AAA in Cancún, AroLucha returns (?!?), CMLL weekend results

AAA TV (SAT) 03/07/2020 Plaza de Toros, Cancún, Quintana Roo [+LuchaTV, AAA, thecubsfan]
1) Ángelus, Joker, Súper Kim ?? Gladiador M, Pibe, Tiger Fly
dark match, not shown.
2) Big Mami, Mr. Iguana, Octagoncito b Australian Suicide, Parkita Negra, Vanilla 
9:51. Big Mami beat Parkita with a middle rope splash
3) Keyra, Lady Maravilla, Villano III Jr. b Dinastía, Lady Shani, Niño Hamburguesa 
13:53. Villano III Jr. beat Dinastia with a hanging double stomp. La Hiedra ran in the match early for no particular reason.
4) Hijo de LA Park & LA Park Jr. b Carta Brava Jr. & Mocho Cota Jr. 
7:59. Hijo de LA Park beat Carta Brava Jr.
5) La Hiedra, Rey Escorpión, Texano Jr. b Hijo Del Vikingo, Myzteziz Jr., Octagón Jr. 
11:23. Texano & Escorpion defeated Myzteziz Jr. with a Magic Killer. Suicide attacked Vikingo after.
6) Averno, Chessman, Súper Fly b Fénix, Pentagón Jr., Psycho Clown 
15:56. Averno fouled and unmasked Pentagon for the win. Psycho Clown replaced Drago
7) Blue Demon Jr., Drago, Laredo Kid b La Bestia Del Ring, LA Park, Rush Toro Blanco 
26:37. Drago and Demon couldn’t along, leading to their loss.

A good show if nothing great, and still with the feeling they’re building towards matches that may never come (or may just be people in a larger cage match.) Rey de Reyes feels increasingly like TripleMania Regia – a couple of built matches but mostly something off to the side of the bigger issues. It’ll probably be better than TripleMania Regia at least.

The TripleMania press conference was mentioned but there wasn’t anything particularly set up as the main event. AAA could announce something like Chessman vs Pagano or Averno vs Pentagon but it wouldn’t feel the level of Demon/Wagner or previous main events. It also wouldn’t feel the level of LA Park vs Rush, which is a bit of the problem of having them around in a holding pattern.

It’s clear Los Ingobernables get to work main events for however long they feel. LA Park likes long matches. It’s still working at this point.

There were plenty of empty sections in the seats; I don’t think AAA’s ever done particularly well in Cancun and this was no different. I’d guess 4,000 if the capacity of 6,000 is right, but my guesses aren’t great.

There were noticeable production issues in getting the video (and sound) from the arena to the screen. Not sure if they got the missing video and will edit it or if they’ll just try to show a lot less of it. Tapings start to stack up again at the end of the month and they may have some freedom to skip some of this.

Next taping is Rey de Reyes on the 21st at a 9pm start time.

CMLL (SAT) 03/07/2020 Arena Coliseo [CMLL, De Luchas TV]
1) Acero & Aéreo b Pequeño Universo 2000 & Pequeño Violencia
2) Disturbio, Hijo del Signo, Nitro b Magnus, Oro Jr., Robin
rudos took 1/3
3) Átomo, Gallito, Microman b Chamuel, Guapito, Perico Zakarías
tecnicos took 2/3
4) Esfinge, Pegasso, Volcano DQ Misterioso, Okumura, Sagrado
Tecnicos took 2/3. Okumura unmasked Esfinge.
5) Atlantis Jr., Carístico, Valiente b Ephesto, Hijo del Villano III, Mephisto
6) Niebla Roja © b Forastero [CMLL LH]
Niebla Roja took 2/3. 8th defense. Hijo del Signo seconded Forastero and got involved a lot.

Hijo del Villano III and Atlantis Jr. hype Friday’s title match. Niebla Roja talks his title defense.

CMLL (SUN) 03/08/2020 Arena México [CMLL, De Lucha TV]
1) Halcón Suriano Jr. & Sonic DQ El Coyote & Grako
Tecnicos took 2/3, the last when Grako unmasked Halcon Suriano Jr.
2) Akuma, Espanto Jr., Nitro b Retro, Sangre Imperial, Súper Astro Jr.
Rudos took 2/3. Retro & Sangre Imperial replaced Rey Cometa & Stigma (and the match was moved below the women’s match)
3) Mystique, Silueta, Stephanie Vaquer b Amapola, La Infernal, La Seductora
Tecnicas took 1/3
4) Fuego b Tiger [lightning]
Fuego won with a top rope frankesteiner
5) Diamante Azul, Kráneo, Stuka Jr. b Felino, Hechicero, Terrible
Diamante Azul replaced Soberano on Wednesday. Terrible replaced Shocker. Tecnicos took 1/3
6) Ángel de Oro, Diamante Azul, Niebla Roja b Cuatrero, Sansón, Terrible
Tecnicos took 1/3. Sets up a trios title match next week.

Silueta & Mystique talk about International Day of Women and the upcoming women’s tag team tournament. Fuego celebrates his win and both NGD and their rivals think they’ll be trios champions next week.

NGD will lose the trios titles someday – it’s been nearly three years now – but it’s hard to imagine it’ll be this tecnico trio after they’ve failed many times prior.

AroLucha announced a return show on Friday, July 10th in Nashville. That’ll be over two years since their last show and two and a half after their pilot taping in Nashville. They hadn’t even posted on Facebook since September; the last time they made any news is when they used their mailing list to pitch a CBD deal. Konnan’s mentioned AroLucha as talking about coming back occasionally, but even he had seemed to give up on them months back. The promotion appeared unsuccessful in 2018 and it’s unclear what has changed or why they’re coming back. The video announcement doesn’t have much to it, just Ron Harris mentioning the date and says more details (and other cities?) would be announced later. AroLucha had started to contact people in the industry about being involved so perhaps they just wanted to make an announcement before someone else beat them to it. It’s hard to figure out who they’ll even use; the freely available talent market was small two years ago. It’s shrunk even more. Will AAA partner with a fourth US group? Will it even use luchadors?

Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. will be part of NOAH’s Global Tag League, starting on April 4th. He teams with former WWE wrestler Rene Dupree. The tournament runs through the 18th, assuming no more shows are postponed.

DoradaFan has a new Komander music video.

LuchaWorld has the latest Lucha Report.

Segunda Caida raves about LA Park vs Eddie Kingston from RevPro.

El Universal has a profile of La Heroina.

Lineups

CMLL (TUE) 03/10/2020 Arena Coliseo Guadalajara
1) El Divino, Mr. Samuray, Sonny vs Jabalí, Príncipe Odín Jr., Ráfaga
2) Fantástico, Magia Blanca, Oro Jr. vs Demonio Maya, Disturbio, Hijo del Signo
3) Black Panther, Esfinge, Fuego vs Misterioso, Pólvora, Sagrado
4) Diamante Azul, Stuka Jr., Volador Jr. vs Cavernario, Euforia, Último Guerrero
5) Carístico vs Sansón

They did this match a month ago in Arena Mexico, which wasn’t great and ended in DQ. Maybe they’ll be be better here.

Not the poster spells Sonic’s name as “Sonny”; assuming that’s the same phonetic spelling mistake that’d happen when he worked indies and not a name change.