I haven’t posted in a while, because Cubs keeps stealing my tidbits. If you ask me, TCF should stand for Thieving Something Something!

Anyway, we have a new show, yes we did.

I didn’t hate Violencia vs. Universo Dos Mil as much as I feared. I can’t remember if there was an issue here—I think there was but I’m hazy. Anyway, I guess this was a title match (I came in late). Fun fact: Universo has been the heavyweight champ for over three years. Primera caida was pretty slow—some matwork, some punches, and I did like Universo’s armdrags. UDM takes a nice bumo in the corner and gets pinned after a Scary Senton. Closed captioning reveals that Faux Commando Girl is actually called La Nazi. Lovely. Segunda caida lasts about 30 seconds as Universo kicks ass and gets a submission with the Tequila Sunrise. They start La Tercera Caida trading nearfalls at about 1/8 normal speed until Universo takes another nice bump to the floor and Violencia hits a nice somesault pescado. A few more nearfalls in the ring and Universo hits his own dive. Back in the ring both guys miss top ropes moves, allowing Universo to hit a sort of running Dominator and lock in the Tequila Sunrise for the win. Yeesh, I take that back, I did hate this.

Porky vs. Pierroth—my dream match! Thankfully, Tarzan Boy, Black Tiger, Super Crazy, and Atlantis are also present. Pierroth was actually pretty active bumping for Crazy. Tarzan Boy just looks great, which makes me both happy and sad. Black Tiger challenges Porky to amateur wrestling—he must have a short-term memory. Tiger and Tarzan are polite enough to line up for a Porky big splash to end the fall. Tiger and Crazy have a great little segment to start up La Segunda Caida until Atlantis gets tagged in and bumps huge for Pierroth before submitting to a Tequila Sunrise (popular move tonight). Crazy gets pinned with…a vertical suplex? What is this, 1957? Tercera caida features the dreaded Porky/Pierroth match-up, but at least it’s short. Atlantis also throws the fakest punch in the world when he knocks Tarzan Boy off the apron. Some brisk action leads to Porky sitting on Tarzan Boy for the win. I got no beef with a match like this.

Stellar Moments wasn’t much until that cool “allez-oop into the missile dropkick” by two guys (I thought the announcer said Rayo de Tapita, but there were two of them).

Niebla jumps Wagner before the bell in a neat twist. He kicks ass until he misses a moonsault, allowing Wagner to take over and rudo it up. Doc goes for the mask and unties it, which actually comes into play later. Wagner places Niebla on the top and he falls off and lands on the floor, and the look Wagner gives him is treeee-mendous. I notice that Niebla’s punches are very similar to El Dandy’s (which I only bring up because I just watched some El Dandy in WCW matches I found on an old tape). Niebla finally makes a comeback and gyrates for us all, so after a ref bump Wagner rips his mask off and makes a cover. Baby Richard gets to two, then figures out what happened and DQ’s Wagner. Wagner does the “I’ll pose for the crowd, then turn around and realize I lost” bit. Both guys yell at each other afterward. I had no beef with this match, other than the lack of a clean finish. And it was a little on the short side. Plus Niebla’s wedgie is really disturbing. But that’s it.

So yeah. Not a grand slam program, but damn, I missed this show.

Yes, we have a new epsiode! Sorta.

In a dedication to contunity that I don’t think anyone was really expecting, CMLL/Galavision decided to pick up exactly where they left off: the next unaired episode. That means that, assuming they don’t change their minds later, we don’t miss an episode. The downside is that instead of being about 2 weeks behind of Mexico, like we were before, we’re now 3 months behind. Which isn’t so good.

Anyway, if you’ve taped it or are on the West Coast or whatever, here’s today’s lineup

Universo 2K vs Violencia (CMLL Heavyweight)
Crazy/Atlantis/Porky vs Tarzan/Pierroth/Tiger
Dr. Wagner Jr. vs Mr. Niebla

The report index page has the lineups for the next seven shows, if they stay in order.

So I’m watching my 3rd CMLL TV episode (of 5) and it occurs to me that el Terrible is really Sean O’Haire, escaped from dark match pergatory. Really, the goatee, the tall built stature, the lack of good stuff in the ring, the overpush based on the first two and ignoring the last one, it’s gotta be. All he needs is a coat and a vignette where he can say “Infierno, no le estoy diciendo que cualquier cosa que usted no sabe ya”, and we’re all set.

The thing is, although he’s the guy who fit a strong rudo mode (Ricky looks 14, Loco Max is probably more of a comedy guy than they wanted, and I think Zumbido was only here to fued with Ricky), the purpose of having a third Guapo would seem to be have someone to set up Magica and Shocker by taking bumps and such. The young guy’s role is usually to make the older guy look better, and get in a few spots when they have time. Those aren’t Terrible’s skills.

Of course, I’ve only seen very little of him; maybe he’ll work out better than I thought? Just a hunch that they might have been better off committing to having Terrible go his own way, like they mentioned and pulled back from.

Notes from the 4/4 show
– Tony Rivera and el Terrible won the Nuevo Guapos tag team match, and then they immediatly had the final singles match – Terrible beat Tony to get the third spot
He’s the one easist to buy as a heel of the remaining, but he didn’t impresses me in the ring as a single. That was a while ago, though.

– Mr. Niebla threw out a challenge to Universo 2000’s CMLL Heavyweight Title. I wonder if he still knows where that is…haven’t seen it in quite a while. Why they have Niebla fueding with Universo and not the guy who turned on him, I have no idea. I guess it would make sense for some tecnico to have a belt of some sort.

– Shocker beat Vampiro in the hair match. Which shouldn’t have beena surprise, given the hair involved.

Dave sez: they were actually supposed to have a new episode this weekend, but because it’s a one hour show, they’ll wait till next week (Sunday.)

Hopefully someone will figure out what taping they’re supposed to be starting with before hand. Hey, I get to be cheap again, hooray for me. I have a lot to recap again, boo for me.

Oh wow, I actually recapped a TV epsiode. Feedback – too long, too short, too many mispelled words, too few mispelled words – is always apperciated.

Oh wow [2], Dave Meltzer has been hinting all week that there’s some positive news on the New Episodes On Galavision front – his Observer preview pretty much says that it’s gonna happen, with tease of being when. So whenever that news leaks out we’ll pass it on to you, unless it’s already out there and I’m just a dope for not picking it up yet. ObNothing: I find Dave hyping it as “Annual WrestleMania issue” hilarious – what’s he saying, he’d still be doing WrestleMania issues if there’s not a WrestleMania?

Lucha times is up but I’ve totally lost track of what episode when, so all you get is times. My guess is that new episodes won’t start right away but I really know little. The Sunday show has been missable the last few weeks, an hour of AAA reruns, but last week the Saturday show was actually missed, so I guess something crappy is slightly better than nothing at all. Anyway, if they’re going to just be doing one hour shows on Sunday, my guess is that if/when updated shows return, it’ll be on Saturday. But that’s just a guess.