Both AAA and Elite are the first week of two week tapings so it’s a guessing game. Elite’s advertisements are indicating that they’ll have both title Elite title matches this week, which wouldn’t leave them with all that much next week.
It’d be kind of hilarious if AAA waited to air the last LWC qualifying match. They taped 7 matches for two weeks, and might spend next week trying to sell tickets for Lucha World Cup; if there’s something you want to see from that show, you should hope it airs this week to be safe.
IWRG has been airing, but I’ve had no luck with the AYM internet feed and the LAS cable feed is airing repeats (and airing the show less frequently.)
Lucha Underground‘s on screen preview lists the trios title match. I didn’t have that in my notes, but that is listed elsewhere, so I just made a mistake somewhere. If I’m correct with the rest, there is a third match on the show which sound promising.
The Cometa/Cavernario lightning match on Azteca USA is the better of the two recently. Happy to be done uploading tournaments for a while.
CMLL (TUE) 05/24/2016Arena Coliseo Guadalajara [Martes de Glamour]
1) Frezzer & Neutrón b Demonio Rojo & Mr. Apolo Mr. Apolo replaced Chakal. Tecnicos took 1/3.
2) Canelo Casas, Hijo del Signo, Metálico b Flyer, Hombre Bala Jr., Starman Rudos took 1/3.
3) Blue Panther Jr., The Panther, Vaquero Jr. b El Cuatrero, Sansón, Skándalo Vaquero replaced Gallo. Tecnicos took 2/3.
4) Blue Panther, Diamante Azul, Guerrero Maya Jr. b Bobby Z, Hechicero, Vangellys Diamante Azul replaced Super Porky. Tecnicos took 2/3. Money thrown in.
5) La Máscara, Shocker, Terrible DQ Máscara Dorada, Rush, Titán Rudos took 1/3. Rush & Mascara feuded, Rush unmasked Mascara for the DQ.
Rush as a tecnico makes no sense, but Rush hanging out with an oddly rudo-ish Dorada & Titan would be interesting. Too bad it’s only happening Guadalajara.
AAA announced details of the Lucha World Cup iPPV: both shows will be offered in a package for 250 Mexican Pesos or $25 USD. ($25 is a fair price for two shows, but it’s nearly twice as much as the peso price.) There will be English and Spanish announcing. The show will start to be available for sale tomorrow on AAA’s website. It’s not clear if you’ll be able to just buy one show for a lower price, but we’ll probably know that tomorrow
AAA’s schedule next week is going to be strenuous. Postponing the taping Pachuca taping two days makes sense (and Pachuca did make the final so they would’ve got killed), but it also means AAA is running three tapings in six days plus probably doing a lot of press and just general herding around foreigners from place to place.
CMLL says their World Cup International Gran Prix will take place in July, with representatives from Japan, Canada, the Isla of Tonga, New Zealand and the US. In NJPW, Tama Tonga & his brother Tanga Roa (ex-WWE Camacho) are billed from Tonga. Bad Luck Fale is also billed from Tonga, but is originally from New Zealand, as is Jay White. Canada, US and Japan could be anyone, including Raijin & Fujin. What’s strange is the title of the piece says Italy is involved (Marco), but the body of it does not mention Italy.
Azul also said he’d be around for five before going back to France, and plans on becoming a French citizen. Diamante Azul always says he’s wrestling and training people in France, but I’m never able to find any results of him wrestling there.
IWRG (SUN) 05/29/2016Arena Naucalpan
1) Dragón Fly vs Galaxy
2) Enigma & Hip Hop Man vs Astro & Geo Hip Hop Man & Enigma were listed on both sides of the match in the poster. Box y Lucha has Astro & Geo.
3) Freelance & Pantera I vs Diablo Jr. & Imposible and Apolo Estrada Jr. & Eterno and Cerebro Negro & Dr. Cerebro
4) Dinamic Black, Hijo De Dos Caras, Ultramán Jr. vs Fuerza Guerrera, Golden Magic, Trauma I
5) Danny Casas, Demon Clown, Trauma I vs Canis Lupus, Mr. Electro, Toscano
This isn’t the Demon Clown/Mr. Electro match threatened in the Box Y Lucha listing, but it’s still a challenging main event. Demon Clown was around for a week back in January. Assuming IWRG has a direction, always a bad assumption, it feels like there’s a cage match coming.
