Day: October 30, 2004

10/30 news

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Yea, four times in one day. I had this done when the site was down for an hour.

The main event feuds (well, the ones that are actually moving) are getting kinda convulted:

In Arena Coliseo, Dr. Wagner’s turn continues on Tuesday’s show, with a (non-title) singles match between him and Universo as main event of a Day of the Dead show. Wagner’s the rudo disagreeing with the rest of the rudos and Universo is the rudo standing up for rudo principles…

In Arena Mexico, it’s being pushed as family vs family warfare, with Universo and the rest of the Reyes fighting Pierroth and his sons. Universo’s obviously in the right here, but I have a hard time seeing how one character can make sense in both feuds. (I’m sure I’m supposed to just not think about it – I think it just would’ve worked better if Universo was replaced with another rudo in the Coliseo stuff.)

This doesn’t even factor in the Blue Demon stuff, which probably doesn’t get brought back up again unless/until Demon gets brought back, and Universo winning the CMLL Heavyweight Title (which seems to be a DOA issue.)

I was totally wrong in my mask/mask/mask/mask match preview; Universo’s career hasn’t taken a step down since losing his mask. Instead, they’re building a large portion of the company around him. Very unexpected.

I’ll do the usual Arena Mexico stuff later this week, but I just wanted to mention the Wagner/Universo match, and also a pairs tournament for the Dia de Muertos show:

– Mistico/Negro Casas
– Mr. Niebla/Black Warrior
– Brazo de Plata/Brazo de Oro
– Satanico/Mascara Magica
– Rey Bucanero/Violencia
– Black Tiger/Nitro
– Scorpio/Bestia Salvaje
– Emilio Charles/Okumura

I’d bet on Mistico getting yet another big win.

On Monday in Puebla, Dr. Wagner fights the other guy he didn’t get along with last week in Arena Coliseo, Terrible, in another singles match. The undercard has the tag team champions Atlantis and Blue Panther teaming with Batman (! – I know he’s a regular but it kills me every time) versus the former tag team champions Ultimo Guerrero and Rey Bucanero, and the Joker Tineiblas Jr.

Lucha Times Update

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This afternoon, #157 aired, with these matches

-Rayo/Canek/Panther vs Wagner/Universo/Tiger
-Santo/Park/Casas vs Perro/Rey/Ultimo

That means they skipped the last week of “no CMLL because of Olympics” and they skipped the two hour #156 show. The next week in order would be the anniversary show, and the Next Week Preview hyped the mask and title matches which actually will not be airing.

Contray to the Gala online listings, my TiVo says we’re getting a 3 hour show overnight. If they did go three hours, that’d be an easy way to get in all two hours of 156 and still show AAA; if you usually don’t stick in a tape for the overnight show, you may want to do this week just in case.

lucha times

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I hear it works much better if I update the page. Really!

For one more week, Saturday’s a toss up. Last week, TLN got one episode of CMLL (which I believe was from before they started airing shows up there), the Saturday afternoon GALA show was all AAA, and then they aired a random episode on late night. GALA cutting two different tapes is at least twice (and more like five hundred) times more effort than usual.

Sunday’s got a weird 90 minute time frame, a split feed, and a probably a random episode as well. Though I’m listing for a Terrible/Magica (non-hair) show, they’ve been skipping every other episode of late, so you could get Universo/Terrible/Rey vs Park/Shocker/Magica instead.

Alfredo has tapes for 09/11 to 10/02.

Good News: so those lineups have been corrected as needed. The interesting note is a complete minis match should air the first week of December. Like Robert noted earlier, this is the first minis match of any kind to air

Bad News: Neither Park/Ultimo [LH] nor the Santo/Perro trios match from the anniversary makes tape. (Leading into the show, they announced the mask match would not be aired.) We do get a look at the Mistico/Volador/Misterioso trio, but then we get also get a Tarzan/Pierroth/Vampiro match.

The 9/3 tape looks like it’s been sitting there a while and I just missed it, so that’s updated as well; it’s (like last week’s show) also a two hour affair. I’m thrilled we get Averno vs Zumbido, while other people may be happy for Sangre Azteca’s annual Arena Mexico TV match.

I wonder how those two hour shows work for TLN? Probably not good!

I like how the predictions now take me all the way to 2005. Like, and also VERY SCARED.

In other news: Hector Garza and LA Park are supposed to be on the TNA PPV in an X Division Battle Royal (ie: do a couple spots, get a token mention, get beat by the TNA talent as an afterthought) but with all the back and forth with Garza, I don’t believe it till it happens. Mascarita Sagrada and Piratita Morgan have been booked for an undercard match (and people for Jarrett to beat up?) for a while, but I don’t believe they’ve built to it on TV at all.