CMLL Mini Line - 07/24/04 (#139)
Welcome To The Show Vignette: Canek
Match 1: Olimpico, Averno (c), Mephisto vs Atlantis (c), Mr. Niebla, Zumbido
Arena Mexico, 05/07/04
Winner: Rudos
Match Time: 7:56
Approx Rating: 77
Other Match Notes: This is the debut of Averno and Mephisto's new look. They cut up the Infernale outfits on 118, and 21 weeks later, they've got horror movie looking masks. Mephisto's new mask is easier to describe, as it's a basic skull with huge (but straight) teeth. He's got some spikes on top of his head as well. Averno has a sabertooth thing going on, and we don't get to see much of it right away. It's an extreme switch - from masks that were way too plain to masks that are way too much. Besides the masks, they've also got new look outfits, but if you only knew them by previous descriptions, you wouldn't know the difference: a (different) flame pattern, Mep wears a black top, Averno does not. They come out in hooded robes to hide the new masks, but they - Mephisto in particular - don't give much effort to actually shielding the new look on the way to the ring. If there was a fan who came up with these new gimmicks, they don't acknowledge them.
They cut down Olimpico's entrance and basically cut out Atlantis. Niebla is wearing a Stormtrooper helmet. Now that Zumbido is a face, he dances with the valet. Olimpico attacks to get it started while the ring announcer is starting introductions.
First fall is rudo beatdown. Nothing major for Atlantis. Niebla gets a triple pump powerbomb, but not pinned. Zumbido gets a dropkick ot the floor. Atlantis comes back in, and the rudos take care of him with a triple submission/pose for the win. (3:45) Replays and a break.
Second fall starts with rudo beatdown, and you know we're just killing time to the comeback. Ring girl valet here and other times wear shirts with Claudia from Big Brother on them, as per the usual contest. Niebla gets a double boot. Zumbido gets the triple faceslam. Crowd shot as Atlantis comes in, and it appears they clip the beginning of his beatdown. Olimpico misses the corner boost dropkick to start the comeback. They unclipped about 5 seconds before it, just to make it more inevitable. Atlantis slams Averno on the ramp. Olimpico gets posted. Match almost settles down to Mep vs Zumbido, but Atlantis interrupts, and then Niebla wants to do a dive but he's kept waiting for it forever. Zumbido finally gets in his dive (corner slingshot tope con giro on Mep), and Niebla gives Olimpico the handspring elbow to set him up for a somersault senton to the floor. Zumbido takes time for color commentary while Atlantis collects the Atlántida on Averno to take the fall. (2:11) I keep waiting for something to happen with the rudos, since it's weird that Averno and not Olimpico would be the captain here. Maybe next fall; taking the fall here wasn't what I was thinking.
Rudos regrouping on the floor before the third fall. Niebla and Averno to start. Crowd clip and Atlantis is in there with Mephisto and both are listening to the Atlantis chant. Mephisto is happy with himself for stomping Atlantis down, and turns into a dropkick. Next one is avoided. Chop, corner whip, charge in, Atlantis boosts him into the corner buckle, them monkey flips him across the ring. Atlantis charges Mep in the opposite corner, backdropped to the apron, Atlantis lands on the apron, climbs up while grabbing an armbar, jumps over Averno's clip attempt and lands the armdrag. I think he somehow kicked Olimpico in there too. Rudo double teaming goes bad, Averno runs into an obvious monkey flip to the floor because he really wants to be Bucanero, and Atlantis topes Olimpico. Niebla manages to backdrop a Mephisto kneelift (huh?) and Zumbido adds a twisting senton. Moonsault to finish? Averno comes back in, avoids a Niebla handspring elbow, and rolls Mep out of the way. Zumbido moonsaults nothing (and actually lands on his stomach!) Mep sit down powerbomb on Zumbido! Averno double underhook faceslam on Niebla! That does it! (1:54, 2:00) New Mask = WIN. Replays.
Stellar Moments - Dr. X hits a big dropkick. Neutron has a nice reverse tope. Tzuki and Shockercito pick up a win. Ricky Marvin drops in to drop a springboard corkscrew plancha in Sangre Azteca's general direction. And why not pull out the Spanish Fly with Volador on Sangre while we're at it.
Match 2: Ultimo Guerrero, Tarzan Boy, Dr. Wagner Jr.
(c) vs Canek (c), Shocker, LA Park
Arena Mexico, 05/07/04
Winner: Rudos
Match Time: 9:32
Approx Rating: 77
Other Match Notes: No entrances! Right to the beatdown! Right to the me slacking off!
Is Park wearing Sting's trench coat? Ah, it was the Shocker Matrix entrance thingy. Canek wearing blue and white and kneeling down away from the ring makes me think he's Atlantis for a second. His mask gets ripped big when we're not paying attention. Ultimo and Park carry the action in the ring why everyone brawls, though it's fair to say Shocker and Tarzan do stuff too. Ultimo picks up Monito and presses him to the outside - where Shocker catches him. That would've been IT for the blue guy. He's very thankful for the catch. On the inside, Wagner gave a bodyslam (unless that was a super weak Wagner Driver) to Canek, but pulled him up at the two count. This is a one on one brawl beatdown, more than a tag match. Wagner gives Canek a powerbomb that looks better than any of the moves on him last week to pick up the win. (2:34) Thank you refs for waving that off so I could figure out at least one captain. Rudos keep beating people up after because hey, wait else are you going to do. Morales is talking about fans in Guatemala and Colorado and I'm so confused. Replay of attempted midget murder. Here's a better angle of the powerbomb; Wagner still protected the old guy, but the move wasn't all about protecting the old guy, you know? Perhaps they should only use submission moves on old people, but then I bet Canek isn't the type to give up.
Beatdown goes on. The question is: corner whip or normal whip? Take your bets now. Wagner poses. I think I missed the dropkick. Wagner's isolated a lot on Canek (almost as if they're feuding!) while Ultimo and Tarzan go on the other guys and occasionally switch up. Exciting stereo boot chokes. Sarcasm, my only friend. If you picked Regular Whip, you are a winner! Canek leaves his feet on a clothesline, surprising us all. Ultimo manages to beg off with Shocker for thirty seconds while Tarzan is getting the creamed around and outside the ring by Park. Shocker and Ultimo do the next sequence in the ring to make up for it. Canek pulls off a superplex on Wagner, wow. Ring ends up clearing out and I think Shocker's going to dive but it's really just so we can watch Wagner and Canek brawl around the ring. Canek really hasn't gotten mask ripping revenge yet but I can see it coming. The other four guys are just standing/laying watching. Wagner and Canek reach a standoff on the ramp. Crowd shot. This fall is going on a while for a comeback fall. I don't know if we clipped much out, but we came back for a Park sequence: strut, hiptoss Ultimo, drop Tarzan on his head with a wheelbarrow suplex. Park gets backdropped out, Shocker slingshots himself into take his place and the rudos get beatdown the whole way. Tarzan works in an forearm, only to miss a frog splash. There's the reinera, there's - uh, Park doing something to Tarzan we don't see, that'll do it. (3:54) Ah, a - dragon screw leg whip? Okay.
Third fall. Ultimo/Shocker sequence (you may have seen this, wait for it, wait for it, the spot, dive fake), and then somehow we're at rudos versus Canek. I think there was a crowd shot involved, but I'm too weirded out by the rudo bellringer wearing a shirt with a phone number on it - I think it's for Big Brother, but not for the person they've been pimping. That's rudos for you. They probably should've clipped out the two second conversation before the press slam. Canek runs out of people to beat up, much to his disgust. Back to Shocker, so we surely missed a Park sequence. How does rudo double teaming go? Wrong. Bad. Shocker holds Tarzan down for the Monito rolling senton, Monito again tries to turn it into a tope on Ultimo, Ultimo again catches him. This week, Ultimo puts Monito down and tries to squash him like a big blue grape, but Monito runs for his life, and that's where we pick up for the Park dive - though the Park dive is a crazy headscissors to the floor. Tarzan and Shocker spill to the floor seconds later we can get to the matchup. Wagner is freaked out by the Canekness of the fans, and Canek getting the better of him doesn't help. Wagner gets a shoulder up at two on a top rope plancha. Canek gets two on backslide, but also gets a low blow from Ultimo. Refs missed it, even though two of them were counting. Better Wagner Driver does it. (3:04) That's why you have an Ultimo Guerrero on your side. I think Wagner gets the microphone; I don't know all of what he said, but I do know Wagner's pinned Canek three times in the last two weeks, and Canek's beaten him none. I do make out the "mano vs mano" challenge. Break.
Next Week: Ultimo Dragon, Olimpico, Ultimo Guerrero, Perro Aguayo Jr., Canek, Rey Bucanero, Negro Casas, Rayo De Jalisco, Shocker, Atlantis, Terrible and many more stars.
Replays of the last fall action, including the low blow with both refries somehow at the perfect angle to miss it. Tecnicos were a second too late to break it up.
Shot clocks in at about 54 minutes.