Tag: CMLL FSE

taped 10/19, aired 10/26

The quick version is the opener was a little less than I was hoping, and the main event was a little better than I was hoping. The long version is it was 22 minutes, which is the most in 6 or 7 weeks. And they still had too much time at the end of the show. This is what happens when you don’t have any features. And also people willing to work long matches.

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Maybe it’s the rays coming from the eye lids, maybe it’s because I’ve read a few articles about him this week, but it never occurred to me until that Sombra’s mask is not that far off Oro’s.

Weird fact about my TiVo Series 3 that I forget – there’s no analog out. There’s HDMI out and Composite out, and probably a couple others, but my plan of just hooking it up to analog in on my computer didn’t work so well. I ended up using the composite out into a VCR, and the analog out of the VCR into the computer, which got the video there but seems to have created an audio delay. I couldn’t figure out how to fix that, and I couldn’t figure out why, when I run the MPEG thru VirtualDub, the AVI file comes out twice as large as when I digitally transfer it off my TiVo. It’s up here, but it’s over 700 MB, as large as the 2h30m AAA show.

Does anyone have an idea of what I’m doing wrong? It’s not so much this file, though I wouldn’t mind redoing it if I could get it to shrink. I’ve got older shows of FSE (and 52MX) on a external drive which were recorded in much the same way and have the same problem when it comes to converting. I’d like to transfer to AVI, but if they’re going to be that big, it’s almost not worth bothering. I’m using the same DiVX codec, I’m adjusting the size to the same, but I think there’s something in how the files were recorded that I’m not compensating for (some audio compression I need to do?)

taped 10/12, aired 10/19

Short matches aren’t worth the time it takes to upload them to DM. Infernales/tecnicos was fun for the time. Main event was unremarkable.

full show: 280 MB

taped 10/05, aired 10/12

I want to say the Loco Max/Tony Rivera match was fine, but it really wasn’t. They tried to do as many dives as possible to make it exciting, but it was a 8 minute match and it wasn’t really crisp. I thought maybe they needed to do four more minutes to get over the near falls, but then I was also trying to recall what Loco Max or Tony Rivera’s big moves are. I watched these two for the last three weeks, winning falls and such, and I couldn’t name either guys finisher. Maybe that’s on me, maybe they’ve just not left an impression with their in-ring. It was a MVS hair match.

That said, they all tried hard to sell it like this was a huge moment in the lives of Tony Rivera and Loco Max; if you were willing to buy it, they were trying their best to sell it. And Fabian el Gitano, who was pretty hysterical after the finish; I could’ve cut out the post match and snuck in the opener, but I really wanted everyone to see Fabian after the match, particularly right after the finish (around 9:50.)

Fabian is now 1-2 at cornering on this since late July (Bam Bam’s title match, Lady Apache’s title match, and this), but I hope he doesn’t give up on this exciting new career path.

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full show 306 MB

They’re having a contest to see who can most mail in a match in Arena Coliseo, right? Any chance I can get in on that action?

(this wasn’t supposed to be up tonight, but since it’s been sitting here for 90 minutes anyway…)

aired 09/28, taped 09/21

Not a lot to say here. Purpura’s trying new stuff and I’d love for someone to identify Warrior’s submission, but that’s about it. Since the matches bell to bell are under 20 minutes here (and next), I’ve just included them all on the file. There’s the full show if you want everything else.

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taped 09/14, aired 09/21

If I was a conscious type who was focused on timely recaps, I’m fairly certain this teaser would’ve gone differently. Then again, it would’ve been largely irrelevant even at the time it was written, and I can still make the same points.

I really enjoyed the Grey Shadow/Alex Koslov team so much, for the two weeks it lasted. They were doing so much ‘wrong’ that it really made it right. Even though both guys have been around here for quite a while, ti felt like two modern US indy guys were plopped down in the middle of Mexico City with some idea of the lucha style and the intention to keep doing what they knew how to do. Instead of the usual recitation of today’s opponents in their promo, we got a very indy-ish tecnico one with two guys so excited to be wrestling that they’re talking over each other. Instead of one tecnico in the ring going taking a moment of rudo offense then going thru his weekly showcase of offense, they showed off rapid fire double teams and moments of actual inspiration. Alex and Shadow appeared as though they were actually happy to be there, happy to be teaming, and not running a countdown timer in their head, tracking how long they had until they had to get some place.

There was actual LIFE in the ring, and it was a beautiful thing to see.

Now, I know Everyone Hates Rocky Romero and I’m not here to stop you from doing that, if that’s what you do. I gather a lot of it isn’t anything against the man himself, but to some extent he seems a lesser version of other wrestlers in the indy scene. But those wrestlers aren’t the ones he’s being seen against in Mexico – it’s more tolerable to be a 2nd tier Bryan Danielson when there are no other Danielsons around, and when everyone is trying to be another person.

That’s the other big problem here. Everyone tecnico in CMLL tries to be Mistico, and everyone rudo in CMLL tries to be Averno*. Some people are better at it the other people, but almost no one tries to do anything else. Mistico vs Averno is even starting to get a bit old when they do it, and seeing it twice a week every week by 3 guys a side gets tremendously boring. I don’t know if it’s because that’s what the people in charge want to see from the wrestlers so that’s only who gets picked up, or if it’s because that’s what the wrestlers believe will get them better positions in the company (probably both), but it’s unbelievably numbing**. They’re not giving me a storyline to distinguish each guy, they’re not giving me a wrestling style to distinguish the guys, they’re just giving out different gear.

Back during this match, I was so hoping this would this trio would become a running group. Not just because it’s be nice to have actual TEAMS on the rudo side, but because maybe some of Alex and Grey’s inherent indy wackiness would rub off on La Mascara. Maybe, just maybe, he’d stop wrestling like the 12th best Mistico clone in the company*** and mutate into something different and unique itself.

I don’t know how it’s going to work out for Rocky in AAA. I think he’ll make out money wise better, at least at first, but given the disuse of Silver King since his jump, plus D-Generation-Mex apparently being Yet Another Rudo Stable That Doesn’t Get Along With The Million Other Rudo Stables, I don’t have super high hopes. Before he slips into the ether of AAA’s midcard, I do want to thank him for these couple of matches on FSE. In a world with scores of guys being different versions of off-white and scores of other guys being different versions of dark gray, it was delightful to see some green. I dare not suggest you were the best green ever, but it was freaking awesome to know I wasn’t going colorblind.

(opener was eh.)

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* – yea, I know this is an overstatement. Every Perro tries to wrestle like Perro Sr.! Actually, there’s plenty of guys who don’t work as those types because it doesn’t make sense – Marco! – or are old enough to have trust in working as their own style, or are women and minis who have no choice but to wrestle as who they are and are so much better of for it

** – it’s also quite possible that lucha has passed me by and it’s time to move on. Though I do recall a time where everything wasn’t one dimensional.

*** – this smells like a list