JCR is insistent Stuka's team is the champions. I'm not buying!
Match 1: Rayo Tapatío I ©, Rayo Tapatío II, Sensei vs Bronco, Mortiz, Tiger Kid ©
Arena Mexico , 01/09/2011
técnicos
Winner: técnicos (2-1)
Match Time: 11:48
Rating: better than the crowd treated it
Notes: So excited to see the Rayo Tapatios until I realize I don't know how to teal them apart. Doesn't help that they're both wearing silver on silver masks; are they in Metálico & Starman's secret old masked man técnico stable? Referees are Rodolfo Ruiz and Bestia Negra. Rodolfo doesn't work these shows much.
1: JCR says it's Uno starting with Bronco on the mat, and I have no choice but to believe him. That champion thing earlier has me a bit shaky. Bow and arrow reversal spot is nice. They back off from each other and get going, with Rayo using holds and Bronco suing grabbing. Go with what you know. A single armdrag sends Bronco out. Dos in with Mortiz, dueling snap mares. Mortiz has to get his foot on the ropes on an elbow lock. Rayo II pulls off the headscissors from the mat bit, always nice. They get back to another one to send Mortiz out. Sensei and Kid Tiger are last, Sensei throwing all sorts of kicks as he comes in. Evasion, until Sensei takes down Kid Tiger with a big side kick. Tiger's tripped thru the ropes, and Cometa follows with the Asai tope con giro. Mortiz in with – I'm going with Uno. The rudo chops the técnico in the corner. Corner whip, reversed, tapatía escaped, Mortiz turns and charges, and Uno tosses him up into Dos' missile dropkick. That spot is perfectly timed for once; veteran leadership right there. Rayo Tapatío Uno powerbomb on Bronco does not go as perfectly (Bronco's head hits first) but it's enough for the pin.
2: Bronco takes out Rayo Tapatío II with a dropkick. Bronco stands Dos up, and Bronco looks about two Rayo Tapatío’s high. No problem, he can still be chopped. Rayo II off the ropes with a clothesline, but Bronco boots the arm and then clothesline him. Bronco whip, Rayo headscissors into an armdrag is a bit forced. Rayo II annoys the rudos on his way out of the ring. Mortiz and Uno in and chopping. Armdrag, running plancha, Rayo sends himself out on that one. Rayo uses an armdrag on Bronco to come back, in then flips him with a hiptoss. Mortiz stops Rayo with a chest slap, but then runs into a flip to the apron. Rayo run at him, slides underneath, and gets kicked by Mortiz from the apron. Mortiz does it again, then finally jumps for his move – Rayo Uno trips him off, and then follow s with a apron headscissors from the apron. Tags to Kid Tiger and Sensei. Tiger evasion spots again, but this time Sensei rolls backwards into the butt dropkick. Tiger Kid rids the world of Rayos and poses while the big man Bronco powerslam Sensei. Bronco looks about 9 feet talk in this match. Rayo II, in Rayo II chopped out. Bronco beats up one by himself, then whops him to the other two for a hiptoss to the stage! Rayo tries to land on his feet, kind lands on his ankles before falling down. He's a crazy old man to be taking that. Bronco lifts Dos on his shoulders, Mortiz missile dropkicks him off. One two three. Sensei back in, and Kid Tiger finishes him by himself.
3: Rudos appear to lose control immediately, but it turns out an elaborate plan to trip Sensei face first on the bottom rope. At least it happened too smoothly not to be a plan. Tiger Kid, kicked out to the ramp, dives back in the ring to roll and kick and Sensei in the backside, instead of the much easier kick to the face. I guess he's working a body part. Corner clotheslines for Dos, and he's held up for a Bronco missile dropkick. Bronco manages to fall oddly. Uno in, flipped to the apron and knocks off. Tiger Kid follows with a thru the ropes dropkick. Sensei in and swinging, but the rudos stomp him down together. Uno back in. Mortiz suplex. Oh no, Bronco's up top. Top rope splash misses yet again, and that starts the comeback. Sensei boosts Dos into a dropkick on Bronco, then Uno follows with a slingshot tope con giro. Sensei headscissors Mortiz over the top rope, and Dos, drops him with a nice corner tope! Kid Tiger and Sensei in, Tiger’ kick is caught, he swings, Sensei spins him out and puts on a cross armbreaker. Kid Tiger immediately gives. Crowd has booed after every fall! Pick a side!
Match 2: Ángel de Oro, Diamante, Rush © vs Delta, Metro, Stuka Jr. © for the Mexican National Trios Championship
Arena Mexico , 01/09/2011
Delta, Metro, Stuka Jr.
Winner: Ángel de Oro, Diamante, Rush
Match Time: 15:26
Rating: Eh. Had some good stuff, but had some bad spots that looked more amateur than the GDL rookies. No sense of pacing or increasing action, just some occasionally connected spots.
Notes: No entrances. HMMM. They join at the belt presentation. Ring announcer announces them as one team and the opposing team, not challenger and champion. Rodolfo Ruiz and Bestia Negra are also the referees for this match.
1: Usual partners Delta & Diamante square off for the first time. Rush is more interested in conversation with people in the front row. JCR is geeking out over the history of this championship. D&D are equals to each other, and end in shoves. Stuka & Angel de Oro are next. One girl is yelling Oro's name. This does not last. Remember when Angel de Oro & Stuka were in Hector Garza’s faction? No, of course not. Headstand test of strength spots is always cool. Angel de Oro does the backflip escape spot off Stuka’s shoulders, then escapes a monkey flip. Armdrag trade off, zero pin trade off, stand off. Metro vs Stuka. Crowd chants for Metro? JCR talks about these two being great friends outside the ring. I kind of believe they'd have some common interests, but this surely the first time they've brought it up. Rush wins the chop fight by dropkicking Metro. Stomp, scream. Metro back in, and knocking down Rush with a chop a chop. Metro stomps on Rush's right shoulder, Rush yells something at him, and Metro backs off for a moment. Whip, reversed, Metro back under, over into a powerslam. Rush poses, off the ropes, double stomp, yell. Rush telling Metro to get up. Clothesline misses, Metro lands his running elbow smash. Flashy elbow drop by Metro. Whip, Metro's big armdrag. Dropkick sends Rush out, Metro's momentum sends him out with a tope. Oro & Diamante miss clotheslines on Stuka, Stuka boosts Delta into a dropkick, it only hits Diamante and looks odd. May have just been the referee screening the action. Stuka drops Angel de Oro with the hammerlock DDT while Delta submits Diamante.
2: Diamante sends Delta rolling with a triple springboard dropkick. Delta comes back with a bad headscissors. Advantage, Diamante. Delta & Diamante start going thru sloppy bits, but I'm distracted by the fake gleaming effect they just added to the title belts. Even better, it moved when the camera moved. More shoving from Delta & Diamante. Crowd is into yelling for Oro or Stuka, it'd be nice if they did anything. Counters lead up to an Oro superkick. Oro stalls a bit. Handspring plancha gets two and a half. Stuka boots down Oro, then charge into a monkey flip to the floor. Angel de Oro slides out, Stuka chops him once then hopes up to the apron for an Asai moonsault, landing on his feet. Metro in with a plancha on Rush, but Metro sends Rush out into a tope con giro onto the on the floor. Diamante drops Metro with a plancha, drops him in front of the corner, and follows with a springboard 450 splash. Angel de Oro gets Delta with the mecedora, and that's the fall.
3: Rush & Stuka exchange chops. , the other four guys get involved, everyone shoves, and Rush's team dropkicks the other team out. Triple topes! There's no set up shown, but Stuka's team makes it back in first, and simply just do their own dives. Stuka has to get in his Asai moonsault. There was a lack of drama there. Rush is briefly a nice guy and checks on a front row fan who got sandwiched. He seems to be hurting. Replays show Delta & Diamante must've taken him out.
Clip? Everyone back in their corners. Angel de Oro tries a Toyota roll, gets two. Angel de Oro rolling casadora into a mecedora, but Metro calmly walks in, looks at Oro a bit, then rebreaks it up with an elbow lock. Metro hurks up Angel de Oro and powerbomb him down, then hurks up again, turns and drops him with a sit down powerbomb. One two Rush stops the Bestia Negra count, frees Angel de Oro, and slaps Metro in the face. Northern lights suplex, one two Delta dramatically asks for the referee to stop, then rebreaks up the pin. Hey, you're not 90s wrestlers, just break up the pin. Delta flips Rush to the outside, and manages to kick and hang him in the ropes. Springboard double stomp is not well aimed – another hit to Rush's shoulder, he just can't win – and Diamante breaks up the pin. What's Diamante’s move? Fisherman’s suplex. One two no. Crowd not at all into the near falls. Delta dropkicks Diamante out. Metro runs from the ramp – tope con giro to the floor is nice. This is missing the increasing level of excitement. It's just there. Delta and Angel de Oro talk in the corner for a while. I guess they're waiting for Metro, because Angel de Oro is whipped into a springboard moonsault to the outside, except Oro comes up way short of Metro, landing in front of him. Delta goes up, and his moonsault connects with Oro, but also ands on Metro when he's already down. Captains in. Stuka flips Rush to the apron, rush fights him off, Rush climbs up, Stuka follows him up, superplex. Stuka nearly slipped there. One two no. Still not much of a reaction to the falls. Crowd is making some noise but not really reaction to the spots, at least as far as we hear. Stuka scoops up Rush, drops him in the center of the ring, and heads up. Stuka top rope splash, no one home. Rush senton! That's his move. One two no big kickoff. Metro is stretchered off in the background – this is the first the announcers have known he was hurt – and they rush him to the back. Rush drops Stuka with his back suplex, senton, and he puts on the Amarre. That's it.
Crowd boos. Of course it does.