Results
all matches taped on February 4th in Tlaxcala
week 1
La Hiedra & Lady Maravilla b Faby Apache & Lady Shani [ok] (AAA YouTube/outside Mexico YouTube)
Abismo Negro Jr. & Texano b Laredo Kid & Octagón Jr. [good] (AAA YouTube/outside Mexico YouTube)
Hijo Del Vikingo & Psycho Clown DQ Chessman & Rey Escorpión [ok] (AAA YouTube/outside Mexico YouTube)
Hades attacked the rudas after the opener for no obvious reason except to give Flammer a reason to appear, lay her out and establish the new trio.
Texano demanded a trios title match after the second match.
Escorpion unmasked Psycho Clown for the DQ in the main event. Octagon made the save, only for Texano to attack him again and repeat the trios challenge.
week 2
Arez & Látigo b Mr. Iguana & Niño Hamburguesa [good] (AAA YouTube/outside Mexico YouTube)
Murder Clown & Octagón Jr. b Abismo Negro Jr. & Taurus [ok] (AAA YouTube/outside Mexico YouTube)
Carta Brava Jr., Mocho Cota Jr., Tito Santana b Hijo Del Vikingo, Laredo Kid, Pagano [ok] (AAA YouTube/outside Mexico YouTube)
The announcers bring up Arez & Latigo defeating Dinastia & Lanzelot the week prior, pushing a winning streak. (That match aired on Azteca but was not shown on Space and hasn’t been put up on YouTube.) Arez & Latigo are going with black and yellow as a team color scheme, but don’t get a name during this run of shows.
A Pagano promo at the start of the show leads to Poder del Norte attack and Vikingo & Laredo making the save. This is the match where Laredo Kid takes a chair shot to the head and ends up with his skull opened; he disappears from the match and it’s 3v2 most of the way. Vikingo takes the pin.
week 3
Taurus beat Hijo Del Vikingo [ok] (Google Drive)
Flammer, La Hiedra, Lady Maravilla beat Big Mami, Hades, Lady Shani [ok] (Google Drive)
Chessman & Texano Jr. beat Laredo Kid & Pentagón Jr. [ok] (Google Drive)
Texano interfered to help Taurus beat Vikingo, with the trios title challenge coming up once again.
Chessman attacked Lady Shani after the ruda trios picked up their first win together. It wasn’t particularly clear why; maybe we missed some angle where Shani objected to Chessman’s hair extensions.
Texano fouled Laredo Kid and Chessman unmasked Penta in the main event. Penta earlier issued an open challenge for the tag titles and threw out a challenge to Averno, who hasn’t been an on-screen character for a year (and still hasn’t resurfaced many weeks after this promo, but neither has Penta.)
Notes
This was AAA’s first attempt at taping at a tourist spot. The bullring has been used for lucha libre events in the past, but I’m sure it never sounded this empty. The wide-open area caused the sound to escape more than it has on future tapings; it was a strange feeling set of shows.
What wasn’t strange was the booking. This is Konnan-led AAA, so the rudos are going to get heat for a while. Nine matches aired, rudos won seven, the tecnicos took one by pinfall and one by DQ (after which they were immediately beaten up.) The plan is always for the tecnicos to get theirs later on a bigger show but, with no idea when that might be, it feels a little much. The direction was half establishing new acts (Hiedra/Maravilla/Flammer and Arez/Latigo) and half putting things back where they were this time last year (the trios title match and the open challenge were Rey de Reyes 2020 concepts.) It’d be nice if something happened on these tapings that also concluded on these tapings, but that’s just not what AAA is going to offer in general, and specifically not when they seem to be restarting from square one.
The matches weren’t as good as they had been on AutoLuchas, at least in this taping. Vikingo & Taurus was OK by normal standards and disappointing by their own past ones; they had ideas that didn’t work but just looked off otherwise. The women’s matches aren’t completely coming together, though the ruda team has some ideas. The novelty has worn off a bit of Murder Clown’s flying act.
The positives included Arez & Latigo looking great as a team, all about strange double team moves in a way that separates them from the more established rudo teams. The opener on week 1 was the best of Laredo Kid’s many appearances, though the second-week main event deserves credit for not falling apart after Laredo was pulled from the match. This is a series of bits that might be important later, but the matches themselves aren’t the strongest.