CMLL on CadenaTres #302 (09/14/2013) 
Recapped: 09/30/2013

Announcers have a QUICK intro.

Match 1: Leono & Metatrón vs Cholo & Inquisidor
Arena Mexico, 09/10/2013

  1. rudos
  2. técnicos
  3. técnicos

Winner: técnicos (2-1)
Match Time: 10:01
Rating: eh
Notes: Referee is Pompin.

1: Pairs are Metatron/Cholo and Leono/Inquisidor, which are really unnoteworthy except they don't last long and Cholo matter of fact submits Metatron the second time thru. Very easy and his favorite hold too. Cholo sticks around long enough to take a kick bump thru the ropes, then Inquisidor submits Leono.

2: Rudos dominate for a longer stretch the the first fall, with Inquisidor setting up usual spots. Metatron reverses a whip near four minutes in to send Inquisidor into Leono, then slowly quebradoras him to start the comeback. Técnicos quickly submit the rudos, though their holds probably have seem better days.

3: Tecnicos go thru their offense, rudos hit each other, and tecnicos wrap up the match to call it a day

Match 2: Hombre Bala Jr., Starman, Súper Halcón Jr. vs Guerrero Negro Jr., Hijo del Signo, Nosferatu
Arena Mexico, 09/10/2013

  1. técnicos
  2. rudos
  3. técnicos

Winner: técnicos (2-1)
Match Time: 17:41
Rating: ok/good
Notes: Referee is Maya.

1: pairs are Starman/Signo, Halcón/Negro and Bala/Nosferatu. Rudos must be going in order of size. Bala looks the best. Unlikely because of his opponent. Tecnicos dominate, including Bala getting in his double knees to the back and a crazy splash to the floor off the apron. Negro takes his own monkey flip all the way to the floor, Halcón slams Signo and lands the moonsault for the pin.

2: Tecnicos (Halcón and Starman) continue rolling until Nosferatu evades and faceslams Bala. Negro beats up the técnicos at ringside while Signo and Nosferatu manage to put together a boot to the face between them. Rudos go thru all three técnicos, ending with a Negro top rope splash on Halcón for one pin. Signo puts Starman in a bad looking nudo, and then Bala runs into get stomped by everyone. Bad plan, Bala.

3: Rudos remain in control, only teaming up to stomp Bala again. Lots of double/triple boots too. Rudos randomly slide out on a pose, which allows Bala and Halcón to attack them, and Starman to missile dropkick Signo. It would've been the best ever dumb finish had it ended like that, but Signo kicks out, then survives a submission hold long enough for Negro to break it up (though Negro seem a bit late.) Negro clotheslines Starman , Halcón wings Negro with a missile dropkick, and the Gen11 set up their corner combo sequence. Bala drags Negro out of the corner after his corner tope to land his rope flip moonsault, and that's enough for the pin. Nosferatu spears Halcón, then goes thru a few seconds more of spots so he can be tripped up and hold off the apron for Bala's double stomp. Signo huracanranas Starman, Starman rolls thru -f or two. This match has had a long endgame that I would’ve figured. Signo awkwardly clotheslines Starman (Starman falling oddly), and but his powerbomb gets turned into a Schwein for three.

Match 3: Diamante, Pegasso, Tritón vs Arkángel de la Muerte, Hooligan, Puma
Arena Mexico, 09/10/2013

  1. técnicos
  2. rudos
  3. técnicos

Winner: técnicos
Match Time: 13:51
Rating: ok/good
Notes: Referee is a bored looking Pompin. Card hasn't been that bad.

1: Pairs are Pegasso/Arkangel, Diamante/Hooligan and Triton/Puma. Triton does multiple flips on his way in, and Puma immediately kicks him in the back of the leg to knock him down. Puma's the best. Punches and a big chop to knock Triton over. Isis nearly misses a trip attempt on Triton, drawing much laughs from the announce crew. She holds him in place, only for Puma to dropkick her thru the ropes. Diamante does the same to Puma. Tuareg and Cadetes left in, Triton sets up Hooligan in one corner and land the 450 splash (had to go a little ways) while Pegasso takes care of Arkangel.

2: Isis is strechered out as the falls starts. She totally covered herself up on the dropkick, but fell backwards hard and may have smacked her head on the floor. Puma gets in a nice surprise kick to the head on Diamante, but Diamante comes back with the run up the ropes triple bounce armdrag, then ignores Puma's requests for a timeout. Pegasso armdrags Arkangel around and out. Triton does a multiple bounce drop down to the apron spot that might be on purpose, it's sometimes tough to tell with Triton. Puma suckers Diamante into an attack from behind to start the beatdown. Corner to corner clothesline, dropkick to the head, out goes Diamante. Puma gives Pegasso a suplex, Arkangel and Pegasso almost screw up a sunset flip but get it together in time for Hooligan to add his clothesline. Arkangel breaks out his discus clothesline. Low blow dropkick, check. Puma hurks up Triton for his big sit down powerbomb, which looks like it's the finish but is in fact two (much to the announcers and my confusion). Arkangel low blow elbow drops Triton and keeps going, so it had to be planned. Hooligan has Diamante beat after a big boot, but pulls him up. Puma adds a flapjack and a casita, and finally they have a pin.

3: Rudos all stomp down Diamante. Puma yanks around Triton's mask. Pegasso slides out on a whip, Puma hangs himself in the ropes (with a little help from Diamante) and Triton adds the guillotine legdrop to start the comeback. Chaos leads to a Pegasso Triton teases a double dive, but they slides out and get beat up by the Tuareg instead. Tecnicos are whipped in to each other and fall down. Diamante springboards into a Puma powerbomb, which should be the finish but Diamante escapes. Diamante pulls Puma into a reinera, but the Tuareg break it up. Cadetes grab them for huracanrana, but Puma fixes that with kicks. Diamante pulls off a Code Red on the cat, but the Tuareg - the Tuareg stand there and don't make the save. Dummies.

Match 4: Ángel de Oro, Delta, Guerrero Maya Jr. vs Ephesto, Gran Guerrero, Virus
Arena Mexico, 09/10/2013

  1. rudos
  2. técnicos
  3. rudos

Winner: rudos (2-1)
Match Time: 12:44
Rating: ok
Notes: Referee is Tigre Hispano. An unusual rudo side.

1: Pairs are Oro/Guerrero, Maya/Virus, Ephesto/Delta. Virus pulls off a bridging toe hold, so that's cool. Delta has Ephesto spinning all around, then feeds himself into the Ephesto Roll, so that's it for him. Angel de Oro blows up Ephesto with a superkick and does the outside in moonsault on him. Maya gets double teamed by the other rudos, but baits Guerrero in a dropkick on Virus. Maya and Guerrero are left alone, and somehow Gran Guerrero manages to drop Maya submit him. Booo.

2: Rudos stay in control, with Ephesto dropping Delta via DDT. Gran Guerrero dropkicks Delta out. Virus dropkicks Maya hard in the head. All the rudos attack Angel de Oro, who's overwhelmed for a moment, then rolls under a double clothesline and dropkicks out Ephesto in the next. Maya and Delta dropkick out out the other two, and wipe them out with topes. (Not the best catch by Gran Guerrero.) Delta and Ephesto come back in, and Angel de Oro gets a mecedora while the announcers make tweeting (?) noises.

3: Virus tries to claim a foul on Maya's heel kick, but ends up just thrown out. Angel de Oro flips speedily all over the place with Ephesto. Delta and Gran Guerrero blows their first tricky spot. Gran Guerrero is good at clotheslining people hard, less the other stuff (and Delta's not a good pairing.) Guerrero take the knee bump out, Delta 619 fakes a dive, then pulls off an Asai moonsault (which Gran Guerrero does a better job of catching.) Maya starts with Virus, Oro gets involved and almost gets the mecedora, Ephesto breaks it up, then rolls thru a Maya plancha. That looks like it might be the finish, but Ephesto picks up Maya and drops him with the shoulderbreaker instead. Virus catches Oro in his usual cradle

Stellar Moments

El Castigo: Pequeño Nitro front cracker, Mercurio springboard double stomp on Astral.

Lo Doloroso: Eléctrico dropkick to the back of Olimpico's head.

La Llave: Dragoncito submits Pequeno Nitro to a cerejeira

Combinacion: Misterioso Gori Special, Okumura missile dropkick.

Lo Alevoso: Sangre Azteca counter dropkick to Delta

Match 5: Diamante Azul, La Máscara, Shocker vs Pierroth, Terrible, Tiger
Arena Mexico, 09/10/2013

  1. técnicos
  2. técnicos

Winner: técnicos (2-0)
Match Time: 14:20
Rating: ok
Notes: Mini Violencia is there to wave the flag for Pierroth. Comandante walks out with Tiger and Terrible. Referee is Tirantes.

1: Azul and Pierroth are quite bad together, screwing up a quebradora to an amazing degree. Azul tries to cover with a legdrop, which Pierroth sells by standing up and grabbing his lower back. At least they tag out after that. Shocker is fired up to face Terrible and do a much better opening of the match mat work, with Terrible being stuck in a few holds and barely escaping. Terrible tags out while Shocker still wants to fight. Tiger won't leave, Terrible won't return, and Shocker gives up to tag Mascara. Mascara is wearing the most neon pink shirt possible and quickly traps Tigre in ah old, but the other rudos break it up. Shocker runs over to cheap shot Terrible (and Tirantes is slow to stop him.) Mascara makes his own superkick comeback, Terrible kicks him out, feeds himself to an Azul cradle where they're both pinned, and they both kick out two. No problem, Shocker finishes Terrible himself with his hold.

2: Rudos have taken control between falls. Tiger kicks Mascara hard. Pierroth gives Azul his feared slam, senton combo. He does not go for a pin. Shocker tries to get to Terrible, but gets held and hit by everyone. Pierroth gives up on the hitting early, prefers aimlessly wandering. The real Pierroth wasn't always big on actually doing things, but he would annoy the crowd instead. This one just occasionally does poses after moves. Shocker evades a corner charge and gets in his stunner spot on Tiger. Terrible kicked own, Pierroth kicks Shocker out, Mascara armdrags Pierroth out, Azul quebradoras Tigre three times (and all of those go fine, how about it.) Azul chases Tiger away while Shocker rams Terrible into the post and brings him in by the hair. Lots of hair puling. They just leave, and the match just keeps going. Azul slides out on Tiger for no real reason escape he needed a way to set up his dragon screw thru the ropes. Tigre is up and running around, so it didn't help him much. One more quebradora, done without problem. Azul press Tiger into Pierroth, who makes no attempt to catch him. Azul's monkey flip on Pierroth go surprisingly fine, and Pierroth protects himself on Azul's corner senton, leaning way to the side. Mascara messes with Pierroth on handshakes, who does not quite get it. Comandante trips up Mascara from the outside, which just prompts Mascara to take off his shirt. Chop fight won by Mascara superkick. Mascara headscissors and topes Tiger, then pulls Pierroth off the apron to assemble everyone for Azul's dive. Azul manages to split everyone and not really get caught. Terrible and Shocker back in, Shocker gets the same cradle once again for three.

Shocker challenges Terrible, who doesn't have a chance to respond before Shocker gets the crowd to chant scared at him. Shocker still won't give Terrible the microphone for a while before finally kicking him. Terrible says he doesn't know what scared mean, championships are meant to be exposed, and he accepts the challenge to prove he's better. Shocker says he'll win it for his people next week.

Announcers hype the title match.