2019 indie catch up, part 14 of ∞

This process is slowed by me having no idea what I should watch.

Puma King vs Black Destiny
(Tr3s Caidas @ 07/27, 15:29, good, Arena Clandestina)

Puma King & Black Danger was full of big moves. There was nothing much in between them. Often, there wasn’t even an effort to set them up, keeping the most frustrating aspects of your turn/my turn big match Mexican wrestling matches. It still was entertaining, the bigger stuff looked great, and it must’ve been better live judging from reactions.

Dragón Lee (CMLL) vs Bandido (Indie)
(Tr3s Caidas @ 07/27, 14:58, good, Arena Clandestina)

Dragon Lee & Bandido were a bit better than Puma/Danger. Runs of offense are good, and they just do a lot of cool stuff. The match suffers unfairly for me because the PWG match was definitely better but that doesn’t help anyone since it’s not out yet. This is Dragon Lee in showcase mode though, going through his usual spots and not really going any deeper in it. I think he’s going to do fine on the indies because he’s got that sort of touring match figured out, but it’d be nice for him to get some more new ideas out of his new travels.

Místico vs Sansón
(CMLL @ 08/04, 14:47 [2:11, 1:46, 10:50], great, HVSLuchaLibre)

I can’t believe I like this one better than the previous too, but I guess Místico and Sanson are less featured in singles matches. There’s not a huge amount of switching things around here, it’s going thru the usual toolbox just as much, but it comes off as a bit more intense. Maybe it’s just TV production versus watching from the crowd. The finish revolves around the idea that CMLL referees are too dumb to recognize the submission hold Sanson has been using for years, which sadly doesn’t seem much of a stretch.

Caifan & Caifan II vs Trauma I & Trauma II
(MDA @ 08/11, 15:15, ok, mluchatv)

This is a lot of mat work for the first ten minutes and it didn’t really connect with me. Caifan II got stuck in a leg lock for a while in a way that didn’t even mean nothing in the moment. They did battle over holds more, it wasn’t just people letting go. It still felt like it didn’t amount to a lot, though maybe the idea was to make Caifan II seem like a more important deal since he was part of most of it. (Or maybe Caifan was having a night where he couldn’t go for long?) I think I ended up liking it better on the rewatch, understanding better that they were really intending to go anywhere and more just showing off what they could do. It still was a match where only like the last third interested me, which is hard to recommend.

Blue Demon Jr., Hijo de Canis Lupus, Marshe Rockett vs Demonio Infernal, El Mesías, Máscara Año 2000 Jr.
(IWRG @ 08/18, 18:04, ok, mluchatv)

So I watched this because I thought I wanted to see what Marshe Rocket would do in a match like this. It turned out to be “just about nothing” and I was dumb for asking. That is the least of any possible reason to watch this match, with Demonio & Canis Lupus having a headbutt heavy brawl that belongs in a better match and Demon & Mesias failing to match that same intensity. It is odd to fly a guy in to have no idea what to do with him but so goes PALL.

Hijo de Canis Lupus © vs Hechicero for the IWRG Intercontinental Heavyweight Championship
(IWRG @ 09/01, 19:59, good, mluchatv)

Hechicero did his usual subtle and not so subtle cool things early in his match with Hijo de Canis Lupus, in front of a crowd that didn’t seem to be into it all that much. I liked this match, but it was less exciting by being in front of an Arena Naucalpan crowd that came off as dead compared to the last couple of shows. This was like the Caifans match where they did a lot of early mat work that didn’t end up meaning anything, but he back and forth was better down and interesting. Neither really came all that close to connecting on their dives in the end but it did seem to finally wake up the crowd. It’s too bad those dives led right into no one can get beat shenanigans and a weak finish, but that’s why you get sometimes.