Barnett says Tarzan Boy got fired this past week. CMLL needed someone to take his place in the hair/hair match vs Vampiro (though, it sounds as though it’s pushed back to 4/4), so…Shocker turned rudo on Vampiro!

So…I wonder what this means as far as Mascara Magica and the Guapo U. Assuming they still exist.

I wonder if Shocker and Emilio are friends now.

Hey, Ultimo gets to keep the LH title, I bet!

I wonder if they’ll turn someone to fill the space on the face side? Or fill the empty spot within GdI – they probably could get away with only Ultimo and Rey if they wanted to, and there’s no obvious replacement for Tarzan that I can think of (without stealing say Aguilla from AAA.) Shocker being with the group would probably be concentrating too many main players in too small of a group, but I guess we’ll have to see how it goes down.

At least with this rivalary, things should stay intersting while Ultimo and Rey are in Japan – they’ll still be a lack of intersting main eventers if Santo doesn’t show up or no one intersting comes in, but they’ll have a strong and new rivalary to work with for a while. I’m not totally enthused about this turn (Shocker was too good as tecnico) but it does make sense.

Edit: Maybe I should remember to publish these things when I edit ’em. EH. Hey, you know, that comments link lets you make comments and all. You could pretend to be reading this!

The site being down wasn’t even my fault this time! But, because of it, I never got around to getting lucha times done – and by the looks of the show on right now (West Coast Feed: 9pm to 11:30, FWIW), I wouldn’t have been right anyway. This is a replay of #33…which should’ve been on Sunday (2pm everywhere), if they were still doing reruns there.

And they still might, you know, but the matches, as advertised on Galavision.com are this:
– Ultimo Guerrero vs Atlantis
– Rey Bucanero vs Santo
– Scorpio Jr. vs Mr. Niebla

A quick look at my index, and the best I can figure is that it’s a rerun of #54, that itself had a lot of reruns included
– Los Guerreras vs Virus/HsN
– Rerun: Rey/Ultimo vs Santo/Casas (#38)
– GdI/FdT vs Atlantis/Niebla/Warrior/Lizmark (#42)
– Dr. Wagner/Emilio/Mascara/Universo vs Silva/Magica/Shocker (#41)
– Dantes/Tailban vs Silva/Niebla/Porky

I couldn’t find any new episode that’d fit that lineup, and the lineup was dead on last week, so that’s my guess.

Brief news:
– Tony Rivera beat Terrible in another Guapo elimination match – we’re down to Loco Max, Ricky Marvin, Rivera and Genetico, oddly enough.
– Bestia and Villano III challenged each other to a hair/hair match on 2/25, but who knows if it’ll happen.
– Apparently, not only is Tigre Blanco the Mexican Welterweight Champion, but Dr. X has been chasing him for that title for quite some time. CMLL.com News guy seems to think this shall come to a head very soon.
– Shocker was getting yet another title shot against Ultimo for the CMLL LH Title tonight – no word as of yet on how that went.
– Speculation puts the Vampiro/Tarzan Boy hair/hair match on 3/21…and that Tarzan will be having knee surgery (again) soon after.

BTW, I stole that playing card picture from the great Spanish-language lucha site Box Y Lucha – worth a visit if you can get a web translator to work.

Weird note from the Observer this week on the Marvin/Zumbido hair vs. hair match: “For the first time in a long time, fans threw money into the ring as a show of appreciation for the work of both guys after both guys had their heads shaved.” It was the first draw in a hair vs. hair match since a 1989 match between El Dandy and Emilio Charles, Jr.

Wrestleholicsvideos has a two set Best of the GdI set:

Part 1:

1st Round CMLL Tag Tournament Group 2 – Ultimo Guerrero/Rey Bucanero vs. Felino/Tarzan Boy
Semifinals CMLL Tag Tournament Group 2 – Rey Bucanero/Ultimo Guerrero vs. Villanos IV & V
FINALS – Rey Bucanero & Ultimo Guerrero vs. Hijo De Lizmark & Lizmark
Los Infernales (Rey Bucanero & Ultimo Guerrero) vs. Villano IV & Mr. Niebla
Ultimo Guerrero/Rey Bucanero vs. Emilio Charles Jr./Mr. Niebla…CMLL Tag Team Titles
Rey Bucanero/Ultimo Guerrero vs. El Hijo Del Santo/Negro Casas – CMLL World Tag Team Titles
Ultimo Guerrero/Rey Bucanero vs. El Satanico/Averno – CMLL Tag Team Titles; Highlights of Satanico & Averno ripping off Guerrero & Bucanero’s tights are shown. The reason they did this was that they were feuding for the “Infernales” name and image, so the tights are part of the gimmick.
Ultimo Guerrero/Rey Bucanero vs. El Satanico/Shocker (from Monterrey)
Rey Bucanero/Ultimo Guerrero vs. Negro Casas/El Hijo Del Santo – CMLL Tag Team Titles
Part 2:

Rey Bucanero/Ultimo Guerrero vs. Negro Casas/El Hijo Del Santo – CMLL Tag Team Titles
Rey Bucanero/Ultimo Guerrero vs. Negro Casas/El Hijo Del Santo – CMLL Tag Team Titles
Rey Bucanero/Ultimo Guerrero vs. Halloween/Damian 666 – CMLL Tag Team Titles
Ultimo Guerrero/Rey Bucanero vs. Shocker/Vampiro – CMLL Tag Team Titles
Ultimo Guerrero/Rey Bucanero vs. Ultimo Dragon/Dragon Kid
Ultimo Guerrero/Rey Bucanero vs. Ultimo Dragon/Kaz Hayashi

Not sure if the GdI vs. Vamp/Shocker is uncut or not (I’m guessing no). The GdI vs. Dragon/Dragon Kid is their only televised match from their Toryumon jaunt, and the last match is from the Wrestle-1 show/debacle. Looks worth grabbing if you want to get into both guys.

In the Observer this week, there’s a bit about Konnan’s angle in NWA-TNA (X Division guys stole the Lucha style so he’s out for revenge) and speculation about bringing in some lucha guys to back up Konnan.

Of course, the problem is that Konnan did a spectacular job of burning most every bridge he crossed in Mexico – neither AAA or CMLL wants anything to do with him (which is why he’s not come back to either), and wouldn’t be happy with a top guy helping him out in this sort of thing. Which is kinda too bad, because Dave astuley singles out Black Warrior as guy who might be a good fit. I’ve watched zero NWA-TNA, but from what I’ve heard, you can get over just doing cool spots and doing cool spots is what Black Warrior does best.

Dave says they’re thinking about bringing in a lower level guy – he puts Ricky Marvin’s name forward (he’s probably much better of staying far away from this – being the third Guapo is the best he can get right now) and also Volador Jr, who I think would be a great fit. He can be impressive – that Asai moonsault they showed for 3 months straight on Spectacular Moments is pretty, but there are a lot of similiar type guys and he’s gotten lost in the shuffle. (Assuming he isn’t so lost he got injuried and I totally forgot about it.) Going to NWA-TNA would get him a bit more exposure, and maybe even he’d find a way to distingush himself better from the Safari’s and Tony Rivera’s of the world.

Of course, reality of this turns out to be that Konnan’s good lucha friends are a newly heel turned SAT and Special Guest Star Juventued, in to fight Jerry Lynn next week. I sure hope they get the good Juvi, but it does seem like an enviorment friendly to the bad Juvi.

To add on to the last post, it’s probably worth nothing that the lucha libre page on Galavision.com is now back up. Good sign.

Lucha Times is up already. The difference between the new show we might get and the rerun show we’re on schedule to get is quite large.