08/19 AAA TV Results (Veracruz)

AAA TV (FRI) 08/19/2016 Auditorio Benito Juárez, Veracruz, Veracruz [AAA]
1) Anarquía & Tiburón b Hijo del Buitre & Squato
Dark match.
2) Gotita de Plata, Lanzeloth, Venum b Carta Brava Jr., Mocho Cota Jr., Soul Rocker
Carta Brava Jr. returned after leaving in April.
3) El Apache, Lady Shani, Taya b Big Mami, Mary Apache, Niño Hamburguesa
Apache beat Mary
4) Argenis, Australian Suicide, Bengala DQ Dave The Clown, Hijo de Pirata Morgan, Súper Fly
Daga unmasked Suicide for the DQ.
5) Aerostar & Drago b Garza Jr. & Hijo del Fantasma and Daga & Joe Lider
Garza Jr. replaced Fantasma. Drago beat Lider.
6) Pentagón Jr. & Texano Jr. DQ El Mesías & Hernandez
Team Trump fouled and unmasked the tecnicos.
7) Damián 666, Nicho el Millionario, Pagano b Monsther Clown, Murder Clown, Psycho Clown [cage]
Psycho Clown was bloodied and handcuffed to the cage as Pagano escaped. Pagano earned the chance to choose the referee for their match at Triplemania, and of course picked Tirantes.

Air Date: 08/27 & 09/03. Of note, this show was in the 6 sided ring, which hasn’t been seen a lot this year.

Not sure what happened to Fenix. AAA’s recap avoids mentioning anything.  Fenix did a Facebook Live while promoting a show in Dallas today and, after about 15:39 of Fenix promoting upcoming shows and kindly saying hi to various people, he acknowledges he missed both Veracruz and a previous show in Aguascalientes due to for majerue, apologizes, and moves right onto saying hi to Brian (Cage?). AAA knew enough in advance to have Garza Jr. in Veracruz. I presume Fenix is still working TripleMania, because it’s TripleMania, but I’d also assume we’d never be told about a change until someone else walks out in Fenix’s place. That was the case last night.

Carta Brava Jr. is one of the names who left earlier in the year and appears to be back. About a month after Carta Brava Jr. left, Goya Kong did an interview insisting she and her partner had actually not left AAA. Carta Brava Jr. didn’t get booked a lot on the indies and hasn’t been seen since June, so it’s possible they could’ve both made a quick u-turn and Carta’s been back training with AAA in hopes of getting another chance. He’s been very good in the openers in the past (and that match is much better for him being involved), but has been stuck in that position for years.

The main event will obviously air next week; I’d guess matches 3/5/7 air on that episode, and the others on the following show. They could used them as the start of Heroes Inmortales build, if they know the direction. Card could

• Daga vs Australian Suicide, hair vs mask
• Team Trump vs Mexico
• Psycho Circus vs Los Fronterizos
• Fantasma actually defends his title?
• a Copa Antonio Pena?

This gets AAA around the short time to build, since it’s a lot of matches they’ve already teased (and matches I thought might be on TripleMania.) I mostly want Daga/Suicide to happen already.

Tirantes was the expected outcome of the main event. It’ll just be a question of AAA doing the spot where he reluctantly counts a Psycho Clown pin or where he gets knocked down and Piero runs into count, but it’s always going to be one of those two finishes

Next taping is TripleMania next Sunday.