AAA Mini Line - 02/15/09 (#872)
Recap: 02/18 and 03/01
I had this show done and lost it somehow – I opened the file and it was blank, not a good feeling – and AAA isn't really interesting enough to write about once in detail, much less twice.
In Ring Promo: Legion. The highlight here, and of the whole show, is Konnan wearing an old ugly yellow/orange jacket from his WCW face days. Mesias interprets to set up a sneak attack from D-Mex, though Zorro gets away from X-Pac and Konnan gets away from everyone.
Match 1: Tiger Cota ©, Tito Santana, Rio Bravo vs Laredo Kid ©, Aerostar, Angel
Parque de Beisbol de Guanajuato, 01/18/09
Winner: Tecnicos by DQ
Match Time: 9:42 (4:25+5:17)
Notes: This match started with the usual good stuff you'd expect these teams – dive train starts about 15 seconds in, Aerostar tries to kill himself on his springboard cannonball and we're all happy everyone is there to catch him – and then went downhill. Aerostar was slow and sloppy, looking below average and in the wrong spot on his showcase. Angel looked okay, but the camera had to do a lot of hiding of Tito Santana standing and blankly waiting to be hit by moves. Laredo looked the sharpest of the three, peaking with a double rotation headscissors and a headscissors of the apron and to the floor. Poder Norte took control from there, and almost immediately spiked Laredo Kid head first into the mat on a badly mistimed 3D, which soured me on the whole match. A 3D is a pretty safe move if you time it at all right, and this was pretty bad (and probably Tito's fault.) Turnaround spot was completely blown, with the rudos not being on the same page with the setup (triple dropkick) and then just redoing it, then the tecnicos not being on the same page with the counter (Angel completely forgot to trip Tito Santana, who had to just magically stop running.) These two teams seem destined to fight a hundred more times, so let this be the worst one. One more dive train spot, Tiger Cota missed a quebrada, Laredo Kid suplexed him, chains it into another, and hit the 450 splash for the win – except Billy Boy ran in for unclear reasons to break up the pin and cause the DQ.
Poder del Norte got over not winning pretty easily, joining Billy in the beatdown of the tecnicos. Laredo got his mask stripped off in the chaos.
Match 2: Oriental, Billy Boy, Cinthia Moreno vs Mari Apache, Fabi Apache, Gran Apache
Parque de Beisbol de Guanajuato, 01/18/09
Winner: Rudos
Match Time: 8:44
Other Match Notes: Two women/one man vs two men/one women doesn't seem fair, even with the Apaches, and it worked that way – the rudos were in control almost all the match. They kept the tecnicas out and worked over Gran Apache for a while. Gran Apache led a slap heavy comeback, but got his daughters and turned the match back to the rudos. Apache had previously untied a turnbuckle, but ended being sent into it himself and busted open, then destroyed for even longer. Finish was a Cinthia silla on Gran Apache from off the men's shoulders, an Oriental flying headbutt, and a Billy one foot pin. The Morenos went to celebrate after the match, allowing Mari and Fabi back in to beat up Billy. Poder del Norte quickly made the save, and had the women held at the ropes, wiping them with Gran Apache's blood and then forcing them to watch Billy kill their father with a huge chair shot. Very well told story.
If it was it was just a chair shot, that'd feel like it, but the blood makes it feel like revenge is necessary.
Match 3: Jack Evans, Teddy Hart, Zorro © vs X-Pac ©, Rocky Romero, Alex Koslov
Parque de Beisbol de Guanajuato, 01/18/09
Winner: a
Match Time: 10:38 (2:15+8:23)
Other Match Notes: Good match that didn't really get started until after the first break. Zorro ran from X-Pac the whole way. Attempted Bronco Buster on Nikki got broken up to start the beatdown. In the end game chaos, Jack did a his handspring moonsault to the floor as a miss – Rocky just moved out of the way. Rocky was too busy celebrating to notice Teddy behind him, who moonsaults into the back of Rocky's shoulder. Teddy had blind faith Rocky would turn around. That was a bit misplaced. Jack got to his feet to catch Alex's dive, but Alex got so much spring on the top rope forearm, he actually leg lariated Jack in the face. Zorro and X-Pac played cat and mouse, Zorro got the cane but couldn't finish off X-Pac. He could accidentally swing and hit Piero, then toss the stick to X-Pac so he'd be called for the DQ, because that's what he did. X-Pac passes on the chance of caning Zorro after the match.
Match 4: Ozz (c), Cuervo, Scoria, Espiritu vs Psycho Clown (c), Killer Clown, Zombie Clown, Chessman for the Mexican Atomico Titles
Parque de Beisbol de Guanajuato, 01/18/09
Winner: Psycho Circus, new champions
Match Time: 13:01
Other Match Notes:I thought this was a good match on first viewing, but it doesn't feel as strong on the rewatch. Vampiro came out with the belts instead of the champs, which was quite odd. Clowns and Chessman worked as tecnicos in this match, which was confusing after. There was some Secta spot with Killer Clown which required two long edits. Chessman brought in a chair during the beatdown and got it used on him, of course. He managed a brief comeback, but missed on the 450 splash, and ended up pinned after a quad snap kick. Bizarre that the only guy they seem to thing is worth anything in this group took a pin (and an unnecessary one), but perhaps a message was being sent. Sect continued to dominate the challengers for another couple of minutes until Scoria just whiffed on a springboard inside the ring – his right leg went over, past the ropes, then got cranked in between the middle and bottom rope when his left leg hit the middle rope. Psycho Clowns got the comeback, but match halted while Scoria was attended to, and eventually taken away. Clowns picked up with their offense before Killer superplexed Espiritu, and Psycho and Ozz hit a splash and a moonsault on their opponents to eliminate them. Ozz gets his tornillo, but Psycho kicks out of it, then finishes Ozz with messy looking flapjack powerslam. Copetes did a slow three count and Ozz actually looked to kickout, but he may just have had the timing messed up.
Vampiro returned to award the belts. The Sect grabbed them, Vamp wouldn't let go and yanked them away, and then Chessman stole them away from Vamp when he wasn't paying attention. With no shot at the belts, the Sect settled with beating up Vampiro on the floor. Vampiro tried to escape into the ring, but the Sect beat him there. The Clowns observed, then Chessman told the Sect to back off – which got the crowd to cheer for Chessman. Crowd was swerved, the clowns just helped up amp so Chessman could spear him. (Vamp was not down with taking the bump, falling into the ropes instead of down.) New champs beat down Vamp too. Air Force tried to make the save and were promptly destroyed. I hope they'll remember to get the Air Force revenge and forget about it for Vampiro, but I clearly know better.
Match 5: Black Abyss, Konnan, Electroshock vs Abismo Negro, La Parka Jr., Mesias
Parque de Beisbol de Guanajuato, 01/18/09
Winner: Tecnicos
Match Time: 14:14
Other Match Notes:You wouldn't have known it was supposed to be Abismo's big return match if not for the promo at the beginning of the show – this was a complete Mesias showcase, including being the one getting to destroy Black Abyss. Abismo was the the third man in importance on his own team, and they surely didn't have any confidence in him sticking around enough on focus on him here. Abismo tried to do a lot of athletic spots and looked out of shape. Konnan did very little, and sold less. Rudo beatdown to start, with Mesias naturally starting the comeback. End game had Black Abyss doing a nice tope, and Mesias reversing a whip to send Konnan headfirst into a chair in the corner, then rolling him up for the pin.
Aforementioned destruction of Black Abyss, including mask being destroyed took place after the match. Looking back at it, not only does it seem like they wanted to protect themselves in case Abismo proved unreliable, but the destruction of Black Abyss possibly was intended to write out the character (if Abismo was gone, having the clone around wouldn't - and didn't work!)