Velasquez match, Fantasma, WR, Arena Coliseo Aniversario

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The Cain Velasquez match comes up on this week’s Keepin’ It 100. The press conference message was Cain is wrestling on TripleMania but the match has not been settled. It appears that is the actual situation: Konnan said he has an idea he likes for the match but has to run it up the ladder to get approved. He expects that it will end up being a 2v2 match, not a singles match. Konnan also has a dream match that he’s working on that he believes will blow everyone away.

WrestleMania weekend comes up for discussion too – that’s where the empty thoughts in the next paragraph came from – and Konnan mentions AAA will have a “special announcement” that weekend. On the face, WrestleMania weekend seems like a really poor time for anyone not running a big show to make an announcement, because it stands a big risk of being eclipsed by whatever else happens. It’s a special difficulty for AAA if they make it during their Tijuana taping that weekend. It is the final day before Daylight Savings Time starts in Mexico in the farthest west they go. (If you’re in New York for WrestleMania or anywhere else on the US East Coast, AAA starts at 1 AM Saturday morning if they even start on time.) The only reason I could come up where it would make sense making a big announcement is if the announcement is New York focused – if AAA is bringing back the idea of running MSG again. That seems like a stretch but I know AAA hasn’t ruled out the idea.

This is a non-issue except for people concerned with announcing but I wonder who is going to be the announcers for the AAA show in Tijuana that weekend. Vampiro is listed as signing autographs at WrestleCon, so he might not be around. Jose Manuel Guillen usually goes to WrestleMania to cover it for +LuchaTV so he might not be around. Konnan might fill-in for either, but he’ll be at MLW & Impact that weekend. It could be Jesus Zuniga gets back behind the mic with Hugo if he’s free from his Televisa commitments and Adrian goes it alone.

(You know, if I was organized and liked public outings and/or drinking, I should’ve organized a Saturday 1 AM AAA in watch party someplace where the other lucha libre degenerates could watch TJ locals do many Destroyers in that opener. It is an idea I had but not one I was interested enough to figure out. I’ll probably be sitting around someplace in the WrestleCon Hotel watching it on my phone instead.)

Leo Riano says Dorian Roldan reached out to Cain Velasquez after he made his comments, but also says Roldan reached out to Velasquez last year. Where there other comments last year? Riano also says CMLL & Televisa would like the viewership numbers to improve but commercial sales are doing OK and there’s some thought to adjusting the time or having it run longer.

AAA put up a surprise vintage match: the minis match from TripleMania 4 in Ciudad Madero.

The debuting (Pro) Wrestling Resurrecion Revolution held a press conference yesterday to talk about their first show this Saturday in Arena Lopez Mateos. This is the Mexico City promotion, not the northern California one. They really need to drop the “Pro” to make it less confusing. The big angle on the press conference was Hijo del Fantasma showing up and asking to be part of the main event. That main event was Ricky Marvin & Super Cuervo vs Cuervo & Scoria, so Fantasma needed a tag partner and didn’t have one at the moment. Hijo de Dos Caras nominated himself and got the spot. Caras was in a trios match with the Panther boys against Eterno, Kawato, and Okumura. Okumura’s not thought to be back from surgery from months so that slides into a tag match.

The recycled lucha story of the last few days has been “Is Hijo del Fantasma/King Cuerno going to the WWE?”, because Dave Meltzer mentioned Fantasma had a WWE offer on a recent podcast. This was not new news: it’s been reported many times that Fantasma had an opportunity to go to WWE around the time of the original Cruiserweight Classic but was prevented going there by his Lucha Underground deal. (Fantasma also talked about having a WWE tryout many times, as recently as last week’s MMM Show.) The repeater new stories made it sound like Fantasma had a recent deal. Fantasma was asked about that at the press conference and MedioTiempo mentions Fantasma has not received any WWE offer so far. Fantasma says he’s open to going there, just like he’s open to going to CMLL to feud with his old friend Rush. LA Park is the other big name Fantasma would like to wrestle. He’s smartly picking big names.

It hasn’t been announced as such, but this Saturday’s Arena Coliseo show will be the Arena Coliseo 76th Anniversary show according to Ovaciones. (It reads like a CMLL press release which hasn’t been posted to their website yet.) Arena Coliseo was opened on April 2nd, 1943. The Arena Coliseo Anniversary show is usually the first week of April and usually promoted a little bit. That’s probably why Soberano/Templario is happening on a Saturday. Ovaciones says Arena Mexico will have the building anniversary shows on Friday April 26 and Sunday April 28. (This is different than the CMLL promotion anniversary date if you’re not used to all these anniversaries.) CMLL figures to hold a Kid’s Day show on Tuesday April 30th as well.

The finals of the parejas increibles would make for a reasonable main event for that Friday Arena Mexico anniversary show. That would mean blocks on April 12 and 19th. We’ll probably know within the first match on Friday. Either they promote the tournament as starting next week or it starts the 12th, because they’re not going to do a tournament block show for a building anniversary.

CMLL Parejas Increibles Teams announced so far

Yago would like to form a trio with Hechicero & Mephisto and his goal is to be in a main event. Yago doing CMLL press is a pretty big achievement.

Estrellita may be back in CMLL next Sunday (or maybe she’s just making an appearance.)

CMLL announced they’ve established relations with the Japanese embassy in Mexico City. I assume this will help to direct Japanese fans to CMLL, but not many details are mentioned.

El Planchitas says CMLL is worried about bad turnout, especially on Tuesday shows “where families of wrestlers don’t even want to come.” This turns into an item about CMLL giving press tickets to give away – The Gladiatores did so for this past week – but CMLL’s really been giving away tickets for a while to various shows. Anyone who’s watched some Informa knows about that, and they’ve done it in other media appearances. Planchitas uses this as a complaint about not getting their own free tickets but I’m more disappointed about no mention of making the shows better.

Misterioso Jr.’s daughter has passed away.

The Crash on 04/13 in Auditorio de Tijuana

That suggests Horus is not the mystery person in the main event.

Rey Horus & Aeroboy are scheduled to be in Chicago on 04/28 for GALLI, though the last Thalia Hall show got canceled.

05/19 ChilangaMask 6th Anniversary show in Coliseo Coacalco

Silueta hasn’t been seen since December 2017. If you guessed “left wrestling to have a child”, you are correct. (It’s a boy.) She says she’s nervous to return but looking forward to it.

LuchaWorld has a fresh Lucha Report.

LuchaTalk has the latest episode.

Lineups

CMLL (MON) 04/01/2019 Arena Puebla
1) Arkalis, King Jaguar, Robin vs El Perverso, Policeman, Tyson La Bestia
2) Lluvia, Marcela, Sanely vs Dalys, La Metálica, Tiffany
3) Esfinge, Flyer, Rey Cometa vs Kawato San, Olímpico, Tiger
4) La Bestia Del Ring, Místico, Último Guerrero vs Euforia, Mephisto, Valiente [Relevos Increíbles]
5) Volador Jr. vs Gran Guerrero

No title on the line in the main event. Semi-main is likely a relevos increible just because Mistico & La Bestia are on the same show, but I want some Ultimo Guerrero/Euforia battle. Marcela & Tyson get to be on the same show.

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