Recapped: 12/19/2019
Matches:
Leono & Robin beat Cholo & Inquisidor
(15:28 [6:39, 3:51, 4:58], 1/3, n/r, VideosOficialesCMLL)
La Guerrera, Lluvia, Marcela beat Amapola, La Infernal, La Seductora
(13:33 [5:10, 3:35, 4:48], 1/3, n/r, VideosOficialesCMLL)
Misterioso, Sagrado, Tiger beat Dulce Gardenia, Pegasso, Príncipe Diamante
(9:30 [1:19, 2:56, 5:15], 2/3, ok, VideosOficialesCMLL)
Universo 2000 Jr. beat Guerrero Maya Jr. in the CMLL La Copa Junior final
(19:32 [3:00, 2:39, 13:53], 2/3, good, VideosOficialesCMLL)
- Guerrero Maya Dos Caras Clutch (3:00)
- Universo head crusher (2:39)
- Universo martillo negro (19:32)
Okumura, Rey Bucanero, Terrible beat Flyer, Kráneo, Stuka Jr.
(13:24 [5:07, 5:16, 3:01], 2/3, n/r, VideosOficialesCMLL
Ángel de Oro, Diamante Azul, Niebla Roja beat Euforia, Gran Guerrero, Shocker
(14:21 [9:20, 5:01], 1/2 DQ, n/r, VideosOficialesCMLL)
What happened:
Gran Guerrero unmasked Diamante Azul for the main event DQ.
Universo 2000 Jr. won Copa Junior.
Principe Diamante was stretchered out after taking Sagrado’s finish. He was fine later.
Thoughts:
Guerrero Maya/Universo 2000 Jr. was the best match of Universo 2000’s run in CMLL, but not a match you have to go out of your way to see. It sticks out positively because there was tournament final urgency not seen often on this show, not even often for title matches. Universo 2000 Jr. showed a willingness to go farther in big matches – he’ll give you a legdrop to the floor, a weird head over the knee move and a big tope – which might put him ahead of Forastero when it comes to singles matches. Guerrero Maya also showed enough to prove he still has in him to have a great match if given the chance; the years of doing nothing haven’t stopped him from looking clean on offense and selling big for his opponent.
It was still just lacking a lot. Universo 2000 Jr. is unimpressive with no particular presence. The story of the match was all over the place. Maya sold a possible shoulder injury early on that was dropped after the second fall. Perhaps that was real and they had to work around it, but there’s no real explanation why the consummate tecnico Maya was repeatedly trying to cheat to win the match in the third fall. It was not a call back to a previous match or previous fall, Maya hadn’t exhausted his normal options (most weren’t tried), there had been no build to a rudo to that point and Maya shouldn’t have been that desperate. It was a build to nothing, with Maya turning and walking into the martillo negro a moment later. It was so strange and out of character that it diminished the end of the match.
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