Lucha Memes: 2020-03-08

Recapped: 07/07/2020

These are the three matches from March 8^th in Coacalco, posted on the promotion’s YouTube channel.

Virus vs Judas el Traidor
(13:11, ok, Lucha Memes)

Virus/Judas felt a little aimless. They did some holds early, definitely wanted to do the board spots to set up Judas bleeding, and they had a lot of near falls. It didn’t combine too well, though it was hard-hitting for while it lasted. Judas wasn’t particularly impressive on his own and Virus seems to work at whatever level he’s presented with on indie matches. The crowd enjoyed this one a lot more than me, so maybe it’s me.

Ricky Marvin vs Perro de Guerra
(12:41, ok, Lucha Memes)

Perro de Guerra’s surprise offense to start the match is a good idea with not well-executed moves. Ricky Marvin’s stomps to the face putting to stop him look a hundred times more viscous. The idea of all these Memes Marvin matches are his opponents aren’t in his league, but Guerra isn’t close enough to make this believable competitive. Perro gets better on his comeback but the early portions to the match are so that it feels weird he even gets a comeback. He lacked the speed or intensity for this sort of match. Marvin hits a lot harder and seemed frustrated at times. Guerra did take a beating well but this wasn’t even one-sided enough to be memorable.

Arez vs Aramis
(let’s say 13:35 but it’s confusing, great, Lucha Memes)

The first five minutes of this are the best Ares & Aramis have been as opponents. They’re almost too good; people who aren’t used to seeing them may get lost in the reversals and counters. The sprint pace they’re going seems to tire them out a bit after the first five minutes, but they still finish really strong. 2020 isn’t overwhelming with top lucha libre matches for obvious reasons but this would definitely have belonged in that conversation had it ended there. It does not end there, with the match going through two superfluous extra falls, like a CMLL big match in reverse. The crowd ended the original match in approval and ends up laughing at the absurdity of the extra falls, through no obvious fault of the wrestlers This was an attempt to make up for wrestlers missing the show, but it actively made the match worse by trying to give it something extra. The place where Lucha Memes can most easily improve are the match finishes. Messy finishes work better with a heavy storyline promotion, a dream match group needs to deliver clean results to maintain that dream, combining both serves neither goal. The biggest enemy of the guy booking Lucha Memes shows is the guy deciding the finishes for the Lucha Memes, which is an easier problem to fix when it’s the same guy.