For what it’s worth, there may not be a news update tomorrow, or it may just be a quick one. I may be around for Claro, but I’m playing things by ear. CMLL’s putting Pierroth in the main event, they are making it very obvious they don’t care about that show, I’m not going to sweat over it either.
This week’s AAA show is the start of the Leon taping, so I’m back to guessing blind. I’m going with both Lucha World Cup qualifying matches airing. They’ve usually split those matches up, but they’re already promoting Pentagon and Texano as advancing, so they might as well air those matches ASAP.
Avoid Lucha Azteca (US) at all costs the next two weeks. It’s the infernal Parajes Increíbles tournament. It should be skipped if you haven’t see it yet; it’s a big world out there, find something better to spend your time on.
I mentioned on Twitter that there were only 10 episodes left this season of Lucha Underground. Just to be clear, the information I have is they’re running 26 episodes this season, and this will be episode 17, so there you go. I think 26 was even mentioned by LU type people in interviews earlier this season. Last season is a different number, next season is a different number, but this season is 26. It’s always possible they could change that around – they’re going to have plenty of season 3 footage! – but I’d assume it’s sticking. Among other reasons, they had to commit to a specific number when they started to offer that season pass on iTunes. Savor the time you’ve got.
Minor trivia note: next week’s episode was taped before this week’s episode. They figured they couldn’t run another match after Graver Consequences.
Most of them have been added to the event listings for a few weeks, but the last few stragglers were up yesterday. They’re 95% lineups with some scattered results.
If you’re running a results archive or just want to look at a very long list of results, you can find them in a text file here. The previous archive is here; they now cover posters listed in El Informador from 1945 to 1986 when they stopped printing them. There is only scattered info in early 1945 and there may not be much left before then, but I’ll take a look.
The Occidente/Jalisco title histories on the luchawiki are also updated, and are probably as complete they’re going to get without another local archive turning up.
CMLL (TUE) 05/10/2016Arena Coliseo Guadalajara [Esto es Lucha GDL]
1) El Yaqui & Johnny Dinamo b Diplomático & Linterna
2) Canelo Casas, Espanto Jr., Metálico b Flyer, Soberano Jr., Starman
3) Blue Panther, Rey Cometa, Titán b Nitro, Puma, Tiger Nitro replaced Cavernario.
4) Atlantis, Máscara Dorada, Valiente b Bárbaro Cavernario, Felino, Negro Casas Cavernario replaced Mr. Niebla.
5) Rush b Terrible Rush won via foul
I thought Caveman was pulled from this card, but he actually replaced Mr. Niebla. At any rate, he’s off Sunday’s card for Luciferno.
ELITE (WED) 05/11/2016Arena México [+LuchaTV, CMLL, SuperLuchas]
1) Príncipe Diamante & Último Dragóncito b Pequeño Olímpico & Pierrothito
2) Dinamic Black & Rey Cometa b Metaleón & Tritón and Golden Magic & Puma and Ángel de Oro & Argos [ELITE MIDDLE, seeding battle royal] Battle royal set teams for the tournament, though the matches didn’t follow in the normal order. Order of elimination went Angel de Oro, Argos, Puma, Golden Magic, Triton, Metaleon leaving Rey Cometa & Dinamic Black left (and staying in the ring to face the first two out.)
3) Ángel de Oro & Argos b Dinamic Black & Rey Cometa [ELITE MIDDLE, quarterfinal] these matches were one fall
4) Golden Magic & Puma b Metaleón & Tritón [ELITE MIDDLE, quarterfinal] Puma & Golden Magic didn’t get along, but won anyway. Kato Kung Lee was honored after teh match.
5) Magno, Rey Escorpión, Último Ninja b Máscara Dorada, Máximo Sexy, Rocky Lobo Rudos, including the debuting Ultimo Ninja, took 2/3.
6) Volador Jr. b Xtreme Tiger [Liga Elite] Volador is now 2-1 (6) and Tiger drops to 1-2 (3).
7) Cibernético, Mephisto, Sharlie Rockstar DQ Hijo de LA Park, LA Park, Súper Parka Park hit Cibernetico with knuckles then attacked Cibernetico as he was being carried out.
8) Carístico DQ Último Guerrero [Liga Elite] UG unmasked Caristico for the DQ. Caristico is now 2-1 (6) and UG is 1-2 (3).
Elite Standings (Points/Matches)
6 Volador
6 Caristico
6 Atlantis
6 Mascara Dorada
4 LA Park (1 match behind)
3 Bobby Lashley (1 match behind)
3 Rush (1 match behind)
3 Xtreme Tiger
3 Ultimo Guerrero
1 Cibernetico (2 matches behind)
0 La Mascara (1 match behind)
0 Negro Casas (2 matches behind)
Attendance seems the usual (not good.) It sounds like Ultimo Ninja did well in his debut. No idea if the two teams in the middleweight tournament face off, or if there’s a mini four man league, or what happens next. Elite completely failed to explain how the tournament was starting, so one can only expect for them to continue to not explain how the tournament is going to take place next.
IWRG (WED) 05/11/2016Arena Naucalpan [Estrellas del Ring, The Gladiatores]
1) Canario & Fly Tiger b Magic Dragón & Último Caballero and Demonio Infernal & Skanda and Bambino & Sexy Girl listed as a atomicos, but Gladiatores has it as a four way tag instead.
2) Vampiro Metálico & Voltar b Ángel De La Muerte I & Ángel De La Muerte II
3) Adrenalina, Águila Oriental, Osiris b Brazo Cibernetico Jr., Terrible Aries II, Torbellino Azul Jr. Brazo Cibernetico Jr. replaced Aries I. Reports differ if the third man was Angel Guerrero or Torbellino Azul Jr.
4) Acero, Blue Monsther, Rolling Boy b Keshin Black, Power Bull, Troll
5) Aramis, Atomic Boy, Dragón Fly, Fireman, Galaxy, Hijo del Alebrije, Kanon, Shadow Boy DRAW Astaroth (Guerrero), Guerrero Jr. (Guerrero), Pez Tiburón, Relámpago Jr. (Guerrero), Rey Azteca (Guerrero), Rey Jaguar (Guerrero), Último Samurai (Guerrero), Uranio [Copa Higher Power] Gym FILL (Black Terry) versus Promciones del Norte (Black Silver – Acapulco). Atomic Boy replaced Zatura, and it was Rey Azteca instead of Guerrero Azteca in the match. Kannon and Pez Tibruon were the last two and double pinned for draw. Challenges followed.
Double pins in these are an unusual ending.
+LuchaTV has video of the Lucha World Cup press conference from yesterday. They also filmed an interview with Dorian Roldan to go up at some point. Satanico is listed among the Lucha World Cup judges in the press release, which is notable since he was training wrestlers at Arena Coliseo Guadalajara at last word. The judges will be picking best luchador, best dive (Canek’s got this one) and best match.
The Rest of the World team is listed as South Africa, the UK and Puerto Rico, which is exactly what it was last year when it was Angelico, Drew Galloway, and Mesias (and makes me wonder if something was mistakenly left unupdated since Angelico isn’t likely to be able to wrestle and sticking Australian Suicide in his spot makes more sense than flying in PJ Black.) The AAA page about the press conference lists three more women’s teams to be announced. That’s a typo – a five team tournament would be odd – but for the moment, the other teams are listed as Team USA and a non-country team. Guessing that means Taya will be captaining a team but it won’t be all Canada.
Devil Rocker is listed on a card with Cibernetico in June. Devil Rocker hasn’t been on AAA cards since last spring, but he disappeared quiet enough that no one’s really noticed. And AAA doesn’t appear to have stopped him from using the lucrative (???) Devil Rocker gimmick on the indies so far.
Jeff Cobb vs Pentagon Jr., which I believe was the match scheduled to take place on an indie before Pentagon was pulled off the show, will be taking place in a different California indie on 06/07.
Main event doesn’t have a stip to it but appears headed to one.
That’s quick to the trios title match. Avisman hasn’t been around since February.
NICE (SUN) 05/22/2016Arena Coliseo Monterrey
1) ? vs ??
2) Ángel Justiciero & El Divo vs Bengalí & Diluvio Negro
3) Dulce Kanela, Quinto Elemento, Último Ninja vs Golden Boy, Pedro Navajas, Rey Demonio
4) Rey Hechicero vs Máscara Dorada
5) Atlantis vs Caifan, Súper Parka
It’s a Sunday show, and same group that promoted the Hechicero/Casas match, so it’s likely this show will eventually air.
