Scorpio Jr. (1966-2024), CMLL teases international show, Guerra de Titanes, CMLL/MLW

CMLL

CMLL (FRI) 11/08/2024 Arena México
1) Galaxy, Shockercito, Último Dragóncito vs Pequeño Olímpico, Pequeño Violencia, Pierrothito
2) Dulce Gardenia, Espíritu Negro, Rey Cometa vs Dark Magic, Espanto Jr., Raider
3) Esfinge © vs Rugido [MEX LH]
7th defense
4) Flip Gordon vs Villano III Jr., Neón, Guerrero Maya Jr., Dragón Rojo Jr., Difunto [NWA MIDDLE, #1 Contenders]
last 2 advance to final
5) Atlantis Jr., Máscara Dorada, Místico vs Ángel de Oro, Hechicero, Soberano Jr.

An important reminder: if you’re someone who switched clocks this week and only tune in on Friday shows, this is an hour earlier than you’re used to watching.

The main event looks inconsequential but should be pretty fun. The semi-main is just strange; CMLL only does six way matches for the Kid’s Day title. Who knows how this one will work. I don’t have great instinct on who’s going to come out of this, so I’m just going to guess Flip and Guerrero Maya. Esfinge/Rugido is interesting for two guys who usually are counting on the other person in the match to make it work; we’ll see what they can figure out on their own. Match 2 is one seen prior (though more often with Akuma), match 1 is a rematch from last week and probably another disputed finished.

11/09 MLW Lucha Apocalypto

• Kevin Knight, Esfinge vs Ultimo Guerrero, Hechicero
• Alex Kane vs BRG in a chain match (not a bull terrier match)
• Lluvia vs Janai Kai vs Persephone for the MLW Featherweight Championship
• Bad Dude Tito vs Matthew Justice in a falls count anywhere for the Openweight Championship match
• Star Jr., Atlantis Jr., Atlantis vs Barbaro Cavernario, Magnus, Felino
• Titan vs Mistico vs Averno for the MLW Middleweight Championship

You, a smart person, can watch this for free on YouTube starting at 9 pm. Me, a dummy, will probably be watching it live and sitting through two hours of MLW tapings before this starts. It’s probably nonsense that I will sit through a two-hour ROH taping with few complaints, but the idea of sitting through a two-hour MLW taping is annoying. I have a stronger affinity for ROH and many of their wrestlers than I do for MLW and that’s a big part of it, but also ROH feels like a (lowercase) version of AEW. The MLW & CMLL continue feel like two different universes living alongside each other strictly for business purposes. (You can say a lot about ROH, but you definitely can’t say it currently exists just for business purposes.) I’ve heard NJPW fans have similar criticism of NJPW US shows, but I feel like the US-based talent are trying their best to wrestle a NJPW style or fit along to it. If there’s any attempt to fit here, it’s the CMLL wrestlers who are trying to fit along MLW.

The strongest part of this CMLL/MLW relationship is that it seems pretty reliable; there’s been no public drama since MLW worked with AAA. Again, MLW has already announced that they’ll be back in Cicero in May for the next one of these, because they continue to sell very well. I may not like this mix but it certainly is working for enough people. (And enough people don’t really follow CMLL to care about MLW’s presentation.) I can’t say I understand the business plan here – cheap tickets and YouTube revenue don’t seem to cover all these flights – but it’s not my bank account.

Fightful posted their interview with Atlantis Jr. promoting this show. It’s fine, though I cringed when Sean Ross Sapp asked Atlantis Jr. if he or his father would ever consider being a rudo. They, of course, both have been rudos – Sapp compliments Atlantis Jr. for his mask match with Stuka without realizing Atlantis Jr. was actually a rudo in that match. It was fine otherwise and Sapp is ahead of the Mexican press in realizing what show they were trying to hype here.

CMLL (MON) 11/11/2024 Arena Puebla
1) Astro Boy Jr. & Meyer vs Grako & Rencor
2) Galaxy & Shockercito vs Full Metal & Pequeño Polvora
3) Pegasso, Rey Samuray, Valiente Jr. vs Disturbio, El Elemental, Pólvora
4) Rayo Metálico, Volcano, Xelhua vs Guerrero Maya Jr., Multy, Okumura
5) Flip Gordon, Templario, Titán vs Hijo del Villano III, Villano III Jr., Zandokan Jr.
6) Magnus, Rugido, Volador Jr. vs Averno, Euforia, Mephisto

Volador/Averno continues to be matched up, but there is no singles match yet.

Guerrero Maya Jr. has made noise about leading a new Puebla group to take out Fuerza Poblana. It’s likely just talk, but Multy is a Puebla guy CMLL has used in Mexico City at times.

CMLL (TUE) 11/12/2024 Arena Coliseo Guadalajara
1) Eclipse Jr., Lince Del Baijo, Shezmu vs Black Boy, Thunder Boy, Yaky Boy
2) Adira & Nexy vs Hatana & Valkiria
3) Adrenalina, Fantástico, Yutani vs Ángel Rebelde, Cris Skin, Halcón Negro Jr.
4) Blue Panther Jr., Dark Panther, Hijo de Blue Panther vs Gallo, Ráfaga, Rafaga Jr.
5) La Catalina & Lluvia vs Sanely & Zeuxis
6) Star Black, Templario, Titán vs Furia Roja, Gallero, Último Guerrero

Yutani may be a tecnico now that he’s no longer teaming with El Elemental.

MLW announced they’ll continue the semi-annual CMLL shows in Cicero with Azteca Lucha on 05/10. Tickets will go on sale on 11/13.

CMLL said its 12/13 show will be an international event. A trailer aired at the end of Wednesday’s CMLL Informa. Based on Toni Storm’s comment about returning to CMLL sometime in 2024, this show appears to include AEW wrestlers. NJPW personnel re-tweeted the announcement, so wrestlers from that promotion presumably are also appearing. Some of NJPW wrestlers will already be on the continent for the 12/15 NJPW Strong Style Evolved show. CMLL pointed people to the ticket-purchasing site without explaining more. Ticket prices are slightly elevated for that show. I don’t know anything about this show beyond this paragraph.

I don’t believe this announcement has anything to do with ROH’s missing Final Battle show. There’d be no point in building up matches on ROH TV to plop them down in front of a CMLL crowd utterly unfamiliar with them.

This CMLL Informa was one of the more newsworthy shows, beyond the teaser:

• Capitan Suicida was on the show, and he was presented as talking about his Super Junior Tag League tour. The real goal was for Capitan Suicida to talk about his Max Moon outfit and explain he got the idea from seeing that acrobatic wrestler who portrayed him, Paul Diamond.
  • If you didn’t know this story, it was still a strange digression, enough to alert you that something had happened. If you did know the story, they want it clear that Sucidia was not doing Konnan tribute without every mentioning Konnan’s name
  • I 100% believe Capitan Suicida had no idea who Paul Diamond was and equally had no idea Konnan wore the outfit. Many luchadors just see cool clips on Instagram or Tiktok and don’t go deeper than that.
• 11/18 is the Revolucion Day holiday in Puebla, so the show will start at 5 and include the Copa Mujeres Revolucionarias tournament, as in 2023. Reyna Isis won that tournament, which was an eight-women cibernetico split between Puebla and CDMX women. This year’s tournament will be all CDMX: La Catalina, Skadi, Tessa Blanchard, Kira, Lluvia, Zeuxis, Reyna Isis,  Persephone, Hera and Sanely.
  • The CMLL Puebla luchadoras did not appear much during Women’s Month. They wrestled the opener on the 10/07 show – Astoreth & Centinela beat Enigmatica & Lady Amazona, and not all during the rest of women’s month. That match was booked prior to the disastrous Arena Coliseo indie luchadora match, and I wonder if the Puebla luchadoras also got sidelined as the indie women did.
• The bodybuilding contest was officially announced for 11/27. JCR hinted there’s new rules or groups or something with it, and that they’d explain more later.
• Fuerza Tapatia (Esfinge, Star Black, Fugaz) officially added Explosivo to the group. They pushed the idea it would be a foursome.
  • It seems more CMLL is elevated Esfinge from the group, and Star Black and Fugaz aren’t joining him right now. More or less what happened with Akuma and Ola Negra a few months ago, but they’re being nicer about it. Explosivo gets a good spot as a regular, much like Barboza seems to be paired with Zandokan. Both are recent Guadalajara to Mexico City full time moves.
• The NWA Middleweight Championship will be a two week affair with the six people wrestling tonight. The final two will wrestle for the title next Friday. Mistico will present the winner with the title belt.
• The first two Fridays of the month will have the middleweight tournament. The last two Fridays of the month will have the Leyenda de Azul, featuring the light heavyweights and heavyweights. This year’s participants are Blue Panther, Gran Guerrero, Star Black , Averno, Angel de Oro, Soberano Jr., Euforia, Hechicero, Mistico and the winner of Esfinge vs Rugido Friday. The idea is that every light heavyweight and heavyweight champion is automatically included, so the winner of the title match gets a spot.
  • CMLL announced that Mistico would be in this tournament back in September, right after the Aniversario show. At that point, JCR explained it as Mistico getting a sort of exemption into the tournament despite not being a light heavyweight so he could try to win both Leyenda de Plata and the Leyenda de Azul. CMLL, especially the CMLL of the last few years, is concerned about their internal logic making sense. I wonder if one of the motivations in Mistico giving up the middleweight championship is because he was going to be in the light heavyweight tournament (and eventually going to be light heavyweight champion.) I can’t believe that would be the only reason, but I can see it factor into their thinking.
  • Atlantis Jr. is the (NWA) Historic Light Heavyweight Champion. He’s not in the Leyenda de Azul. Again, CMLL is big in trying to make everything fit their rule set, so Julio Cesar Rivera explained Atlantis Jr. would be missing the tournament do to personal reasons. I immediately assumed “personal reasons” meant “World Tag League”, but that currently doesn’t appear to be the case. No CMLL teams were announced for NJPW’s World Tag League. There is a spot left open, Alex Zayne’s partner has not been announced, but a Mexican teaming with a man whose lifestyle is “I really love Taco Bell” seems like it would cause some sort of international incident. I’ve got no idea what Atlantis Jr. is up to.

NJPW US’s Fighting Spirit Unleashed show takes place tonight. There is no CMLL presence on the card, the first time there’s been no CMLL wrestler on a normal NJPW US show since 2022. It might be a scheduling quirk with MLW the next day. That streak is also a little bit exaggerated. Some of the CMLL presence on those cards was just “Stephanie Vaquer defends her title.” Vaquer was a unicorn; NJPW has used Mistico a bunch, but it’s more been just the 2-4 luchador who happened to be picked and are in a match off to the side of the main NJPW stories. Stephanie is the only male or female CMLL luchador who transitioned into becoming a full time NJPW US roster member until leaving for WWE. None of the other CMLL luchadors have really been put in the same role as challenging a famous US star like the Vaquer/Mone spot, but I’m sure NJPW has reasons for picking people as they do. And I’m sure CMLL wrestlers will be back on the next NJPW show in California.

The 11/21 CMLL show in Veracruz is canceled.

This week’s viral video is a female fan asking Diamond to sign her chest. Diamond wisely declined, but he did sign her forehead with lipstick instead.

In another interview with Fightful, Rocky Romero said he apologized to Mercedes Mone this past week about not helping her with the CMLL show – he actually fell asleep during the conversation.

I really enjoyed Soberano Jr.’s post-match promo from Guadalajara.

AAA

No Space show on Saturday. Guerra de Titanes is Sunday, AAA’s last live show of the year.

AAA TV (SUN) 11/10/2024 Gimnasio Municipal Josué Neri Santos, Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua
***Guerra de Titanes, 2024***
1) Máscarita Sagrada, Payaso Balin, Pimpinela Escarlata, Sakura vs ?, Eddy Maceyra, Mini Abismo Negro, Zafiro
2) Kempo vs Pierroth Jr., Aéreo
3) El Fiscal & Reina Dorada vs Crazzy Steve & Havok
El Fiscal likely to be replaced due to injury.
4) ?, Mecha Wolf, Vampiro Canadiense vs Abismo Negro, Psicosis, Taurus
5) Dinámico, Drago, Laredo Kid vs Kento, Nobu San, Takuma
6) Octagón Jr. © vs El Mesías [AAA LA]
7) Pagano vs El Patrón Alberto © [AAA MEGA]
Pagano replaced Vikingo on Tuesday prior (knee injury)

Space will pick up this show around 7:30 pm CDMX Time. It show starts at 5 pm local; Juarez is Mountain Time, so that means they’ll have about 90 minutes of matches prior to the live portion. The top 3 always air, and I think match 4 is likely based on those times.

Guerra de Titanes is meant to be AAA’s last major show of the year and AAA has plots – JBL/Dorian’s takeover bid, Latin Lover’s contract ending – that seemed headed to a year-end conclusion. This year, AAA has at least two more tapings to go so it’s possible that stuff gets saved for later.

Pagano getting the title shot was a story in the hometown paper, got played up by the city itself on their page. That match will not be good by “quality of wrestling moves,” but it’ll be heated. Pagano winning would be a great story for that day, but I’m not sure it would mean much beyond that. AAA posted a video of Alberto calling someone to thank someone for injuring Vikingo and laughing about the idea he’d face a clown now. I don’t think that’s meant to be a mystery person angle, they just needed a way to get to the promo – it’s the old WWE cliched bit of talking to someone on the phone to explain the story.

Fiscal posted a photo of him in the hospital after surgery a month ago. Reina Dorada told Mas Lucha more recently that Fiscal wouldn’t be on this show, but she didn’t appear to know who she’d be teaming with instead. That weird Dorada promo on AAA TV this week teased a singles match with Havok, so maybe one idea is to move Crazzy Steve up into Pagano’s spot instead of sending an extra person. AAA seems less likely to send a replacement to show, though they could always move Pierroth or Aereo up to team with Reina Dorada.

Octagon should probably beat Mesias if AAA remembers he’s owed a title shot, but who knows. Mesias has looked better in this run, but it’s unrealistic to expect him to put in Mil Muertes/Fenix-level performances in 2024. Nobu San pointed out on Twitter that this city is where he started his AAA stint and it’ll also be where he’s finishing it up – he’s headed back to GLEAT, at least for now. That seems to suggest La Fraternidad will win. Notorious hothead Psicosis II is still teaming with the guy who cost him his mask; maybe he’s turned over a new leaf.

AAA on Unimas will have part 3 of Heroes Inmortales, which appears to be just the Copa Antonio Pena. AAA will have the Guerra de Titanes preview show on YouTube.

Psycho Clown was listed on the 11/17 GALLIMania show. He is no longer listed on the GALLIMania show.

Scorpio Jr. (1966-2024)

Scorpio Jr. (Rafael Nunez) passed away Thursday. He was 58. Record reports Scorpio Jr. passed away after an ulcer burst.

Scorpio Jr.’s started his career at the age of 18. His father was a regular in UWA and his son started there in the late 80s, continuing through the effective in off the promotion in the mid 90s. His biggest win during that time would’ve been a mask victory over Black Scorpio (a touring Too Cold Scorpio.) Scorpio Jr. had a brief stint in 1995 AAA alongside other UWA refugees but landed in CMLL for the long term. (Scorpio’s father, who was a Mexico City lucha libre commissioner by this point, may have had a role in that move.) Scorpio Jr. was an upper-level rudo for that CMLL run, running from 1995 until 2004. He was a jacked-up muscle guy in a promotion where there weren’t many of that type. His biggest role was as a character in the Negro Casas/El Hijo del Santo drama in the late 90s. The Arena Mexico crowd started cheering rudo Casas over tecnico Santo, including on the 63rd Aniversario show. El Hijo del Santo left Arena Mexico for a few months, Casas turned tecnico in the interim, and Santo shockingly decided to become a rudo for the first time in his career to continue to fight him. Santo teamed up with Scorpio Jr. and Bestia Salvaje for that run. When it was time for Hijo del Santo to turn back tecnico, Scorpio Jr. first beat Santo in the first-ever Leyenda de Plata tournament a year and a half later, a match he talked about with CMLL back in 2020. Salvaje & Scorpio also attacked Santo in a trios tournament, and fate happened to have Negro Casas as one of those saving him. That led to a tag team program between Santo/Casas and Salvaje/Scorpio and a hair/mask match at the first ever Homenaje a Dos Leyends in 1999. Santo & Casas won, of course.

(Around this time, Scorpio Jr. also had a run on WWF’s Super Astro’s programming, which used a lot of CMLL talent booked through Victor Quiñones. Scorpio wrestled as the unmasked El Bandido on five matches, most taped before he lost his mask in Mexico.)

Santo also beat Scorpio Jr. in a 1999 Leyenda de Plata rematch, closing the book on that story (and ending Scorpio’s run on top.) Scorpio Jr. had already moved onto a new angle. He and Bestia Salvaje teamed with rising star and recent rudo convert Shocker to form Los Guapos, a tongue-in-cheek idea of these not-conventionally-handsome men playing off like the world’s most beautiful men. (Scorpio’s Sr. had been billed as ‘the ugliest man in the world,’ so Scorpio Jr. was a natural.) The gimmick wasn’t successful from a box office standpoint, but it became the iconic version of those wrestlers. Shocker and Scorpio Jr. are still playing that same Guapos character to this day, and AAA currently has a group based on this two-decade-old angle. (The Guapos did better business on Tijuana shows.) In the early 2000s, Shocker was an incredibly charismatic wrestler, too big for this semi-comedy group. CMLL eventually added Emilio Charles Jr. to the unit with the idea of him pushing Shocker out. This was CMLL’s peak period of doing outside-the-ring vignettes, so there were bits about Shocker and Emilio feuding over a woman and Shocker messing with their hair dye that are well remembered. Shocker would win Emilio’s hair to end that program and Scorpio Jr.’s hair in the last days of his time in CMLL. Before that – and after Shocker had messed up the Guapo’s good looks – Scorpio Jr., Emilio Charles Jr., and Bestia Salvaje found religion and became Los Talibanes following the 9/11 attacks. It was meant as a parody and not to be taken seriously, though it may have played differently outside of Mexico. (Scorpio also briefly played a masked Sadam gimmick in Pierroth’s gang, but it didn’t go anywhere.) Scoprio Jr.’s last Arena Mexico booking came on February 13, 2004, though he hung around most of the year working smaller shows before leaving the promotion.

Scorpio Jr. got one more run in the big time, thanks to Shocker. He had jumped to AAA in 2005, who thought they were getting the star of just a couple of years prior and instead got someone dealing with significant substance abuse issues. (Shocker has since said he doesn’t remember a thing of his 14 months in AAA.) After running with Shocker as a tecnico didn’t work out, AAA pulled from the past to redo Los Guapos. Emilio Charles Jr. and Bestia Salvaje were still in CMLL, but Scorpio Jr. was available. So were ex-CMLL wrestlers (and participants in later Shocker Guapos concepts) Alan Stone and Zumbido, as well as the new addition of micro manager Guapito. Shocker bailed back to CMLL in 2006, but AAA kept the idea going without him. Scorpio Jr. got a feud and hair loss to Super Porky (a rare achievement to lose a hair match with Brazo de Plata), and Decnnis eventually also got added to the group. Scorpio Jr., a poor in-ring wrestler during this AAA run, was quietly phased out of the group. He continued to work about 30-50 matches, a lot for Tiniblas’s micro-promotion FULL. Scorpio Jr. also introduced a Mini Scorpio, a Scorpio 2G and a Scorpio 3G at different times; SuperLuchas bio says at least one of those was his real son.

Scorpio Jr. wrestled twice on AAA TV this year, wrestling the June Mexico City show and again in August on Verano de Escandalo, back again with Alan Stone and Zumbido. He looked old and far past his prime, but he also had looked far past his prime in the 2006-2008 Guapo U run they were referencing. AAA apparently thought there was more they could do with the Guapos, but again, not with Scorpio Jr. That second appearance included an injury angle to replace Scorpio Jr. with Bello Stone (Chris Stone Jr.), and Scorpio hadn’t been mentioned since. I don’t have a record of him appearing on other cards past that night. Scorpio Jr. and his wife spent his last years running a food stand in Mexico City, which he appeared to enjoy. The great El Arte de Gotch YouTube channel caught up with Scorpio Jr. back in September. The title has Scorpio talking about retiring in a year. Visually, he looks much thinner and older in the face than he had even a month prior in AAA, as if there was some illness he was battling.

AAA mentioned Scorpio Jr.’s passing. IWRG had a moment of appluse on Thursday’s show. CMLL has not said anything, as of this writing.

Other News

Ayako Hamada wrestled on a show this past Sunday, then took the microphone to say that her father, Gran Hamada, was seriously ill again. Gran Hamada was in serious condition earlier this year and recovered then, and Ayako said this latest is Gran Hamada is in a day-by-day situation.

Thursday, El Hijo del Santo’s Instagram stories mentioned the remaining 2024 shows on the Todo x el Todo are canceled. Instagram Stories are pretty unhelpful places to put this info, but it’s also on the ticket websites. The Merida show, scheduled for 12/08, has been canceled altogether. This Sunday’s show in Veracruz is now scheduled for March 2nd – but Todo x el Todo had previously said they were running in Xalapa that day. No shows are scheduled until March 2nd, and I presume we won’t hear much more about all of this until the anniversary of El Santo’s passing on February 5th.

(Credit to LA Park for breaking this story.)

The Crash has its 13th Anniversary show tonight in Tijuana. It’s a strange card: Bestia and Mecha Wolf have a long-built hair match, but then the rest of the show is out of nowhere four-way hair match with Heavy Metal, Super Crazy and Mr. Aguila and Juventud Guerrera, and then a bunch of title matches with no one announced. The Crash has a list of talent for the show, and it’s possible to work out who’s probably in the title matches, but it also doesn’t seem to matter much. Matt Riddle was supposed to be in one of them, probably challenging for the heavyweight title, but The Crash announced he’s off the show (due to “reasons outside of the control of the promotion”), and Raj Dhesi is in. Dhesi has not worked for AAA since winning the tag team titles in August. Notably, Riddle is still advertised to work the MLW taping the next day. Ticket prices are much more expensive than usual for this show; the promotion is going to be feeling great if it draws.

Jack Cartwheel was a regular in AAA in 2022 and 2023, then disappeared from the promotion in 2024. Most of the regular foreigners have disappeared from AAA this year, either due to AAA focusing on the Orignes wrestlers or AAA cutting back on expensive. Cartwheel has still worked the EMW shows in Tijuana. Friday, WWE revealed Cartwheel was part their WWE ID program – a new concept where WWE is reportedly paying indie wrestlers a monthly stipend in exchange for WWE refusal on a contract. (The details on WWE ID seems heavily speculated on and lightly reported, so I could have this wrong.) Cartwheel’s worked Ring of Honor a bunch – if AEW wanted to sign him now, WWE would have the right to offer him a deal (probably with terms already set) and

I’m certain many Mexican wrestlers would jump at the same offer, and it’s more a question of WWE having any interest in wrestlers who only wrestle in Mexico. WWE typically has not been interested in Mexican wrestlers until they wrestle in Japan or Mexico. Someone like Galeno del Mal, who works in NOAH but doesn’t seem to have a contract there or with anyone in Mexico, would seem to be a logical person for WWE to approach for this WWE ID program.

(I’m far astray off topic but – if AEW wants/needs any information on this WWE ID program, they probably should offer Cartwheel a contract to find it out. They’re already using Cartwheel enough where he might already be a roster guy if Ring of Honor was running a bigger schedule, they’re not heartbroken if WWE scoops him up, and they better know the gameplan if/when this become a bigger deal. This is totally just pushing a button to see what it does, but it’s a good test candidate to push the button. Wrestling companies generally have far more information on what other wrestling companies are doing with contracts than we do, so it also may be totally unnecessary to push that button and get that information.)

Diosa Quetzal announced Wednesday she’s pregnant in a series of photos with partner Angel Mortal Jr. (ex-Parka Negra). I don’t have a result for her since June. It says something about what AAA must be paying people on Angel Mortal’s level that he seemingly found out he was going to be a father and decided the responsible thing to do was to quit AAA. What stuck out to me, though, was Quetzal’s previous posts – “really enjoyed being at this concert!”, “just got done at the gym” that are now exposed as photos from some distant time in the past that she was pretending were recent. Social media is a scam. (Meanwhile, Bengalee’s social media accounts vaguely refer to some issue recently, but otherwise, they are just resuming posting like usual, whoever’s behind them. )

Tao Lucha libre said they were still running Arena Queretaro on 11/15. However, they also suspiciously pushed their press conference from Wednesday to next Monday – perhaps something still needs to be figured out.

The Sun has a “reporter learns how to wrestler” piece with Hijo del Santo and Santo Jr. This piece puts Santo Jr’s age as 27 and implies he’s going to keep wrestling after his father retires, but also the idea entire idea of the article is he doesn’t know anything about any of this so I wouldn’t take that too seriously.

A culture writer for El Sol del Mexico raves about Quien Mato A Shocker, saying it belongs alongside Raging Bull and The Wrestler (Darren Aronofsky) version. The documentary is still making its way around film festivals.

Dragon Bane challenges Daga for the GHC Junior Heavyweight championship on 11/17.

A profile of Mexico City teen indie luchador Steven Manson.