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AAA shows back in the US in three weeks

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Yea, for real. I too thought Dave was loco when he posted his own disbelieving note on the F4/WO site, but…

– 07/26, San Jose, HP Pavilion (tickets from $30 to $70)
– 07/27, LA Sports Arena (same prices)

Don’t ask me who’s on the show. I bet they don’t even know right now. I don’t know how well a show with no promotion three weeks out will do, especially since anything to hype on AAA TV would have to been aired in Mexico already, given the gap for US TV. This is all going to be a local promotion deal. Ticket prices seem high.

AAA is doing one taping a week lately, and they don’t have any taping yet scheduled for this week. If they can get the production crew there, one of these shows makes sense for a taping.

06/13 Arena Mexico (Jucio Final) Lineup

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CMLL (FRI) 06/13 Arena Mexico [Notimex]
1) Flash, Máscara Púrpura, Stuka Jr. vs Arkangel de la Muerte, Loco Max, Skandalo
2) Hijo del Fantasma, Máximo, Sagrado vs Misterioso II, Olímpico, Sangre Azteca
3) Dr. Wagner Jr., Héctor Garza, La Sombra vs Averno, Ephesto, Mephisto
4) Blue Panther, Dos Caras Jr., Místico vs ?, ??, ??? [CMLL TRIOS]
5) el Hijo del Perro Aguayo vs Damián 666, Mr. Águila, Terrible, Texano Jr., Shocker, Marco Corelone, Heavy Metal, Negro Casas, Alex Koslov [cage, hair]

Not exactly the biggest match for Dr. Wagner’s return. No sign of any special match for Atlantis – he’s a sure bet for winning the trios tournament. Ovaciones says Atlantis’ tribute is pushed off to 07/11. Guerreros are definite favorites to make it to the finals and win the whole thing.

I wonder if they’re going to explain why Averno & Mephisto are teaming with Ephesto again sometime in the next ten days, or if we’re just supposed to pretend it never happened.

I don’t think it’s a killer card. With no big secondary match (this trios tournament doesn’t count), it’s about the same level as TripleMania.

06/13 AAA TV Lineup (TripleMania – DF)

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Previous: 05/25 (Morelia), 05/30 (Cancun), 06/01 (Merida)

FINAL LINEUP

AAA TV (FRI) 06/13 Palacio de los Deportes [triplea.com.mx]
1) Aerostar, Laredo Kid, Super Fly vs Cuervo, Escoria, Ozz
2) Alan Stone, Octagón, Super Porky vs Black Abyss, Mr. Niebla, Psicosis
3) Brian Danielson, Jack Evans, Teddy Hart vs Extreme Tiger, Halloween, TJ Xtreme and Crazy Boy, Juventud Guerrera, Ricky Marvin
4) Fabi Apache vs Mari Apache [hair]
5) Vampiro vs Mesias [extreme]
6) Bobby Lashley, Electro Shock, Kenzo Suzuki vs ?, Chessman, La Parka Jr.
7) Cibernetico vs Zorro [AAA HEAVY]

The trios semimain is billed as a battle of nations (did Electrshock get ex-patrioted? And Kenzo?). If it was Latin, you think they’d announce it today. Chessman takes Charly’s spot there.

That’s not the right match for Brian Danielson, but maybe he’ll find a way to be awesome anyway. Since it’s just going to be lunacy regardless, it’s strange Lider/Nicho/X-Fly aren’t here to make it a four way.

One can assume Abismo Negro is done here for the time being. Taking him off TripleMania is a big step. Hope his restaurant is doing well. Guapos lose out, as the Vipers take their spots on the card.

No Clowns. That seems to have been a waste of time.

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05/06 Edit: Poster claims his a friend of the wrestlers in the company, and they promised him this was official. The poster has seven posts on the board, which is always disconcerting, though one of them was announcing AAA’s Dos y Tres magazine. I dunno about this one, but I figure it can get shot down pretty quickly if it’s wrong.

AAA TV (FRI) 06/13 Palacio de los Deportes, DF [gkave @ SML]
1) Fabi Apache vs Mari Apache
2) Alan Stone, Octagón, Super Porky vs Decnnis, Scorpio Jr., Zumbido
3) Crazy Boy, Juventud Guerrera, Ricky Marvin vs Bryan Danielson, Jack Evans, Teddy Hart and Extreme Tiger, Halloween, TJ Xtreme
4) ?, Charly Manson, La Parka Jr. vs ?, Electro Shock, Kenzo Suzuki
5) Mr. Niebla vs Abismo Negro [mask, cage]
6) Vampiro vs Mesias [extreme]
7) Zorro vs Cibernetico [AAA HEAVY]

Projected air date (#841, 842)
Mexico: 06/22, 06/29
US: 07/12, 07/19

05/06 notes:

The poster goes on to claim that Lashely is 90% confirmed and would be one of the mystery spots.

No sign of Chessman or the Lider/Nicho faction. I guess you can’t book Nicho this far down the line seriously.

05/04 Edit:

AAA President Joaquin Roldan will be in Cibernetico’s corner. Konnan will be in Zoro’s corner.

Guesses at other matches
?) Mesias vs Vampiro
?) Abismo Negro vs Black Abyss
?) Mari Apache & Gran Apache vs Fabi Apache & Billy Boy [AAA MIXED TAG]
?) Crazy Boy, Juventued Guerrera, Ultimo Gladiador vs Joe Lider, Nicho, ? vs TJ xtreme, Halloween, Extreme Tiger [extreme]
?) Psycho Clown, Killer Clown, Zombie Clown vs ?, ??, ???
?) Left Over AAA Wrestlers vs Random Foreigners Brought In Just For The Show

Announced Future Tapings
none

Wagner back in CMLL

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The Record (via CLARK_EL) says Dr. Wagner will return to Arena Mexico on June 13. I’m assuming he’ll somehow end up in involved in Atlantis’ deal.

06/13 Arena Mexico (Jucio Final cage match) announced

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Remember when this was supposed to be an all masked man match? CMLL would like you to forget that now.

The run of the mill tecnicos vs Perros match from Friday is being spun out into a cage match three weeks ago.

In the cage so far
– Damian 666
– Terrible
– Texano Jr.
– Alex Koslov
– Negro Casas
– Perro Aguayo Jr.
– Heavy Metal

Blue Panther is NOT in the cage, because this is a hair only deal (so far) and whatever plan there was for him and V5 seems to have been lost. Perro and Heavy were not in the cage match but we’re pretending they still have issues from Friday.

They’re one tecnico short – Marco? Shocker? Hector? Mistico? (Yea, probably Mistico.)

Damian would appear to the most likely rudo to lose, and probably Negro for the tecnicos.