CMLL has it’s usual Friday night show with less going on than usual. Next week’s is usually CMLL’s annual Arena Mexico anniversary show, usually with one big match, but CMLL’s really set up nothing happening immediately outside the Copa Junior. Maybe something will come up out of tonight’s main event. Negro Casas, Barbaro Cavernario and La Mascara take on Dragon Lee, Volador and Caristico in a match with a lot of semi-dormant rivalries. Dragon Lee & La Mascara have their mask match feud, Cavernario & Volador won the incredible pairs tournament, and Caristico and Negro Casas have a long history of being friends and enemies. There’s also Volador & Carisico’s old simmering issues, which showed up briefly in the Reyes del Aire last week. It’s CMLL, so it’s also possible none of this could come up and they just have a fine enough three and a half star match, but at least there’s potential there.
There’s not quite as much potential in the semimain. The rudo side has strong personalities but not the best assemblage of wrestling talent; the match will be over but maybe not good. Pierroth, Mr. Niebla and Sam Adonis face Diamante Azul, Stuka Jr. and Valiente.
The Copa Junior is listed in the fourth match, up two spots from last week for no obvious reason (and with lesser talent.) CMLL rarely moves around matches, so I guess it’ll stay in the fourth spot. It’ll be the highest spot on the card Artillero has ever wrestled in, for the eight or so minute he’ll last in the match. Forastero & Sanson are the other two rudos and the natural opponents for Soberano Jr. Esfinge won the last Copa Junior of this type CMLL ran, and Blue Panther Jr. probably can’t be ruled out. Mangus, Stigma and Star Jr. will also be in the match.
The rest of the show are matches with mixed bags of luchadors and not the greatest promise. Guerrero Maya & Luciferno will be in the lightning match. Drone, Fuego and Rey Cometa take on Nitro, Raziel, and Virus, a trios match probably one luchador away from being good. Flyer & Robin, two second generation luchadors who coudn’t get in Copa Junior, face two who did, Canelo Casas & Espanto Jr.
CultIcon has a preview of the show and writes about Star Jr. before his Copa Junior participation. It’ll air on ClaroSports at 8:30 pm. I’m not going to be around. I’ll see if I can try to record it (and stream if necessary) remotely, but no promises.
There’s no results from last night’s Arena Coliseo show. CMLL didn’t seem to cover it.
AAA also tapes tonight in Tijuana. We know what the card lists for matches, but we also know these things change. La Parka versus Ricky Marvin is a match which doesn’t make any sense now, so maybe that won’t happen. (La Parka’s been generally dropped down the list a lot in the current creative direction and it’d be surprising if stays that way.) Wagner & Psycho are unlikely partners for the moment, so maybe their main event will get switched to something involving Poder del Norte. Ayako/Taya and Fantamsa/Kross were specifically brought up this week, so maybe they’re still on.
Killshot & Marty the Moth against Aerostar & Drago as a Lucha Underground match is probably still on too. Leo Riano wrote about how this match is the first time fans in Mexico will see a Lucha Underground match. Leo Riano called a Lucha Underground match at last year’s TripleMania, where Dragon Azteca, Prince Puma & Rey Mysterio defeated Marty the Moth, Matanza and Mil Muertes.
AAA’s taping is listed as 8:30 pm, but with the Pacific time zone and normal late starting time, it probably won’t actually start until about the time CMLL’s taping is completing. The taping also may not air for a couple more weekends, perhaps on May 6th.
Violento Jack will be heading to Japan for a full year to work for Freedoms. They invited him to stay for as long as he wanted, and he decided to go for a full year so he could help build their company. His first match are on April 29th and he says he’s got eight matches already for May.
Dulce Garcia’s media tour for her boxing match includes interviews in La Jordana and La Aficion.
DTU announced Jason Cade, Dezmond Xavier, Trey Miguel and Serpentico from the US as guests for a May/June tour, along with Draztick Boy back from Dragon Gate. They’re running May 31st in Arena Actopan (Hidalgo), June 1st in Aguascalientes, June 2nd in Zacatecas, June 3rd in San Luis Potosi and June 4th in Irapuato.
MDA in Arena Coliseo Monterrey on 05/07
- Masada vs Rush in a cage match
- Octagon vs Fuerza Guerrera
- Mini Hator vs Mini Difunto for the Nuevo Leon Mini Welterweight Championship
- Angel de Oro vs Rey Horuz
RIOT on 05/20 in Arena Femenil Monterrey
- Chik Tormenta vs Christi Jaynes
- UnMexicans (Kaientai & Lord Byron) & Dowki versus Los Mimos de Siempre (Kamikaze, Kratoz, Erik Ortiz)
- Flamita vs Ultimo Ninja – really excited for this one.
We completed our lucha libre indie fantasy draft over on Wrestling With Words today. You can see the first part and the second part that just went up for all our eight picks, and I’ll put up a poll this afternoon, so you can decide who has the best.
A nice video feature on Halcon Suriano’s school, where Stukita helps train people.
LuchaWorld has the latest Lucha Report and a new edition of Lucha Clasica.
RobViper has highlights of 09/09/16 ELITE.
Kcidis’s cartoon is about Niebla Roja’s current situation.
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