with Lady Puma, Hiedra, Los Gemelos Muerte, Perseus, Slayer Boy and Mini Hator advancing to the final.
• Nitro & Electrico both went down with leg injuries that will keep them out for months.
• CMLL announced the Leyenda de Azul tournament will be back (at some point)
• CMLL listed Dark Angel as appearing on their shows, while she’s actually in Japan (and CMLL is aware she’s in Japan.)
• In IWRG, Chicano turned rudo and won the WWS Welterweight Championship.
• AAA set up a lot of Twitter accounts for their top wrestlers, none of which are actually being used by the wrestlers. Also, Pintreset.