AAA on Televisa: 2016-05-14

Recapped: 05/24/2016

What happened: Texano Jr. qualified for the Lucha World Cup. Argenis & Suicide were momentarily tag team champions before the finish was overturned. Mesias beat Parka, and Texano wants a hair match with Mesias.

What was good: I enjoyed the tag title match. The three way would be good in highlights. The main event was not good.

Where can I watch it: It’s on AAA’s channel.

Brian Cage & Mesias do their usual team Trump bit to start the show. He’s pretty sure he should have the mega-championship belt. Texano, out of the neck brace, shows up. Texano says Mexican wrestling is good and Xalapa is beautiful and these guys are ugly. Crowd agrees. Texano insults Donald Trump and that’s just crossing a line for Mesias, who takes Texano down. This is pretty successful, Cage doesn’t even need to help, Mesias takes down Texano himself. La Parka hurries out with a chair, which gets the beatdown to stop. Parka challenges Mesias to a title match tonight. Mesias has no problem with this, he’s the best. Texano yells at both members of Team Trump as they walk out.

Match 1: Argenis & Australian Suicide vs Averno & Chessman © for the AAA World Tag Team Championship
Arena Xalapa, Xalapa, Veracruz, 04/29/2016
Video: Lucha Libre AAA, thecubsfan

Winner: rudos (DQ)
Match Time: 15:16
Notes: Argenis demands a new referee, and not Hijo del Tirantes. Hijo del Tirantes, now getting microphone time, says no one is better at upholding the rules than him, and his hometown fans of Xalapa will back him up on that. The Xalapa fans do not, and security takes a fighting Tirantes away. Piero replaces him. Seconds are Bengala & Ricky Marvin. Marvin gets involved about six minute sin, tripping up Argenis as he’s running the ropes. Piero gets hit by an accidental Chessman dropkick by Piero at 11:30, taking him out of action. (Fans boo, knowing they’re getting a bad finish.) Rudos get a visual pin with their feet on the ropes, but there’s no referee. Copetes walks out, and counts slowly for the tecnico pins, though it’s not immediately clear if he has a slow count or is biased for the rudos. Bengala gets on the apron to argue after the third count, allow ring Ricky to slip in and foul Suicide without the referee not seeing. Averno lifts up Suicide in a valagueza, but Bengala breaks free and fouls Averno. Piero slides in and counts three. Crowd cheers big and believes they’ve seen a title change (and, given the usual amount of interference in these matches, would have reason to do so.) Copetes stops Piero from realizing the técnicos arms, signals for the foul, and raises Avenro’s arm instead. Tecnicos protest but it appears Copetes decision is the binding one.

Review: [good] better than I thought it’d be; Argenis and Australian Suicide did their best to take advantage of the opportunity. Suicide showed off a lot of more offense than he’s gotten to do in other matches. Argenis pulled off somethings well, and had timing issues on the other. The effort was there. The rudos didn’t do much on their own, but they didn’t stand in the técnicos ways. This was the sort of exciting midcard title match which this show could use more often.

The downside is the too clever by half finish, where they send out the heel referee at the start and then do more referee shenanigans than they’d do with them. It didn’t come off well – better editing could’ve been better as Averno and Argenis are visibly moving Piero into position for his bump, and everyone comes to a half as if they’re waiting for the director to call action. (Production was a problem – AAA camera work means Suicide does a flip huracanrana and it’s mostly obscured from view.) The match ended up with the referees in the spotlight as usual, and Suicide & Argenis would’ve benefited more from even putting up a good fight and losing than being backgrounded to arguing referees.

Match 2: Texano Jr. vs Garza Jr., Taurus [Lucha Libre Victoria World Cup qualifier]
Arena Xalapa, Xalapa, Veracruz, 04/29/2016
Video: Lucha Libre AAA

• Taurus German suplex Garza JR. (4:19)

• Texano swinging side slam Taurus (5:42)

Winner: Texano
Match Time: 5:42
Notes: Texano has Taurus beat at about the 6:30 mark with the sitdown powerbomb, but lets it go to throw out the interfering Mesias. Garza Jr. tries a pescado onto Mesias, but gets punched in the face and thrown around ringside.

Review: [ok] there were parts of this which were good, like Taurus throwing around people (despite the announcers treating lifting two people at once like it was no big deal), but it never found any rhythm as a match. A longer sequence between Taurus & Texano would’ve been interesting, but they hurried thru it for the Mesias stuff. Garza Jr. lost clean, then failed when making the save. Not a great sequence for him.

Noti AAA

• LWC: Zero One & Mexico Leyendas teams are mentioned

• La Parka now has a newspaper column. Print is dead!

• AAA has decided to scheduled a tag title rematch based off the controversial finish in Orizaba.

• Also, Psycho Clown versus Pagano will happen in Orizaba

• Lucha Libre +AAA has a new website.

Match 3: La Parka vs El Mesías
Arena Xalapa, Xalapa, Veracruz, 04/29/2016
Video: Lucha Libre AAA

Winner: Mesias
Match Time: 5:50
Notes: Cage is walking awkwardly, and does the Cibernético bit of going down the stairs sideways. Tirantes casually helps the técnicos, and Parka kicks him with no repercussion. Mesias unmasked and fouls Parka, then pins him. (Unlike at Rey de Reyes, he didn’t kickout.)

Mesias stomps Parka until Texano runs out of the save. Cage and Mesias clear out. Hijo del Tirantes confronts Texano and takes the chair away. Texano gives Tirantes his usual quebradora con giro. Texano challenges Mesias to a hair match.

Review: [below average] about as useless of a match as you’ll see. La Parka had a strenuous first few minutes of laying on the mat like a slug and not moving. And then he was fine and doing bad headscissors. Mesias got the win in a meaningless fashion, and didn’t really do anything to Park in the match.