Lots of not good matches this week. I really didn’t like a lot of that Tuesday show. I probably underrated Havoc/Cage. It didn’t occur to me how great the midcard matches have been on Friday until putting this together.
CMLL (SUN) 07/17/2016Arena Coliseo Guadalajara [Domingos Familiares]
1) Quca b El Tapatío
2) Sky Kid & Smaker b Diplomático & Relámpago Hermanos del Aire (Sky Kid & Smaker) return in their return to the building, taking 1/3.
3) Carlo Roggi, Exterminador, Gran Kenut b Johnny Dinamo, León Blanco, Randy Rudos took 2/3. Exterminador & Randy are not feuding, the rudo winning when Roggi helped turn over a pin and helped hold the pin.
4) Frezzer, Neutrón, Reyko DQ El Chakal, Mr. Apolo, Sádico Tecnicos took 1/3. Sadico unmasked Reyko for the DQ.
5) Flash II, Magnum, Nautilius b Maléfico, Mr. Trueno, Rey Trueno Tecnicos took 1/3.
The feud turns out not to be in the main event, but new ones in the undercard.
Show was not fun and should be avoided. There’s no explanation at all for Rush not appearing, which gives us free reign to speculate irresponsibility. (Maybe CMLL has no control over LA Park but can make Rush pay for their match? Maybe Rush just picked up an injury working three shows in two days and skipped out on this show? Maybe Rush was working on his WWE mock draft? Who can say. Rush could, he was on Twitter this morning, but he did not say.)
Calling it an Anniversary show was a way to get a big house out of a build up show; the real big show is next week. UG/Volador is set (and non-title, so the winner is more uncertain.) I’m not exactly sure what the matchup is for the other big match. Even the TV announcers didn’t know it was meant to be a relevos suicidas at first, and it’s a different match depending on who teams with whom.
Today’s CMLL Mexico show is main evented by Maximo, Johnny Idol, and Marco Corleone against Sam Adonis, Rey Escorpion, and Pierroth. There’s no feuds carrying over from last week, no new people debuting, and the lightning (Fuego/Virus) is a repeat of one from a few weeks ago. The preview lists no changes, though Super Porky has been missing a decent amount of his matches. The most interesting match is Hombre Bala Jr., Pegasso and Star Jr. versus Fujin, Raijin and Okumura in the tercera; it’s the first streaming appearance for the NJPW rookies in four weeks. The show will air at 7:30pm CT, om CMLL.com and YouTube as normal.
The idea is Averno & Chessman finally agreed to the match after Mary cost them the tag titles. They’d still be tag champs if they had only not been so stubborn! I hope we’ve all learned an important lesson (don’t mess with the Apaches.) The match will be probably be good but it’s even more helpful as something that’ll get attention in places this TripleMania card will not. It may not always been positive attention, but there is a need to do something to get people starting to talk about this show when they don’t have the star power of last year.
AAA’s announcing these one at time, but we pretty much know Pentagon/Mundo is set and Texano/Wagner/Cage as well. It gets very fuzzy after that.
Guess Titan is still on good terms with the promotion after whatever happened with the Neza show. Titan’s Super J Cup match takes place early Wednesday morning (4:30 AM CT.) I’m not sure if I’m going to stay up for it; Wednesday is going to be a long day either way.
Crist and his brother were supposed to appear for ChilangaMask long ago, but things happened and they didn’t make the trip, as he notes in a promo building up his appearance. Match should be interesting if he makes it this time; I’ve seen him on AAW shows and he’s been good.
The Fubo.tv streaming service, which was promoting carrying Lucha Underground along with it’s soccer coverage, says it’s gone up 50% in quarter 2. It’s still only 71K viewers and no idea how many are watching LU, but I hadn’t seen an estimate about how many people were using those kind of services. (I’d still suspect a lot more people have the larger SlingTV service.)
IWRG (WED) 07/20/2016Arena Naucalpan
1) Bambino, Canario, Rey Flecha vs Fly Tiger, Magic Dragón, Último Caballero
2) Ángel De La Muerte I & Ángel De La Muerte II vs Skanda & Vampiro Metálico
3) Alas de Acero, Aramis, Dragón Fly vs Araña de Plata, Demonio Infernal, Guerrero 2000
4) Vardeus vs Keshin Black, Osiris, Keiser Drago, Omega
5) Adrenalina, Blue Monsther, Emperador Azteca, Galaxy, Hijo del Alebrije, Kanon, Power Bull, Shadow Boy vs Eddy Santos, Juana La Loca, Lord Phantom, Rey Profeta, Rosario Negro,Vengador, Viajero Extremo, Viajero Jr. Gym FILL (Black Terry) vs Gym Infierno (Judas)
FILL 52. The outsiders are from other Mexico State towns, including Tultitlan.
ELITE (THU) 07/21/2016Arena México
1) La Jarochita & Marcela vs Amapola & Muñeca De Plata
2) El Bandido & Emperador Azteca vs Heddi Karaoui & Príncipe Orión
3) Golden Magic, Metaleón, Titán vs Argos, Hijo del Dr. Wagner Jr., Magno
4) Teddy Hart vs Rey Escorpión [Liga Elite]
5) Mr. Electro & Sharly Rockstar vs Extreme Tiger & Súper Crazy
6) LA Park vs Diamante Azul [Liga Elite]
Lineup isn’t out the internet, but that’s an Elite/internet thing, it’s posted already. Of the four people listed in Liga Elite matches, three were not in the tournament to start. Extreme Tiger is actually in the tournament and could’ve faced LA Park if they wanted to do a match that made sense but we’re getting past that point.
The semimain is the first time the Electro/Rockstar brothers will be on the same team in 5 years.
Titan would almost literally have to get off the plane and get into the ring to make this match, so don’t count on him making this match (and it’s unclear why they booked him in the first place.)
MDA (SUN) 07/31/2016Arena Coliseo Monterrey
1) Mini Hator vs Mini Difunto
2) Chamaco Gurrola vs Tekilita
3) Epydemius, Ninja Jr., Obsesión, Último Ninja vs Golden Magic, Lince, Metaleón, Tormento [super libre]
4) Delta & Hijo de LA Park vs Galactar & Laredo Kid
5) El Divo, El Hijo del Solitario, La Máscara vs Pierroth, Rambo, Silver King
6) Hijo De Octagon & Octagón vs Fuerza Guerrera & Juventud Guerrera
7) Atlantis vs Caifan
8) LA Park vs Rush [super libre]
The rematch of LA Park versus Rush in a super libre match takes place on 07/31 in Monterrey. (This match may air on TV as soon as 08/07, but Monterrey TV is totally inconsistent and even the people who are part of the show have no idea when it airs.) No one in Monterrey is going to stop a match for getting out of control, many Konnan Big matches have taught me that, but there’s also a 100% chance of some sort of screw job finish. Should still be fun. Atlantis/Caifan in Monterrey would make this worth watching on it’s own.
