CMLL Puebla - 02/14/09 (#23)
Match 1: Toro Bill Sr. & Toro Bill Jr. vs Aguila Guerrera, Karissma
Arena Puebla, 02/08/09
Winner: Espiritu & Aguila
Match Time: 11:54
Approx Rating: Good.
Other Match Notes: Not many here, this week, so far. Rudo vs rudo? Huh. Aguila Guerrero wears a mask to the ring but takes it off. Refs are Tiger Hispano and Rodolfo Ruiz, who actually who get graphics here.
1: Guerrera and Junior start on the mat both wrestling clean, if it a little too practiced. Toro Bill Jr. could use some pants that are little less tight. Toro Bill SR. and Karissma shake hands before they fight. Announcers discuss Renato Torres during the match. The niceness between the teams break down when Senior is reversing a Karissma sunset flip, and Junior sneaks in a dropkick to his opponent. Aguila rushes in to shove Junior for that unfair play, Senior shoves down Aguila, and Karissma pops up to clothesline Toro Sr. Karissma team beatdown down from there, going for white a while. Senior is tossed into a gutbuster, and Karissma's finishing legdrop looks really awkward – he lands on one foot and slips on top, basically. Karissma is equally baffled on the count, because the referee who's right in front of him just stands there, and the count is made by the guy completely on the other side of the ring.
2: Karissma/Aguila beatdown continues. Toro Jr. sidesteps a charge and makes the tecnico-ish comeback. He should not do headscissors if he's going to do them like here. Toro Bill's tope is impressive, and Toro Jr. immediately gets Karissma with a casita. Comeback was only about the last :15 of the fall, not including the countout.
3: Toro Bill Jr. is far more agile than he should be at that size, including quite the off the middle rope headscissors. Toro Jr. quickly sends Aguila out with a dropkick, and Sr. grabs him there for a dive, but Karissma makes the save for his partner at the last second, and Toro Jr. get his father. That was a well down switch. Karissma and Aguila bring in Toro JR., and give him a double team powerbomb for the pin. Toro Sr. Makes it back in, but is just set up for Karissma's frogsplash.
Match 2: Ares, Policeman, Hooligan (c) vs Asturiano, Pegasso, Leono (c)
Arena Puebla, 02/08/09
Winner: tecnicos
Match Time: 16:21
Approx Rating: Just okay.
Other Match Notes: Leono really hasn't been around as much in the last year. Which is fine. Policeman gets rejected on handshakes from the rudos. Hooligan has very shiny blue headdress.
1: Opening pairs are Asturiano/Ares, Leono/Hooligan, Policeman/Pegasso. Pegasso wastes no time, quickly getting Policeman with a monkey flip and a spinning headscissors to send him out, then immediately following with a tornillo. Leono sends Hooligan out with a gentle 'rana and rolls with a tentative tope con giro, kicking Hooligan in the face because he was accidentally twisting. Locals left, and Asturiano immediately gets the 'rana pin.
2: Rudos somehow started the beatdown during the break. Rudos all try to finish their tecnicos at the same time in the ring, and almost collide during spots. Hooligan's move is the only one that really counts (Policeman had Pegasso in an mask yanking abdominal stretch for a while but it didn't seem like he ever got the submission), and Ares has to run around that pinfall to get in his tope on Asturiano. Doctor has to come into check on Leono after the pinfall – Ares must've accidentally kicked him in the head landing from his dropkick, which sure sucks for Leono. Is that Panico talking to him on the outside? Just a brief shot, couldn't tell.
3: Beatdown continues. Leono escapes a Hooligan tilt-a-whirl to start the superkick-y comeback. Pegasso is nowhere near getting in the ring to fight off Policeman, so Policeman just begs off and leaves randomly. Asturiano unties Ares' mask as the other four do a lot of crowd brawling. Back to the corners for showcases. Pegasso does not look good, slipping on a showy spot. Leono and Asturiano run thru the rudos, Asturiano looking much better and doing a reverse tope off the top rope to the floor. Back to Pegasso/Policeman. Pegasso misses on a handspring back elbow, Policeman misses on a top rope senton, Pegasso hits on a 450 splash for the pin. Leono does the flapjack, elbow drop to the back, springboard drop to the back combo on Hooligan for the match.
Match 3: Loco Max, Skandalo, Arkangel (c) vs Angel de Oro, Angel de Plata, Fabian el Gitano (c)
Arena Puebla, 02/08/09
Winner: tecnicos (2-1)
Match Time: 16:30
Approx Rating:Had moments, but not so good.
Other Match Notes: Fabian has a new mask – a full one, no open back. (Similar to Elegido, now that I look at it.) Arkangel's new/old design looks pretty good.
1: More than a minute of fooling around before people actually start to wrestle here. They blew the whistle way too soon. Crowd has filled in. They open with Skandalo/Fabian on the mat, so I've got no hope for this crew. Angel de Oro tries to start doing flippy armdrags on Arkangel, and Arkangel just decides to stretch him apart with submissions. Pretty impressive display, though possibly for the wrong guy. Angel de Plata to get his own submissions, and Arkangel just plays around with him. Loco Max/Plata is much more a tecnico showcase, with Loco taking two giant monkey flips a big springboard plancha to the floor. Fabian kinda overshot on his quebrada, so he adds a random legdrop for the pin. Angel de Oro uses a bodyscissors into a mecedora for his finish. Loco max is being attended to on the floor - replay shows he banged his head into the either the bottom of a chair or into someone's knee. That's not fun.
2: Angel de Oro showcase. He shows a rolling headscissors on Skandalo, which is always a way to win more over, except the headscissors is not close to the head. Loco takes one kick and rolls out, but goes full on against Plata. Angel de Oro and Angel de Plata come off as generic, directed of so many other guys here. Fabian el Gitano tries to do some shtick, which would be for the better. But then he does about three springboards in a row so never mind. Match breaks down to a six way brawl, Angels are whipped into each other on the outside, Fabian is whipped around in the ring, and Arkangel finishes him with a middle rope low blow elbow drop.
3: Tecnicos refuse to go in and face the 3 on 1, so rudos reach out and pulls Fabian in to beat him up. Beatdown. There's a strange teased turnaround – Fabian is supposed to free himself and duck away from a double chop spot, but only dos about half of that and the rudos chop him as he stands there and does nothing, then stet up the same exact spot again, do it better this time, then end up double booting out Fabian anyway. That was just strange. No Arkangel rudos get whipped into each other by the Angles shortly after, the big spot being a thru the legs tope by one. Captains left in, and and Fabian pulls Arkangel into a suástica for a cradle and the win.
Match 4: Dragon Rojo Jr. (c), Sangre Azteca, Black Warrior vs Valiente, Sagrado, La Mascara (c)
Arena Puebla, 02/08/09
Winner: a
Match Time: a
Approx Rating:most by the numbers.
Other Match Notes: La Mascara has his title but his mask doesn't match his gear. Slipping. All of Poder Mexica has their belts, so someone must've found the missing Volador one. Dragon Rojo is the captain? This does not seem like a good idea.
1: La Mascara/Warrior to start, Mascara getting holds or pins and rudos breaking it up. Tecnicos finally cut them off with dropkicks and chase them outside, only for the rudos to spontaneously take control for the beatdown. Usual beatdown from this crew.
2: Tecnicos masks are all untied here. Rudo beatdown going. Valiente takes Sangre's dropkick. La Mascara sidesteps a corner charge, of course, to start the comeback. He kicks Dragon Rojo out, Sangre kicks him out, Valiente gets Sangre with a flying armdrag, Warrior misses the senton and takes a superkick from Sagrado. Double topes from Sagrado/Valiente seems a bit off. Capitan's back in, and the bodyscissors campana takes no time.
3: Showcases go Valiente, La Mascara (more fun for Poder Mexica comedy), Sagrado. Jut like in the title match, rudos all roll thru tecnicos sunset flips and set them up in the pyramid submissions. This time, its for the win.
Match 5: Ultimo Guerrero (c), Rey Bucanero, Atlantis vs Hector Garza, Marco Corleone, Dos Caras Jr. (c)
Arena Puebla, 02/08/09
Winner: tecnicos (2-1)
Match Time: 4:24
Approx Rating: actively bad.
Other Match Notes: Rudos enter second, Garza tires to go after UG and gets beat around the ring.
1: Brawling beatdown. Garza is held over UG's knees for a, huh, twisting elbow drop from Bucanero, no senton. Rudos huddle, no pin. Long shot of the rudo fans, and the non-Garza guys are hitting bad springboard clotheslines as part of their comeback when they return. Quite bad, but enough for the pin. UG decides to walk way rather than interact with Hector.
2: Hector and Ultimo are ready to start, Ultimo decides to bail, Hector chases him outside, the other four come in and the tecnico instantly get submission holds. (Marco uses a double underhook, in case you're wondering.) Dos actually gets his submission, but the referees turn around to see Hector and UG in the ring, and Hector holding UG's mask. That's a DQ. What a lame fall. Rey snatches it back from Hector so Ultimo can put it back on.
3: This match has been built on Garza trying to get UG and UG getting away, so naturally this fall starts off with a crowd, shot, and then those two randomly in together. UG does flee again, but eats one kick. Other rudos dropkick tecnicos out, but tecnicos catch them on pescado. Dos fool around with Rey, while Marco rams Atlantis back first into the post multiple times. I bet Atlantis was totally jealous there. Feuding guys back in, Garza hits one moonsault bodyblock, and they can't even get the referee in the picture making the count. You know, I don't think we've had much editing on this show, but either this was edited massively or this is by far the most mailed in match in some time. A five minute match! How could anyone possibly care about this feud? Or feel that they got their money's worth out of this match? Pathetic.