Recapped: 05/26/2016
What happened: Ultimo Guerrero gifted Carístico 2 points with a mask pull. Angel de Oro & Argos advanced in the middleweight championship.
What was good: The main event? It was technically good though numbed me before the finish. The undercard was OK but the matches didn’t stand out.
Where can I watch it: It’s on my channel and on AztecaDeportes.com
This show is low on material, so they start off with a retrospective on the series so far. (That’s never a good sign.) Carístico and Ultimo Guerrero also have a standoff that turns into punches.
Match 1: Ángel de Oro & Argos vs Dinamic Black & Rey Cometa [ELITE MIDDLE prequalifer]
Arena México, 05/11/2016
Video: thecubsfan
Winner: Angel de Oro & Argos
Match Time: 6:00
Notes: Cometa seems to be a rudo, or at least makes a rudo gesture to someone from the ring.
Review: [ok] Kind of worked as a four way match instead of a tag match, except the partners didn’t fight. It was just an ever changing group of opponents with no one spending much time in the ring and no particular build to anything, but some interesting moves. There was no attempt to work together as a team until the finish and no sign of a rudo/tecnicos. (In a way, the seeding battle royal here felt like it must’ve been more like a random draw, because it didn’t feel at all like they had a match worked out and were just throwing things out there.)
Match 2: Máscara Dorada, Máximo Sexy, Rocky Lobo vs Magno, Rey Escorpión, Último Ninja
Arena México, 05/11/2016
Video: thecubsfan
- técnicos
- Rocky Lobo climbing moonsaults Ultimo Ninja (3:43)
- Máximo casita Magno (3:47)
- rudos
- Rey Escorpión dropkick Maximo (3:33)
- Magno shoulder powerslam Rocky Lobo (3:53)
- rudos
- Rey Escorpión package piledriver Mascara Dorada (4:22)
Winner: rudos (2-1)
Match Time: 12:02
Review: [ok] better than the trios match last week but still a little disappointing. Mascara Dorada was on and Rey Escorpión worked well with everyone, but it was overall hurt by Elite just sticking random people in together. Ultimo Ninja didn’t look as good as rudo as he elsewhere as a técnico. Magno looked OK (and didn’t help by them not getting a good shot of his finish.) Máximo seemed to be mailing it in, which stuck out a bit in a match with the Elite guys trying impress. Match was fine but hard to recommend.
Match 3: Carístico vs Último Guerrero in a Liga Elite match
Arena México, 05/11/2016
Video: thecubsfan
Winner: Carístico by DQ (mask removal)
Match Time: 9:20
Notes: Ultimo Guerrero knocks Carístico out of the ring just as he’s coming in it to start the match. The DQ comes about when Ultimo Guerrero is standing with one foot on the top turnbuckle and Carístico attempts to join him. Carístico loses his footing, resets himself, Ultimo Guerrero grabs Caristico’s mask thru the eye holes (it’s loose, so he’s not even really touching Carístico despite having his fingers hooked in) and pushes Carístico backwards. Carístico flies into the center of the ring, but his mask stays on UG’s hand, and that’s the match. On the replay, you can see UG pull the mask back towards him as he shoves UG away.
Review: [good] this one lost a lot to me when I watched it more closely; it’s nothing more than UG doing the big move/rest/big move sequence with a random cheerleading period in between. They tried to start it off hot by having UG attack Carístico, but it means there was no building to the near falls, the entire match was just (not convincing) near falls and that’s not enough for a ten minute match. This was not the spectacle of some other matches, it was just a lot of pins that didn’t seem to mean anything.
To fill out the six minutes, highlights of the seeding battle royal and both per-qualifiers in the middleweight tournament are shown.
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