CMLL Line - 07/06/02 (#41)

Thanks to: Robert Ortega for the original format.

Vignette: Mascara Magica and Shocker try to convince Giant Silva to join them in a new Guapo trio. Silva says he's not that guapo. Magica says they'll be his partners - Silva says he's a giant, he doesn't need partners. If I was Silva, I'd point out that Shocker's good buddy Apolo isn't really Silva's friend, but Silva rethinks the guapo offer again. Anyway, they apparently agree enough for this match, and Shocker quotes someone. Silva's acting is as good as his wrestling.

Notes: Wagner talks to the announcers when the match is supposed to be starting, but no one seems in any hurry anyway.   Shocker gives Wagner a back elbow on the apron, but it's a minute in and we haven't really started yet. Time for more crowd shots. Will it be Shocker and Emilio? No, Shocker wants to yelling at Wagner some more - they end up facing each other on the floor, but nothing happens. The other rudos get bored (I'm guessing) and punk out Magica - Silva's on the apron, waiting patiently. Now Silva and Wagner are exchanging slaps on the outside - they go in and the numbers the the best of Shocker. Magica too - it's 4 on 2 with Silva standing in the corner and asking for a tag. Magica gets a corner whip and corner clothesline from Universo. Double team gutbuster by the Capos. Shocker is beat in the aisle by Wagner. Clothesline for Magica. Elbow drop for Magica. Whip, Universo with a powerslam on Magica but no cover. Rudos celebrate the 3 on 1. Magica gets worked some more - Wagner is back, Shocker is still down.  Now Shocker is back up so Wagner goes on to beat him some more. Triple Boot for Magica. Shocker manages to post Wagner and has him reeling after some strikes, but then he goes back in the ring and that's the end of that. Silva gets s a tag but I guess it wasn't supposed to happen like that because Silva's told it's not a tag. Ah, Silva missed holding on - in a really preposterous looking spot premiered last week, Silva plays tug of war with the rudos, with Shocker as the rope. The point is that Silva is stronger than three rudos. All four? No, but the rudos wipe themselves out pulling so hard, so there goes that. Silva's in. He's posing an awful lot. Big right for Wagner. Dueling muscle posies with Emilio and we miss what happens there. Mascara tries and gets no sold. Off the ropes, under a clothesline, into a back elbow. Splash, one two Universo must break. Slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, big slap by Silva and that's over. Slam for Universo, elbow drop, splash. One two they're a little late breaking it up. Silva is stomped out of the ring because we've got more time to kill. Emilio with a shoulderblock for Magica, off the ropes, into an armdrag. Emilio up and hitting a clothesline. Corner whip, reversed, Magica put on the top rope, slap blocked and Magica hits an armdrag. Emilio up, but runs into a spinebuster, than the running sit on the leg. Emilio out, Wagner in, Shocker in. Emilio tries to claim that was  low blow legdrop, but no dice. Wagner off the ropes, into a big boot. Shocker special but Wagner pushes off the bulldog, then a hard sliding dropkick to the back of the head! Wagner tries hitting Shocker with his own bulldog, but Shocker pushes him off. Dropkick misses, and Wagner grabs a leg - quick enziguri. Wagner is stunned falls out of the ring, but not far enough so Shocker only teases a dive. Magica vs Mascara now - Mascara practicing his Santo technique of reversing everything to an armdrag. Oh, that's over. There were a lot of armdrags I didn't feel the need to mention. Universo taunts all the tecnicos, so everyone comes after him - Silva chases him outside and inside the ring while the others start to fight. Silva gives up and goes back to his corner. Shocker and Magica are whipped into each other. Magica's whipped into Shocker, but Shocker backdrops him on the apron, then sidesteps a Emilio clothesline so Magica can sock him. Shocker covers, Wagner tries the elbow drop but Shocker moves out of the way and Emilio gets it, then Magica slingshot Emilio. Shocker off the ropes - assisted high double dropkick, then Magica gets an assisted high pescado followed by Shocker's double jump plancha. Both capos now take it to Silva in the ring, and they try to pull him from both sides, but he's so strong, he runs them into each other. Setting them up for the big splash - top rope falling splash hits one two three. The key was Silva was obviously no Apolo to deal with. This was okay considering but nothing I'd go out of my way to see.

Notes: Joined in progress? Why? Who knows. We show up in time for the last fall. Ultimo and Casas exchange slaps on the floor, than the apron, and finally they're in the ring. More open hand slaps. I guess that one was a chop. Ultimo takes a shortcut, then a headlock, now they're not sure what they're doing. Okay, Casas gets the headlock, off the ropes, monkey flip is blocked (!) and placed down but it doesn't matter because Casas trips up Ultimo anyway. Casas off the ropes, dropkick to the knee by Ultimo is kinda sold, Ultimo's right is blocked and there's that reverse DDT he likes so much lately. Rolling to make a tag - he makes it to Lizmark, though Rey gets a shot into this back anyway. I guess Rey got tagged in. Rey suckers Lizmark to turn his back to the GdI corner, and of course Tarzan Boy is into attack from behind. Felino gets a free shot on the apron. Forearms for Lizmark, then Rey's over for chops. There's the lift, and thee running assisted splash on from Rey. Casas is tried and beat - his turn to take the splash, but this never works twice in a row. Sure enough, Casas escapes well in time and yet, Rey jumps anyway and kinda deserves to land on the ropes. Tecnicos in for revenge - Casas with a big headbutt on Rey - no, don't show that angle of his punches. Felino with a powerslam of Ultimo on the aisle, which we almost miss. Lizmark is working over Rye's face. Now we've slowed back down - Tecnicos have given up the comeback for one on one. Lizmark chopping Tarzan Boy. Whip, reversed, Tarzan is slow to realize what happened, then charges, only to get a drop toe hold on the second rope. Lizmark charges in to a double boot. Tarzan charges out to a powerslam - one two no. You know, if you're ever a wrestler, I'd avoid the whole charging thing. Did Lizmark just signal for the Razor's Edge? Well, he might have been going for that (though it kinda seemed more like a normal powerbomb) but Tarzan Boy flips out, forearms a plenty, off the ropes, into the superkick. Lizmark off the ropes, tope. He doesn't get the distance or impact power of some. Rey and Felino in - Rey hits one dropkick misses, another. Felino charges at Rey, Rey waves him by and Felino ends up sitting on the tope rope. Slaps to stun him, then Rey climbs - top rope 'rana - NO, second rope powerbomb! One two three.  Meanwhile, Ultimo is in with the dropkick to the knee for Negro Casas, but the La Majistral is escaped - Casas does it right for his rollup win. I think I just liked a Silva match better than a GdI one! The point off this all ends up being that Felino and Casas want a shot for the tag team belts (guess we know who's not gonna be around much) and Lizmark wouldn't mind a shot at Tarzan's NWA LH Title. None of those challenges are actually accepted, though.

Vignette: Well, this is supposed to be "Pierroth gets suspended by the Lucha commission for his actions the last few weeks (spraying shaving cream/mace in Markus' eyes), but Galavision oddly gives the signal that it's time for local commercials, so we have a minute break in it. You know it's a lucha commission when the guy in charge is wearing a mask. I kinda wish I knew who that was but I have no idea, even after looking through La Arena bios.

Notes: Watch Veneno dance! Anyway, no Pierroth this week because of that suspension - instead, we get the much funnier Veneno signing the National Anthem Of Puerto Rico. Or perhaps something different. I guess if the Boricuas still won without Pierroth, it would prove they're more than goons and would make Pierroth last important in this angle - I think I know where all the betting action is. Of course they get cut off in mid-song. You know, I wish OSCS hadn't mysteriously disappeared so they could compare Team Canada and the Boricuas - I think I take Veneno over Storm (controversy!), but Christian over Violencia and Test over Bulldog - but then what about Nitro and the midgets? They end up listing Violencia as the captian but they book it as if Bulldog is, so let's pretend.

The tecnicos rush the ring, which is strong fighting spirit and all, but a stupid move when there are like 7 people waiting for you. Beatdown gives me time to fill on the name section of this bracket. That's an interesting way to take a double boot - just walk into it, then slowly walk backwards out of the ring. Why is the referee hiding outside the ring? Both the referees are. It's not like the Boricuas are actually trying a pinfall here but still that's very odd. The lead rudo ref has a new shirt, that's cool. Not bad. Bulldog hasn't made an obvious mistake and Veneno nearly killed himself with that somersault body block apron dive. Bulldog no sells Poder's stuff and gives him a Baldo Bomb. Looks like they're only coming into to call the finishes. Violencia doesn't use the senton! That would be an upset in itself.  He keeps it on for as long as they'll let him, though - finally letting to when they get to a count. Veneno is thrilled to have won a fall, even though he wasn't directly responsible.

That's one hot card girl. Beatdown continues - Poder in for corner moves. Bulldog is adequate so far. Mexico's turn to get beatdown - he gets the corner clothesline and a corner splash. What do you bet they try this with Markus, but it some how backfires? Corner clothesline - ph what a shock, Veneno gets pulled in the way of Bulldog's splash. We watch Markus standing in the ring, waiting for something, for a long time before they cut to Mr. Mexico hitting a nice suicide plancha on Violencia. Bulldog takes an armdrag! Markus nearly broken his back with that bodyslam to set up the finish. Yep, they're just in to count the falls again. I wonder what's with this - must been some deal with Pierroth that I missed. Tough to get a ref bump that way. Maybe they shouldn't make Bulldog captian since he always loses. Veneno charges at Markus, but Markus grabs him in a weird position (almost as if he was going to do a kneebreaker) and eventually just dumps him. Nice slow motion on the elbow drop.

Markus and Veneno are in he ring to start the final fall - Markus quickly gets the best with a tilt-a-whirl backbreaker. Big shoulderblock nocks Veneno right of the ring. We move onto to Violencia to Mr. Mexico. Violencia off the over, under, into a monkey flip. Mexico charges, waved by, the spinning headscissors. Time for - well, Veneno again, vs Poder. They shoulderblock each other, no one goes down. Again, and this time Poder his a clothesline. Corner whip, with Poder picking him up into - well, that's almost an Olympic Slam. More of a fireman's carry into a back suplex. Will Bulldog come in now? Yes, because it's Markus. Markus with the headlock, pushed into the ropes, Bulldog adjust his mask, Markus shoulderblock to no effect. Another, still no. A third, and Markus goes down! Big splash! But he pulls him up! Elbow to the top of the head but I think you might have gotten the three there. Tag to Violencia, who's in with rights. Holding for Veneno to slap him. Maybe they should stop shouting and make sure Markus doesn't tag. Wait, it can't really count if Poder comes in the ring to tag him, can it? I guess it can. Maybe only when referees aren't in the ring. Bulldog comes into help out and that ends that run for Poder. Mr. Mexico in but we're back to beatdown stage - corner whip, Mexico turns it around with a second rope plancha but it's caught and simple body slam. Markus with a top rope plancha - Bulldog moves but Veneno takes it! No ref in to count - Bulldog has time to come off the ropes and splash Veneno when Markus moves.  Poder and Markus pull Veneno towards their corner and slowly go to work on him while we set up a Violencia/Bulldog miscommunication spot with Poder. Markus with the apron dive on Bulldog! Poder and Violencia slap it out, but Violencia's missing. I guess Veneno's in Mr. Mexico's Sharpshooter by now but hasn't yet given. Shoulderblock to stop, off the ropes and right into a powerslam. Well I guess Violencia's the captian this fall. Eh. Maybe Veneno tapped out? Let's pretend so for simplicity's sake.

I think they set up the hair/mask vs hair/mask match here - Veneno/Violencia vs Mexico/Poder, mostly due to Veneno's urging - and swearing! The real point is that Pierroth is necessary for his team's success.

Spectacular Moments - rolling Mexican surfboard! Black Warrior Tope! Takemura with the mule kick. Zumbido with the suicide senton tot he floor - Tony Rivera on the wrong end of that. And here's that improbable double DDT from last week. 

Vignette: Hmm, the back of that guy's head looks familiar. Anyway, Atlantis, Black Warrior and Mr. Niebla are dining, celebrating finally having won the CMLL Trios Titles from Wagner, Panter and Fuerza (guess we don't get to see that.) Orange juice, the drink of champions. Perhaps this is breakfast the morning after? Who will be their next challengers? They talk names. The guys at the next table start to laugh at him for some reason - and toast them - they think the Family de Tijuana might have a good shot of beating them - hey, that's Halloween and Damien with no face paint! I'm not used to that. I guess we have challengers. 

Just to straighten it out for me, Halloween and Damien run into on the next announcer talking segment to talk to their good friend, the rudo announcer and make some challenges. 

Notes: Hmm, the son challenges for the belt the father just lost. No BTW this team, although he does have hair extensions and his own Metallica entrance. Damien and Halloween's music sounds familiar but I can't place it. Champions enter separately but all under Atlantis music. Halloween's hair is shorter, that must be what threw me. This isn't a title match. I guess Nicho was busy with NWA-TNA?

Rudos jump tecnicos during introductions. We miss it till everyone's down on the tecnico side. Double whip into a double boot for Niebla. Niebla gets a corner clothesline from Juvi (who then accidentally gets in the way of Damien and Halloween) - double crotching on the post is apparently not illegal. Warrior in and trying to avoid the beatdown but you can only do that for so long. Double face first powerbomb (Juvi's staying out of the way) and that's a nice set-up for the dropkick to the face. Atlantis in, they wave Juvie over to help this time. Corner clothesline, corner clothesline, assisted corner high boot. Niebla back and taking leg kicks. And out that quick but Damien's going with him - bodyslam, then walking away? Everyone (Niebla included) is expecting some spot but the camera guy lost track of Damien - ah, he went for a folding chair, and now no one's gonna let him use it. He gets a shoulder to the gut in anyway, and brings Niebla back inside. Whipped, and a Halloween thrust kick. Jeff Hardy double low blow legdrop is also not a DQ. Warrior back in - Damien's kick gets caught, but while Warrior's holding the leg, he's opened up for a dropkick to the back of the knee. TKO by Halloween. I think he put on a Crossface to finish it but we got the absolute worst angle to see it. Replay gives us the same angle. Thanks for that.   

Fall two - Juvi poses in the ring while Halloween and Damien work on Atlantis. Now he's back in - Juvi with a back elbow and Atlantis is out quick - that was odd. That back elbow didn't look normal. Now it's a normal match with Halloween and Warrior. Halloween offers the handshake, Warrior tries a dropkick to the knee, Halloween manages to move out of the way and catch the legs - double low blow legdrop. Damien in - double whip, Damien charges in but gets post, and now the comeback is on, with all three tecnicos taking it to the rudos around the ring. Niebla hits Damien with a table because he's hardcore. Warrior hits his slingshot guillotine legdrop on the apron on Halloween - wow, not much give there. Juvi gets nailed with some foreign object, but I didn't catch which. Damien in the ring now against Atlantis - now the Family is walking out, having had enough. The fans boo and they decide they might as well finish. Damien and Atlantis exchange rights - eventually Halloween is into help. Corner whip, corner clothesline, corner I guess shoulderblock. Double corner whip, corner charge is avoided this time - Atlantis with a reverse neckbreaker on Damien. Halloween with the whip, head down too so  it gets kicked. Atlantis sets up Halloween powerbomb position, but somehow manages to throw Halloween behind in a faceslam. Kinda like that Alley-Oop move Show was doing for a couple weeks, except it's more of a release move (so Halloween can flip a time or two.) Juvi in and right into the Torture Rack. Damien tries a dropkick and gets himself caught on the ropes - right in position for another guillotine legdrop. I think the fall is over but why not count it anyway. Niebla knocks Halloween to the outside- - big pescado. 

Well, we're taking our time starting this fall, so let's look at those replays from the last fall. Ring girl. Handshake - Niebla keeps pulling his hand away slowly and Damien keeps on following, though never catching up. Halloween stops that with a chop, then they hug. Double chop. Damien, now angered, starts flailing away, and doesn't stop when Niebla moves out of the way and behind him. Slap upside the head. Niebla off eth ropes, over, by, handspring, there's an armdrag. Halloween is in to slap and take him down and change control - of course Niebla manages to take out both of the them. There's inadvertent assisted dropkick. Damien clothesline Niebla, Niebla dances. Repeat. Niebla with a clothesline but Damien ducks, poses, and gets slapped in the back of the head. Atlantis and Juvi. Handshake? No, Juvi doesn't want a handshake. Chop chop chop chop kick, corner punches? No, he's not gonna punch. Well now that he's down he will - right, corner whip, corner clothesline. Pose. Kick, corner whip, corner splash but no one's home. Atlantis with the big Monkey flip, dropkick, and Juvi goes out. Atlantis seems to be gaining speed (though Juvi is far from in position for a dive), but Halloween hits him with a forearm in the back as he goes off the ropes. Both Halloween and Damien now on, with chops. Damien holds for Halloween - off the ropes and the wrong man is clothesline out of the ring. Atlantis slides Halloween all the way out, and onto his partner. they're both slow to get up, but when they do - no, I guess Atlantis isn't gonna tope them because they're still no up yet. That's a better fakeout than usual, probably because he had to fake himself out. Halloween backing, and so made he takes off his shirt! Exchange of open hand slaps with Niebla, but Niebla makes one miss first. Whip, reverse, Niebla with a sunset flip, Halloween won't, Warrior in with a 'rana and Halloween has no choice to go that way - one broken up by Damien. Damien with a 'rana for Atlantis, no it's blocked and Warrior takes advantage to hit a dropkick to the head. Cover one two Juvi breaks it up, the knocks Atlantis out of the ring. Oh, he shouldn't have run into that tilt-a-whirl backbreaker. Powerbomb? YOU CAN'T POWERBOMB JUVI. Pumphandle faceslam, that's new! Juvi looks to both sides of the ring - oh, he's so not gonna do this if he wants to be working there - off the ropes and a lighting legdrop. For a second there, well, anyway, one two Niebla breaks it up. Juvi goes out, Halloween's back in but the crowd chants for Niebla re hurting his ears. Open hand slap, Niebla dances. Repeat. Slap misses, Niebla hits one (is Halloween doing the dance?) Another one, off the ropes and right into a thrust kick. Whip, reversed, they both avoid each other, Halloween with a kick, it's caught, the enziguri is not. One two no. "rana, no Niebla with a powerbomb, and quick up top - moonsault hits one two Juvi breaks it up. Warrior in to get a piece of Juvi - well, he'll yell first. Juvi charges, tilt-a-whirl no Juvi lands on his feet, Warrior with a waistlock, Juvi go behind, Warrior go behind, Juvi with hard elbows to escape. Juvi charges with a clothesline, Warrior ducks and puts on a clothesline, waistlock, Juvi with a back elbow to escape again. Juvi goes for a bodyscissors, Warrior tries the face first powerbomb, Juvi escapes but is stuck in a waistlock, so he runs, then fires back with a mule kick. No DQ there, surprisingly. Juvi going up - flying chin into Warrior's dropkick. Niebla and Halloween exchange chops, and then Halloween's whipped into a Warrior drop toe hold. Slide to the floor again - Warrior gets monkey flipped into a suicide dive! Niebla and Juvi - YOU CAN'T POWERBOMB JUVI, BUT JUVI CAN'T DO THE FACESLAM RIGHT. Maybe Niebla just no sold it, yea. Chops by Niebla, but one is blocked - Niebla loads him into the backbreaker, but we've got other things going on - Damien hits his own mule kick, clotheslines Atlantis, and covers for a one two three. 

Hmm, champions lost. Rudos talk after - I'm sure they want a title match too. 

We do the pre-commercial bumper and the post commercial stuff but no commercial break. Weird. 

Next Week: Markus, Silva, Poder Boricua, Atlantis, Mr. Mexico, Wagner, Bulldog, Juvi, Violencia, Tarzan Boy, Veneno and much more.

Rating: Bases on the quality of the finish, ring work, internal/external storyline, consistency and my whims. Also, various other (random) factors that I can't think of right now. 0-100 for matches.

Closing Notes: 

1. This is the fourth week in a row we've got Boricuas vs Anti-Boricuas
2. I'm pretty sure they'll make it five.
3. I'm pretty sure that it'll still have to get a lot better before I really care.
4. Juvi kinda didn't click with his teammates - it felt like, a singles guy with a tag team
5. Which makes the GdI's chemistry even more impressive.