03/12 notes: quick notes from Accion and Ovaciones

Accion highlights
CMLL: clips from Perro Jr., Garza, Damian vs Park, Wagner, Niebla (sometimes you type about write all week, and you’re still surprised Mr. Niebla’s in the main event); Wagner does some remodeling, tecnicos win, and we get clips from the Universo/Perro brawl. They fought for a bit before Universo hit him with the metal piper, which is the same bendy metal pipe as always.
AAA: Intocable vs Alan Stone, from Apizaco, Tlaxcala. This was the chain match (not from Rey de Reyes?), and it’s hard to tell how good it was in this time. Shocker interfered, but it backfired and Shocker ended up lowblowing his teammate.

IWRG news without results from Ovaciones
– on yesterday’s WAGNER show in Torreon, partners Veneno and Silver King ended up turning on each other, which puts King’s future in the Corporation in question
– Cerebro Negro and Suicida agreed to a hair match this week.

I have no idea what happened to the IWRG site – I thought it was just me till this week. The AAA site seems slowly to be updating – does it mean anything that Zumbido’s not included in any of the Guapo U pics. And in case you have a pressing issue, they’ve posted Antonio Pena’s phone number. If you call (between 10a-6p on weekdays!) let me know how that goes.

Though a couple names had been mentioned, it turned out TNA had no one representing Team Mexico at last night’s PPV. The World Cup X stuff doesn’t start till after the next PPV, I believe, so it’s not especially meaningful yet. There was some talk that Durango Kid, from the NJPW-LA dojo might be at the show, and going with So Cal lucha guys wouldn’t be the worst idea if they want to avoid all the political headaches.

I keep neglecting to mention this: CMLL.com says they’ve signed Princesa Blanca. She hasn’t been around AAA for months, wrestling only 3 matches since last September and none since December.

CMLL #185

from way back on 08/27/05

The MEX Trios match was very disappointing. The challengers and the champions weren’t particularly memorable, and the match wasn’t really dramatic. Everything else is not special. Skip this one unless you really need to see a title change.

Gonna do GdR tomorrow, I believe. After I clear these episodes off my TiVo (I leave ’em them on there for a day in case I realize I missed something), I’m down to ten taped episode, which is the plateau I seem stuck at.

CMLL #214

from way back on yesterday (2006.03.11), taped last October.

I believe was the match where the fans were booing Atlantis and we (and by we, I mean I) were thinking CMLL had screwed up with the Atlantis stuff so much it was hurting other people, namely Mistico. This is where not having the current A-Show dramatically hurts analysis, because it becomes instantly obvious that a lot of the boos were simply for Mistico being really below par in this match. He was very much off, and the boos (some of which were before he started screwing up) messed with his head and he completely unraveled by the time he went for the moonsault. There were people who were unhappy with Mistico and probably felt the wrong guy was winning, but based on the crowd reaction at the end of the match, the booing was all based on his performance level during the match.

The other interesting note out of the singles match is Atlantis has a lot of offense when he wants to show it off. Off the top of my head, he used a rebound suplex (which was nearly a rebound brainbuster), a hangman neckbreaker, and a top rope somersault senton, none of which are regulars in his matches. At the same time, Atlantis wasn’t nearly as rudo-ing it up as much as he has on the GdR stuff – did he exchange the moves for the bits along the way or was he showing off for this match? He’d be really good if he brought both the moves and the act.

The crazy brawl was indeed a crazy brawl.

Maybe 1, maybe 2 more recaps tonight. Depends on how much bracket stuff/baseball stuff I get hooked into.