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02/10 ELL-MEX Results

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ELLMEX (SAT) 02/10 Alianza Soccer Field
1) Wizard, Mascara de Jade, ???? vs ?, ??, ???
2) Tigre, Rey Fuego, Chapulin Colorado b Black Destroyer, “other guy in black mask”, “Mexican Jake Roberts-looking dude”
3) Principe Frankie, Pistolero, K? Jr. b Malefico, Principe Azteca II, Venom
4) El Hijo del Santo, Tinieblas Jr. b Emilio Charles Jr., Villano III

It took me of driving around in circles to find the place. Putting up a white bed sheet with “LUCHA” written on it and expecting people to find it in pitch dark is dumb. I know for a fact quite a few people missed it and were looking for instructions elsewhere. I’m going to stop complaining now because no one who cares reads this, but this is why I tend not to bother to track down lucha shows in places I haven’t been.

Alianza Soccer Field is a warehouse converted into two half sized indoor soccer rinks. They stuck the ring in the middle of the first field, and filled the rest of that field with chairs and bleachers. I’d guess around 500-600 people, maybe 2/3rds of them were kids.

I missed most of the opener. Assuming it WAS the opener. Second match was horrendous and I don’t want to talk about it. Third match might have been a 2 star match (5/10) but it seemed like a 25 star match after what it followed. Principe Frankie is the best of the bunch. The third tecnico – who had a random title belt of some kind – was announced as C/Ksomething Jr. I thought it was Kendo Jr., but the mask – kinda like a Sangre Chicana mask, black with a red stripe – doesn’t match up. Maybe it was Chicana Jr.? I dunno.

Before the fourth match, the main eventers, Frankie and family members brought Chela Salazar in the ring to honor her for her career. She got flowers, a plaque, a posterboard with scrapbook clippings from her career, and nice words from everyone – it was well done and she seemed touched.

Villano III wore his mask for the ceremony, which Santo noted as everyone started leaving the ring, pointing out that he lost it long again. Villano III explained his side – punching Santo to start the rudo attack. Emilio Charles was the best guy in this match, which is some sort of karmic vengeance towards me. Santo’s looked better when I’ve seen him before, but he did all the usual. For the second straight time, Santo brawled no farther than three feet from me and I didn’t think to pull out my camera phone till ten seconds too late. I am a moron. Match was the exact legends match you’d expect from these four guys in a converted warehouse in the middle of nowhere and the fans were happy with it. I left right after the end of the third fall because I should be sleeping by now, but I guess not, huh?

I was happy with the show, but I don’t think I’ll be seeking out the Chitown ELL-Mex shows to see the undercarders.

TV Show Index additions

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I dunno if anyone necessarily uses these pages, but I’ve had TV indexes up for the major shows in Mexico, going back to 2003. This is all built onto the event listings, so I can’t add a TV show unless I have info about the event and what date the event aired (a problem with AAA; CMLL is more predictable).

Anyway, I’ve added some new features to these pages.
– TV index pages now include a link to any recap of the show I’ve found. They’re listed on the right side when avialable,a dn should take you as close to the show recap as I can get (you may still have to do a little searching.) I said I’d do this long ago, and it’s cool to have it finally done. If you know of another place I should be looking for recaps, let me know.
– If you rather look at the recaps by author, I’ve got that too. Probably needs to look a little nicer, but it’s functional. Each page includes a link to the recap, and the show main event so you know what’s what.
– Converting from GalaUS to GalaMex isn’t the easiest thing. So, I’ve added a a conversion list, matching up US air dates to Mexico air dates. I haven’t actually figured out how this is going to work on the old split shows.

I don’t have any links to my stuff in there yet, but that’s because I know where I can find it. Finding, say, random DVDVR reviews, is a bit harder.

Things to do
– programming an easy way to edit episodes (I’ve only needed to add and delete) so I can get rid of some mistakes
– adding more shows to the Galavision listings (it’s only about 70% up)
– adding AULL (based off Chui’s Lucha Crunchers)
– figuring out how/if to include Chui’s Lucha Crunchers
– adding in Victor’s old stuff that’s still on the Observer and I’ve got linked elsewhere
– tracking down those DVDVR reviews
– figuring out IWRG
– adding earlier results to add earlier shows, even if it’s just ripping them out of TV recaps (circular)

I have no idea when I’ll do any of this.

Suggestions? Ideas? Questions about the use of my time?

02/10 and 03/18 Chicago Lucha Shows

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TWO shows announced. So weird.

Again, ELL-MEX put a poster up on the Telvisa board and no where else I’ve seen:

Cierco, huh, and ending around 11 PM? Well, I didn’t have that much to live for anyway.

Don’t read into the Estrellas de AAA thing, it’s just wackiness. As you can see, this is the tribute show mentioned on the Observer site a couple days ago.

Congress Theatre’s next show is March 18th, with Park/Santo vs Shocker/Demon. So, yes, two Santo appearances in two months.

I’ve forbid myself from mentioning which shows I will and not go to, since that turns into lies and no one really cares.

The biggest news, though, is Congress Theater referee El Apenitas got was praised in a Matamoros newspaper. If there’s some connection between Apenitas and Matamoros, it’s not mentioned in the article. Someone’s gotta know that story.

01/24: Merida, AAA

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CMLL

indy (SUN) 02/04 Poliforum Zamna de Merida Lineup [Por Esto]
1) Cobra Man vs Angelito Vengador vs Amenaza Roja vs Misterio Maya vs Lobo Salvaje vs Haragan vs Angel Infernal vs Imperio Dorado [trofeo Gladiador Torino]
2) Super Muneco, Super Muneco Jr. vs Halcon Rojo, Halcon Rojo Jr.
3) Rayo de Jalisco, Hijo de Solitario, Ultimo Dragon vs Negro Navarro, Mr. Aguila, Canek Jr.
4) Latin Lover, Hijo del Santo vs Blue Demon Jr., LA Park

No Villano III.

AAA posted a Pena bio on their news update. They’re running a tribute card to him – it’s not a TV taping and no matches are announced (I’m not entirely sure there will be matches), but the usual names should be there. They’ve also put a preview of tomorrow’s taping, with no lineup changes.

Monclova wrestlers are complaining about the local Box Y Lucha commission being completely worthless.

I totally forget about the Villano 3 chat at Box Y Lucha. They’ve posted the usual video clip. The poster they have up for Intocable is quite something.

Televisa’s annual award voting is going on now. This is the award La Parka Jr. wins every year and I never can figure out quite why. You can vote for it at http://www.esmas.com/trofeostd/

01/18: IWRG, Box Y Lucha

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CMLL

IWRG (SUN) 01/14 Arena Naucalpan Results
1) Trauma I, Trauma II b Golem, Puma King
2) Bacteria, Freelance, Turbo b Avisman, Black Terry, Black Thunder
3) Cerebro Negro, Dr. Cerebro, Suicida DQ El Hijo del Diablo, Fantasma de la Ópera, Veneno
4) Camorra, Canek, Mascara Ano 2000 b Dos Caras, Negro Navarro, Sagrado
5) Electroshock b Mascara Sagrada [1, IWRG IC HEAVY]

Electro gets his title shot versus Canek on 02/04; I’m shocked they’ve announced the date. Trios champs lost the tercera when Fantasma piledrove Suicida, which will do it to you every time.

Ovaciones’ preview of IWRG’s Sunday card says the Corp/tecnicos atomicos has been changed to a trios match for the belts.

AAA’s redesigned their site. It’s still not great, but it’s better than a few hours ago when they had some completely unreadable buttons up. They didn’t actually add much of new content.

Box Y Lucha has posted more articles from it’s latest edition
– Cibernetico says the people like them because he’s real, and he’s says what they want to say, to anyone. Ciber echos the “Latin Lover’s forgotten his people” and drops Kawaghi’s name.
– The Villanos share their memories of Villano I. Villano III’s stories all are about winning street fights against thugs with superior numbers.
– India Sioux talks about her start in lucha libre. She’s going be in Japan from 01/23 to 01/30 (or 02/01 by the time she’s back). CMLL.com says Marcela and Hiroka are going as well.
– Pirata Morgan reminds us that the eye patch is not a work, he really has one eye. But he also explains he’s strengthened that one eye so much, he has perfect peripheral vision. That’s why he’s the best in the world.
– Pirata Morgan has a hot daughter, which just boggles my mind. Perla Negra is training (apparently while not wearing much if you believe these pictures), but not yet wrestling.
– Perro Aguayo Jr. tells everyone who think the Perros are cooling off to shut up. Okay. (Guess they’re cooling off.)
– Rambo talks about the saddest day in his life; the day his father died.
– Arena Queretaro celebrates 24 years of lucha libre.

Villano III chats with Box Y Lucha on 01/23 at 2:00pm.

In today’s Ovaciones, Coco Rojo and Super Muneco hype up this weekend’s VIP show by talking about having a mask match…sometime later. For now, it’ just a singles match.

WWE pushed it’s Mexico tour back a week.

03/22 (THU) Mexico City
03/23 (FRI) Mexico City
03/24 (SAT) Chihuahua (not Tijuana)
03/25 (SUN) Monterrey

…so CMLL is totally running the week before. I wonder what they’ll do in a Arena Coliseo Monterrey that week.

Tickets range between $23 up to $183 US. I think Chris Benoit is the biggest lucha libre name value draw included in the list of people on this tour (subject to change); Chavo’s there too, but he hasn’t had much of a Mexican career. They’re going after a different fanbase, so maybe that’ll be fine, but it didn’t seem like things were strong enough last time to do two shows in the same city. Rey Mysterio is not listed as participating at this time.

Sunday is Brazo de Plata’s 30 year anniversary of starting his lucha libre career.

01/15: Coliseo, Neza, Merida, Warner

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cmll.com

CMLL (SUN) 01/14 Arena Coliseo Results [cmll, ova]
1) Bracito de Oro, Mini Olimpico b Mini Mr. Aguila, Sombrita
2) Flash, Sensei, Super Nova b Artillero, Super Comando, Zayco
3) Dr. X, Hooligan, Mr. Mexico b Mascara Purpura, Tony Rivera, Virus
4) Lizmark, Mictlan, Satanico DQ Emilio Charles Jr., Okumura, Pierroth
5) Dr. Wagner Jr., Mistico, Volador Jr. b Averno, Mephisto, Universo 2000

I think you know the main event finish. Semimain saw the first two falls go to count outs, and Pierroth fake a foul in the third fall but get caught. Please don’t let that match make TV, thanks.

On the same day, Averno beat Mistico in Arena Neza to retain the CMLL Middleweight Championship. They’ve been pushing Los Rayo Tapatios strong as a local tag team there since CMLL took it back over (again.)

Reyes del Ring (SUN) 01/14 Poliforum Zamna de Merida Results [el halcon]
1) Estrella de Fuego, Misterio Maya b Fuego Infernal, Haragan
2) Halcon Rojo, Halcon Rojo Jr., Lobo Salvaje b Amenaza Roja, Angelito Vengador, Cobra Man
3) El Fantasma, Linda Warrior b El Hijo de Hanibal, Linda Star
4) Villano III, Villano IV b Groon XXX, Hijo del Solitario
5) Hijo del Santo, Latin Lover b Blue Demon Jr., Shocker

Villano III and Hijo del Solitario agreed to a hair/mask match, but we’ll see if it happens.

Warner and CMLL are working together to produce some CMLL cartoons and comics, feature guys like Los Perros, Mistico, and the Guerreros. They’ll start appearing in March, and they say you’ll be able to buy them over the internet. (Esto)

Mundo De Hoy has a preview of the CMLL VIP show this Saturday and an interview with the promoters. They’ve got the familiar story of wanting to be luchadores, training and their parents not liking the idea, but the unfamiliar twist of actually listening to their parents.

Magazines
– Luchas 2000 #351 has Perro Aguayo Jr.
– Super Luchas #195 has an interview with Nicho