AAA on Twitch: 2018-09-07 

Recapped: 09/08/2018

All matches aired live from the Plaza de Toros in Cancún, Quintana Roo

Matches: 

Keyra, La Hiedra, Scarlett Bordeaux beat Lady Maravilla, Lady Shani, Vanilla
(9:42, Keyra Code Red Maravilla, good, Lucha Libre AAA (Twitch))

Carta Brava Jr., Mocho Cota Jr., Tito Santana beat Angelikal, Australian Suicide, Hijo Del Vikingo  
(8:37, Mocho Cota Jr. frogsplash Angelikal, ok,Lucha Libre AAA (Twitch))

Golden Magic & Jack Evans beat Laredo Kid & Sammy Guevara
(9:24, Jack Evans foul + bridging backslide Sammy Guevera, ok, Lucha Libre AAA (Twitch))

La Máscara, Rey Escorpión, Texano Jr. beat Aerostar, Máximo, Pagano  
(11:35, La Mascara foul Maximo, ok,Lucha Libre AAA (Twitch))

Brian Cage & Hijo del Fantasma beat Fénix & Psycho Clown
(11:26, Hijo del Fantasma mask pull Psycho Clown, good,Lucha Libre AAA (Twitch))

What happened: 

Psycho Clown nearly won with a casita in the main event. Cage might have distracted the referee from three, or Fantasma might have kicked out, it wasn’t especially clear. Fantasma got away with a mask pull for the win second later. Los Mercenarios came out and helped unmask Fenix after the match.

Rey Escorpión and Texano pulled Copetes away from the ring when Maximo had a winning pin in their match, and Mascara snuck in a foul. La Parka made his only appearance of the show to run off the rudos post-match.

After her win, Keyra asked Vampiro for a title match. Vampiro said yes.

Dr. Wagner Jr. repeated his challenge to Jeff Jarrett for a hair match.

Thoughts: 

Main event had a good effort even if the execution seemed off. Psycho Clown is trying to do more stuff, though he still felt like he couldn’t quite keep up with the speed Fenix & Cage wanted to work. Cage & Fantasma are a good team, though they also didn’t do that much while in control. They did hit some of the bigger spots (except for that dive catch spot) pretty well and Fenix came off as a bigger part of things than he had prior to TripleMania.

I had forgotten I was supposed to care about Mascara and Máximo fighting. They did a good job with it, the crowd really got behind Máximo when he finally came back at Los Mercenarios and Mascara. The long section of the rudos working people over didn’t do much for me, but it got the intended reaction. Aerostar & Pagano were limited to just offense early and dives, but those were good. This worked fine as a TV match even if it’s nothing you need to see later.

There were definite highlights in the 2v2 tag, but there was so much sloppiness. Jack had a rough start to the match, and Golden Magic caught the disease later on. I don’t know what move Magic & Guevera did near the end of the match. I did love the multiple moonsault bit Jack did, and Guevera coming back with SSPs were nice. Laredo Kid found new ways to cause grievous harm to himself, but also took out Jack’s ribs on the springboard 450 splash. Something clearly didn’t happen right on the finish, because Laredo was very confused about what he was supposed to be doing after he hit the move on Golden Magic. This was not bad, but it had some really obvious flaws.

Did you realize the second match was Suicide teaming with his two title challengers from this year? It is weird watching a promotion where many months of the year are decided not to have happened, but I guess that must be what it’s like to follow WWE. Matches set up to fail are not ever going to be recommendable watches, and this was one an obvious failure from the moment it was put on paper. Poder del Norte did about as well as they’ve done of late in these type of matches until Suicide’s walkout made it all moot. They gave the tecnicos a really good opening run and some offense later that made beating them feel like it meant something. Vikingo didn’t get in as much as Monterrey but he and Angelikal looked good in what they did. Vikingo’s corner dive was super impressive.

The AAA women’s trios are the opposite of the CMLL versions. The Arena Mexico matches look rehearsed and fake. This AAA trios match, like many of them, was chaotic and impactful. It was as if Keyra make a deal that she’d get to win as long as she was kicked hard in the face a few times. Maravilla & Shani lived up their part of that deal. Hiedra continues to looked improved, and this was Vanilla’s steadiest match since her first one. Bordeaux didn’t make a big impact, but that’s perfectly fine. She seemed to do what she was asked and never got into trouble. It’d be best if they could trade in a few of the loose looking headscissors for armdrags or other moves, but this was overall good.