03/22: IWRG, Toreo, Mistico, Wagner, Juvi, Dos Leyenda, lineups

IWRG (SAT) 03/14 Arena Xochimilco [SuperLuchas #307]
1) Mixteco Jr. b Goleador
2) Galactik & Miss Gaviota b Avisman & Vampiro Metalico
3) Black Terry, Cerebro Negro, Dr. Cerebro b Multifacetico, Trauma I, Trauma II
4) Solar I, Super Astro, Ultraman Jr. DQ Arlequin, Hijo de Pierroth (IWRG), Pierroth II
5) Mascara Ano 2000 Jr. b Scorpio Jr. [Rey del Ring]

New champ. Scorpio had MA2K Jr. done in a half crab, but both he and the refree were distracted by Hijo de Pierroth (Mascara’s second) beating up Multifacetico (Scorpio’s second) on the outside. Scropio let go, Mascara snuck in a foul and pinned him for the win. DQ in the semimain was for Pierroth II yanking Solar’s mask.

El Toreo (WED) 03/18 Arena Lopez Mateos [SuperLuchas #307]
1) Sombra Escarlata & Spider Boy b Mr. Flama & Sol de Oriente
2) Azabache Negro, Rey Cobra, Sismo b Black Man II, Falcon, Flecha (Skayde)
3) Romano Garcia b Danny Boy [hair]
4) Robin Hood Jr. & Super Panda b Epitafio & Terry 2000
5) Canek b Cibernetico [#1 Contenders, UWA HEAVY]
6) Dos Caras Sr., Killer Jr., Sicodelico Sr. DQ Villano III, Villano IV, Villano V

Mil was supposed to be in the main event, but was angry about something – I think the article says about not being in the main event, which doens’t make sense – and walked out of the building before his match (walking in front of the crowd to make sure they knew he showed.) Doesn’t look like this bit is drawing sell outs any more, at least not this night. Villano V yanked Dos’ mask for a DQ.

It took Cibernetico being accidentally hit by his second (Killer Jr.) and being fouled by Canek for him to lose here. That’s actually not as much as I’d thought.

Again, fighting between the seconds (Robin Hood Jr. and Rocky Santana) allowed Romano to sneak in a piledriver on Danny Boy for the win.

SuperLuchas #307 also has a big interview with Mistico. Besides the usual “I’d like to face whoever win the mask match” bit, Mistico also notes that when he was in Japan and CMLL did a Sombra/Volador vs Averno/Mephisto tag title match, it was a poor house. Mistico wants more people to be stars, but feels he should get more credit for how much he means and how hard he works. Mistico feels like he’s winning the crowd back little by little this year (though that didn’t seem to be case Friday night.) This interview is totally worth going out of you way to read for yourself.

IWRG (THU) 03/19 Arena Naucalpan
5) Dr. Wagner Jr., Fuerza Guerrera, Zatura b Hijo de Pierroth (IWRG), Mascara ANo 2000 Jr., Oficial 911

Give him credit – Dr. Wagner indeed made this show. The usual trend for guys who join one of the big 2 is to promise they’ll still be doing all their independent bookings when the press is there, and then quickly bail on them. (Silver King and Super Porky come to mind.) Lots of respect for Wagner if he’s breaking that tend.

Coincidentally, Wagnermania has Wagner cutting a promo on website commenters critical of him joining AAA. Dr. Wagner Jr. is a YouTube shooter, which can only mean the world is coming to an end. The Gladiatores have their own interview with Dr. Wagner about current effects.

Didn’t occur to me last night, but there was no Wagner angle on Friday’s AAA taping despite one being obviously set up in Madero. AAA is now listing Wagner’s self promoted shows, which are now using AAA talent.

The other news not exactly mentioned on luchalibreaaa.com is a backstage incident with Juvi, at least if you’re willing to believe his story in Record. “The leader of the Mexican Powers” (that’s what the article says) tells Record that he went out for his match, and came back to find his bag filled with human waste. Juvi went to Jack Evans to accuse him of doing it, when Konnan attacked him and Jack joined in. Juvi claims he’s got a broken nose, and bruises on his face and body.

This is surely the same story Lizzy Valentine is referring to on her mySpace page when talking about leaving AAA. This is also all Juvi’s side of the story, and his history of telling tall tales makes it really hard to take anything he says at face value – there’s definitely more going on here. (FWIW, Jack was in Juvi’s match, and still in the ring when Juvi escaped the cage, so Juvi really could really stand to improve his sleuthing abilities.)

However, the general public (and the press) are probably going to be unaware of Juvi’s history and this story looks really bad for AAA if it gets picked up in more places. It really depends on how far the story gets, but it’s tough to spin the leader of the wrestlers taking part in a two on one mugging and there’s probably some public punishment coming if this gets taken seriously. Also, whomever gave to okay to hire Juvi back inside the company (not Konnan!) is probably not too thrilled with it going so bad so quick.

Short term, Juvi’s done in AAA. I’d assume Ultimo Gladiador takes his spot in the cruiserweight tournament. Ultimo Gladiador seems to be a good dude, but no one’s been as quite as fortunate with absences as he has in AAA – he got started their with Crazy Boy’s injury and has gotten to hang around and better spots because of Juvi’s flakiness (and Super Crazy not coming in.)

Dos Leyenda follow up stories:

Villano V says he never even considered he was going to lose, and was hoping to main event a third straight anniversary show. He vows to continue fighting.

Ultimo Guerrero wants Villano IV to finish the Villanos off. UG credits Blue Panther with coming up with the idea to use the toque universal to pin Villano in the end, and goes as far as dedicating the win to Panther.

– ESPNDeportes restates the point that Villano IV is and will be the last masked Villano standing; they’ve told their sons to create their identities and not take their names (just as they did with their father Ray Mendoza), so there’ll be no Villano VI coming.

– Televisa Deportes picture comes along with tons of pictures

– I was wrong – Accion indeed has video of this match tonight. If ever one needed to understand the difference between the two promotions, this was a good two minutes for you – CMLL had a huge match decided by an abdominal stretch cradle, and this was followed by Chessman/Mesias in a cage using light tubes, and walking above the cage on barbed wire cords. Are they really both promoting the same lucha libre?

Box Y Lucha posted a truck load of articles Friday morning, none of which I saw until much later because Google Reader decided not to show new articles in half my feeds. (I think I fixed it, but who knows. As always, if I miss something worth reading, let me know.) There’s so many of them, I’m not going to write as much about them, but that doesn’t mean they’re not interesting.

They’ve got La Parka Jr. telling LA Park to get over it already and complaining about not being nominated for the the Televisa luchador award (he thought the idea was for the nominees to just be Mexican)

Dos Caras Jr. explaining his teased rudo turn was resolved off camera (everyone’s friends again, hooray), Axel talking the end of his CMLL sting much like in his SuperLuchas interview, Dark Angel talking about her trip to Japan (and not TNA, yet), Star Fire talking about her short career so far (totally wins me over in one interview, I’m a sucker), Sombrita and Mascara Dorada talking about the Puebla cage match, and Juanito Diaz, lightweight champion of the 60s. There’s also columns on Solar/Negro Navarro, Villano III on backstage fights (how timely!) and history pieces on Angel Azteca. Plus, a couple look back at Ultimo Guerrero‘s career, as if teasing a major change this past Friday.

An editoral in El Siglo de Torreon complains about the quality of libre referring. For some odd reason, they don’t think referee Viruta getting caught in the moment and doing a top rope plancha onto the wrestlers shows much impartiality.

LuchaWorld has Robert on the 12/08-9 and 12/15-16 CMLL MVS Shows, as well as KrisZ‘s news update.

Lineups

IWRG (THU) 03/26 Arena Naucalpan
1) Garra de Aguila vs Keshin Black
2) Galactik & Mascara Magnifica vs Carta Brava Jr. & Mixteco Jr.
3) Fantastik, Freelance, Turbo vs Black Terry, BLack Thunder, Capitan Muerte
4) Head Hunter I, Head Hunter II, Veneno vs Arlequin, Hijo de Pierroth (IWRG), Pierroth II
5) Fuerza Guerrera vs Oficial 911 [IWRG IC WELTER]

911 lost, will get a title shot. OKAY. Turbo and Black Thunder appear to have become regulars here (as much as anyone who’s not a core guy is a regular.)

IWRG (SAT) 03/28 Arena Xochimilco
1) Garra de Aguila vs Comando Negro
2) Eragon & Latin Brother vs Carta Brava Jr. & Vampiro Metalico
3) Mascarita Sagrada & Octagoncito I vs Espectrito de Ultratumba & Piratita Morgan
4) Negro Navarro, Trauma I, Trauma II vs Black Terry, Cerebro Negro, Dr. Cerebro
5) Dr. Wagner Jr. & Universo 2000 vs Hijo de Pierroth (IWRG) & Mascara Ano 2000 Jr. [relevos sucidas]
6) ? vs ?? [mask]

Actually, I’m taking a leap and assuming they’re doing the final on this show, but the tag match is solicated as a relevos suicidas. Pretty clear favorite to lose of the four.

CMLL (SUN) 03/29 Arena Coliseo
1) Rayo Tapatio I & Rayo Tapatio II vs Cholo & Zayco
2) Dark Angel, Marcela, Sahori vs Amapola, Princesa Sujei, Rosa Negra
3) Hijo del Fantasma, Mictlan, Sagrado vs Ephesto, Lizmark Jr., Terrible
4) Blue Panther, Dos Caras Jr., Mistico vs Heavy Metal, Mr. Niebla, Negro Casas

Been racking my brain all day, trying to figure out what the bonus match is. There’s no feud that I can think of – the show two weeks ago has little to do wtih the today’s show (thanks to all the subs.) One of Bam Bam, Pierrothito, Sombra or Sangre Azteca is probably defending their title here, if it’s at all being set up tonight. Feels like it could just be a typo.

CHOLO! Getting worried about him for a bit. Speaking of MIA guys, anyone seen Mascara Purpura lately? No matches in the last month, since the lightning match in Puebla.

CMLL (SUN) 03/29 Arena Coliseo Guadalajara
1) Katana & Malefico vs Angel del Mal & Infierno [Torneo Tanque Dantes]
2) Palacio Negro & Samurai vs Leon Blanco & Thunder Boy [Torneo Tanque Dantes]
3) Boomerang & Gallo vs Acertijo & Mr. Trueno [Torneo Tanque Dantes]
4) Maximo, Sagrado, Valiente vs Black Warrior, Dragon Rojo Jr., Sangre Azteca
5) a replacement for Toscano, Hector Garza, Shocker vs Atlantis, Rey Bucanero, Ultimo Guerrero

Toscano’s booked like normal this week, but can’t make any of those shows. Warrior continues to work in GDL. That’s round 4 of the torneo, and I’m sure I’ll do a breakdown of the tournament later (so you know there’s a post coming to skip.)

03/07: Mexico, Puebla

CMLL (FRI) 03/06 Arena Mexico [ESTO, Ovaciones]
1) MolotovSenseiArtilleroSuper Comando
2) AmapolaHirokaPrincesa BlancaDark AngelLluviaMarcela
3) Angel de PlataTiger Kid [lightning]
4) FelinoMisterioso IITexano Jr. DQ MaximoMetroValiente
5) TerribleVillano IVVillano VAtlantisBlue PantherUltimo Guerrero
6) Dos Caras Jr.Hector GarzaShockerBlack WarriorMr. NieblaNegro Casas

Both papers seem to think the tecnico group in the main event wasn’t doing much good – ESTO says Dos seemed disinterested, ESTO notes Garza and Shocker weren’t getting along – but they still won. Judging from CMLL’s notes, the Dos stuff may be going somewhere, perhaps a rudo turn.

Villano V pinned UG clean and got the best of him for most of the match.

Texano faked a foul from Maximo in the tercera.

The women’s match was said to be one of the best on the show.

CMLL (FRI) 03/06 Arena Puebla [eric @ box y lucha]
4) Sombrita L Mascarita Dorada, Pequeño Ninja, Pequeño Olímpico, Fantasy, Eléctrico, Tzuki, Bracito de Oro, Último Dragoncito, Sauron, Pierrothito, Pequeño Warrior, Pequeño Universo 2000, Asturiano [cage, mask]

Just like the last cage match, this one came down to Pierrothito, Dorada, and the loser. This time, Pierrothito escaped and Dorada has to defend his mask. He did, beating Sombrita. Sombrita was unmasked as Javier Tutl Roldan, 20 years a wrestler, originally from Puebla.

AAA announced yesterday that Shiima Xion would be joining the group. Xion worked the DTU show at last year’s Lucha Libre Exo, so that’s probably the connection. This signing seems to disagree with the WON’s recent reporting of AAA freezing new hiring until the summer. (Though it did get a lot warmer here yesterday!) I can’t imagine more than 1% of AAA’s fanbase knows who Shiima Xion is, but according to his wikipedia page, he’s a AAA fan from way back so yay for that.

EXOnline has an interview with Mike Brown of WEC, visiting Arena Mexico.

Another preview of EAW‘s next show.

CMLL (TUE) 03/10 Arena Mexico
1) Rayo Tapatio II & Sensei vs Puma King & Tiger Kid
2) Electrico, Shockercito, Ultimo Dragoncito vs Fire, Pequeno Warrior, Pierrothito
3) Euforia, Nosferatu, Shigeo Okumura vs Flash, Pegasso, Stuka Jr.
4) Mascara Dorada, Mictlan, Sagrado vs Dragon Rojo Jr., Felino, Sangre Azteca
5) Hector Garza, Hijo del Fantasma, Volador Jr. vs Black Warrior, Lizmark Jr., Mr. Niebla

Hey, Fire. Just talking about you. No sign of Sombrita this week.

CMLL (FRI) 03/13 Arena Mexico
1) Sombra de Plata & Trueno vs Apocalipsis & Inquisidor
2) Hooligan, Loco Max, Polvora vs Angel Azteca Jr., Pegasso, Rey Cometa
3) Mascarita Dorada vs Pequeno Warrior [lightning]
4) Maximo, Metro, Sagrado vs Misterioso II, Terrible, Texano Jr.
5) Atlantis, Blue Panther, Ultimo Guerrero vs Averno, Mephisto, Villano V
6) Dos Caras Jr., Mistico, Shocker vs Heavy Metal, Mr. Niebla, Negro Casas

Top 2 build for next week’s big matches, thought it’s odd to be in that order. Third match builds to the GDL match, though it’s in the FOX/LATV slot and wouldn’t air until after their hair match.

CMLL (SUN) 03/15 Arena Mexico
1) Molotov & Trueno vs Caligula & Messala
2) Fabian el Gitano, Flash, Stuka Jr. vs Arkangel de la Muerte, Loco Max, Skandalo
3) Dark Angel, Lady Apache, Marcela vs Hiroka, Princesa Blanca, Rosa Negra
4) Hijo del Fantasma, Mictlan, Sagrado vs Ephesto, Lizmark Jr., Rey Bucanero
5) Blue Panther, Hector Garza, La Mascara vs Averno, Mephisto, Mr. Niebla

Right now, there’s no title match, but one might note everyone to have a title match is scheduled to be there, in case events this Sunday cause one to be set up. This is a pretty run of the mill show otherwise.

While you’re waiting for CMLL to come on at 3, Alfredo posted Rey Hechicero vs Valinete.

03/20 CMLL Arena Mexico Lineup (Dos Leyendas)

CMLL (FRI) 03/20 Arena Mexico [ESTO]
1) Pequeño Olímpico, Shockercito, Ultimo Dragoncito vs Pequeno Violencia, Pequeno Warrior, Pierrothito
2) Blue Panther, Sagrado, Toscano vs Averno, Ephesto, Mephisto
3) Hector Garza, Hijo del Fantasma, La Mascara vs Black Warrior, Dragon Rojo Jr., Sangre Azteca
4) Dos Caras Jr., Shocker, Volador Jr. vs Atlantis, Mr. Niebla, Rey Bucanero
5) Negro Casas vs Mistico [CMLL WELTER]
6) Villano V vs Ultimo Guerrero [mask]

What did I say?

By the way, there’s very little chance SuperLucha’s expected Dos Leyendas card (including these trios titles against the other trios titles in unification match) coming thru. Even the welterweight title match tease is unlikely, or more likely another day – that’s the usual method of CMLL chain yanking.

Yea, I don’t know what I’m talking about. Point for SuperLuchas.

On the actual card:

– I’m not really sure they did it wrong, but – CMLL’s spent the period before the mask match and the period since the mask match pushing Blue Panther much harder than Villano V. Yet, six months down the line, Panther’s in a random segunda and V5 is headlining the show.

– If CMLL believed Ultimo Guerrero vs Villano V would sell out, they wouldn’t have Negro Casas & Mistico on the same show. Probably no coincidence that feud showed up just as they went away from the tag main event.

– Even if it’s a not a title match – and it’s not listed as such, perhaps because at least one of those teams will have a title defense before then – why put a meaningless trios match ahead of it on the card? Matches 2 and 4 are just about getting guys a slice of the payday. So is the champion vs champion match, unless they plan on following it up, but they could at least protect it as meaningful a little better.

– Happy for the minis to make it on here. That should be good, and a few other matches could be, if that’s what they’re looking for. I don’t know that they put together a card of excellent matches but for the general fans who just want to see the stars, they look to be giving enough. Tickets don’t go on sale until tomorrow, and hopefully they go fast enough that CMLL feels safe putitng his on PPV.

Ultimo Guerrero vs Villano V to face in a mask vs mask match on March 20th

8:30pm: Update at the end of the poast

That’s your Dos Leyendas main event. I’m not sure if that was the plan all along, or if Villano III cost himself (and Blue Panther) this pay day by opting to do the hair match with Scorpio Jr. this weekend in Arena Neza, but CMLL announced a straight singles one on one match for the masks. Tickets go on sale next week.

The talk, when V5 beat Blue Panther, is that V5 would ultimately lose his mask in turn to build up a young wrestler. If you believe that talk, Ultimo Guerrero does not exactly fit the bill as a young wrestler. (On the other hand, one could say V5’s importance has been so diminished, it’s not the boost beating Panther would’ve been for anyone else.)

If Ultimo beats Villano 5, then I think we can definitely say we would’ve preferred this sequence of events to be Ultimo taking Blue Panther’s mask and anyone taking Villano 5’s. But, we need to keep on saying if, because CMLL’s shown they’ll do silly things just to do the surprise.

Other notes from the press conference
– Dragon Rojo Jr. has a new mask. No picture yet, but I’m sure we’ll see it soon.

– Hector Garza is starting a tecnico midcard group again. This time, it’s Angel de Oro, Angel de Plata, Angel Azteca Jr. and Metro. Hmm, who doesn’t belong? Maybe we can call him Angel de Diario.

No one remembers this, but the Angels were actually in Hector’s group last year – they were introduced as Angel I & Angel II at the time. Anyway, no idea if this is supposed to be a separate undercard act or if they’ve forgotten Hijo del Fantasma and La Mascara.

Since Mistico doesn’t like Garza, maybe now he can be free to complain that giving guys “Angel de Plata” and “Angel de Oro” gimmicks is totally ripping off and marganilizing his identity. They really seem like Martha Villalobos knock off Mistico characters than CMLL ones.

Update (1): Box Y Lucha’s take on the press conference does clarify that Hijo del Fantasma and La Mascara are supposed to be part of Hector’s group.

In big news somehow lost in the shuffle, Misterioso II was announced as a new member of Hijos del Averno.  We’re down to just Virus, Vangelis, Okumura and Lizmark Jr. as unaligned notable rudos in CMLL.

02/18: Mexico, Perros del Mal jumps, Dos Leyenda

CMLL (TUE) 02/17 Arena Mexico [ESTO]
1) ArtilleroSuper ComandoRayo Tapatio IRayo Tapatio II
2) Angel Azteca Jr.Angel de OroAngel de PlataArkangel de la MuerteHooliganSkandalo
3) La SeductoraPrincesa BlancaPrincesa SujeiLluviaMarcelaSahori
4) Dragon Rojo Jr.FelinoSangre AztecaHijo del FantasmaMascara DoradaValiente 5) La MascaraShockerVolador Jr. DQ Heavy MetalNegro CasasUltimo Guerrero

Heavy Metal replaced Mr. Niebla. Main event came down to Shocker and UG. Ultimo fouled Shocker and faked his own foul, and the refs actually DQed the right person for once. Ultimo did retain the heavyweight title over Garza in Puebla on Monday, but Shocker made a challenge for it after this match (and Dos is still waiting for his match.) Ultimo made the same “beat me in a singles match and you’ll get a title match” bit.

Nothing much for the rest of this show.

Pequeno Halloween, Mr. Aguilita, and (Pequeno) Cosmico have jumped to Perros del Mal, according to an interview with ESTO. The other Halloween was also formerly introduced as a members of the promotion. Perro and Damian made a point of saying they were no calling guys up to recruit, but these guys had come to them looking for work.

Mini Halloween and Mr. Aguilita (who just worked Sunday) leaving while Pequeno Damian stays breaks up the Mini Familia de Tijuana/Mini Perros del Mal, one of the funnest groups of the last 18 months. The division had moved on to the Pierrothito/Warrior/Violencia group of rudos, and with as few minis matches that make the shows per week, it makes a lot of sense to move on if you’ve got a chance to get move bookings. It’ll be sad to see them go to the land of limited TV exposure.

Cosmico was barely used by CMLL. He hasn’t been on a show since the cage match. Before the lead up to that, he hadn’t been used since the lightweight tournament in September. So it’s hard to say he’ll be missed when no one realized he wasn’t around.

Meanwhile, in Reforma, Perro Aguayo Jr. sets up some simple ground rules for a mask vs hair match with El Hijo del Santo. Just two small requests:

1) it must happen on a Perros del Mal show
2) Santo must take the mask of Blue Demon Jr. or Dr. Wagner Jr. or LA Park to prove he’s on Perro Jr.’s level

Just say “no”, Perro, it’ll be a lot quicker.

CMLL.com announced the Dos Leyenda show (03/20) will honor Salvador Lutteroth (as it does every year) and Cavernario Galindo.

Televisa is doing it’s annual sports awards, including luchador of the year. WWE airing on Televisa has solved the problem of “how do you chose 3 guys from 2 promotions.” This year’s candidates are John Cena, Mesias, and Blue Panther. Right now, Cena and Mesias are about even on web voting, but Cena is blowing everyone away on cell phone voting. Also, did you know Villano V actually beat Blue Panther? Little trivia there for you.

Speaking of, Milenio has a column which briefly mentions Villano V is upset with CMLL. V5’s said to feel he was ignored after his mask win, pushed off to the side, and so he’s not responding to the idea of a rematch with Panther (or the double stip with UG and V3.) After the mask match, V5 only appeared 4 more times in Arena Mexico the rest of the year (though he’s been on a lot early this year as they’ve started the program back up.)

On el Martinete, rabano enmascarado posted photos and results from a AAA show in Poza Rica. I don’t know how many people they can fit in that building (3000? 4000?) but it looks packed.

Ovaciones’ big story is about CMLL mounting a campaign against tuberculois, with a press confrence tommorow. Atlantis is the guy in charge, and will go to schools to speak about it.

The other story that seems to be posted everywhere today is Arkangel and others going over to Nitro’s house to visit him. I don’t know why this is news; persumbably they didn’t wait a month to check in on him after hurting his knee. If there’s some angle coming out of this, then that’s news and I guess it is nice to remind people that Nitro still exists.

Mr. Reyes posted photos of last weekend’s Neza show over on his mySpace. Nice bit of Scorpio Jr. and Villano III signing a clipboard to make their (teased) hair match more offical than the usual empty challenges.

Etecetra has a genreal article on Titans en el Ring.

ESPNDeportes writes about the UWE cage match. Even though Mano Negra lost, he does not concede deficiet, which kinda renders the whole thing a bit pointless.

Guerreros del Ring #178 has the Hijos del Averno on the cover.

Box Y Lucha #2910 has Charly Manson on the cover and also has a “Super Crazy says he’s not going to AAA!” article. We’ll see tonight.

Ohtani’s Jacket looks thru some Lizmark in AAA and Peste Negra vs Sagrado/Mascara/Volador from Puebla.

But what a sorry bunch of technicos. They all look the same, they wrestle the same and I don’t know how I’m supposed to tell them apart. If it were up to me, I’d shoot the lot.

02/07: Mexico, GDL, Puebla

CMLL (FRI) 02/06 Arena Mexico [Ovaciones, Alan in the comments!]
1) Molotov & Sensei b Artillero & Súper Comando
2) Angel de Oro, Angel de Plata, Metálico b Arkangel de la Muerte, Hooligan, Loco Max
3) Astro Boy b Calígula [lightning]
4) Bam Bam, Mascarita Dorada, Shockercito b Pequeño Violencia, Pequeño Warrior, Pierrothito
5) Terrible, Villano III, Villano V DQ Misterioso II, Rey Bucanero, Último Guerrero
6) Atlantis, Heavy Metal, Negro Casas b La Sombra, Místico, Volador Jr.

Mr. Niebla did end up missing the main event after Thursday’s car accident. Hope he’s doing well. Heavy Metal replaced him, and the rudos won and challenged for the tag team titles as you’d expect, except I’m not so sure which two it’s supposed to be now (since it clearly was Negro/Niebla last week.)

Villano’s team took the semimain in straight falls. They won the first and were going after UG’s mask in the second when Blue Panther ran in thru the crowd and fouled V5. Brawl continued from there. When it was settled down, both sides seemed to agree on a V3/V5 vs Panther/UG double hair/mask match for 03/20. Yes, they appear to be setting a main event for a big show *7* weeks in advance. Must’ve been an awesome planning session over the holidays.

CMLL (FRI) 02/06 Arena Coliseo Guadalajara [ESTO, mt, CaNek-TaPaTiO @ box y lucha]
1) Metal Blanco & Metatron b Mr. Trueno & Rey Trueno
2) Mr. Aguilita, Pequeño Damian 666, Pequeño Halloween b Boomerang, Meteoro, Virgo
3) Ephesto & Mephisto b Mascara Dorada & Stuka Jr.
4) Black Warrior, Dragon Rojo Jr., Sangre Azteca b Máximo, Sagrado, Shocker
5) Medussa L Princesa Blanca, Lady Apache, Amapola, Mima Shimoda, Sahori, Dark Angel, Goddess, Hiroka, Marcela, La Nazi [cage, hair]

Order of escape was Goddess, Mima, Sahoria, La Nazi, Marcela, Hiroka, Dark Angel. This left Lady Apache versus Amapola, Princesa Blanca, and Medussa. Rudas beat Apache for a while. Amapola left, leaving the other two to bumble there way into letting Lady Apache escape. Blanca blocked a Medussa casita and got one of her own for the win. Blanca wins a hair and a title in 8 days.

Warrior got the pin on Shocker in the third fall of the semimain thru a foul.

No results from the Perros show yet, but posts & photos on the box y lucha board say Super Crazy turned on the tecnicos and joined the Perros.

More Santo links:

– El Hijo del Santo was in Tulancingo on Friday for festivities there. Locals plan on opening a Santo/lucha libre museum in time for CMLL’s 76th Anniversary.

– Santo rival Bobby Lee discusses his feud with Santo.

Kcidis’s cartoon is about the year of the championship.

CMLL (SAT) 02/07 Arena Puebla
1) King Jaguar & SWAT vs Karisma & Mr. Rafaga
2) Black Tiger (Puebla) & Tigre Rojo vs Fuerza Chicana & Siki Ozama Jr.
3) Mascarita Dorada vs Shockercito, Bam Bam, Último Dragoncito, Pequeño Olímpico, Pequeño Damian 666, Pierrothito, Pequeño Halloween, Mr. Aguilita, Pequeño Warrior [Mini Reyes de Aire, cibernetico]
4) Euforia, Nosferatu, Virus vs Mascara Dorada, Máximo, Tony Rivera
5) Blue Panther, Hijo del Fantasma, Shocker vs Ephesto, Terrible, Texano Jr.

Outside the minis cibernetico, this is just an ordinary card. That’s atypical for these fan appreciation shows.

CMLL (MON) 02/09 Arena Puebla
1) Toro Bill Jr. & Toro Bill Sr. vs Aguila Guerrera & Karisma
2) Asturiano, Leono, Pegasso vs Ares, Hooligan, Policeman
3) Angel de Oro, Angel de Plata, Fabián el Gitano vs Arkangel de la Muerte, Loco Max, Skandalo
4) La Máscara, Sagrado, Valiente vs Black Warrior, Dragon Rojo Jr., Sangre Azteca
5) Mr. Niebla, Rey Bucanero, Último Guerrero vs Dos Caras Jr., Héctor Garza, Marco Corleone

This card is about as good, so I don’t know who’s going to go to both of these. (Probably not enough to make a difference.) First time Hooligan’s been here since November.

WagnerMania has video of Wagner vs Lyger from 1996.

Lineups when they show up.