Month: April 2014

CMLL (MON) 04/21/2014 Arena Puebla [Periodico Enfoque, Porra Fresa]
1) Black Tiger, Leono, Tigre Rojo Jr. b Espanto Jr., Fuerza Chicana, King Jaguar
Leono beat Fuerza.
2) Dark Angel, Estrellita, Syuri b Amapola, La Comandante, Tiffany
3) La Máscara, Stigma, Stuka Jr. DQ Dragón Rojo Jr., Pólvora, Rey Escorpión
Tecnicos took 1/3. Rey Escorpion, who previously beat Mascara by pulling his mask, was caught this time for the DQ.
4) Espíritu Maligno L Asturiano, Blue Center [mask, hair]
Asturiano won his way out of the match first. Espiritu made a mistake, and Blue Center beat him for his hair.
5) Gran Guerrero, Niebla Roja, Último Guerrero b La Sombra, Mistico, Valiente
UG beat Mistico.

Biggest winner in Blue Center’s career; his first known apuesta after 25 years. The semifinal outcome leaves Asturiano and Blue Center open for another apuesta match this year – maybe in July for the local Anniversary show.

Porra Fresa wrote on Facebook that the building was 90% full and 2,500 people in it. As noted in the video post, Puebla TV is way behind, so it’s not as though fans in Puebla have been watching the mask vs mask vs hair feud develop. There was no “Anniversario” or “Dos Leyendas” title attached to the show. The fans in Puebla are just found the lineup and realized that three way match (because there’s nothing else noteworthy here) was a really important match to go see.

As with the other CMLL rings, Puebla had the new red mat. It should be in Arena Coliseo this Sunday.

Tonight’s Arena Mexico show has the Reyes del Atlantida versus the Guerreros (who are Gran, Ultimo and Roja tonight.) If they’re setting up something, and who knows, there’s the material for a trios title match to headline next Tuesday’s Kid’s Day show. The first five matches should air on Terra, including Week 3 En Busca de un Idolo matches Super Halcon Jr. versus Star Jr. and Hechicero versus Soberano Junior. Every Hechicero match in this tournament has been interesting and Soberano is in the subset of participants who might also make the final. (Cavernario, Cachorro, Soberano, Dragon Lee and Star Jr. are battling for that second spot, and Guerrero Negro Jr. & Super Halcon Jr. are battling not to be last.) The show has Syuri’s last match in this tour, a minis match, and the opener tag team of Inquisidor and Cholo hoping to do better than Sunday’s match. I’m otherwise occupied tonight, so no live results here and those videos may not turn up until Wednesday.

Juventued Guerrera says he’s still got a contract with AAA and still is recovering from a foot injury. Something doesn’t quite add up with him.

Rob has highlights of late January/early February 2001.

LuchaWorld has KrisZ’s news update and this week’s PosterMania. Alfredo found the actual Puebla poster!

Pentagon Jr. and Sexy Star brag about their new championship. Sexy explains she invented a never before seen hold to beat Faby Apache.

Amapola says 2013 wasn’t great for her, but 2014 is starting much better.

Rey Escorpion is ready for the hair match with Maximo.

Diario Basta has an interview with El Dandy & Satanico about Sunday’s match.

El Dorado Jr. talks about making his ChilangaMask debut this weekend. He notes his father (El Dorado!) had a match teaming with Atlantis & Stuka against Talisman, Fuerza Guerrera and El Dandy that was called the best match of 1985 and he’s been a fan of Dandy for a long time, so it’s special honor to be on his retirement show.

DTU vignette introducing Los Nerds.

An article about new Xalapa promotion Independencia Total, the local group who brought in AAA last Friday. Corsario de Fuego is running the group, and they announced AAA would be back on 05/30.

DJ Spectro looks back at MS-1 and El Jalisco.

Tajiri’s blog has an article about Syuri’s week in Mexico.

Lucha Libre in England

Aerostar heads to Sittingbourne on 05/25 to face Will Ospreay for Revolution Pro Wrestling. That also means Aerostar is surely missing the 05/24 AAA taping in Tuxtla Gutierrez.

Lineup

CMLL (MON) 04/28/2014 Arena Puebla
1) Águila Egipcia, Black Tiger, Paris vs Artillero, El Rebelde, Súper Comando
2) Asturiano, Metálico, Sensei vs Ares, Espíritu Maligno, Siki Ozama Jr.
3) Delta, Fuego, Guerrero Maya Jr. vs Boby Zavala, Dragón Rojo Jr., Pólvora
4) La Máscara vs Rey Escorpión [lightning]
5) Diamante Azul, Marco Corleone, Rush vs Negro Casas, Ripper, Shocker

Only five matches and one lightning match means this might be a quick card. Semimain is follow up to last week, and possibly setting up a title match next week.

IWRG (SUN) 04/20/2014 Arena Naucalpan [Black Terry Jr. (Flickr), IWRG]
1) Power Bull & Zurdog b Galaxy & Omega
2) Anubis Black & Picudo Jr. b Freyser & Metaleon
Freyser replaced Mr. Leo.
3) Guerrero Mixtico, Hip Hop Man, Tony Rivera b Black Terry, Imposible, Látigo
4) Hijo De Dos Caras, Toscano, Veneno b Hijo de Pirata Morgan, Hijo del Dr. Wagner Jr., Tony Casanova
Wagner and Dos Caras brawled all around the building, including out into the hallways.
5) Hijo de Máscara Año 2000 b Súper Nova [IWRG JUNIORS]
Super Nova is champion. He was dressed in a Batman outfit. Hijo de Mascara wiped out a TV cameraperson while getting thrown out of the ring but came back to take the first fall. Nova took the second. Mascara accidentally fouled the ref in the third, and Nova used the distraction to foul Mascara and win. first defense.

Ohtani’s Jacket reviews Blue Panther versus Charles Lucero.

Preview of tonight’s triangle apuesta match in Puebla. Asturiano says he would’ve preferred a singles match with Blue Center. Porra Fresa also has their preview.

Arturo Rivera says he’s returning to lucha libre on the Tapachula, Chiapas show.

The LA Time has an article and video on local mask maker Manuel Quiroz.

AAA Fusion champion Fenix says he’s not concerned with titles, hairs or masks, but putting on a good show for the people wherever he’s scheduled. Fenix also says he’d like to get a title shot at Texano and defend his own title versus Fantasma.

La Jarochita is proud to be representing Veracruz in AAA.

CMLL preview for next Friday.

Lineup

CMLL (SUN) 04/27/2014 Arena Coliseo Guadalajara
1) Meteoro vs Relampago Azul
2) El Divino & Virgo vs Mr. Trueno & Rey Trueno
3) León Blanco, Sky Kid, Smaker vs El Yaqui, Espectrum, Magnum
4) Exterminador vs Javier Cruz Jr., Mugroso Vago, Évola [hair]
5) Fuego vs Demonio Maya [OCCIDENTE MIDDLE]
Fuego is champion. First defense.
6) Black Panther, Blue Panther, Cachorro vs Euforia, Misterioso Jr., Vangellys

Fuego won the title back in October from Cavernario, defends it for the first time against Cavernario’s brother. Fuego doesn’t end up here enough to be champion, so a title change seems possible.

Picking Javier Cruz over Exterminador in the hair match.

IWRG (WED) 04/23/2014 Arena Naucalpan
1) Látigo vs Zurdog
2) Alfa & Omega vs Hip Hop Man & Kaling Black
3) Dr. Cerebro & Golden Magic vs Picudo Jr. & Tony Casanova
4) Hijo de Pirata Morgan vs Hijo de Máscara Año 2000
5) Hijo del Lizmark & Toscano vs Eterno & Pirata Morgan

Smaller card than usual. Toscano continues to be everywhere.