CMLL Martes de Nuevo Valores: 2018-07-10 

Recapped: 07/12/2018

Matches: 

Mercurio & Pequeño Violencia beat Acero & Aéreo  
(15:39 [6:23, 3:58, 5:18], 1/3, n/r, VideosOficialesCMLL)

Akuma, Inquisidor, Yago beat Magnus, Retro, Sangre Imperial
(10:51 [3:52, 3:19, 3:40], 1/3, n/r, VideosOficialesCMLL)

Pegasso beat Virus in a lightning match
(6:14, DQ for foul, ok,VideosOficialesCMLL)

Black Panther, Blue Panther, Blue Panther Jr. vs Misterioso Jr., Puma, Tiger
(17:33 [7:16, 2:10, 8:07], 2/3, great,VideosOficialesCMLL)

Felino, Rey Bucanero, Shocker beat Audaz, Stuka Jr., Valiente  
(11:47 [4:40, 1:20, 5:47], 1/3, ok,VideosOficialesCMLL)

Cuatrero, Forastero, Sansón beat Ángel de Oro, Kráneo, Niebla Roja  
(12:58 [3:56, 9:02], 1/2, ok,VideosOficialesCMLL)

What happened: 

The técnicos rushed NGD, to poor results. Sansón beat Angel de Oro to set up a title match, but everyone was more concerned with Mije. Forastero threw him out of the ring to Kraneo, but father away from Mije than he could catch him. Mije was taken to the back but was said not to have suffered a serious injury.

This was Puma’s final match in CMLL for the time being, though it wasn’t known at this time.

Tiger and Misterioso are still feuding and not friends. It’s unclear if anyone else cares about this feud.

Thoughts:

The main event was a pretty standard CMLL two fall match (where the losing team gets in a fall ending move and just passes on covering for a pin.) The feuding teams put in the effort and NGD keep getting better, there just wasn’t a lot this match. It would’ve been overshadowed by the careless screw up at the end. There’s plenty of other matches you can see these guys with, and next week’s title match should be better than this.

The highlight of this semifinal was Audaz doing a running front flip over the top rope and Zacarias booking it when he got too close. That was one frightened bird. The técnicos didn’t do much flying, and even the dives required catches that didn’t quite happen. (Poor Stuka got stuck with Rey Bucanero’s concrete hands.) The rudos winning isn’t thrilling but fits with the idea of Bucanero & Shocker trying to get a new group idea over. They’re really going to need a younger guy involved to handle these sort of opponents better. Felino tried but doesn’t cover their opponents well enough.

The Panthers/Cats match had the usual positive effort commonplace with this series of matches. It also had a more thoughtful match structure than most on Tuesday. Blue Panther matches do run into their own reputations – a first fall ending via sudden submission without everyone making in like this one happens from time to time – but it feels like he has about 25 different scripts he’s working from where everyone else is using 4. Even when it’s too new, it’s still novel. Similarly, a lot of his better matches feature the usual third fall dives early in those final falls. CMLL trains viewers to expect the dives in the closing seconds of normal trios matches, with the finish coming seconds later. Anything that goes past those dives has a more epic feel since it has then reached a point where any move could be a potential match ender. This match went minutes beyond the first set of dives, with a not-to-unusual sequence of big moves feeling more meaningful and less perfunctory because of how the match had progressed. On a simpler level, this crowd has seen this enough to anticipate the bigger spots. They were up for Puma’s double stomp after Tiger’s back cracker, and they were impressed by Panther’s dive fake. Misterioso picked his spots well and stayed out of the way, and Blue Panther brought energy as usual. This fits in right with the other strong matches from this feud.

Pegasso/Virus was the usual level of Tuesday night lightning match, with a little bit of action and a little bit of effort. The finish was a weird DQ. It seemed like Tirantes acting out since he was already counting slow against Pegasso, and because that spot is never called as a foul. Pegasso knew to sell it as a one anyway, and the spot with Virus seemingly getting the submission victory only to use is a pretty standard bad lucha finish, so I think that was the actual plan. Figuring that out was more interesting than the match.