Opening Video: is so heavily on the show two weeks ago for the 187/Konnans tuff that I thought I was watching the recent week. They jump to last week for the Wagner/Maniacos stuff, as well as Vampiro/Cibernetico stuff which wasn’t actually shown last week.
Four sided ring. A hard camera is really elevated and pointed down at a server angle.
Match 1: Mari Apache, Mascarita Divina, Relampago, Yuriko vs Decnnis, Mini Histeria, Polvo de Estrellas, Rain
Domo de la Feria de Leon, 05/31/2010
Winner: tecnicos
Match Time: 7:46 (4:49+2:57)
Rating: fun
Notes: Everyone's already in the ring. Piero is ref.
Relampago looks good against Decnnis to start. Not so much with Rain, though that's only Rain doing open hand slaps and wiping Relampago into a tope on Decnnis. All the técnicos get a turn tossing around their rudo opponent. Mari spins Rain around for backbreakers. Yuriko's apparently a técnico this week, and one who gets a kiss on Decnnis. The exoticos grab each other's hair and walks around for longer than they had planned, because the minis are slow breaking it up with dropkicks. Divina tosses Histeria round, finishing with a plancha to the outside. After one cycle thro for the técnicos, rudos spontaneously take over. Guillotine legdrop for Relampago. Drop toe hold, elbow, and dropkick out for Mari. Yuriko's slapped down in the corner. Break.
Divina starts the comeback, with the rudos accidentally booted Decnnis instead. Generally brawling, but Divina gets in his springboard headscissors to the floor on Decnnis. Decnnis recovers, only for Yuriko to get him with a thru the rope tope con giro. Relampago lands his run up the corner plancha on Polvo. Back to the minis, long enough for an armdrag to send Histeria out for a Divina Asai moonsaults. I think he's used up all his dives. Mari shakes Rain by the hair, ducks a punch, socks her with a forearm to the head, and destroys her with a brainbuster. Rain is out, but Mari excitedly runs to the corner, slips climbing it, recovers and climbs all the way up, and flattens Rain with a senton con giro. That hit a little low, Rain got squashed. Decnnis calls for help, and I can’t tell if planned or not. Looks like Mari really landed on Rain's pelvis in the replay. Rain is stretchered out.
The Dark Family stands in a dark room. Escoria has upgraded to a full metal glove since we last saw this act. He had some free time.
TripleMania opening video: a history of war and all, with some barking noises. This leads into a video package of TripleMania highlights for the first two matches, though they don't quite show the highlights.
Match 2: Alan Stone, Chris Stone, El Elegido vs Cuervo, Escoria, Ozz
Domo de la Feria de Leon, 05/31/2010
Winner: La Sect!
Match Time: 6:01
Rating: really good
Notes: They barely show the ring before the match breaks out, and it's chaotic from the start. Welcome back, Chris! Pepe Casas is the referee, and he takes Escoria's glove away. It ends up on the announce desk.
Just an out and out sprint, twelve minutes of spots in six minutes of action. It worked, it was a pretty fun match, just at a much faster pace than normally. The only slower parts involved Elegido (not a surprise!) and something he did had to be edited out, but this was still pretty good and much different than the normal stuff on these show.
With everyone else out of the ring after the dives, Chris Stone controlled Cuervo inside the ring. His big move with a tope rope headscissors. Outside, Elegido decided to put on Escoria's loaded glove. Chris grabbed Cuervo, walked to the apron, and Elegido swung. As usual, Cuervo ducked, and Chris took the punch. Escoria cleared Elegido out with a dropkick to the knee, and Cuervo used a brainbuster for the win. Alan checks on Chris, while Elegido is all sad. Elegido never actually takes off the glove.
In the locker room (in the show, it looks like), Elegido is still explaining himself to Alan. Chris walks over and is a bit more agitated about his big night, his return ending like that. He wanted to win in his return. Elegido says it was an accident, and Chris loudly asks if his bruise looks like an accident. Alan has to hold his brother back. Elegido wants a handshake. Elegido is not getting a handshake.
Match 3: Jack Evans, Joe Lider, Nicho el Millionario vs Alex Koslov, Chessman, Kenzo Suzuki
Domo de la Feria de Leon, 05/31/2010
Winner: no finish
Match Time: 8:28 (6:04+2:24)
Rating: not much of a match
Notes: Rudos are already in the ring, facing away from the entrance while Alex sings the Russian National Anthem. Nicho & Lider sneakily run out the entrance (???) and attack the rudos from behind. Worst rudo plan ever! Tirantes is ref.
Hermandad screw up the double hiptoss spot on Alex, which is already funny. 187 clear the ring, no Jack. Jack's music start to play, then stops. Whistle blows, still no Jack. Rudos make a comeback off a Kenzo double clothesline, still no Jack. Crowd shot, and Jack's music starts to play again. He runs thru everyone, of course. Springboard spinning back elbow fro two, spin kick for the others. Rudos manage to get control right away and start a beatdown from there. Last for about five minutes, or until they show the same crowd shot they're using for every clip this week.
Highlight of the comeback spots is not the spots themselves, but Tirantes tripping up Lider, and Lider selling it as if his ankle has been broken. This is clearly what occurs on a trip. Tirantes continues to sabotage the técnicos for a while, técnicos think about it for a while before Lider forearms him down and Lider and Jack stomp him. Técnicos destroy the rudos with chairs, but Konnan pushed Lider off the top rope when he tries to kneedrop Kenzo's arm thru a chair. (Now Lider's knee is broken!) Konnan lays out jack with one single punch, but begs off from Nicho. Nicho spends too much time firing up, and Kenzo smacks him in the back with a chair. Tirantes returns to the ring with a bunch of chairs, and Konan gets microphone. Calling the match over at this point.
Konnan slices Nicho's head with barbed wire, always nice. Tirantes finds even more chairs. Lider is superbombed into a table of chairs. This hurts his back so much, Lider grabs his face (because a chair actually ricocheted into that.) Kenzo suplex Nicho onto a pile of chairs, and Nicho – bleeding – shakes around like a fish out of water. Jack is powerbombed into the chairs next. Arturo explains this is punishment for the traitors. Jack turned a lot sooner, but they were just slow getting around to it. Rudos attempt to choke Nicho to death. He's able to swear at them, so I guess he's not dead. Clip ahead to Konnan telling Jack they’re not done with him, and Nicho shouldn't have asked for a war with the Legion.
Decnnis talks to someone behind a door about their commitment to AAA. I dunno.
AAA Nota, which they're not actually calling Nota but I can spell Nota
Dorian tries to calm down Vampiro, re: Konnan. Always exciting to listen to one side of a phone conversation!
Arturo talks to Nicho & Lider, who wear their sunglasses inside. They discuss what we just saw in the last match. Lider takes off his glasses to show off his black eye. They end up threatening Arturo for being friends of Konnan.
More TripleMania clips, this time La Park/La Parka
More TripleMania clips, on the cage match and the bad tag match
Match 4: Electroshock & Silver King vs Dr. Wagner Jr. & La Parka Jr.
Domo de la Feria de Leon, 05/31/2010
Winner: Técnicos (via DQ)
Match Time: 6:08 (5:02+1:06)
Rating: eh
Notes: Piero is ref. Joined with everyone at the ring.
Though the rudos jump the técnicos, the técnicos are quickly back in control. Silver King & Electroshock aren't at making Parka look good as Chessman is. Técnicos pretty much dominate the entire match that's shown, which isn't really long for a match. Dr. Wagner had given Silver King a dragon leg screw once, and was about to go for a second when Silver King pulled his mask. Silver King held onto the mask after the DQ for about as long as the post break segment went.
Silver King explaining that his father said he'd be a great luchador but Dr. Wagner Jr. wouldn't cut it and Wagner responding lasts just about as long as the match, and that's obviously clipped.
TripleMania highlights, cruiserweight match
Konnan tells Zorro has a lot of potential. This is the year they're going all the way with him! No, I just imagine that being said. Is Konnan's forearm tattoo new? Konnan would like to know what Zorro is up to and Zorro is as clear as always.
Match 5: Cibernético, Heavy Metal, Octagón vs Hernandez, LA Park, Zorro
Domo de la Feria de Leon, 05/31/2010
Winner: Rudos
Match Time: 8:14 (6:07-2:07)
Rating: bleh
Notes: Only show with entrances. Cibernético gets last entrance. Tirantes is ref, so I can ignore this one.
One more TripleMania clip package
Beatdown even includes Tirantes delivering foul kicks. Zorro and Cibernético continue their battle to derive the longest choking spot ever. I believe they can do it. Cibernético has issues even taking Zorro's cane flurry correctly. Park destroys Metal with a chair shot to the head and a toss well into the crowd. Unfortunately, Park can't find away over the barricade to do more. It’s too high of a wall! Beatdown lasts thru the break.
Cibernético is randomly making a 1 on 3 comeback as soon as the match picks up. Octagon is content to stand on the apron, and Metal thinks about brawling with Park but decides to just observe. Park gets in his offense on Octagon, though they do not choice the best shot to hide things. Just like last week, the normal powers of a técnico comeback are not enough to stop Hernandez, who survives a Heavy Punch to give Metal the Border Toss. One two three, with the other técnicos being completely unaware.
Chessman, Alex Koslov, and Kenzo Suzuki rush the ring to beat up the técnicos. Only Konnan's music plays as he walks out. After a clip, Dr. Wagner Jr. and La Parka run out, with the rudos getting beat up one at a time. Joaquin Roldan watched from the stage with a microphone. Park manages to clothesline Parka and dance, but runs into a DDT – AAA cuts away from that, huh. Konnan doesn't get touched. Clip to Wagner and parka having an animated conversation, but ultimately shaking hands and hugging. Wagner shakes hands and hugs everyone.
Recap video. And it.