CMLL Mini Line - 01/15/05 (#164)
Welcome To The Show Vignette: Black Warrior asks us to donate to the telethon, and also watch CMLL.
They've got the display up for Dia de La Muerte.
Match 1: Dr. X (c), Nitro, Violencia vs Pantera,
Misterioso II, Ricky Marvin (c)
Arena Coliseo, 10/26/04
Winner: rudo (2-1)
Match Time: 12:39
Approx Rating: Good
Vignette: Dr. X wants the belt! I've completely forget what belt, but he wants it. Violencia has no claws. The tecnicos come out to "Gonna Fly Now". Ricky has to get something out of his hair (or his ear) before he can wrestle.
We get the mat wrestling to open. Nitro's mask is very sparkly. Violencia's got a buzzcut from a recent hair loss. The mat wrestling is okay. Pantera does a nice handstand double wristlock to keep Violencia down for some two counts. Misterioso/X is high energy, and ends with Misterioso going thru all the rudos, and landing a tope on Nitro. That leads to the finish - Pantera bounces off Violencia with a quebrada (seemingly delivering no impact and rolling over Violencia to land behind him), but gets the pin right after.
Nitro and Marvin have a "you can't knock me down" sequence (Marvin can't) and a chop war (Marvin wins) to start off the second fall. Marvin takes out Violencia with a flashy kick in the corner, and then gets Violencia on a headscissors. Dive tease - Marvin looks really pale in this hot. Beatdown follows immediately after Marvin's sequence. Marvin takes a crazy flip bump off a clothesline. Stereo spinebuster but different finishes to do it.
Beatdown goes on thru the third fall. Marvin escapes a corner charge to turn it around. Back to a normal match almost immediately. There's a loud siren going off during this fall and it's distracting the crowd and me. Or at least just me. Pantera does the Shinzaki rope walk on Dr. X. Dr. X tries to do it as well, and gets crotched. Nitro doesn't get much on a slingshot tope, but connects. Pantera does a thru both ropes tope that confuses the camera man. We're left with Ricky and Dr. X in the ring. Reversals end with Dr. X giving Ricky a reverse bodyscissors face first powerbomb (though it was mostly Ricky falling before Dr. X could catch him), and finishes him with a submission (inverted surfboard?)
Match 2: Arkangel, Loco Max, Mr. Mexico vs Alan
Stone, Virus, Zumbido
Arena Mexico, 10/26/04
Winner: Rudos (2-1)
Match Time: 7:16
Approx Rating: Okay. Not a waste, not something special.
Other Match Notes: Joined at the start of the second fall.
A front row fan has an elaborate demon makeup job on. Quick into the beatdown. Arkangel is wearing a t-shirt. Mr. Mexico and Virus do simultaneous second rope elbows to the chest on a hanging Virus. Doesn't seem impactful; the normal double elbow drop which follows is better. Ark and Mr. Mexico each had a leg of Alan, and Loco had the arms. Loco caught Zumbido in the corner and gave him a leg scissors choke, then a long boot choke.
Everyone's fighting outside to start the fall, and they al almost gets counted out. Usually broadcast related mayhem. Zumbido gets double teamed on the outside while Mr. Mexico goes it even with Virus, but gets the better of it. Virus isn't doing much, because they haven't gotten their comeback yet. Zumbido brought in for a chinlock with a Loco face bite. Ah, they busted Zumbido open, and Loco as biting at the cut - that's healthy. Zumbido is dropkicked out, and Loco comes down on him with an apron stomp. Virus comes over to stop him. Alan is ready to go and he's got no one to go against, so he pushes both of the rudos. Ark comes in to take him, and Mr. Mexico sneak attacks Alan from behind. He's worked over and rolls out. Virus's turn. Corner charges. All work. Alan' turn for the corner, and they all hit their charges. Zumbido in, and decked by a nice double chop from Ark. Zumbido's avoids Loco's corner charge, and the comeback is on. Ark kills Mr. Mexico with a high boot, then sells big on a kick to the head. Zumbido tries the double jump springboard, but Loco runs in to the ropes and trips him up. Virus gives him a hanging dropkick to the face. Ark and Virus battle, ending up outside for Virus' off the ringpost hiptoss. Alan misses a springboard wheel kick on Mr. Mexico, but ducks a clothesline and lands the superkick. His dive is a tope, decking Mr. Mexico with his leading forearm. Straight to the cheek, nasty. Zumbido does the babyface domination on Loco, and Loco does the rudo low blow uppercut. That's it. (4:56)
Vignette: Tarzan Boy and Terrible talk. They talk about who they face, and if Hector will be here. It's a long trip from Monterrey. Terrible scares Tarzan with his Undertaker eye roll/tongue piercing.
Match 3: Terrible, Hector Garza (c), Tarzan Boy vs
Black Warrior, Canek, Rayo de Jalisco (c)
Arena Mexico, 10/29/04
Winner: Rudos (2-1)
Match Time: 12:37
Approx Rating: EH.
Other Match Notes: Hector IS there.
Warrior and Tarzan do an even mat exchange. Tarzan drops Warrior on a waistlock takedown and gives him a slap on the back, and everyone acts like it's a huge thing. Crowd is loud. Warrior gets the payback, of course. Terrible and Canek in. Terrible gets to be the stunt dummy for Canek's offense, and doesn't appear to enjoy it to much. He's probably the worst guy to be running around a lot and bumping to make someone else look good. He's distraught and his back is hurting after Canek is outside, so Tarzan and Hector have a strategy talk with him. Terrible has to deal with Rayo next, and gets annoyed. SLAP. Down goes Rayo. Terrible celebrates the momentary advantage, knowing he'll ultimate be laid out. And so he is. But as Terrible is sent out, Tarzan jumps Ray from behind and clobbers him with strikes. He puts his head down way too soon on a whip and pays for it. Hector tries his luck. He gets Rayo with a bunch of chest slaps, but takes one to the back and then all the chops back as revenge. Hector tries fighting back and gets clotheslined. Rayo knocks him out of the ring with something approximating a dropkick, and then gets no distance at all on a tope, Hector selling it on a delay. Warrior gets the best of Tarzan, finishing him with a corner sunset flip (5:39) and Canek walks thru a very communicated hanging suplex. Elbow drop finishes it. (6:03) Break. Replays. Break.
Waiting for the beatdown so I can switch on autopilot. Hector batters Black Warrior for the opening minute or so for the fall, but they get to running and Warrior gets to dropkicking Hector - armdrag, armdrag, tilt-a-whirl backbreaker. Hector drops to his knees in disgust of the pelvic thrust, and gets a spine kick. Tarzan and Canek now. Tarzan wants a pose down. Tarzan can't knock down Canek with a shoulderblock. Tarzan has to mess with his timing to be in position when Canek runs the ropes, and then we get the most ridiculous "walk up the corner, come off with an armdrag/headscissors combo" spot possible. It wasn't blown, it was just "yea, RIGHT" unlikely. Canek out smarts the rudos on triple teams, and pose. Rayo's turn - and there's the beatdown. Non masked guys go for the rudo guys masks - Hector on Ray and Terrible on Canek in particular. Garza moonsault on Canek takes care of one pin. (3:56) Warrior gives up for the other (4:06) Tarzan gives Rayo a missile dropkick and I guess the rudos demand they count it.
Third fall begins with beatdown still going. Lots of mask untying, not much ripping. Hector gets Warrior's untied quite a bit. Rayo makes a one man comeback on Tarzan Boy, but Terrible helps out his partner. Warrior, of all, is the one to avoid the corner charge, and Hector launches himself out in the process. Warrior gets in a low blow headbutt in the process of the comeback. Hector goes face first into the steaps by Rayo, who then picks up the small ones and uses them on him. Warrior powerbombs Terrible. Hector begs off, much good as it does him. Warrior takes it down to a rest hold on the rig, oddly. Canek ad Rayo beat up Garza on the outside. Terrible is in to face Warrior now, and people are going back to their corner. Warrior illegally throws down Terrible by his hair and gets away with that, and an ugly bodyscissors to take both of them to the floor. Garza and Rayo. Rayo gets a near fall on a crucifix. Garza ends up being armdrag out, and we take a long look at the crowd, so I think Rayo screwed up his dive. Tarzan and Canek are somehow back in as we return. As Canek gets in his (lame) corner heel kick, you can see Hector yank Rayo's mask off, outside the ring. Could not be done better if they meant to do it, which they didn't since they still follow Canek and Terrible. Canek presses Tarzan, and Warrior goes to the top rope for - something? I dunno, he didn't hit Tarzan, he didn't hit Terrible coming in (side step), and he ended up crashing. Terrible kicks Canek, who falls, with Tarzan falling on top for three. (3:24) Hector helps out Terrible in setting up Black Warrior, and Terrible (actually over shoots but they pretend he) lands a top rope somersault senton. That'll do it. (3:38) They give us replays but never really show the mask pull. They must not know they got it. They brawl a little bit after the bell.
Coming Soon: La Mascara. Why couldn't they have thought of a decent name?
Stellar Moments
Combination: Brazo de Plata JR. kills Super Coamdno with a tope, while Brazo
de Plata Jr. does the same to Lobo Vikingo
El Tecnico: Dr. X gives Misterioso a pescado, Alan crushes Dr. X with a
springboard plancha
Painful: Negro kills Dr. Wager with the corner dropkick to the
face.
Spectacular: Garza takes out Park with a nice top rope corkscrew plancha.
Key: Mistico faceslams Averno and gets the with a camel clutch.
Vignette: Joined in progress, I believe. Pierroth is giving a pep speech to Pierorth and Pierroth.
Match 4: Universo 2000 (c), Cien Caras, Mascara Ano
2000 vs Pierroth (c), El Hijo del Pierroth,
Pierroth Jr.
Arena Mexico, 10/29/04
Winner: Capos (2-1)
Match Time: 10:31
Approx Rating: Typical of this match.
Other Match Notes: Universo is wearing his CMLL Heavyweight championship.
Pierroth wears a Pierroth mask to fit in. Hijo de Pierroth is quite tanner and a
bit shorter than this his "brother", for those trying to keep track.
Right to the beatdown. Good. Let me tell you, the only reason I'm paying attention here is one person told me who Pierroth Jr. is, another disputes that, and I'm trying to decide for myself. I'll tell you it's a guy who's already been on the show today, but I don't want to say the name in case I'm wrong. It's really a "I don't have enough to say it's wrong, but I don't have enough to say it's right" deal. The "kids" tried helping out on the Boston Crab, but Cien gave before they actually got the armbars on. El Hijo del Pierroth was kicking Universo in the chest while he was being held, but again, he gave up too soon for it to matter. Surprised they didn't have Mascara eat a fall here.
Beatdown goes on between falls. They take forever to get to the whistle. Pierroth uses the belt. Everyone gets a turn. Comeback happens on a normal whip of Cien Caras. There's step violence. Pierroth Jr. takes a top rope sit (while being held up) from Universo, and gets covered by the other two. (3:17) Announcers are already confused on which guy has which name. (3:54)
Pierroth gets brought in to start the final fall. He gets combination spine/chest kicks for a bit. Hijo takes a big gut buster. Junior gets beat for a while. We settle down to Pierroth and Universo. Universo and Pierroth try to race thru a sunset flip and a small package, and need a breath after. Chop battle. Universo ends up trying to tope PIerroth, Pierroth ducks, and La Nazi takes it. Mascara and Cien go for the kids masks, and untie them both. Pierroth returns to the ring with a baseball bat. Shots in full view, and hat's that. (DQ 3:30) Pierroth and Universo talk and throw out family vs family challenges. Pierroth challenges Universo to come in and take him on one on one, and as soon as he's stupid enough to do so, he gets beatdown by all the Pierroths.
Coming Soon: Dos Caras Jr., your new best friend.
Next Week: La Mascara, Shocker, Ultimo Guerrero, Dos Caras Jr, LA Park, Hector Garza, el Hijo del Perro Aguayo, Dr. Wagner, Olimpico, Canek, Atlantis, Blue Panther, Tarzan Boy and many more.