CMLL
CMLL (MON) 09/05/2022 Arena Puebla [@Tribuna Deportes]
1) Asturiano, Leono, Sangre Imperial b Black Tiger, King Jaguar, Sombra Diabólika
2) Olympia & Tiffany b La Guerrera & Marcela
Tiffany replaced Reyna Isis
3) Arkalis, Guerrero Maya Jr., Rey Samuray DQ Gemelo Diablo I, Gemelo Diablo I, Sagrado
excessive violence DQ
4) Atlantis Jr., Gran Guerrero, Soberano Jr. b Hechicero, Stuka Jr., Terrible
Atlantis Jr. tossed his mask to Stuka Jr. to draw the DQ.
5) Cavernario © b Averno [CMLL LH] 
1st defense
I so rarely get full results from Puebla that I almost forgot to post this. Their Facebook page did post the full Cavernario/Averno title match.
CMLL (TUE) 09/06/2022 Arena México [CMLL, Estrellas del Ring, Kaiser Sports, Marca, The Gladiatores]
1) Minos & Pequeño Olímpico b Aéreo & Angelito 
2) La Guerrera, La Magnifica, Marcela b Hera, La Seductora, Metálica
3) Magia Blanca, Magnus, Rugido b Hijo del Villano III, Okumura, Pólvora
4) Dark Panther, Panterita del Ring, Star Black b Cancerbero, Luciferno, Virus
5) Cavernario, Niebla Roja, Terrible b Blue Panther, Star Jr., Stuka Jr.
The normal just a show on a Tuesday. The underrated story is how much CMLL has given up doing anything on Tuesday or Sundays. They’re not drawing especially well on those days, though they weren’t drawing especially well on those days when they were trying.
CMLL (TUE) 09/06/2022 Arena Coliseo Guadalajara [Arena Coliseo Guadalajara]
1) Aurelius, Maximus, Minotauro b Autilius, Logan, Rey Urano
2) León Blanco, Maléfico, Mr. Trueno, Rey Trueno b Flash, Mágico, Metatrón, Ráfaga
3) Adrenalina, Explosivo, Fantástico b Cris Skin, Crixus, Demonio Maya
4) La Jarochita, Lluvia, Sexy Sol b Náutica, Reyna Isis, Valkiria
5) Arkalis, Guerrero Maya Jr., Stigma b Bestia Negra, Difunto, Zandokan Jr. [Relevos Increíbles]
Maya tossed his mask to Difutno to draw the DQ. Teams fought post match, GDL left the Puebla guys unmasked.
6) Diamond, Dulce Gardenia, Panterita del Ring Jr., Volador Jr. b Dragón Rojo Jr., Joker, Misterioso Jr., Principe Daniel
The Puebla/GDL feud continues, and into next Monday’s show.
CMLL (MON) 09/12/2022 Arena Puebla
1) Espíritu Maligno, Millenium, Sombra Diabólica vs Ángel Rebelde (Querétaro), Optimus (Querétaro), Trono (Querétaro)
2) El Asturiano, Prayer, Siki Osama vs Furia Roja (Jalisco), Guerrero de la Muerte (Jalisco), Joker (Jalisco)
3) Halcón Negro Jr. vs Crixus (Jalisco) [lightning]
4) Arkalis, El Perverso, Guerrero Maya Jr., Pegasso, Rey Samuray, Stigma vs Adrenalina (Jalisco), Bestia Negra, Difunto, Explosivo (Jalisco), Fantástico (Jalisco), Zandokan Jr.
5) Averno, Místico, Stuka Jr. vs Atlantis, Atlantis Jr., Fuerza Guerrera [Relevos Increíbles]
The GDL vs Puebla return match produces a card for Arena Puebla that looks a lot closer to what Guadalajara has been running all year. Less CDMX talent, the Queretaro wrestlers involved.
As we don’t see Puebla shows any more, I didn’t realize Puebla’s Pequeno Joker hasn’t been wrestling in Arena Puebla since last October. It would be fun to have him come back to confront his Guadalajara opposite.
CMLL Aniversario tickets are down to just the “gradas” grandstand section left; everything else is now sold out. There’s a decent chance the building might be completely sold before the day of the show, and I don’t know the last time that happened. (There’s also a chance a good number of people are going to show up at Arena Mexico with no tickets the day of the show, assuming they can just buy them as usual; the scalpers are going to have a banner day.)
The 09/30 Night of Champions polls remain open, but they appear decided in most categories. Infernales lead Ola Negra by 2213 votes for the trios titles, Suicida leads Rey Cometa by 1283 for the Historic Middleweight championship, Silueta & Ampola lead Marcela & Silueta by 1269 votes in the women’s tag battle, Pierroth has a 1195 vote lead for the minis titles match and Atrapsuenos lead Los Depredadores by 968 votes for the men’s tag titles. All the leaders in those categories continue to get the most votes.
The NWA Middleweight championship is the close one, bouncing between Soberano and Rugido frequently. Soberano’s been ahead three of the days I’ve checked, Rugido’s been ahead the other four, including today. It’s a 47 vote lead. Guerrero Maya is 1036 votes behind Rugido, which is still closer than most of the second place finishes in the other category.
Suicida by far has the most votes for any wrestler at 5839. Rey Cometa has 4556 votes, enough to win almost any other category, enough to win nearly any other category except the one he’s in. That’s been enough to fuel the CMLL Welterweight Championship to the most votes (and the main event position), but the back and forth Rugido/Soberano battle may overtake it as soon as tomorrow.
(All numbers as of a little bit after noon on Wednesday. I haven’t been able to check in at the same time on all of these days.)
CMLL’s only announced Ola Negra for CMLL Infoma today so far.
Guerrero Maya Jr., Stigma and Negro Casas are headed to Costa Rica on 10/15 & 16.
ESTO has an interview with La Jarochita and one with Reyna Isis to hype the mask match.
AAA
A post on Hola Nicolas Romero Monday night accused Chessman of being in an improper relationship with an underage girl. The post is not entirely convincing; there’s enough there that it should be looked into it, but it doesn’t seem yet like enough to put Chessman on some list of canceled people. The post seems entirely based on the version of the story from the girl’s mother, who wants her child back. The child was taken away from the home based on allegations of abuse there; she’s now alleging that was done improperly and Chessman has since acted wrongly by enrolling the girl in his lucha libre school and forming a relationship with her. The mother posted a letter the girl wrote for class; she definitely has a crush on Chessman but it doesn’t present proof beyond that. Chessman’s school is paid for by the local government, so Chessman is a government worker in this case. At least one person who I heard from on this said there was some local government politics tied into all of this, though I didn’t really understand how. Chessman’s Facebook page is a bit hard to find; he hasn’t said anything about this situation yet.
Electroshock told Lucha Libre Tampico (pointed out by InfoLuchas) that he was invited to appear on TripleMania Monterrey and Tijuana, but had other booking on those days. He’s hoping he’ll still get the call for Mexico City.
I was mostly joking about this on Twitter, but I do wonder what Kenny Omega reportedly being among many suspended by AEW affects AAA’s build to TripleMania. It’s seemed like that AAA wanted to do Fenix/Vikingo and the “fan poll” was a method of getting there. Omega hasn’t ever acknowledged this TripleMania bit is going on, much less been part of the build towards it in any way. AEW suspending Omega gives AAA another out, if Omega is actually suspended or at least appears to be off limits by the time of the next TripleMania press conference. Fenix versus Vikingo will be outstanding.
IWRG
IWRG says no Thursday night shows this month. Tickets for Sunday shows will be 30% off. There will likely be other shows on other days of the week – the Caballero de Plata/Hellboy match is a Friday – and that may be why this odd schedule.
IWRG is also teasing their wrestlers heading to the US. That’s the RGR deal. RGR helped a group of AAA wrestlers get work visas, and doing the same for IWRG is probably a bigger part of the deal than the occasional Rey Leon appearance in Naucalpan. RGR will probably booked the IWRG guys. I’m not sure how many or how often they want. Latigo & Toxin worked hard in their appearances in Chicago on WrestleMania weekend, but it was also clear very few in the crowd knew their names. (I was told even the announcing on the Saturday show had problems keeping track of which guy was which, and wrestlingdata lists Ciclope & Miedo Extremo in the match instead of them.) Latigo & Toxin are at least in AAA, AAA at least has one (to three) shows each year the fans outside of the lucha libre bubble pay attention to. IWRG has one of those once every three or four years. A Puma de Oro or a Tonalli may get over if a promotion books them regularly, but we haven’t seen most indie promotions be interested in making that sort of investment. Everyone RGR books from IWRG will get a cool trip to California, maybe a weekend of matches, and an experience they get to brag about forever, maybe that’s enough. I hope that’s enough.
I’m coming at this from a unique perspective, of fighting to get people to check out just one exciting Mexican wrestling match for weeks and getting met with mostly indifference, and it makes me overly concenred about how hard it is to get any American (or non-Mexican fans in general) to care about this. RGR does market mostly to Mexican fans and so there might be a better pickup there than the randos who follow me on Twitter. And it’s not my money, so it’s not really my problem.
Other News
LuchaWorld has the latest Podcast, latest Poster-Mania, and the latest Lucha Report.
Big Lucha hasn’t said anything about a Big Lucha World tonight, so assume they’re taking the week off. They did post about their relationship from GALLI.
Nacion Lucha Libre was filming for their TV show on Tuesday.
Faby Apache is headed to LAWE (Puerto Rico) for a women’s tournament on 09/17.
09/18 MLW in Atlanta
- Laredo Kid, Komander, Microman vs Gino Medina, Taurus, Mini Abismo Negro
- Hammerstone vs Bandido for the MLW championship
The MLW preview pushes a Gino Medina vs Microman feud. That was a Gino Medina vs Aramis feud previously. MLW announced a partnership with a media company, which came off to me like there must be some stake in ownership and cash exchanged for the media company to seriously involve themselves. (That’s definitely not said in the article though.) It must be the “new TV deal” that’s been rumored for a while, though it’s not a TV/streaming deal in the way we’re normally thinking – this is the group that’s going to help market them to a TV/streaming company to get that deal. Anyway, maybe the takeaway from this deal is MLW’s looked a bit shaky this year and this deal is a positive sign MLW’s going to be sticking around for a while longer.
Lucha Memes (SUN) 09/18/2022 Coliseo Coacalco, Coacalco, Estado de México
1) Sol & X-Devil Jr. vs Samuray Azteca & Shyrui
2) Vengador vs Titus Alexander
3) Astro De Plata Jr. vs Osiris [Battle of Coacalco, quarterfinal]
4) Masha Slamovich vs Keyra [Battle of Coacalco, quarterfinal]
5) León Dorado vs Judas el Traidor [Battle of Coacalco, quarterfinal]
6) Black Terry vs Vinnie Massaro [Battle of Coacalco, quarterfinal]
7) ? vs ?? [Battle of Coacalco, semifinal]
8) ? vs ?? [Battle of Coacalco, semifinal]
9) ? vs ?? [Battle of Coacalco, final]
Slamovich, Alexander and former Lucha Underground wrestler Massaro are in through a relationship with West Coast Pro Wrestling; Alexander won their recent tournament. Slamovich is also an Impact regular. Memes is missing the young native star that’s exciting people: they’ve got people who’ve been around for a while and people who haven’t yet made much of a name yet. This will go up on IWTV within a couple weeks of it taking place based on recent history.
Zona 23 , GCW (SUN) 10/16/2022 Av. Lopez Portillo, San Francisco Chilpan, Tultitlán, Estado de México
1) Lunatik Extreme, Ovett Jr., Súper Boy, Venganza vs Lince Extreme, Osiris, Tiger Boy, Tiger Fly
2) Terremoto vs Demoledor, Venom
3) Cole Radrick vs Lunatik Fly, Ciber Black
4) Jimmy Lloyd vs Demus
5) Drew Parker vs Cíclope
6) Miedo Extremo vs Alex Colon
7) Pagano vs Joey Janela
Pagano is having a match with Cibernetico that they’re teasing could be the end of both men; he will wake up the next day and go to Zona 23 to have a match. This Zona 23 show will air on FITE on a delay. (The junkyard doesn’t have fiber internet.) So much for my theory about a GCW tag title match as part of this weekend; Colon and John Wayne Murdoch are the new champions, but only one is making the trip. Also skeptical any of these guys will show up on the AAA show the night before, though Joey Janela is no weirder than the some of the other weirdos who’ve ended up on a TripleMania show and might draw some curious onlookers on FITE from people who otherwise have limited interest in AAA. (Joey Janela in a featured singles match no, Joey Janela as one of 15 people in a Copa TripleMania sure why not. Joey Janela as a Marvel Lucha Libre super hero character is the ideal.)
Shocker’s long-awaited jaw operation is slated for October 24th. He told this to the De Todos Menos Futbol radio show. The fateful Diamante Azul/Shocker match that started his jaw problems was 2017, so it’s taken five years to get this point (which included saving up money for the operation). Shocker mentions in this interview that he believes teeth implants he had done weakened his jaw first, making the injury more likely. Shocker also plays it up like he may be told he can never wrestle again after this operation, though it’s hard to believe he’d be wrestling now if he was listening to doctor’s orders about that sort of stuff.
Ex-luchador Fama (Adolfo Escobar) is the new head of the Centro, Tabasco commission following last month’s passing of ex-luchador/commission El Torbellino (Juvencio Alvarez Lopez).
An article on Super Astro’s tortas shop.
There’s a lucha libre film festival in Veracruz this weekend.