CMLL & AAA preview, LU to sell tickets for wrestling show

Both AAA and CMLL have TV tapings tonight. By coincidence, both are a bit of lame duck shows, leading into major shows where the card is all set.

CMLL is one week away from Homenaje a Dos Leyendas. Tonight’s top two matches are trios matches leading into the two apuesta matches next week. Rush and Maximo are in the last match, with Marco, Ultimo Guerrero, Rey Escorpion and La Mascara, in a rematch from last week. Maximo won in straight falls that time, the last when Rush went crazy and got himself DQed. Volador and Negro Casas meet in the semifinal. Super Parka returns again to team with his son (and Mascara Dorada) against Negro Casas, Barbaro Cavernario and Kamaitachi. It’s one skeleton man away from being a really good match, though the emphasis will probably be on Casas harassing the Volador family.

CMLL did time one feud to end before their major show. Dalys has been beating Marcela in matches for the last few weeks, and gets her title match tonight. Dalys has been better against Marcela (and in CMLL) than elsewhere, so it could turn out to be a good match. A title match seems unlikely, but not impossible – every time Marcela loses her title, it’s been to a foreigner (Hiroka, Ayumi, Syuri), so perhaps Dalys will win it for Panama.

The rest of the card includes a Super Porky trios match, the Panthers & Fuego taking on Los Cancerberos, and a minis match with Stukita, Astral, Mercurio and Nitro.

Show starts at 8:30pm CT and will air on ClaroSports.com. (Daylight Savings Time does not start until this weekend.)

AAA’s taping is just outside of Mexico City in Arena Naucalpan. AAA tapings in IWRG’s home building are always sell outs and loud crowds. This taping is a little bit hampered by it’s place on the schedule – it won’t air on Rey de Reyes and it seems only to be on the schedule to make up for Tampico being canceled – but the show should be interesting to watch even with no great consequences.

The problem is the card itself isn’t laid out to have no great matches either. The main event is The Psycho Circus versus Dr. Wagner, Texano and Mesias, where it’ll be a surprise if Texano & Mesias don’t attack each other leading into their Rey de Reyes match. Perhaps it’ll be clear by the end of the night if Mesias is meant to be a tecnico now, but it feels late in the program to finally make it clear. The semimain is also a Rey de Reyes preview, with finalists La Parka, Pentagon Jr. and Villano IV in a trios (with Garza, Taurus and Jack Evans to round it out.) Pentagon’s going to be the crowd favorite in Naucalpan, but I’d almost be worried if he won on this show, because it’d seem to make him less likely to win the actual tournament.

The rest of the matches don’t appear to be connected to Rey de Reyes. Octagon Jr. teams up with Fenix and Drago to take on Averno, Chessman and inexplicably unmasked Ricky Marvin in what should be the best match of the show; I expect a lot of Flamita chants in this one. The second match is the usual mixed trios match, and the opener is a random group of individuals for a match which might only turn up on AAA’s YouTube channel.

The show is listed as starting at 8:45 pm CT (so figure more around 9:10.) There is no official live stream, but Periscopes of AAA shows have been popping up lately and it might be the same tonight. The show will air on AAA TV on March 26th.

AAA posted a Drago interview about his match tonight.

There will be a small amount of $10 general admission tickets for next Tuesday’s Lucha Underground show at SXSW in Austin. LU is going to sell tickets to a show for the first time.

BxB has highlights of 01/04 Puebla

RobViper has his picks for the best matches of the year so far.

LuchaWorld has a recap of this week’s CMLL Informa.

Segunda Caida reviews Virus vs Negro Navarro.

+LuchaTV has a new edition of Esto es Lucha with Caifan.

The Octagon gear is now available to purchase. It looks like they just ship to Mexico.

Kcidis draws a tirabuzon.

An Octagon/Volador vs Hijo de Pierroth/Hijo del Espectro match headlines 03/20 Arena Coliseo Monterrey. That replaces the MDA/Elite show in the building, since Elite is now running Naucalpan on that date.

Cibernetico notes Sunday will be his first ever match in Arena Coliseo.

15 year old luchador Crazy Warrior talks about his upcoming debut.

X-Fly is apparently in Chicago and feuding with local voodoo man Mojo McQueen. I know nothing of what’s going on outside my door.