Today’s CMLL Informa aired a teaser for (Rey) Fenix (The King) appearing in CMLL soon. There was no date given of when he’d appear, only this trailer.
Fenix also posted on Twitter confirming the news.
https://twitter.com/ReyFenixMx/status/1001960848091418624
I’d expect he’s not coming alone. Penta el Zero M teased an appearance in Arena Mexico on the most recent The Crash show and in interviews after. Fenix teases the Rebelion coming in the promo. The possibility of these luchadors coming in to CMLL was first hinted at by the Wrestling Observer recently.
This, as well as the LA Park appearances, suggest the thought process on booking outside luchadors has greatly changed recently. Park, Fenix and anyone else are not expected to be full time with CMLL. They can plenty of their own bookings outside of the CMLL office. CMLL has previously avoided using outside wrestlers on per date bases. The only exceptions I can think of are legend shows, and luchadors brought in thru their partnership with ELITE. There are always rumors of ELITE returning, but this was presented as Fenix coming directly to CMLL.
Fenix and anyone else would be expected to continue working their scheduled date – this might primarily mean some open Friday nights are now filled, but they’d be picking their other promotion to work with. I’d expect they’ll still work Impact if they want to work Impact. AAA is the obvious big question. Fenix & Penta were supposed to work some dates, still have not been announced for anything, but the slow moving MAD angle (Konnan’s still unrevealed) could mean they weren’t planned to come in yet. I know it’s crazy, but I think that deal still might be on. AAA’s not going to have a problem with them working CMLL as long as they’re still working for AAA, and CMLL would be aware of any plans for them to work with AAA before agreeing to use them. Fenix mentions them not coming just to CMLL, and AAA would be another place. Konnan’s talked a lot about wanting a wrestling world where anyone could freely worked anywhere, and this would be two of his friends getting to live that out.
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Has anybody worked in both companies at once like that?
If the Lucha Brothers do wrestle for CMLL, which brother teams would be their best opponents?
This would mean Sofia Alonso has more power then most thought, cause l doubt Paco Alonso who still holds a grudge on Konnan, Octagon and Antonio Pena for forming AAA would allow this.
over on Earth (Meltzer)
>In what could be a landmark event, on CMLL Informa, which is their weekly news show, on 5/30, they had a photo of somebody’s hand and said they were headed to Arena Mexico. The tattoos on the hand gave away that it was Rey Fenix.
I thought “Rey Fenix”on the screen in big letters next to Rey Fenix’s head gave it away a bit more.