Rey Fenix fufills a childhood dream by making his CMLL debut tonight in Arena Mexico. The international standout will team with CMLL royalty in Caristico & Mistico to take on Ultimo Guerrero, Negro Casas and Cavernario. On Informa, Fenix called the first two rudos legends and Cavernario a future legend. CMLL’s putting Fenix with some of their biggest stars and his best possible opponents. If what we’re led to believe is accurate, these luchadors likely include some of the wrestlers who were pushing to open CMLL’s doors to people like Rey Fenix, and will be extra motivated to prove that’s the right decision. This has the makings of a great match.
And it’s part of the great card. The main event has LA Park & Rush on opposite sides again, with Los Ingobernables and Volador & HIjo de LA Park completing things. CMLL may be changing but the rule of the same trios match run multiple weeks setting up a singles match isn’t going to change: they’re surely running Park/Rush or something like it next week. Stuka/Hechicero would be a notable lightning match on a lost of shows and is under the radar here. The NGD take on Soberano, Audaz and Titan in what should be a spectacular match, and Triton, Drone and Fuego vs Virus, Puma and Tiger shouldn’t be far behind. The show opening Raziel & Carncerbero vs Star & Oro is a longer shot to be good, but this is going to be another strong card.
Lucha Central has a preview of the show. It airs at 8:30pm on Marca (geoblocked) and Facebook (not geoblocked). As long as it stays that way, I won’t need to stream it on YouTube. It’ll be up on CMLL’s channel later
Masked Republic & Chido Comics announced a series of Luchaverse comic books yesterday. Chido Comics are the people who did those Lucha Underground comics. The announced comics are
- Rey Mysterio – released in July 2018 as part of San Diego Comic Con
- Lucha Brothers (Penta Zero M & Rey Fenix) – sometime in 2018
- Blue Demon Jr. – sometime in 2018
- Konnan – late 2018/early 2019
- Cadetes del Espacio (Solar & Super Astro) – late 2018/early 2019
Estrellas del La Lucha mentions the Fresnillo, Zacatecas government is looking into possible corruption with a publicly funded lucha libre show. The event was originally supposed to cost 145,000 pesos and ended up costing 464,000. I can see how that might be a problem. The article doesn’t talk about the show itself, but it appears to be this AAA one.
I forgot Lucha Memes announced they were running on 09/16 back in April, so that’s probably the Quackenbush match. If you’re thinking of going to Mexico, that’s usually a 2pm start, gets done around 5pm, but you’ll have to find transportation because it’s bit away from the Mexico City center.
LuchaTalk has a new edition of the podcast.
LuchaWorld has the latest edition of that podcast and the latest Lucha Report.
Luchadors.MX has a video story on Marcela & Skadi.
+LuchaTV has a sit down with Zeuxis.
There’s a half hour interview by Blue Panther of Julio Cesar Rivera on YouTube that might be interesting but I’m probably never getting around to watch.
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With them touring the Caristico/Mistico match through some of the smaller buildings, I wonder if they’ll use the increased eyes on the show thanks to Fenix’s first match to start the build in Arena Mexico?