lucha times

Weird week for the lucha schedule.

Saturday: If things were all normal, we’d be getting a Perro Aguayo/el Hijo Del Santo main event this week. However, that was the first weekend where coverage of lucha libre was preempted for coverage of the Olympics. Past experience is when a CMLL episode doesn’t air on Televisa, the tape’s never going to make it to Galavision (assuming there’s a tape sent, and they don’t just record it off the Televisa feed.)

Skipping past those episodes, Gala probably will air a show with a partial rematch of last week’s show, with Casas and Atlantis being replaced (upgraded) to Park and Shocker.

The upside to the skipping is we’re three weeks closer to being up to date, and one week away from the Anniversery show, so there’s a lot of hype cut out. The bad side is we miss this Perro/Santo main event (which sounds good) and the Gran Alternativa tournament (which didn’t sound impressive match wise but it’d be cool to see different faces.)

Of course, there’s no way to be sure what’ll happen till it happens; whatever shows up on TLN (assuming it is even CMLL!) Friday night will give a good indication. I’ll update the schedule just as soon as I figure out what’s going on.

Sunday: Lucha de Vuelta is cut down to 90 minutes for whatever reason, which is fine because I didn’t like this episode. They’ll probably either cut the opener for CMLL or part of the AAA show, but again it’s not something they’ve bothered to announce ahead of time. I miss when they used to do those sort of things.