CMLL on CadenaTres: 2013-12-21

recap

taped 2013-12-17 @ Arena Mexico
Estrellita, Goya Kong, Marcela vs Dalys, La Seductora, Princesa Blanca: Usual women’s match, with an entertaining (if not always good) técnica section and a not as fun ruda section because it’s tough to do much with these técnicas. Princesa Blanca was great for her counter kick to Marcela and for breaking out a runway walk for no apparent reason; those two had a couple good exchanges. The rest were trying. I was very concerned Seductora was about to die on the powerbomb/sunset flip reversal spot, and I had not heard about because it’s Seductora. Please do not do that again.

Delta, Guerrero Maya Jr., Stuka Jr. vs Morphosis, Mr. Águila, Ripper: About as one sided a match as CMLL will do. I don’t think it’s possible for them to book a two fall match where a team gets cleanly beat both falls, so one where they cheat to win a second fall feels dominant. Tecnicos spend the majority of the match selling for the Invasors, which makes some sense if the Invasors are (suddenly) supposed to be top guys. This is a fair result if CMLL is looking at the big picture; I’m still having trouble believing CMLL is actually doing that. It only works if they bring these results up elsewhere, which doesn’t seem to happen. Easily skipable in isolation.

La Sombra, Rush, Super Porky vs Gran Guerrero, Rey Bucanero, Último Guerrero: Could’ve been an interesting match on another day, but this was a Tuesday match before may of these guys were disappearing for a few weeks and worked as such. Heavy on the Porky comedy (who’s looking very heavy himself.) Amusing to see Tirantes have no problem with Rush and Sombra pile on top of the técnicos in the second fall for the Porky win, when he shooed the other women out of the ring on the same exact spot two matches prior.

Rey Escorpión vs Máximo for the CMLL World Light Heavyweight Championship: They got to a good place in the last couple of minutes. Sadly, this was a seventeen minute match. Máximo and Rey Escorpion working a technical style didn’t work out well at all in the first fall. Maximo’s routines get repeated too often, but he’s not the same guy when he plays it straight. Escorpion’s had better days himself; every other singles match he head in 2013 was better than this.