Day: January 4, 2018

Recapped: 01/03/2017

Matches:

Fantasy & Shockercito beat Pequeño Nitro & Pierrothito
(13:13 [5:39, 2:58, 4:36], 1/3, m/r, via VideosOficialesCMLL)

Cancerbero, Hijo del Signo, Nitro beat Astral, Robin, Starman
(8:12 [5:53, 2:19], 1/2, n/r, via VideosOficialesCMLL)

Dalys, La Metálica, Tiffany beat La Jarochita, Maligna, Princesa Sugehit  
(14:13 [7:38, 2:22, 4:13], 1/3, ok, via VideosOficialesCMLL)

The Panther beat Tritón in a lightning match
(5:09, pinfall after missed top rope move, good, via VideosOficialesCMLL)

Guerrero Maya Jr., Soberano Jr., Stuka Jr. beat Felino, Mr. Niebla, Sagrado
(9:14 [2:28, 2:44, 4:02], 2/3, ok, via VideosOficialesCMLL)

Ángel de Oro, Carístico, Niebla Roja beat Cuatrero, Forastero, Sansón
(13:25 [4:49, 2:37, 5:59], 2/3, ok, via VideosOficialesCMLL)

What happened:

Triton suffered a rib injury on a missed twisting senton from the top rope. It was clearly not the planned finish to the match: the ref held up at 2, then counted three again.

Mije was with the rudos (Cancerbero in particular), and attacked Starman as he had Signo up for his finish. That allowed Signo to get free and foul Starman for the DQ.

Thoughts:

Niebla Roja & Angel de Oro seem to like working with the NGD a bit, and hopefully that means they go somewhere with this at some point. Maybe it’ll just be this year’s never ending match up that doesn’t have a title match. The Roja/Oro flip spot still has to go, but this generally should be a tag team program. Carístico was also present and the match was fine in the usual Tuesday way.

 

The semimain was an energetic match, especially down in the closing stretch. They didn’t break any new group but worked well together. Sagrado looks so skinny next to Felino & Niebla, but not as skinny as Soberano. Guerrero Maya’s new mask is strange.

The Panther nailing Triton with a tope before the match was pretty shocking. Triton ending the match on a missed move was pretty shocking too. They were trying pretty hard in between, really their own attempt at doing what Titan & Dragon Lee did a few weeks ago in their lightning match. It was a fast paced with tons of spots. There was so much action early on that I was honestly confused when the clock showed only two and half minutes had elapsed after a dive. I don’t think they were going the full ten even if Triton had not been injured, they would’ve burned out too soon, but they were going for as great a match as possible. It’s CMLL, so there’s no telling if they’ll never do a rematch or if they’ll come back in three weeks, but at least the técnico/técnico match ups of the new format have been occasionally interesting.

I watched the women’s match just to get a sense of Maligna. She seemed alright at standing on the apron watching Sugehit & Dalys wrestle most of the match. The new girl only got time in the first fall, and it’ll take some more matches to see if they’re hiding her or if there’s more there. She didn’t stick out positively but it was an absurd amount of time. You would’ve thought they were setting up a champion vs champion singles match with the way the match went, but it’s mostly just going nowhere.