Day: October 15, 2004

busy! bad time managment!

In addition to picking up the Heavyweight title on Wednesday, Universo 2000 is your 2004 (3rd) Leyenda de Azul winner, getting a victory back over Canek in the deciding fall. Blue Demon did appear to award the belt and plaque, and nothing was broke this time. The point of this and the title change is to declare Universo as good without the mask as with the mask (so he’s not going anywhere for quite a while.)

Other results:

– Sombra de Plata & StarMAN over Ramstein and Super Comando
– Arkangel/Dr. X/Violencia over Texano Jr./Tony Rivera/Chris Stone
– Mistico/Negro/Shocker over GdI (Rey/Ultimo/Tarzan)

‘ccording to KrisZ, the main event only went 5:23 but was a pretty good 5:23.

Dos Caras Jr. will debut soon. Santo and Panther were in England last week as part of an art exhibit (I think it was a different guy the other ones, but I can’t find the link), and Santo will be back in CMLL next week.

There’s some storyline controversy about tonight’s main event. The whole card looks like this:

– Sombra Plata and Explosivo vs Super Comando and Flecha
– Virus, Tony Rivera, Neutron vs Nitro, Dr. X, Sangre Azteca
– Misterioso Sr., Misterioso Jr., Zumbido vs Olimpico, Okumura, Mr. Mexico
– Capos (Universo 2000, Cien Caras, Apolo Dantes) vs Pierroth, Vampiro, Hijo de Pierroth
(HdP’s debut)
– Dr. Wagner, Shocker, Negro Casas vs Hector Garza, Tarzan Boy, Terrible

Yes, Dr. Wagner on the tecnicos team. Wagner’s said he’s neither rudo nor tecnico, just a professional, and the other guys on his side have similar in-between backgrounds. It also has the effect of spicing up a card that’d be pretty familar and unimportant looking with Atlantis or Niebla or Warrior in that slot.

The rudo trio is refered to as La Ley de Notre, which is consistent with what Garza and Aguayo were talking about on this past week’s TV. I appericate groups of people having names to save space.

I don’t know if I’m tripping on the booking, but Dr. Wagner happens to be born and started wrestling in the North as well…

Weird week for the lucha schedule.

Saturday: If things were all normal, we’d be getting a Perro Aguayo/el Hijo Del Santo main event this week. However, that was the first weekend where coverage of lucha libre was preempted for coverage of the Olympics. Past experience is when a CMLL episode doesn’t air on Televisa, the tape’s never going to make it to Galavision (assuming there’s a tape sent, and they don’t just record it off the Televisa feed.)

Skipping past those episodes, Gala probably will air a show with a partial rematch of last week’s show, with Casas and Atlantis being replaced (upgraded) to Park and Shocker.

The upside to the skipping is we’re three weeks closer to being up to date, and one week away from the Anniversery show, so there’s a lot of hype cut out. The bad side is we miss this Perro/Santo main event (which sounds good) and the Gran Alternativa tournament (which didn’t sound impressive match wise but it’d be cool to see different faces.)

Of course, there’s no way to be sure what’ll happen till it happens; whatever shows up on TLN (assuming it is even CMLL!) Friday night will give a good indication. I’ll update the schedule just as soon as I figure out what’s going on.

Sunday: Lucha de Vuelta is cut down to 90 minutes for whatever reason, which is fine because I didn’t like this episode. They’ll probably either cut the opener for CMLL or part of the AAA show, but again it’s not something they’ve bothered to announce ahead of time. I miss when they used to do those sort of things.