2014 watch later catchup, part 2

In this one
Oficial 911 © vs Golden Magic for the IWRG Rey del Ring (IWRG, 02/02)
Galaxy, Hip Hop Man, Vampiro Metálico vs Atomic Star, Electro Boy, Fulgor II (IWRG, 02/04)
Caifan & Silver Star vs Alberto Dos Rios & Hijo De Centurion Negro (02/09, ACM)
Alfa, Dragón Celestial, Fulgor I, Imposible, Omega, Power Bull, Seiya, Sky Ángel vs Aztlán, Destino, Jorge Kebrada, Kanon, Onix, Operativo X, Prodigo, Vertize in a cibernetico match (IWRG, 02/09)

Oficial 911 © vs Golden Magic for the IWRG Rey del Ring (IWRG, 02/02): [good] Golden Magic must be my favorite luchador I never actually get around to watching, because his name is all over this list. AYM deploys a full bag of signature production goofballness: showing interviews during the match, letting a guy dive off screen before switching to cameras, repeatedly switching to a camera shooting a empty room backstage during a highspot. The camera switcher guy is underated important in lucha libre and this was significantly hurt by production. The match itself was Local Super Hero Golden Magic pretty much beating all three Oficials at once. They could break up pins, they could attack him for a time, but Golden Magic could get big showcase move one after another. Crowd was into it, cheering Golden’s offense and a fan almost hitting the ring to protest a bad call.G olden Magic finally gets one on one in the end…and then just loses. That’s not the greatest storytelling but it’s still a good match. It might have been Great live, though the finish deflated things.

Galaxy, Hip Hop Man, Vampiro Metálico vs Atomic Star, Electro Boy, Fulgor II (IWRG, 02/04): [good] they started off with the required mat wrestling, then everyone went absolutely insane in the usual IWRG trainee. Big mvoes were tried, big moves were generally succesful, and then they went onto the next spot. Someone definitely tried a running shooting star press and it wasn’t any good (and Fulgor II struggled on the finish of fall two as well.) Everything blended together so much that I don’t even feel like I could name standout wrestler – maybe Galaxy? It just turned into a lot big spots. They did get money thrown in and deserved it for the effort.

Caifan & Silver Star vs Alberto Dos Rios & Hijo De Centurion Negro (02/09, ACM): [OK/GOOD] Watched this match, apparently didn’t write down any notes (though apparently I wrote down a GIF to use) and didn’t want watch this again because I remember enough to know it wasn’t that great. They broke up into pairs in this match and Alberto struggled against Silver Star. Maybe nervous, maybe just off, but he didn’t quite look as promising as has been talked about this year. (More of him is coming up, so we’ll see.) Caifan looked superb; I hope the Caifan/Hechicero match turns up someway, but more wished things had turned out much better in CMLL did it did. He had one match as el Brujo ’08, was announced for the Gran Alternativa, tore up his knee, never wrestled there again. He would’ve been Hechicero before Hechicero. It feels like there’s still time for that judging by this performance.

Alfa, Dragón Celestial, Fulgor I, Imposible, Omega, Power Bull, Seiya, Sky Ángel vs Aztlán, Destino, Jorge Kebrada, Kanon, Onix, Operativo X, Prodigo, Vertize in a cibernetico match (IWRG, 02/09): [OK/GOOD] Following these matches are a lot tougher when the announcers can’t identify half the luchadors. They got Jorge Kebrada, because he’s the unmasked guy, but they were not much help on the rest of Skayde’s kids. The IWRG guys generally have better look too; it’s a lot easier to match names with looks. (The Skayde guys all wearing team t-shirts didn’t help. I’m really know better with the names, but I can’t actually ask someone who was there.

This was good at times, but also bad indy at times. There were many headscissors and or moves that looked as though they were meant to be headscissors before they didn’t come close. There was good action too, both during the match and the riots that broke out between the teams (and after the ending.) They ran a long time before getting into rapid fire eliminations, starting at about the 21 minute mark of the file, but even then did a few spots to set up each elimination instead of just rapid fire. Sky Angel (when not fighting Vortize), Kannon (only known because I watched out of order) and Aztlan (assuming that’s the guy in white) who stood out as the best here. Power Bull and Fulgore had their moments as well. This was fine for rookies. File time makes it look a bit longer than it is (long post match promos), but it’s still over a half hour off trainee action.

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