CMLL Guadalajara on Teleformula #17 (10/16/2010)
Recapped: 10/22/10

Your announcers are JCR and Felino. Maybe Bucanero decided to hold out until he got a CMLL polo shirt. Felino challenges Gallo, check.

Match 1: Gallo, Metal Blanco, Rush © vs Dragón Rojo Jr., Misterioso Jr., Sangre Azteca ©
Arena Coliseo Guadalajara, 09/21/2010

  1. técnicos

  2. rudos
  3. técnicos

Winner: técnicos (2-1)
Match Time: 16:18
Rating: Unusual, but a lot of time for an indefinite finish that won't be followed up on
Notes: They show the técnicos entrances, then suddenly cut to the rudos beating up the técnicos. Odd. This is soon enough that the edecanes are still around to fun away from the fight, so maybe they came thru the crowd? Not sure. There's a new referee with a pony tail here, who looks young enough to either be a luchador or was a luchador. He replaces the guy who wasn't Loco Estrada.

1: Rudos are an effective team. Hope they don't break them up any time soon! Plenty of questionably low dropkicks all around. Gallo manages to escape the sunset flip teeter-totter spot and powerbomb Sangre Azteca on a boost. As usual, Misterioso is too busy posing to notice, and the other técnicos pulls Dragon Rojo away so Gallo can pick up the surprise pin.

2: técnicos make brawling comeback in between falls, including Metal Blanco teasing dumping Dragon Rojo on the first three rows of fans. He opts for the apron instead. After the break, the técnico offense just suddenly comes to a stop when the non-captains shoulderblock Gallo to the floor and beating the other técnicos as they come in. More low blow dropkick. Many more. Perhaps they're over doing that (by a ton.) Again, Gallo starts the comeback, this time by sidestepping a corner charge and laying out the técnicos. Metal Blanco gets Dragon Rojo with a springboard dropkick, then goes out with a nice up the ropes springboard plancha. Gallo's dive is completely missed, but I'm sure they got the right one. They're still slow going back to the ring. Rush drops Misterioso, drops an elbow, and goes for a leg lock, but Misterioso surprises him with a small package for three. That roll up did not look good.

3: Third fall is the only real técnico showcase fall. Gallo looked good. Sangre Azteca whiffs on a dropkick to Metal Blanco's knee, and decides to go argue with Rush to avoid people paying attention to that. Rush is a pose off and a slow chop fight. Guys cutting off guys leans to a Sangre Azteca top rope plancha to the floor. Dragon Rojo takes a quebradora from Gallo, then blatantly foul kicks him on the next pass. That was a long trip for nothing.

Match 2: La Sombra, Máximo, Toscano vs Mr. Águila, Terrible, Texano
Arena Coliseo Guadalajara, 09/21/2010

  1. técnicos

  2. rudos
  3. técnicos

Winner: técnicos (2-1)
Match Time: 14:39
Rating: okay as a setup
Notes: Everyone's already in the ring when they join.

1: Sombra and Texano start, with Aguila sticking his beak in every time Sombra has an advantage. Sombra ends up trying to take all the rudos on, and failing. Aguila beats him up on the floor and sends him shoulder first into the post. Sombra reversing an Aguila boost into a dropkick on Terrible and Texano seems to catch them by surprises, because they try to catch him at first and then fall out of the ring. Headscissors clears the ring of Aguila, and Sombra follows with a tope con giro. Toscano & Máximo quickly finish the non captains, and that's the fall. Aguila almost gets kissed by Máximo after the fall, but his partners save in time.

2: After the crowd gets on Texano & Terrible for a hug, they charge the técnicos and start the beatdown. doesn’t really go long before Sombra starts fighting back. Headscissors for Texano, backbreaker for Aguila, one more spinning one, and Sombra yanks him by his hair. Other rudos put a stop to that finally with a kick. Toscano stands in the shot, passively watching all of this. Máximo comes in, avoid a Texano dropkick, and gives him a big kiss. Máximo & Toscano lock on time killing submissions, refs check both, and Aguila fakes a foul from Sombra in the middle for the DQ. Aguila is great in selling the foul after the match, having to be dragged back to his corner.

3: Toscano's bit starts with attempted striping, and Texano hilariously “sneaking” behind him to put a stop to it. Terrible and Texano almost break up, with all the accidental hitting, but end up hugging. Aguila is disgusted by their actions. Sombra picks the speed up a bit. Aguila tries to draw a DQ off being crotched on the bottom rope on an armdrag, but that's not going to fly. Máximo is all business, or at least all business as he ever gets. Lots of screaming in terror, but spinning armdrags too. Something is clipped out, or they pick the oddest time to go to a crowd shot. Máximo and Toscano get in their dives, leaving the captain. Sombra takes off his shirt, and Aguila doesn't faint this time. Dueling flipping run, Sombra ducks a jumping spin kick and tosses his mask to Aguila. (Sombra's is blurred.) Aguila catches it, is confused, and then tries to hide it – but it's too late, the refs have seen it. That's a DQ, that's the match.

They actually stick with the action long enough for Aguila to get in his challenge for a singles match. Aguila has to yell at it over Sombra's music. Máximo gets involved, somehow.