empty arena shut down by government, Mistico set to return (whenever there is a return), commissioner Dark Scoria

Gym Guerrero de Cruz, a small Puebla lucha libre arena, announced they would have an empty arena show on Sunday afternoon. They had a four match card announced, a bank account for donations and were streaming it Facebook. The opener took place, they started to clean the ring, and that was that: the local government had seen the building was holding a lucha libre show and shut it down. (The shut down isn’t on screen for the video, but you can see them start to talk about the situation at 32:40.) Everyone was sent out of the building and it was literally labeled closed by the government. The promoters of the show are upset others have been allowed to go on and not them, but it’s a risk anyone running an empty arena show is taking.

NVI Noticas has an article about the shut down lucha libre scene in Oaxaca. Most were making a little extra money, but some have related physical activity jobs that are shut down. Local arena Arena Pepe Cisneros plans on running an empty arena show on Sunday. In Hidalgo, CWF tried to run an empty arena show on Sunday but it appears to not have worked due to tech issues. If the show took place, it never made it to Facebook or YouTube.

Mistico will be cleared to return to lucha libre on Wednesday. There’s no lucha libre right now but he should be back in CMLL when they resume.

Guadalajara luchador Arana Atomica (Francisco Dominguez) passed away over the weekend. He was active in Guadalajara from the mid-70s to the mid-80s. Atomica is X-Fly’s father.

CMLL’s Televisa show this past week the 2014 Homenaje a Dos Leyendas, and it went up on YouTube Friday night with not much promotion. This was during a period where CMLL’s Friday night shows seemed to only air on Fox Sports over on hour. About half the card didn’t air on Fox Sports, which means this is the first time the Super Porky trios, the La Sombra & Volador failed team up, and the Guerreros/Estetats del Aire matches have aired. They’re edited down a bit for TV purposes.

CMLL has remodeled their website during this down period. It seems unfinished; the “cartelera” link at the top doesn’t actually show lineups because the script they were using didn’t get ported over to the new setup. If you can get to those pages on your own, it shows some 2017 lineups for reasons unclear.

Psycho Clown reached 20 years of wrestling while not having wrestled for a month, which he’s handled before to injuries. He wants to celebrate his anniversary year with LA Park’s mask or Rush’s hair. It reminds me that Felino’s unbroken streak of wrestling in at least one match a month going back to the early 90s (going back before complete records) is probably going to end this month.

A proposal is in front of the Durango municipal government where Dark Scoria would become the new head of the only local boxing & lucha libre commission. This is an unpaid position. The old president has passed away.

DJ Spectro on R de Rudo starts a history piece on Lucha Libre magazine editor Valente Perez. He came up with the designs of stars like Mil Mascaras & Tinieblas and pushed them hard in his magazine, though they’re not that far along.

LuchaWorld posts a Cavernario Galindo interview from 1992.

Dos Hermanos have five questions with La Jarochita.