Tag: Multifacetico

Multifacetico and Brazos win, Lucha Libre Expo, Misterioso

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new champ

IWRG (THU) 06/02/2011 Arena Naucalpan [Black Terry Jr. (flickr), Estrellas del Ring, Mi Lucha Libre (1-3), Mi Lucha Libre (4)]
1) Dinamic Black & Tritón b Dark Devil & Imposible
straight falls.
2) Freelance, Golden Magic, Mike Segura b Alan Extreme, Carta Brava Jr., Comando Negro
Segura beat Comando Negro in the center of the ring, challenged for Comando Negro’s lightweight title.
3) Multifacético b Dr. Cerebro [WWA WELTER]
This is the Welterweight title Hijo del Diablo previous held. Dr. Cerebro dominated the fight, but Multifacetico exploited a mistake to drop him on his head for a win.
4) El Brazo & Hijo del Brazo b Negro Navarro & Trauma I and Hijo de Pirata Morgan & Pirata Morgan and Fresero Jr. & Solar I and Hijo del Pantera & Pantera and Máscara Año 2000 & Máscara Año 2000 Jr.
Fresero Jr. filled in for Hijo del Solar. This time, the fathers all started in the ring, and the sons took their place when they were eliminated. Solar pinned Negro Navarro (Trauma I in), Pirata Morgan got Solar (Fresero Jr. in), Brazo was eliminated next (Hijo de Brazo in), Pirata Morgan was next (Hijo de Pirata Morgan) and Mascara Ano Sr. was the last father out. That left all six juniors. M2K Jr. eliminated Fresero, everyone else teamed up to eliminate M2K Jr., Pirata turned on Trauma I and eliminated him, Hijo de Pantera followed. Final was Pirata & Brazo. Both fathers got involved, and Brazo got the pin. Brazos want another tag title match.

Black Terry Jr. has video of the title match: fall 1, fall 2, fall 3 (part 1, part 2)

CMLL in Japan
NJPW 06/03: Mascara Dorada [4] b Ryusuke Taguchi [6] (7:02)
Hooray! Not a win I figured on him getting. Dorada is 2-2, both wins coming over those who walked away with CMLL belts. This one avenges Dorada’s title loss back in January, and Taguchi appeared to offer a rematch for that title after his loss here. He’s in a big tie for fourth now. Next match is tomorrow vs the Great Sasuke; if Dorada can pull off that upset, he’s got a legit chance of making the semifinals.

Other News

This week’s WON says the guy who looked suspiciously like Averno in Sin Cara’s debut vignettes was in fact Averno.

On Twitter Wednesday night, Dorian Roldan was playing guessing games over the mystery Air Force member on Saturday’s taping. He said it’d be a Mexican wrestler from CMLL, but said it wouldn’t be Astro Boy (which would be a change of plans.)

Today’s Arena Mexico show has the first part of the Forjando un Idolo trios, and Shinsuke/Terrible/Texano vs Sombra/Mascara/Strong Man.

Misterioso Jr. says he’s not leaving CMLL, but wouldn’t it be great if he was in the tournament for the NWA Light Heavyweight Tournament? (Uh huh)

The press conference for the (July) Lucha Libre Expo took place yesterday afternoon. Schedule:  Saturday will have the Juniors promotion (Gallo Tapado Jr.), IWRG and CMLL in the main ring, plus IWL and more Juniors in the side ring. Sunday has  DTU, Perros del Mal and AAA, with more appearances by the Juniors and IWL. (No Friday show this year.) There was also a presentation from a Quinta Roo promotion that’s new to me, but no mention of when they’d be appearing. Tickets are 150 peso per day ($13!)

AAA announced their lineup (below), but everyone else just talked about the guys they might have appearing. Perros talked about bringing in (ex) WWE people, Chica Tormenta said DTU would be debuting a women’s title, the Juniors talked about trios and apuesta match. They’re hoping for 25,000 here, and 8,000 for the SLP shows in November. The program lists a the 2010 CMLL Awards as being presented on Saturday, so I’d still have time to run and finish awards before CMLL finally does. CMLL will also be presenting a Mr. Niebla & Zacarias show for kids (!) and the annual fashion show in tribute to Fabian el Gitano.

Dragon Rojo was spotted, alive and with a man purse; TV mentioned he should be back in a couple weeks (so no tag team tournament.)

In hype for Eterno maybe making it to AAA (his goal at the moment), Record does confirm the AAA taping in Naucalpan next Thursday.

If you figured El Hijo del Santo would be mad that WWA crowned a new WWA Welterweight Champion, you are correct. It takes many words for him to get there, not the best paced column.

Links

Lineups

CMLL (MON) 06/06/2011 Arena Puebla
1) Black Tiger & Milenium vs Aguila Guerrera & Sauron
2) Enrique Vera Jr., Lestat, Super Halcon Jr. vs Espiritu Maligno, Inquisidor, Mortiz
3) Ángel Azteca Jr., Ángel de Plata, Pegasso vs Hooligan, Loco Max, Nitro
4) Black Warrior, Metro, Sangre Azteca vs Shigeo Okumura, Vangelis, Yoshihashi
5) Máximo, Rush, Toscano vs Héctor Garza, Shinsuke Nakamura, Volador Jr.

That’s a weak tecnico side, all the way down the line. Maybe not Black Tiger.

I thought I read on a Japanese blog that Angel Azteca Jr. is a mask maker. Has anyone else heard this?

CMLL (TUE) 06/07/2011 Arena Coliseo Guadalajara
1) Meteoro vs Relampago Azul
2) Robin & Virgo vs Camorra & Evola
3) Eléctrico vs Demus 3:16
4) Goya Kong, Lluvia, Luna Mágica vs Amapola, Princesa Blanca, Tiffany
5) Máximo, Rush, Toscano vs Héctor Garza, Terrible, Texano Jr.

Minis match should be fun. Third week in a row for essentially the same women’s match; that’s why Amapola is here and not facing Ayumi in DF. It seems like they’re setting up an Amapola/Lluvia title match, which hints as a finish of Ayumi/Amapola (if it’s happening first.) Another possible hint: Amapola is defending her belt versus Marcela in Guatemala on the 26th.

Toscano can’t be here, because he’s in Tuesday’s title tournament.

AAA (SUN) 07/24/2011 Centro Banamex
1) Mascarita Divina, Mini Charly Manson, Octagoncito vs Mascarita de la Muerte, Mini Chessman, Mini Psicosis
2) Fabi Apache, Pimpinela Escarlata, Sugi San vs Esther Moreno, Polvo de Estrellas, Ronin
3) Joe Lider & Nicho el Millionario vs Alan Stone & Chris Stone [hardcore]
4) Drago, El Elegido, Laredo Kid vs Cuervo, Espíritu, Ozz
5) El Mesías, La Parka, Octagón vs Charly Manson, Cibernético, Escoria

That does not look like a taping. Juniors also announced their show, but I couldn’t make out all the names; it generally seems the same show they’ve been running.

AK47/Multifacetico, Mascara/Averno

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photo by Black Terry Jr.

IWRG (THU) 05/26/2011 Arena Naucalpan [Black Terry Jr. (flickr), Estrellas del Ring]
1) Alan Extreme & Vampiro Metálico b Dragon Fly & Tritón
2) Black Terry, Chico Che, Hijo de Clímax DQ Carta Brava Jr., Comando Negro, El Pollo Asesino
Comando Negro fouled Black Terry for the DQ. Those two are feuding.
3) Oficial AK47 b Multifacético
Dr. Cerebro was busy losing in AAA, so Oficial AK-47 took his place here. Bloody match, Oficial won.
4) Monster Clown, Murder Clown, Psycho Clown b Fresero Jr., Hijo de Pirata Morgan, Máscara Año 2000 Jr.
Fresero Jr. was bloodied, had a drink thrown in his face, and stumbled over to Psycho to be finished off.

Also: Kid Psycho Clown.

CMLL Press Conference

Averno & La Mascara had a scrum at press conference, which included Jose Luis Feliciano getting knocked off the stage. Being a CMLL programmer is a rough job right now. Averno vowed to add his name to the (long) list of people who have unmasked members of the Alvarado family.

There was a few discussions about the Forjando un Idolo, with the final tonight. Rey Escorpion apologized to Ultimo Guerrero, so I guess they’re friends again. Blue Panther and Negro Casas continued to challenge each other. There was talk about the individual groups sticking together; this doesn’t make a lot of sense to me, because they were never really allies, always intra-group rivals. Forjando un Idolo would’ve been more interesting if we actually saw the mentors working with their four students and got the idea that this was a union outside the matches, but that was never shown.

Record has an interview with Angel de Oro hyping up the tournament and tonight’s final. He’s the clear favorite.

Anyway, the interesting bit is Negro, Panther, and UG were all there, but Shocker was not (though Delta & Guerrero Maya were there representing.) CMLL took away Shocker’s NWA LH title at this press conference, which gave him another reason to be here, but he was not. Seems suspicious. Fuego en el Ring has an interview with Shocker in Guadalajara, so he could’ve just been out of town at the wrong time. This press conference seemed to be rushed, only announced an hour before it happened.

Dorian Roldan congratulated CMLL for booking an apuesta match the day before TripleMania. Maybe a bit of sarcasm there.

Other Stuff

LuchaWorld has this week’s Ras de Lona.

IWRG is holding a wrestler creation contest. Winner gimmick will debut at the Expo.

Sangre Azteca takes on his toughest opponent: Sangre Azteca. (via ByL)

On Colt Cabana’s podcast, Mad Man Pondo says he’s coming to Mexico in June. That sounds like DTU, but I thought they were off until July.

Links

Lineups

CMLL (TUE) 05/31/2011 Arena Coliseo Guadalajara
1) Javier Cruz Jr. vs Metalik
2) Black Metal & Leo vs Infierno & Ráfaga
3) Goya Kong, Lluvia, Luna Mágica vs Amapola, Princesa Blanca, Tiffany
4) Metro vs Rey Escorpion
5) La Sombra, Strong Man, Toscano vs Mr. Niebla, Rey Bucanero, Shinsuke Nakamura

That singles match should be interesting.

Destroyer’s mask destroyed, Dorada back to NJPW

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(photo by Black Terry Jr.)

The weird atomicos for Sunday’s IWRG show made more sense when the show was revealed to be the annual Guerra del Golfo: two cage matches, with the losers facing off in a mask match…

IWRG (SUN) 04/03/2011 Arena Naucalpan [Black Terry Jr. (flickr), The Gladiatores, Mi Lucha Libre]
***Guerra del Golfo, 2011***
1) Dinamic Black & Tonatiuh b Epidemia & Imposible
Dinamic Black replaced Eterno, Impossible replaced Pollo.
2) Eterno, Freelance, Golden Magic b Carta Brava Jr., El Pollo Asesino, Fresero Jr.
Eterno took the surprise luchador spot. Gemelos were replaced by Pollo and Fresero Jr.
3) Multifacético L Black Terry, Hijo del Dr. Wagner Jr., El Hijo del Diablo, Masada, Trauma I, el Ángel, Hijo del Pantera [cage, loser advances]
Wagner and Trauma feuded during the match. Last two were Black Terry and Multifacetico.
4) Destroyer L Oficial AK47, Hijo de LA Park, Angelico, Veneno, Hijo de Pirata Morgan, Último Gladiador, Ángel Mortal [cage, loser advances]
Last two were Destroyer and AK47, who had left but came back in the ring. Park did a big dive in this match.
5) Multifacético b Destroyer [cage, mask]
With the referee down, Multifacetico finished Destroyer with a martinete and climbed out to save his mask. Destroyer revealed himself to be Freddie Congote Jr., originally from LA, tweleve years a luchador. He was trained by Shamu Jr., Acero Dorado Jr., Rey Misterio Sr., and previous was Hilario in AAA.

CMLL (SUN) 04/03/2011 Arena Coliseo Guadalajara [Fuego en el Ring]
1) El Divino b Metalik
Bonus match.
2) Metatrón b Ráfaga
3) Hierro, Molotov, Sensei b Exterminador, Puma King, Tiger Kid
Exterminador replaced Mortiz, Hierro replaced Angel Azteca.
4) Diamante, Metro, Sagrado b Cancerbero, Shigeo Okumura, Yoshihashi
Sagrado pinned Okumura.
5) Hirooki Goto, Terrible, Texano Jr. b Hijo del Fantasma, Máximo, Valiente
Triple win for the rudos.
6) Black Warrior, La Máscara, Máscara Dorada DQ Héctor Garza, Mr. Niebla, Negro Casas
Hector replaced Felino. Negro fouled Dorada for the loss.

On the battle of the legends show, Santo & Rayo beat Demon & Perro by DQ when Angel Blanco Jr. ran in and martineted Santo. They teased a title match between Blanco & Santo.

Jushin Liger’s next challenger for his CMLL Middleweight Championship is Mascara Dorada. Dorada will get the shot on May 3rd in Fukuoka on PPV.

Tonight’s Mr. Niebla vs Ultimo Guerrero for the heavyweight title in Puebla.

Links

Tuesday notes, GDL full results, Guerrero Maya Jr.

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Preview of tonight’s Arena Mexico show: Ovaciones. The show is all on Rey vs Epehsto for the CMLL LH title. As noted earlier, Ephesto has never won a singles title in CMLL. (He did win the very short lived Middleweight title in Promo Azteca back when he was Pantera del Ring.) This may be the only second chance he’s had at one; I don’t see another challenge besides the really good match versus Sombra last Decemeber for the NWA Welterweight Title. Rey has held has championship for 34.5 months with 15 known defenses, but hasn’t defended in Mexico City since last October. The level of the belt has dropped during Rey’s reign, but some of that is because previous champion Ultimo Guerrero was pushed as the best wrestler in the company when he had the championship (and after), while Rey’s just been yet another guy holding a belt.

CMLL (SUN) 05/24 Arena Coliseo Guadalajara [Fuego en El Ring]
1) Angel del Mal & Relampago Azul b Hierro & Skaxy
2) Drago & Rafaga b Metatron & Palacio Negro
3) Leon Blanco & Magnum b Asesino Negro & Infierno
4) Neutron, Stuka Jr., Virgo b Mr. Trueno, Vangelis, Virus
5) Black Warrior, Terrible, Texano Jr. b Blue Panther, Mascara Dorada, Sagrado
6) Felino, Mr. Niebla, Negro Casas b Hector Garza, Mistico, Shocker

Covered the top 2 matches when MedioTempo wrote about this show, but there are a couple underneath things worth noting. Neutron and Mr. Trueno are apparently building towards a title match. I have zero idea what belt they’re supposed to be feuding over; Neutron’s the champ in the feud. Also, the opening match guy named “Drago” is the same guy who’s sometimes listed as “Dragon”; I don’t think we’re sure what we’re supposed to be close by.

(Guerrero Maya Jr. picture from DJ Spectro, originally from Luchas 2000 I believe.)
(Guerrero Maya Jr. picture from DJ Spectro, originally from Luchas 2000 I believe.)

There’s a post on Box Y Lucha’s forum saying Sunday’s debuting Guerrero Maya Jr. is better known as IWRG’s Multifacetico. Multifacetico last turned up in IWRG just before the flu cancellations, but seemed downplayed the last couple months. Photo is to the right, you can make the call.

The story CMLL’s telling is Guerrero Maya retired to Merida after his five years of wrestling in CMLL, pursing other careers, but now his son is taking the name. Guerrero Maya Sr. never lost his mask. In reality, this would seem to indicate Multifacetico is one of Black Terry’s sons (though not BlackTerryJr), which gives a different spin on all that feud between Black Terry and Multifacetico.

Averno is looking forward to facing Blue Panther, but is not afraid of him. Averno points out Panther knows how good he is, because Panther picked him to wrestle in his 25th anniversary match. Averno says he’s not giving Mistico another shot at his belts, because Mistico had his chance and lost. All Mistico is getting a mask or a hair match.

In Box Y Lucha (via DJ Spectro) has Principe Valiente talking about his debut.

Universo 2000 has opened his own gym. Universo doesn’t look much like Universo in the pictures.

(via SuperLuchas) Northern California indy Pro Wrestling Revolution is bringing Mephisto and Shocker in, sometime this summer.

Ras de Lona has everyone visiting a torture exhibit. Almost no sight of anything from Thursday’s press conference (only Mima’s centerfold discussion – and that might have been from a previous press conference), though they did have interviews from backstage on Friday.

LuchaWorld has KrisZ’s news update, including hugo999’s Puebla results I can never seem to find anymore. Go click on the link and check them out.

CMLL (WED) 05/27 Arena Coliseo Acapulco [eventos_acapulco @ box y lucha]
1) Mr. Niebla, Negro Casas, Rey Bucanero vs Ephesto, Terrible, Texano Jr.
2) La Sombra vs Mephisto [NWA WELTER]
3) Hector Garza, Mistico, Shocker vs Atlantis, Dos Caras Jr., Ultimo Guerrero

An actual lineup! There’s a women’s match we’re missing, and a locals one. It’d be nice if we got results for this show but I’m not exactly holding my breath.

EAW (SAT) 06/06 El Pinal, Teziutlan
1) Iron Boy, Luminoso, Skalibur vs American Rebelde, Mike Castillo, the Rocket
2) Scorpio Jr. & Zumbido vs Histeria & Psicosis II
3) El Alebrije, Intocable, La Park vs Monsther, Pirata Morgan, Super Crazy

An actual EAW show, wow. Poster says it’s being taped for TV, so it may turn up on TVC Dpeortes at some point. Kinda weird to do a promotion built around having two rings for bigger stunts, when really Super Crazy is the only one in the main event who is going to use it. Park and Pirata are ending up in the crowd, Monsther and Alebrije are doing comedy.