Author: thecubsfan

Galavision Lucha Times is updated. The times are right. Everything else…well, we’ll see. Both shows are listed as 2:30 this weekend.

Let’s just do some news bites:

-Televisa (who, I believe, own Galavision) and CMLL aren’t getting along. According to the Observer, Arena Mexico had been hosting weekly boxing shows for Televisa, but canceled them back in September due to extremely poor attendance. Since they weren’t getting their boxing show anymore, Televisa no longer wanted to pick up the production tab for the wrestling. The last few Arena Coliseo shows (when they were running that building only) and the return to Arena Mexico ended up being filmed by rival television company Multivision. Televisa reacted by keeping AAA in a prime slot for 90 minutes, but cutting CMLL to 60 minutes and in a weaker slot. Dave goes on to mention that there’s talk of bringing back boxing for two shows a month with bigger names, but doesn’t say how this would affect the relationship.

Dave doesn’t say it, but I wonder if this might tie into having the reruns on Galavision the last few weeks. Wait and see.

– In a special Constitution Day show at Arena Coliseo (Tonight), Ultimo and Rey defend the tag team titles against Atlantis and Mr. Niebla. That would seem to be good – I wonder if GdI get a return match for the Trios titles?

Not sure if this would air – the usual Arena Coliseo taping show is still scheduled, but they usually make the effort to show the include special shows.

The other top two matches are Vampiro/Porky/Tinieblas Jr vs the Capos and Anibal Jr./Olimpico/Pantera vs Emilio/Mascara Magica/Mephisto

– Last night, at the normal Coliseo show, there was a Nuevo Guapos elimination match between Tony Rivera and Marshall. (CMLL.com says Zumbido earlier lost a similar match earlier, which I never saw but at least explains what happened there.) I haven’t seen results for the show yet, but I’d guess Tony moves on. 6 are left.

– Dr. Wagner wants his own group of followers – if Shocker can do it, he can do it better. The requirements to earn an MD of CMLL from Wagner U are apparently to be very good, recoginized as such, and also to be very evil. I think Satanico might earn the degree on Life Experience.

– CMLL will be in Miami! Saturday! No arena announced! That’s gonna make it hard to attentd.

– You mentioned that challenge from Shocker – he probably knew at the time that they would meet this Friday, at Arena Mexico. It’s currently non-title, but I guess you never know. Ultimo’s got a really long week

Other matches are Rayo/Vampiro/Atlantis vs Wagner/Pierroth/Tarzan (return of Rayo), Ricky/Casas/Felino vs Zumbido/Emilio/Terrible, Volador/Virus/Safari vs JLegion, Sombra/Neutron/Explosivo vs Comando/Mayo/Polvora (the other tough thing about being a opening match faction is that you’re probably not all together often.)

– Stuart says some of the rumored names for the Super Junior tournament include Dr. Wagner Jr., Black Tiger and Super Crazy, but since they’ve all done NJPW tours over the last year, that’s not a big surprise.

And NOW, on Sunday, we’re getting the Vuelta show I expected for Saturday – Shocker/Wagner is just about to start.

They’re on drugs – that’s the only way I can explain the programming schedule.

Okay, so they ended up skipping, um, 21 episodes on Vuelta – we got #50 instead. Not a particularlly good episode – there’s a 2 fall GdI vs Vampiro/Casas/Magica main (build to the Tarzan/Casas hair match and the tag team title match) and the Virus turn, but missable. Nothing up to Shocker/Wagner level, definetly.

Lucha Times is up. Sometime this week, they changed Sunday lucha from one hour back to the (now) normal 2:30 bit, so I think we’ll get a whole new show this week. Neat, huh?

OTOH, the best match to air this weekend will be on the Saturday show – the Shocker/Wagner bout from last spring.

I wanted to say something else but I can’t remember. Maybe later.

Yep, today’s one hour will be a short repeat of a previous show. It looks like #47 (one after the rerun of last week) – Japan/Tarzan vs Porky/Niebla/Lizmark is about to start as I type this, and depending on what time is alloted for AAA, you may also get Infernals vs Villanos, Black Tiger vs Felino and GdI/Apolo/Wagner vs Silva/Shocker/Rayo.

EDIT: What aired was that Japan/Tarzan vs Porky/Niebla/Lizmark tag, a Shocker Nuveo Guapo tryout vignette, and GdI/Apolo/Wagner vs Silva/Shocker/Rayo.

If the pattern holds, next week will be #48, with Silva/Rayo/Tineblas Jr. vs Taliban/Universo your only safe bet of being aired.

I really wish Galavision, Televisa and CMLL would work better at giving at least new stuff each week, even if it’s not full length.

Remember that LF/GdI match I missed the first time around? Since it aired Saturday, I’ll have an updated recap with it in a couple days. The match itself would have been better if it wasn’t clipped (duh) and if they got someone better than Fuerza there (because he was noticably not very good at points.)