One day, I will stop doing these and then waiting until I forget what I wanted to say about them before I post them.
Metal was really quite awful in the main event, to a level I don’t recall seen since he’s been back in CMLL. He was either a beat slow or just off at points, including the end. He’s still among the best in taking one match storylines and selling them as if they’re the most dramatic events to happen in our lifetimes, but it does lose something when they turn out to be one match events.
I didn’t get as much the idea that Valiente was being elevated here as somehow Warrior and Metal got hooked into participating in an Arena Mexico segunda. Which would’ve made the opener a random spot show match, what with Skandalo and Tiger Kid. Neither of those guys really showed much – it was really all about building Texano/Maximo. Which, again, seems to be dropped after this match.
Tiger Kid using a casita as a finishing move was a really swell way to build up the later match storyline of Warrior using the Casas family move against Heavy Metal, but they couldn’t have even planned such a thing. It had to just work out that way.
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