Month: June 2014

CMLL (MON) 06/23/2014 Arena Puebla [CincoRadio, Periodico Enfoque, Periodico Enfoque (fotos)]
1) Espíritu Maligno, King Jaguar, Rey Apocalipsis b Black Tiger, Robin, Star Jr.
Rey Apocalipsis’ debut. Espiritu bled in the second fall. Tecnicos took 1/3.
2) Asturiano b Pequeño Warrior
One fall, less than five minutes. Asturiano submitted Pequeno Warrior. Both agreed to a mask vs hair match next week.
3) Morphosis, Olímpico, Virus b Sagrado, Stigma, Tritón
Rudos took 2/3. Stigma was hurt his leg on a dive in the first fall, and Virus went after it in the third for a submission. (Recap end with submission but has tecnicos winning – maybe Stigma wasn’t captain and I have result wrong?)
4) La Máscara, La Sombra, Rush DQ Kráneo, Shocker, Último Guerrero
Ultimo Guerrero replaced Negro Casas (still at the beach?), Sombra replaced Marco. Indeseables took 1/3, Shocker fouled Rush.
5) Titán, Valiente, Volador Jr. b Rey Bucanero, Terrible, Vangellys
Titan replaced Dorada (still in Japan?) Valiente beat Terrible in falls 2/3 to win the match. Recaps says Volador didn’t appear interested.

Asturiano/Warrior is the building anniversary main event. I still assume Asturiano is going to win, but it’s surprising to have him win the week before the mask match. Valiente/Terrible would be interesting if that’s they way they’re going.

Tonight’s CMLL show has the Arkangel versus Gallo for the FULL Championship. Arkangel won the belt from a former trainee in Chile and normally that means he’s going back to Chile to lose the title at some point. Arkangel lost it back in June January; this has been a six month feud.

The actual main event is Valiente, Fuego, Maximo versus Kraneo, Mr. Aguila and Ripper. Guadalajara has the bigger show, with a four team tag tournament.

CMLL did it’s usual Monday night lineups changes. Ephesto replaces Polvora on Friday. Lots more changes on Sunday (where Polvora is still working) – the lightning match is gone, with many matches switched around, Star Jr. & Guerrero Negro pulled from the card, and Tiger, Puma, Marco and Black Panther all added. Usually there’s an injury or feud reason for that sort of change, but I can’t figure one out there.

CMLL also has a recap of Sunday’s Guadalajara show. Escape order went Esfinge, Demonio Maya, Bobby Zavala, Sadico, Gallo, Rey Cometa (who looked in danger of losing.) After Cavernario submitted him, Black Metal was announced as Omar Brunetti, 24 years old, 8 years a luchador, from Los Mochis, Sinaloa.

LuchaWorld has this week’s Poster-Mania.

Rob has highlights of 04/01/14 CMLL.

Segunda Caida reviews CMLL on LATV 05/11/14.

DJ Spectro posts an old magazine recap of the Princesa Sugehit vs Dark Angel mask match.

LuchaMania awards Pagano with their best foreigner (to Monterrey) of the yea award and talks to Caifan about his match with Hechicero.

Daga, who’s never defending his title, brags about how long his title reign. This is not meant to bring up the first part of the sentence. Still no idea if he’s facing Bengala and Aerostar individually or if they face off or if it’s a threeway (but best guess is a multiman for TripleMania.)

Cavernario is at the top of CMLL’s top 10 of the week.

Maravilla Lopez and other Nuevo Laredo legends were honored over the weekend.

answering my own question: There ARE at least two different luchadoras named Atenea in Mexico City. (Also, interesting that Ultimo Guerrero seems to be on most every WMC show.)

IWRG (SUN) 06/22/2014 Arena Naucalpan [The Gladiatores]
1) Atomic Star & Power Bull b Black Niko & Vampiro Metálico II
Straight falls.
2) Anubis Black & Zurdog b Alfa & Omega
3) Emperador Azteca, Imposible, Metaleon b Alan Extreme, El Hijo del Diablo, Picudo Jr.
Alan Extreme was back on the rudo side to replace Canis Lupus. Tecnicos took 2/3, despite Azteca & Imposible not getting along (they were feuding before Imposible turned tencico and Azteca was hurt.) Rudos turned on Alan after the match.
4) Relámpago & Súper Nova DQ Oficial 911 & Oficial AK47
Rudos took 1/3, 911 fouling Nova while also faking a foul to get the DQ call.
5) Canis Lupus, Fuerza Guerrera, Hijo de Máscara Año 2000 b Hijo De Dos Caras, Máscara Sagrada, Veneno
Canis Lupus replaced X-Fly. Rudos took 1/3, Mascara taking Caras’ mask in the third. Those two feuded the entire match. Lupus is noted as attacking Mascara Sagrada’s “recently operated elbow” to set up a submission in the second fall.

I was wondering why Sagrada had disappeared and an elbow injury would explain – but he really hasn’t wrestled a lot at all the last few years and could’ve just retired without no one noticing. Mascara Sagrada losing his mask is a bigger payday than probably IWRG could normally afford, but he’s not in good enough condition to be working for a bigger promotion; if TxT ever came back, that might be a good place for a mask match for him. (Much more likely, Mascara Sagrada will just turn up ten times a year forever.)

Segunda Caida reviews Marco Corleone vs Lizmark Jr., hair vs hair.

DoradaFan has highlights of 05/20/2014 CMLL Guadalajara.

LuchaWorld has KrisZ’s news update.

CMLL video promo for Friday.

R de Rudo interview Tony Cisineros.

Lucha Libre in Japan

Mascara Dorada & Fuego were announced for NJPW’s next tour, from June 28th to July 13th. Fuego did well on the FantasticaMania tour and is back becuase of that. It seems like Dorada has just been in Japan all that time, which is weird, since Dorada wasn’t used on this weekend’s PPV. Sombra appears to be replacing Mascara Dorada tonight in Puebla, but I’m not sure why Dorada was ever booked if he was not going to be back between tours. Shouldn’t CMLL have known that? Dorada should be back after this tour, since the next one if the G1. Dorada and Fuego are on opposite sides for the tecnicos vs tecnicos matches, so they’ll probably be working against each other a lot.

Speaking of luchadors I didn’t know were still in Japan, La Comandante beat Alex Lee on a Sendai Girls show Sunday.

XMW (SAT) 06/21/2014 Arena Fusion, Jardines de Morelos, Estado de México [Black Terry Jr. (flickr), Estrellas del Ring, The Gladiatores]
1) Dollar b ?
other participants not listed.
2) Chika Yeye b Centella, Demasiado, Legendario, Obscuro, Mixus, Kilvan, Medieval, Emperador Azteca
Emperador Azteca and Chika Yeye (who beat fellow exotico Demasiado to win) replaced Toxin Boy.
3) Kronoz & Tornado b Fly Star & Toxin and Metaleon & Wason and Centvrión & Fulgor I and Fly Metalik & Wotan
No Saruman, so Fulgor teamed with Centvrion instead and Toxin Boy teamed with Fly Star. Tornado & Kronoz beat Centvrion & Fulgor for the win. Wotan and Fly Star are headed to a mask match.
4) Yoruba b Mamba © [XMW JH]
Yoruba won the title.
5) Daga, Fenix (AAA), Soul Machine Rocker, Toscano b Belial, Fly Warrior, Impulso, Mr. Leo
AAA vs XMW. Toscano bled from the mouth and from cut behind one of his ears.
6) Arez © b Pentagón Jr. [PDM LH]
Pentagon dominated the match, but Mamba interfered to help Impluso keep the title. Mamba ran in after to even the odds and set up a tag match.
7) Ludark Shaitan b La Magnifica
bloody hardcore match

Note XMW wrestlers went 2-1 over AAA wrestlers. This was third 3rd Anniversary show.

CMLL (SUN) 06/22/2014 Arena Coliseo Guadalajara [@acogdl]
1) Ángel del Mal & El Yaqui b El Ídolo & Javier Cruz Jr.
Rudos took 2/3.
2) Explosivo & William Rock b Évola & Jocker
tecnicos took 2/3.
3) Acertijo & Demonio Rojo b El Brillante & Virgo
Rudos took 1/3, Demonio Rojo sneakingi n a foul on Brillante.
4) León Blanco, Sky Kid, Smaker b Magnum, Mr. Trueno, Rey Trueno
Tencicos took 1/3.
5) Atlantis, La Máscara, Titán b Felino, Mr. Niebla, Rey Bucanero
Tecnicos took 2/3. Mr. Niebla replaced Negro Casas (who was at the beach)
6) Black Metal L Gallo, Cavernario, Rey Cometa, Boby Zavala, Sádico, Esfinge, Demonio Maya [cage, hair, mask]
Black Metal lost his mask to Cavernario. No name announced.

Big weekend for Cavernario. He won En Busca de un Idolo, and then won a mask. It was Metal who came with Cavernario for their Mexico City debuts, a year ago Monday. Cavernario looked good, Metal struggled, and their careers have gone in different directions since before crossing paths one more time here. I’m surprised Black Metal lost his mask when he was still trying to get into the main roster; maybe he’s getting a new character? Maybe plans changed.

https://twitter.com/acogdl/status/480897723357347840

I’d assume we get a Black Metal name later.

CMLL (SUN) 06/22/2014 Arena Coliseo [CMLL]
1) Magnus & Metatrón b Camorra & Inquisidor
Tecnicos took 1/3.
2) Angelito, Bam Bam, Eléctrico b Mercurio, Pequeño Nitro, Pequeño Olímpico
Tecnicos took 2/3, Bam Bam dropping Pequeno Nitro on his head for the win. Nitro was strechered out after the piledriver.
3) Metálico, Raziel, Virus b Dragon Lee, Fuego, Oro Jr.
Dragon Lee replaced Pegasso. Rudos took 1/3, Metalico focusing on Oro and taking his mask after teh match.
4) Blue Panther b Ephesto [lightning]
Said to be excellent technical match. Panther won in 9 minutes.
5) Kamaitachi, Puma, Shigeo Okumura b Delta, Guerrero Maya Jr., Stuka Jr.
Rudos took 1/3, Kamaitachi beating Delta after an Okumura distraction.
6) Dragón Rojo Jr., Pólvora, Rey Escorpión b Máximo, Super Porky, Volador Jr.
Rojo snuck in a foul on Volador.

Terra feed never worked during the show. There was an explanation of technical problems. I asked if they would reair the show at some later date – they said they’d ask. It would’ve been a really frustrating evening if it was a more interesting card and if I wasn’t already watching World Cup anyway.

Semimain seems like a sure set up to a Arena Coliseo Tag Team Championship match. Okumura seems like the only one interested in challenging for those. Main event might go somewhere too, but seems less likely.

Solar, Huracan Ramriez, Fantasma defeated Blue Panther, Pirata Morgan and Negro Navarro in Tijuana.

LuchaWorld has KrisZ’s news update and a review of the En Busca de un Idolo tournament final.

Rob has highlights of 03/29/14 AAA and 08/31/01 CMLL, which is the first lucha show I ever recapped.

Super Libre had Mephisto & Titan as guests.

Vice writes about lucha libre and Masked Republic’s show back in April. Both Casandro and someone named Dr. Lucha get quoted.

Lucha Libre in Japan

06/22 NOAH: Kenou [O] & Hajime Ohara b Rocky Lobo & Jinzo [X] – debut match, not part of the tournament (but they probably would win if they were meant to be a threat.) I hope Lobo & Jinzo get something out of the experience. I wouldn’t have a lot of hope for them to get a lot in the win column.

NJPW used a CMLL-style (Alexis Salazar created) cartela as an alternate program to their PPV this weekend.

Lineups

CMLL (SUN) 06/29/2014 Arena Coliseo
1) Bengala & Leono vs Akuma & Espanto Jr.
2) Flyer, Sensei, Star Jr. vs Artillero, Guerrero Negro Jr., Hooligan
3) Oro Jr., Rey Cometa, Tritón vs Boby Zavala, Metálico, Skándalo
4) Máximo vs Felino [lightning]
5) Ángel de Oro, Delta, Guerrero Maya Jr. vs Kamaitachi, Misterioso Jr., Okumura
6) Stuka Jr., Titán, Volador Jr. vs Dragón Rojo Jr., Pólvora, Rey Escorpión

Volador & Dragon do continue, as does the tag feud and Oro/Metalico. Maybe a couple big Sundays coming up. (Looking forward to Oro vs Metalico hilariously taking place on 08/17!)

CMLL (SUN) 06/29/2014 Arena Coliseo Guadalajara
1) Marvel vs Relampago Azul
2) Índigo & William Rock vs Furia Nazi & Satara
3) El Brillante vs Demonio Rojo
4) Exterminador, Leo, León Blanco vs Espectrum, Infierno, Sádico
5) Solar I & Valiente vs Negro Casas & Negro Navarro
6) Cavernario & Mr. Niebla vs Cachorro & La Máscara

 

Navarro & Solar visit again. (Not a TV show.) Not sure why Cachorro is teaming with Mascara, but maybe Mascara will be in a good mood.