CMLL Puebla: 2018-03-12 

Recapped: 03/22/2018

Matches: 

Ares & El Perverso beat Black Tiger & El Asturiano  
(15:28 [8:50, 2:29, 4:09], 1/3, n/r, via VideosOficialesCMLL)

Amapola & La Comandante beat Kaho Kobayashi & Princesa Sugehit
(16:19 [8:18, 4:07, 3:54], 2/3, below average, via VideosOficialesCMLL)

King Jaguar, Templario, Virus beat Audaz, Lestat, Pegasso  
(14:58 [6:57, 3:19, 4:42], 1/3, good, via VideosOficialesCMLL)

Cuatrero, Pólvora, Sansón beat Stuka Jr., Titán, Valiente  
(12:50 [6:08, 3:29, 3:13], 2/3, ok, via VideosOficialesCMLL)

La Bestia Del Ring, Rush, Sam Adonis beat Euforia, Kráneo, Mr. Niebla in a relevos increíbles match
(7:02 [4:21, 2:41], 1/2, n/r, via VideosOficialesCMLL)

Volador Jr. beat Cavernario for the NWA World Welterweight Championship
(17:36, good, via VideosOficialesCMLL)

1. Cavernario La Escalera (2:59)

2. Volador backcracker (2:30)

3. Volador Canadian Destroyer (12:07)

What happened: 

Volador’s progressed to needing a bandage but no longer the facemask. In lesser important news, he retained his title.

Kraneo accidentally clotheslines Euforia in the first fall leads to the team losing. Kraneo belly bumps the entire other team in the second fall, but then also accidentally gets Euforia and Niebla. Euforia attacks Kraneo, then gives up the match. Euforia attacks and yells at Kraneo for screwing up repeatedly. This sets up a Euforia/Kraneo singles match, with Euforia vowing to drive the last Invasor out of the promotion.

The técnicos won the first fall of the fourth match by excessive violence DQ. That seemed like the planned finish.

Thoughts: 

Volador/Cavernario was a good version of their big match. They mixed up the spots a little bit, though it still followed the usual pattern of Volador matches. It’s not at the level of their best matches, but it’s still was an entertaining match after a not great entertaining lead up. I think my enjoyment of the match was harmed by Cavernario taking so many losses. It’s hard to believe he’s ever going to win one of these, even if it wasn’t Volador’s big streak on the line. The third fall never felt in the balance despite Cavernario going for his finish and Volador’s finish.

The fourth match had some good moments and just didn’t totally come together as a match. Stuka doing his suplex onto each other spot looked weird when the NGD just moved before he could do the same to Pólvora. Sansón had to rush around the ring before Titan did a moonsault onto nothing. I don’t like the NGD’s black on black outfits; they remind me of the Mephisto generic outfit of a long time ago. This was still a fine match but nothing super.

Audaz is really good. Maybe too good. His escape to set up the second fall comeback happened so quick and impressive that Pegasso and Lestat weren’t ready to do their spots and time stood still for a while. Pegasso & Templario was a fun match up and King Jaguar did not mess up every spot he did. This was a borderline enjoyable match and I like watching everything Audaz does.

The women’s match felt long and the story telling wasn’t great. Kaho’s offense has no effect on Comandante for a very long first fall, Kaho clotheslines Comandante with no problem in the third fall, and Comandante goes back to no-selling to set up her finish. Meanwhile, Sugehit is not that much bigger than Kobayashi and has none of the same problems. It didn’t work.