80s Lucha DVD set, disc 2 (part 2 of 3)

In this group (only 3)
El Faraón, Herodes y Mocho Cota vs. Lizmark, Ringo Mendoza y Tony Salazar
Solar, Ultraman y Super Astro vs. Sergio El Hermoso, Bello Greco y Rudy Reyna
Enrique Vera vs. Dos Caras (2/26/84)

It should be noted that the GIFs – always! – don’t necessarily reflect the quality of the match but just a moment I thought was interesting (and would translate well enough to the format.)  I point this out because Vera/Dos was not a match of planchas, whatever the GIFs say.

El Faraón, Herodes y Mocho Cota vs. Lizmark, Ringo Mendoza y Tony Salazar (2/24/84): Cool to see some other people, including a Tony Salazar who might as well be a different person than the guy employed by CMLL today, but the long beatdown wasn’t memorable enough to make this work for me. Salazar and Herodes probably had a heck of a match based off what we saw here (and announcer Pedro did note it was a great match.) The last couple minutes that focused on their brawl was by far the best part of the match and crowd chanting for Tony was neat. He’s one where I know he was a star, but have no real grasp about how big of one – he seemed like a pretty big one on this show. Didn’t like Ringo’s big comeback punches, they all seemed like they looked very pulled.

Solar, Ultraman y Super Astro vs. Sergio El Hermoso, Bello Greco y Rudy Reyna (2/26/84): Always good to see some UWA, but the Cadetes were tougher to tell apart when the masks are all silver blobs – and it’s weird to see Solar wearing that kind of mask. I haven’t seen much of the original Ultraman, but he could really move. Best parts of the match were the Super Astro/Rudy Reyna sequences; Reyna played his character well while selling belling for Astro’s offense, and Astro had impressive offense. Liked Bello Greco’s big bump to the outside. It felt less substantial than other matches but still worth seeing.

Enrique Vera vs. Dos Caras (2/26/84): The mat work in the first fall was all solid, if lacking a bit of highlgihts, and I enjoyed how they moved from two guys wrestling as técnicos to two guys really getting annoyed with each other by the third fall. (Enrique Vera raising Dos’ arm after the first fall is either a nice guy move, or a secret jerk move, I can’t decide.) The third fall was so evenly matched and it’s two top guys in El Toreo, so I was anticipating a draw finish which never actually came. This was a better worked match than others I have rated higher but I had less interest in rewatching it than those matches