CMLL (FRI) 03/26 Arena Mexico [SuperLuchas, ESTO, Cesar]
1) Puma King & Tiger Kid b Bengala & Robin
2) Astral, Bracito de Oro, Eléctrico b Pequeño Violencia, Pequeño Warrior, Pierrothito
3) Metro, Sagrado, Valiente b Dragon Rojo Jr., Misterioso II, Sangre Azteca
4) Toscano b Ephesto [lightning]
5) Taichi, Terrible, Texano Jr. b Blue Panther, Brazo de Plata, Héctor Garza
6) La Sombra, Shocker, Volador Jr. DQ Felino, Negro Casas, Último Guerrero
Rudos took first fall, tecnicos took the second fall, Felino fouled Sombra in the third. Fans are still behind Felino; if this is going to pay off for Sombra, it’s not going to be until after years of mentioning it. It’s not helping him now.
Blue Panther replaced Maximo. Garza did not get along with Brazo de Plata.
Bracito de Oro got the pin on Mini Warrior.
Sangre Azteca still wants his Mexcian Trios rematch. Fuego also has a bio on Asesino Negro.
El Signo says he’s retiring on May 1st. Is this the 2nd or 3rd time?
Proyeccion Luchistica is back with audio commentary on IWRG handhelds.
R de Rudo has 1 2 3 4 5 posts about the first day of a mask expo. DJ Spectro has photos as well.
Lineups
CMLL (TUE) 03/30 Arena Mexico
1) Metatrón & Tormenta vs Camorra & Oro Negro
2) Astral, Bam Bam, Pequeño Olímpico vs Pequeño Damian 666, Pequeño Universo 2000, Pequeño Violencia
3) Ángel Azteca, Ángel de Oro, Ángel de Plata vs Arkangel de la Muerte, Euforia, Nosferatu
4) Metro, Stuka Jr., Valiente vs Dragon Rojo Jr., Misterioso II, Sangre Azteca
5) Máscara Dorada, Shocker, Toscano vs Atlantis, Felino, Rey Bucanero
All three Mexican Trios champions on the same show! Not in the same match, don’t get crazy. (Appears they’re actually building up to the match Sangre wants here.) Oro Negro is a name from Ciudad Madero. I think the masked name Dhani Jones wanted to use was Black Gold, but I’m thinking this is not him. There’s a Tormenta in Veracruz, but there’s also another one who’s turned up in Arena San Juan and AULL.
CMLL (FRI) 04/02 Arena Mexico
1) Horus & Metálico vs Disturbio & Durango Kid
2) Bracito de Oro, Eléctrico, Mascarita Dorada vs Pequeño Nitro, Pequeño Warrior, Pierrothito
3) Fuego vs Pólvora [lightning]
4) Blue Panther, Rush, Sagrado vs Averno, Ephesto, Mephisto
5) Héctor Garza, Hijo del Fantasma, La Máscara vs Taichi, Terrible, Texano Jr.
6) Brazo de Plata, La Sombra, Volador Jr. vs Felino, Místico, Negro Casas
Obviously, the big news here is Mascarita Dorada being on the card. There’s a 45% chance this is a fake lineup, with the minis match being switched to a Bracito de Oro & Pequeno Warrior and the other minis being removed from the card.
Why it would be a fake lineup: That match is going to occur at some point, CMLL just uses random wrestler names when they’re going to change the card (Atomo was used once when he was long gone). Not only is Dorada’s participation eye raising, this would be Horus’ first Friday Arena Mexico match of the year.
Why it would be a real lineup: do you really need to throw out a fake lineup to hide Bracito de Oro vs Pequeno Warrior mask match for a couple days? No, no you do not.
More of the same in the main event. Will Garza’s recent dissatisfaction with both Maximo & Porky extend to his trios partner La Mascara?
CMLL (SUN) 04/04 Arena Coliseo
1) Astro Boy & Sensei vs Artillero & Súper Comando
2) Dalis la Caribeña, Lady Apache, Marcela vs Amapola, La Seductora, Princesa Blanca
3) Ángel de Oro, Ángel de Plata, Fabián el Gitano vs Dr. X, Euforia, Pólvora
4) Máscara Dorada, Metro, Toscano vs Misterioso II, Shigeo Okumura, Virus
5) Blue Panther, Brazo de Plata, Shocker vs Negro Casas, Rey Bucanero, Último Guerrero
Future big star La Seductora has a match! Not a good sign that she’s matched up with Dalis. I’m just thrilled Fabian is on Fox for once.
Cesar has his thoughts on the lineups as well.
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That was some pretty good audio commentary by Proyeccion Luchistica.
Even though I have my doubts, I really hope Mascarita Dorada returns to CMLL.
Likewise, hoping Dorada is returning. Could be just a typo for another new Mascarita charachter they are introducing though. Or perhaps they are creating their own Mascarita Dorada.
Maximo was only announced on CMLL.com last Saturday but ESTO had him replaced by Panther on the legit lineups. Those same lineups will probably clear up the Dorada confusion.
Signo has been threatening to retire since at least 2002 when he had the CMLL run where he took on Villano III for his last big payoff. But in typical broke old man fashion he has never been able to leave the ring, especially when he can get by doing absolutely nothing. Not sure how well Coacalco shows in front of 20 fans pay though but must be at least a free dinner.
Also FYI – Quemonito was with the tecnicos in the tercera so there goes that angle…
XEJ feed has now transformed into a justin.tv Galavision link. But there is some diving thing on now so I wonder how that effects CMLL.
We’re still running a hour late in the U.S.
Yeah so it should be starting in a few minutes, right? I thought that silly animal tricks or Hazana always aired before CMLL.
Top 3 starting with Toscano vs Efesto. Why was I waiting for CMLL again?
This is gonna be really silly if LATV reairs this garbage match instead of the Poder Mexica trios.
I just timed a 6 minute 46 second commercial…
Love that they are hyping this match by showing constant clips of Texano and Terrible beating the hell out of Taichi. It makes is so much more difficult to point out the horribly inconsistent booking if they do it for you.
A trivia question I finally can’t answer!!! Was that Amapola? Never seen that mask before.
Bernardo got to have la Sombra over for dinner at his new apartment? Wouldn’t the reaction to this have led CMLL to quit talking about it?
Great Teleformula going past the hour with this show again. I think someone needs to tell Teleformula that the time difference was only 1 hour and NOT 1 hour 5 minutes.:)
Why did I think the NCAAs were at 6 CT? Such a fail. Today has not gone well. Have not yet seen Ras de Lona, may watch it now.
While TF is in informercial, GDR has…
Bronco, Puma King, Tiger Kid vs Astro Boy, Guerrero Maya Jr., Tony Rivera
Hijo del Fantasma, Toscano, Valiente vs Euforia, Skándalo, Vangelis
@Alan: Wow. When they spent all of 2 seconds on last week’s Ras de Lona, I thought that meant they realized the problem. CMLL just doesn’t care about public reaction (which actually makes the Dorada return more surprising.)
Commericals STILL GOING on TeleFormula
I’m getting IWRG at this point. Still in commercials in the States?
NINE MINUTES AFTER THE HOUR.
Máscara Año 2000, Máscara Año 2000 Jr., Oficial 911 vs Bobby Lee Jr., La Roca, Suicida is on, so probably
Dr. Cerebro vs El Hijo del Diablo [IWRG IC Light, WWF WELTER]
They started almost 10 minutes late. WTF? Is Teleformula just a long running infomercial with random TV shows as commercials?
Looks like Chucho Reyes is about to be fathering another child after the show!
I think CMLL has to keep their alliance with NJPW going just so Negro Casas can continue to wear nothing but free New Japan t-shirts. That may be the whole purpose of the deal.
No Momentos or did I just miss it?
@Rob: I haven’t seen it yet. Don’t they air it in between falls of the main event sometimes?
Announcers even telling Mistico he’s a rudo, Mistico refuses to admit the truth, a sure sign of being a rudo.
By jumping last week, Heavy Metal misses out on being part of a Casas family round table about how awesome Felino still is without the mask.
@Alan: Actually there may not be any Momentos since last week’s show never aired. On the bright side that Felino promo gave me a seizure.
WHAT THE FUCK? Teleformula…You suck!
When does LATV air? Does anyplace in Mexico get it or is it just a US station? If it doesn’t air down here it would be spectacular if they decided to air some of the uppercard 2Leyendas stuff there like they did with Casas vs Mistico on Fox Sports last year.
Um, what the hell just happened with the IWRG show?
Sounds like Negro Casas is going to NJPW for that tag tournament. And they’re doing a Volador/Mistico match for Arena Coliseo’s anniversary show.
@thecubsfan: Did they announce when the anniversary show is? I’d love to see a decent card at Coliseo before I leave.
@Alfredo: It is still on down here. Did it go off the air there?
@Alan: They went to a break during the 1st match and then just went to the singles match.
Not that I’m too upset about it since I’d much rather watch Dr. Cerebro vs. Hijo del Diablo than the trios match.
Its going to be interesting how this show ends. Does it end randomly before the top of the hour or does it go past the hour like it did last week. I’m guessing cutting down the first match means they’re going to try to end at the hour.
The Coliseo Anniversary is in April at some point.
Just to clearify, they said Negro was going to NJPW for his 30th anniversary and I’m just assuming it’s the tournament. And I was not paying total attention.
Yea, right in the middle of a headscissors, they went to break. Good work.
@Alan: LATV is US only. I think the Coliseo Anniversary show is in April, maybe 04/11 or 04/18?
Bracito vs Peq Warrior on that show works for me. It’s not an Arena Mexico type match and won’t sell any extra tickets on it’s own. Might as well stick it on that show to add some importance (and I use that word loosely).
If its the 18th I’ll probably try to go.
Fox Sports got the Tuaregs and the Mistico match. Unfortunately, my tape ran out about 2 minutes into the show so I’ll have to try to catch the replay tomorrow.
At least this week’s IWRG will be easy to recap.:)
Wait….It finished already?
IWRG starts 10 minutes late, ends 10 minutes early. There’s also a bunch of commercial breaks. 28 minutes. IWRG Ras de Lona with crappy editing!
LATV has the 2 undercard matches from last weeks card.
LOL! The finishing pyramid was a great idea, but bad idea to put Dragon Rojo at the top.
Sweet! Won’t have to wait months to see Mascara Dorada’s dive of the year candidate!
Canal 44 (Juarez) has definitely switched to their own feed at night so no more CMLL on that link.
Did they show Diablo v. Cerebro on IWRG?
Hey Cubs, Did ACM ever air? The web feed was non stop coverage about that Soccer riot when ACM is usually on.
@Phil: They did air Diablo/Cerebro. That whole match (including whatever pre&post) they showed went 19 minutes; haven’t watched it, but I think that’s complete.
Despite starting 9 minutes later, they ended 10 early.
@Tim: Yes, but it was like 40 minutes late.
ACM looks like
Psycho Circucs/Ciber vs Legion
La Parka vs Silver King
Pirata Morgan/Sergio Romo vs Silver Star/?
Anyone know if Puebla is only getting an hour and a half on Sundays? It ended at 5:30, but I’m not sure if it is starting earlier than scheduled or if they have just cut the time.
@Alan: Ooops, should have looked at the card to see what the main event was. They are going the full two hours.
Awful editing on the main event. Replay of a 619 cuts out a Mistico spring board move that knocks Volador to the outside.
Anyone else watching wrestlemania?
I watched Mania. Average show until Undertaker vs. Michaels. Crowd was dead.
Jericho vs. Edge was ok.
I thought Punk vs Rey Jr. was pretty good. Jericho vs Edge wasn’t bad at all, but, to me at least, the crowd wasn’t into it, and Jericho did a carry job on Edge. Taker vs HBK was pretty damn good, but not as good as last year. Batista vs Cena was waaaaaay better than one would expect. Everything else was horrid at best.
I thought Mania was typical WWE. If you enjoy the WWE style, than you would probably like the show. I never really like WWE except the period when they had the Smackdown 6. It’s kind of like lucha libre. You either hate it or love it. I thought Taker and HBK tried hard but I personally thought it was lukewarm.