AAA on Televisa: 2017-02-04 

Recapped: 02/07/2017

What happened: Dr. Wagner beat Psycho Clown again. Pagano & Mesias had problems, at least according to the AAA recap. It didn’t come across during the match, though the announcers brought it up.

Lady Shani won again and asked for a title shot against Taya. She got speared by Mesias instead. That segment seemed to end up being more about putting Mesias in Brian Cage’s spot as Mundo’s friend than Taya/Shani by the end.

What was good: None of the matches. Bengala & Mini Psycho fell off high places, but that was done more impressively last week. Even fans of AAA main event style can find a better week of TV than the one they had here.

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

The show kicks off with the same intro/history of AAA video package as last week.

Match 1: Bengala, Big Mami, Dinastía, Pimpinela Escarlata vs Dave The Clown, Lady Shani, Mamba, Mini Psycho Clown
Gimnasio Olímpico Juan de la Barrera, Ciudad de México, Distrito Federal, 01/20/2017
Video: RUDO VISION, Lucha Libre AAA

Winner: Rudo (Lady Shani headscissors armbar Pimpinela Escarlata)
Match Time: 7:07
Notes: Announcers pointed out Taya’s win streak. Post match, Taya and Johnny Mundo came to so Taya could explain Shani only had this win streak only because Taya hasn’t been in Mexico. Shani was as confused why her friend Taya was acting like this as the rest of us, and blamed Mundo’s influence. (Pentagon’s name gets mentioned as the announcers remind us of Taya betraying him.) Shani points out Taya never defends her title and asks for a hot, but Taya’s too busy waving at the crowd. Taya comes in the ring to exchange shoves with Shani, and Mesias appears out of nowhere to spear Taya. Mesias and Mundo beat up the other rudos too. Camera focus on Taya beating up Shani, though the announcers push the alliance of Mesias & Mundo as the big deal here. They skip with the aftermath for an exceedingly long time

Review: [below average] The dives off the balcony by Bengala and Mini Psycho Clown (which seemed the scarier one) were both nice, but this was a usual relevos AAA that didn’t even really have Dinastia spots to save it and had plenty of bad. Dave the Clown and Big Mami created magic in this match, though not any of the good kind. Mami doing her back bend for a clothelsine Dave didn’t throw was a special moment, with Dave being unsure of what to actually do. Dave did fine on Dinastia’s headscissors but then completely dropped him on his dive (with Dinastia getting up grabbing his wrist.) Pimpinela was not even close to be the worst luchador in the match and not for having a good match. At least they had Shani defeat the person who would mean the most on the other team and Pimpi sold it like her arm was dislocated by the hold. That momentum was mostly killed by the post match but so it goes.

Noti AAA

• Dr. Wagner talks about Psycho Clown some. This is going to be every week.

• Dr. Wagner, Psycho Clown and Dorian Roldan talk some.

Match 2: La Parka, Psycho Clown, Texano Jr. vs Dr. Wagner Jr., El Mesías, Pagano
Gimnasio Olímpico Juan de la Barrera, Ciudad de México, Distrito Federal, 01/20/2017
Video: RUDO VISION, Estrellas del Ring, R de Rudo, Lucha Libre AAA

Winner: Rudos (Wagner superplex Psycho Clown)
Match Time: 17:45
Notes: Murder & Monster Clown come to ringside with the other rudos, though stay out of it for most of the match. Even though the entire promotion is built around Psycho Clown as lead técnico, La Parka gets last entrance as the bigger star. Even though this show has a half hour of filler, this match appears joined in progress, though maybe just seconds into it. Psycho Clown bleeds off a chair shot. Crowd boos Psycho Clown late in the match for being opposition to Dr. Wagner, and later where it seems like he might win. Pagano and Mesias have friendly fire issues, though nothing abnormal for rudos. Monster and Murder pull out Tirantes when Psycho has a late pin on Wagner after hitting him with a mop. (Tirantes had been counting normally until then.) The evil clowns set up a wood panel table, Psycho fights free of them, but Wagner gets him with a chair. Psycho turns it around for a moment, long enough to dimly climb to the top rope, but Wagner superplexes him into the table. (They both hit it, really.) Tirantes comes back to life to crawl back in as Wagner covers for three. Wagner taunts Psycho to end the show.

Review: [ok] Every AAA main event. Psycho Clown gets beat up for five minutes, then just stops getting beat up so he can do a suplex onto a guardrail, then makes a separate comeback when they go to the ring. Crowd got into the brawling, less so the section where the técnicos went into their offense. The ring work seemed lesser than usual, which I’m not sure is if an off night or the absence of some normal editing because they needed to go long. Either way, this is the same math that’s been on TV for months now and usually gone better.