IWRG on Azteca - 10/17/08
Recapped: 10/31/08
The announcer who points on flashing lights and shakes his head solemnly is a-okay with me. Why do they have five announcers for this show?
Match 1: Dr. Cerebro, Cerebro Negro vs Gemelo
Fantastico I, Gemelo Fantastico II
Arena Naucalpan, 10/12/08
Winner: Tecnicos (2-1)
Match Time: a
Approx Rating: Derailed.
Other Match Notes: This is going to be great, trying to keep track of a
matching team I've never seen before. At least Dr. Cerebro has the ugly chest
tattoo to help me out.
1: Fantasticos dive on to the Cerebros before the match starts. They immediately lose control when they get in the ring, but before I can make fun of them for it, tecnicos both 'rana the rudos and that's the fall. Dr. Cerebro is done 0-1 and doesn't haven have his entrance gear off.
They show the team standing around in between falls, which you don't normally see in CMLL. For good reason, if it's' as boring as this.
2: A Fantastico starts with Negro. Off the ropes, over - except, not so much over, because the Fantastico trips, stumbles as he keeps running, falls forward thru the ropes, and about lands on his head. That sucked. It looks really bad, and a referee and the ringside doctor is over to check on him as the other referee keeps the Cerebros away. Dr. Cerebro smartly decides his the time beatdown the other guy. The doctor is clearly telling the Fantastico in the floor that he shouldn't be coming be hurrying up and he probably shouldn't be coming back tonight. Meanwhile, his brother is getting killed. I guess it's Uno who got hurt and is getting taken to the bottom, because the announcers yell about Dos when gets double stomped while hanging off the apron. Springboard dropkick/wheel barrow suplex combo to kill the other tecnico. Referee actually gives a 20 count to the other Gemelo instead of just ending the match.
3: Match continues as a 2 on 1 beatdown, but that's not going to last long. Sure enough, Gemelo Fantastico Uno comes back to the ring. And apparently has bad timing, because he just gets beat like his brother. You would've thought he would start the comeback, but this was probably booked for more time. More rudo double teaming. Dos (I think!) makes the comeback off a missed corner charge. The camera switches for this show is really bad - they're late on switches, or make switches when they would've been just letting us see the action from the original spot. They're afraid to stick with the same shot for more than a tenth of a second, which is incredibly annoying to watch. You do that to make it seem more active, but the product should do that much itself. This makes it seem like one of those security camera auto-switchers is directing the show. Brawling comeback. One Gemelo ends up tope-ing the other by accident, Dr. Cerebro gives that one an FU, and puts on a cavernaria for the elimination. The surviving Gemelo gets Cerebro Negro with a fireman's carry into a gutbuster for another elimination. With the referees out of the ring for no apparent reason, Dr. Cerebro escapes a plancha and fouls the legal GF. That GF rolled out, the pinned one came in, and gave Dr. Cerebro a double knee gutbuster. Instead of doing anything to hide the switched identity, the eliminated GF puts Dr. Cerebro in a half crab, but there's no referees. Then the Referee comes in, and GF remembers to cover up and pin.
Not a fan of the announcer who can't stop yelling.
Match 2: Head Hunter, Veneno, Fuerza Guerrera vs
Super Astro, Latino, Zumbido
Arena Naucalpan, 10/12/08
Winner: rudos (2-1)
Match Time: 15:52
Approx Rating: yeech
Other Match Notes: Veneno's entrance is pretty great. Rudos jump
the tecnicos. Bizarre to hear a plug for SmackDown.
1: Fuerza punt on Zumbido, which is not actually the finish. They stretch the beatdown on for quite some time. They started before a break, continued to the point where I gave up on a whistle, and kept on with the brawling for about 4 minutes before everyone got to the ring. Just occurs to me I have no idea who's supposed to be the captains here when Head Hunter picks up his pin. Veneno's submission can not actually be hurting Zumbido in any way I understand, but okay.
2: Don't hear a whistle to start this fall. There's some tease of one ones, but it goes back to being a beatdown. Zumbido gets a mini comeback on Head Hunter, then Latino makes a slow one on Veneno and Fuerza. Don't want to set an opinion on someone after one match, but he's not very good. Lots of brawling the other way, and I'm full on that by this point. It settles down to one ones without a pinfall. Super Astro gets whipped into a tope on Head hunter. Zumbido muffs a run up the ropes on Veneno, but Veneno is kind enough to sit there and do nothing. Latino does not have an impressive superkick for a guy who does one every three moves. And that's the fall. Replay of Zumbido's 'rana exposes how bad it is, way to go. Zumbido attacks the rudo ref between falls.
3: There's the whistle. Tecnicos showcases. Zumbido gets in his double jump plancha. Latino sues his fifteenth million superkick of the night to knock Fuerza to the floor, but Head Hunter crotches him before he can dive. Fuerza slams Latino, and Head Hunter adds a top rope splash for what should be the pin, but he holds off until Fuerza can get Super Astro to misses a reverse tope and put him in the camel clutch. That's the fall.
Interview with Fuerza, and that's it.