CMLL Mini Line - 05/22/04 (#130)

Welcome To The Show Vignette: Mascara Magica. Do not try this at home.

Match 1: Dr. Wagner Jr. (c), Black Tiger, Universo 2000 vs Negro Casas (c), Hijo Del Lizmark, Safari
Arena Coliseo, 03/02/04

  1. Dr. Wagner Jr. (c), Black Tiger, Universo 2000 

Winner: Dr. Wagner Jr. (c), Black Tiger, Universo 2000 
Match Time: 2:22
Approx Rating: 60

Other Match Notes: I can't even imagine why we'd be seeing this match, other than to prove Wagner, Tiger and Lizmark still work for the company. Rudos won the first fall. Wagner's wearing his black and white camouflage outfit, and he and Casas are moving quick for this late in a match. Casas pulls out his spinning DDT even. Universo wants a handshake but Lizmark isn't dumb. Lizmark leaps over a bended Universo instead of kicking him in the head, then superkicks him when he stands back up. Universo takes a backdrop bump over the corner and out, and Lizmark does a moonsault pose instead of a dives, strange. Everyone seems in a hurry to go, so they must've taken the first two falls easy. Universo threatened to Tombstone Casas, Lizmark pushed Casas down, and Universo still landed on top for a cover. Lizmark proceeded to get a powerbomb from Wagner to lose himself. I guess the point is Lizmark's bad luck because that was all his fault.

Vignette: Guapos Press Conference. We don't see any of the reporters that Shocker is talking to, but he's here to announce who they cast in Guapos 2004. As Shocker starts to read of the names, I realize there are reporter types there, the participants are sitting at this same table (we're just to panned in to see them) and Loco Max still thinks he can beg his way into this. SECURITY. Loco is taken out. Here's the list:

Brazo de Plata Jr. 
Misterioso II
Maximo
Espiritu
TexAño Jr.
Brazo de Oro Jr.
Tigre Metalico
Lestat
Leono
Lobo Vikingo
Carisma
Koreano (spelled with a C here but a K elsewhere)
Fabian el GitAño
Alan Stone
Chris Stone

We've seen most of these people during the vignettes, although I didn't catch names. A lot more variety of looks compared to last year. Shocker announcers that they'll have a tournament for a trios Mexican National title shot, in addition to the winner joining the group. 

Match 2: Ultimo Guerrero (c), Cien Caras, Mascara Año 2000, Rey Bucanero vs Guapos (Shocker (c), Terrible, Mascara Magica), LA Park
Arena Mexico, 03/05/04

  1. Ultimo Guerrero (c), Cien Caras, Mascara Año 2000, Rey Bucanero
  2. Guapos (Shocker (c), Terrible, Mascara Magica), LA Park
  3. Ultimo Guerrero (c), Cien Caras, Mascara Año 2000, Rey Bucanero

Winner: Rudos
Match Time: 7:56
Approx Rating: 84

Other Match Notes: This is a nice way of combining the two big upcoming tag matches while getting the Guapos all in one place. Entrances are clipped. Even though we don't get entrances, the match starts the predictable way.

Mascot has a fashionable red coat this week. Magica gets beaten with his entrance fur on for quite some time. The two teams that like double teaming do it a bunch, and manage to work together for quadruple teams - like a four way dropkick to Terrible's head. The quad bomb wasn't a traditional powerbomb - more they all lifted up a corner and then all threw Shocker back down. Park gets beat down after fall for coming into the ring. More a chance for Park to get stood on his head while Rey and Ultimo are straight jacketing him via armbar. Everyone do the circle dance! There's nothing nicer than when a bunch of rudos can put aside their personal differences and pummel tecnicos together. 

Let's talk a long look at the crowd while the beatdown continues on without as much a direction. Lots of heavy hyping for matches elsewhere during this. Director uses the worst possible angle to show us Terrible avoiding a double elbow drop and the comeback is on. They must really love Terrible if he's the one who gets to turn the tide. Park uses an apron dive 'rana on Rey during the ensuing chaos. The refs tease double countouts! I don't think so. Terrible lays it into to Mascara Año near the announcers, knowing the best way to get mentioned on air. Terrible and Cien do mirror spots till Mascara grabs Terrible's hair from the outside - and ends up getting kicked by Caras. It was a nice idea. Magica and Terrible ended up doing stereo topes on both of them, leaving the tag champs and the former champs alone again. Park has officially been handed the mantle of the wacky Shocker/Ultimo spot, since he can turn it into a bodyscissors powerbomb. 

Caras and Magica's sequence doesn't look good. Año gets so angry after being dropkicked of the ring, he accidentally posts himself. Ultimo and Rey get knocked out of the ring, Park dives (no spinning this time) and gets caught by both (barely), but manages to armdrag Rey anyway, and then Ultimo gets bowled over by Shocker's tope con giro. That leaves one ref to watch things in the ring, and Año simply waits for the opening to low blow kick Terrible. Magica protests and gets cradled himself. I guess you only need to beat two now a days in Atomicos. Rudo announcer momentary pretends he only speaks English when they bring up the low blow to him, I guess. Tag team champions mix it up outside much after the match, with GdI getting the better of it.

Stellar Moments - they show Mephisto beating Satanico in this group, which must've been all we're getting of the title change.

Vignette: Black Warrior says this is a major moment in his career, when he will take the NWA LH Title away from Vampiro and prove that he is superior.

Match 3: Vampiro (c) vs Black Warrior in a NWA Light Heavyweight Championship
Arena Mexico, 03/05/04

  1. Vampiro 
  2. Black Warrior 
  3. Vampiro 

Winner: Vampiro 
Match Time: 6:46 (which doesn't include between fall wackyness)
Approx Rating: 80 (which does include between fall wackyness)

Other Match Notes: Pierroth is Vampiro's corner man, and Shocker is Black Warrior's - the best to set up who we should cheer for. We skip introductions, but Vampiro can hardly stand still for the prematch photo shoot and waves the photographers away. Ah, he wants to do the photo, he just wants to leave Warrior and Shocker out of it. They don't appreciate the thought - but Warrior and Shocker get the idea to do the photo without him. 

Crowd loudly behind Warrior as we start. Perhaps too loudly, because Vampiro's decided to go home. He stops to have his weekly argument with the producers, and comes back to ask for a timeout. He's very upset when they won't give him one. Okay, ready? He's not happy but he's ready. Ready to lockup? About a 80 seconds after the bell, they finally do. Vampiro headlock, Warrior back suplex. Vampiro grabs his head as Warrior waves for support from the crowd - which doesn't help him with the side kick to the chest. Vampiro recovers rather than follow up. Both guys try dropkicks and they manage to connect feet but nothing else. Dueling clothesline but no one's going dropkick. Finally, Warrior outspeeds Vampiro and dropkicks him in the knee, but that's not going to be enough yet. Vampiro with a forearm to the head, Warrior dropkicks him in the knee. Vampiro forearm to the head, Warrior - walk right into the goozle, oops. Warrior corrects his mistake via elbows to the head. Vampiro's punch is block, and Warrior comes off the ropes with a kick. Off the ropes, goozle and chokeslam before Warrior can think about it. Vampiro's - going up? I would've thought a cover there. Maybe Vampiro knows what he's doing, since Warrior is already getting up, but maybe not since he planchas right into a dropkick. Warrior suplex? No, Vampiro reverse it to a small package with all four legs in the ropes. They zoom in on the wrestlers so we can't actually see the ref in the camera angle, but it turns out the ref missed all of the obvious except for shoulders being down and counted the one two three (2:54) Shocker hits the ring to offer a free trip to the optometrist, right now. A good replay actually shows the referee making the count. Vampiro has 138 on the back of his pants and I don't know why. 

Warrior tries to take Vampiro down, but Vampiro rolls through and ends up on top. Vampiro's punches actually energize Warrior, so maybe Warrior ends up winning that. Vampiro tries kicks instead, and kicks work. Vampiro says this is it, lifts Warrior on his shoulders - and takes a spinning reverse DDT. Off the ropes, dropkick by Warrior. Off the ropes, into an overhead belly to belly suplex. And now Vampiro will walk out for a second time. Oh, he just wants a time out. Warrior does not oblige him, forearming him in the back and kicking Vampiro when he tries to latch on the railing. Here, Warrior seems to wants to try a German suplex on the ramp, but Vampiro isn't that far gone and won't go with it, blocking it and fighting out with elbows. Warrior ends up bringing it back in with a clothesline and nails Vampiro with a missile dropkick. Warrior misses a big boot in the corner and takes one himself, and there's this part where they're both kneeling and obviously talking to each other and they're a little late switching to showing us Pierroth. Vampiro takes back control with kicks, but Warrior turns it around for a corner clothesline, and a big DDT. Here's your German suplex, and here's Warrior hooking Vamp's legs and the ropes one two three (2:50) Pierroth can't believe the referee would abide by letting rope usage go. Vampiro, on the other hand, is just angry. Punch for the ref! Punch for Warrior! Punch for Shocker! Warrior's picked up - and DROPPED ON HIS NECK form a German suplex. That was pretty brutal. And now Vampiro's got his belt and he's going home. For real this time. Shocker's up and after him and Pierroth, but they've got some distance on him. Replays of Warrior's German suplex from a couple angles. 

We go - backstage? Huh. Shocker and a lot of undercard tecnicos (Pantera, Sagrado, and Neutron included) are pounding on a door. They eventually get it open, where Pierroth is waiting and trying to hold them back. He's only one man against many, and he's pulled out of the way - so they can grab Vampiro and pull him back towards the ring! Vampiro's run back to the ring by seven or eight of them, and dumped inside. Warrior's up, and he probably should be pounding him rather than signaling to the crowd. Looks like the ref is waking back up. Some of the tecnicos stick around ringside, as the third card ring girl makes a delayed appearance. 

Pierroth and Shocker are arguing on the ramp, and Vampiro turns that direction, leaving him open for a forearm and bodyscissors rollup. Can't see if the ref counts, but we get the impression that it was two. Warrior small package, one two no. Vampiro superkick stops Warrior for the moment, and Vampiro uses that moment to do his marital arts poses - which allows Warrior to roll him up, one two NO! That was the usual low title match count. Warrior tries to pick up Vampiro, but sneaks in a low blow uppercut. Is that it? Vampiro picks up Warrior - Styles Clash (though Warrior's right arm doesn't get hooked)! One two three. (1:02) After all that, he won anyway. Pierroth is quickly back in to give him belt back. The tecnicos can't stand how he did tit though - Pantera in, Pantera gets belted!  Big boot for Neutron (at least that's who I though it was - announcers drop Astro Boy's name), side kick for Sagrado. Shocker's in and he's ticked, but Vampiro backs off instead of facing him - and that's how we end.

(Actually, we don't - as they're sending it to commercial with the zoomed out camera shot, you can see Vampiro KOing Shocker with the belt too)

Vampiro and Pierroth back up the ramp with the belt, as the tecnicos regroup in the ring. Replay of the low blow and the Styles Clash - the referee was looking the other way while recovering. Everyone clears out, and that's it.

This was a good angle but not a lot for a match.