07/23 news: Accion, Congress

Accion

CMLL: The Dos/Lizmark/Metal vs Corleone/Stamboli/Kenzo match, of all things. I guess no one got hurt in that one. This match is oddly listed as for the NWA Middleweight title – not quite accurate. Jindrak has an awesome running down the ramp and leaaping over spot in here. It’s like his vertical leap was actually useful for once. Stamboli takes a good chokeslam from Lizmark. Dos got Jindrak – who has hair again – with a quick German for the win. I was thinking Stamboli and Jindrak were leaving money on the table by not having hair for Lizmark and Dos to eventually win, and maybe someone educated Mark?

AAA: Octagon vs Zumbido for the Middleweight Title. I didn’t complain about this as much as maybe should’ve when Octagon won the belt, but it’s quite the dumb idea and a complete waste of the tournament they ran to fill it. If Octaogn needs a token belt, remind him he’s tag champ. In the final sequence, Zumbido’s big slap got not-el Hijo de Tirantes. Zumbido went on to rollup Octagon, and Electroshock ran out to count – I have absolutely no clue why Electro would do that, but I guess we’re getting a Guapos/Vipers feud? Zumbido of course assumes that’s three, but everything gets sorted out – oh, Electro is making “I want the belt” motions, I guess that’s the explanation (though it still doesn’t make sense.) The match gets reset – so Zumbido wasn’t actually hurt by this turn of events – and Octagon got La Jarocha for the win.

Ovaciones today previews the upcoming AAA taping, noting Rossy Moreno’s return – from having kids.

Arenas de Chicago (SUN) 07/23 Congress Theatre Results
1) Pato Loco & ? b Angel de la Muerte & ?
2) Acid Jazz & Danny Daniels b Justin Adams & Larry Havoc
3) Yakuza, Amenza de Siglo, Angel Dorano b Angel Dorado, Issac Velzaguez, Bill Factor
4) Aguila del America b SWAT Kat and Rayo Laser
5) Mini Charly Manson & Lancer 2000 b Gringo Loco & Guerreirto del Futuro
6) Hurcan Ramirez Jr. & Blue Demon Jr. DQ Rey Misterio & Arkangel de la Muerte

Scattered thoughts from a scattered brain after the link.

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GdR #35

Taped 07/16, aired 07/22

Opener set up the next week’s show fine, but there was no reason to clip the third fall of the main event when thef irst two falls were so short to begin with and they had plenty of time for interviews which add little. I had no problem with the first fall giong short – it worked with the story. There’s just no point in doing this type of match if we’re only getting 5 minutes of it.

A lucha show with serious time management problems, imagine that.