AAA - 06/17/06
This week's lucha libre is presented by Nacho Libre. A fine move.
Match 1: Nygma, Picudo (c), Silver Cat vs Alan, Billy Boy (c), Decnnis
Plaza de Toros, Orizaba, Veracruz, 02/18/06
Winner: Tecnicos
Match Time: 13:17
Notes: Didn't we just see this match? I just saw this match. Highlight
of the entrances is Alan slipping and falling down on the (slippery?) ramp. Even
his partners laugh at him. Rudos attack the tecnicos while we have the worst
possible view. Piero is the only ref for this match. This is every Barrio Boys
vs Vatos Locos match ever.
For no reason, Tiffany, armed with a chair, tries to assault Billy Boy after the match. I think we decided to assume that Tiffany was angry with Billy Boy for some logical reason that was just only explained on the show that was skipped, because they're not explaining it here. Considering it's Tiffany versus Billy Boy, Tiffany does exceedingly well - all those mixed matches paying off! Estrellita runs out of the save, because Alan and Decnnis are too busy [fill in the blank]. Even the announcers are semiconfused on this - I think Arturo Rivera tries to ascertain that Billy is going out with Fabi and not Estrellita. The Vatos Locos get involved just as it's settling down.
Break replay break dancing
Match 2: Charly Manson, Chessman (c), Espiritu vs
Electroshock, Octagon (c), Zorro
Plaza de Toros, Orizaba, Veracruz, 02/18/06
Winner: Tecnicos
Match Time: I dunno. 0:00 shown!
Notes: Charly gets a separate entrance from the other two so they can
play the Manson music, I guess. This match is a bit obvious - they even play
Zorro's music right after Electro's so you know what's going down. Electro has
his belt. Announcer almost calls Charly the captain, and Chessman's all
"hey, ME".
Weirdly, after a break just after the captains were announced, we pick up the action with something (cake?) in Electro's face, and him beating the heck out of Zorro. At least he's not fooling around this time. They get broken up in the ring, so they take it outside. Octagon tries to play peacemaker, but I don't think this one's flying. Electro goes back in the ring, and passively stands with the rudos. Yay, replay - Zorro tries to cake Charly (he's 31), Charly ducks, Electro is standing behind him for no reason. This isn't nearly as bad as busting open your brother, but maybe he just really doesn't like cake. So, we still gonna have a match or what? No, Zorro and Electro are going to fight some more. Sect gets bored and decides to hold back Octagon so Electro can go to town on Zorro. Security gets involved and is forced to take bad bumps from Electro's cane shots. (Well, not forced.) Electro walks off -
wait, now we're getting clips from the match? What the heck did they cut out here? I'm SO confused. I do get a finish! All I'm looking for these is a match time and a finish, so that's good enough.
Vignette: Reina de Reinas preview. If I wanted to get a shot of the belt, I should pause it here.
Match 3: Miss Janeth vs La
Diabolica vs Mujer Demente vs La Chola vs
Tiffany vs La Hechicera vs Cinhtia Moreno vs Martha Villalobos vs Lola Gonzalez vs Josselin vs Estrellita vs Lady Rabbit in a Reina de Reinas battle royal match
Plaza de Toros, Orizaba, Veracruz, 02/18/06
Advancers: Martha Villalobos, La Diabolica, Cinthia Moreno, Miss
Janeth
Match Time: 12:30
Other Match Notes: Entrances! I'll be able to tell them apart! Yay.
Mujer Demente - who isn't even on the list of participants I have, but would
explain why I only have eleven - makes me long for the subtle acting style of
Jacklyn Hyde. (No one reading this recap will get that one.) Tiffany has the
belt. Lady Rabbit has cute gear. She's more Anime Lady Rabbit. Jocelyn has an
Indian gimmick. I feel like I should know that. Estrellita went right after
Tiffany and I think they were expecting someone to separate them so they could
stop fighting, but no one does. Lola Gonzalez looks like someone's mom, which
she is at this point. The graphic spells Cinthia with an "I", for what
it's worth. She's wearing her mixed title, and that one says "AAA" on
it; I think there was a discussion if it was meant to be a National title a
while back, but no. Martha out last? They're kinda low on the tecnica side at
the moment. What's with the slow motion crowd shot? They all pose for photos,
Tiffany steps in front of the shot, Estrellita pushes her, blah blah. I know we
don't know why Tiffany is feuding with Billy Boy, but I'm 100% sure Estrellita
is feuding with Tiffany to get the TV time. You go girl. Ref is Copetes. We're
battling down to the final four, and they go into another match. This is a
battle royal, which means I'm pretty much wrong on everything I've wrote about
this previously. (As I learn during the match, pinfalls and submissions
count.)
Usually, the six sided ring makes very little difference; it's still a ring, still has ropes. It actually made a difference here, because there was more room (and two more corners) to work. Someone even pulled out a giant swing, which is pretty impressive when there's 12 people in the ring. Lots of going thru the middle ropes to do something from the apron. Tiffany beat on people with - Mujer's hair extension? I don't know. Copetes was actually in the ring, as if he was going to count a submission or something. Announcers have a random discussion about Mexicans in WWE, but I guess they're setting things up here. Double suplexes! Okay, now eliminate someone. Copetes IS looking for submissions. Good luck on that. Nearly five minutes in, and still no one out. And as I say that, Hechicera's gone. Janeth, Tiffany and Lady Rabbit all pitched in on the pin. Things started to pick up after that. Janeth gets a Northern Lights Suplex on Josseln, Copetes is legitimately distracted, and Janeth is stuck bridging and waiting. She yells, but no dice. Apparently she let go during replays of the previous finish, because the first thing we see is her doing the move again. This time, Copetes is ready. So far, no surprises. I didn't notice Lola much until she got pinned, and then I had to remember who she was. She had a sunset flip on Tiffany, but Janeth and Diabolica turned it around on her, and helped Tiffany hold Lola down. Chola's eliminated with help from Miss Janeth, but Cinthia gets in the final blow. They never show a good view of what happened, but it looks like Cynthia was trying to double stomp Janeth while she was pinning Chola, and got Chola happy accident. Janeth turns on Tiffany, snap maring her into position for a Martha middle rope splash. Big cheer for Tiffany's elimination; that's a surprise. Martha's thrilled. Estrellita is focused at the end; she makes a two on one tecnica comeback, nearly gets the final elimination by putting Diabolica in a tapatia, and Diabolica givers her a Gory airplane spin to set up Martha's finish.
Even though they haven to fight just yet, Cinthia and Janeth do. They settle down, and then all four fight.
Noti AAA
- people were given awards.
- someone put Mascarita Sagrada, Noverillo and a bull in a bull ring to see what
would happen.
- recap of the cake angle. THAT I saw.
- Cibernetico talks about guess what
- Alan Stone at a cowboy shop. I find out (but only from reading other
recaps) that he's proving he was Intocable before Intocable. Intocable shows
up to argue. To be fair, he's actually wearing a cowboy hat at that very second.
Don't fight near the glass! We get a street fight out of this, though perhaps we
should have a cowboy boot match or something.
Match 4: Alan Stone vs Intocable in a street match
Plaza de Toros, Orizaba, Veracruz, 02/18/06
Winner: Alan Stone (via low blow mule kick)
Match Time: 10:17
Other Match Notes: Alan Stone has a mirror (he can't stop staring at)
which says "El Original" on the back. At least they're making it easy.
I like how Alan is shocked Intocable is wearing a cowboy outfit. Intocable
wrestles in jeans, so this is a half way decent street fight. Ref is Hijo de
Tirantes, except he's not wearing the suspenders anymore. Maybe I'm supposed to
just call him Fernando?
Intocable has the weakest chair shot south of Lance Storm. They brawled into the crowd for a while. Alan had the clean pin off a moonsault at about 9:30, but Shocker came out and distracted him from keeping him covered. Alan tries the distraction inside cradle, but no. Intocable reversed a headscissors cradle into a pin, but Shocker pulled out Fernando at 2. It's a street fight, that's good. Shocker and the ref argued, and Alan snuck in a low blow for the win. The crowd was very angry with the decision and Shocker's victory dance. They teased changing the finish, but no.
Video Package: vitals on each of the Reina de Reinas finals. Cinthia is listed having La Diabolica as a rival, which I guess is possible.
Match 5: Miss Janeth vs La
Diabolica vs Cinthia Moreno vs Martha Villalobos
Plaza de Toros, Orizaba, Veracruz, 02/18/06
Winner: Miss Janeth
Match Time: 11:39
Other Match Notes: We get entrances here. Hijo de Tirantes is wearing
them again, which makes not a lick of sense. Maybe that's just a similar looking
design on his shirt? Unlikely. La Diabolica and Miss Janeth have a intense
planning session. Oh, he's taking them off again and throwing them away. The
luchadoras are like "what the ?" It appears to make him a tecnico,
because that side is fine with it.
Match is initally a four way, but turns into a tag match. Diabolica thrusts her chest out to take corner chest slaps from Cynthia. I don't know it makes them fell, but it looks really fake. Martha is very limited. La Diabolica doesn't look good here either; that's not a match I'm looking forward too. Martha lands the middle rope splash on Diabolica at 7:10, and just walks away, because that's not that finish. Diabolica's jackknife pin, set up by nothing, is incredibly unbelievable. She's shocked it worked herself. Replay shows Martha pointedly shot a shoulder up. Diabolica is out of the match while the other two wrestle. Janeth gets a near fall at 8:30 with a Northern Lights Suplex, but there's Cinthia gets a shoulder up we don't really get to see. Cinthia has Miss Janeth with a farmer roll, but Diabolica sneaks in (in the most non-sneaky manner) and breaks it up with a dropkick. Janeth gets her Northern Lights Suplex again for the win. Down to two ruda, which the announcers note. Cinthia is down on the outside for a while, and the doctor checks her over. They start fighting while they're still showing multiple replays of the finish. Diabolica uses a scary looking double underhook faceslam - I thought she was going to loose Janeth. A double chickening face first powerbomb looks good, but Diabolica pulls up Janeth at two for no logical reason. She teases missing a top rope move, and then climbs down and covers for two. She slams Janeth again, goes up, and unsurprisingly miss. Janeth sorta hit a a top rope wheel kick for the win. I hope she wins a new look and a more current nickname than "the Monica Lewinsky of the ring."
After the break, we see a replay of the Northern Lights Suplex on Cinthia (with unhelpful skeletons); looks like her head may have bounced off the mat on impact. After the match, all the women previously in the match congratulated Miss Janeth. She got a big hug from Tiffany, which surprised me. Tiffany was lifted on to shoulders and carried around the ring. Tiffany herself pretend Miss Janeth with the belt and put it on her. This seemed all out of character - they were very happy for Miss Janeth to get this spotlight, and she was kinda trying about it. She cut a happy and tearful promo. Martha took the microphone to challenge La Diabolica to a mask match.
Match 6: Cibernetico, Konnan, Shocker vs La Parka Jr., Octagon, Sexy Boy
Plaza de Toros, Orizaba, Veracruz, 02/18/06
Winner: Tecnicos
Match Time: 8:50
Other Match Notes: Why is Shocker on this team? He doesn't have a
problem with it. Konnan having the Rocky theme will never not entertain me.
Cibernetico is wearing his pop hat, which is great in it's own way. I guess
Octagon's music is supposed to go that way? I dunno. Latin Lover is out
when we're expecting Abismo Negro - security has to grab people (girls, I
assume, but we never see) and pull them off Latin when they jump the rail the
moment he appears. He's got his cast mostly hidden, but he's not dressed to
wrestle - and break.
Latin Lover makes the Rock's "I'll be back here real soon" speech. Some guy I don't recognize at all is with him - Triple A in yet another mask? Konnan takes a moment to complain about Antonio Pena, the gimmicky groups of AAA, and Octagon and La Parka in particular. Cibernetico gets his turn, and he's angry about the Sect being lumped in the gimmicky groups. He's not so happy with Konnan. Shocker imitates Wagner, and then cuts a promo on Latin Lover. Everyone gets a turn! The rudos jump the tecnicos, and apparently the guy with Latin is in the match, as "Sexy Boy." If I hadn't heard what was up, I'd be so confused right now. As it is...
Brawl. Typical. Things break down between the rudos after the tecnico comeback, and they take turns yanking each other off a pin of La Parka at about 7:30. It eventually breaks down to Cibernetico & Konnan vs Shocker, though Shocker is actually taken out of play by a Octagon tope. Parka soon hits a enziguri on Cibernetico, and out runs the troops: Chessman, Espiritu, Charly Manson. Pierte fights thru the stombodwn to award Parka the match.
Pena wanders out to the ring alone, which is a dumb move. Konnan wants to kill him, and security really isn't going to be much help. Electroshock and Intocable show up to provide a buffer. Completely off camera, Sexy Boy has pulled of his mask to reveal himself as Scorpio Jr., and he and Shocker are now on Pena's side.
Digression: I think they were trying to work a story where Sexy Boy was thrown out all the time, so it'd explain why he didn't turn right away. But they had Konnan do a sequence of putting him in submission holds, Sexy getting moves on him in revenge, and Sexy holding Konnan in a submission when the run ins started - maybe Konnan wasn't up on the plan? Latin sure wasn't. Was this the show Abismo no-showed? It'd explain why they needed a replacement (actually two - why was Octagon working twice?), but they probably should've just had Billy Boy work this match too rather than the unexplained angle.
There's a 4 on 4 standoff, so they just have Pena and Konnan yell back and forth. Alan Stone is out now, and all three of them are seeking to corner Zumbido, who hides out with the announcers. Now the Guapos have made it into the ring, and Parka and Octagon scare them off with chairs. Back over towards Konnan, but Shocker refuses to shake hands with him - yea, I got it, there's (at least) three different groups here. Break.
More replays, video package, and we're out.