AAA on Televisa: 2016-08-06 

Recapped: 08/07/2016

What happened: Angelico & Jack Evans are once again the tag team champions, with a little help from Mary Apache. That was enough to make the Averno/Chessman vs Las Apaches match official. Cage beat Wagner again.

Also, this show went 61m04s and had 20m50s of bell to bell action.

This was a one episode taping. The first two matches were instead posted exclusively on AAA’s YouTube channel.

What was good: The three way tag title match was the best match on the taping, and I liked the Aerostar/Suicide vs Daga/Fly match, despite it’s flaws. The rest, including the dark matches, are skippable.

Where can I watch it: It’s all on AAA’s channel and will be on mine later.

Previously: Johnny Mundo beat Pentagon Jr. – without help from Chavo this time. Pagano beat Psycho Clown, and then they threw some not great punches at a ptres conference. Chessman and Averno mocked the Apches, then lost because of them.

This is an outdoor show under a tent, with the blechers staying outside of the tent. It’s a full crowd, if not a large looking space. (You’re struck thinking they should’ve run a bigger looking space.)

The show proper opens with La Parka and Psycho Clown in the ring. Parka notes they’re partners with Dr. Wagner, Psycho and Wagner have had problems in the recent past, and he’s concerned they might have problems again tonight. He needs them to get along for Mexico. Psycho Clown assures Parka he’s there to defend the flag of Mexico. They’re interrupted by Dr. Wagner, which seems to concern Parka a lot more than Psycho. This seems edited, but Wagner also promises to work together to fight the Hijos del Trump. Mesias, Cage and Hernandez interrupt to taunt, with Mesias notice they’ve beat Texano the Megchampion so everyone else isn’t going to be too hard. Mesias starts explaining what Donald Trump is going to do to the nacos, and gets drowned out. He gets an American flag to wave, and the técnicos fight. This is also obviously edited, cutting away when Dr. Wagner is about to do something impolite to the US flag.

Of note, the promo for TripleMania now features a Hugo Savinovich voice over.

Match 1: Daga & Súper Fly vs Aerostar & Australian Suicide
Pista Los Laureles, Oaxaca, Oaxaca, 07/17/2016 
Video: Lucha Libre AAA, thecubsfan

Review: [good] sloppy at moments, with one dive really going badly and a lot of strikes not looking all that good, but still an exciting match in spite of those flaws. Aerostar’s tope was the makeup dive of all make up dives. He’s had an up and down last few months, and went the whole range in this match. Super Fly looked good in the match, better than Lider in the same role, and Suicide & Daga made the last few minutes exciting leading to the finish.

Match 2: Averno & Chessman © vs Monsther Clown & Murder Clown and Angélico & Jack Evans for the AAA World Tag Team Championship
Pista Los Laureles, Oaxaca, Oaxaca, 07/17/2016 
Video: Lucha Libre AAA, thecubsfan

Winner: Angelico & Jack Evans, new tag champions.
Match Time: 8:02
Notes: Jack grabs the microphone to scream “Nuevo campeones baby – boom!” before the match. Averno is wearing his mask to the ring for whatever reason. Tirantes is referee, which never comes up.

Averno gives Jack a super Devil’s Wings, but Mary Apache runs out and throws a drink in his face. That both blinds Averno and apparently powers up Jack, who puts Averno on the top rope and gives him a super frankensteiner. Angelico adds the crucifix powerbomb into the corner, and Jack lands the 630 senton for the title change.

We’re not show Jack & Angelico getting the belts, with them cutting ahead to Averno screaming at Mary Apache. Averno finally agrees to the match.

Review: [good] a silly match at times, but an enjoyable one. It was a lot of two teams fighting while the third was taking a break, but they did mix it up a little bit at times (Angelico & Jack unintentionally doing the pile on splash was cute, the dive train had some random people diving) and it never really dragged. They split the time up thru the teams somewhat evenly, they didn’t really get a lot of time, and no one really stood out (though Monster Clown definitely had some struggles.) This wasn’t on the level of the big Jack & Angelico tag title matches from previous years but maybe they’ll get back to that now that they have the belts. In retrospect, it seems like Averno & Chessman were only champions so they could lose the belts.

Noti AAA is a six minute A Fondo video package hyping Psycho Clown versus Pagano. They trace Psycho Clown all way back to when he was Brazo de Plata Jr. and the debut of the Psycho Circus. Pagano’s history is mentioned with a lot of still photos – Rush is visible in one of them. They show Pagano’s AAA debut (at Rey de Reyes, not the Juarez dark match), ignoring the Perros feud. They go thru the recent feud, starting off in Orizaba. Zuniga wraps it up in front of a kid doing gymnastic tricks on rings. I have no idea why, but it was so strange.

Match 3: Dr. Wagner Jr., La Parka, Psycho Clown vs Brian Cage, El Mesías, Hernandez
Pista Los Laureles, Oaxaca, Oaxaca, 07/17/2016 
Video: Lucha Libre AAA, thecubsfan

Winner: Team Trump (Cage F5 Wagner)
Match Time: 8:06
Notes: Mesias is wearing his Muerte Cibernetica mask again. Tirantes is referee and again is normal, though Wagner kicks him on a suspected slow count. Cage ends up beating Wagner clean.

Review: [ok] usual story here: crowd was really into the match because of the Mexico/Trump storyline, match itself was totally forgettable. Now that we know TripleMania’s lineup, it seems odd they’ve spent all this time talking about the different AAA guys banding together against the Trump faction with no big team match to pay it off. At least, in this one, they’ve pivoted to making it about the heavyweight title (though it wasn’t overly brought up.) Wagner’s now lost cleanly twice in a row, which makes me more than a bit concerned about how the title TripleMania match is going to turn out.

The dark matches on the Youtube channel.

Match 1: Big Mami, Dinastía, Pimpinela Escarlata vs Lady Shani, Mamba, Mini Psycho Clown
Pista Los Laureles, Oaxaca, Oaxaca, 07/17/2016 
Video: Lucha Libre AAA

Winner: técnicos (Big Mami back bridge cradle Lady Shani)
Match Time: 7:41
Notes: Match starts at 10:22; they air the entire show opening (Antonio Pena banner, intro video) even prior to entrances.

Review: [ok] usual mixed match, the usual mixed results. Big Mami is going to get over just as much as people sell for her, and the rudos worked hard at that here. (Big Mami’s own selling needs more work.) Lady Shani, as a promising wrestler who’s going nowhere, would fit so well in CMLL. Mamba usually seems to be in a happy mood, but not so much in this match and struggled in the match compared to normal.

Match 2: Argenis, Atomic Boy, Bengala vs Herodes Jr., Hijo de Pirata Morgan, Mocho Cota Jr.
Pista Los Laureles, Oaxaca, Oaxaca, 07/17/2016 
Video: Lucha Libre AAA

Winner: rudo (Hijo del Pirata headscissors armbar Argenis)
Match Time: 6:43
Notes: Tirantes was referee, and not evil.

Review: [ok] This was less a disaster than the recent opening match atomicos, though not really excelling to any great degree. Herodes wasn’t a total anchor on this one, though he still did struggle and isn’t showing to be a great fit. Mocha Cota is, and should be on these matches all the time as Super Fly’s body double/new best friend. Tecnicos got to do a few things, but not much, and I’m not sure why these matches are so short; I’d happily exchange half as many entrances for three more minutes of match time. Pirata doing a moonsault onto Argenis and then giving up the pin because he wanted to do another move is very opening match stuff, but I guess at least it was a cool move. Argenis taking the loss when Atomic Boy is right there is a good sign about how random these decisions are made.