CMLL Guerreros del Ring on CAN52 #191 (07/18/2009)
Recap: 08/08/09
Match 1: Flash, Metro, Stuka Jr. © vs Euforia ©, Nosferatu, Vangelis
Arena Mexico, 07/12/2009
Winner: tecnicos (2-1)
Match Time: 12:42
Rating: Above average, been better
Notes:
1: JIP, with Flash and Nosferatu already working chain wrestling. Top wristlock battle is surprisingly equal for a while, but then Nosferatu realizes he's a much larger individual, I guess. Nosferatu turns and squirms free, to pick Nosferatu by his leg. Snap mare by Flash, chinlock on the mat, Nosferatu turns out into an armbar. Facelock on the mat, crowd seems a bit restless. Flash gets a zero cover, then man armbar, up for an armdrags, down for a wristlock, and Nosferatu grabs him in a headscissors lock on the mat. Flash easily escapes that and spreads Nosferatu's legs from that always hard to explain submission. Nosferatu eventually frees himself to the standoff. Keep going? Okay. Nosferatu wristlock, armbar, hammerlock, Flash tires to elbow free, and a jumping snap mare works a lot better. Nosferatu rolls out, and Flash decides not to follow. Boos? Boos, yep. Vangelis and Metro in. Crowd just seem to be in a rudo mood. Metro off the ropes, cartwheel, over, off the ropes, and into Vangelis' jumping spin kick. That need to be added to his trademark moves. Chest slap, whip, reversed, Metro leapfrogs over Vangelis the first pass, and hiptossed on the second. Springboard armdrag sends Vangelis cross the ring, and a bodyscissors armdrags sends him spinning out. Nosferatu surprises Metro with a running back elbow. Metro might have thought he was done there, but not quite yet. Chest slap sends Metro into the corner. Corner whip, reversed, Metro charges in, Nosferatu sits him on the top and back ups. That give Metro enough time to kick him, and follow with a headscissors. Forward roll fake dive pose gets boos. Tag to Stuka, Euforia in to face him. Not a first. Stuka over, thru – thru doesn't work so much, Euforia just gets bumped back by the shoulderblock. It's enough of a stagger for Stuka to trip him up and stomp. Stuka backs up to his corner, does his corner flipping run, which is a bad idea for a number of reasons. Chief among them is Stuka ends up in the rudo corner, and they just yank him down by the mask. Euforia jumps on him with stomps, and chops him into the rudo corner. Corner whip sends Stuka back to the tecnicos, and Flash flips his partner to safety. Euforia charges and eats boots, Nosferatu conveniently waits to charge until Metro remembers to go to the top rope to cut him of with a plancha. Valiente grabs Metro, gets a double clothesline for his trouble. Metro waits to boost Flash into a double dropkick on the other. Tecnicos are a bit slow tonight, or the rudos are too fast for their own good. Flash and Stuka tease a double dive, but while flash does his tope con giro, Stuka stops, jumps to the apron, and does an Asai moonsault instead. Kinda ruins the effect that way, but OK. Metro gets Vangelis with a huge German suplex, and that's more than enough to beat him. Referees do count out the other rudos, not the people running the show pay them much mind.
2: JIP, at least from what I see. Vangelis knocks Flash down with a shoulderblock to pick up, Vangelis batters Flash into the corner, and thru the ropes of the corner. Vangelis corrects that so he can whip Flash cross ring, but Flash corrects a bit of his own, waking up the ropes and coming down with a flying sunset flip. Vangelis rolls thru and tries to put his weight on Flash, but Flash uses him to jump up for a 'rana, sending Vangelis sliding out. Nosferatu in, Nosferatu's eating an over the back armdrag. Euforia in, and felling Flash with one big chest slap. Euforia celebrates his awesome power. Whip, Flash tries to flip escape off the top rope, loses his footing on the jump, still kinda manges to land on his feet, but the nifty save is obscured by the spot looking all sorts of screwed up. Euforia waves him by again, Flash comes back with a overhead spinning headscissors and a dive fake. Crowd boos. Tecnicos are like “ugh.” Vangelis vs Stuka. Why are the fighting? I'm the 100th person to make that joke, I win a stuffed animal. Vangelis off the ropes, over, that jumping wheel kick. I'll check, I promise. Whip, clothesline misses, Vangelis rolls for no apparent reason on his way to the ropes, Stuka charges, Vangelis tosses him off, Stuka uses the ropes to flip off his back into a headscissors. Dropkick misses, and Nosferatu comes in to stomp down Stuka. Nosferatu lifts him up, which makes it easy for Stuka to headscissors Vangelis and armdrags Nosferatu. Nosferatu misses the clothesline and gets sent into Vangelis, knocking him out of of the ring. Nosferatu cares a little bit, but only a little but, and instead sidesteps Stuka as he charges. Stuka goes out to the apron, fights Nosferatu away, and gets him with a flying armdrags. Euforia running in with a boot, which Stuka catches and drops him him with a back elbow. Stuka tries a rebound armdrag, but Euforia shrugs him off, I guess. He just doesn't go, and Stuka rolls on his own. Stuka tries a springboard bodyscissors into something, but Euforia slams him down instead. Euforia Special, and the tecnicos appear not to go in before Stuka gives. Bad teamwork!
3: Rudos in control, tecnicos down all around ringside. Flash tries to claim a foul kick, but that works as well as it normally does ten seconds into the match. A referee has to go and grab Euforia so he'll stop stomping on Stuka on the ramp. Flash takes a face first powerbomb, and then is brought out to the ramp so he can be whipped into his tag team partner. This leaves Vangelis alone with Metro, and that turns out to be a bad idea. Metro drops Vangelis with a spinning backbreaker and dropkicks him out. Euforia stops him for a moment with a boot, but that leaves Nosferatu alone and whipping Flash towards Stuka, who boosts him into a headscissors on Euforia. Stuka knocks down Nosferatu as he charges, and Metro leaps outside to monkey flip Stuka into his tope con giro onto Vangelis. Metro hiptosses Nosferatu in, and Flash turns and splashes him. One two no. Nosferatu kicks Flash and whips him, but Flash comes back with a 'rana. One two Euforia breaks it up. Euforia grabs Flash by his legs and smoothly applies an inverted figure four. Metro breaks that up with a sliding dropkick. Whip, trip, Metro ties up the legs, grabs the arms, and tries for a one leg campana. Metro really doesn't get him up before Metro break it up for his own submission – kinda of a suspended Rosa, Vangelis laying on his back. Stuka breaks that up with a kick, and then dropkicks Vangelis out. No submission for him, I guess. Stuka teases a dive to disguise Metro climbing to the top and doing a plancha instead. Flash gets Nosferatu's with a springboard armdrags, off the ropes, tope just gets there. Euforia and Stuka back in again, captain vs captain. Stuka dropkicks Euforia with a spinning backbreaker (boos) and goes up, but Euforia stops him with a big slap. Euforia can't follow up, and leaves Stuka hanging from the top rope as he deal with Metro coming in. Metro's clothesline in the corner, but Euforia misses the charge. Metro charges, Euforia puts him up top, and goes up top himself. Euforia stands on the top rope, and then stands over Metro. Flash climbs up to join them, and sort of pull Euforia off with a springboard 'rana. Stuka's changed corners for a better angle – splash, one two three. Good idea, didn't quite come off as well as they wanted. A win's a win.
Match 2: La Mascara, La Sombra ©, Valiente vs Black Warrior ©, Heavy Metal, Shigeo Okumura
Arena Mexico, 07/12/2009
Winner:
tecnicos (2-1)
Match Time: 13:08
Rating: good
Notes:
1: Valiente and Okumura start. If I was Okumura, I probably wouldn't be writing this right but I would be seeing if I could talk people into letting me wear shorts instead of the long samurai skirt that must be a pain to deal with. Got to update to the current wacky Japanese gear instead of the last iteration. Valiente wants Warrior, so he's a bit distracted here. When they finally get going, Okumura waistlock is quickly reversed into a front hammerlock. Okumura single legs his way out, but everyone's more concerned with Warrior wandering to a random neutral corner to taunt some fan. Okumura and Valiente roll over towards the rudo corner, Heavy Metal bends over thru the ropes to yell at Valiente, and Valiente swats him from the mat. Okumura is the only stable one on this team, right? Heavy Metal takes offense and wants in, Sombra comes in to back up Valiente, and there's a standoff before everyone returns to the previous status quo. Valiente ends up getting his armbar back, even. Okumura escape and puts on a kneebar. Valiente scissors that leg, then floats around into a front facelock, Okumura tries to turn out of it, but Valiente turns with him. Okumura slips out, covers for less than zero, snap mare, grounded crucifix cover, one kickout. Valiente hold Okumura down chest first, grabs both his arms to pull him up, then snap mares him over. Standoff. Tag. Sombra and Metal, Metal immediately leaves to go taunt the same fans Warrior was having issues with. Is metal going to fight? No, he's going to tag in Black Warrior. Warrior definitely has his fans here, and that spurs on the tecnico fans. Lockup, Warrior forces Sombra to the ground, pinning him on his chest and driving his own head into Sombra's back. Warrior lets up for an armbar, Sombra rolls to revers and puts on a headlock. Long discussion. Let's look at Metal instead. Sombra armdrags Warrior away. Spinning drop toe hold by Warrior, and holding the leg in a scissors. Warrior spins around to reverse it, and ties up Sombra's legs, and grabs both his arms from behind. Warrior holds onto the armbar as Sombra's gets up, then flips Sombra over his back and pins him to the mat by a knee. One two Sombra turns up. Sombra kips up to his feet and armdrags Warrior away. Sombra kicks at Warrior, Warrior catches the leg and kicks him into the corner. Warrior charges, Sombra moves, Warrior takes the knee bump to the floor, and Warrior follows with his double jump tornillo pescado. Valiente gets Okumura with a springboard plancha, one two no. Okumura charges, right into the layout chestbreaker. One two three. Meanwhile, Metal tries to slide under Mascara's legs but Mascara grabs him by the hair, tosses him in front, and sits down on him for the pin. That's an interesting pin. It worked!
Warrior is laying on Sombra on the outside, checking on him. It seemed like Warrior didn't get all of him on the catch. Tecnicos pull Warrior off to check on their partner.
2: As the fall starts, Valiente and Okumura are waiting in the ring, but Warrior is sending Sombra face first into the ringside steps, which have been pulled away form the ring for whatever reason. Referees ask Warrior politely that he might stop. Okumura knocks down Valiente and stomps, while Heavy Metal taunts Mascara into chasing him up the ramp. Warrior tires to send Sombra into the steps once more, but Sombra reverses it and Warrior takes them instead. Okumura helps him out, and both bring Valiente back in to work on him. I'm not sure what is happening with Metal and Mascara, just that Metal some how got control and is able to toss Mascara in. Metal holds Mascara in a chinlock while Valiente is cleared out of the ring, then bends Mascara's arms around the ropes while waiting for something. Warrior gets everyone else to leave, backs Mascara into another corner, and sends him cross ring. Mascara reverses it, flips to the apron, and jump kicks Warrior away. Mascara off the ropes, right into Warrior's dropkick. Warrior waves in his partners to cut off the tecnicos and covers for the equalizer. That was not much. Metal press slams Sombra and puts him in a crossface, while Okumura gives Valiente his layout DDT
3: Warrior slams Mascara and adds a guillotine legdrop. Pin? No, he picks Mascara back up – and small packages him. OK. Valiente breaks it up., then gives Warrior a swinging fireman's suplex. One two Metal breaks that up. Step over armbar on Valiente, Sombra breaks that up with a dropkick. Heavy Metal is so hurt, he shows us how he can't even get up. Sombra suplexes him and covers, one two Okumura breaks it up. Okumura slams Sombra and goes up. Top rope missile dropkick. Okumura celebrates, and then covers – one two Mascara pulls Okumura off, and chops him hard. La Mascara chops Okumura so hard, Heavy Metal walks out. That's something. Warrior comes in to fight back, but not without hitting the tecnicos not even involved first chop battle. Warrior stops to whip Mascara, Mascara reverses, Warrior still ends up clotheslining him. Corner whip, Mascara charges in, no one's home, and Warrior hits the corner hard. Warrior doesn't even think about following up, but just hangs out until Okumura runs over to him for a shoulderblock. Mascara sends him out with a rolling dropkick. Mascara rolling dive fake and pose. Metal in, and he wants Mascara to stay in. Kick to the leg, and Okumura back in to help. Whip, and Mascara dropkicks them both. Okumura goes down, and then realizes he should've rolled out with Metal. Mascara topes him, and Valiente does his own a couple seconds later, hitting Metal very high. Sombra and Warrior in. Sombra dropkicks Warrior while Warrior is still reacting to the crowd, I knew that man was smart. Sombra charges again, and Warrior drops him into the buckle face first. Sombra falls down, Warrior goes up – guillotine legdrop hits. Warrior ties up the legs, grabs Sombra by the head - and Sombra reverses into a small package one two three. Wow, I guess Warrior shouldn't have used up his one working small package earlier.