CMLL on Marca: 2019-12-13

Recapped: 12/17/2019

Matches:

Akuma & Yago beat Retro & Robin
(10:51 [3:54, 2:49, 4:08], 1/3, ok, VideosOficialesCMLL)

Pegasso, Príncipe Diamante, Stigma beat Disturbio, Nitro, Virus
(13:37 [5:52, 3:02, 4:43], 2/3, ok, VideosOficialesCMLL)

Dulce Gardenia, Guerrero Maya Jr., Rey Cometa beat Kawato San, Okumura, Tiger
(8:58 [2:53, 6:05], 1/2 DQ, good, VideosOficialesCMLL)

Felino beat Stuka Jr. in a lightning match
(6:30, powerbomb, ok, VideosOficialesCMLL)

Cuatrero, Forastero, Gran Guerrero beat Ángel de Oro, Diamante Azul, Niebla Roja
(13:53 [5:33, 3:14, 5:06], 1/3, ok, VideosOficialesCMLL)

Carístico, Negro Casas, Valiente beat Euforia, Soberano Jr., Último Guerrero in a relevos increíbles match
(12:37 [5:30, 2:34, 4:33], 2/3, ok, VideosOficialesCMLL)

What happened:

The cameras miss it, but Zacarias takes a bad fall off the apron thanks to a Soberano Jr. kick in the first fall. Zacarias ends up stretchered away.

Kawato San attacked Dulce Gardenia from behind to start the match and fouled him to end it. Hair match promos followed.

Yago & Akuma had friendly fire problems during the match, playing off their mask match earlier this year.

Thoughts:

The main event was a regular match on a regular show. The crowd reacted to this a lot but didn’t come off as anything different despite the different sides. They did enough to give the crowd a happy match while not deviating much from the rest. Casas seemed not in a lot, though the chop fight with Ultimo Guerrero was good. Casas is the among most cheered guys and should just be a tecnico all the time, but he seems to prefer the other way. Soberano did a good job taking La Mistica.

Diamante Azul looks a lot like how he left, a man frequently pulling down his shirt to make sure his gut doesn’t get exposed. He seemed tired at the end of the match but that’s nothing new. Neither was the rest of the match.

Stuka got in a lot of dives, then climbed up to the rope to get powerbombed to a dumb loss. He hit the mat badly too, so all around a bad time. Felino pinning Stuka should set up a title match but it probably won’t and that’s OK.

Rey Cometa worked the tercera like he was the man headed to an apuesta match. He and Tiger remain some of the better watches in the midcard division and out-shined Dulce & Kawato too. They were good as far as building emotion for their apuesta match, but they’re not actually doing a lot beyond that. It will be an achievement if they have a great hair match, it does not feel a certainty.

Principe Diamante having a pending apuesta match didn’t affect a normal segunda. He didn’t take a pin and he did look good in his run but wasn’t really spotlighted. Nitro barely wanted to say down for three for him at the end.

The opener was mostly an exhibition for the tecnicos, who were fine if unspectacular. Akuma really threw himself into a belly to belly suplex for Retro. The call back to the previous feud was a nice touch.