2014 watch later catchup, part 1

There’s at least five of these for right now…and probably about 10 later. Thrill as I watch all the IWRG and Puebla I shoudl’ve gotten to months ago.

In the one:
Electro Boy & Emperador Azteca vs Fulgor I & Fulgor II (IWRG 01/05)
Alan Extreme, Astro Rey Jr., Dragón Celestial vs Araña de Plata, Douki, Imposible (IWRG 01/05)
Águila Egipcia & Asturiano vs Artillero & Súper Comando (Puebla, 01/20)
Atlantis vs Negro Casas (Puebla, 01/27)

Electro Boy & Emperador Azteca vs Fulgor I & Fulgor II (IWRG 01/05): [OK/Good] Good for it’s level though not a lot spectacular. The finish was pretty strong, though the makeshift team miscommunication spot a minute prior was the opposite. This one was thrown on more just to check on where these guys were at – Fulgor II seems to be getting better, Electro Boy was calmer here than he usual is with Atomik Star – which doesn’t help as much when half these guys aren’t around TV now.

Alan Extreme, Astro Rey Jr., Dragón Celestial vs Araña de Plata, Douki, Imposible (IWRG 01/05): [Good] Thought for a while that this one was a rare match where it started great and went straight downhill as it went along, but it did pick up quite a bit as the third fall. Still, the best part of the match was the first fall and the creative mat wrestling. Arana de Plata and Astro Rey Jr. were good for guys their age working a segunda, Dragon Celestial and Imposible were no qualifications good. Looking for to seeing more of them. Got a bit bland the rest of the way, then they went crazy with the dives. Alan was good working as psuedo-rudo in the last few seconds of the first fall against Douki, botched an armdrag bad enough in the third fall enough that the fans and the announcers called him on it, still is a tecnico for some reason. Astro Rey Jr. has an idea of what he wants the match to look like, and it would probably be a good match, but there’s still too many times where you have to pretend spots work (as he’s seen other people do it) because it didn’t come close to reality. Timing needs to improve, but accuracy does as well.

Águila Egipcia & Asturiano vs Artillero & Súper Comando (Puebla, 01/20): [OK] Completely skippable match, becuase the rudos pretty much skipped it. Super Comando & Artillero took it easy and it didn’t leave much to talk about. There’s not enough of good matches for them to do that, but it’s Monday in Puebla so it probably didn’t matter that much too them.

Atlantis vs Negro Casas (Puebla, 01/27): [Good] Negro Casas and Atlantis have both been in the same promotion for over two decades, and this is the only full length singles match I know of between them. They met in a tournament match two years ago, and I refuse to believe they didn’t have a singles match in Arena Queretaro on a rainy Tuesday in 1986. What we know just can’t be true. That match would’ve been crazy good, this was more professional good with both guys playing their personalities up even bigger than usual to cover for not actually doing much. Negro attacks Atlantis leg and viscously mocks his limp, fiery Atlantis battles back (and ignores the pain), and Negro finds a way to cheat to a win in the end. It’s sub 9 minutes (maybe under 7 if you take out the fall breaks), feeling more like a Day 4 match in a league tournament than an epic meeting between two rivals.