Tag: CMLL FSE

Arena Mexico, 07/18/2010

Thank god for Fabian el Gitano. He restored some of my faith in lucha libre.

I’ve made the joke about X match between Y’s best match ever, because they just happened to be in a match with five other people being great, but this was Fabian’s best match ever because of Fabian el Gitano. He worked incredibly hard during the final fall with Angel de Oro, pulling out moves I can’t recall ever having seen and playing rudo (which I’m also not sure if he’s ever done.) There was great drama there, and not the teetering towards disaster kind of drama I expected. Angel de Oro was no slacker, but this was Fabian’s finest moment.

The rest of the cage matches were good by cage match standards. Three minutes of brawling before starting to let people go worked better than the usual longer periods of nothingness, and they seemed to space the escapes out enough so there was a solid rhythm to them. Tiger Kid’s turn on Puma King came off well and is exactly the sort of thing they should follow up on, though I’m not sure how mad Puma should really be when he pulled the same thing on Angel de Oro (in another bit that worked well.) Hombre Bala is either a crazy old man or there’s a new Monsther, and I’m still not sure either way. Track this match down.

The opener here was even more butchered up than the one on the last week, and this one looked like it was actualy pretty good. Disappionting.

taped 07/11/2010, Arena Coliseo

Do not watch this show. Do not purchase this show. (Sorry Fredo.) Do not speak of this show – any acknowledgment of this show can only hurt. Horrible, horrible stuff, probably the worst episode of lucha television I’ve watched this year. Yes, including AAA.

The opener – Blue Panther, Shocker, Super Porky vs Atlantis, Negro Casas, Rey Bucanero – was half effort Super Porky comedy for four minutes, and absolutely no more. I don’t know if a devilish editor decided to cut out anything that was good and leave the rest to fill time, but I fear the possibility of this being the best four minutes.

What a fool I was to go out of my way to watch this for Mistico vs Volador. This was an outright horrendous match, maybe it too the worst match I’ve seen this year. These two may have not known they were going to have this match on this day – they did know far in enough advance for Volador to tape a promo – but they’ve worked often against each other this year that they should’ve been able to put together some semblance of a match on short notice. This was no semblance of a match, just each guys taking turns staring each other, doing a headscissors, staring at each other, doing a dive, and coming back in to stare at each other some more. And what they were doing wasn’t even good – Mistico hurting his ankle caused things to fall apart even more, but they were botching spots long before. Tirantes’ rudo refereeing was the least objectionable part of this match.

I don’t know if this means these guys are incapable of doing a match they’re not ready for (they would seem to have plenty of practice at that), or if they couldn’t figure out how to do a tecnico vs tecnico match (Tirantes was cheating for Volador, but Volador wasn’t especially a rudo), or if they actually hate each other and were just trying to make each other like a fool. I do know why they didn’t hype this much. This stuff shouldn’t get out.

There’s a few things I’m curious about. One is that spot over there – did they just both bail on the Spanish Fly? Was it the world’s worst reversal? Crowd decided it was something they needed to loudly boo – and another is why neither man could do more one move without gasping for air for thirty seconds. Large portions of this match were one going doing a headscissors, that guy getting up slowly and standing there catching his breath, the other guy getting up even more slowly and catching his breath. It was as if they had both retired, stopped doing any cardio work, and then came back 30 years later to do one last match against each other. If this is how these guys are going to wrestle when they’re old men, I hope they make a lot of money right now and absolutely do not wrestle when they’re old men.

This had to be their fifth show of the day or something. Even people who don’t like these guys would be astounded to see them this poor. A Mr. Niebla in no condition to perform might have performed better than these two.

Everyone is going to have bad nights. But this seemed something beyond that. AVOID.

taped Arena Coliseo, 11/29/2009

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Euforia, Pólvora, Virus © vs Ángel de Oro, Fabián el Gitano, Rouge © – THREE FALLS UNDER FOUR MINUTES. (On the other hand, Fabian & Rouge, maybe that was for the best.) Cancerberos are cool, hooray for that. I need to track down the Arena Coliseo title match.

Blue Panther, Místico ©, Volador Jr. vs Averno ©, Ephesto, Mephisto – exactly the match you think you’re going to get with these six guys. Actually, maybe a little better than considering it’s an MVS match in Arena Coliseo. The one other extra was Mistico implying Mephisto’s new physique came via injection; does that mean I was totally in the right for bringing up the same thing around the bodybuilding contest? It’s pretty hard to believe we’re supposed to ignore that subject when the top hero in the company is pointing it out. (Also, it was hilarious.)

taped Arena Mexico, 11/15/2009

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Bracito de Oro, Pequeño Olímpico ©, Shockercito vs Pequeño Nitro, Pequeño Universo 2000, Pequeño Violencia © – sure seems like there was some sort of mandate to cut these openers down to a minimum amount of time. They’ve never been long, but they’re super abbreviated in this stretch, and things are clearly going longer on the recent shows. Anyway, this match has 3 guys who are good, 1 guy who I’ve not yet decided on (Nitro) and 2 guys who appear to be here just to make up the numbers (Bracito and Universo.) This would’ve been an interesting tag team match.

Blue Panther, Héctor Garza, Shocker © vs Felino, Negro Casas ©, Ray Mendoza Jr. – thought this was going to be bad (the first fall backed that up), turned out to be just OK, I’ll take that as a victory. It is nice that, instead of continuing to repeat the same Garza shirt tossing, everyone’s making fun of it now. Garza got pinned on Friday while stripping up his shirt, so maybe it’s going away.

taped Arena Coliseo, 11/01/2009

No links – I got this off a Lover_Ice straight file rip, so I don’t have YouTube links handy. Not really a show to go out of your way to see, anyway. Opener got an appalling amount of time and didn’t have much to it; tough to get read on people in 5 minutes. Main event felt mailed in and got bad at points.

I just realized now, looking back and this (and in real time, having just watched this week’s Guerreros del Ring) that CMLL/MVS has likely been showing the same edecanes dancing music video for two months. That’s kinda odd, especially given how hard they work for (pointless) new content in other parts of teh show.