CMLL FSE GdR - 12/23/07 (#69)
Recap: 12/24/07
Intro: in the background, the CMLL Militia is working over Sombra de Plata. (Trueno seems to be MIA) Volador Jr. and V3 do the promos. A valet interrupts to mention the teleton, and everyone makes fun of Magadan for not giving enough on first grab of his wallet.
Outside the Ring: Damian 666, part 2
Match 1: Apocalipsis, Mr. México (c), Nosferatu vs Fabián el Gitano,
Leono (c), Mictlan
Arena Coliseo, 11/25/07
Winner: tecnicos (2-1)
Match Time: 6:57
Approx Rating: finish was fine for building it up. Mr. Mexico and Leono
can't be blamed for not trying to make this work, but it still isn't.
Other Match Notes: No entrances.
1: Rudos jump tecnicos after introductions. Mr. Mexico again works over Leono solely as if his job depends on it. Maybe they told him it did after how Emilio/Purpura went. Even when Fabian comes in, Mr. Mexico kicks him for a moment, then hurries out to get Leono on the outside. Mexico's not giving him a moment of rest. Nosferatu and Apocalipsis aren't bringing the interesting on their own, though you'd think notKoreano would be motivated in his first TV appearance in forever. Mexico's powerbomb is .85 of max power - enough that Magadan felt sympathy pains for Leono.
Mictlan is being stretchered out, and I didn't even know he was hurt! He had kinda disappeared after the initial attack, but there was no big spot involved with him. Apocalipsis brawled with him outside the ring, they disappeared off screen and then we never really saw him again. If you look for it, on the left side of the screen about 2:20 into the fall, Mictlan is down on the floor holding his arm, and the doctor is summoned over to inspect it. A referee goes out soon after. Apocalipsis did put an arm in an armbar and forearm in, but it didn't look particularly severe.
2: Beatdown continues, though only on two men. They really should let a worker from the opener step in and help finish out the match in these situations (assuming they didn't have to bolt for another show), just so this can flow a bit better. Apocalipsis hits the same top rope splash from the first fall, this time on Leono, but pulls Leono up only because this match has to go longer. What does it say, when you've had a 4 minutes match with mostly brawling, and you're repeating spots? (It says you shouldn't be on TV much.) Even better, the next spot is Leono hitting a springboard double back elbow to start the comeback. Why not just have Apocalipsis miss the top rope splash (skipping the "that'd hurt" rational explanation) and go from there. Leono sends out Nosferatu, otherwise without a dance part, and gets his rival with a twisting headscissors. Dropkick sends MR. Mexico in a wacky bump off the ropes. Mr. Mexico has issues getting pulled into the swinging fisherman's suplex, but eventually Leono gets it to work for the pin. Fabian held Apocalipsis in a chokehold for the duration of Leono's comeback, and it was quite the ineffective looking thing. Fabian gets an Asai Moonsault on Apocalipsis after the fall just to get his stuff in. It's not like they have another fall coming up!
3: Oh, right. Fabian starts this fall, gets in a springboard armdrags and a dance to counter a sunset flip. Apocalipsis comes in to help, and be another catcher on a top rope plancha. Fabian kicks dropkicks out Apocalipsis, headscissors on Ramstein, and teases a dive to dance instead. He totally could've just done his dive here. Leono and Mr. Mexico. I wonder how they're going to work the end of this match. Normally, these two would end up in a dive, the other four would come in at once and end up all out, and the captains would come back in for the finish. I guess they could just do another 2 on 1 bit with Fabian. Leono is evasive off the ropes, and midkicks Mr. Mexico to the floor. Leono follows him out to chop there. Fabian comes in, but is kicked around by Apocalipsis. Fabian reveres a whip, and works to backdrop him over. Fabian put Apocalipsis in abdominal stretch and - gets the submission! Huh. This is as strange as I was hoping. Nosferatu takes over, and attacks Fabian from behind while he celebrates. Slaps, whip, Nosferatu throws Fabian up, Fabian's about touching the ground when he finally did that armdrag. Fabian teases dive, flips to the apron, teases Asai, kicks Nosferatu away and does the Asai Moonsault - and Nosferatu SAVES FABIAN'S LIFE. Fabian got absolutely no distance on that move - he went straight up, and he was headed straight down. Nosferatu lunged forward in time to make the very clutch catch. Nosferatu paid for that with his body, but he's a hero. That move is going to end Fabian if he keeps doing it. Referees distract themselves with the dives - there needs to be two of them for this spot to work, but Mictlan's still not here.) Captains back in, and Leono gets the backbreaker, but Mr. Mexico low blow uppercuts him - but Leono fouls him right back! Leono ends up on top one two three! Apocalipsis tried to make the save, not that was going to actually work. Apocalipsis and Magadan are appalled at that result.
El Diseno: Atlantis
Match 2: Alex Koslov,
Sagrado (c), Volador Jr. vs Villano
III (c), Villano IV, Villano V
Arena Coliseo, 11/25/07
Winner: Rudos (2-1)
Match Time: 13:18
Approx Rating: Good enough to get the Villanos over as a trio, if that's
the point.
Other Match Notes: No entrances, so the promos are shown before we see
any of the match. V4 & V5 do one together, while Alex has valets all over
him. ADVANTAGE: KOSLOV. It's actually a bit surprising there's no entrances,
since they ought to need to kill some time after how the opener went.
1: This is one of those times where they expect you to instinctively know which guy is 4 and which guys is 5, and good luck on that. Alex has a long mat section with one guy who is not Villano III (the announcers say 4, which is nice), and gets the worse of it earl, but battles back to some control. Volador takes 5, and armdrags him around to start. V5 Keeps complaining about mask pulls, but the ref doesn't care. Volador has a springboard roll for no reason, and then a flip to the apron to go up for a plancha, which requires V5 to stand in place for a long while. V4 comes into help, and it's actually more Volador r taking care of both of them himself rather than stuff backfiring. V5 gets a kicked out, but 4 takes a superkick and enziguri before he goes. Tags to Sagrado and 3. Sagrado out speeds V3, arm dragging him around dropkicking him out (V3 trying to take the seated bump out and hitting the middle rope with the back of his head in the process.) V4 (I guess) comes in, so Alex is back in and hitting a great dropkick. Forearms, corner whip, and Alex rushes directly into a boot. V4 levels Alex with a clothesline too. V4 tries another clothesline, and Alex pulls him into the crossface. That's it for him, and the other guys hit the ring - Volador gets V4 with a springboard plancha and kicks V3 out. Volador chases V3 around the ring, while Sagrado slams V5 and hits the springboard corner moonsault perfectly. One two three.
Q: Cuando en donde y contra quein debuto Alex Koslov?
A: 08/18/06, Arena Mexico vs Felino, La Mascara, Sagrado
2: Alex and we'll say V5 start off, with Alex trying to blow a kiss and getting kicked for it. V3 tries a clothesline on a whip, but Alex ducks it and immediately hits a jumping enziguri. V5 flips taking the move, which is something. Alex gives him one more to send V5 out of the way, so he can put on the hat and dance. This is an odd time to go to a crowd shot, but that's what they do. I don't know if Alex ever gets going, but I do know V4 chops him down, and the rudos quickly are beating the tecnicos 2 on 3. V5 does help out by yanking Sagrado out of the ring , posing him, and working him over with punches and such. DDT on the floor. Lots of choking in the ring. Alex gets spun on a clothesline, and takes senton and a legdrop before being sent out. Volador eats triple boot. Sagrado gets set up on the apron and everyone works together to ram him into the post. That seemed like one person worth of effort. V3 DDTs him on the floor again. Alex gets lifted up in the ring, dropped out of a fireman's carry into a gutbuster. V4 lifts him up on a tapatia, and everyone else holds out to finish him. Volador is brought in and takes a double gutbuster and a V3 dropkick. V4 Boston crab/V5 legdrop and that's it. V5 hammers Volador's neck with the back of his leg just to rub it in.
3: Was does the ring card girl have gloves on? Sharp edges, I guess. Back in the ring, the beatdown goes on. Sagrado takes a superplex, and they actually use it to setup something - a V3 second rope senton. V3 pulls Sagrado up there, but at leas it's not two moves for no reason. Alex storms in the ring and is immediately pummeled by chops. V5 picks up Alex on his shoulders, and V4 shoves Alex off, out of the ring. V4 in and worked over with fists and knees. Whip, Volador rolls under the double clothesline, dropkicks V3 out, and the other tecnicos get the other Villanos with a springboard dropkick and a springboard forearm. Triple dive? Sagrado topes v4 while the other two pull up when their Villanos duck down. Volador tries a pescado, though V3 doesn't realize it till too late and barely catches him. Alex is last, and V5 is far too close for his springboard forearm. V5 moves back a little, just enough to get socked good. All six men pull themselves together form the outside. After some replays, Sagrado is giving V5 (I guess) backbreakers, holding him over his knee after the second. Alex blows up V4 with a missile dropkick, V3 miss an elbow drop to break up that pinfall, and Volador springboard splashes them both. Alex joins the pile, but the Villanos slip free. Tecnicos with 'ranas, but they're both reverse into powerbombs. V3 holds for the cover on Volador while V4 breaks up Sagrado's submission. V5 puts a step over armbar on Alex for a submission and the match. V4 gets a late pinfall on Sagrado, delayed due to having him far too under the ropes.
V3 is happy about being smart. V5 takes his time letting go of the hold. V3 does the victorious promo. His lips are very red. Tecnicos are surrounding the rudos by the time it gets to V4's time to speak. Alex and V5 right behind the other four, who are completely unaware of it going on until V5's taken out Koslov. V4 segues into a rant on Ultimo Guerrero for some reason (well, that he remembers the feud CMLL forgot), and then everyone figures out the fight is still going on.