La Parkita & Espectiro, Tuesday Mexico, GDL

Lots of stories about the death of La Parkita & Espectrito II; I’ll pick the Reforma one because it seems to have the most details about the death. ESTO has a good obit.

La Parkita (the original in AAA, Alberto Perez Jimenez) and Espectrito II (Alejandro Perez Jimenez – and NOT Guerrerito del Futuro), brothers who were 35 years old, were found in their hotel room Monday at 2pm. They’re both younger brothers of Espectrito I, who is quoted about the deaths in the Record article

The police believe they checked into the hotel the previous night, bringing with them two prostitutes. They think the prostitutes spiked the drinks. The articles make it sound as if the spiked drinks scam is very typical, but it usually doesn’t kill the victims. The luchadors were found the next morning when the hotel workers came to clean the rooms. They found the drug at the scene and none of the wrestlers possessions, so it looks pretty open and shut.

Though it’s always tough to tell with another wrestler using the same name at the same time, it looks like La Parkita was working pretty regularly in the extended Mexico City area – he was on a show Sunday in Mexico State just before his death (SuperLuchas has a map!), and was on the Bizzaros debut (final?) show before that. Espectrito II turns up less frequently, but may have been misidentified as Espectrito I at times. Both were working in IWRG late January and early February. This was the same La Parkita as in CHIKARA; Milenio actually links to video of his appearance there.

Al Filo del Ring reposts their recent interview of Parkita.

CMLL (TUE) 06/30 Arena Mexico [ESTO]
3) Euforia, Hooligan, Nosferatu b Fabian el Gitano, Flash, Horus
4) Dragon Rojo Jr., Lizmark Jr., Misterioso II b Blue Panther, Mictlan, Valiente
5) Hector Garza, Hijo del Fantasma, La Mascara DQ Averno, Terrible, Texano Jr.

Rudos won the first fall won and seemed to be on their way for a sweep, but ripped off Hijo del Fantasma’s mask instead. For the third, they pulled La Mascara’s mask. This annoyed the tecnicos enough to agree to a title match next week.

CMLL (TUE) 06/30 Arena Coliseo Guadalajara [Fuego en el Ring]
1) Milenio b Meteoro
2) Thunder Boy b Skaxy
3) Ebola b Nube Roja
4) Drago b Saturno
5) Leon Blanco b Infierno
6) Gallo, Metro, Stuka Jr. b Dr. X, Mascara Magica, Vangelis
7) Felino & Mr. Niebla b Sagrado & Toscano

Sagrado replaces Shocker. Rudos won clean.

Since he’s now going to be back for his 25th year anniversary, Nitro wants to celebrate on October 3th with a mask vs mask match vs Ultimo Guerrero. It’s good to want things, but not that particular thing.

Juvi says his first promoted show (except for the others ones) will be on July 31st. The article is more about a trip to South Africa with NWE.

At a campagin rally for a PRI candidate, they held a match between a man in a white mask with green/red “PUEBLO” on it, and a man dressed as Mistico, since he’s in those commercials for the PAN party. The PRI wrestler yanked fakeMistico’s mask and the candidate celebrated with him, though the article notes that means PAN won by DQ.

El Sol de Zacatecas is sure Dos Caras Jr. is still going to work on the spot show there tonight. I hope they enjoy Ray Mendoza Junior. Still a good lineup:

CMLL (WED) 07/01 Gimnasio Marcelino Gonzalez
1) Molotov & Trueno vs Caligula & Méssala
2) Mascarita Dorada, Pequeño Olímpico, Tzuki vs Pequeño Damian 666, Pequeño Universo 2000, Pequeño Violencia
3) Angel de Oro, Angel de Plata, Mascara Dorada vs Euforia, Nosferatu, Vangelis
4) Hijo del Fantasma, Sagrado, Valiente vs Ephesto, Mephisto, Texano Jr.
5) Hector Garza, Mistico, Toscano vs a replacement for Dos Caras Jr., Averno, Lizmark Jr.

Not that CMLL is the only one who has weird lineup issues. Just yesterday, AAA posted a lineup for tonight’s Cancha German Evers show in Mazatlan. The local paper hypes the show, with a different lineup. Most of the wrestlers are the same.

Those new lineups also have Super Fly working as a rudo on some Baja California Sur spot shows, as alluded to on AAA’s site a couple days ago.

AAA has articles on Who is Shiima Xion, and Silver King’s face paint from TripleMania

Box Y Luchas Cotorreando has an interview with Alebrije & Cuije.

Ovaciones previews the UWE show tonight, and the Luchas 2000 (with Lizmark Sr.!) on Saturday.

10/23: Perros, GDL, Charly Manson, ByL

Took a couple days, but there’s finally more about Perro Aguayo Jr. He spoke to both Reforma and SoloLuchas. Between both of the articles, it sounds like this is a full split to form a different organization, but Perro’s still on good terms with CMLL. (Perro says he owns the “Perros del Mal” name, which would certainly be indicative of this.) SoloLuchas says the PdM is right next to Arena Mexico and CMLL and PdM wrestlers could work against each other on shows (probably similar to how indy guys like Intocable and Demon are employed by local promoters who also bring in CMLL wrestlers.)

watch out for flying Sombras/CMLL
watch out for flying Sombras/CMLL

No one besides Perro is mentioned by name as going with his group. It’s only clear that it’s not expected to be the whole current group and will probably include those not in the group (Perro mentions bringing in tecnicos of good quality and recruiting worthwhile foreigners.) Only Perro says he won’t be working on CMLL shows anymore; it’s possible all the rest might still work CMLL TV and have the rest of the days booked out of their own office, as this idea was originally mentioned. We’re still grasping for details – no first show is mentioned, there’s obviously a press conference to officially announce this on the way but not sure when that is either.

CMLL (TUE) 10/21 Arena Coliseo Guadalajara
6) Metalik & Rayman b Damián 666 & Mr. Águila
7) Héctor Garza & Marco Corelone DQ Terrible & Texano Jr.

Perros are still working their normal schedule. In the main event, Terrible faked a foul to get the win. Corelone was angry and kicked the ref after the match.

CMLL (TUE) 10/21 Arena Mexico
1) Angel de Oro & Trueno b Inquisidor & Pólvora – now it can told.

Box Y Lucha posted a lot of articles from it’s last issue
Charly Manson hopes to be back in the ring by December, but may not make the end of the season. Charly says here that he’s not planning on supporting either Cibernetico or Chessman, instead to go his own way and perhaps start his own faction.
Dorian Roldan says WWE will barely affect lucha libre, because it’s a different audience. Dorian also says the Abismo Negro gimmick was one of Antonio Pena’s creations, so it should be with someone who deserves it (Black Abyss.)
Amapola says she hurt her knee just the day before she lost her hair to Lady Apache. What tragic luck. Then she hurt her other knee compensating, which sounds about right. She wants some revenge on Lady Apache when she comes back.
Villano V says Ultimo Guerrero is a hypocrit, for feuding with Blue Panther and then suddenly deciding to defend him. Ultimo Guerrero says the Villanos just went too far.
– Talking with Rocky and X-Pac about Romero’s jump, the author asked about a rumor of Juventud Guerrera being another member; X-Pac: “Juvi stinks – if he comes back to AAA, he won’t be with us.”
La Parkita says the AAA one (him) is the only true one and the one who owns the gimmick. The other wrestler who worked as Parkita apparently claims he owns the gimmick, but this one says it’s untrue.

Villanos press tour continues in AAA, who they vow to beat any trio. They’re also as confused as to what side Atlantis is supposed to be on, since he’s from Guadalajara.

SoloLuchas has a interview with Ephesto, who recalls his Hombre sin Nombre days (“dos mesas”) as a lot shorter than I do. He’d like a main event singles match with a star so people would see him as a star. That sounds rational.

Super Fly wants to face Electroshock in a retirement match. That sounds irrational.

Fuerza Guerrera wants to face Hijo del Santo in a mask match. That sounds unlikely. Fuerza tries to make his case, though, saying no one can truly be invincible after Blue Panther lost so maybe he’d unmask Santo. If any has a shot, Fuerza says, it should be one of him, Negro Casas or Blue Panther, since they’ve been Santo’s best rivals. (I know who’s not going back to NWA Mexico!) Fuerza pictures this as the main event of another Todos x el Todos show (big stadium show = $$$, enough he might actually do it.)

SuperLuchas talks to the Siniestro on the NWA cards, who is apparently a new person under that name. He says he’s wrestled as Horus in AAA for 3 years, but I can’t find any record of that name; misspelling? He was out of the business, but they were looking for a muscular guy and he fit the bill. The character itself is based on a Mexican comic book character (and not the DC one.)

Ovaciones has an interview with Mujer Demente, who’s reached 16 years of wrestling.

Romero/Negro in NJPW: 10/22 LOSS to Togi Makabe and Toru Yano, Yano on Romero as part of the tag tournament. Will they win a torneo match?

LuchaWorld has Robert on 05/18/06 AAA and 06/10 CMLL as well as KrisZ’s news update.

04/30: Mexico recap, magazines

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CMLL (SUN) 04/29 Arena Mexico [ovaciones, La Presna, cmll, Dr. Frink @ box y lucha]
1) Apocalipsis & Ramstein b Sombra de Plata & Super Nova
2) Mini Olimpico, Shockercito, Tsuki b Mini Damian 666, Mini Halloween, Mini Mr. Aguila
3) Averno, Dos Caras Jr., Mascara Sagrada b Mascara 2000, Sangre Azteca, Universo 2000
4) Damian 666, Halloween, Mr. Aguila b Maximo, Sagrado, Texano Jr. [MEX TRIOS]
5) Alex Koslov, Dr. Wagner Jr., Marco Corelone b Atlantis, Olimpico, Ultimo Guerrero
6) Mistico b Black Warrior [NWA MIDDLE]

The La Presna has the Perros winning the National NWA Trios Titles, which – no. They won their match easily, as Texano was never on the same page as his teammates. They won in straight falls, with Maximo getting hurt in the first (and so Texano attacked Sagrado instead in the second.)

Averno filled in for Heavy Metal and worked as a tecnico, and then later showed up as Black Warrior’s corner. I don’t know if Averno is the guy you want in your corner advising you how to beat Mistico. Maybe it was some sort of group therapy thing. Anyway, everyone’s making sure to note that Averno was a perfectly fine tecnico and may have enjoyed being one. HMMMMMMMM.

Shockercito was stretchered out.

Ovaciones says Mistico joins Huracan Ramirez as the only people to ever hold four titles. We’ve only got Huracan winning three different belts in his career,

NWA Welter: 08/05/65 – 09/24/65
MEX Welter: 04/13/64 – 10/??/65
Northern Middleweight ?

I’m not sure what we’re missing, but I think we’re safe in saying that he was quad chap for the 50 days of his NWA title reign.

FWIW, here’s Mistico
CMLL Tag: 04/14/06 – ?
IWRG Super Welter: 11/19/06 – ?
CMLL Welter: 04/11/07 – ?
NWA Middle: 04/29/07 – ?

Mistico would need to hold till June 18, 2007 to beat that record.

Ovaciones notes Sangre Azteca retained his Mexican Welterweight title over Magnifico in Coacalco. It’s a week of title matches, with Rey defending his in Puebla versus Hector, and Atlantis defending his in Coliseo vs Alex.

Magazines
Super Luchas #210 has the Vipers, Sect and Legion together.
Luchas 2000 #366 hypes up it’s show for this weekend, with people staring at their old masks.

While previewing yesterday’s show, El Occidental reports about ticket scalping and people charging for free parking around Arena Coliseo Guadalajara. I know it’s 30 pesos people shouldn’t be charged and it’s all relative, but if I could park somewhere in Chicago near a sporting event for $2.75, it would be the greatest day ever.

the Lake County Sun has a followup article about La Parkita and Espectrito at the library, showing off lucha. They agreed to a truce for the afternoon, for the kids.

In El Imparcial, Mistico says he’s going to do TV (soap opera) work, but he’s not leaving the ring to become a movie star, and he’s not taking off his mask for roles. They’re rewriting the soap to work in his mask.

Las Vegas Sun has an interview with Mike Tenay, which I love just for the fact sheet section.

Announcing traits:

Stares inquiringly at “heels” (bad guy wrestlers) when he believes their characters are not being totally up front with him.

Hmmm. Yes.

IWRG’s site is still down.