Negro Casas & Texano in NJPW

Negro Casas and Texano Jr. are in NJPW. Yes, that’s what happened to them.

I haven’t been much interesting in this excursion, becuase it’s such a random meaningless pairing; these two haven’t teamed in CMLL, and won’t be when they come back. I’m not expecting to win title or achieve some higher rank or leap ahead in progress; they’re just gone for a couple weeks. I think I ought to care, because Negro’s still good and Texano’s got the connections were you know he’ll be an important part of CMLL (or AAA) in years to come, but I can’t get too worked up over a nothing happening tour.

Fittingly, the tour I can’t get worked up about is the one where the lucha guys are actually getting wins. NJPW’s setting up a tour ending IWRG Junior Heavyweight Tag Title match, Negro and Texano challenging Jado and Gedo. This is the same championship Felino & Negro challenged for last year. The lucha team’s gotten some wins to build towards the match, and Jado & Gedo have insisted on contesting the title match under lucha libre rules to leave no doubt about their (sure thing) victory.

(Results via Strong Style Spirt)

11/25: Tiger Mask, Negro Casas, Texano Jr. b Jado, Gedo, Milano Collection AT {DQ Milano}
11/26: Koji Kanemoto, Negro Casas, Texano Jr. b Jushin Liger, Minoru, Prince Evitt {Kanemoto beat Minoru}
11/29: Negro Casas & Texano Jr. b Mitsuhide Hiraswa & Tetsuya Naito {Texano {Torando Texas} Naito}
(I’d guess that’s the fireman’s carry backbreaker.)

12/02: Negro Casas, Texano Jr., Ryusuke Taguchi vs Jushin Liger, Jado, Gedo [lucha libre rules]
12/03: Negro Casas, Texano Jr. vs El Samurai & Ryusuke Taguchi
12/05: El Samurai, Negro Casas, Texano Jr. vs Jado, Gedo, Prince Devitt
12/07: Koji Kamemoto, Negro Casas, Texano Jr. vs Jado, Gedo, Minoru
12/09: Tiger Mask, Negro Casas, Texano Jr. vs Jado, Gedo, Milano Collection AT
12/10: Jado & Gedo vs Negro Casas, Texano Jr. [IWRG JR TAG, lucha libre rules]