Terrible and Rey Bucanero join the announcers for the preview, but Terrible has something better to do tonight rather than announce. I assume Tiger is manning the cameras.
Rayo de Jalisco is helped to the ring by Rambo and Rayo de Jalisco Junior. They're holding him under each other. It was evident he was having trouble walking even with a cane in the vignettes. Panico, announced as the Jefe de Programacion, is there to help him in the ring. Edecan Jannika – dressed up! - hands the usual plaque to Rayo de Jalisco Jr., who helps his father hold it up. Atlantis is visible in the background in the ring, Mascara Dorada is there but not on camera. Both Rayos thank the fans. JCR starts a Rayo chant, and the already standing crowd goes with it.
Match 1: Rayo de Jalisco Jr. ©, Rush, Shocker vs Mr. Niebla, Terrible, Universo 2000 ©
Arena Mexico, 03/15/2013
rudos
Winner: rudos (2-1)
Match Time: 9:30
Rating: ok
Notes: Joined with Rush entering. Rayo de Jalisco waits for him at the base of the steps. Rush nods at him, and keeps walking – while Universo 2000 runs out and attacks Rayo from behind. Rush turns his head around, clearly sees what has happened, and keeps walking to the ring. He even poses at the camera! There's not even anyone in the ring for him to fight, the rest of the rudos are behind. Monito is with the técnicos but hanging back on the ramp. That doesn't seem a great idea, because Comandante and Zacarias are also late arriving, but they don't seem to have problems. Referee is Bestia Negra.
1: Terrible punches and slaps Rush around outside while Niebla whips Shocker with his new chain on the outside. Monito takes cover. Terrible batters Rush on the outside. Niebla legdrops Monito. Universo gives Rayo a backdrop and a senton and that's enough for the fall.
Terrible holds Rayo so Universo can get in some more shots. Universo is untying Rayo's mask as they go to break.
2: Shocker takes a Zacarias 619, while Monito gets a giant swing/dropkick from Terrible and Niebla. Universo pulls Rush around by his hair, and holds him up for a Terrible slap. Rudos dispose of Shocker and all smack around Rayo. Whip, Rayo ducks a clothesline and slaps Universo in the back of the head, double clotheslines for the rudos, slap to the head for Universo. Rush and Shocker attack the rudos, which causes some boos. Tecnicos smacks the rudos around ringside. Shocker fireman carry rams Zacarias into Niebla on the floor. Brawling lasts for a while. Rush grabs Comandante, but only teases punching her. Back inside, Universo misses a senton on Rayo, Rayo covers for two. Universo runs into a Rayo dropkick , and Rayo carefully goes up top for a plancha to the floor. That's a lot of luchador flying thru the air, as the announcers note (Rey Bucanero: “super completo”). Shocker fights back against the other two, pulls Niebla into his reinera as Rush planchas Terrible, and Rush finishes it with an armbar
Rayo nearly knocks out Niebla with a slap to the face.
3: Shocker lays out Niebla with punches and forearms. Crowd boos, and Shocker mocks tears. Spinning armdrag sends Niebla into the ropes. Shocker reverses a sunset flip and holds him there as Terrible runs back and forth for a kick, but he does hold up in time. Niebla is made at him anyway, they slap each other, and Niebla kisses him to make it okay. Shocker gives Terrible a Stunner, which causes him to stumble into the corner. Shocker misses a corner high kick, and Terrible kicks his other leg out from underneath him. Terrible charges, shocker drops down, and Terrible this himself out. Cameras miss it, but Shocker clotheslines Terrible on the floor and over the barricade. They do catch the clothesline on replay. Long crowd shot – something with rush cut out? Rayo and Universo are back in, with the crowd chanting for Rayo. Rayo is very slow running to the corner, but still lands the corner reverse tope for two. Crucifix cradle for two. Universo foul kicks Rayo, and that's it.
Universo unties Rayo's mask, but Shocker and Rush kick him away. Rudos celebrate on the outside, - Niebla trying to dance with Comandante, then trying to hug everyone – as the técnicos raise their hands. Replays include a Shocker tope on Terrible we definitely didn't see. Same thing with a Rush tope con giro onto Niebla.
Match 2: Rey Cometa & Stuka Jr. vs Namajague & Shigeo Okumura, mask/hair vs mask/hair
Arena Mexico, 03/15/2013
rudos
Winner: técnicos (2-1)
Match Time: 18:40
Rating: excellent
Notes: Rey Cometa is wearing a Stuka blue outfit – including mask to the ring – and a Queretaro FC jersey of a similar color. Stuka is wearing a split Cometa/Stuka mask. Namajague has a Samurai ring coat. Namajague has a new gi, and a black mask with red hair. They're both wearing red gear. Tecnicos are a bit upset when the ring announcer mentions both teams lose in case of a draw. Crowd shot, and back to see the Japanese attacking. Referee is Tirantes.
1: Namajague rips up Stuka's mask while Okumura chokes Cometa. Crowd chants for Mexico. Namajague chokes Stuka in the corner while Okumura kicks Cometa down, then both rudos send Stuka into the opposite corner for clotheslines. Stuka argues the 1 on 2 from the outside while the rudos give Rey Cometa a series of corner back elbows. Namajague knocks him down with a corner clothesline. Crowd shot, clip? Double clothesline misses Cometa, and he boost dropkicks Okumura out. Namajague misses a clothesline, and Stuka dropkicks him hard. Técnicos run – tope con giro on the camera side, both guys not touching the ropes on the way out. Replay, and quick resume to Cometa and Okumura in, Cometa dropping Okumura with a quebradora. Whip, and Okumura flips Comet with a clothesline. Stuka in, headscissors on Okumura, but Namajague stops him with a big spear. Namajague pounds Stuka on the mat while we get a really of the nice spear. Corner whip, Cometa flips Stuka away, Stuka back in with a top rope plancha. That has limited lasting power – Stuka rolls over to Okumura who slaps him on the back and runs him around for a brainbuster, while Namajague traps Cometa in a modified armscissors. Fall 1 for the rudos.
2: Namajague knocks Stuka down with a back elbow for two. JCC does not like Namajague's mask, or at least the one he's using here. Namajague corner clothesline, and pose on the middle rope. Namajague corner whip, charge in, Namajague corner clothesline, Namajague runs the other way and Stuka chases him down for his own corner clothesline. Stuka starts to fight up, but Okumura immediately kicks him and slaps him down. Okumura leaves, then notices Namajague has rolled out and comes back in. Armbar, elbow to the arm, twist, and Namajague in to twist the other team. Stuka thrown hard back first into the turnbuckle. Rudos put Stuka in a double armwringing him and throw him back first into the corner again. Stuka rolls all the way out the other side, and Cometa rushes in to knocked own Okumura. Namajague pulls Cometa off and slaps him. Whip, Namajague kicks Cometa down, charges, Cometa monkey flips him to the apron, Okumura tries a clothesline, Cometa charges, Okumura boosts him out, Cometa tries to sunset flip powerbomb Namajague, Namajague hangs on, Stuka quebradoras Okumura and dropkick Namajague off the apron! Whip, reversed, Stuka backdrops Okumura, elbow drop, cover. one count. Stuka yells to the crowd. Stuka chops Okumura, sends him nit eh corner pulls him back in and drops him in front of the corner, Namajague rushes in, Stuka suplexes Namajague on top, Namajague rolls out of he way, and Cometa lands his top rope 450 splash well. That's one pin, and Stuka powerbombs Namajague hard for the other one. It's all tied up.
3: Cometa ducks and Namajague clotheslines, shoulderblocks, and springboard into a Namajague dropkick. Cometa still about lands on Namajague, and rolls out before he can do any more. Stuka in, Namajague flips over his backdrop, Stuka flipping run, Stuka monkey flip sends Namajague high up but not far away. Stuka asks the crowd if they want one more – crowd always wants more monkey flips. Stuka charges in and takes a Namajague monkey flip all the way to the floor. Okumura up to - plancha onto Namajague. Cometa dropkicks Namajague, off the ropes, and a really tight running double tornillo. Namajague recovers, gets up, and lands his own tope con giro onto Cometa, then yells at the front row fans. Replays of the dives. Namajague and Cometa back in after all that. Cometa takes a Namajague flapjack. Namajague tapatía! He really has learned the secrets of Mexican wrestling! Stuka crawls on top off Namajague, Namajague lets go of Cometa’s arms, and Cometa leaps into a sunset flip on Okumura, one two NO. Técnicos dropkick the rudos out, Stuka runs off both ropes before hitting Okumura (barely getting there) while Rey Cometa goes out the other way and goes thru Namajague. Replay shows Stuka hits the ropes on the way thru and landed short, but lives. Cometa nailed Namajague. Picked up with Stuka and Okumura back in. Stuka 'rana one two Namajague breaks it up with a head kick. Replay of Namajague shin hitting Stuka’s skull, which covers up a clip to Okumura and Cometa coming in. Okumura corner back elbow, corner clothesline, and corner pose. Cometa takes advantage of the last one, pulling Okumura off the ropes with a powerbomb, while Stuka sunset flips Namajague. One two NO. Cometa dropkick Okumura out, Stuka grabs Namajague, Cometa's dropkick gets his partner by mistake. Namajague shoulderblocks Cometa, but Stuka trips him up and pulls him out. Stuka holds him for Cometa, Cometa runs, Brillo Cometa hits Stuka! Crowd was warning Cometa the whole way, but it didn't save him. Replay. Back to Stuka and Okumura in, sunset flip reversal lads Cometa to dropkick Stuka by mistake. Okumura holds on for the pin one two NO. Namajague argues the count. Cometa and Stuka get up, Stuka yelling at Cometa! Stuka shoves Cometa a couple times. Cometa tires to calm him down, - stereo German suplex by the rudos! One two NO! That was the slowest possible count! They were down for at least five there. Namajague batters Stuka into the ropes, while Okumura gives Cometa the Michinoku Driver. Namajague runs, and Stuka slides him out chest first. Cometa escapes, so it's to Stuka and Okumura in. Okumura charges, Stuka lifts him up, fireman's drop in the center of the ring, Stuka climbs the ropes but tease the dive out – no, torpedo splash instead one two three. Crowd is thrilled.
Stuka is thrilled. Namajague dropkicks Stuka down. Cometa up top, tornillo plancha to knock Namajague down. Off the ropes, into a Namajague scoop slam, uh oh. Namajague hurries to the top rope, frog splash, one two Stuka breaks it up with a dropkick. Stuka chops and kicks Namajague. Corner whip, reversed, Namajague fights back with a knee lift and a kick. Namajague off the ropes, kick caught, Stuka drops him into the splits and kicks him in the head. Okumura up on the apron arguing, demanding Cometa be sent out of the ring. Tirantes shoos Okumura, Stuka goes up, Tirantes turns to back Cometa to his corner, and Okumura trips Stuka on the top rope. Crowd not very happy. Namajague climbs up with Stuka, superplex! One two three!
Namajague is thrilled. Cometa sneaks behind him on the top rope, waits for Namajague to turn around, and missile dropkicks him. Namajague out, Cometa up top, top rope double tornillo wipes them both out. Cometa landed hard on his help there. Cut to both coming in. Cometa hurracanrana, Namajague rolls thru one two NO. Stuka and Okumura react outside. Crowd shot reactions. Namajague's mask got ripped someone where. Cometa clothesline ducked, Namajague kicks, double underhook, no reverse double underhook, inverted Gori into a Gori Bob. One two NO. Okumura argues the count, which was slow but not as slow as that German suplex count. Namajague kicks and punches Cometa. Whip, reverses, Cometa ducks a clothesline, running Spanish Fly works his time! One two NO! Well, works in that no one broke their skull this time, I am thrilled for that. Stuka is losing his mind. Cometa chops Namajague in the corner and slaps him in the face. Chops in the corner. Corner whip, reverse, Namajague charges in, Cometa puts him on top, chop, Namajague leans back. Cometa climbs up with him, top rope 'rana sends Namajague to the center of the ring. Cometa lifts him up again, fireman's drop in front of the corner, Cometa wants to go up, but Stuka thinks his horrible idea! Crowd not so sure either. Cometa ignores him, 450 splash lands! One two three! Crowd explodes.
Crowd is on their feet cheering. Stuka carries Cometa around on his shoulders. Replays of the pinfalls. Clip to Okumura getting his hair getting shaved off by CMLL Barber Poncho. Someone eventually figures out the right button to play Stuka's music. The ring announce holds the microphone so Namajague can give his own name - “Mikami Kyosuke” - and his own years of wrestling - “cinco”. (Which is odd, since it's actually 3.) Stuka pulls Namajague's hair for no particular reason. Namajague is very sad. Stuka poses with the Namajague mask. Ring is covered in confetti, and so are the Japanese great.
Replays. JCR closes it out backstage with Okumura and Namajague. Okumura says the Mexican got lucky, but the war is not over. JCR makes Namajague say his real name one more time, and it's shown on screen (in the more conventional first name/last name order.)