CMLL Martes de Nuevo Valores: 2016-10-11

Recapped: 10/30/2016

What happened:  Rush cheated to beat Diamante Azul in a match that never got on track.

What was good: I liked the tercera, though there’s not anything extraordinary on this card and you can easily skip this show. The main event finish being so bad is watchable in a sense, but you’ve seen the GIF if you’re reading this.

Where can I watch it: It’s on CMLL’s YouTube feed.

Match 1: Flyer & Leono vs Akuma & Camorra
Arena México, 10/11/2016
Video: VideosOficialesCMLL

1. rudos
   • Camorra STF Flyer (4:24)
   • Akuma valagueza Leono (5:05)
2. técnicos
   • Flyer corner boost dropkick Akuma (2:56)
   • Leono crossface Camorra (3:44)
3. rudos
   • Camorra arm trap half crab Leono (3:08)
   • Akuma sit down powerbomb Flyer (3:38)

Winner: rudos (1/3)
Match Time: 12:27

 

Match 2: Hombre Bala Jr., Oro Jr., Robin vs Arkángel de la Muerte, Metálico, Nitro
Arena México, 10/11/2016
Video: VideosOficialesCMLL

1. técnicos
   • Oro Jr. moonsault bodyblock Arkangel (6:22)
2. rudos
   • Nitro top rope plancha Robin (6:02)
   • Arkangel middle low blow elbow Hombre Bala (6:29)
3. rudos
   • Nitro piledriver Robin (6:20)
   • Metálico powerbomb Oro Jr. (7:42)

Winner: rudos (2/3)
Match Time: 20:33
Notes: Rudos tried to do a few entertaining spots and it still wasn’t much good. It was also weirdly long.

Match 3: Blue Panther Jr., Pegasso, The Panther vs Disturbio, Okumura, Virus
Arena México, 10/11/2016
Video: Princesa Dorada, VideosOficialesCMLL, Princesa Dorada

1. técnicos
   • The Panther corner springboard dropkick to the head Virus (4:45)
2. rudos
   • Disturbio double knee smash in the corner Blue Panther (4:38)
   • Okumura hanging DDT Blue Panther Jr. (5:05)
3. rudos
   • Motovirus on The Panther (3:50)

Winner: rudos (2/3)
Match Time: 13:40
Notes: Okumura & Disturbio beat up Panther Jr. all the way to the stairs, accidentally leaving Virus alone to get the dropkick on The Panther.

Review: [ok] the match started out well in the first fall, and the twist of the Panther sneaking in the win while the rudos were distracted was fun, but that turned out to the peak. The next two falls were perfectly fine but forgettable, and the match seemed to end quick. T. Panther and Virus is an interesting match up every time they do it; they really need to do a midcard feud with them, even if it just ends in a singles match. (That seems unlikely to occur.)

Match 4: Ángel de Oro, Blue Panther, Titán vs Pólvora, Sagrado, Vangellys
Arena México, 10/11/2016
Video: VideosOficialesCMLL

1. técnicos
   • Vangellys cristo negro Angel de Oro (3:14)
   • Titan casadora cradle Pólvora (4:21)
2. rudos
   • Vangellys northern lights suplex Blue Panther (2:33)
3. tecnicos
   • Blue Panther fujiwara armbar (5:11)
   • Angel de Oro merecdora Pólvora (6:25)

Winner: tecnicos (1/3)
Match Time: 13:19

Review: [good] Hey, it’s the same match. Maybe a little bit better, because the rudos punishing Titan for having the temerity to win the first fall when they weren’t paying attention came across as more focused than the previous match, but there was a level of intensity missing here (but common to Tuesday shows) and this just felt like they were drifting for a while. This had slightly better action and continued stronger after the comeback, but it’s the lightest possible recommendation. You definitely don’t need to see both of these.

Match 5: Atlantis, Johnny Idol, Mistico vs Dragón Rojo Jr., La Máscara, Terrible

Arena México, 10/11/2016
Video: VideosOficialesCMLL

1. rudos
   • Dragon Rojo low blow dropkick (3:10)
   • La Mascara low speed corner kneesmash (3:28)
2. técnicos
   • Atlantis casadora cradle Felino (2:16)
3. técnicos
   • Atlantida on Dragon Rojo (4:15)
   • Mistico La Mistica Terrible (4:20)

Winner: técnicos (2/3)
Match Time: 10:04

Review: [ok] a standard trios match professionally done. The rudos beat up the técnicos a bit and sold quite a bit. Terrible should be in constant feuds involving him slapping much smaller people. Definitely on the short side, but they hit their mask and moved on.

Match 6: Diamante Azul vs Rush
Arena México, 10/11/2016
Video: VideosOficialesCMLL

1. Rush corner dropkick (0:59)
2. Diamante Azul german suplex (2:08)
3. Rush mask pull/foul (6:23)

Winner: Rush (1/3)
Match Time: 9:30
Notes: The edecanes leave before Rush walks out, because everyone knows what’s going to happen. Sure enough, Diamante Azul and Rush meet on the middle of the ramp and brawl. Rush wins that. Azul is wearing an opened mouth mask.

Diamante Azul is so hurt by Rush’s corner dropkick that he adjusts his mask while he’s being pinned. It’s not the best method of selling. Rush continues to beat Azul thru the second fall, covering and pulling Azul up once. Rush unties Azul’s mask instead. Azul fires back, almost gets the escuedo, and ends up a German suplex.

Rush and Azul got face to face to start the third fall, exchange chops, Rush drops down as they start running the ropes, and Rush stays down grabbing his wrist. Rush says something to Azul, who passes over Rush twice before realizing something is up, and then Azul goes down to the mat to kill time with a hold. Rush quickly gets out of it, and Azul dropkicks Rush out while Rush is protecting his wrist. Azul drops on Rush with a hard tope, with Rush getting his hands up at the last moment. Azul comes back in and put on an armscissors, on the good arm, which neither man really sells it that much. Azul keeps Rush on the mat for a while longer with an elbow drop, and Rush seems like he’s OK at that point. The bigger problem is it’s thrown them off their plan, and Azul can’t improves – he and Azul run into each other on a corner charge, Rush calls more spots, yells at Azul to charge and Azul runs into a belly to belly suplex. Rush throwing around Azul himself seem to work, so Rush gets in a northern lights suplex. Rush grabs Tirantes, and Azul grabs Azul for an inside cradle for two. Rush goes up, yells at the crowd, and misses a senton. Azul covers, and Rush blocks Tirantes from counting three by grabbing his head. More talking. A chinlock so they can talk away from looking at the camera, and CMLL helpfully goes to a replay this time to hide it. Azul does the same series of spots as Rush – senton misses, Rush covers, kickout blocked by Azul grabbing Rush’ hand. Rush dropkick Azul but and teases his dive, but poses instead. Azul and Rush have a chop fight where they’re clearly barley touching each other, and Rush ducks a clothesline to German suplex Azul for two. Rush kicks and charges into the escuedo, but Azul’s mask comes off in the process and Azul loses Rush as he covers up. This seems like it’s not supposed to happen – Tirantes instinctively turns away to not need to have to a DQ, then Rush points him towards a running to the ring La Mascara for the distraction. Rush goes to pull the mask right back off Azul, but Azul won’t let go for a long moment. Rush finally pries it free, fouls Azul, puts the mask on himself and covers. Tirantes turns around, counts one while trying to look away, pauses and looks directly at the pin (making it obvious he can see Rush with the mask and Azul without), and counts two and three. Rush turns Tirantes away from the pin as he tosses the mask back on Diamante Azul.

(I’d assume Azul was supposed to get Rush in the escuedo, Mascara would distracted Tirantes, and then Rush would pull the mask, but it all happened out of order. Rush winning the mask had to be planned as well)

Review: [below average] It’s not the worst match of the year, but it’s definitely one where all the tapes should be deleted. It’s hard to be sure if they were all along planning on calling in the ring or only did so after Rush sprained his wrist (or whatever he did), but they were definitely confused from that moment until almost the finish. That match never fell apart, but only because of about the most visibly obvious spot calling you’ll see. Diamante Azul has very set routines, so I imagine he was who had more problems just coming up with something as they were going, but whatever the reason, they had stop and call every move before it happened, and it looked so amateur hour. The finish itself fell apart because of the mask coming off too soon, but it and Rush putting on the mask feels like an absurd sequence to do with a referee who won’t make a three count if either guy is slightly close to the ropes. Diamante Azul’s clearly a limited guy and Rush didn’t cover himself in glory here either.