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It’s hard to explain how my mind got here, but I was wondering how long various CMLL and CMLL visible championships have been held without a change. Longer than I thought – there goes my plans for a “Ultimo has held the belt for 1000 days!” celebration.

(I’ll leave it as an exercise to the reader recalling who’s champion for each title.)

Edit: Let’s add defenses too.

                                 Defense                          
Championship    Won On  Days Held Known # Days per   Last    Last DF  Belt on TV      
CMLL Trios     11/19/04   533        0       N/A     None      None   Nope            
CMLL SL        01/20/06   106        0       N/A     None      None   Champ isn't on T
CMLL Mini      12/09/03   879        3       293   01/02/06    None   Minis aren't on 
CMLL Heavy     10/12/04   571        2       286   02/27/06  05/10/05 Rarely          
CMLL Middle    04/26/04   740        3       247   04/17/05    None   Rarely          
UWA Heavy      06/18/04   687        5       137   02/09/06  03/08/05 Always          
CMLL Welter    04/02/04   764        6       127   05/29/05  05/29/05 Rarely          
NWA Middle     01/01/05   490        6       82    01/16/06  02/11/05 Often           
CMLL Women     09/16/05   232        4       58    04/23/06  04/23/06 Mostly          
CMLL LH        12/13/02   1240       26      48    04/28/06  04/28/06 Occasionally    
NWA LH         07/22/05   288        7       41    02/03/06  02/03/06 Rarely          
Mexican Welter 05/13/05   358        9       40    04/12/06    None   Occasionally    
CMLL TAG       04/14/06    22        1       22    04/24/06    None   Occasionally    

Out of the 19 GdR shows so far, Mistico has appeared on 11 of them. It feels like even more, partly because there’s not a match Mistico is in where the focus is not on Mistico.

The main reason Henrik taken the anti-women in CMLL is because he feels they’re taken spots on the cards from the regular male crew. I’ve had a suspicion the actual losers are the minis – the regular crew seemed to have stolen their opening match spot in turn – but I hadn’t bothered to research the numbers so I didn’t voice an argument.

So, I did the research

Percentage of participation in the opening two matches on Friday CMLL DF cards

            Regular    Mini   Women
Qtr 1, 05      85%	15%	0%
Qtr 2, 05      85%	15%	0%
Qtr 3, 05      79%	7%	14%
Qtr 4, 05      77%	12%	12%
Qtr 1, 06      65%	12%	23%

The minis have lost about a match every three months. The regular men had lost a match a month last year. This year, with women being on about half the cards, the men are down now closer to two matches a month.

(There were three times a women’s match appeared higher than second on the card; the first two times, the cards were six matches long and they had seemed to add another match. The third time, a Coliseo card in December, they did apppear to take a spot away from the regular crew.)

(So I’m wrong and Henrik is right.)

Is anyone but Robert and me watching the GdR stuff? Was I way off on Mistico/Perro? That I’ve heard nothing about either my dislike of the match or the match itself is worrisome.

EXACTLY what the title says.

I’m halfway thru last weekens’s GdR and this is an A1 episode. I hope the main event doesn’t blow it.

So I’m watching GdR last night – recap should be done early evening – and coming back from a commerical, there’s a big IMPACTANTE graphic, and then minis. I figured they must be adding some stellar moment bit to fill out the show this week, but, uh, no

(permalink: http://www.youtube.com/?v=bTi3DjyAfOI)

I can’t explain why my thoughts turned this direction, but I was wondering what y’all thought: Who’s better, Tarzan Boy or Abismo Negro? Leave a comment.

(My thoughts after the link.)

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