AAA Mini Line - 10/20/07 (#647)
Recapped: 10/30-31/07

It's Verano de Escandlo, so we've got Dr. Morales, the six sided ring, and plenty of sunlight to start. 

Match 1: Alfa, Fabi Apache, Mini Chessman, Pirata Morgan (c) vs Aero Star (c), Estrellita, Octagoncito, Rey Cometa
Toreo de Cuatro Caminos, 09/16/07

Winner: Rudos
Match Time: 9:32
Notes: Alfa brings roses with him. No sign of Gran Apache. Alfa talks before the match, but they can't get his microphone turned on right to start. Of course, he's got the flowers for her. Pirata Morgan thinks this is a bad idea, and the fans aren't so sure, but Alfa gests on his knees to offer the flowers and she takes them and hugs him. Pepe Casas is the ref, and Pirata Morgan immediately has issues with him. Pirata is in a feisty mood, though he normally is. Production seems to make the conscious choice back towards mid match breaks rather than right after the introductions. 

Early part of the match is tecnico showcase, all match ups against their rivals. (Cometa with Alfa, Aero with Pirata.) After the first cycle thru, which was good, Alfa helped out against Estrellita. There was spot teasing Alfa and Estrellita kissing, and Fabi wasn't thrilled with that. (Alfa played dumb.) Estrellita ended up getting the better of those two, and they started mixing up the matchups from there. Rudos took control, Pirata slamming Aero out of the ring and the other non-mini tecnicos being knocked off the apron. Just to cement it, Alfa catapulted Octagoncito into a Pirata low blow knee lift. Rudos ended up leaving the ring to Alfa when he was really excited to beat up Aero Star for some reason. (Maybe for stealing his colors!) Tecnicos started their comeback off Aero Star escaping and giving Alfa spinning backbreaker. Cometa added one of his own, Estrellita dropkicked Alfa and Fabi out, and then dived after them with a tope rope tornillo. Cometa had a better one earlier, but this was still fine. The Air Force duo took care of Mini Chessman and Pirata Morgan and tried a double tope, both on Pirata, but Cometa's one mostly missed. Even if Pirata (still?) was The Best Wrestler In The World, he'd still have a hard time catching two guys at once, so that was a bit insane. Octagoncito get in his Asai tornillo on Mini Chessman, and we're back to Alfa and Aero Star. 

Aero 'rana for two, Aero up and over sunset flip for two. Aero gives Alfa fireman's carry forward slam and heads up for the SSP, but Alfa saves his life and rolls out of the way, towards the corner. Alfa grabs him, and lifts him up in inverted Gori position, though he has trouble. Aero Star's brought down with the behind the back piledriver, and that's the end of him. Morales is positive that's a piledriver, but Pepe Casas will allow it. What do you know, no break. Fabi rushes in to Alfa after the win, and is very thrilled with his murdering of Aero Star. Aero's not moving. Ah, here's the break.

Fabi gets the microphone and says she'd be happy to go out with him, I think, she just wants to see his face. So Alfa starts untying his fans. The fans know, and a loud BILLY chant gets started, but there's still a huge reaction when he pulls off the mask. Yep, Billy Boy. (They stuck with Billy Boy a moment too long and should've gotten Fabi's reaction quicker, but that's a nit pick. It's mostly great.) Fabi can't believe it - she's dumb struck but amused. Pepe Casas (still in the ring tending to Aero Star) asks her if she knew, and she emphatically says no. Now they're playing romatic music. Pepe is urging them to get back together, but Fabi is first frozen in shock, then unsure. Billy Boy grabs her hangs and gets on her knees. (Aero Star is dead in the background.) Fabi and Billy have their big kiss. Pepe prcliams them the big winner. Wide shot reveals Aero being put on a stretcher. Lots of crowd shots.  

Match 2: Antifaz, Histeria, Mr. Niebla, Psicosis II vs Crazy Boy, Extreme Tiger, Joe Lider, Juventud Guerrera  
Toreo de Cuatro Caminos, 09/16/07

Winner: Mexican Powers
Match Time: 11:32 (6:53+4:39)
Notes: All the Vipers get separate entrances, but are wearing blue, shoulder pads, and Transformer-type helmets. It's a Niebla thing. Actually, Histeria and Psicosis come out together for whatever reason. Maybe they didn't have Psicosis' music? Does Psicosis have music? It doesn't matter. Juvi enters separate, though the video is for the group. He also takes off his shirt in seconds, but holds onto it - is he going to put it back on again? Yea, the other Mexican Powers all come out together. Strange, and then again not so much. Crazy and Lider have the tag belts.   

Vipers jump the Mexican Powers, but Juvi does find time to put his shirt back on. Everyone is in the crow or on the ramp with a minute so they can step up their bits. Points to the director for having a good crane camera for these shots - Juvi and Psicosis fight to the bleachers, but we get good shots of it. Lider takes  chair shots in the ring while everyone's paying attention other things, which is actually relatively not dumb on the Joe Lider scale. Rudos regroup in the ring, bringing everyone back for 4 on 1/2s. Extreme Tiger lands hard on a flip bump off a triple press slam. Just to kill him more so, Psicosis takes Tiger outside, lifts him up, and crucifix bomb/throws him into the third row. If this was the US, everyone involved would be sued before the comeback started. Here, Tiger is helped up by fans.  Beatdown continues all the way to to a Niebla dance, and then we take a break.

Juvi ducks a chair shot shortly after the break, and then ducks another because you have to overdo everything in AAA. Speaking off, Juvi rips off his jersey shirt again as he fires up. Mexican Powers get in wacky spots. Crazy Boy and Joe Lider do tope con giro dives and Vipers are either terrible about catching them but don't try that much. (Niebla is noticeably a lot better in catching a Juvi springboard plancha.) Extreme Tiger sets up Histeria on a chair on the outside and puts another next to it. Tiger does a top rope tope con giro on to Histeria, hitting more of the empty chair than anything. I guess he thought something to break his fall was better nothing. MPers comeback is noticeably shorter than usual. Niebla, as the last Viper not to get worked over, slaps everyone but gets stopped and a chair shot to the head. (He gets his hand up. Crazy Boy and Lider give him a fallaway slam/double knee backbreaker combo, Juvi adds a springboard legdrop, and that's it. No pointless balcony dive, no tecnico showcase spots for the sake of it - they just got their comeback and that was it. I'm very okay with that and it got over fine. (Break.)

Oh, right, there's an angle here. The Perros del Mal music starts to play - how were they allowed to do that, anyway? - and Juvi starts dancing to it before Crazy Boy explains to him that he's supposed to be shocked. Halloween, with a Perros del Mal shirt and light bulb tubes, appears at the entrance. He's got a FdT bandana. Announcers are all confused. Juvi gets in Halloween's face for no discernible reason. All Halloween wants is a handshake. Juvi thinks about it, so Halloween walks away. Juvi looks at the crowd, and Halloween spears him. Crazy Boy and Joe Lider aren't beaten by tricky rudo means, they just miss a double clothesline and Halloween spears them both. Histeria sneaks in, gives Lider a chair shot, and sneaks back out. That's quite random. All the Vipers come in as Halloween busts one light tube on Crazy Boy. There's like 100% chance Joe Lider is taken the other one - yep, Psicosis holds him, and Halloween spears Lider into it, back first. Vipers leave as Halloween welcomes himself back to AAA. He's the king of hardcore, dontcha know. Halloween says the greatest group isn't the Mexican Powers, not the Hell Brothers, no the Foreign Legion, it's the [looks at shirt] - no, not the Perros, they're history - it's the Familia de Tijuana. He rips off his Perro shirt to reveal a FdT shirt - well, I guess it is, because the middle portion gets blurred out. Juvi rebutts, but Halloween's not paying any attention (and neither is anyone else.) Extreme Tiger turns up now (so that's why he was out of the ring - so Halloween couldn't lay him out..)   

Match 3: Abismo Negro, Kenzo Suzuki, Ron Killings, X-Pac (c) vs La Parka Jr. (c), Laredo Kid, Latin Lover, Ricky Marvin  
Toreo de Cuatro Caminos, 09/16/07

Winner: Tecnicos
Match Time: 16:39
Other Match Notes: It's gotten dark. X-Pac is still using the DX music. Ricky Marvin does not have Ricky Martin. He did not seem to be particularly  hyped about being here. Not that he look like he didn't want to be here, it just seemed like A match to him walking out. Latin and Parka got much bigger reactions, of course. Latin's music gets bleeped out again. Hijo de Tirantes was ref for the last match and ref for this one. He and Abismo waste no time arguing. Parka still has the big shoulder strap/harness/thing-a-mob. They probably should've figured out a way to make that work with his gear by now. Maybe they wanted to dye it black, but he and Cinthia have to share it. This is not the craziest possibility.

Tecnico showcase spots to start. Ricky Marvin doesn't do anything flashy in his (except his dive fake), but he's very smooth in what he does. Beatdown is instigating by X-Pac slamming Laredo Kid a bunch. Nothing much than that. Latin ties to kiss Alicia on the outside and gets beat up for it. Rudos use chair shots and a low blow headbutt, which allows Hijo de Tirantes to get his notDQs in. Laredo made his comeback shortly after, ducking a chair shot. Familiar! Laredo does a crazy ring post tope con giro onto X-Pac. Marvin clears the ring, but just walks around it, waiting for something. He goes out so Latin can come in and interact with Abismo more. Ricky Marvin post-comeback stuff is well done - it's not that he's doing better stuff than everyone else (though the walking the ropes dropkick and the tornillo to the floor fit), it's that he's doing what he does better than everyone else. Laredo got in on the dives there. Parka/Kenzo have a half comedy sequence, and then it's back to Laredo and X-Pac. Laredo doesn't get up far enough on a 'rana, and X-Pac just powerbombs him down. Laredo is set up in the corner, and X-Pac tries the Bronco Buster. Despite the warning from Abismo, Waltman tries it and misses when Laredo Kid moves out of the way. Laredo turns X-Pac around and gives him corner punches, but Abismo stops him and powerbombs him off the ropes. Latin back in to face him. They keep acting like this is an epic matchup, and I suppose after their non-lucha TV appearances it is, but they're showing rust of a non-regular schedule. Latin slides out Abismo and follows him with a half hearted pescado. Laredo and X-Pac come back in, and Laredo gets X-Pac in the corner again. Instead of going for punches, Laredo headbutts him a couple times, back flips, and eats a kick to the midsection. X-Factor, that's it. If that's it, cover him? Oh, he did. One two - NO, he' pulled him up. You'd think X-Pac, of all the people in the world, would know better than that. Sure enough, X-Pac tries to slam him, but Laredo gets a headscissors cradle for three. (Credit to Waltman for realizing you only need to pull the guy up once to get it over.) 

X-Pac can't believe it and throws a fit, knocking Laredo (and a celebrating Ricky) out of the ring. Parka is choking Kenzo out on the floor for no reason, but eventually celebrates with Laredo. Break. 

More postmatch celebrating, as X-Pac still thinks that was a two. Latin does his strip tease act. Replay of Laredo's dive - his foot hit on the announce desk on the dive, which must've really sucked. 

Match 4: Espiritu vs Escoria vs Cuervo vs Ozz vs Zorro vs Charly Manson vs Cibernetico in a dome cage match, loser loses hair
Toreo de Cuatro Caminos, 09/16/07

Loser: Espiritu
Match Time: 15:54 (7:33+8:21)
Other Match Notes: Sect enter together and with the Atomicos belts and a 5-8 year old child who appears to be Hijo de Escoria based on the makeup. Charly Manson is randomly wearing (American) football gear and still is stuck with the cover version of his song. Zorro enters wearing his mask, which is strange. He takes it off when he enters the ring. Cibernetico is last out, of course. He's got the same football gear. Pepe Casas is ref. 

Four jump the three, and even use the helmets on the people wearing them. As the announcers talk about the Pena show "coming up", there's a message about this show being pre-taped. How did a ladder get in the cage? There's a lot of space between the bars, I guess. Zorro makes a short comeback and quickly starts climbing up the cage. It's really tough to climbing the cage when it gets horizontal near the top, but it's also really tough to get pulled down if you keep your legs up on the bars. Zorro gets over the top and rests there. None of the Sect think about pulling him down. How did they get a table in the cage? Zorro's left his partners down 4-2, which the announcers touch on. BREAK.

Charly gets set on the table, and Escoria climbs across the top of the cage like they were monkey bars. I keep thinking Charly is Chessman, because his face is completely red. Must've bladed at some point, I guess. Is Escoria climbing out, or is he going to dive bomb Charly? Escoria just lets go, sitting on Chessman. The table bends, then breaks very cleanly. I bet they hoped that would look a lot cooler than it did. Replay show the table very slowly breaking. Lots of replays. It really wasn't that good. Gotta use the replays on something, I guess. Sect stomp down Cibernetico. Why don't they all leave at once? They appear to be individually thinking about it, but  I guess they want to beat up the HBs more. As you might expect, Cibernetico makes a 1 on 4 comeback, starting with a missed corner charge. Stunners and spears for everyone. I guess Cibernetico might as well beat up everyone, because he's got no way of getting Charly out right now. Hey, Chessman was thinking the same thing - and he's got a rope! They're going to try and pull Charly to safety. Good thing he's wearing that lifting belt he always wears. Cibernetico ties his end of the rope around that while Chessman stands on top of the cage to set up a pulley system. Too much rope. Chessman tries to slide down one half of the rope to pull Charly up with the other half, but there's still too much rope, and Charly gets about an inch off the ground. This may be why they're luchador, and not engineers. Charly decides this is isn't going to work unless he stops stalling and starts climbing up the rope on his own. Climbing up the ropes turns out to be very hard, but he makes it. Chessman gets the bright idea to squeeze thru the upper gaps to get on the top side of the cage and barely makes it thru, so now we've got two Hell Brothers on top of the cage. Cibernetico sets up the ladder, but then starts climbing the cage. The Sect have awoken at this point, and take him down quick. The rope is put to get use, choking out Cibernetico.  Chessman and Charly watch from the top of the cage as their buddy gets stomped. Charly very much wants to go back, but has a face full of blood and is in no condition to do so. Chessman pulls him down the cage. The Sect decide to all take off at once. Ozz, Cuervo, and Escoria are top side before they seem to realize Espiritu has been grabbed by Cibernetico. He's so screwed, though he makes a comeback and starts climbing just to ease the Cibernetico loss. Cibernetico grabs him and powerbombs him off the cage. Is that it? Well, yea, Cibernetico starts climbing using the cage, and then using the ladder to support his legs as he got near the top. Like Chessman, Cibernetico slips thru the top gaps rather than the center circle, and it looks all sorts of dangerous for a moment. He makes it and that's the match. Anticlimactic finish because it took so long to climb and escape.

Chessman climbs back up on the cage to celebrate with Cibernetico. Charly Manson is out on the floor, a bloody mess. Chessman has his own shoulder strap/harness thing going on, so he's not really indestructible. Sect argues the hair cut and Cibernetico taunts them. Break.

The Sect realizes they are four and the Hell Brothers are two (and one guy out of it), and jump them. Kenzo Suzuki and Ron Killings rush out to help, even though it's not really needed. Zorro walks out and seems to have acquired a limp and some problems walking. Also, he's wearing the mask again. Weak cane shots to all of the rudos, who just basically feed themselves to Zorro. Zorro pounds fist with the Hell Brothers (Charly's made it in the ring as well), and then gets a bag of - powder? To Chessman, to Charly and a low blow to Zorro. Crowd is very much confused, but we get out second surprise reveal under the mask of the night - it's Konnan. Konnan waves out the troops, and Abismo Negro, Psicosis, Antifaz, Histeria, Mr. Niebla and X-Pac all join in. Zorro's music plays AGAIN. This time, it's pretty obviously the real one, though he's not hurrying to the ring. Come to think of it, he's walking funny too. Zorro sneaks in the cage from underneath, sorta - the lip of the cage extends past the end of the apron on all sides. I hadn't noticed that before. Anyway, he's got his cane and he's got plenty of people to hit, so hit he does. Shot to X-Pac, Niebla, Psicosis, Histeria, Antifaz, Abismo, Escoria, Scoria, Espiritu, and a superkick to Ozz. Dude, you're three short! Konnan tries to make am over on him, Zorro spots him, Konnan and company beg off while Zorro teases it. Bad Bad HORRIBLE camera work causes us to be staring at Konnan when Zorro makes his decision to turn on the Hell Brothers. Announcers appear to be going off the monitors, because they're completely baffled as to why the rudos are suddenly beating up the tecnicos again. It's about 15 seconds later when they realize Zorro's turned. Latin Lover, La Parka Jr., Laredo Kid  run out to make the save. Everyone except Espiritu escapes - what are the odds. Zorro celebrates whips his new running buddies. 

Hey, look, Cibernetico finally shaving Espiritu's head. We're meant to be watching Zorro and the rudos pose instead. Replays. Charly gets stretchered out. The rest of the tecnicos get mobbed as they try to pose at the entrance.