Dragón Lee & Misticobeat Forastero & Sansónin a CMLL World Tag Team eighthfinal (8:50, good, via VideosOficialesCMLL)
Valiente & Volador Jr. beat Euforia & Kráneoin a CMLL World Tag Team eighthfinal (3:34, ok, VideosOficialesCMLL )
Pierroth & Rushbeat Hechicero & Máscara Año 2000in a CMLL World Tag Team eighthfinal (5:57, ok, VideosOficialesCMLL)
Gran Guerrero & Último Guerrerobeat Atlantis & Soberano Jr.in a CMLL World Tag Team eighthfinal (4:18, ok, VideosOficialesCMLL)
Valiente & Volador Jr. beatDragón Lee & Misticoin a CMLL World Tag Team quarterfinal (2:58, ok, VideosOficialesCMLL)
Gran Guerrero & Último GuerrerobeatPierroth & Rushin a CMLL World Tag Team quarterfinal (3:00, DQ, ok, via VideosOficialesCMLL)
Valiente & Volador Jr. beat Gran Guerrero & Último Guerreroin a CMLL World Tag Team semifinal (4:48, ok, via VideosOficialesCMLL)
Ángel de Oro, Marco Corleone, Niebla Rojabeat Cuatrero, Ephesto, Mephisto (11:42 [5:24, 6:18], 1/2, ok VideosOficialesCMLL)
What happened:
Triton at work
Volador & Valiente won the first block of the tag team tournament. They will face next week’s winner on Homenaje a Dos Leyendas.
Terrible purposefully cost his team their quarterfinal match. Los Ingobernables were happy with it in the name of embarrassing their opponents and posing together.
Angel de Oro beat Cuatrero cleanly as they continue to build to their mask match.
Marco Corleone seemed to jam his right shoulder on the Aero Italiano in the first fall. He finished the match but was in obvious pain.
Thoughts:
Dragon Lee & Mistico launch themselves
The main event was the usual post tournament quick match, with a lot of emphasis on the big upcoming feud. Marco & Niebla, unexpected partners in next week’s match, looked good in this match. The Cuatrero fake out before the match was nice, and they got over the emotion of the feud.
The tag team tournament peaked in the first (real) match. Dragon Lee & Mistico against Sansón & Forastero felt better than the similar one back on FantasticaMania, with this NGD duo working smoother as a team and as opponents to the Munoz brothers. Both teams threw everything out there, and wrestled as if it was their only match of the night. They kicked out of a surprising amount of big moves. Sansón & Forastero felt dominant, and made the técnicos comeback even more meaningful. There were some timing issues (Mistico seemed to wait for a long time on the ramp to start his dive) and I’m not sure what was supposed to happen on Dragon Lee’s finish, but that was easily the most enjoyable match of the show.
The rest was the usual too short stuff. Dragon Lee/Mistico vs Valiente/Volador started off like a good nine minute match, only someone hit the STOP button at the three minute mark and that was that. Euforia/Kraneo vs Valiente/Volador similarly showed promise but didn’t last long. Pierroth/Rush vs Mascara/Hechicero went too long, and kept showing Pierroth and Mascara lamely brawling while the other two were being interesting. Los Guerreros attacking Atlantis from behind to take him out early was another indicator that people in the matches have figured out Atlantis isn’t good right now, even if the people in charge might have not caught on. Pierroth/Rush versus Los Guerreros was just a setup for the Los Ingobernables pose, and a beatdown the Guerreros didn’t bother to sell once the main event started. That main event started off well. It just didn’t have enough time to build anywhere.
Dragon Lee & Mistico
The old guys getting the tercera win wasn’t a big surprise, even as it probably didn’t need to happen. Their match felt like it had less to it than the segunda. Felino was more serious as promises, even beyond wearing a shirt instead of facepaint. His comedy act had gotten played out. It’s at least a short term improvement. Casas looked a little slow in Arena Mexico return. He was mostly facing Titan, and Titan was flying around, so it might have been just a perspective issue. The técnicos were alright; the rudos didn’t have much problem working them, but they also kept it relatively simple.
The segunda match is the same consistently good match as ever with that group fo guys. It suffers a bit from from being the same match as usual, where I enjoyed it wile it was going on and can’t pick up many things different about it. At least in a positive fashion, it’s the negative things like the failed bridge spot and the referee being weird which stick out more the well timed double kick to the face to set up Virus submission or the crowd’s reaction to Blue Jr.’s quebradora run. Fuego’s barricade spot worked out well, and Virus’s Gori bomb on the panther looked like it was going to end him.
Gotta to give it up the minis: if they’re not going to do much, at least they’ve decided not to do much over a short period of time. This opener was one of the briefer matches in some time, and a good pace because they knew they were getting out quick. Dragoncito did a little bit this week, which is better than his last appearance.
CMLL continues it’s unending streak of tag team tournaments with the beginning of one for the vacant CMLL World Tag Team championships. The champions were Shocker & Negro Casas, who were stripped of the titles for not defending them recently enough. They are on the card tonight and could’ve just defended them, but the point is to have a big match for Homenaje a Dos Leyendas and Shocker’s probably not goign ot be in too many big matches.
Tonight’s block of teams
Valiente & Volador Jr.
Mistico & Dragon Lee
Sanson & Forastero
Ultimo Guerrero & Gran Guerrero
Atlantis & Soberano
Euforia & Kraneo
Rush & Pierroth
Mascara Ano 2000 & Herchicero
The Guerrero team is strong favorite. Misitco & Dragon Lee, Volador & Valiente and Atlantis & Soberano have shots to advance as well. This is a good group of teams, though tournaments are more dependent on how much they have and how much they care about making the matches interesting (as opposed to just making sure the losing team gets in all their spots.)
The actual main event is Marco, Angel de Oro and Niebla Roja versus Cuatrero, Mephisto & Ephesto in build up to Oro & Cuatrero on 03/16. A Guadalajara trio of Titan, Triton and Esfinge take on Shocker, Negro Casas and Felino. Triton & Esfinge have talked about wanting to form a trio with Titan, Felino has talked about wanting to more serious, and I guess we’ll see which sticks. Tiger, Puma & Virus face the Panthers & Fuego, and the show opens with minis match Shockercito & Ultimo Dragoncito versus Mercurio & Pequeno Nitro.
The show will air at 8:30pm on Claro and Facebook. Their website is no longer region blocked, so there should be no problems this week.
CMLL announced Matt Taven will return to the promotion for the 03/16 Homenaje a Dos Leyenda show. No match has been announced. Taven challenged Ultimo Guerrero for the middleweight championship on last year’s show. CMLL already has an apuesta match and a tag title match scheduled, so Taven’s probably in a trios match.
Canek is main eventing a show a show with many CMLL wrestlers in Arena Aficion on 03/15. You’re appealing to fans who generally gave up watching wrestling 25 years ago if you’re main eventing with Canek in 2018. Estrellita is on the undercard and was guest commentary last week on Claro, so she’ll be back wrestling in Arena Mexico at some point soon.
NJPW announced their Best of Super Junior tournament this year runs from May 18 to June 4. Two of Dragon Lee, Volador Jr., Soberano Jr., Titan and Barbaro Cavernario will probably represent CMLL on that show.
Vampiro was on the Stone Cold Steve Austin podcast. It was a trip to land much like our own, but with some key facts along. Vampiro came off as if exaggerating to impress how great he and AAA were doing Austin, and Austin came off as occasionally skeptical but not really informed on anything on lucha libre beyond watching a few highlight clips of Lucha Underground. He was fine with Vampiro being Vampiro and seemed to genuinely like him. I noted a thousand words of strange things said during this interview. Here are some of them:
Vampiro says Lucha Underground is doing 26 episodes this year. He describes his role on the show as “the go to guy for everything, I fill the holes, producing, editing – helping edit, excuse me, writing and agenting, that’s my thing, and then commentating and the Vampiro character, he’ll be back, I’m told.” Austin asks about the editing, and Vampiro reveals he means he sits in the editing booth while the editors work and points out things. (This is the tenor of the conversation.) Vampiro says he’s 100% responsible for those things in Mexico and is picking up a lot from watching people do it in Lucha Underground.
Vampiro said the season 3 round of Lucha Underground tapings were too intense, with different cliques not getting along. They weeded out some of the troublemaking people and things are better now. Vamprio says LU won’t have a developmental system, but did run tryouts before this season started, and are looking for people with desire and who understand this won’t be a full time thing.
They’ve only had two retape things twice in Lucha Underground, and they leave all the other mistakes in.
Vampiro says he’s been with AAA for three years, and was promoted executive producer last March.
Three years means Vampiro working there when Konnan was still there, so that’s maybe not correct? Perhaps he got confused with Lucha Underground on the timeline, or considers that his AAA start.
Vampiro: “In the last eight months, AAA has quadrupled in size. If we were doing 200 shows a year, now we’re closer to 800.” Pushes the move to live on Twitch, but seems to think the Space show is also airing live. Vampiro claims the TV tapings are doing 9 to 14,000 people per show.
Last Sunday’s AAA taping was at a half full 6,000 seat building. The Aguascalientes was half full as well. Toluca and Mexico City looked better but neither building was close to 9,000. Sunday’s Rey de Reyes is their first 10K building of the year.
Vampiro talks about running the TV tapings from backstage like a mad man. Vampiro notes they have viewers live from around the world so, during the taping, he’ll pop up in a box on a screen and start explaining everything what’s going on English, including burying things that aren’t going right.
This has never happened. This is at least the second time Vampirio has said this is happening. Is this something he’s been pitching and it hasn’t gotten done? Is he under the impression it’s actually happening? Is this happening on Space and we’re not seeing it? Can it please start happening?
AAA is just as crazy as Lucha Underground according to Vampiro, who estimates 80% of the wrestlers on Lucha Underground are from AAA. Vamp says people are moonsaulting off the light scaffolds every night. Austin does not quite believe this.
Vampiro explains AAA has coaches that work with luchadors on how to deal with stress and your family when you’re off the road, and how to save money, and the wrestlers all go thru those classes before they even get in the ring. They’ve got a gym with professional trainers, and Vampiro comes by once a week to teach them what they need for TV
Austin asks about Pentagon. Vampiro: “Pentagon’s getting a little pudgy [] but he’s in shape.” Vampiro says Penta is working too many indie dates and isn’t able to eat right. Later, Vampiro characterizes Pentagon and the others who’ve left as sort of “rebellious teenagers” who’ve grown up a bit, seen that their parents were right, and may be welcomed back to AAA.
Vampiro would like to do more with the women in AAA, but feels the fans and the promoters don’t want it. He blames social media for getting the wrestlers to do crazy things. Austin incredibly brings up LA Park, and it does not sound like Vampiro is expecting to see him in AAA soon. Vampiro think Marco’s leaving Mexico soon. Vampiro defends Sexy Star. Vampiro says guys who never were top stars shouldn’t be agents or have a say in wrestler’s characters. Vampiro thinks Matt Striker should get a baseball announcing job because he’d be great at it. Vampiro told Marty the Moth to watch The Cable Guy. There’s more, but this is too much already.
So. A while back, Vampiro was mad at me for something or other – who even knows, the list is long – and I offered to interview him should we run into each other in Mexico. I’m not sure that was a great idea then, but it would’ve been great for the #content. I’m pretty sure it’s not even that useful now. Vampiro clearly had a lot of respect for Steve Austin as a fellow top wrestling guy, and they had shared interests in music and food that I skipped over there. And still Vampiro just was inventing things out of whole cloth to Steve Austin. I’m pretty sure Vampiro would have less than 1% of that respect level for me. We would get thru one question, I would hopefully push back, and we would never make it to a second question either because we’d be lost forever in that one question or one of us would throw our hands up and leave. (It would still be good #content, don’t get me wrong.)
I refuse to believe Vampiro is like this all the time. I don’t know how people would deal with be able to deal with him if he was 100% like this 100% of the time. It would be thoroughly maddening. People in AAA & Lucha Underground seem totally content to deal with Vampiro, so there must be another sane side to this individual we never see. I don’t think anyone out here is ever going to see it, because I think he transitions into this person once he’s out in public, but I can not believe he’s for real.
AAA has this week’s TV listing up. I pay less attention to this now that it’s streaming, but it seems like they’re skipping the Faby/Ashley vs Divina/Shani match from Aguascalientes.
WWE’s Sin Cara talked with MedioTiempo. I think he does more interviews with Mexican press than he has matches on SmackDown. He praised the possibility of Rey Mysterio returning to WWE and said he’d like to see Dragon Lee there. He’s also interviewed in La Aficion, where either he or the writer bizarrely says AJ Styles and Shinsuke Nakamura began their careers in Mexico.
A+ posted a commercial for ELITE now – except, they’ve taken the date down and just say the show is starting soon. Maybe don’t hold out for 03/11.
Segunda Caida reviews Lucha Underground 3×33, with the Son of Havoc vs Son of Madness match. I don’t want to spoil it for them, but I laughed reading Eric write “We don’t actually get a lot of blood in this fed”.
The Crash (FRI) 04/06/2018 The Sugar Mill, New Orleans, Louisiana
1) Aeroboy vs Draztick Boy, J. Spade, Amarok, Matthew Palmer, Jason Cade, Ángel Fashion, Curt Stallion
2) Black Danger & Lacey Lane vs Christi Jaynes & Oráculo and Barbie Hayden & Joey Ryan and Diamante (Impact) & Douglas James
3) Rey Horuz vs Flip Gordon vs Laredo Kid
4) Bandido (Indie) & Black Boy vs Dezmond Xavier & Zachary Wentz and Dave Crist & Jake Crist
5) Daga vs Brian Cage vs Willie Mack vs Sami Callihan
6) Rey Fénix (US) vs Flamita vs Rich Swann
7) Damián 666, LA Park, Nicho el Millionario vs Bestia 666, Garza Jr., Mr. 450
8) Penta Zero M vs Austin Aries
Full card for the noon WrestleMania show.
I’m still disappointed Fenix/Flamita will not be happening. (At least not on this show.) Rich Swann was good last time he was wrestling, even under WWE restrictions. Swann versus Flamita versus Fenix should still be great. WrestleMania weekend already has a lot of great matches, and Fenix/Flamita could’ve been a special match. It’s a missed chance.
The opening match is a grab bag. I think you know Aeroboy & Draztick Boy if you’re reading this website. Angel Fashion is a Puerto Rico based guy, only there still isn’t much wrestling in Puerto Rico following last year’s hurricane so he’s been working in the mainland. Curt Stallion is a midwest cowboy who I’ve seen a few times in AAW. Jason Cade is from Sami Callihan’s Ohio factory and will be popping up elsewhere soon; he seems excited for the Impact/LU show for some reason. Matthew Palmer is a Texas guy who shows up in Inspire Pro Wrestling. I still have no idea who Amarok is. I thought maybe he was the local WildKat representative, but that appears to be J. (Jaden) Spade. In the mixed tag, Barbie Hayden is a Texas woman who’s wrestled in LLF and was an alternate for WWE’s Mae Young Classic last year.
Rey Mysterio and Rush were both advertised for this show at one point. Mysterio is working Five Star wrestling in the UK the night before, which makes it impossible to make it here. Rush appears to be done in The Crash after La Mascara moved on to AAA. Demus, Mascarita Dorada and Black Taurus appeared to be on these shows at one point and those are tougher to figure. Arkangel Divino, Ultimo Maldito, Keyra and Taurus are the bigger regular Crash names who didn’t make it. It’s not a one for one swap with anyone; the people in the early matches are probably making their own way to New Orleans, the people in the top matches are probably having their costs split between multiple promotions, neither of which might apply to the rest of The Crash crew. I’m not sure if Divino & Maldito even can work in the US at this point, so maybe it’s all a pipe dream. Still, to me, there’s nothing more “The Crash” than the flashy crazy guys in the opening matches, and those guys would’ve been able to make a name for themselves in this match. This show should still be pretty good, but I wish it felt more like a The Crash show instead of a WrestleMania weekend indie showcase show.
Akuma, Hijo del Signo, Templario beat Astral, Flyer, Sangre Imperial (12:09 [5:21, 3:01, 3:47], 1/3, good, via VideosOficialesCMLL)
Audaz, Blue Panther Jr., The Pantherbeat Misterioso Jr., Sagrado, Virus (12:35 [5:25, 3:26, 3:44], 2/3, ok, via VideosOficialesCMLL)
Princesa Sugehit beat Kaho Kobayashiin a lightning match (7:37, Michinoku Driver, good, via VideosOficialesCMLL)
Hechicero, Johnny Idol, Okumura beat Blue Panther, Guerrero Maya Jr., Stuka Jr. (12:20 [2:43, 3:18, 6:19], 2/3, ok, via VideosOficialesCMLL)
Marco Corleone, Titán, Valientebeat Cavernario, Euforia, Mephisto (12:18 [4:17, 3:08, 4:53], 1/3, ok, via VideosOficialesCMLL)
What happened:
Nothing.
Thoughts:
this needs a name, before they call it Templario Special
I’m going to need to dig into the stats, but I fell like Marco is undefeated in Tuesday main events, even as he lost this one. This was another similar match to his other ones, where no one was going to hard but there were still moments of fun entertainment. The crowd likes his act and tricky but not painful especially painful things like Titan and Cavernario getting a million spins on the headscissors. This was fine for what it was.
The Blue usual Panther surprise first fall finish really didn’t pay off in the semimain. Neither did much else. It felt like less than usual from this group of luchadors, and nothing that was worth checking out.
The women’s match had a nice amount of effort, and more thought than the usual lightning match. Kaho Kobayashi is being treated more like a “new” addition to the women’s division rather than a “star visitor” like other Japanese women coming in for a short time, so there’s a good chance this is going to be here one big match. They certainly wrestled the match like this was Kaho’s one big chance to get in some dives and headscissors. Princesa Sugehit doesn’t seem exactly the right opponent here, she struggles catching Kobayashi on her dive to the floor, and both seem to be missing enough offense to keep a seven minute match interesting. It still goes back and forth nicely and I liked the finish of Kobayashi annoying Sugehit by refusing to stay down but not being able to make a comeback.
Aereo made the GIFs!
Everything in the tercera felt fine, but it also just didn’t make any impression on me. They’re in a holding pattern with Virus & Audaz and the other four have faced many times by this time point. It leaves this match in that weird middle ground where they’ve done it enough times to make it likely good but hard to be memorable. The Panther’s gear looked so un-Panther-like that I thought he had been replaced by Esfinge. I guess it was a Black Panther idea but it felt weirdly crossed with Tron because of all the bold lines.
The second match was better than usual, mostly because Templario and Flyer stood out and Sangre Imperial & Hijo del Signo did not. The first two falls were felt well put together, and Signo did get in the surprise apron dropkick that worked well. Akuma & Templario should be regular partners as long as Templario is stuck in the segunda pool of luchadors. Akuma has a little more personality and could stand to have Templario in there with him as a better influence the Signo level guys. Templario decided to grab onto the top rope for life instead of landing back and waiting in that guillotine position, letting go just in time to get hit by Flyer’s legdrop in the second fall. I think that’s the better looking way to do it, but it’s a forced spot that’s hard to make look good.
I don’t want to take credit for reviewing the opener, but I did pay more attention than usual to see if it had the A-Team had improved. Not really. They did work this match at a faster pace than usual and their 200 matches together have really started to produce tag team moves but I’m not buying it.
Arkalis completely misses (which the commentators point out)
Último Guerrero shoved down Tirantes in the first fall, which wasn’t a DQ but did lead to a snappy Tirantes three count. Último Guerrero leaves the ring and finds Terror Chino (who’s in street clothes and hasn’t been refereeing on this show), wanting to sub him in for Tirantes. Tirantes does not allow it. The same bit plays out in the third fall, with Atlantis lightly shoving Tirantes and UG cradling him while holding the ropes for the win.
The rudos group on the técnicos in the second match, and Rush decided to hang out on the apron instead of him. Rush eventually participates, but also throws Soberano in to take beatings at times. Soberano challenges Mephisto to a match next week after Mephisto fouls him to end the match.
Ares is a fill in for Starman, who hasn’t been seen since.
Thoughts:
Triton headscissors
Atlantis & Utlimo Guerrero felt they took a lot of shortcuts to get thru the main event singles match, which doesn’t say much of where Atlantis is at right now. They tried to do a more typical match between the two in the closing stretch, but it was still strange to see them do a hair grab brawl for two falls, and the referee shenanigans were strange as well. Último Guerrero didn’t do check off his big move list and Atlantis did no topes. You hope this was them taking it easy for a match that didn’t really matter and probably shouldn’t have been scheduled. This wasn’t terrible and neither is 2018 Atlantis, but he’s not the where he was before the injury (and even that guy was slowing down.)
Soberano looked great in the semimain, and maybe even greater so because it was a match most people seemed to take off. I’ve learned to appreciate Rush when he’s especially screwing around, and there’s a lot of that to enjoy in the first two falls. They all seemed to take the third fall a bit more serious, but it was Soberano who was really doing the tricky spot and poor Mistico was getting dropped by rudos. Something must’ve gone wrong with this spot, because the ending sequence was really strange, with Mistico visibly directing Soberano to come back in for a foul instead of the dive you’d expect in that moment.
The tercera was a solidly well done match that came off good in part because that was much better than what had happened before. Kawato had his best sequences so far with Titan, though he stills seems afraid to actually kick people. Triton did some effortlessly impressive armdrags. I would’ve liked more but I’ll take what I can get.
Impact Wrestling announced their 04/06 show at WrestleCon will now be a co-promoted show with Lucha Underground and air live for free on Impact’s Twitch. Pentagon, Fenix, King Cuerno, Drago, Aerostar, Killshot, Matanza, The Mack, Jack Evans are listed so far as LU wrestlers. Austin Aries, Alberto El Patron, Eli Drake, Moose, Eddie Edwards, LAX, oVe and Sami Callihan, Trevor Lee, Brian Cage, Allie, Rosemary, Taya Valkyrie and Scott Steiner are listed as Impact, though obviously there’s people who fit in both promotions. No matches announced. Johnny Mundo is noticeably not listed for either side, so far. Teddy Hart was earlier announced for this show but doesn’t appear on this list.
This is billed in the press release as a deal Dorian Roldan put together with Impact – and as so, it’s a rare live event where Pentagon and Fenix can be billed simply as “Pentagon” and “Fenix.” Those guys are already working The Crash show, and it’s now possible some of the other wrestlers being brought in for this show (Cuerno/Fatnasma, Drago, Aerostar) might also pop up elsewhere since all the promotions like to share talent (and share the costs of bringing in talent) on this weekend.
That LU/Impact show is the late show on Friday night at WrestleCon, which goes up against the WWE HOF ceremony. The Crash show is the early show, with the UK’s RevPro in between.
The latest MMM show talks a lot about the experience of going to the first set of S4 Lucha Underground shows (without spoilers), and tell the story of the 90s rapper who happened to come along with. I usually listen to their podcast but this might be a better one to watch for the visual aids.
Record has an interview with person in charge of Latin American for Twitch, Ignacio Estanga, who says working out a deal to stream AAA was part of a plan to build viewership for their site in Mexico. Estanga said they’d be open to doing a deal with CMLL as well if they were interested. My impression is CMLL is doing better in views on YouTube right now, helped by having a couple year lead up.
R de Rudo pointed out Hahastary has apparently changed her name to Hades. AAA filed for a trademark on that name back on February 9th, part of a series of trademarks for Australian Suicide, Bengala, and (again!) Penta Zero M. None have been officially approved; there are ones AAA filed from last September which haven’t been authorized yet, the process just is slow.
AAA’s Twitch will stream Chessman playing video games this afternoon at 4pm, as part of a new feature called LUCHA GAMER. He’ll be playing Street Fighter V & FIFA 18.
Xataka has a story about the 2010 AAA Lucha Libre Heroes del Ring video game. There’s a lot about the game and how it came to be that I’m going to accidentally overshadow by noting the article mentions the game sold 25K copies for PS3, and 8K for XBox360. That’s why there wasn’t a second one.
Vampiro was on Steve Austin’s podcast. Haven’t listened but will. My favorite thing already is Austin asked for questions on Twitter for the podcast, and Vampiro just started answering them all on Twitter.
CMLL
CMLL (TUE) 03/06/2018Arena México
1) Stukita & Último Dragóncito vs Mercurio & Pequeño Nitro
2) Flyer, Magnus, Príncipe Diamante vs Metálico, Príncipe Odín Jr., Sangre Azteca
3) Arkángel de la Muerte vs Hijo del Signo [lightning]
4) Drone, Fuego, Guerrero Maya Jr. vs Disturbio, Misterioso Jr., Sagrado
5) Audaz, Dragón Lee, Soberano Jr. vs Ephesto, Luciferno, Mephisto
6) Gran Guerrero, Marco Corleone, Máscara Año 2000 vs Kráneo, Pierroth, Rush [Relevos Increíbles]
Drone is listed as returning. This would be his first match in over 40 days, after apparently being suspended following his performance on the FantasticaMania tour.
Arkangel/Signo seems bad. The main event seemed like it might be setting up a Pierroth/Mascara2K match. Might be worse.
Audaz leaping by the Fuego & Maya guys to be up with Dragon Lee & Soberano is a surprise.
So that confirms Cavernario will have singles matches on three straight days: Dragon Lee on Sunday, Volador on Monday and Atlantis on Tuesday. Only this Guadalajara match has a title on the line. Still a decent chance he could go 0-3. All the losses would make sense as individual matches and no one’s looking at all these things together.
No full results from IWRG yet. Pachuca/LLB’s Ram el Caranero lost his hair to Lunatik Extreme in the main event cage match.
Canek was on Azteca to promote the upcoming Arena Azteca (Elite) show. Canek is 65 and absolutely should not be wrestling, but I guess we’ll be getting him in the ring at some point. The important thing is Azteca is doing interviews to promote the show, so they really believe it’s starting on 03/11. ELITE hasn’t publicly said anything since 02/12, when they canceled the last show.
MDA (SUN) 03/11/2018Arena Coliseo Monterrey
1) Octagoncito vs Mini Hator
2) Chik Tormenta vs Mystique
3) Emperador Azteca (IWRG) vs The Tiger
4) Trauma I & Trauma II vs Caifan II & El Divo
5) Hijo del Dr. Wagner Jr. vs Hijo de LA Park
6) Sharly Rockstar vs Juventud Guerrera
7) LA Park vs Rey Wagner vs Zorro
Only Zorro & Juvy representing MAD on the next MDA show, though they’re hinting at new members.
Hijo del Dr. Wagner Jr. getting to use AAA TV to make him more valuable as an indie guy is weird, but surely the deal everyone agreed with. Situations change and we don’t know the exact circumstances, but I wonder how things would’ve worked out had Fenix, Penta, Daga and other been offered the same freedom within that seems to be afforded to guys like Pagano & the Wagners.
