Jesus and Andres argue in front of a blue screen about the Bizarros and the Perros.
Video recap of the entire Dorian/Konnan saga, or at least as much as you can fit in it 30 seconds. Look, Rain! Kenzo! The Milicia! The Konnan in front of fence video they've shown a hundred times in video packages but never explained where it comes from! The time Perro was drunk at the Lucha Libre Expo! (!?!?) X-FLY. The rudos conference with horrible audio! Decnnis, getting promoted until they changed their minds! Dorian in a TNA shirt talking about the future stars of lucha libre with video of Perro Aguayo Jr. and Jeff Jarrett! This was definitely an AAA video package, I know a lot of stuff happened, I can make absolutely no sense out of it.
Upcoming events.
Match 1:Flamita, Lanzeloth, Lucky Boy vs Bugambilia, Centvrión, Rocky Lobo
Palenque de la Feria, Pachuca, Hidalgo, 02/03/2013
Winner: Flamita's team
Match Time: 9:41
Rating: okay
Notes: Whoa, hope this is a late arriving crowd. Like, two or three buses of people are missing right on camera. And a guy with a big thing of cotton candy walks right in front of the camera. AAA doesn't know how to spell Centvrion. It took a while for me to get it too, but I'm not paid. Flamita does a front flip just for getting his name announced. Piero is ref.
Flamita runs over Centvrion with a shoulderblock. Evasion spots end with a Centvrion chop. Flamita chops back, which gets bored. Forearm to the face go better, mostly because they're really hit each other hard. Rocky Lobo and Lucky Boy break it up with a springboard dropkicks. Chops, evasion, Lucky Boy does the Titan handwalk headscissors. Lobo knocks him down with a jumping back elbow. Corner whip, reversed, Lobo does pointless bounces in and out to a flip that goes nowhere. Lobo springboard for an armdrag but misses, though Lucky Boy a cartwheels thru the non-existent armdrag anyway. Lobo jumping 'rana sends Lucky out, and Lobo surprises everyone, cameraman included, with a tope on Lucy. Bugambilia and Lanzeloth in. Bugambilia is doing an exoticos gimmick and feels like he should be in an entirely different match. Evasion, Bugambilia spin. Bugambilia headscissors. Clothesline misses, Lanzeloth superkick does not. Corner whip, reversed, Lanzeloth kip up and out, backflip, Bugambilia punch is caught, Lanzeloth chops him, kicks him, walks up the ropes, balances and backflip off for an armdrag. Bugambilia yells. Lanzeloth ducks under a clothesline and kicks Bugambilia the head to send him out. Centvrion in with a short kneelift and a chop. Whip, quick reverse, Centvrion ends up with a spinning toe kick the head anyway. Flamita back in, Flamita turns fast and has his own flipping run, Centvrion kicks him anyway. Corner whip, reversed, charge misses, Centvrion kicks him in the midsection and clotheslines him down. Springboard dropkick to the face, cover one two NO. Corner whip, Centvrion charges in, Flamita escapes out and does another flipping run, more evasion, and then a double rotation headscissors by Flamita. Centvrion turns this into a chop fight, and somehow loses it. Announcers are talking about the next match. Bugambilia wanders in to kiss both guys, who shoves him down. Centvrion and Flamita fight to the corner ropes, which means someone is about to have a bad time. Stunner over the corner, dropping Centvrion to the floor, tornillo on to him. There's not much room at ringside for dives, but they're going to do some. Bugambilia tope into Flamita. Lucky Boy in, Rocky Lobo tries to cut him off with a dropkick but misses, Lucky backspin headscissors Lobo out the other side, and follows out with a double springboard tope con giro. Lanzeloth sets up near the ropes, urges everyone to get up, and flips off the ringpost for a moonsault onto Lucky Boy. Rocky Lobo up – top rope springboard tornillo onto the pile. Everyone got there dive in? Flamita and Bugambilia in. Crowd is reacting more to Bugambilia, but that's because he's actually aware there is a crowd. Bugambilia with a poor Dragon bomb, almost losing tiny Flamita. Lucky Boy missile dropkicks Bugambilia, Centvrion gives Lucky Boy a Destroyer, Lanzeloth gives Centvrion a foot jawbreaker, Rocky Lobo gives Lucky Boy a running Destroyer. Not much of a reaction to these moves. Flamita dropkicks Rocky Lobo in the corner, throws him into opposite corner, gives him an elbow, and pulls him off for the valagueza into a front cracker. Centvrion breaks up the pin, which is not really made. Centvrion tricky trip for Flamita and a dropkick to the face. Two count. Counters, Flamita double underhook lift into a backcracker. Flamita drags Centvrion far away, and Centvrion squirms a bit closer. Flamita top rope frog splash, one two three.
Match 2: Argenis, Atomic Boy, Súper Fly vs Billy el Malo, Black Mamba, Gran Apache
Palenque de la Feria, Pachuca, Hidalgo, 02/03/2013
Winner: técnicos
Match Time: 12:52
Rating: okay/good
Notes: Billy jumps Argenis as he enters, but it appears Apache beat him to Atomic Boy first. Mamba attacks Super Fly as he comes in. Referee is Pepe Casas. Building is more filled up.
Rudos clear out the other two and swarm Atomic Boy. Atomic fights back, but gets slapped down. Corner whip, Atomic Boy evades Mamba and Apache boosts Atomic into a headscissors on Billy. Argenis helps out with a springboard dropkick to Gran Apache. Super Fly gives Mamba – well, eh tries for a quebradora anyway. Apache stays out of the ring, and Atomic stays in yelling at him. Everyone goes to their corner, and Atomic Boy and Billy start. Atomic flipping run meets Billy clothesline. Atomic does his spin thru the ropes to the apron, and an inside springboard headscissors in. Springboard headscissors for Apache, flip off his chest, and dropkick him out. Atomic Boy teases dive, Apache bails, and Atomic Boy spins thru the ropes. Mamba is more of an exotico this week, and slaps Argenis down when he refuses his advances. Butt dance in Argenis dance too. Corner whip, Argenis to the apron, Mamba slapped away, springboard headscissors in. Billy dropkicks Argenis and poses, then rolls thru a sunset flip and knees Argenis in the chest. Super Fly comes in to defend Argenis, but Billy waves him out. Argenis deflects a kick, superkicks Billy over, and gives him a running kick to the face. Apache comes in just long enough to be armdragged out. Super Fly top rope flips into the ring, leads the crowd in a chant, does a flipping run, and fall to one slap by Billy. Super Fly comes back with a headscissors and an enziguri. Springboard middle rope armdrag and rope spin sends Mamba out. Apache sneaks in for a slap, but Super ducks and slaps twice. Apache finally gets him to flinch on a fake and nails him the third time. Apache pounds Super Fly in the rudo corner, where a chair is laying up for later. Argenis flips his partners to safety, and Fly smacks Apache into the turnbuckle. Atomic Boy tires to plancha Apache, misses, and the rudos immediately take over. Rudos pounds Atomic Boy first, then Super Fly, then start to separate for brawling. Apache gives Atomic Boy that chair shot to the head. Shortly after, Apache rips Atomic Boy's mask, and Atomic Boy's head is squirting blood. Someone messed up. I'd guess Atomic Boy isn't cutting himself. Atomic Boy is very bloody in a short tie. Those two come back in, and Atomic Boy's chest is covered with blood. Billy's taken Super Fly's belt to use to hit, but it's really not necessary, and Apache takes care of Atomic Boy himself. Other rudos hold off the other two while Apache holds Atomic Boy for the cameras. Super Fly ducks a double clothesline and lands an odd jumping back elbow on Billy to start the comeback. Argenis springboard armdrag on Billy, and Atomic Boy charges after Apache, though he also almost falls down due to bloody loss. Atomic Boy wisely uses more kicks than chops. Pepe Casas worries about the other técnicos for no reason, missing Apache low blow uppercut Argenis. Apache goes for a submission (??) and the técnicos break it up. Mamba and Billy back in, and the técnicos weakly miss dropkicks; Super Fly's kick is nowhere near anything, it's like he just decided to take a back bump. This might is alright, but Super Fly is not making a strong case for himself. Tecnicos whipped into each other. Corner whips again, but this time the técnicos take out the rudos. Super Fly top rope moonsault, Argenis tope rope moonsault into the crowd! Not much room! Atomic Boy drops Apache in the corner, top rope moonsault meets feet, one two three.
Dorian Roldan and Konnan – with different graphics than the guys in this match – walk out to the ring. Rudos, who've gotten in a few more stomps on Atomic Boy, give them space. Billy starts to leave, and someone must tell him to go back to the ring. Tecnicos and ringside people help Atomic Boy to the back, but Dorian (and Apache) tell them to off microphone to come back. No one pays attention and it's a short trip to the backstage, so Billy runs down to retrieve Atomic Boy while the rudos attack the other técnicos. Atomic Boy's head is partially wrapped as he's thrown back in. Dorian, on the microphone now, tells Gran Apache this year is a year of changes for AAA and they're there to fire someone. Gran Apache starts to beg, but he's fine. Atomic Boy isn't showing proper respect to the legendary Gran Apache, so he must be fired today. If Atomic Boy didn't have blood in his eyes, he'd really argue this. Gran Apache talks up veteran Billy and “mi amigo Mamba” (who puts an arm around Konnan) and introduces the luchador of the millennium, Texano. Texano Jr., in street clothesline, has Hijo del Tirantes with him. Dorian says Texano is a real luchador. Texano tells the crowd to shut up. Everyone from the match but Mamba and Apache have left again. Texano thanks Dorian and Konnan for giving him an opportunity, and is going to extend his own opportunity to everyone in AAA, indy luchadors, or in other companies – all luchadors can have a shot against him, and he'll always win. Argenis (with Super Fly in tow) comes back in the ring, and decides to take Texano up on that shot. This does not seem like a great idea for many reasons, but most of all Argenis is now limping and can't put weight on his right leg. Dorian & Roldan leave, but Texano has no problem and accepts. Argenis dropkicks Texano, and it's on. Title match graphic!
Match 2B: Argenis vs Texano for the AAA World Heavyweight Championship
Palenque de la Feria, Pachuca, Hidalgo, 02/03/2013
Winner: Texano
Match Time: 0:45
Rating: OK for the time.
Notes: Referee is Hijo del Tirantes. Super Fly is up on the apron, and Konnan is soon too.
Texano misses a clothesline, Argenis headscissors him. Argenis handspring into an armdrag, and Texano's set to the ropes. Texano flips Argenis to the apron, Argenis swing kick and springboard 'rana back in, one two NO. Argenis tries for another, Texano powerbomb, and up for another sit down powerbomb and a kneebar to finish. Argenis gives. Holy smokes, Texano won a match by himself. That's more impressive than the under a minute thing.
Texano, who never took off his jacket, whips Argenis with the bullrope. Super Fly runs into a Konnan clothesline. Thanks for sticking around, Super Fly.
Noti AAA: Highlights from the woman's match are followed by clips of a backstage interview with Jarochita. Dorian and Konnan interrupt to fire her. We're promised more on this next week.
Recap of the Sociedad/AAA feud. It starts with Konnan and the urn, which is something the Foreign Legion stole, which I've been told is totally different faction. Also done by the Foreign Legion – Konnan taking over AAA (which didn't really go anywhere) via cage match, and winning it back in cage match. The build up to this cage match goes forever – longer than the build up to the firing. The cage match itself is not actually shown, instead jumping to the kidnapping bit and Dorian turning on his father over the course of many vignettes. Joaquin hiring 187, turning them face. Dorian bringing in LA Park and turning rudo. Dorian bringing in TNA to take over AAA – this is covered in about 10 seconds but felt longer. Dorian bringing in Perros del Mal. Sociedad running on Zorro. Octagon being in charge of the Milicia – Octagon's turn is skipped here, he's just suddenly on the rudo side. Chessman being put in with a team with Abyss, though this is Konnan and Chessman talking and Abyss is never seen. Super Fly and Decnnis are warned to pick it up, and Decnnis is put in the Maniacos ahead of Super Fly. THAT is the problem here – this is all sorts of random incidents, some that matter (LA Park) and some that don’t (the Maniacos bit never went anywhere) all being thrown together with equal weight. It's a Things That Happened video package at a slower pace, but just as incoherent. Speaking of, here's La Parka doing his rudo speech, without having shown his turn, though he does explain why he turned and we do get some of the clips to explain it. This part would’ve been really good at the time, but La Parka's turn got pretty much written out as irrelevant in the long term and it's something you can easily skip pass if you're trying to put a over arching narrative here. I think a recap of the saga is the goal here, but I'm not even sure. Octagon attacking Joaquin and Cibernético returning) to make the save. Cibernético getting beat up. LA Park turning on Jeff Jarrett, making Konnan pay his fines, a vignette with Dixie Carter arguing with the Jarretts I don't recall ever seeing before, and lots of Jeff and Konnan arguing on speaker phone. And that's how it ends. I don't know what this was.
Sexy Star talks about Dorian and Konnan being fired and Taya and Jennifer turning on each other, and announces she's renouncing her championship, but she's still the Queen.
Match 3: El Cobarde, Octagón, Perro Aguayo Sr. vs el Hijo del Perro Aguayo, Sangre Chicana, Texano in a relevos increíbles match
Ciudad Madero, Tamaulipas, 06/11/1999
Really on show in split screen and the background, as Octagon and Texano discuss the match with Jesus. Texano is asked about the mega title, and suggests Cibernético, Mesías and Perro as challengers, but again puts out the open challenge. Octagon has questions about how Consejo fits in with Dorian and Konnan, but Texano maintains he's not concerned about them going – he's staying.
Match 3: Cuervo, Escoria, Espíritu vs Daga, Halloween, Psicosis
Palenque de la Feria, Pachuca, Hidalgo, 02/03/2013
Winner: Secta
Match Time: 7:34
Rating: good
Notes: Teams enter as groups. Pepe Casas is ref. Perros attack técnicos before the match.
Perros clear the ring quick. Triple legdrop on Espiritu goes well. Daga powerslam on Escoria goes bad, and Daga has to check to make sure he didn't kill Escoria before going on. Espiritu take a corner dropkick to the face from Daga. Halloween claws Escoria low, and Psicosis and Halloween team up for the giant swing/dropkick. Halloween distracts Pepe Casas while the rudos hit Cuervo with a chair. Halloween is the best. Rudos switch to just stomping the técnicos. Mini Psicosis has walked out and has the stapler, which turns into a big debate with Pepe Casas. Escoria gets involved, gets superkicked by Halloween. Mini Psicosis tries to use the stapler on Cuervo, but Pepe Casas breaks that up. Halloween goes out to get a chair instead, tosses it, but tossed it too high and it lands behind him. Meanwhile, Daga has walked Cuervo behind Psicosis, acted as if he was going to slam him, and then just walked away. This turns out to be a poor idea. (Pepe Casas is talking to Espiritu now, facing out of the ring.) chair shot to Psicosis, chair shot to Daga, chair shot to Halloween. Secta stomp the rudos as the fans chant for them. Psicosis is crotched around the ringpost. Daga is hung in the Tree of Woe, and La Secta all dropkick him at once in a nice bit. Halloween spits at Escoria, who punches him about. Jumping spin heel kicks knocks Halloween foggy, but he recovers for a sit down piledriver on Escoria. Low rider strut, broken up by an Espiritu dropkick. Everyone else has migrated to their corners. Espiritu and Halloween sequence ends with an Espiritu front cracker. Daga wipes Espiritu out with a hard clothesline, then a reverse facelock backbreaker followed by a cutter. Cuervo hiptosses Daga into the corner. Perros are edging a chair into their corner, which can only come up later. Cuervo DDTs Daga, Psicosis wheel kicks and legdrops Cuervo. Psicosis misses a running plancha, Cuervo dropkicks him to the apron, reverse DDT on the apron. Espiritu runs into an enziguri, and Daga follows with a running slingshot tornillo. Halloween spears Escoria, but somehow Escoria is the first one up and setting Halloween up for a whip. Reversed, Halloween spears the post, Escoria drops him near the ropes, 450 splash connects. One two three. Clean win.
Secta celebrate while the Perro are in disbelief. Halloween is sure he kicked out at 2, and lays back on the mat to demonstrate his kickout. (In reality, he never moved an inch until his friends came to check on him, which makes it even better.) Dorian and Konnan return again, this time with Chessman. Perros insist it was a two count. Dorian says the Perros are the most important faction in lucha libre. Halloween's got a 2 sign from the crowd to hold up to prove his case. Compelling evidence. Dorian, ignoring this, says Pepe is too old and fires him. Pepe gets the microphone and says AAA is his home. Konnan says Pepe must have Alzheimer's and starts to fire him again, but he's cut off by Joaquin Roldan's music. Crowd goes crazy – oh, La Parka, Mesías and Octagon are with him, that explains it a bit. Silver King also made his way out at some point. Everyone kind of crowd around together in the center of the ring. Joaquin says he has more power than Dorian (he does?) and fires Konnan and Dorian. Dorian tells everyone to be quiet. Dorian explains that everything good done in the promotion is thanks to him, so Joaquin may want to rethink it. Joaquin says he's in charge, so he's firing it. Psicosis protests, but Joaquin doesn't care, he'll fire his family. Joaquin tells Dorian and Konnan to go. The rudos start talking it over, and Joaquin tells the rudos that if they want to work in AAA, they have to get rid of Dorian and Konnan. Mesías, Parka, and Octagon grab Konnan themselves, and the rudos start to intercede, but then they pull Dorian out of the ring themselves and talk him to the carry him to the back. Backstage footage of all the wrestlers shoving Dorian and Konnan out of the building. Dorian makes a call to someone as the luchadors and Konnan yell back and forth. Amazingly, a SUV is already there to pick them up. Luchadors yell at the car as it drives anyway.
Exclusive video: two dozen people with video cameras and microphones (exclusive!) interview Marisela Pena at ringside. She says it was a bad decision, AAA has a problem but this is not a good decision.
Next week: an exciting meeting between the Roldans! Also, the main event.
Added on Regional/UTDN
Match 6: Drago, Fénix, Octagón vs Pentagón Jr., Silver King, Toscano
Palenque de la Feria, Pachuca, Hidalgo, 02/03/2013
Winner: técnicos
Match Time: 11:03
Rating: okay
Notes: Toscano has his belt. Fenix as a new jacket. Hijo de Tirantes is ref. Rudos jump the técnicos right before the whistle.
Ring is cleared quickly. Rudos chop Drago in one corner, then set up for corner clothesline, except Toscano won’t get out of the way and keeps clotheslining Drago himself, blocking his partners. Toscano is not exactly a sympathetic figure here. Rudos are annoyed but get over it. Silver and Pentagon try a double dropkick to Octagón, but Toscano breaks in to get his own in. Pentagon shoves him, but Fenix jumps in before they have more time to argue it. Rudos press Fenix, and Toscano celebrates instead of putting his knee out of the gutbuster. Pentagon is more annoyed than Silver king. Maybe Silver is just over it by now. Hanging spinning DDT for Fenix by Silver. Toscano gets out of the way, and Pentagon lands a boost dropkick on Dragon in the corner. Silver crucifix lift, Pentagon top rope double stomp on Drago. Pentagon and Toscano resume arguing. I'm not sure why Silver doesn’t care, but Toscano indicate he’s the champion, so he's in charge here. Silver gives Fenix a pumphandle spinning slam in the meantime. Pentagon gives Fenix a Volador Spiral, which both announcers call a piledriver. Octagon comes in for slaps. Break.
Toscano is now just taking a time out. Rudos whip, Fenix and Drago in the some corner, and they figure into themselves – Fenix superkicks Pentagon as he comes in and back elbows Silver. Drago leaves on Fenix's shoulder for a double DDT on those two. Octagon and Toscano conspire to screw up the jarocha armdrag. Octagon clotheslines the other two, and Fenix missile dropkick Toscano. Rudos walk out of the ring, and técnicos put minimal effort into chasing them. Everyone goes back to their corner. Fenix's run on Silver includes Silver ducking an enziguri just to take a less complicated one, and Silver helpfully leaning forward for no reason except to take a handspring cutter. (That was a good camera switch to hide it.) Toscano headscissors Fenix to boos, but Fenix comes back with one of his own and Toscano slides out. Fenix invites him back in, they go head to head, and Pentagon breaks it up with a dropkick to Fenix. Octagon in to face him, and Pentagon takes the armdrags much better than Toscano did, maybe too easily. Drago excels in heel trips, and headscissors Toscano all the way to the floor. Silver, who boosted Texano into it, slides out to chases him, but ends up boosting Dragon into another one. That’s a good trick, given how little room they have in there. More Pentagon and Octagon, and this one doesn't go quite as smoothly. Octagón trips up Pentagon climbs the ropes, but Toscano dropkicks him out. Fenix clotheslines Toscano, then Silver does the same by mistake when Fenix moves. Dragon takes out Silver King with a dropkick while Fenix gives Toscano top rope Spanish Fly for three. Drago armdrags and cradles Silver, and Tirantes counts it, because I guess they've suddenly forgotten they're not on a house show? I don't know, that's just weird.
Toscano blames Silver King for the lose, and he definitely has a point. Silver tries to explain himself, but it leads to shoves and slaps. Pentagon and Tirantes break it up, but this ends up Toscano taking off his Consejo shirt for the third time. He rips it up this time. Announcers understand this to meet he wants Silver King out of the group, which makes sense based on what we've seen before, but not much here.
Announcers wrap up, but we're instead sent to a post match interview with Toscano. Toscano says he's good with Texano and Mascara Año 2000 Jr. and errors happen, but they're not as strong as they were a year ago and the communication is bad.