CMLL Puebla: 2017-04-24 

Recapped: 04/28/2017

Matches: 

All matches aired live from Arena Puebla and can be seen on CMLL’s YouTube channel.

1. Lestat, París, Zaeta Roja beat El Malayo, Guerrero Espacial, Sombra Diabólika (12:16 [5:58, 2:58, 3:20], 2/3, ok)
2. Amapola, Tiffany, Zeuxis beat La Jarochita, Princesa Sugehit, Sanely (11:38 [5:31, 2:49, 3:18], 2/3, ok)
3. Esfinge, Fuego, Soberano Jr. beat Cancerbero, Raziel, Virus (15:08 [6:43, 3:34, 4:51], 2/3, ok)
4. Cavernario, Felino, Mr. Niebla beat Ángel de Oro, Johnny Idol, Titán (13:54 [5:36, 2:42, 5:36], 1/3, ok)
5. Atlantis, Carístico, Volador Jr. beat La Máscara, Negro Casas, Último Guerrero (11:23 [6:06, 5:17], 1/2, ok)

What happened: 

Último Guerrero and Carístico set up a match for next week. That is all that happened.

None of the matches were interesting at all. None were even a disaster worth gawking it, it was five of routine CMLL matches in 2017. This show was so unmemorable to me that I didn’t realize I never put up the recap until I went to do the week summary. (So those are slightly useful!) They’re going to have 52 of these a year in Puebla and this show was somewhere close to 50.

Thoughts: 

The main event itself was a generic feuding building match, with Utlimo Guerrero running a lot from Carístico and eventually taking a dive and a finish from him. UG was at least good at being a jerk to Carístico at times, and Atlantis found a creative way of getting out of doing another dive at the end of the match. It looked like the rudos were getting in each other’s way at the end of the first fall, but it quickly become evident they were just finding ways to get in finishes even though they were going to lose this in two falls. Even though Mascara & Volador were headlining the Friday show, there was no special effort for them to feud as well – the other four people just mixed up arbitrarily.

Mr. Niebla & Felino in as a team means a lot of getting by to get by matches. The others probably couldn’t overcome those limitations and didn’t seem particularly interested in doing so. Niebla is running a streak of “accidentally” falling off the apron before pretty much every Puebla match. Gotta switch it up a little more.

I’m not sure if we’ll get another interesting match out of the Cancerberos. They weren’t taking the match as a trio here, but it should’ve been more interesting than it ended up. The exciting moments of the match was the two dives unexpected dives in the second fall by Esfinge and Soberano, and Cancerbero & Raziel did well catching them, but didn’t do much themselves to help the match. Soberano needs more work on his frog splash.

The women’s match featured a great moment in bad coordination, as the other four women set up the star submission expecting Sugehit & Zeuxis to do their finish, only Zeuxis was busy digging herself out from the chairs Sugehit had buried her under. Tiffany stopping selling to try and see what happened to them was nice. Jarochita’s submission to end the first fall was one of the least convincing holds you’ll see.

Opener wasn’t much. First fall wasn’t interesting, third fall was every taking turns doing a move, then everyone taking turns doing a submission, then Lestat just beating Malayo while his partners stood on the apron watching for no reason. Zaeta Roja looked off, especially in the second fall.