Tag: AAA TV Recap

AAA #634 (07/21/07)

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taped 06/21

The recording issues were less than I thought going in, but got pretty annoying by the last half of the show. Let’s note that everytime they do Fuerza Aera/Apache Army Atomicos, my recording gets messed up. I don’t know what the means, but it sure is annoying.

All I got of the opener was is Explosivo is a tall man (or more likely a taller man with small guys.) He could stay, he could go, I don’t care. Aero Star has a great tope, that too.

The good thing about the bloated 3 hour AAA TV show is some matches get plenty of time and make some of it. If AAA was most promotions, with a sane amount of TV time, we’d probably hoping the Apache/Air Force atomicos got booked on a major show, because otherwise it’d be squashed down to fit time commitments. AAA can random undercard 10-15 minute match anytime they want, and usually do, because they’ve got plenty of time and are wise not save it for the main event. This would’ve been better with Laredo Kid remaining conscious for all of it, but it was still pretty fun from what I saw.

The bad thing about the bloated 3 hour AAA TV show is osme matches get plenty of time and make you wish for the sweet release of death. Seriously, whoever booked the women’s tag team match, I hate you. I hate you so much. I’m not a big fan of whoever was producing it either. Not only do we have the Run In That Goes Forever, Copetes is cheating rudos (?!?!) and taking the longest ref bump ever. I have never set my foot in the ring, so what the heck do I know, but I’m thinking you can only pin someone while the ref is out once. The moment you try it again, you look a moron. You know you can’t win, so what are you exactly accomplishing.

There’s like a dozen things I want to complain about that match – why did the Morenos fight to backstage, comeback, and then play no part in the finish – but we’ll be here all day. GET TO THE POINT AND GET OUT.

Are you sorta amazed we’ve gotten this far without Extreme Tiger, Crazy Boy or Joe Lider being badly hurt? Maybe I’m unfair and should be crediting it to skill, but it’s seem just like luck. Extreme Tiger was centimeters from someone really bad, and I don’t know that it meant much. I’m sure it looked real nice in a magazine. So will the photo of the hospital bed.

Should the Cuije Is Fine bit been saved for TripleMania? I dunno, this match might have just been here to make sure we knew Cibernetico was in the building.

Main event was really short, and that was fine. The pecking order is really obvious, as if it hadn’t been for the last year. La Parka Jr. is a spot show draw, and someone who will always been around in an important role. They’ll use Latin Lover as long as they think he’s making them money, but they’re not getting behind him anymore and I don’t know if they believe in him (which makes the Abismo/Latin teases absurd, unless Abismo needs cash.) Cibernetico is the franchise, and the main event is about him.

AAA #633 (07/14/07)

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taped 06/10

The scary thing about Super Fly – scary in a good way – is the easy way he seems to do the handstand moonsault to the floor. It’s like one of the more difficult dives isn’t really testing his abilities. I know this is a debate we’re going to be having and changing opinion on as long as they’re healthy and wrestling, but I think Super Fly is the best of the bunch.

AAA can’t seem to get the concept “run in should directly lead to finish.” They seem to be using them to have as little impact as possible. I don’t know the purpose of Ayako running in when it doesn’t matter at all. Or having Copetes as the only ref and en evil ref in matches where the tecnico is going to win – at least they tried to explain this time it with Sexi Star making him count three. I know something are just the way AAA does things, and unless there was a complete overhaul of the culture of booking, they’ll keep doing them, but doesn’t mean I have to like ’em.

I don’t get light bulb tubes. Any aspect – why would they be there, why do people think it looks cool, why anyone would want to be hit with them – but I guess more than that, I wonder if they actually get anyone over in AAA. I think they’ve over because people like their music, the name, and they have an established star in the group. I don’t know that the hardcore stunts mean anything. Certainly they don’t mean anything if they’re just brushed off and ignored, like Crazy Boy’s table dive was here.

I really shouldn’t be all negative, this was an okay show. The Sect getting stuck in the ambulance as is drove away was great. Chessman’s spears in the main event were awesome. I don’t know if it’s Konnan or someone else, but whomever is laying out the main event finishes is doing a good job.

AAA #621

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taped 03/17, aired in US on 04/21

Yea, somehow this took me over two months to finish. Three hour shows are so hard on my attention span. And now that these – and the bunch I have left on my TiVo – are all dated, I’ve got the start of angles that I saw ran into the ground for two months. I think the rest of the stored ones are all even older than this one. It’s a weird assortment, and I know I still have Rey de Reyes somewhere in there, which I’d like to actually watch before TripleMania.

Shows like this one remind still make me think AAA has too much time. The Relevos AAA match didn’t need 13 minutes to make it’s point, and the Vipers match sure didn’t need 17 minutes. Even the main event was way too long – they didn’t really need to do 8 minutes for a beatdown, a 45 second comeback, and a (random idiotic) DQ, and the angle is stronger if the beatdown is sold thru the end of the show. Ciberentico and the HBs sold, but why have them get up at all?

Anyway. Like was pointed out at the time, the random goof Atomicos was great. Everyone was working like their jobs depend on it, and I think it’s because their jobs probably depended on it. And yet, some of those guys still vanished. I appreciate their effort, anyway.

I like the concept that the Candaian Destroyer is too ludicrous for lucha libre fans to buy. Ozz seems to have dropped it, and that would seem to be the wise move.

Unless I missed a show, or forget about it, this seems like the last taping where the hard camera was pointed at the entrance. I’m so glad they dropped that.

AAA #630

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05/26/07, aired 06/23/07

That main event finish was so screwed up. I mean, hideously bad. I think Cuervo wasn’t supposed to hit Cibernetico, and I think Mesias was supposed to foul Cibernetico when he lifted him up for a chokeslam, but I can’t imagine that working out well under any circumstance. I dunno. Nice how Hijo de Tirantes got over not counting pinfalls when it was the finish.

Laredo/Fly vs Calo/Apache was really fun. I understand the finish, but I so wanted to see a pinfall to end the match. It was frustrating.

Don’t got much to say about the rest.

AAA #618

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taped 03/03/07, aired 03/31/07

Let’s see if I can distract you with a dated AAA recap. This one was two shows before Rey de Reyes (which is in the unwatched pile – as is this week’s FSE, I know), so the last tag team tournament matches before the four way (still bored with them), Fuerza/Juvi stuff which is no further four months later, and Hijo de Tirantes screwing Abismo in what I guess was the culmination of that feud, though they didn’t make much of it.

Black Magic did nothing of note in his surprise appearance – he didn’t even strike me as so bad that you can’t bring him back, but there didn’t seem to be much special reason to do so either. Main event finish annoyed me, but that’s because they’re so not interested in finishes.

I don’t think I got donuts. There’s always tomorrow.

AAA #629 (06/16)

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taped 05/20, aired 06/16/07

My cable started breaking up during the main event on both the Saturday and Sunday airings, and rebooted itself during the match on the overnight airing. I got most of the main event when I put it together, except for a time. I might have actually beat Victor for the first time ever if not for my cable.

The concept of the main event seemed to be “the Sect can take out the other Hellbrothers, but Cibernetico could still win because now he’s got Zorro & La Parka Jr. from AAA helping him.” Which is fine, but makes me wonder why Chessman was out there to start. He had to play dumb for the interference to work early until the part where he was laid out, and they end up just doing yet another injury angle that’s not going anywhere.

I actually liked this show watching it, though looking back at it, I’d only recommend the Gran Apache/Air Force match. Was the match I missed from two weeks ago better than this? Becuase this was pretty good, and quickly becoming one of my favorite ongoing feuds in lucha.

I don’t think someone’s made this comment, but I’m sure it’s been thought – it can NOT be a coincidence that Sombra and others CMLL young high fliers started getting a bigger push soon after the Air Force/Gran Apache’s group started showing up on AAA TV. All people in charge of CMLL probably aren’t watching AAA (wrestling promoters not following their competitors TV seems to be universally true, if the even bother to watch their own TV), but I’m sure there’s someone who saw the Air Force stuff and wanted to make to show CMLL doing it better. The timing is too perfect for when they started doing the Gran Apache related stuff.

I know I should be demanding a reason for Psicosis turning and perhaps they’ll give one next week. I’m not sure we need Psicosis to spell it. If you think about it, he’s been teaming with Juvi and Crazy Boy and Joe Lider – the question he needs to answer is what took him so long to turn on that bunch of goofs.

If I never see Hijo de Tirantes teasing a DQ he will never ever call, it’d be too soon. Hatable thing about AAA (and much non-CMLL lucha) #248: referees make themselves far too important and try to steal the spotlight from the wrestlers. Pepe Casas is the only one who stays out of the way.

Thinking back to their promo, maybe the idea is the Payasos will be whatever their opponents aren’t, and change from tecnico to rudo per match. It’s weird, but so was the debut.