Lucha Memes: 2021-02-21 (Coacalco Forever)

Recapped: 2021-03-07

Full Results:

• Rayo Boy & Valak beat Black Out & Hellboy
• Skayler beat Noisy Boy & Super Cometa
• Perro de Guerra Jr. defeated Avisman
• Alas de Acero & Iron Kid defeated Aero Panther & Fight Panther
• Tromba defeated Energia
• Aramis & Arez defeated Voltrex & Mike and Jimmy & Astrolux

The full show is available on IWTV. Donators also received individual video links; you should have them already if you donated.

Notes:

Lucha Memes “Coacalco Forever” was a fundraiser for the long-running Mexico State venue, which has not held events for most of the past year due to the pandemics. If it succeeded in keeping that venue going, then the show was a success. The event itself isn’t much worth watching and is one of the weaker events Lucha Memes has put out.

The scheduled main event was Ricky Marvin versus Jimmy. Marvin missed the show. Nothing was publicly announced, and the changes to the card were not ideal. Most of the exciting wrestlers were bundled together in a three-way tag match, removing multiple unaffected matches. That left not much left for the rest of the show; the main event had to come up big for that change to be worth it.

The main event delivered a spot that went viral (Astrolux getting tossed into a headscissors on Mike), a spot that looked more impressive on social media than it’s presented on this show. The rest of the match has some moments but feels sloppy and thrown together, with no direction or purpose. There’s a few other spots they want to get to, but nothing connecting them. The three-way tag format added little and seemed to waste the talent or interest of those involved. Picking two luchadors out of Aramis, Arez, and Jimmy for a singles match would’ve been more exciting than anything we want, even if some of the matches are repetitive. There are other possible solutions – a trios match is almost always going to be better than a three-way tag – and this main event was an unappealing adjustment. The match didn’t suffer because of that change; the effort and thought weren’t present, despite the talent involved. Arez, Aramis, and Jimmy are among the best-unsigned wrestlers in Mexico, but you wouldn’t have known it from their performance in this match. Mike and Voltrex felt a bit exposed, concentrating on moving around to set up the next spot than attempting to keep up the pretense of a fight. This wasn’t a disaster, but it is much less than it reads on paper.

The rest of the show didn’t have any big surprise success to make up for it; if anything, matches were worse than usual. Perro de Guerra/Avisman’s submission match killed the crowd. A few attempts at stringing moves together and battling them out occurred, making it a very slight improvement of Perro’s match on the recent IAW show. It’s wasn’t enough – this style continues to come off as a two-person co-operative yoga game instead of a wrestling match. Avisman and Perro de Guerra show the fans they can do a hold, then let go so they can show off another hold. Knowledge is useless if it’s not applied, and they weren’t applying these holds to win. The wrestlers successfully trained fans to clap for these matches respectfully, but it’s obvious no one cares; it comes off as taking middle school children to the opera. Tromba/Energia was a slightly more diverse version of this same style, Tromba mixing in more strikes and Energia finding different ways of attacking. Not sure I would’ve replayed Energia nearly crashing and burning on his dive, though.

The Panthers/Iron Boy & Alas de Acero was the second-best match on the show, depending on how you feel about the main event. (Neither was bad, nor something I’ll be thinking about again, ranking them seems irrelevant.) The Panthers are still green; they can perform moves but have trouble taking them. They missed Iron Boy’s dive both times and otherwise looked unpolished. They’ve been working with a lot more experienced people lately, and maybe that’ll help them down the line. The finish was flat, but there’s good action prior.

The opener, Black Out & Hellboy versus Rayo Boy & Valak, was an eight-minute turned into twenty minutes of everyone getting in their moves. There wasn’t anything to the moves. It was simply spots to show they could do them. Super Cometa versus Noisy Boy versus Skayler was derailed by injury, but sloppy also before that. The Mexaboys are too inexperienced without Mike & Voltrex, and this match only served to demonstrate that.

The insane camera switches late in the semi-main and main event made them annoying to watch. It felt like an editor who had gotten bored with the show and was entertaining themselves. It followed the same pattern as the recent Coliseo Coacalco shows, where there are production elements to do them, which actively detract from the wrestling. Lucha Memes obviously follows the common wrestling promoter pattern of not watching their own shows because those issues are never addressed.

It would be best if you didn’t waste your time watching this show either. Hopefully, the money helps Coliseo Coacalco, but I’d be hard-pressed to support another Lucha Memes fundraiser if this is what they thought was good enough. The drop-off from the Guerra de Naciones show to this one was massive, and it just makes sense to wait for the show to turn up on IWTV if that’s going to happen regardless of contributing or not. Martinez & the Foundation’s assistance on that previous show seemed more vital without them being part of this show.

Dumb Ratings For Completion Purposes

• Rayo Boy & Valak vs. Black Out & Hellboy: [ok]
• Skayler vs Noisy Boy & Super Cometa: [ok]
• Perro de Guerra Jr. vs. Avisman: [below average]
• Alas de Acero & Iron Kid vs Aero Panther & Fight Panther: [ok]
• Tromba vs Energia: [ok]
• Aramis & Arez vs Voltrex & Mike and Jimmy & Astrolux: [ok]