07/16: Accion

I’m not making it out to Hawthorne today. (Quite obviously, since I’m posting this.) So…who’s going to Congress next weekend?

Accion
CMLL: They go with the Cage of Death, so you get the good shot of Pantera unmasked. The action picked up from the final four, with Mephisto leaving, Felino sentoning both men and running for his life, and the final two squaring off. Replay pinpoints the exact vertable Misterisoo put the stress on in the top rope Rosa Driver. Pantera took his mask off and put his on his son; Ovaciones mentioned Pantera bequeathed the gimmick to his son here, so I think that’s what we’re seeing here
AAA: Octagon, La Parka Jr., Super Porky vs Shocker, Zumbido, Muerte Cibernetica – expected stuff with Octagon beating Zumbido.

Tuco called the cage match loser. Rudopolis has last week’s TV recaps.

Dos Caras Jr. is doing a chat on Box Y Lucha tommorow at 2pm.

Lucha Guys In Japan catchup

NJPW: Negro Casas really hasn’t been used much different than Sangre Azteca, except he’s taken less pins and consquently been on the winning sides of tags a bit more. Still, he’s an interchangeable outsider on this tour, flipping between sides and filling out tag matches were needed.

07/05: Negro Casas & Black Tiger IV b Wataru Inoue & Durango [Casas Majistral Durango]
07/07: Negro Casas & Black Tiger IV & Prince Devitt b Tiger Mask IV & Durango & Tetusya Naito [Tiger b Naito]
07/08: Minoru, Jushin Liger, Hirooki Goto b Koji Kanemoto, Tiger Mask IV, Negro Casas [Minoru b Kanemoto]
07/09: Black Tiger IV & Durango b Negro Casas & Prince Devitt [Tiger b Devitt]
07/11: Minoru, Jushin Liger, Jado, Gedo b Tiger Mask IV, Negro Casas, Ryusuke Taguchi, Prince Devitt [Minoru b Devitt]
07/12: Wataru Inoue & Ryusuke Taguchi b Jushin Liger & Negro Casas [Inoue b Casas]
07/14: Negro Casas b Pricne Devitt [la majistral]
07/15: Jado & Gedo b Tiger Mask IV & Negro Casas [Gedo b Negro]
07/16: Koji Kanemoto, Negro Casas, Wataru Inoue b Black Tiger IV, Hirooki Goto, Tetsuya Naito [Casas la Majistral Naito]

Upcoming:
07/17: Koji Kanemoto, Negor Casas, Ryusuke Taguchi, Prince Devitt vs Minoru, Jushin Liger, Jado, Gedo
07/19: Negro Casas, Wataru Inoue, Ryusuke Taguchi, Prince Devitt vs Jado, Gedo, Black Tiger, Hirooki Goto

AAA Results in NOAH:
07/03: Psicosis II b Oriental
07/03: SUWA, Abismo Negro, Charly Manson b Ricky Marvin, El Angel, Taiji Ishimori [Negro b Angel]

07/06: Ippei Ota b Oriental
07/06: Ricky Marvin, Angel, Taiji Ishimori b Charly Manson, Psicsois II, Atsushi Aoki [Ishimoria b Aoki]

07/07: Charly Manson, Psicosis II, Taiji Ishimori b Kotaro Suzuki, Angel, Oriental [Ishimori b Oriental]
07/07: (semimain) Takeshi Morishima & Naomichi Marufuji b SUWA & Abismo Negro [Morishima b Negro]

07/09: Charly Manson & Psicosis II b Angel & Oriental [Psicsois b Angel]
07/09: Yoshinari Ogawa & Ricky Marvin b SUWA & Abismo Negro [Ogawa b Negro]

07/11: Angel & Tajii Ihimorio b Charly Manson & Ippei Ota [Ishimorio b Ota]
07/11: Mohammed Yone, Daisuke Ikeda, Ricky Marvin b SUWA, Abismo Negro, Psicosis II [Ikeda b Psicosis]

07/13: Atsushi Aoki b Angel
07/13: Masao Inoue b Suwa b Mitsuo Momota & Oriental [SUWA b Oriental]
07/13: (main event): Naomichi Marafuji, Kenta, Taiji iIshimori b Abismo Negro, Charly Manson, Psicosis II [Kenta b Manson]

07/14: Taiji Ishimori b Oriental
07/14: Kotaro Suzuki, Ricky Marvin, el Angel b Charly Manson, Psicosis II, Ippei Ota [Suzuki b Ota]
07/14: (semimain) Mitsuharu Misawa & Yoshinari Ogawa b SUWA & Abismo Negro [Ogawa b Negro]

07/16: Juji Izumida, Tsuyoshi Kikiuchi, Abismo Negro b Mohammed Yone, Oriental, Atsushi Aoki
07/16: Mushiking Terry, Angel, Taiji Ishimori b Mushiking Joker, Charly Manson, Psicosis II [Terry b Psicosis]

(one more shouw tonight.)

Considering his positioning and that they’ve indirectly used him in a build to a match (SUWA is threatening to end Mitsuo Momota’s career by using a Mariente as taught by Abismo), he’s definitely going back. He’s been kinda in limbo this year, with the unsuccessful tecnico turn and the Vipers Revolution bit not having gone anywhere yet, so I don’t think AAA would be much affected.

I have a feeling, the next time Ricky Marvin returns to wrestle in Mexico, it’ll be in AAA or as an independent.

title unification?

Ovaciones reported this morning that Mr. Niebla was nursing a shoulder injury from Tuesday, which the reporter didn’t believe was serious. Niebladidn’t appear on Friday’s show, and, according to Alexis, he won’t be appearing tonight either.

Instead, new CMLL LH Champion Rey Bucanero meets NWA LH Champion Atlantis with only the NWA Title on the line. I don’t think they’re unifying the titles – probably a distraction finish – but it should be an interesting match. (And I’d totally be cool with combining the belts.) I presume Brazo de Oro fills in for Rey in the semimain (or bumps someone up who fills in for Rey).

At least Robert gets a speedy answer to “what are they going to do with Rey next?” and I get a match I like better on GdR next week. Everyone’s a winner!