CMLL , Televisa (SAT) 04/10/2021 Arena México [CMLL]
1) Estrellita & La Vaquerita b La Metálica & La Seductora
2) Último Guerrero © b Diamante Azul [CMLL HEAVY]
UG took 2/3 to retain. 9th defense.
3) Black Panther & Star Jr. vs Luciferno, Pólvora [battle royal] 
4) Ephesto, Luciferno, Mephisto b Dragón Rojo Jr., Misterioso Jr., Pólvora [MEX TRIOS, quarterfinal]
5) Guerrero Maya Jr., Star Jr., Stuka Jr. b Black Panther, Blue Panther, Blue Panther Jr. [MEX TRIOS, quarterfinal]
6) Guerrero Maya Jr., Star Jr., Stuka Jr. b Ephesto, Luciferno, Mephisto [MEX TRIOS, semifinal]
Starting a Monday post with CMLL results, as if it’s normal again. CMLL’s Televisa show has rarely been noteworthy, but Saturday’s show had a bit of news. Ultimo Guerrero kept the heavyweight title in a match set up the previous week, while Guerrero Maya, Star Jr., and Stuka advance to the championship final on 04/24. No word on the other four teams for the second block.
In an interview with Mas Lucha, Bandido says he and CMLL were having conversations about a contract but they hadn’t agreed to one. Bandido says he fulfilled his dream by main eventing Arena Mexico and is content with moving on.
Dragon Bane & Arez lost in the second round of the GCW Acid Cup on Friday afternoon. Laredo Kid didn’t appear; his opponent cut a promo about wrestlers not being ready and replaced him with one who was ready. Everything seemed fine enough for Laredo Kid later in the evening when he, Aramis, and Dragon Bane defeated Taurus, Gringo Loco, and Arez in a spectacular match. If you’re used to these guys, you can spot places where things weren’t going quite as they wanted them to happen, but there was enough stuff that was unlike what anyone else was doing that the small issues were easy to overlook. The trios match stood out on a struggle of a weekend, and I think there will be more of it next year in Dallas (if border restrictions and COVID cases both relinquish.)
Tinieblas announced that he’ll unmask if the voters of Mexico City borough Venustiano Carranza vote him into the mayor’s office, so they will know the face of the man who represents them. He pushed it as “if you want to see my face, you should vote for the RSP party.” He’s not expected to seriously contend. Blue Demon Jr. appeared at an RSP rally in Tlaxcala, so whatever led to him being removed as a RSP candidate for office seems not to have damaged his relationship to the party. It suggests the issue was more about real name/mask than Demon’s wife accusations, but the accusations seem to have quickly been forgotten.
A separate accusation about a different wrestler came up this weekend, though I’m not sure what to make of it. A thirteen-year-old girl vacationing with her parents in Paredon, Coahuila, says she was sexually assaulted by wrestlers in the Sangre Chicana family. The issues arise because of the reporting; Vanguardia has a story the incident the girl went out to play Tuesday, the parents didn’t notice until she was missing Wednesday at 3 AM, and “unofficial sources” say Sangre Chicana Jr. & La Hiedra were involved. Zocalo’s story says it was Thursday and involved Sangre Chicana (Sr.). Facebook page 911 News says it was Wednesday morning, “one of Sangre Chicana sons” was taken into custody, and other siblings were present including one who was said to look like La Hiedra. (The story also has citizens of the town complaining about other out-of-control behavior of the Chicana kids, though “speeding through towns on ATVs” seems minor compared to what’s alledged here.) These stories were published around Friday, all suggest charges would be announced in a few hours, yet there’s been no news about this since. Sangre Chicana himself did an interview on Saturday, saying he had committed no crime and threatened to sue anyone who erroneously wrote about him or his family being accused of sexual assault. He did also mention he (and his family) are living in Paredon. On Facebook, La Hiedra linked to her father’s interview and said the accusations are false and slander.
There’s a lot of issues here and, obviously, sexual assault is the biggest one. A lesser issue in figuring out if the accused are correctly being identified in these reports. Sangre Chicana has many children; someone saying “it was Chicana’s son and his sister” could easily end up with another person searching on Google and ending up with the wrong two people. I’m not confident a reporter being told “it was Sangre Chicana’s son” can accurately identify that person as Sangre Chicana Jr., Hijo de Sangre Chicana, or a non-wrestling son. (I’m not sure a wrestling reporter could accurately identify either; one of them began as “Junior” and then switched to “Hijo” when the other started.) The same thing is true with La Hiedra; there are other Sangre Chicana daughters, she’s just the most famous one at the moment, and even the reports that mention her by name do it as “a person who matches her description.”
I was hoping there really would be an update on this short, but I haven’t found anything this morning. This accusation feels like another Blue Demon Jr. situation, where the accusation makes it into print, more is promised to come, but that’s the end of it. I feel like I’m giving too much the benefit of the doubt to Hiedra and (a) Sangre Chicana son here, but I don’t know what else to write about this with the information so far. The difference between this case and the Blue Demon one is charges were filed (or at least claimed to be filed), and that doesn’t appear to have happened yet in this case. It’s also not the accuser or the parents of the accuser speaking out, but people on their behalf and “sources.” Maybe the pattern breaks and we actually do get more on this story one way or another.
BolaVIP interviews Carolina Rodriguez about being a lucha libre edecan and dating Mistico. She says it’s tough to go out on dates because they risk people figure out the person she’s with is the unmasked Mistico. (Mistico’s not done the most serious job of concealing his identity, I think people could figure it out.)
Lucha Libre Vanguarida’s press conference made it a lot clear what they’re doing for their new Extraordinario championship; it’s just an eight-person one-tournament. With a bracket and everything. First-round matches
- El Mago vs Gasparin Jr.
- Ciclope vs Lobo Blanco Jr.
- Miedo Extremo vs Simbolo Azteca
- Jimmy vs Jitsu
The names on the left all seem like favorites, but maybe they throw in one upset. (Lobo Blanco/Ciclope is a new feud from their last show, so that could be it.) I’m not sure who wins it from there. The first and second-round matches will air on Mas Lucha this upcoming weekend, with the final on the live 05/15 show.
El Mago regained the Black Mask Lucha Libre Cruiserweight championship from Lobo Blanco Jr. in Guadalajara, on the promotion’s show. Adrenalina was also in the match. The title’s largely been seen in Lucha Libre Vanguardia for the last year with Black Mask rarely being able to run. Blanco won this title from Mago back when he was still Draztick Boy.
El Engendro (Raul Mayo, 60) passed away Monday. Engendro was a El Toreo luchador who had the misfortune of coming on board just as the promotion started to fall apart, from 1990 to 1994. He moved to Guadalajara and was a local star there, with a couple of AAA appearances, though he wasn’t one of the Payasos, as had been listed on the luchawiki for many years. Engendro was active in 2019 and appeared in a legend’s match late in 2020.
Monterrey luchador Alex Black suffered a concussion and a neck injury on Friday at the Lucha Time tapings. Black was expected to be under observation for the weekend. The injury came in a match with Punk Clown and they decided to not run the following Saturday. Lucha Time is taping shows among limited fans; acknowledging the injury is more transparent than normal for a Mexican wrestling promotion in that situation.
Penta faces Brandon Culter on AEW Dark Elevation tonight. Pac & Fenix also team up on that show, something I didn’t know until it was pointed out to me; AEW doesn’t really promote all of the individual matches on the Dark shows as much since they’ve gone to having two of them.
The latest ROH episode, with Bandido & Flamita vs Jay Lethal & Jonathan Gresham, is available. I haven’t seen but my
Zona 23’s latest show is up on IWTV.
Box Y Lucha 3467 has Atlantis and Andrade on the cover.
Lineups
MexaWrestling (SAT) 04/17/2021 Arena San Juan Pantitlan, Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl, Estado de México
1) Baby Xtreme & Torito vs Mike & Voltrex and Águila Oriental & Noicy Boy
2) Fly Star, Lunatik Xtreme, Sobredosis vs Aster Boy, Atomic Star, Fulgor I
3) Toro Negro Jr. vs Skayde
4) Centvrión & Metaleón vs Hijo del Espectro & King Charro
5) Toxin vs Villano III Jr.
6) Demonio Infernal & Fresero Jr. vs Corsario Negro Jr. & Drako
Full show for MexaWrestlnig first event with fans in months. So much of current Mexico City indie booking is just matching up the usual assortment of names in slightly different combinations; Villano III Jr. is going to be booked a lot in a high position because few of those matches have been done yet.