The good thing about the long period between when the show starts and the actual matches starts is it gave me enough time to turn on some proper lights, get a drink from the kitchen, and type this paragraph. On the other hand, I could've just fast forwarded, since I'm ignoring it all. I wonder if they'll ever take the rudo Místico video out of this open.
Thru the show, there's clips from the Místico interview they aired on 52MX about a month ago, to reposition him as a técnico, with some new footage to back what he's saying (like his love of futbol team America.) No sign of the ring before the first break.
And it's about 7 past the hour before they even start introductions.
Match 1: Pegasso, Rey Cometa, Rush © vs Loco Max, Nitro ©, Skándalo
Arena Mexico, 05/07/2010
rudos
Winner: técnicos (2-1)
Match Time: 13:49
Rating: ok, but thought it was going to be better
Notes: Rouge is startling larger than not-Air Force when they're all together for the prematch interview. Tuareg enters as a group. They need to give them a group video, instead of flipping thru the solo ones. Refs are Babe Richard and Bestia Negra. Opening whistle at 11:35 past the hour, an AAA-ish pace.
1: It's nearly another minute before everyone decides who's going to fight. Skandalo/Cometa is okay, most notable for Cometa faking out all the ringside photographers. They bolted to get in positions for a dive picture that was just a handspring fakeout. Pegasso & Loco has no much more the same, except the usual 50/50 exchange of armdrags turns out to be 100 Pegasso/0 Loco Max. They go head to head, tag, and Rouge and Nitro immediately go head to head. Chops, no tag. Rush is trying to seem instant and fired up and it's no always working. Nitro goes out to a dropkick, Skandalo gets Rush with a dropkick, Cometa leaps in but Skándalo moves out of the way and Loco back elbows him. Nitro trips Pegasso of the apron and keeps him out of the floor to keep him out of the way. Loco whips Cometa over to Skándalo, who leads him up, talks him around, and drops him with the Skándalo Driver. Rush returns, tries a top rope plancha, and eats dropkicks from Nitro and Loco Max. That was a poor idea, Rush. Three count there, and the fall.
2: Beatdown continues. Double team rebound hiptoss for Cometa, and he's held on the ropes for Skandalo’s stomping running low blow dropkick. Pegasso takes Loco Max's low blow dropkick. Low blow dropkicks in CMLL are what backcracker are to IWRG. Rudos backdrop Rush to the ramp, have no plan from there. Rush lands on his feet, superkicks Nitro, then boosts a charging Cometa into a dropkick on the other two. Cometa should’ve started charging much sooner, but the idea was nice. Springboard headscissors by Pegasso since Nitro out, and Rush follows with a tope. The way Rush was falling his legs on the way thru, I was sure he was going to get caught on the ropes. Skandalo charges Pegasso, misses, and gets knocked down in the corner. Pegasso holds him in place while Cometa goes over the top rope a missile dropkick on Loco Max. Pegasso 450 splashes Skándalo, then Cometa does the same to Loco Max. That’s the fall, very quick. Maybe we need to call these guys Parajea de Ave Fenix.
3:Pegasso gets off a good apron push off headscissors on Loco Max. Cometa has a good sequence interrupted by Skandalo’s topping to yell at the crowd, but the handspring headscissors which follows is still pretty cool. Rush knocks out Nitro's gum with a superkick, but gets tripped and pulled out by the rudos. Pegasso and Cometa retaliated with a running tornillo on Skándalo and Loco Max. Captains back in, Rush blocks a clothesline, lifts Nitro up, and drops him with a fireman’s carry powerbomb. Electro-Lock? Sure, why not. Rush leaves it on long enough to get warned, but lets it go in time.
Replays.
Match 2: Ángel Azteca Jr. vs Arkangel de la Muerte in a lightning match
Arena Mexico, 05/07/2010
Winner: Arkangel
Match Time: 6:30
Rating: Eh. Missing something.
Notes: Referee is Tigre Hispano. Crowd is half full at best. I'm pretty sure I saw someone with a pizza box in the 12th row, and it looked tasty. Slight clip here, or they started the clock a few seconds too soon.
Lockup, into the ropes, break. Lockup, Azteca armdrag, standoff. Azteca step over, armdrag, armbar, and then an arm scissors on the arm. Azteca does not give in under a minute, though he looks stuck. Arkangel spins over, losing the grip of the arm in the process, but yanking it before hand. Lockup, Arkangel waistlock, takedown, Azteca comes up with an armbar. Arkangel reverses to one of his own, Azteca flips forward and armdrags to escape. Zero leg trip, Azteca tries a headscissors from the mat, but I guess Arkangel blocks it by just standing there, then throwing Azteca's legs off. Azteca armdrag from the back, dropkick, and break.
Back where they left off, Azteca escapes a backdrop, hooks a wristlock, runs up the middle of the ropes, flips and armdrags Arkangel out. Azteca goes sliding out after Arkangel, but Arkangel hops back to the apron. Azteca meets him there, but the old man draws him into a chop fight. This is not a good idea. Azteca tries a dropkick there, a worse idea. Ark flops on the apron, steps off to his feet, and Azteca bowls him over with a tope con giro. 2:27 on the clock, and not that much left before the top of the hour, so this isn't going 10. After a replay of that dive, back to live for another – Azteca running tope con giro flattens knocks Arkangel over again. Clip here? 3 minutes down. Azteca knocks down Arkangel as he reaches the apron, then tries to run him into the post. Arkangel blocks, holds onto the ropes, and finally puts on the brakes to smash Azteca into the turnbuckle instead. Arkangel top rope plancha, Azteca rolls thru one two NO. Tiger Hispano is already into dramatic slow count time. Azteca punch to the midsection, fireman's carry drop, and headed up. This can't work. Tope rope senton con giro comes up empty, Azteca moving out of the way. Azteca gets up, then drops back down to cover, one two no. This match is missing the intensity you'd expect from son avenging father. Fireman’s carry drop by Azteca, and goes up from a moonsault, Arkangel moves but Azteca lands on his feet and rolls backwards. Azteca charges, Arkangel catches him with one arm, holds him there, holds him there., this I getting awkward, now they try the spot – face first powerbomb reveres into a bodyscissors cradle, one two no. Azteca 'rana, Arkangel rolls thru one two no. Headlock by Arkangel, back suplex by Azteca! You don't see that often. Azteca to the outside, springboard falling splash, one two no. Both men down and slow up. Azteca looking to draw from the crowd, but the crow is treating this is like an opening match. Arkangel charges, Azteca drops him and tries to hook on something. Thought it might be a nudo, ended up being a standing pres spin, Arkangel’s left shoulder isn’t really down own anyway, but Tiger Hispano decides to point it out then count anyway, one, two kickout. Arkangel trips up Aztec and goes for his own version of the same move, but Azteca kicks him away. Azteca off the ropes, right into sit down powerbomb. Aztec tells us this is it and tires again – La Nieblina?!? Win for Azteca, probable bad sign for Mr. Niebla. Not so good for Angel Azteca Jr. He wasn't close to beating him. Crowd is apathetic.
That's it.