Yes, that’s a real movie. I got the poster from el Martiente.
Ovaciones has a basic Arena Mexico preview.
CMLL (FRI) 04/07 Arena Mexico
1) Rey Tigre, Tigre Blanco, Tigre Metálico vs Apocalipsis, Dr. X, Hooligan
2) Metro, Virus, Volador Jr. vs Hombre Sin Nombre, Misterioso II, Sangre Azteca
3) Felino, La Máscara, Último Dragón vs Olímpico, Shigeo Okumura, Takemura
4) Rey Bucanero, Tarzan Boy, Último Guerrero vs Damián 666, Héctor Garza, Mr. Águila
5) LA Park, Mistico, Negro Casas vs Atlantis, Averno, Mephisto
It feels like a run of the mill card with no big stories to be told. Smaller questions:
– will La Park get along with his teammates, since Wagner is not among them?
– are they setting up another tag title match?
– is there any new progress in the Guerreros/Perros battles?
– do they have anything in particular planned for Takemura in this two week run?
– is the rematch in the segunda going anywhere or just a one week blip?
Alexis has CMLL Magazine #34 (page 1, page 2) up on his site; look at Tuesday’s card before it’s released, and marvel at the La Flecha picture I will eventually steal for the roster page.
To preview this Saturday’s lucha event at the Arizona State Museum, the Arizona Daily Star talked to one of the guys working the free lucha matches (out on the lawn!), the Prophet. I was trying to figure out who was working north of the border in openers as Cuervo, since it wouldn’t make sense for the AAA guy with that name – and it turns out it’s the Prophet’s arch-rival. Small world.
That movie pretty much launched Octagon’s career and established Atlantis as a huge star. That was around the time Sagrada started teaming with them as “Los Movie Stars”. The movie was huge.
Rob
When is some rich lucha libre fan going to license the rights to all those movies and get them released on DVD?! I should be seeing DVD sets of 20 lucha movies for $15 at Wal-Mart by now!
Get a dish satellite service and get their hispanic channels like DISH LATINO DOS and you’ll get the channel DE PELICULA which runs a good deal of lucha libre films.Last night they aired UNA ROSA SOBRE EL RING a lucha drama co starring Mil Mascaras.And LA REVANCHA having come out in the early nineties should be readily available on vhs if you know where to look.
I think that Atlantis/Octagon movie was/is available on highspots incase anyone is interested.
Check it out cubs:
http://www.boxylucha.com/foro/viewtopic.php?t=15587
You’re famous!
I’m still working on getting Ernesto to write an article about this site and the wiki in an issue of SuperLuchas.
Rob
I get the De Pelicula teir of channels, this morning they showed, “Santo Y La Tigresa”. They show alot of these movies, but you have check the listings every day. One of my favorites so far is once they showed, “Vampiro Guerrero De La Noche”, his voice was dubbed, but it was hoot.
Yes that Vampiro film is a hoot.It was a sequel to LUCHADORES DE LAS ESTRELLAS which featured a pre WWE Test as a space vampire called NITRON which was his wrestling monicker in Mexico.
Test was most definitely not Nitron in Mexico. Nitron was some guy known as Tyler Mane or something like that. Test is Andrew Martin from Canada who only began training in something like 1996.
Rob
Well some magazine I saw stated that this was Test.
And in case there is some confusion there were at least Two guys who used the Nitron gimmick one who worked in Tijuana and the one who worked in CMLL which was the one who appeared in the film.
I got that movie a couple of years back from highspots. Emilio Charles, Eddie & Chavo sr all play evil henchmen. Emilio goes round snapping peoples necks!
This morning they showed, “Octagon Sagrada en Lucha en Muerte”. Starring Octagon & Mascara Sagrada.
Yeah that movie I think rates as one of the worst of the genre simply because it’s boring.Alot of screen time to the wrestlers scuba diving and girls laying around in bikinis.
At the end the heroes fight three hot chicks who are wearing scuba uniforms but it’s obviously men they are fighting.Did the filmmakers think no one would notice?!?!