CMLL Mini Line - 06/19/04 (#134)
Note: Recaps from here to #140ish fit the "mini" title more than usual, thanks to a huge (though chosen) backlog.
Welcome To The Show Vignette: Olimpico
Vignette: Guapos '04 vignette of the week. LONG, as usual. The points
seem to be
- This week, it's jungle gym/pole climbing
- Koreano and Sangre Azteca are troublemakers
- Some time off screen, Terrible got a new attitude, leaving the Guapos and
maybe having allied with GdI, only stopping in here to annoy with his motorcycle
and get bleeped. Koreano and Sangre Azteca are trying to suck up to him, though
sticking with the Guapos for now.
- Loco Max and his stuffed animal try joining again. Still no.
Match 1: Misterioso (c), Sangre Azteca, Espiritu
vs Tiger Metalico, Alan Stone (c), Leono in a Guapos 2004
match
Arena Coliseo, 03/31/03
Winner: Tecnicos (2-1)
Match Time: 2:53
Approx Rating: 61 (but fine for what we got)
Vignette: Alan hasn't been highlights in any of the vignettes so far. We come in time for a rudo beatdown segment. The non Sangre rudo portion come up with a double burning hammer for Leono. Sangre ticks off his partners by dropkicking Leono out before they could do their next wacky double team spot. He helpfully knocks down ALan stone and feeds him to Misterioso and Espiritu (for a double spinebuster), but annoys them again by not being ready when they want to do a triple spot, and even more when he decides he'd rather do a face first powerbomb himself rather than let those two help spike it. Tiger helpfully comes in to allow this pattern to continue, but the lesser rudos throw him to the floor before anything can happen. Alan makes the usual corner charge evasion shortly after to turn the tides. Nice superkick by Alan to Espiritu. Leono does a corner somersault tope on Sangre. Tiger sets up the Jalisco corner springboard reverse tope, but twists in mid air to make a nice regular tope-like headbutt. Tiger gets an ab stretch, but it's broke up by Misterioso. The next series sees Alan go Stone Cold, blocking a punch and giving Misterioso a stunner. (The selling's better, but he's a long way from the Rock.) It is, as usual, set up for a dropkick, but at least it's of the springboard variety. Alan gets on the camel clutch and takes the win (2:53)
The focus on Alan is evident here, although he didn't prove he deserved it more than any of the six guys here. Metalico's one highspot started to illuminate why been kept around as well.
Match 2: Zumbido (c), Super Crazy, Violencia vs Sagrado (c), Virus, Tony Rivera
Arena Mexico, 04/02/04
Winner: Tecnicos (2-0)
Match Time: 5:52
Approx Rating: 73
Other Match Notes: This is follow up from last week's latest Zumbido/Crazy/rudo TBA trio beating, among others, one-third of the Mex Trios champs (Volador) and Virus from this match. Zumbido's right shoulder is bandaged, and Violencia's left shoulder is similar. Tony's upper body seems bigger.
Tony and Super Crazy start off with a mat exchange, which Tony wins. Long crowd shot later, Virus and Violencia are in the ring, and that ends with Violencia backdropped to the floor. Zumbido vs Sagrado is the next exchange. Crowd shot after Zumbido starts crotch chopping, of the rowdy fans cheering. We got to seem him do it later, so I don't know why the cut then. Zumbdio gets the better of Sagrado alone, but the tecnico end up teaming up on him to knock him out. Violencia tries to make good for his team, but the tecnicos team work outdoes him. Rivera ends up toping Violencia right before the double submission finish. Okay first fall, though nothing spectacular or much off default pattern. The tecnicos had a better teamwork timing than expected for these mishmash pairs.
2nd is clipped immediately to the beatdown, and then we get a shot of the announcers. Typical default pattern match with uninteresting making on what we see. We do get back in time to see Zumbido left Rivera up for a springboard sunset flip bomb. Virus turns the tide on a corner whip, with the difference being that he slides out on it, Zumbido follows, and Sagrado ends up giving him a tilt-a-whirl backbreaker. It settles back down into an even match just as quick. Sagrado still looks tentative on his highspots, with a notable hitch to steady himself before a Quebrada (which looked nice, even if was caught.) A subsequent Asai Moonsault on Crazy seemed slower than what other people are doing. Perhaps that's part of the problem; using the same moves which other people can execute spectacularly makes it hard for you to look good. The lack of different in-ring personalities and styles between guys in similar positions and roles is a larger problem than just Sagrado, though. Virus out ran Violencia with a quick set of moves to get his quick rollup. Zumbido manages to use this patented knee bump to his advantage, and he and Virus sped through the "sunset flip -> rolled thru and countered with a dropkick spot" quick enough to seem natural, or at least quick enough not to have time to call it advance. Zumbido clearly managed to take control and drop Virus with the fisherman's buster, but in Super Crazy's rush to prevent Sagrado from breaking up the upcoming pin, Crazy neglected to be sly about his low blow and was easily caught.
Zumbido was confused by the finish of the match, as he heard the mat being slapped three times (it was waved off for the DQ.) Tony Rivera helpfully explains what actually happened there, and Zumbido and Crazy have words. Words don't last too long till Crazy shoves him out of the ring. Violencia randomly acts like a goof and the rudos leave Zumbido laying, but let's look at the chick with the big biceps instead. Zumbido starts to tease a handshake with the tecnicos, so we go to replays.
Stellar Moments: Tzuki turns a monkey flip on the apron into a somersault tope. I bet he's just happy someone was there.
Vignette: Dr. Wagner congratulated Olimpico on his new evil black mask. I guess? I don't really know. Olimpico says "distrust" a lot. I'd guess there may not be a lot of that going each way, but Olimpico pointedly states that he's not allied with Rayo or Atlantis or Niebla anymore - he's in it for himself. Wagner decides he sees the robust rudo spirit in Olimpico, even if he should know better to argue with rudo #1.
Match 3: Dr. Wagner (c), Tarzan Boy, Olimpico vs Brazo De Plata (c), Tarzan Boy, Olimpico
Arena Mexico, 04/02/04
Winner: Rudos (2-1)
Match Time: 10:21
Approx Rating: 72
Other Match Notes: A whole show without a prematch punk out. To make up for it, they show us 15 seconds of pre-match stalling and (seem to) clip part of the match. Tarzan and Porky do their comedy act. Niebla and Wagner do their act, with Niebla doing a tough reversal for no apparent reason except to set up Olimpico knocking him down. Atlantis and Niebla get knocked around and turn the tables to win the fall.
Atlantis and Wagner started the second fall with Wagner kicking Atlantis hard. Battling over submission hold with each other reversing followed, though Wagner kept winning the early exchanges. Wagner came off the ropes and randomly got dropkicked by Atlantis to end that. Atlantis tried to hiptoss Wagner out, but he obviously lost hold and Wagner was threw himself out. Not a good ending to the sequence. Olimpico versus Niebla is next, so we looked at the crowd while Olimpico did something he seemed happy about later. Niebla used his head slaps a lot. Olimpico's heel act prepares to be based on pointing to his head and begging off a lot. Niebla's face act appears to be slapping people upside the head, so maybe I shouldn't complain so much. Tarzan and Porky again for a moment, before Wagner decided it was time for the beatdown. Beatdown doesn't go long before the pins.
Beatdown continues between falls, but they clip out the comeback and we skip ahead to one on one action. Atlantis hits Wagner with a nice cross body at one point. Niebla pulled out the unstoppable hip wiggle at another point, before he took himself and Wagner on a harsh ride to the floor. Olimpico bailed out his partner with at tope. Atlantis bailed out his partner with a tope. Porky killed Tarzan Boy with his apron dive. Wagner managed to hold Atlantis for a tope from Wagner, and the outcome looked so telegraphed, it (almost) made sense for Niebla to stand two feet away and not even pretend to stop Olimpico from running. In what I only hope was the point of this (yet again agonizingly routine) match, Olimpico did not try the tope, hit Wagner by mistake, and cast himself as an untrust worthy part of the rudos just as he had joined them, but instead held up at the ropes. Shockingly, he did not point to his head. Unshockingly, he stood there while Niebla walked over and slapped him. Niebla, being a complete and utter moron, watched Atlantis take control of Wagner and tried the tope himself, and it of course backfired, driving Atlantis into the seats. That happens with Niebla so frequently, I'd join the rudos just so it'd stop happening to me. Wagner and Olimpcio double spinebustered Porky, then allow Tarzan to get in the finishing blow (and Wagner to pose on the pin) for the win.
Next Week: Violencia, Mascara Magica, Black Warrior, Lizmark, Terrible, Niebla, Pierroth, Tarzan Boy.
Atlantis is about to be loaded onto a stretcher (hip went into the armrest of a second rope seat, I think) as we leave.