Tag: CMLL FSE

taped 12/07, didn’t air in the US

Put the Sombra/Ephesto on the watch list. For me, already selling people on Sombra, this was more a revelation about Ephesto. I’ve not been really high on him, but he was such the great veteran leading a youngster, turning it from a collection of high spots to an actual competition.

The video (now that it’s finally all up) can sell you more on the match than I can.

The minis match was cut down to little time. This is going to sound strange, given what I’ve said before, but there is a point where, if a match is going to be given so little time anyway, maybe they would’ve made better use of the 3 segments in hyping the main event. This was going to be a one match show either way.

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taped 11/23, aired 11/30

This show sounds good – Infernales vs Stuka/Flash, Jauria vs Mistico/Sombra/Dorada. It was not.

Our never ending Arena Coliseo Tag feud probably shouldn’t have been bothered to air, as short and irrelevant as it was. Plus, when the main event is an exciting high flyers teaming up, then maybe the undercard shouldn’t be exciting high flyers teaming up (lesser version.)

Mascara Dorada blew a springboard (quite possibly because of bad ropes) and his confidence is shot. Elsewhere, Robert anointed Mascara Dorada as Sagrado 2003, and that’s pretty fair. The problem is not just the work for him (though that’s a big problem), but switching him from Metalik to the new gimmick and moving him up 2-3 slots has just been harmful. Fans get more into wrestlers when they fell like they’ve earned their way to a position, and hasn’t just been handed it by the programmers. They’re quicker to turn on a guy in those spots too, because there’s no history of being good at what they do when they falter, there’s no good impressions to work off of – it’s what happened with Grey Shadow too.

So now we’re talking about combining the worst elements of two of the biggest failed tecnico pushes in recent years. All he needs to do is have terrible singles matches to blow off feuds and we can make the Leono comparison as well.

I have hope Mascara Dorada will rebound at some point, but it’s a long way off. And I’m not sure this push was done well even if the wrestler was capable of holding up his end; the best case for Dorada, as he’s been used, is to be a upper midcard tecnico. They have plenty of those guys already and don’t do much with them.

taped 11/14-16

This was better than average but not a special episodes. Minis were good, but the bar is pretty high there and they didn’t quite reach it. Coliseo Trios was fine but a bit paint by numbers.

Mascara Dorada = Grey Shadow II. There’s some effort to position him as something on occasion, but it’s pretty clear they don’t have confidence in his work in the ring right now to sustain it. On the net, he’s going to move up from being second/third match guy to third/fourth match guy when everything settles down, but probably still not mean a whole much other than getting someone out there using the Mascara Dorada name (which they surely own, which may not have been as clear the case with ‘Metalik’.)

I can’t believe I’m not higher on a show with 27 minutes of wrestling.

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taped 11/07 and 11/09.

Women’s match was a little bit less than I expected but still fine. Main event was a little bit better than I expected with not the mail-ins you’d expect.

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taped 10/24, 10/26, aired 11/02

Whenver the tecnico side is Flash, Stuka and Metalik, it’s going to end up here…

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So, that was pretty fun. This must’ve been part of a long series of Metalik matches with no attempted suicides, to explain why he was given the new gimmick and all.

The main event wasn’t too bad either – heavy on the comedy, low on Volador doing much, but better than your typical main event.

Just to repeat the throw away comment in the recap – I do truly believe they’ve done dubbed over introductions for the last 9 months because MVS hates Arena Coliseo sound system that much. I’ve been told that’s why Tuesday’s no longer in Coliseo (CadenaTres wants it that way, surely paying it to be that way), and it’d be the only reasonable reason why they have no problem playing whatever music when the matches are from Arena Mexico.