CMLL Line - 07/20/02 (#43)

Thanks to: Robert Ortega for the original format.

Notes: Hooligan is a British guy. If you're watching longer than I have, you may know Arkangel - he's a guy wearing black and gold. Tony Rivera is wearing a sweater with a big H on it. I wonder if he went to Harvard too. Odd to get a tercera but I probably won't complain.

Hooligan and Volador to star it off. Volador chooses this match - against the Union Jack-color scheme of Hooligan and the Puerto Rican-color of Nitro, to wear red and blue. Lockup, Volador with an armbar and takes it down, bad angle of hooligan with the headscissors reversal , Volador ties the legs up and holds him down. We're getting really extreme close ups and it doesn't really help with fast mat wrestling like this. This is the typical lucha stuff, nothing skeptical here. And then we get a crowd clip so I don't mind missing it. Hooligan off the ropes and slapping Marvin. Whip, reversed, spinebuster. Marvin looks around, then does the jacknife cover one two no. Marvin off the ropes, spinning headscissors. Hooligan stands up and gets kicked out of the ring. Marvin out, Volador in, Arkangel in. They have words. Exchange of shows. Arkangel knocks him down, open hand slap, corner whip, reversed, Volador charges in, Tiger Mask walk up and out, then as springboard dropkick to knock him out of the ring. Nitro is in with a chop to take him down. Whip, clothesline misses, Volador hits a 'rana to take him out. Hooligan in now and attacking, corner whip, Volador kips up and out to the apron, shoulder to the gut, slingshot headscissors. Hooligan up with a kick, now charging but Volador goes down and Hooligan goes out. Volador does the teasing a dive pose. Hooligan and Marvin in now. Marvin avoids the moves on the run - that's a nice flip for no reason. Now a handspring back elbow to Nitro on the apron, charging Hooligan and misses with a clothesline, Hooligan chops him, whips, so Marvin jumps to the top rope - CORKSCREW PLANCHA! Well that was cool.  Back in the ring, Hooligan corner whipping Rivera into the corner where Volador Jr. is. Volador catches him, Rivera monkey flips him, Volador uses it to get a running start on a sunset flip on Hooligan one two three. (3:54) Arkangel charges in and at Rivera but gets backdropped. Rivera going up - off the top rope 'rana one two three. (4:02) Replays. 

Marvin and Arkangel start off, Marvin with a shoulderblock, then side step a handspring elbow. Marvin off the ropes, going for the rolling up facebuster but Arkangel blocks it and hits a clothesline. Yell to the crowd. Stomp. Right, corner whip, reversed, Arkangel takes down Rivera with a chop. Going to pick him up but walking into a monkey flip hold - Arkangel uses the momentum to put Rivera on the top rope, which isn't really that good of an idea - another off the rope 'rana but no cradle hold this time. Rivera flips to his feet to celebrate, while Arkangel ends up out of the ring. Marvin and Nitro in, and Nitro gets the best of Marvin. Whip, elevated faceslam. Whip, elevated - no Marvin hits the armdrag this time, but Nitro is up first and hitting a clothesline. Chop. Corner whip, but Marvin jumps to the second rope - off the second rope 'rana. Arkangel in to ambush him - so is Hooligan. They beat him in the corner a little bit - double corner whip and double clothesline in the corner. He's stomped out of the ring. Rivera in and clotheslined. Forearm. Dropkick by Hooligan and Rivera's out. Volador in - he gets a double whip and a dropkick to the knee. Hooligan with a clothesline to take him out. Tony back in - Arkangel with a running powerbomb one him. Elbows a wild. Arkangel hits a senton and they cover (2:30) Marvin on the second rope but he's stopped - Arkangel snap mares him down from there, and Hooligan hits the quebrada one two three. (2:48) All tied up.

Fall three starts with the beatdown still in progress. Marvin takes a high backdrop. Nitro with a back elbow. Arkangel bits Marvin! Nitro with another dropkick to the knee on Volador. Volador is dropkicked out of the ring, Marvin's out, so now they're all beating on Rivera. Held for a second rope elbow drop to the midsection., then snap mared over for a Nitro 2nd Rope splash. He does not cover. Whip and a big boot takes him out. Everyone stomps Volador Jr., but he ducks a clothesline and starts the comeback, with the brawl going the other way. Marvin with a tilt-a-whirl back breaker on Arkangel. Rivera attacks people on the outside, and Marvin is back in to take care of Arkangel as Rivera readies himself for something on the apron. Arkangel gets the better with chop, but Rivera with a sunset flip - Arkangel goes for a punch but no one's there - armbar, armbar, standing abdominal stretch but it's broken up. Double whip on Marvin but the other two - double big boot. Double fake dive pose, but they celebrate too soon and both get missile dropkicks. Volador and Rivera get speed - double tope! Arkangel and Marvin again. Whip by Arkangel, but Marvin comes back with the handspring elbow but no one's there. Arkangel with a clothesline but it's ducked, Marvin with a dropkick to the knee, La Majistral one two three. (3:31) Hmm, that's familiar. This was a perfectly fine terecera - lacked a real story but high spots were good and no silly finish.

Vignette: Shocker and Mascara Magica (matching clothes and hair) discuss who should be the third Nuevo Guapo - Apolo Dantes? He's a good friend but his hair since that hair match. Can you really be Guapo with no hair? Shocker's not sure - plus he's a member of the Capos, so he's got an alliance. Silva is feo, so it can't be him. And also, he's an opponent in this upcoming tournament. Shocker quotes Shockerstein.

What we've got now is a batch of matches from the Arena Mexico Trios Cup 2002 Tournament. The tournament bracket looks something like this:

               Quarter   Semi   Final
Team Japan----           
              |---1---
Team Mexico---        |
                      |---1---
Infernals-----        |       |
              |---2---        |
Villanos------                |
                              |---1---
Guapos/Apolo--                |
              |---3---        |
Silva/Niebla--        |       |
                      |---2---
Taliaban------        |
              |---4---
Rayo/Liz/War--

Notes: Joined in progress. Black Tiger is chopping away at Mr. Mexico. Off the ropes, Mexico with a shoulderblock. Off the ropes, over, under, Mexico off the ropes and hitting the worst spinning headscissors possible. It didn't even hook his head. Maybe it was a spinning armscissors? Mexico with a dropkick to take Tiger out. Gaining speed - Suicide Tope is dangerously low but everyone's okay. Mexica and Nosawa in and exchanging chops. Mexica ducks one, and hits a dropkick to take him out - Nosawa hides from a tope, so instead he gets hit by a pescado. but Mexico, Markus and Masada in - double whip, double back elbow. Big shoulderblock to take Masada out. Mexico teases a tope, then hits the pescado. Seems familiar. Tiger and Markus fighting now - Markus hits a corner clothesline and then another. To the second rope - splash but no one's home. Tiger with a slam and he's going up - second rope moonsault! And another! And another! We see the crowd [clip?] and now the Boricuas are out and attacking  Markus' teammates. I see Nitro, Violenica, Veneno, Bulldog, Fuerza Boricua out there. Markus tries to help but really isn't much. I guess the refries rule that since the Boricuas never got in the ring, they can't be DQed so Markus' side is simply counted out. Eh. Japan celebrates while Puerto Rico beats down. Pierroth is in the ring and talking now. Looks like they' untying Mexica's mask. Pierroth has got a women in camouflage - like all the other Boricuas - with him now. Black Tiger helps out protecting them. Pierroth has words for Markus. Masada and Nosawa celebrate as they walk back to the aisle. The women tries to block Markus off but she's really not that big or impressive looking -at any rate, Universo, Apolo and Mascara are out for the sabe and help clear the ring. Pierrothio tries to get away up the aisle and the midget gets beat up. That's no good. Universo grabs the microphones and says Markus isn't solo - he's got the Black Sindicate/Capos help. Boricuas leave through the crowd like they came.     

Notes: We join right after inductions, being able to hear the table end of them. Infernals have some new - but ugly - outfits on. Villanos have opted for the purple and pink. This is a Villano match with no visible numbers so I'm not gonna try. In a history making move, Satanico fakes a low blow and no one believes him! I didn't know such things could happen. 

Notes: A two man team in a trios tournament, that's something. Shocker and Silva have a pointing match, which will probably be the high point. I feel bad rating all these matches because they're obviously not getting the length of the normal matches - I suspect that there are clips that I'm missing, but even with them, the first round, probably the second and maybe even the main will jut be short brush off matches. And it's not like these are that much worse matches than the last trios tournament we had (at least as far as I remember), it's just my standard number for "average crappy match given four minutes" has fallen. I like to think that differences on the top of the scale matter a lot more than the differences on the the bottom of the scale. Someone forget to tell Shocker and Niebla this didn't matter, because they're going strong. Niebla manages to fight through all three, then it's Silva's turn. I hope Apolo has a plan. Magica doesn't work out well against Silva, but managers to seve his life by not getting elbow dropped. Double boot to the face works, but i don't think the double cover will work - no. You've got to get Silva to DQ himself. Shocker is all good till he's cornered - he moves out of the way of a clothesline and Magica makes it. Shocker has no fear about taking it right to Silva, and tries to make Silva's offense looks good when Silva isn't really doing much on that end. Here's Apolo vs Silva - it works about as well as it ever does when Apolo goes face to chest with him. Ah, he got Silva to take himself out f the ring with a missile clothesline. How many planchas can Silva catch at a time? Apparently only 1 - Apolo follows up Magica to take him down. In the ring, Niebla and Shocker battle - fireman's carry powerbomb one two three. (5:40) That was perfectly acceptable. Apolo won without cheating - but now Silva is chasing him to the back - Silva trips as Apolo jumps up on the ramp and is out of breath, so that chase is off.  

Notes: This one is already in progress - maybe a pre0match beatdown. This team is conflicting - I like Warrior and I appreciate Lizmark's WWE goofyness, but then we have Rayo. WARRIOR TOPE! Lizmark pescado. Captian lefts and we're only 1:20 in. Second rope reverse tope (1:42) and it's over before I can even notice it. They show replays of anything I mentioned.

Notes: Either the Japan crew got cleared out quick or we're joining this in progress. It sounds like we've been hearing the end of introductions all night, but maybe that's just some clever editing. This one clearly seems like it's been going for a while. Masada's skin is totally green for some reason. It's bizarre. He stick out his tongue - it's green too. Must be one of those full body Slurpees. Lots of submission holds and someone in to break them up. Tiger and Villano 3 have trouble figuring out what they want to do in one sequence but eventually get it together. Tiger reverses a 'rana and grabs the ropes - that seems about right. IV and IV beat up Nosawa and Masada a little bit, but they still lost.

Notes: They dub in a whistle this time, but there's three different brawls going on now, so I don't believe it. Lizmark has green stringy dreadlocks this week, I have no idea what that's about. Maybe it's his ode to Road Dogg. Rudos work over the babyfaces - first Lizmark, then Warrior. Think Rayo might sidestep a corner charge? Wait, Lizmark is back in and it's not even his turn. Missile dropkick for you! Now stay out of the way. Rayo is jumped as he gets into the ring, held in a corner, here's the corner whip, Magica charges, hits his clothesline, goes to all fours, Shocker hits and Apolo hits his! What do you know! Apolo is all bold by them managing to beat fate, and tells his partner they can stand on the apron, he'll take Rayo out all by himself. Shocker gives him a "you crazy, dawg" look but let's it happen. Rayo reverses a corner whip seconds later. There's a big slap, Mexican surfboard. Are they going to break it up? Lizmark cuts off Shocker and lifts him in a press and Apolo taps (2:13), and Lizmark gets the pin after the press slam (2:18) Looks like Warrior got the pinfall over Magica off camera but we missed it. Warrior's all about the crotch thrusts today. Magica back off from Rayo doing something, and we've got our finals. I guess they're gonna stay in the ring, so let's get replays. Ah, Warrior got a bodyscissors rollup about the same time as the press slam pin.

Notes: This one is going on when we come in too. Tiger is ripping Warrior's mask to shreds, of course, but Warrior reverses a DVD attempt on the ramp to a DDT. Now he's going for the mask. Rayo managed to take control on Nosawa in the ring, though Lizmark is still getting beat. Ah, now he's turned it around. Warrior clotheslines Tiger in the ring, which is different. Warrior pulls Tiger's mask to pieces in the corner, and Lizmark pulls Nosawa by the hair when he tries to help out - 2nd rope axhandle to eh arm by Rayo for him. Double whip, double back elbow. Dropkick to the face. Tiger and Masada have had enough and they're leaving. Okay, they'll come back. Maybe. Nosawa joins them and wants to go, but they change their mind. Tiger puts a foot in the ring, then brings it back out, they're gonna leave for real now. Now they're talking it over again and they're coming back. Tiger and Warrior in the ring. Tiger with a dropkick, putting Warrior on the corner buckle - TOP ROPE SUPERPLEX! Cover but Rayo breaks it up before he can make a count. Tiger checks the ropes, then goes up - top rope whatever is dropkicked by Warrior. Tag to Lizmark, who stomps, press slam. Replay of that dropkick. Whip by Lizmark, tilt-a-whirl backbreaker. Snap mare. Rayo off the ropes, legdrop. Holding in position for Warrior to hit a springboard second rope legdrop and it connects to. Warrior and Rayo cover while Lizmark holds off the opposition - one two three. (5:06) Masada and Nosawa try attacking and get beat down. Rayo and Lizmark do High Time (!) on Masada. Actually, it's more a double chokeslam - they cover even though it really doesn't count at this point. Now Nosawa is yelling at the fans and on his way up - Lizmark and Rayo are out for him. In the ring, Warrior and Tiger are fighting - looks like Tiger snuck in a low blow. Lizmark gets to hit his superkick on Nosawa. They take turn with spine kicks on him. Tiger rips the top of Warrior's mask off completely, but Lizmark and Rayo are finnaly back to help him. Looks like Warrior got a haircut. Nosawa celebrates losing, I guess. Nosawa thinks about, then starts open hand slapping Rayo. Rayo hits one back and Nosawa is down. Replay of the finish. 

We clip ahead to a trophy presentation. It's nothing really special, like the match. Big trophies. Hot women. But nothing special.

Spectacular Moments - some nice stuff from an early card Coliseo match - top rope underhook superplex. Psicodelico is set up on the mat, with his head hanging off the apron; someone I don't know goes for a slingshot legdrop but really his butt just lands on Psicodelico's head dangerously. He seems relatively okay but ticked, as he snaps the guy with a kick. Sangre Azteca with a top rope layout Rock Bottom on Ricky Marvin - their feud will not die. Volador's weekly Asai moonsault is replaced with a stiff kick to Virus' head.

Vignette: Ultimo meets Rey in the parking lot - they talk about keeping the tag titles with the GdI. This isn't Tijuana, this is Mexico City. 

Notes: No introductions - straight to the belt presentation. Seconding the challengers is Lady Victoria, a red-headed valet that normally accompanies them in Tijuana. Seconding the champions is Gran Markus Jr. - I guess Tarzan Boy isn't here. (Yet?) No Nicho either. You know, I don't know Victoria that well but I'd trust her to help me win more than Markus (unless Markus had shaving cream.) We get the rules discussion and so forth. Ah, Victoria has a Singapore cane, that might come in handy. Damien and Halloween are wearing Christian mesh shirts with black pants, while Ultimo and Rey have opted for their red on black tights. Halloween seems to have grown dreadlocks rather quickly.

First fall. Ultimo and Halloween circle. Halloween decides he'd rather pose. Lockup, battle for control, break. Lockup, Ultimo with an armbar, into the double wristlock for a test of strength. No one getting the better, so Ultimo kick away one wristlock, drop toe hold, holding the wristlock into the mat. Up, spinning to a better position for leverage, but Halloween spins to reverse and turn into an armdrag. Armbar held on, Ultimo brought up, then Halloween rolls forward, causing Ultimo to roll with him. Up, armbar still on, Ultimo forced down but he kips back up, reverses to a hammerlock, go behind, Halloween with the side headlock but Ultimo trips him up. Front facelock on the mat, Halloween quickly turning it to an armbar. Ultimo forward rolls to escape, single leg takedown. Halloween tries to go for the legscissors, but Ultimo quickly fills him onto his stomach and ties up the legs. Halloween trying to move towards the ropes, but all of Ultimo's weight is directed on those legs and he can't move. Trying to push up his way out of it, and not really successful. Ultimo rolls over to a headlock, up to their feet, Halloween pushes him into the ropes, double clothesline and no one goes down. Stare off, Halloween jokingly pats Ultimo on the cheek a few times and Ultimo does it back, a little bit harder. They back off each other - tag out to their teammates. Rey and Damien in. Circle. Lockup, break. Lockup, break. Lockup, Rey muscles an armdrag out of it. Damien up and charging armdrag. Armdrag. Rey goes to follow up but he's kicked away. Damien up, chop, chop, corner whip, Damien charges into boots (which are late up and Damien slows down expecting them), but Damien grabs the legs and pulls Rey into a pin one two no. Nice cover. Chop, chop, corner whip, reversed, Damien tries the corner headstand but is already on his way back down when Rey charges in - Rey grabs Damien's legs and pulls him, so Damien takes a face first powerbomb. He's left right into position for a camel clutch, so Rey goes for it, but Damien skirts out, double leg takedown from behind, now he's trying the clutch but Rey is slipping away. Stand off. Three minutes in and we're just getting standoffs? I'm kidding. Rey opts to kick Damien, but let's take a look at Lady Victoria to see if she is indeed hot. Yes. Thanks for checking in. Looking back, it seems Damien has just shoot Rey into the ropes, Rey goes over (the drop down), off the other ropes, walks and gets clotheslined. Now Halloween is into and stomping - as Rey rolls for safety, Ultimo comes in and gets a Halloween back elbow. Double whip, double back elbow, double roll up, double chop, straight jacket and run chest first into the corner. Again.! Crotching on the post - well I guess they decided that's not a crotch. Damien and Halloween take a breather on the outside before coming in - Rey's on them, but misses a clothesline on Damien, Halloween tries to tilt-a-whirl him but Rey lands on his feet, then gets taken off it by a Halloween jumping heel kick. Looked nice. Pose. Big boot by Damien takes Rey out, and Victoria pantomimes crying, securing her position as "better than OVW/WWE Victoria." Ultimo in and booted by Damien. Double corner whip, Halloween whipped in but Ultimo backdrops him all the way to the floor. Damien charges with a dropkick but comes up empty. Ultimo charges Damien but gets dropped onto the apron - clothesline takes him down, but then Rey hits a clothesline from the apron on Damien. Rey backs up on the apron - running, and then Ultimo monkey flips him up in the air at the last second, to boost him into a somersault plancha. Ultimo to the rope - missile dropkick on ON Damien! Ultimo charges Damien in the corner, Damien catches him and puts him on the second rope - right, and now loading him up for the Damien Neckbreaker - Ultimo gives even before Damien goes to his knees to crush his neck. (5:00) They count a pinfall anyway. We take a look at the outside, where it seems Rey's foot has been wedged in one of those perm ant folding chair seats, and Halloween is kicking the chair to try and crush Rey's ankle a little bit more. Rey tries to hop free of the chairs, but ends up just dragging them with him for a second. Still can't get loose - Markus over to help but he's stuck good. CO. (5:30) And now the refs are out to help as Victoria is in to celebrate with her men. Rey's still got his foot edged in there. Halloween must've done a really good job. Finally, they've got it out. Replays of the cool dive, the missile dropkick and the neckbreaker. And the countout count, as captivating as that is. 

Fall 2. Rey is still outside, with the doctor checking on his foot. Halloween gets sick of waiting and jumps Ultimo from behind, throwing him in. Markus helps Rey to his feet as they work on Ultimo in the ring. Double corner whip, corner clothesline by Halloween followed by two hard forearm shots to the chest. Halloween goes on all fours so Damien can hits Whisper in the Wind. Halloween with another clothesline and Ultimo rolls out. Rey gallantly is in but how good is he? Double chops before a double whip double drop toe hold onto the second rope, double swaging dropkick to the head, double slide up the aisle. They celebrate briefly, then go back to take care of Ultimo. Now they're splitting up, with Damien working Rey over at the top of the aisle, and Halloween charging Ultimo near the ring - except Ultimo goes low bridge and Halloween takes a rude trip in. Damien charges Ultimo too and gets hiptossed all the way in. Rey gets a running start down the aisle and a boot from Ultimo - double flying clothesline! Ultimo hits a double dropkick on both, then they get speed -  stereo somersault planchas! The first row is whipped out and every is getting counted out. Markus is trying to roust his men, Victoria hers. Ultimo and Rey manage to dive back in the ring (with a little illegal help from Markus) to just beat the count. (DCO 2:01) It's all tied up - the second check on their people. Halloween and Damien both are still down and hurt. GdI seems to be recovered a little bit in the ring. Replays of the flying clothesline, dropkick, and stereo planchas. And here's the countout Markus clearly (to me) throws Rey in but I guess the ref didn't notice it this time.

Third fall. Challengers are still on the outside, stalling for time. Now they're gonna take their cane and go home. This would be better if they didn't do this same thing with Japan earlier - oh, the difference here is that Rey and Ultimo are still ticked about last week, and run up the aisle to lay Halloween and Damien out. Rey brings Damien back in by the hair, and Ultimo throws Halloween in to. They celebrate a little on the ramp, and threaten Victoria a little bit, but she's ready to hit them with the cane if they get close. That proves enough of distraction for the FdT to get the advantage - Rey and Ultimo having a meeting of the minds, with Rey going to the floor. Ultimo gets a double hiptoss in. Whip, spinebuster by Halloween, and Damien hits the running legdrop while Halloween hits the Jeff Hardy double low blow legdrop. Cover one two NO. Ultimo picked back up - corner whip, Halloween with an open hand slap, then putting Ultimo on the turnbuckle and slapping him again to stun him. Halloween turns around to get Damien to help, and notices that Damien is getting mugged on the other side of the ring by Buccanero, which isn't really helping, I'd guess. Halloween charges Rey, Rey sidesteps, and Halloween goes right into the post. Halloween goes to the floor, trying to shake life back into that shoulder and I think we completely miss Rey hitting a pescado on to him. Meanwhile, Damien is running up to where Ultimo is still perched for a top rope 'rana, but Ultimo blocks and holds on - off the second rope powerbomb! He kinda just through him away and didn't hold on to go down, but I'd imagine it'd still hurt quite a bit. No accidental low blow headbutt that way - maybe that's what Ultimo was thinking. We look at Victoria yelling about it - Ultimo covers, one two NO. I thought it was three but I guess not. Fans are going wild - uh oh, that probably means clip. We look back, and Damien is big booting Rey off the apron. Ultimo is struggling to his feet, but gets a back elbow to knock him out of the ring. FdT get speed - double tope! Except Halloween's feet are too low and he clips the ropes as he goes through - Ultimo does a good job of saving injury, that I can't imagine it felt too good. Everyone's getting counted out again - will annoying get back in before ten? The challengers are in - but in a scene reinvent of last week, Rey and Ultimo get up and pull Halloween out of the ring! Now they're both in and taking on Damien, who's trying to hold them off as best he can but doesn't last long - he charges Ultimo and gets flipped (awkwardly) onto the top turnbuckle. Rey loads him up - face first crucifix powerbomb! Double cover one two three! (2:58) Victoria is angry, and GdI take a brief second to celebrate before double flapjacking Halloween as he charges them. Boot by Rey to put Halloween in the corner, and Ultimo charges in, but Halloween side steps and Ultimo throws himself out of the ring. In the ring, Halloween loads up Rey in a fireman's carry -  F5! One two three. (3:27) We're down to one aside! Markus yells encouragement to Ultimo, who goes back in the ring. Halloween strips off his shirt. They meet in the middle of the ring - Ultimo with a stiff open hand slap. Halloween with a open hand slap back. Ultimo. Halloween. Ultimo but Halloween ducks - SUPERKICK one two NO! Crowd shot clip and next thing we see, Ultimo is being thrown out. Halloween ready for a dive - tope is good this time. Again with the countout. Halloween is closer and better so he easily makes it. Rey solicits encouragement from the fans as Ultimo is up and crawling in - NO, Victoria pulls him back. Both refs are arguing with her about it, and Markus is over to get in his two cents, but Ultimo is up and in. I think they stopped counted when they did that, but it doesn't provide a distraction, as they're still talking about it. Meanwhile, Halloween with a shoulderblock, off the ropes - no, he's tripped up by Rey from the outside! No one saw it - small package one two three! (5:16) Champions retain! They're ecstatic and hugging - they got away with another one. Raise their hands.

I enjoyed this very much. I know it's a minor point, but it would have been better with Tarzan Boy in their corner. Maybe that's the little bit missing to put over the Santo/Casas vs GdI match.   

Next week: Pierroth returns to the ring. Vampiro returns to CMLL. Lizmark, Shocker, Black Tiger, Mr. Niebla, Mascara Ano 2000, Satanico, Gran Markus, and much more.  Pierroth! 

Ultimo and Rey walks around with their belts - now they're coming back to the ring. Posing for pictures. And that's it.

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. I actually watched this week's old lucha first this week, where GdI defended the titles against the Infernals. Interesting to notice the differences - they were working a lot more face spots here, obviously, and how they still kept the same basic move set.
2. I'm beginning to really dislike CMLL Tournaments, because squashing them into one day really hurts the chance of any of it being good.  
3. Of course the team that doesn't ever team wins the trios tournament.
4. He's good at it, but I rather Shocker not be in rudo situations right now - they've got too many cool rudos and enough cool tecnicos.
5. My fingers hurt. You can imagine.