Day: March 30, 2005

Upcoming Congress Theatre shows

thecubsfan

I didn’t hear anything about the OELL shows or a Congress Theatre show which I didn’t even know about but was apparently the same day?

The next lucha show in the area seems to be ELL-MEX (I’m guessing!) at Congress Theatre on 04/09 (SAT). Over on CW, there’s this post over on CW.com’s board.

The lucha card for April 9th has been changed due to conflicts of schedules so Dr Wagner Jr,Vampiro,Psicosis and Blue Demon Jr WILL NOT be at this card[though Blue Jr is scheduled for a May card for LUCHAVAVOOM in the same theatre] and these guys are now replaced by Tinieblas and his mascot Alushe,Super Porky,Emilio Charles,Scorpio,and Bestia Salvaje.

It’s gotta be a new Alushe, right? Tickets are $15 and $25. Bell time is listed at 6 PM. How often do you get to see the Taliban in Chicago? (Wait, don’t answer that.)

(In a weird hilarious concidence, I’m going to a Shins concert on the five days later – which is also at Congress. Can’t get away from the building.)

The Lucha Va Voom show refered to in that post is listed on their site, and is the Cinco De Mayo show Dave Meltzer refered to a few days ago.

TicketWeb actually expands on the lineup a little bit. Blue Demon Jr. & Solar vs Rey Misterio & Psicosis will be the main event, and is being advertised as Nicho’s last match before heading to WWE. Semi-main has super minis Tzuki and Mascarita Sagrada not only appearing in the same place at the same time (so it’d going to be quite a trick for one guy to be both this time!) taking out Cassandro and Misterioso. What a strange match, Misterioso’s gotta be ticked he signed that contract. Chilango, Durango, and the ladies are also listed. Hosts are the Guy From Beat The Geeks and SpongeBob (and five billion other voice roles, wow.)

Per usual, tickets are bit more pricey for Va Voom shows, $20 and $40 ringside. Unlike the last time they unoffically did a LVV show at Congress, it’s “18 and older” show.

news from Ovaciones!

thecubsfan

Assuming I’m not the last to figure this out, the site is now ova.com.mx. Or it is at least until they forget to renew this domain.

CMLL TUE (03/29) Arena Coliseo Results
1) Caligula/Messala b Espiritu/Karisma
2) Neutron/StarMAN/Sombra de Plata b Ramstein/Super Comando/Jeque
3) Alan/Texano/Maximo b Loco/Holligan/Masada
4) Porky/Brazo de Oro/Satanico b Taguchi/Okumura/Bestia
5) Shocker/Mistico/Warrior dq Tarzan/Ultimo/Bucanero
Rey, who earlier made fun of Mistico’s size and paid for it, got sick of Mistico outsmarting him and pulled his mask. Mistico challenged him to a mask/hair match.

– the first reteaming of Felino and Heavy Metal will be in Naucaplan, a day before their Arena Mexico match. They’re also working together on Sunday in San Bartolo.

– Shocker vs Vampiro is the actual main event of the Arena Coliseo show on Sunday. Dunno why CMLL.com seems to leave off the main event of Arena Coliseo shows when there’s a tag team tournament underneath.

– No update on Gronda, but they way they phrase – as a Cibernetico/LLL plot – makes it sound like an angle.

– El Matemático (65 years young) will retire on 04/16 at the 62th Anniversary of Arena Coliseo (Guadalajara? It’s a Saturday, so it can’t be Mexico City – they don’t actually mention a name and there must be twenty Arena Coliseo’s in Mexico.) He’ll be teaming with Matemático Jr., Kung Fu Jr and Gallo Tapado Jr. versus Talismán Jr., Talismán, Fuerza Guerrera and Black Terry.

– There are rumors Vampiro’s on his way out, but CMLL says they’ve got him signed till May.

Medico Asensino

thecubsfan

La Arena has add a bio of Medico Asensino. Worth reading.

There’s also, among many others, a profile of Hooligan added. I think a correction was made on his family tree in the last few months: Hooligan and Safari are brothers, but neither are related to Ultimo Guerrero.

(Which is good, because it used to bug me that they were listed as related – not that I knew better, of course, but because Guerrero and Safari were such stylistically different wrestlers in my eyes; I can’t think of a real set of brothers where that actually happened.)