CMLL
CMLL (MON) 08/22/2022 Arena Puebla [CMLL, Comisión Box y Lucha Puebla, El Sol del Puebla]
2) Perverso & Prayer b Rey Apocalipsis & Siki Osama 
3) Audaz, Dulce Gardenia, Star Jr. b Felino, Okumura, Rey Bucanero
4) Atlantis Jr., Hechicero, Templario b Ángel de Oro, Stuka Jr., Titán [Relevos Increíbles]
Angel de Oro left the match a couple minutes early on his own power with an injury. Atlantis Jr. said Stuka would be unmasked at the Aniversario
5) Averno, Negro Casas, Volador Jr. DQ Cavernario, Gran Guerrero, Último Guerrero [Relevos Increíbles]
Volador blocked a foul from UG, then faked a foul anyway to draw the DQ. May set up a singles match next week.
Just the last couple of minutes of clips on all thoe matches. Angel de Oro seemed bothered but not drastically hurt.
CMLL (TUE) 08/23/2022 Arena México [Box y Lucha, CMLL, Kaiser Sports, Marca, The Gladiatores (video)]
1) Fantasy & Kaligua b Full Metal & Pequeño Polvora
2) Disturbio, Nitro, Raider b Diamond, Sangre Imperial, Suicida
3) La Seductora, Metálica, Reyna Isis b La Guerrera, La Vaquerita, Princesa Sugehit 
4) Dulce Gardenia, Espíritu Negro, Rey Cometa b Cancerbero, El Coyote, Luciferno
5) Ángel de Oro, Niebla Roja, Terrible b Dark Panther, Star Black, Star Jr.
Star Black replaced Guerrero Maya Jr.
Suicida fell hard to the floor near the close of the third fall of his match but apparently only ended with a headache.
Somehow I only managed to upload two of these.
CMLL (TUE) 08/23/2022 Arena Coliseo Guadalajara [Arena Coliseo Guadalajara, Mas Lucha]
1) Persa, Raven, Temerario b Estrella de Jalisco I, Estrella de Jalisco II, Último Ángel
2) Cris Skin, Optimus, Trono b Omar Brunetti, Ráfaga, Vaquero Jr.
Cris Skin replaced Angel Rebelde (moved up)
3) Crixus b Halcón Negro Jr. [QRO MIDDLE]
4) Adrenalina, Explosivo, Fantástico b Ángel Rebelde, Hombre Bala Jr., Robin
Star Black was announced and thne immediately replaced by Angel Rebelde
5) Difunto, Euforia, Hijo del Soberano b Dragón Rojo Jr., Furia Roja, Misterioso Jr.
6) Místico, Panterita del Ring Jr., Volador Jr. b Averno, Hechicero, Zandokan Jr.
Mistico’s return here drew well. Misterioso had a rough night.
Next week’s show will feature Arena Coliseo Guadalajara and Arena Puebla wrestlers. Those two CMLL arenas have rarely (maybe never) sent local wrestlers to the other buildings, so this is an unseen concept. Matches strongly hinted by graphics
- Asturiano, Prayer, Extasis, Siki Osama Jr. vs Halcon Negro, Optimus, Trono, Angel Rebelde
- Perverso, Rey Samuray, Pegasso vs Furia Roja, Joker, Guerrero de la Muerte
- Guerrero Maya Jr., Arkalis, Stigma vs Bestia Negra, Difunto, Zandokan Jr.
There’s no Extasis wrestling in Arena Puebla. I think it’s Big Lucha’s Extasis, who is from Puebla and did wrestle on indie shows with some of this crew. (That also suggests he was training to debut in Arena Puebla and never got a spot.)
Salvador Lutteroth (the young one) was in attendance at Arena Coliseo Guadalajara. He’s rarely seen publically at shows.
CMLL (FRI) 08/26/2022 Arena México
1) Astral & Leono vs Grako & Inquisidor
2) Amapola, La Jarochita, La Magnifica vs Dark Silueta, Lluvia, Marcela [Relevos Increíbles]
3) Atlantis, Blue Panther, Negro Casas vs Euforia, Hechicero, Mephisto
4) Fugaz, Stuka Jr., Titán vs Atlantis Jr., Cavernario, Dragón Rojo Jr.
Fugaz replaced Soberano Jr.
5) Averno, Místico, Templario vs Gran Guerrero, Último Guerrero, Volador Jr. [Relevos Increíbles]
The Copa Independencia tournament starts on 09/02 so this is just a break between competitions. The show still might be good.
CMLL (SAT) 08/27/2022 Arena Coliseo
1) Bengala & Retro vs Apocalipsis & Príncipe Odín Jr.
2) La Guerrera, La Magnifica, La Vaquerita vs Hera, Olympia, Tiffany
3) Arkalis, Cachorro, Panterita del Ring Jr. vs Dr. Karonte I, Dr. Karonte II, Enfermero Jr.
4) Fugaz, Star Black, Stigma vs Hijo del Villano III, Misterioso Jr., Pólvora
5) Panterita del Ring, Stuka Jr., Volador Jr. vs Ángel de Oro, Niebla Roja, Terrible
There are names here – Panterita del Ring and Cachorro come to mind – who never seem to be making to Friday shows. CMLL’s much more specific about which guys wrestle in the top half of the card on Friday. It means some prelim guys are showing up on Fridays but midcard guys seem to have a harder path.
Aniversario tickets for the first level of Arena Mexico show are sold out. CMLL’s taken a couple of unusual steps in response
- The upper-level seats (balcony and bleacher seating) will go on sale Thursday morning.
- Those areas are usually only sold at the Arena Mexico box office and only sold even there if CMLL thinks there’s enough demand to open the area up. It was always going to be open for this show but I don’t think they expected to put them online and definitely not online this quick.
- A CMLL press release says this is the first time these zones of tickets have been put on sale via Ticketmaster but I’m not sure that’s true. I remember it happening on past shows, and I’ve mentioned it in passing in at least this 2011 blog entry. It’s been a while, at least.
- The CMLL Aniversario iPPV is also already available to purchase on Ticketmaster. It’s the same 198 pesos price as the PPV.
The first full-capacity Aniversario, with Atlantis involved in the main event and either a mask or a big name hair loss in the main event, should be a big deal. This seemed like a show that was going to do full capacity or pretty close as long as the prices were reasonable and they would end up with those numbers. It’s just the pace of ticket sales that’s been stunning. It doesn’t entirely feel like CMLL was expecting this pace of sales either. CMLL’s Guadalajara broadcast was running a generic “tickets now on sale” promo Tuesday night when there were only a couple of dozen tickets left. CMLL itself doesn’t feel hot, but CMLL fans (and AAA fans too) are willing to spend on shows they consider big, and CMLL’s done a good job making this Aniversario feel big.
CMLL Informa today has Volador Jr., Los Ingobernables, Volcano and Neon. I wonder if they’re doing a CMLL Pekes Volcano video. He’s sort of a cartoon already.
AAA
AAA sponsor Magnichater unvieled Pentagon Jr. and Villano IV planes on Monday. These are charter planes that are in normal service and will have Penta/Villano decals on the planes for the next few months as they fly around Central and South America. It’s a neat design, but it was more intended as a media event to promote TripleMania and their mask match for a fresh run of press. Villano IV shed tears thinking about his family being remembered through this plane design, which continued the streak of Villano IV crying at press conferences. Those acts originally seemed like a sign he knew he was losing his mask at the end of this, but maybe he’s just a man very in touch with his emotions.
Mr. Iguana announced his US work visa got renewed.
IWRG
IWRG (THU) 08/25/2022 Arena Naucalpan
1) Águila Oriental & Rey Minos vs Súper Boy & Súper Cometa
2) Dragón Yuki, Ventvert Jack, Ventvert Negro vs Rey Aztaroth, Rey Halcón, Vértigo
3) Brillante, Caballero de Plata, Noisy Boy vs Mafioso, Maniacop 360, Paymon
4) Tonalli vs Travis Banks
5) Cerebro Negro, Dr. Cerebro, Hijo del Pirata Morgan vs Hijo del Fishman, Oficial 911, Oficial Fierro
Not sure which of the many Brillantes is showing up in IWRG Thursday. Dragon Yuki is a Japanese indie wrestler who spent a lot of time in Mexico in the 2010s and brought along the Ventverts for a tour over the last month. (They’re “Van Vert” in Japan; it hasn’t translated well.) Jack’s Cagematch comments say he’s 17 and a promising high flyer, so he’ll fit in IWRG easily.
Rey Espectro, billed as too hurt to wrestle in IWRG on Sunday, wrestled in Leon on Monday. Obviously, there’s some other issue there and I’m guessing we won’t see Espectro back in IWRG for some time.
IWRG has already put on tickets for their 60th-anniversary show. (It’s the anniversary of the Morenos promotion shows, which far pre-dates using the IWRG name.) That 60th-anniversary show is on December 16th. I guess you can make your plans early if you want to save 50 pesos.
Big Lucha
Today’s Big Lucha World show has Gravity versus Bandido and Ricky Marvin torturing Radioactivo, the final two quarterfinal spots in phase B of the Big Lucha World tournament. Their normal monthly show is this weekend, so Carito and Potro de Oro wrestle before their tag team TLC match
Flamita’s match today in GLEAT aired for free on YouTube. GLEAT announced Bandido and Komander as coming in for their 10/09 show.
Other Notes
LuchaWorld has this week’s Poster-Mania and the latest Lucha Report.
Zona 23’s July show will air on FITE TV on Friday. It’s part of their FITE+ package ($5/month). Some of this show has turned up on YouTube but not all of it. It’s rare for a Mexican wrestling promotion to end up on FITE. GCW has copromoted Zona 23 shows on FITE, but I don’t recall seeing Zona 23 by itself (though maybe GCW is still facilitating this behind the scenes.)
MLW was scheduled to have a TV taping in El Paso on 08/27. On 08/12, MLW told their wrestlers that local promotion 915-656 would not be bringing in as many MLW talents as expected and the show would not be a TV taping. Other reports had MLW’s TV deal not being completed in time for this show. At rate, “not as many as expected” turns out to be “close to none” depending on the way you slice it. The announced lineup has Microman, Hernandez, El Dragon, and Mini Abismo Negro as the MLW reps. Microman and Mini Abismo have been regulars this year in MLW, Hernandez was in on the last couple of tapings and Dragon has worked WrestleMania weekend, but all those names might be on a normal 915-656 show. All the names on the show were pictured in a teaser post way back on July 13th, suggesting the local promotion weren’t planning on bringing in much other MLW talent a month before the rest of the MLW talent were informed. It’s strange. 915-656 focus for this show is on Villano III Jr. being general manager (and Konnan as creative lead) and less the MLW stuff. It comes off like the MLW portion was completely canceled, not downsized, but canceling a taping would look bad and maybe a few curious people will get sucked in by the MLW name anyway. It doesn’t seem like an MLW show but it may still be a good show.
MLW’s next TV taping is 09/18 in outside Atlanta with Mucha Lucha Atlanta and hopefully that goes better. They’ve also announced a 10/30 taping in Philadelphia.
10/08 RIOT “Nuestra Raza Nuestra Lucha”
Mazatlan luchador Serpiente Marina says he’s retiring from wrestling next year, maybe in April. He’s been wrestling (and promoting) for 34 years in the area.
Irapuato government worker Salvador Garcia is believed to be a kidnapping victim. Garcia is also a luchador. The article doesn’t reveal his identity, just says he’s well known. He was leaving a wrestling event on 08/20 when he was approached and taken by unknown men. Nothing more was known on
Irapuato luchador Lepra attended the Saturday show at Arena Xirichucho, and got in his car early Sunday morning after the show ended. Unknown armed men got him out of his car, put him in another car, and he hasn’t been seen since. The early media reports carefully did not refer to it as a kidnapping; they’re not sure if Lepra (real name Salvador Garcia) willingly got in the car with them. Later reports mentioned the armed men had a symbol linked to an organized crime unit. Lepra isn’t much known outside of his home area (probably the biggest match elsewhere is working a FILL cibernetico once) and doesn’t seem to be a particular star there, but the concept of “luchador gets kidnapped” has gotten this story publicized in many places.
Lepra has a government job inspecting markets in his other life and some of the articles about this case hint this might be related to that and the lucha libre just an aside. Still, Irapuato seems to have some suspicious incidents. Local luchador Juventud Rebelde was killed leaving training this past May, while the promoter of the Generacion XXI promotion Gerardo Martin Landeros Mendiola was shot to death in a restaurant in 2020.