AAA Mini Line - 10/27/07 (#648)
Recapped: 11/01/07

Recap of the Fabi Apache & Billy Boy story. They go alllll the way back 

• to the first hair match, with Marvin in the ring while Billy's hair got cut
• Gran Apache and Rossy Moreno kidnapping Billy
• Billy and Fabi arguing over Gran Apache - Jesus Z sticks his nose into everything!
• Marvin and Gran Apache at the market
• Fabi and Gran Apache arguing over the phone
• Fabi being invited to Marvin's birthday party, and Gran Apache taking off with the kid while she cut the cake
• Fabi and Billy having an argument at the cappuccino bar
• secret footage of Billy in a car with a mystery women who'd turn out to be Sexi Star
• Gran Apache beating Billy for his hair again, while Fabi gets Marvin
• Billy Boy's sad period
• Gran Apache laughing at Billy a lot.
• More Billy sad.
• Sexi Star and Fabi fighting backstage.
• Barrio Boys turn on Billy and get him committed
• Fabi and Gran Apache celebrate their victory.
• Barrio Boys decide to stay rudo
• Billy's time in the hospital
• Billy Boy returns, but everyone laughs at him.
• Gran Apache writes off Billy Boy
• Some guy names Alfa comes by Gran Apache's gym, 
• and eventually convinces Gran Apache to train him
• Gran Apache wastes no time in introducing him to Fabi and trying to hook them up
• Alfa gives Fabi a flower, but Fabi gives him "I like you but not in that way" talk
• this doesn't stop Alfa from stalking her
• or Gran Apache from trying to sell Fabi on Alfa. She's only interested in his lucha.
• or Gran Apache from trying to sell Alfa on Fabi
• Before the match, Alfa asks Fabi out, and Fabi accepts...
• ...and we see this from Gran Apache's view, "watching on TV" and loving it when a plan comes together
  • he's not actually watching it, it's a video trick, though it is new footage
  • you can tell, because he's reacting to what he thinks he's seeing, not what's actually on the screen 
  • Apache is in his wheel chair, watching a flat screen, near a computer.
  • Maybe that's why they're slow updating the website, Apache's in their way watching TV
• Gran Apache is very impressed by the finish to the match
• Fabi accepts, Alfa takes off his mask, and Apache almost chokes on his orange juice when Billy is revealed. He can't believe it, he pushed Fabi back to Billy Boy! 
• Poor Gran Apache.

That killed a half hour, but now I can stop grabbing clips off different shows and just put this one (or two) up. It was a great summary of the feud, and perfect to do on a week with not much going on, but it was quite long.

There's an ad for the Hammond lucha show in this break! Someone's on the ball! Except, look at this list of wrestlers

• Blue Demon
• Nicho
• Adam Pearce
• U-Gene
• Negro Casas (NO)

Cage match from last week is replayed here. I use fast forward. After the post match angle ends, we get the AAA dancers dancing. It's 90 minutes into the show before the first new match of the week even gets to entrances. 

Match 1: Decnis, Scorpio Jr. (c), Zumbido vs Alan Stone, Chris Stone, Super Calo (c)
Toreo de Cuatro Caminos, 09/16/07

Winner: Guapos
Match Time: 16:25
Notes: Everyone but Decnnis and Guapito get their separate entrances. I think Decnnis has no music. Wait, no, we've got a commercial break too before this match will start. Piero is ref, great, I can speed thru this. Why is Calo captain? Opening whistle is at ONE HUNDRED MINUTES since the show started. How does anyone watch this show live? Just to make me laugh, Guapos start the match by stalling, and then walking out.

Guapos beatdown. Piero interferes, but that leads to the comeback (after at about 5:00.) Piero's the turning point the other way, as the Guapos jump the Stones just as they're about to attack them. The Guapos all suddenly have forks and waste no time in breaking up foreheads. Guapito, who's been a guest announcer for most of the match, holds Alan for a Scorpio kick at 12:30, but Alan breaks free and Guapito eats it. That starts comeback #2. Stones take money out of Guapito's pockets and hold him upside down. Guapos briefly get the edge by attacking him, but the Stones turn it around and have a nice offensive run. Too bad Pier's screwing them with the count. Decnnis gives Chris the corner low blow kick and reverse Russian legsweep to win.

Match 2: Mesias vs Chessman in the finals of the AAA World Heavyweight Tag Team Tournament
Toreo de Cuatro Caminos, 09/16/07

Winner: Mesias 
Match Time: 19:14 (13:30+5:44)
Notes: Chessman has the UWA LH belt, but Mesias has no belts. Tirantes is your ref. Ladders are sent up around the ring to start. The belt gets it's own introduction, with valets and Prez Roldan. It's eh. These belts could use a color beside gold, but I do like the design on the face plate. Roldan talks. Mesias talks. Chessman talks. Tirantes talks. What's great is I wrote that last part down as a joke before we even got to Chessman, and then it happened. I think the idea is Tirantes is going to call this match straight because it's so big. He checks Chessman for weapons, and he comes up clean. Mesias is hesitant to get checked, and ends up handing over his "knuckles" without being searched. Tirantes is satisfied and doesn't check Mesias anymore, so presumably Mesias has one stashed in a kneepad or something. Chessman is over as a tecnico, but it wouldn't be the same with a different opponent. Still, it's as much cheered as he ever is going to be.

Mesias quickly stomps down Chessman. Off the ropes, Mesias tries a headscissors (?), Chessman counters, Mesias counters into a Russian legsweep. Stomping. Rights. Announcers talking about the tournament - they make it sound like Cibernetico/Mesias was a tournament match. Mesias off the ropes, into a powerslam. Delay counting, one no. I don't think Tirantes was screwing him there, Chessman hesitated on covering. Mesias punching, off the ropes, clothesline blocked, Mesias dropkicks Chessman anyway. Chessman goes out, and one oddly placed crowd shot ever, Mesias follows with a tope. Chessman gets racked on the ad-covered barricade on the dive, hitting it with the small of his back. Mesias brings it back in as the crowd chants for Chessman. Right hands. Off the ropes, Chessman with a tilt-a-whirl, Mesias escapes, Chessman superkicks him away and dropkicks him out. Tornillo pescado, though Chessman gets very little distance on his dive. I think I may use those words again in this match. Chessman grabs a couple chairs and drops them in the ring. Tirantes really isn't courting out Mesias, and Chessman just waits for him to get in. Chair swing/throws misses, Mesias grabs the second chair and knocks down Chessman with a chair throw. DDT on to the chair. That's the finish, right? Right? One two NO. I guess chairs suck. Tirantes is doing dramatic slow counts. Announcers bringing up all the titles Mesias has won, here and in IWA. Mesias suplex, one two no. Hey, they brought up WSX here too, that's amusing. Mesias poses. Nothing explodes. Knee to the back. Mesias goes out to the apron to collect a ladder and toss it inside. Oh no, not the pain of jabbing with the top plastic step! Anyway. Face first into the step. I'm kinda disappointed they didn't go thru the pretext of mat wrestling before going into the extreme stuff, but they've got only so much time and plenty of stunts to get to. Mesias goes to the second rope, waits for Chessman to get up, and drops him with a middle rope forearm. Chessman sells like a zombie. He's completely dead after getting hit, staggers to his feet, and then feels no pain once he's standing again. Like here, where he goes from being out to dropkicking the ladder away from Mesias in two seconds flat. There's no in between. Chessman gets the chair, thinks about it, and hits Mesias in the head. Chessman sets up the ladder in the corner, adjusts, stomps, adjusts, punches, adjusts - dude, do it already. Mesias gets a Michinoku Driver, and Chessman adjusts the ladder a little more before climbing up. Crowd screams before Mesias stirs, because they are familiar with Chessman's misadventures. Mesias stops Chessman for climbing for whatever by punching him, and then goes to the apron, climbs the middle of the ropes grabs Chessman and tries to gives to him a reverse neckbreaker off the apron. You may say it's not physically possible to do such a move, and Ricky Banderas proved you right. That was baaaad. Just do a bulldog, it'll work, I've seen it. Two count, anyway. Mesias sets up the ladder leaning in the corner and works over Chessman with punches. Boot choke. Mesias picks up Chessman, but Chessman fires back with punches. Corner whip (to a non ladder corner), Mesias tries to do a Flair Flip (I think) but falls on his face. Chessman takes advantage with a dropkick. This is not Mesias' day!

Ten minutes. Chessman gives Mesias a fireman's carry forward slam and climbs the ropes for a moonsault. The crowd thinks this is a dumb idea, and Chessman taking forever to get set doesn't help. Crowd is right - Mesias is long gone by the time Chessman gets there. Mesias gets him with a running boot. His selling is much the same way, I must point out. Also, Mesias has never been a cut guy, but he seems to have added some extra weight for this battle. He's quite tired as he gives Chessman a back suplex, but it's still two. Mesias with more punches. Choke on the ropes. Right. Corner whip, reversed, and Mesias hits the ladder, rolling off it in the process. Mesias gets up in front of the ladder, and Chessman sets up - spear gets the ladder, not Mesias. Chessman really should stop having ideas, all of them go horrible for him! I guess this is why he's always letting Cibernetico tell him what to do. REPLAY. Chessman is down and holding his left arm, so Mesias is hitting with a chair. Maybe a submission here? Oh, nifty, Mesias puts on a cross armbreaker. Chessman refused to give up before, but now he's really hurting and - Tirantes breaks the hold and calls time out? Tirantes stops the hold because Chessman may be too hurt to continue, which would seem to be the point of the submission hold. Mesias says the same thing thru actions, by slightly shoving Chessman away and putting on the same hold. Chessman puts his feet on the ropes, because he's that worried about a DQ in this match. Break? Huh. 

Mesias tries to give Chessman a running STO, but Chessman blocks it by holding to the top rope. Chessman goes back to the old standby of hitting Mesias with the chair. Chessman's completely fine now, no arm pain. That ladder is the only thing here selling. Chessman ends up laid out on the apron, and then laid out again with a DDT there. Mesias sets up a table (dramatic music here.) It's impossible to watch this match without thinking about what you already know is going to happen. Dr. Morales and the announcers mock the match by counting both guys out, which is vastly insane. Mesias knocks Chessman on the table with chair shots, and goes up to the apron. Nope, that's not good enough, he's going in. The table is a way from the ring, close to the barricade. As Mesias comes in, Tirantes goes out to check on Chessman, who's dead again. Announcers are completely cracking jokes and could care less about the match right now. Mesias pulls in the second ladder, sets up on the side of the ring closest to Chessman, and starts climbing. These appear to be very lightweight ladders - great for carrying and crashing into, but not the first choice when it comes to a very large man climbing higher than the "do not climb higher than this" step. Mesias climbs to the step right underneath the top, and the ladder shakes back and forth even though Tirantes is holding it. Mesias is climbing the ladder on side closest to the middle, so he goes all the way up to have the least distance to travel. The ladder is very unstable, and Mesias might never had his footing before he jumped. Mesias tries to push off the ladder to spring, but only succeeds in pushing the ladder to the side. Mesias gets no boost, gets no distance, and gets the carpet on the floor. Chessman makes a last second stab at catching him, maybe breaking Mesias' fall slightly with his left arm (and Chessman's lucky he didn't break his arm on that.) Mesias hits the floor, Chessman rolls on top, and rolls both of them underneath the table as they talk over the situation. Replays, as the fans sound concerned. A reverse angle shows Chessman's arm did absorb some of Mesias' impact, spinning him around just before impact (so he landed on his back, instead of his shoulder.) 

When we return, both guys look to be hurt. Chessman's hurryingly trying to fold up the unbroken chair while Mesias brings it in. Tirantes, who never checked on either guy (as far as we saw), is busy trying to get the unbroken ladder out of the ring. Chessman joins Mesias in the ring. Mesias has a heck of a time getting up, needing the ropes to have any hope. Both guys are very obvious in discussing what to do, and Chessman leads Mesias thru it - Chessman misses a punch, Mesias is too hurt to try and miss his loaded punch (we never did see him put the knuckles on or where he was stashing them), Chessman kicks Mesias to cause him to drop the knucks, Chessman makes a big show of putting them on and Chessman socks Mesias with it. One two three, Chessman raises his knuckles hand in celebration. Crowd shot, and you can read their faces to see the bit that's gone on in the ring - Tirantes has raised Chessman's hand only to notice the knucks in it. They flip back into the ring just to see Tirantes confiscate it, figure out how Chessman won, and award the match to Mesias.

So chairs and ladders are legal, knuckles are not. They really shouldn't zoom in on it, because it exposes how paper thin it is (literally!) Break.

Mesias is getting loaded onto a stretcher, but Roldan is is kinda insistent on giving him his belt. (He never does.) Mesias is loaded stomach first - maybe his back is that bad. Chessman pushes away security to hit Mesias in the back, but all the shorts are short. Roldan gets in the ring, affirming that Mesias is the champ. Chessman asks the crowd if they saw a one two three. Chessman asks the crowd who the champ should be. The crowd has a different view than Roldan, who says Mesias won.