I have no big story or results today, just a lot of medium stories.
On Facebook, Scoria posted a video with him and Cuervo declaring they were now both independents, and out of AAA. There was a rumor about this last week, and the two have disappeared off TV since the booking change. There’s already a tease of them getting back together with former partners Ozz & Escoria for indie bookings.
Hijo del Fantasma told TJ Sports that he’s staying in AAA and not going to NXT, which is the expected rumor whenever someone in Mexico loses their mask. Sombra was able to keep the deal he had in hand very quiet until the day he was to show up in WWE, so there’s nothing Fantasma can really say that proves he won’t be going to WWE but it does appear everyone’s operating under the idea he’ll be in AAA for a while.
AAA has added an 11/18 TV taping in Juarez to its upcoming show page. November in Juarez seems to be a regular thing: they’ve run TV there that same week every year since 2015. It’s tough to tell at this point because there’s no telling how much of the upcoming TV dates AAA’s announced, but it does appear AAA may be getting away from running a TV taping as they’ve done this summer (for reasons never explained.) The ones they’ve announced so far are a little more spaced out.
A video of two gas station employees doing lucha spots went viral this weekend. AAA’s trying to find them to bring them in for a show, and may have found them already. I didn’t think the spots were that good, even for gas station employees. I am a harsh judge.
Volador Jr. was doing interviews to promote the Anniversario show yesterday. This article, with PubliMetro, is about what normally comes out of them: Volador thinks he’s an underdog, feels Taven was the best choice as a partner because he’s got issues with Rush too. Less usual is this article on ESPN, where Volador’s actually asked about the most recent Mr. Niebla incident. Volador says he could tell something was wrong with Mr. Niebla right away when he came out the side entrance and fell off the top rope. He decided then to end the match as soon as possible, knowing the fans would be disappointed and there might be consequences, but not wanting Niebla to expose the business more or to risk someone getting hurt. On the video, Volador is visibly trying to untie Niebla’s mask from the start of the match, which backs up his story. Volador noted there have been no consequences, and I’d guess most people in charge of CMLL wouldn’t have noticed it even happened if it didn’t become something of a viral video for a day.
On CMLL Informa, Julio Cesar Rivera claimed 70% of the tickets for the 85th Anniversary show have been sold. That would mean just over 11,000, a good number for eight days out. This was part of a rant about people complaining about the show on the internet. This is probably not the week to go with the “people just complain about wrestling on the internet and don’t buy tickets to anything” concept, but I would not expect CMLL to be aware of things outside their doors. If they’re really sold out 70%, I’m not sure why they’re even considered with people on the internet in the first place. Anyway, Euforia had a good joke and that’s all that matters.
There’s no mention of what CMLL might be doing for streaming the Anniversario show. It’s possible they’re just doing nothing special and streaming it like normal. It’s possible they’re doing it on a delay to protect that attendance (even as great as JCR says it is.) They’re not currently listed on internet.tv, and I think they would’ve announced an iPPV if that was what was happening. Everything seems an option and we probably won’t find out what’s happening until they mention it in passing tomorrow night during the regular Friday night stream.
Kaoz Promotions sent out a press release announcing they’ve split with ways with Zorro. Zorro had mentioned a couple days ago that he would not be working this Sunday’s Kaoz show, where the poster (still) has him in the main event. Kaoz happened to have a press conference to promote a Saturday Kaoz show in Satillo, where Alfonso Botello was listed as the director (and Zorro was still mentioned as wrestling.) Zorro had been the public face of the promotion and the programmer behind the scenes. The money guy and the lead wrestler falling out after all of about four shows seems about right for Mexico. The press release makes a point of saying “Klan Kaoz” is a name the promotion owns, which may cause a change in CMLL – since the Kaoz shows were never released on video in a meaningful way, that’ll be the way most people outside of Monterrey notice a change.
CMLL has a look back at Renato Torres vs Ciclon Veloz Jr. and Barbaro Cavernario winning El Busca de un Idolo.
Microman won a micros title in Huejutla, Hidalgo.
The Wrestling Observer Newsletter has some notes from the ExpoLucha, which sounds like it was enjoyed by the people who went but not enough people went to make it work financially. The AAA show on Saturday night is listed as having the biggest turnout at 650. The fans seemed more into the modern guys than the legends, which seems different than Mexico. LA Park (& Hijo de LA Park) refused to do a scheduled meet and greet, and the promoters say they’ll never use him again. LA Park has a long history of prickly dealings with US indie promoters, which make me wonder how things like tonight’s debut in MLW is going to turn out.
RIOT has Fanboy on 09/29. Matches announced
- Erik Ortiz vs Skayde
- Psicotico vs Brian Villa
- Los Un-Mexicans vs Angel o Demonio & Ovett in an extreme match – new
- Jack Evans vs Kratos – new
- Ultimo Ninja will not appear.
Lucha Talk previews the 85th Anniversario show.
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