AAA made good on a promise to use their Twitch channel to stream older content when they’re not running live events. They’ve largely been running two playlists of events in the down period. One runs thru 2011 and 2012 events, interesting because some of the same names are around today. Another playlist shows matches from 2003 and 2004. That one’s intriguing because those years largely aren’t available on YouTube or elsewhere. There’s matches in that playlist which probably haven’t been seen since since they’ve been aired. There’s even a few matches which appear to never have intended to air at the time, which were just stuck on a VHS tape and uploaded now because why not.
You have to be a AAA Twitch subscriber ($5/month, or free for one channel if you’re an Amazon Prime customer) to see the old content. Even if you do, it’s really hard to navigate: the AAA playlist stream are normally stored usually in 48 hour files, with no particular labeling on what aired, much less when they aired during the stream. Twitch’s player is great at streaming live video and not much good at jumping around the timeline to see what’s there. It’s a lengthy and tedious research project to be able to figure out what’s actually aired and when. Lucky for you, length and tedious research projects are apparently things I enjoy doing. What follows is a list of 2003 matches, and links to when they aired, similar to what I’ve done with YouTube links.
Some warnings before you get started. You must be a AAA on Twitch subscriber or these links will be totally be useless to you. These links are all from streams in March. I’m not 100% sure if the Twitch videos eventually disappear, but I suspect to be the case. That means, at some unclear point in the future, these links might stop working. It should still be useful as a guide to what AAA might have in their archive and might stream at any time. AAA unsurprisingly is missing significant bits and pieces from 2003; I was surprised they had as much as they did, but there are key moments missing if you’re hopeful to watch it complete.
And, maybe most important, watch 2003 AAA complete may drive you mad. If you think AAA has too screwy finishes in 2018, you want to stay clear of this stuff. 90% of the matches I went thru seemed to have a some sort of controversy with the finish, including the opening matches with people who weren’t even getting feuds. A three way rivalry between the referees (AAA’s Hijo del Tirantes & Pepe Casas & maybe Fresero versus AAA rudo Tirantes Sr. versus LLL rudos Piero & Copetes) overpowers action at time. This would be a good year for AAA to go thru next time they need footage of Antonio Pena, because he’s all over shows feuding with Cibernetico, while La Parka seems to be only lesser involved with the man he’s about to unmask. (In something very 2018, Pena also chimes in during matches to explain what’s supposed to be going, though they had not yet perfected box technology.) This show has a lot of Latin Lover, a lot of Heavy Metal, and a lot of Electroshock & Lady Apache as couple with Electroshock slowly joining the tecnico side. It also includes a few LLL episodes, a sort of nWo heels doing an WWE like brand split to create a second TV show to get out from underneath Televisa’s control. That too seems familiar in 2018. It really doesn’t have a lot of matches that’ll get stars, though it has enough stars to get strong reactions from crowd thru the year.
I’d do this again for 2004, but I’m kind of holding out for AAA to put the whole year out before trying and it’s not close to being up. Maybe they’ll fill in some of the 2003 blanks before then. You can find the current 2003 list after the break. Read More
Faby Apache beat Lady Shani
(5:44, Faby Apache German Suplex, good)
Rey Escorpión beat Angelikal , Dave The Clown, Pimpinela Escarlatain an AAA’s Rey de Reyes semifinal
(7:12, Rey Escorpión package piledriver Angelikal, ok)
Bengalabeat Dark Scoria, Máscara de Bronce, Argenisin an AAA’s Rey de Reyes semifinal
(6:50, Bengala Fire Driver on Mascara de Bronce, good)
Hijo Del Vikingobeat Ángel Mortal Jr., Dark Cuervo, Paganoin a AAA’s Rey de Reyes semifinal
(8:42, Vikingo reverse 450 splash Angel Mortal Jr., ok)
La Parkabeat Dinastía, Venum, Mesiasin an AAA’s Rey de Reyes semifinal (7:24, La Parka foul and armbar Mesias, below average
Carta Brava Jr., Mocho Cota Jr., Tito Santana beat Averno, Chessman, Súper Fly in a TLC match which probably was for the AAA Trios Championship but I’m not 100% sure
(13:53, Mocho Cota Spanish Fly thru a table Averno, good)
Rey Escorpiónbeat La Parka, Hijo Del Vikingo, Bengalain an AAA’s Rey de Reyes final
(7:38, Rey Escorpión backcracker Parka, ok)
Hernandez, Hijo del Dr. Wagner Jr., Monsther Clown, Murder Clown beat Dr. Wagner Jr., La Máscara, Máximo, Psycho Clown
(10:12, Hijo del Wagner German suplex Dr Wagner Jr., below average)
Hijo del Fantasmabeat Texano Jr.taking Texano’s hair and saving Fantasma’s mask
(12:57, Fantasma Thrill of the Hunt, ok)
What happened:
no idea what they thought was going to happen here but it looked cool
Hijo del Fantasma defeated Texano in their mask versus hair match. Hijo del Tirantes, who had earlier been barred from refereeing on this show, was instead Texano’s second. Vampiro made the match no disqualification to counter that (some how.) Fantasma Sr. was there to be his son’s second, but quickly taken out accidentally by tope from his son. That seemed to be a planned bit to take Fantamsa Sr. out of the match, but he really struck the back of his head on the Twitch announce table taking the move. Tirantes helped Texano by hanging him a fork, only to end up bleeding himself. Medics took Tirantes to the back, and he didn’t return to the ring in time to save Texano at the finish. Texano began to get his hair shaved in the ring, but the show quickly and strangely ended while the head shaving was still going on.
Hijo del Fantasma now joins Psycho Clown in the four way apuesta match at TripleMania.
Rey Escorpión won this year’s Rey de Reyes tournament. He was one of four surprise entrants, which were all people already on the roster who just had not participated in a qualifying match. All block matches were one pin to a finish. Escorpión won the first block. Argenis was a surprise, but Bengala won the second block. Pagano returned, but Hijo del Vikingo won the third fall when Pagano was still outside following a crowd dive. Mesias, looking in better shape than we had last seen him, returned in the last block but surprisingly took the loss to La Parka. Mesias looked unhappy about that match, and La Parka looked equally unhappy about the finish, where he lost to Escorpión after Dave the Clown interference. Escorpión and Dave had previously formed an alliance following the opener.
Hijo del Wagner pinned his father in the atomicos, when most of the rest of the match had decided to brawl down the aisle. The announcers were quick to note this would probably mean Hijo del Wagner will be getting a title shot soon.
Pagano goes a long way, camera probably should’ve stuck with the initial angle
Mocho Cota defeated Averno with a Spanish Fly thru a table to end the OGT/Poder del Norte feud and keep the trios titles.
In a bonus match, Faby Apache once again beat Lady Shani thanks to help from Estrella Divina.
Vampiro’s plan of appearing in a box between matches and talking back to the fans and the announcers finally happened on this show. It had some issues. Early on, they twice put the Vampiro bit on the air but the announcers were unable to hear him, and they left a visibly frustrated Vampiro on screen instead of figuring it out. Vampiro didn’t really add anything of importance to the broadcast, but it did lead to moments where everyone talked in English to address the English speaking portion of the Twitch audience and to explain the storylines leading into the matches. At one point, Vampiro was asked about Dinastia being the first mini in a Rey de Reyes match, and Vampiro explained he didn’t really see those differences or the need for those divisions, that everyone should just fight each other. Which means Dinastia is now a small fish in a big pound instead of a big fish in a forgotten pond.
Thoughts:
Carta Brava spear
Rey de Reyes was an overall OK show. Nothing lasted too long, and it didn’t have the disasters of Guerra de Titanes or TripleMania, but it also didn’t have anything of great peak value. There were a few good matches, some clunkers, and a lot of forgettable stuff in between. I think I liked this show more than most people who I was watching it with on Twitter, but even then I wouldn’t come away strongly recommending anything on this show.
AAA seemed to have a change of thought about Tirantes & Bengala’s involvement in the main event, removing Bengala entirely and making sure Tirantes wasn’t around for the finish. It wasn’t enough. Just the specter of Tirantes inevitably getting involved hurt the enthusiasm for the match, and the match itself wasn’t that great or memorable. There wasn’t a moment in the match where Fantasma seemed in any danger of losing; even the table powerbomb spot was bizarrely followed up by a figure four reversed into a small package. Fantasma recovered from what should’ve been a debilitating landing on an unbroken table to win seconds later. It felt like they were hoping the blood alone would make the match dramatic, but we’d already seen plenty of blood in the TLC match. I thought there was some value in the match, with Fantasma obviously motivated by the win to do a lot of stuff. Still, when they ditched the Bengala/Tirantes based ending, it felt like they had no ending to replace it with. Ending the show abruptly during the hair cut hurt the moment.
Vikingo SSP to the floor
The semifinal atomicos seemed to exist simply to get to the Hijo del Wagner pinfall over Dr. Wagner with not a lot more effort to it. It seemed liked the Alvarados might have had something big plan for that brawl to the stage, but nothing much came of it. This seemed like a very slight use of Psycho Clown for a big show. It feels as if AAA signed La Mascara & Máximo with the idea that they’d come up with a plan to use them later, and have not with that idea yet.
The best match on this show might have been the Bengala, Argenis, Mascara de Bronce and Scoria tournament match. There were some sloppy moments balanced by a lot of action. Mascara de Bronce came off as an upcoming star for the first time in months and Argenis & Bengala did a good job working with him when they were doing their own spectacular moves. The rest of the tournament was just ok to not very good. Pagano is back but does not seem healthy, needing multiple tries to lift guys from moves early on. Pagano threw himself into spectacular dives but dragged his match down. Pimpinela & Dave limited that match, but Rey Escorpión was as good at working Angelikal as he is with all flyers. The last semifinal was a mess. Venom and Dinastia were thrown around like garbage, because Parka can’t do much and Mesias wasn’t happy. Mesias has a right to be unhappy – if the match was going to treat Venom & Dinastia as jobbers, they probably should’ve been doing the job instead of a guy making his surprise return. Mesias & Parka punching each other and not selling it each other, and then just not selling the whole thing while they stood on the stage and shoved each other, was total low ending indie stuff. Parka was disinterested and an anchor to the final match, where Hijo del Vikingo was again trying to make a name for himself and might have ended up hurt. (Shooting Star Press splashes to the floor are bad ideas that maybe should be stopped.) The final of Rey de Reyes being more build to a Dave/Parka feud is not a good use of resources. They did allow Escorpión to soak in his win more than they allowed Fantamsa.
Shani says hola
The TLC match was the usual plunder match which didn’t seem to go exactly like they had originally planned. No belts were hung, and the ladders were barely used. It wasn’t clear if it was meant to be a title match. They had made a point to hype light tubes being involved. They weren’t. The match did have the usual weapons and the last few big spots looked spectacular. The stuff in the middle was the usual numbing violence where people take big moves but don’t disappear long enough for them to mean anything. Carta Brava stood out as having a big match and for bleeding a lot into his light colored hair.
Faby Apache versus Lady Shani felt tacked on and not as tight at their Guerra de Titanes match. Estrella Divina running in to hit Shani with a weak kick to set up the finish of a match with a lot of hard ones didn’t help. They still hit each other very hard, harder than anything else on this show. If the run-ins don’t hurt that match like they did with Fantasma/Texano, Faby/Shani should be pretty good. I’m just sure only the hardcore people who watch every AAA show will care, since this feud is treated as only something to warm the canvas.
This was the first wrestling show in this new Puebla building. It looked like a big deal visually, but they’re going to want to work on fixing the crowd micing in the future. It was tough to tell if the crowd wasn’t into the show, or if we just couldn’t hear any of the crowd beyond the first few rows. That quiet environment hurt the matches.
All matches aired live from Palenque de la Feria Nacional De San Marcos, Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes (and I was busy streaming CMLL to watch it live.)
Matches:
Ashley & Faby Apache beat Estrella Divina & Lady Shani
(8:58, Faby Apache pin Lady Shani, ok, via Lucha Libre AAA (Twitch))
Australian Suicide beat Hijo Del Vikingofor the AAA World Cruiserweight Championship
(8:46, Australian Suicide Fetus Milkshake, good, via Lucha Libre AAA (Twitch))
La Máscara & Máximo beat six local wrestlers, including Corazón Forajido, Discovery, Príncipe Seir, and Xtrem X
(4:29, though it’s unclear when this started and stopped and it barely was a real match, n/r, Lucha Libre AAA (Twitch))
Rey Wagner throws his shirt to the crowd. The fans throw it back on the first try. He finds someone to throw it to later, but the crowd is mostly pro Parka. This kills some time. First action comes 4:06 into the match.
Nineteen minutes into the match, Blue Demon, Wagner and Hernandez walk to the ring. Parka immediately gives Wagner the urange, the move he won with in Mexico City. Parka covers, and Demon walks in the ring and kicks him in the face. Parka should win the match by DQ, which means he’s champion since titles change here on DQ. Instead, they rule as Wagner winning by DQ. The rudo trio beat up Parka, and Wagner celebrates a if they’re with him. Wagner goes for the Wagner touch with them, with Demon saying no and Hernandez saying yes. Demon says something to the younger Wagner, and the young Wagner attacks his father. Hernandez roots him on. Cuervo, Lady Shani and Vikingo materialize out of nowhere, in theory be saves, but in reality to be cannon fodder to be destroyed by the new rudos. (They do get in some offense, which is more than usual in these situations, but they’re also clearly there to take power moves from the rudos.) Mascara and Maximo also try to make the save and are beat up. Psycho Clown does better, taking out Wagner & Hernandez. The Alvarados and the tecnicos pose, only for Demon to come back in, hit Psych with a chair and take off his mask. Hijo de Wagner & Hernandez come back in and all the técnicos are taken out. (Vikingo disappears after getting thrown out of the ring by Hernandez.) Wagner is spared from the beating so he can cut a promo on the rudos, who just continue beating up the other tecnicos afterwards.
Vampiro attempts to eject Hijo del Tirantes before the semimain, but is apparently overruled by the local commissioner. Tirantes refuses to count a técnico pinfall a minute in, so that local commissioner is some kind of moron. Tirantes attacks a security officer, who just happens to have handcuffs and the key on a chain. Texano & Tirantes handcuff Fantasma to the bottom rope, while occasionally being hit by coins. Angelikal bleeds heavily after Texano works over his forehead. Angelikal is taken out on a stretcher after two piledrivers, but the rudos dump him off the stretcher and beat him up some more. Only after Angelikal is taken to the back, Bengala appears to take out the rudos. Bengala gets the key to Fantasma, but gets powerbombed into a wood plank before Fantasma can help out. Fantasma cleans house, giving Dave the Clown the Thrill of the Hunt on the stage. Tirantes calls a DQ at Fantasma at that point to end the match. Tirantes dumbly stood in the ring to taunt Fantamsa while Texano left, and Texano made no real attempt to get involved as Fatnasma beat him up – Texano just eventually pulled him out. Fantasma tells the crowd that Texano’s gone too far and he’s winning Texano’s hair for all of the fans.
Tito is cool, but whoever’s manning the camera switcher needs to calm down
Mocho & Super Fly were both fouled in their match, then pinned at the same time to cause the draw finish. Vampiro walks out and makes a TLC match between them for the trios titles at Rey de Reyes, which will be the end of their feud. Vampiro weirdly demands they accept or they’ll be forever banned from AAA, which seemed odd when both sides seemed ok with the match until then.
This is the debut of Angel Mortal Jr. as the latest version of Parka Negra and as a member of Perros del Mal. (Mr. Aguila’s video plays, but he is not present.) Parka Negra is wearing a Parka Negra mask and Angel Mortal Jr.’s gear, which is a slight clue of his previous identity and maybe a sign this was a last minute decision. The +LuchaTV guys actually acknowledge Mr. Aguila is not here, which breaks with lucha tradition (but is Good.) The match is announced as a title match right before it happens, and was not advertised as one.
La Mascara and Máximo, wearing his AroLucha shirt, thank AAA & the fans for the chance to wrestle in AAA. They’re so hyped to wrestle that they challenge anyone to come out to face them. Two unidentified locals walk out with AAA Aguascalientes belts and a local referee. Máximo is not impressed and asked for two others ones. Mascara up it to four, and they get four more luchadors. Máximo realizes there’s now six people out there and says no, but the Aguascalientes guys attack.
when you’re totally the real Parka Negra
The local luchadors are never named (so I’m guessing names from looking around Facebook profiles and past Aguascalientes lineups.) They beat up the Alvarados for about three minutes before chair shots go awry. Máximo pins three on a rope walk splash, La Mascara beats another with a cradle, and another guy just leaves the ring instead of fighting. No one really understand what’s going on for the duration of the segment.
After Suicide retained his title, he decided to hit Vikingo with it. Angelikal made the save in no seconds flat. It comes off as if Angelikal is going for the title next, but it might have simply been to get the fans used to seeing him before he’s destroyed later.
Faby continues to bully Ashley in the opening women’s match, though she also seems to get in most of the offense for her team, throwing Ashley on pins she created. About six minutes in, Estrella Divina realizes she’s a ruda and suddenly stops getting along with Lady Shani. There doesn’t seem to be any reason in the match for the sudden shift. Dvina keeps on fighting Ashley, but later hits Shani with a chair, kicks Ashley away, and allows Faby to pick up the pin. Both Apache and Divina are mean to Ashley after the match. She shares a look with Shani before walking back with them.
Thoughts:
that headscissors shook Suicide
The main event was a boring match with no finish. This wasn’t as blatantly an angle under the pretense of a match like other ones on the show, the match that led into it was just no good. It was mostly Wagner beating up Parka slowly for a long time. Parka can only sell things by being completely dead, so it’s not the most exciting action. This was the right crowd to do this match, because the kids were so into Parka that they stuck with this and cheered his big near falls. It came across as too slow and too little action thru a monitor. I don’t know about making 51 year old Blue Demon Jr. your lead rudo in 2018, but I wish he came out about 10 minutes earlier.
The semimain was just a really long angle disguised as match. They wanted Fantasma and Texano to destroy people without really fighting each other. I’m not sure it worked to build up their issue because the amount of other people distracted from it – even though that’s clearly the way the apuesta match is going, they might be want to at least hint it’s not.
The fourth match was a fun brawl, with both rudo teams playing it up totally rudo, both teams playing up their character. The trips thru the crowd were fun. Carta Brava seemed to be handed a half dozen drinks to throw. They kept up the same intensity when they were in the ring. Many shirts were murdered to make the match work and it did. Even the draw finish didn’t come off as too forced, although they play it off as a messed up finish.
it was really important to Cota to get the elbow smash in
The tag match was useful if not all that interesting. Cuervo & Scoria could use a tag win by themselves, defense or not, and they got the clean win over a team they should beat clean. The Perros del Mal weren’t interesting when they were in control, and the ex-Secta aren’t so great on offense to make a match by themselves. It was still alright, but would’ve been better even a little shorter. The yellow staple gun didn’t appear to actually be loaded, which made for good comedy in watching it.
The Mascara/Maximo segment was really just an angle to continue to introduce them. AAA definitely believes their fans do not follow CMLL and I’m not sure they’re wrong. The bit could’ve been faster, the locals got a lot more offense than you’d see from when WWE does this same bit, though that’s probably more with trying to keep the local promoter happy. They probably should’ve worked out the ending of the match a little better.
The cruiserweight title match was a really strong match, and a successful one at that. This would’ve been too quick for Vikingo to win the title for it to mean anything, but he put up so much of a challenge that he seems like a guy who will win it in the future and Suicide looks even strong for having beat him. There were some nicely done sequences here, especially from the Spanish Fly spot thru the reverse 450 splash. This title match felt like distinct from the rest of the show, which is only going to build if they keep stacking these matches on top of each other. Vikingo landing on his head looked scary as heck. Vikingo was supposed to take a dramatic bump and it just became more dramatic, but Suicide did a smart bit of keeping it simple while Vikingo was probably trying to remember what century it was.
There were too many things going on in the women’s match this time; the Faby/Shani issue seemed to be in third place behind Estrella being a random ruda and Faby/Ashley. Estrella Divina seems to turn up for a week, be put in an angle, and then disappear for four months, so it’s hard to believe that’s going to pay off in anyway. The match itself didn’t have great action in part because of the storylines, and part because Divina and Ashley didn’t wrestle especially well. Faby’s so over the top as a ruda that she’s going to get herself back over as a face if she doesn’t keep being mean to Ashley.
All matches aired live from Plaza de Toros Rodolfo Rodriguez el Pana, Apizaco, Tlaxcala on Twitch. It’s available for Twitch subscribers. It will go up on YouTube, probably a month from now.
Matches:
Dinastía, Pimpinela Escarlata, Venum vs Chicano, Mamba, Villano III Jr.in a AAA’s Rey de Reyes qualifying match (8:55, Pimpinela kiss cradle on Chicano, ok, via Lucha Libre AAA (Twitch))
Ángel Mortal Jr. & Máscara de Bronce beat Raptor & Tiger Boyin a AAA’s Rey de Reyes qualifying match (4:53, Mascara de Bronce 450 splash Raptor, ok, Lucha Libre AAA (Twitch))
Dave The Clown & La Parkabeat Monsther Clown & Murder Clownin a AAA’s Rey de Reyes qualifying match (13:20, Parka bodyslam Monster, below average, Lucha Libre AAA (Twitch))
Angelikal & Bengalabeat Histeria & Psicosisin a AAA’s Rey de Reyes qualifying match (11:21, Bengala top rope headscissors Psicosis, ok, via Lucha Libre AAA (Twitch))
Dark Cuervo, Dark Scoria, Hijo Del Vikingobeat Averno, Chessman, Súper Flyin a AAA’s Rey de Reyes qualifying match (9:15, Hijo del Vikingo reverse 450 splash, ok, Lucha Libre AAA (Twitch))
La Máscara, Máximo, Psycho Clownbeat Hernandez, Hijo del Dr. Wagner Jr., Rey Escorpión (20:47, triple pin, OK, via Lucha Libre AAA (Twitch))
What happened:
Hernandez didn’t take it easy on this powerbomb
It rained. It was dry for the opener, then rained heavily during portions of the next couple of matches. It rained on and off until the show ended. No one seemed to slip because of the rain, but it did seem as though wrestlers were taking it easy because of the rain.
Both of the main event and the semimain featured the same trope of a top técnico running in to make a surprise save with their music playing. Dr. Wagner made a surprise appearance to help out the Alvardos in the main event, with ex-Elite luchador Samoano with him for no obvious reason. Samoano is now wearing a mask. The Alvarados were confused by the help but Wagner ended up kissing Máximo. Escorpión suffered an elbow injury at some point during the match, and it was swelling up noticably.
La Parka was the técnico making the save in the semifinal. Cuervo & Scoria had first run into save La Parka from a three on one beatdown after the tercera, and the three Traidor Clowns tried for some revenge later on. Murder & Monster also signaled they’d like the tag title belts back. Parka cleared house on everyone, dropped Averno with a quebradora to set up Vikingo’s finish, and threw the referee back in to count the pin.
get the Dinasita GIFs while you can
Hijo del Tirantes refused to make the three count for Angelikal & Bengala until he just did for the finish. Psicosis wasn’t kicking out even after a long pause, so the idea is Tirantes had no choice. Texano made a surprise appearance to piledriver Bengala, who put on a stretcher. Argenis, also not on the show, ran Texano off for before he could do more. Argenis was moving a lot better than a couple weeks ago.
Tiger Boy suffered an injury on a bad dive in the second match.
Mamba had a worked injury spot in the opener, leaving the match down to 3v2. The técnicos won soon after. Chicano & Villano III Jr. attacked after the match. Mamba returned and surprisingly saved Pimpinela, forming an alliance with her long time rival.
By winning their matches, Cuervo, Scoria, Hijo Del Vikingo, Dinastía, Pimpinela Escarlata, Venum, Ángel Mortal Jr., Máscara de Bronce, Dave The Clown, La Parka, Angelikal, Bengala have qualified for Rey de Reyes. Though we’re not at all sure what that means.
Angel Mortal Jr. appears to be back to being Angel Mortal Jr. (and will apparently be so in Puebla), so likely it was just a one deal as Parka Negra.
Thoughts:
Wagner wanted no part of these kicks
AAA ran a lot of angles on this show, but nothing really that important. The matches didn’t look like they were going to be that great coming in, and the rain didn’t help any thing.
The main event was the standard AAA main event. The técnicos were over, but the match was a simple beatdown and comeback before the interference. La Mascara & Máximo got their big spots in for the crowd, Hijo de Wagner get to hang around with the main eventers to continue to convince people he is one, and everyone got out in one piece. It went longer than it needed to go and they really shouldn’t have pinned Hijo del Wagner here, but it didn’t feel like it mattered.
The semimain turned into a way to give La Parka revenge for a fight he already won, so that wasn’t optimum. OGT really took most of the match to set up for the técnico comeback, but that técnico lasted about a minute before the interference came in. AAA did try a lot to get Vikingo over, with the cool entrance, the big spots in the comeback, and the win, so that was good to see. The match itself is better in clips than in full.
The fourth match was a frustrating AAA match. The rudos weren’t good but also weren’t supposed to be good. The rudos were intended to get pinned a lot so Tirantes would get the choose not to count three a lot of times. That’s all the match was. Bengala & Angelikal were good on offense, but this is exactly the kind of AAA match I’m not interested in at all.
flying dino
The Clowns vs Dave/Parka match tried to adjust to the rain by not doing much, but they can’t even do that well. Their mat stuff early on wasn’t much good, Parka looked either more hurt or more clumsy than usual, but they worked hard on dives and big moves in the final part. They might as well have just ended early instead going for all those dives, but at least everyone made it thru in once piece. I’m tempted to give this OK just for the effort, but parts of it were really not good.
The second match was so brief that they’d really have to nail it to make an impact. There were sloppy parts even beyond the bad dive. Those guys got the start of the rain story, so I wouldn’t write them off based on this, but it also wasn’t a point in their favor. Angel Mortal looked the best of the bunch and Mascara de Bronce was all over the place.
The opener was the usual Pimpinela & Mamba match. The other people didn’t look great – Venum had a headscissors spot that didn’t look good – but it’s also tough for them to stand out in this match. That makes Mamba & Pimpinela being friends the best news possible, even with no idea where they’re going with this. Dinastia got in some in his return, but you wouldn’t have known what the big deal was if you’ve only seen this match.
