Day: December 30, 2006

GdR #58

thecubsfan 5 Comments

12/30/06

Another just okay segunda match, a long-ish main event – long enough that I should’ve gone back and see if I actually timed it correct – but nothing special here. I predict this will get a 0 for 2 on the F4 show.

Appearances in the last six weeks…
1: Mistico
3: Leono and La Mascara
4: Loco Max and Arkangel
5: Fabian el Gitano
7: Sangre Azteca

I know CMLL’s roster isn’t this small, but it sure seems that way of late. It would improve things dramatically if, instead of showing a segunda with the same guys yet again, they’d mix it up and grab the opening match or the tercera.

speaking of TV: I watched the last half of AAA’s main event today (from the pre-GdT show), and reached two conclusions
– the matches still aren’t good (though seeing Cibernetico Hulk Up, complete with three punches, was entertaining in it’s own way)
– oh my gosh, Cibernetico’s super over. Especially with the girls. Like if there was no one booing Cena.

I mean, it may not be something I want to pay for, but it’s something a lot of people will be paying to see – if they can ride this wave in 2007, they’re going to be doing enormous business. The one missing piece is new opposition if Ricky is gone (or even if he isn’t, at some point it’ll be run into the ground). Shocker would’ve been perfect for this spot if he had stuck around, and Scorpio can’t quite replace him there. Konnan was pushed in a position where he’d normally be next, but obviously that’s not happening, and none of the Sect or TNA guys have built a individual presence that’d make it work. La Parka Jr. ain’t turning rudo. Pirata? Abismo? I dunno.

(FWIW, I think the idea of Bucanero jumping doesn’t work anymore. The spot is gone. Wagner or Silver King might be fun, but I don’t think either of them could stomach working rudo stooge to Cibernetico’s tecnico hero.)

If the Toluca crowd is any fair representation, though, Cibernetico’s so over, it may not matter who he’s facing.

12/30: Mexico, GdR

thecubsfan 9 Comments

cmll.com

CMLL (FRI) 12/29 Arena Mexico Results
1) Danger, Flash b Caligula, Messala
2) Amapola, Hiroka, Mima Shimoda b Lady Apache, Marcela, Sahori
3) Felino, Maximo, Virus b Nitro, Okumura, Sangre Azteca
4) Dos Caras Jr., Lizmark Jr., Rey Bucanero b Kenzo Suzuki, Pierroth, Terrible
5) Mistico, Negro Casas, Volador Jr. DQ Averno, Black Warrior, Tarzan Boy

In the main event, Averno and Mistico were left in the ring in the final fall and Averno realized where this one was headed, so he fouled Mistico. That’s a moral victory for Averno, not taking La Mistica. Mistico vowed to take Averno’s mask and belt in 2007. I dunno about that, but I do know they’ll have a singles match as the main event of next week’s Arena Mexico show (which may or may not be aired.)

Semimain had a weird first fall finish – everyone counted out. Tecnicos won 2 and 3, so they won the match 2-0-1. I wonder what strategy you use for that third fall, knowing the worst case scenario is a tie. (Not that strategizing actually happened.)

Ovaciones says Amapola challenged Lady Apache after the rudas won the women’s match, CMLL says it was Hiroka. They’re just running a revenge trios match next week anyway.

Next week’s DF cards are up on CMLL.com. The highlight is Mistico/Averno, but Sunday’s coliseo semimain – Volador, Felino, Sagrado vs Averno, Mephisto, Alex Koslov – could be a nice one.

Airing on Guerreros del Ring
12/22 Mexico: Arkangel, Loco Max, Okumura b Fabian el Gitano, Leono, Tony Rivera
12/25 Coliseo: Pierroth, Sangre Azteca, Terrible b Mictlan, Sagrado, Texano Jr.

I CAN NOT TAKE ANY MORE FABIAN EL GITANO

Site layout change

thecubsfan 5 Comments

As teased a ways back, I’ve finally overhauled the look of the site. I hope you like it. I do, so that’s something. The design is based on one from Movalog’s Style Generation, but I’ve done a fair bit of tweaking.

It’s only the blog section that’s changed (all the database pages are white, until I break down and change the style sheets there). Old links to old posts still should work, but eagle eye posters should know the main permalinks have changed. One slight addition are daily archive posts; if you’re researching something, and want to know I was writing about on a certain day, you just need to go to http://thecubsfan.com/cmll/updates/year/mm/dd/ (with actual date info, of course) to get an index of all posts from that day.

There’s a few things here besides the cosmetic that I want to point you towards, just to make sure you see ’em.

tags: at the end of each post, you may see a running list of names or places or events with links. If you click on them, they’ll bring you a search page of all posts where I’ve included that tag. For the most part, the tags only go back to November, and I’m not sure when/if I’ll redo them before that time (there’s just not an easy way to do it, as far as I’ve found.) It’s interesting if you’re just tracking back what’s been going on with one person or a title belt. All of the tags have their own RSS feeds, so if you’re just a fan of a particular foreigner who comes by and wants to be notified whenever there’s news about them, you can just grab the feed and get updates.

cheat sheet: The left and middle columns are basically every place I’m currently checking for news each day (though I don’t know if I’ll keep it updated). As you can see, there was a day where I gave up believing in google to grab lucha articles from papers, and started tracking all the El Sol papers myself. Reading thru 30 sports sections for 3-5 lucha articles a day is about what you’d think it’d be. The right column is a quick look at the non-news subsections I’m writing for the site, including the most recent TV Recaps, Weekly Lineups, Chicago Lucha shows, and a hourly updated list of the latest new/updated lucha lineups from the database. About half of the lineups/results I get don’t make it to the news updates, because they’re too minor or trival to clutter up the main page, but if you want to know them all, the last day of entries will always be updated there (and of course, I’ve got a RSS feed for that too.)

I don’t know if anyone (besides me) is going to use either of these things, but they’re there.

Comments: This version of MovableType has ditched the pop up comment entry – the comment link now points you to the already posted comments, and you’ll have to scroll down to the Post Comment boxes to add you’re own. I’m fine with it, but I’m not the one writing comments. If this is immensely annoying, let me know and I’ll work on it.

I’m sure there are a few things here and there I don’t have quite looking right – if there’s something that’s not working for you or just doesn’t seem like I probably intended it to be, leave a comment on this post or e-mail me.

The usual TV/Mexico round up should be up later today, and to celebrate today, I’m going to take care of another long teased bit later. (Thanks to another new feature – pre-scheduled posts.)

Thanks for visiting the site.

(I’ll miss the purple.)