AAA on Televisa #902 (09/05/2009)
Recap: 09/10/09

This recap got lost in a hard drive crash, and I don't need to write closely about it twice. Or once.

Match 1: Argenis, Atomic Boy, Gato Eveready © vs Rió Bravo, Tigre Cota ©, Tito Santana II
Plaza de Toros del Batallon de Zacapuaxtla, Puebla, 08/07/2009

Winner: Tecnicos
Match Time: 9:11
Rating: good
Notes: notes

Pepe Casas is ref. This is another fun match in the series, though not a lot different than the rest. The big takeaway here is Argenis has gone from being horrible to okay. Always great to see actual improvement, but a bit more stunning when you guess how little he works. He's still robotic, and as interesting as an early La Mascara, and there are dozens (if not hundreds) or people better, but he no longer sticks out as a sore thumb.

Atomic Boy is doing a spot where he starts a headscissors on one guy, and ends up on the other. It kinda calls for the rudos to be silly, but these are the right rudos for that.

Rio & Tigre Cota notably blow some spot go bad on Atomic Boy during the beatdown. It's clipped out, in the usual fashion where you can totally tell there's a botched spot, but the bigger tell is Tito recoiling in horror to whatever happened. Técnicos all get whipped into each other, then Gato lifts Argenis to safety when he's whipped again. Argenis leaps back off into a plancha on Tito and Tigre, who toss him behind, and Argenis armdrags Rio on the fly. There's no way Argenis of 2008 could've pulled that off. Argenis also does a jump to top rope into a moonsault to the outside that looks pretty good. Atomic Boy's dive is running up the corer into a moonsault on the outside. That leaves Gato and Cota, and Gato gets flipping DDT (announcers: “suplex!”) for the win.

Noti AAA

Promos: Billy on Fabi, Fabi on Billy and Sexi

Match 2: Fabi Apache vs Sexy Star in a bull terrier match
Plaza de Toros del Batallon de Zacapuaxtla, Puebla, 08/07/2009

Winner: Sexi Star
Match Time: 9:36
Rating: better than expected
Notes: Pepe Casas is ref. Men are seconds. As with every AAA chain match ever, the técnica put the collar on and the ruda jumped her.

Sexi beats up Fabi for a while, then ran around the ring to touch all (four) corners of the ring for the win. Of course it didn't count because she didn't have the collar on. That's about the right tone for the rest of this match – Sexi Star gleefully was Sexi Star, Billy interfered where ever he had a chance, and Fabi occasionally rallied and killed Sexi, because we all know Sexi is no match for her solo. Aerostar must've become a pacifist before this match, because he wouldn't attack either of the rudos, instead just occasionally blocked Billy's path from getting involved. It made him look dumb.

They made sure of the chain a lot. The highlight of it was Sexi sliding out of the ring to escape, so Fabi went out an adjacent side, tugged the chain, and Sexi had no choice but to run straight into the post, screaming the whole way. And then Fabi went to other side and did it again.

Fabi got her finish and went to touch the corners, only for Billy to drop her with a forearm. Sexi toughed the corners, Aero grabbed her just short, and Billy hit him with a chair . Fabi must've recovered, because Sexi never made it to the last corner (or there was a clip in there.) Sexi instead charged Fabi, only to eat a German suplex. Fabi went up for something, but Billy knocked her off, held her on the mat, and kept her there long enough for Sexi to touch all four for the win.

Gran Apache appeared after the match to argue with Pepe Casas, but Pepe Casas wasn't having any of it. Rudos attacked Fabi Apache, and then laid out Gran Apache when he tries to make the save, working him over with the chain too. Aero was dead for five minutes off one chair shot to the back, it's crazy.

Recap: Alex Koslov's rudo turn.

Match 3: Jack Evans & Rocky Romero vs Alex Koslov & Sugi San
Plaza de Toros del Batallon de Zacapuaxtla, Puebla, 08/07/2009

Winner: Tecnicos
Match Time: 9:59
Rating: seen better
Notes: Piero is ref. Tiger is with the announcers, though it didn't seem like he talked much. They didn't give him his own mic, which would seem to hurt that. Alex dodged Rocky until he could get the upper hand, then choked Rocky with his own flag. I don't know that I'd use my flag that way, but maybe it's different in Russia. You know, Alex should just carry around a USSR flag, it's still work. Rocky didn't' really come across as an angry técnico looking for revenge, though he did ignore the stop spot, and did something to the Russian Flag so heinous that we couldn't see it on TV.

Match was usually moves with no focus, more about spots then going anywhere. Sugi and Jack both got in their big dives, and Alex ended the dive spot with a nice running tope con giro. Rocky and Alex ended up back in, Alex took off Rocky's head with a superkick, did the Danielson repeated elbows spot (announcers tried to get it over), and put on the Red Scare. Rocky tapped and tapped and Piero wouldn't stop the match because he was waiting for a wave off submission. Rocky did it, though he might have just been waving in frustration, not because he's learned what the rules are after being in Mexico for months and months.

Alex challenged for a title match, and Joaquin Roldan got involved for no reason, but did make the match.

Promo: Cibernético says the past is the past, leaving the issues with Charly & Chessman behind to focus on Mesías – he wants us to care about the past there. That works unless you think about it.

Match 4: Charly Manson & El Mesías vs Chessman & Cibernético
Plaza de Toros del Batallon de Zacapuaxtla, Puebla, 08/07/2009

Winner: rudos
Match Time: 8:34
Rating: eh
Notes: After an early Mesías showcase, Essentially wrestled as a two simultaneous singles matches separate of each other. Sometimes, a técnico would turn it around on for a while, while the rudo was still in control of the other fight. This week, Piero took away the cheese grater from Charly, but Chessman got it and actually got to use it. Charly needs better plans.

Cibernético pinned Mesías clean after a chokeslam for the win. Charly was left outside, a bloody mess.

Promo: for reference, this was the Dr. Warner promo. He and Silver King talk about forming WagnerManicas

Match 5: Alan Stone ©, La Parka Jr., Marco Corleone vs Dr. Wagner Jr. ©, Electroshock, Silver King
Plaza de Toros del Batallon de Zacapuaxtla, Puebla, 08/07/2009

Winner: Rudos
Match Time: 11:24
Rating: too long
Notes: Piero as ref. Alan might as well have had a blinking hat reading “I'm going to be taking the loss here.” Electro was not a member of WagnerManiacs before the match, just a random rudo inclusion. Wagner had his fans here, definitely.

This match had Marco Corleone and Electroshock mat wrestling, which reminds me of that interview where Marco said CMLL never had him mat wrestle since the he came in, because they knew that wasn't what he did. This seemed to indicate CMLL was correct, but Elector got to show off his kneebar abilities and that's nearly as important. Parka made the save for Marco, then the rudos kicked in beatdown.

Técnicos made a comeback after about 3 minutes, though the rudos randomly took back control after. After Parka took out Silver King with a clothesline to the floor, and Wagner and Marco took themselves out of the ring, Electro decided to show off the submission holds he thought he could do instead of just going to the finish. Guys on the outside killed time with occasional brawling, but we got to see a bad figure four, an even worse figure four (if that's what it even was, it wasn't clear), and finally the Electrolock for the win.

Wagner and Silver King invited Electro into their group after. Wagner Brother just kept talking, despite AAA starting their music twice. Técnicos seemed bored by the whole thing.

That's it.