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CMLL FSE #147 (05/30)

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I had half of these teasers done, and I can’t find them anymore. Maybe I shouldn’t wait two months to do these? Perhaps.

taped 05/24, from – I don’t remember form, but it wasn’t until I went to link to the video until I remembered I watched it someone else’s YouTube. It’s been a while.

Guerreros vs Hijo del Avernos seems irrelevant at the moment, so let’s wonder about the opener. The Tuareg and a loose tecnico platoon of the Angels and the Ex-Air Force have been battling so often, they’d be dumb not to take advantage of it somehow. I don’t think they’re doing it with a plan to turn it into something, it’s more a simple quirk of the half (or more) of the regular segunda rudos being in the Tuareg, so any tecnicos on that level are going to usually be facing one combo or another. This is probably good for the kids – this match on this show was a bit spotty, but they’ve gotten better by familiarity. CMLL’s way scaled back on the minor hair and mask feuds this year, but it’s tough bad they can’t get the Arena Coliseo tag team belts involved.

CMLL LATV #139 (04/04)

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CMLL LATV #139 (taped 03/27, 03/29)
– Leono, Flash, Stuka Jr. © vs Loco Max, Arkangel ©, Skandalo – you know, the weird thing about Leono’s mask is I can not find any masked career of Leono. We’re very sparse on 2004 Arena Puebla lineups, but he doesn’t appear in any Puebla show until 2005, and he’d already been working undercard matches in DF by then. When they did that thing explaining his mask, I was expecting a reveal of previous gimmick – did I just miss it?

The match itself was fine and I wish they would just do the Tuareg feud for the Arena Coliseo tag belts already. If I was in charge of the world, I’d be doing six Arena Coliseo defenses a year, and doing Sangre Azteca middleweight defenses the other six months, just so everyone has big match experience before they’re asked to do one that actually matters. Giving people a little bit of motivation wouldn’t hurt either.

– Hijo de Fantasma, Sagrado ©, Mictlan vs Terrible ©, Ephesto, Hijo de Lizmark – while we’re doing dumb personal iedas: since everyone’s gotten on board my idea for feuding Valiente and Virus, my next big push is Fantasma vs Ephesto. Fantasma will have to find some way to stop sliding out for no reason except to get toped hard, but the tope itself is worth it. This match was not worth it, with guys on both sides (but much more the rudos) walking their way thru it.

CMLL on Fox Sports #110 (01/10)

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taped 01/02, 01/04; as usual, thanks to ripper.

Still in the Blanca turn. Turns, especially out of the main event, usually mean weeks of lame matches and this was certainly fitting the mold.

Robert and I disagree on Puma/Azteca. I say this in the recap too, but I believe enough that I want to repeat it – either Skandalo/Angel de Oro was (surprisingly) enjoyable, or someone decided to keep faith in the project despite the early returns. This was bad. They may have better matches someday, they may have had better matches the next day, but that doesn’t make this any less bad.

Even putting aside the fan reaction – fans don’t want to give it a chance – most of the guys are coming off not as future stars but as guys who need a lot more time. This time, I think they had more blown spots than minutes shown. This is about as long as the Lagunero bit went, but perhaps they knew things would get better the next week.

Sagrado, Valiente and Mascara Sagrada made it threw a match as a team without anyone dying (that was their fault, anyway – Marcela would be proud of Terrible’s dropkick on Sagrada.) Still, I don’t know if you really want to trust Sagrado to be the solid, safe part of a trio. On the other side, Texano & Terrible are rounding into a fun team that needs to get to do something more.

CMLL FSE #125 (12/28)

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taped 12/19, 12/21/08, aired 12/28.

Old old old! This recap is so old, I’m not sure if I should make a deal about it being the last FSE episode. Been there, done that, perhaps seen it undone.

Women’s match was really nothing time wise, which gave a lot of time for the lightning match. I like the idea of giving more guys opportunities, but this one wasn’t taken. Polvora must’ve figured that since he ‘won’ this match via winning the bodybuilding contest, he ought to just show off his built body. Did not work. Not Flash’s most solid match either, though he got all the highspots (Polvora wasn’t any more interesting selling, either.)

It’d be helpful if there was some better way to prep the crowd for these. We may see it as two interesting match of young guys trying to prove themselves, but this crowd clearly felt like two non-stars were being inflicted on them and they’d rather their time not wasted. This wasn’t a good enough match to win them back.

Main event was okay. It was just A match, the kind I’ll be okay with missing for a while.

No more CMLL on FSE

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CMLL’s been off and on FSE the last month and isn’t listed on the schedule. That’s because it’s done, at least on the US version of the channel, effective the end of 2008. The latest WrestlingObserver says the deal expired at the end of the year.

Outside 52MX (which almost no one gets since Comcast dropped it last May), there’s no more CMLL TV matches in the US. And, depressingly, the CMLL Mexico TV shows seem to be missing from the usual torrent sites. Was that always Lover_Ice’s video being uploaded by someone else, and so it’s not there because he didn’t want to deal with paying for megaupload bandwith and no one else is doing it? Because there had to be a better solution for him.

Gotta figure out what package LATV is on. If it’s on the general channels (because it’s a WGN digitial alternate channel here), I don’t need to keep the Spanish Language package. If it’s not…well, I like the show, but I don’t like the show for $16 a month (and I really could use the $16 extra.)

CMLL FSE #124 (12/21)

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The tag title match was in that good but not great area.

taped 12/12 and 12/14/08

I think they tried too long for the singles faceoff at the end. Flash got taken out with little problem, Nosferatu went down not long after, and I guess Stuka/Euforia was supposed to be their Mistico/Averno moment. What we learned is they’re not there yet. They may get there and it certainly wasn’t for a lack of trying (this wasn’t a paint by numbers FSE blow off match for sure), but there’s just some extra tension missing.

Stuka & Flash had more “look at each other and try to figure out who’s turn this is” moments than you’d expect at this time too.

Lluvia did three moves! She did them fine, but I hope I’m not supposed to give you an opinion on her based on that. I’m just going to ignore any implication of everything else being edited out.

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