CMLL FSE - 11/26/06 (#16)
Recapped: 05/15/07
La Mascara, Rey Bucanero, Sagrado vs Kenzo Suzuki, Marco Corelone, Olimpico
Match 1: Kenzo Suzuki, Marco Corelone, Olimpico vs La Mascara, Rey Bucanero, Sagrado
Arena Coliseo, 11/19/06
Winner: Rudos.
Other Match Notes: Didn't see this one. This sets up Kenzo vs Rey for
next week. (AAAAAAAAH!)
Match 2: Averno vs Alex
Koslov for the CMLL Middleweight Championship
Arena Coliseo, 11/19/06
Winner: Averno (2-1)
Match Time: 19:07
Approx Rating: Good, though missed a little to be great. Around 89
Other Match Notes: My video starts just before the match starts.
Circle, lockup, break. Circle. Lockup, Averno with a waistlock takedown, front facelock, Alex out into an armbar, Averno rolls to a reversal, Alex flips to a reversal and armdrags Averno. Averno takes a moment to recover and mockingly clap. Circle. Olimpico is here as - I'm not sure who's corner, actually. Ah, Okumura is the other corner - he's gotta be with Alex, foreign guys stick together. Lockup, Averno trips Alex up, Alex tries a headscissors but he's shoved off, Alex kips top his feet but he's given an over the back armdrag. Averno seems amused. Circle. Reaching out to lockup - no, Averno sneak in a drop toe hold. Into a chinlock on the mat, but Alex rolls it over and reveres to an elbow lock. Averno gets in a headscissors to escape, and cranks it in. Alex looking for a way out, and turning Averno over, tying the legs, and putting on a mounted chinlock. Around to a side headlock on the mat. Averno battles to his knees, Alex recranks, Averno gets up anyway, so Alex retakes him down with a lightning quick drop toe hold. Floatover into an armbar, but Averno quick reveres. Alex is pulled back up, hip blocked down, and Averno gives him a rolling armbar, then a short armscissors, I guess. Alex is pinned to the mat, but Averno has just got his arm trapped. Back up their feet, Alex tries to flip into a reversal, but has to belittle for a little control, and ends up getting rolled onto his back for a cradle, one two no. Averno has grudging respect for Alex. Both up to their feet and circling. Averno with a single leg, off the ropes, over, under, Averno flips over, and Alex clocks him with a jumping spinning kick. Crowd seems to have picked Averno here, but it's not clear. Alex is getting distracted by the crowd - give us time for a replay of that kick. Corner whip, Averno kips up and out, and gets Alex with a backbreaker as he comes out of of the corner. Now Averno is appealing to the fans for support and they're clearly chanting for him. Averno goes for another backbreaker, but Alex slips out of the tilt-a-whirl, gives Averno a step over Russian legsweep, and puts on a - I don't even know, it's some sort of arm trap submission. Averno's not quitting - well, now he is. That's the fall.
2: Brawl starts on the outside, and Alex has no problem beating Averno into the crowd. Head into a women's lap. Head into a chair! Averno wants back in, but Alex stops him and breaks the count himself. POST! A nice one. Koslov takes time to stare and yell at the tecnico section. Koslov rolls in again, and pulls in Averno by a horn. Punch in the corner. Alex backs all the way up, looks, charges, and misses the the clothesline. Clothesline misses again, and Averno gives him a flapjack. Off the ropes, dropkick to the head. Averno poses, fired up. Alex wriggles around the mat, grabbing his head. Whip, spinebuster, singles leg crab, no is it meant to be a pin? No, it's a weird bow and arrow/nudo thing! That'll get him the fall.
3: We join with both guys face down on the mat. I'm thinking clip. Alex up first and kicking Averno in the chest. Averno cuts him off with a big boot when he tries to run the ropes. Averno pointing toward the crowd, charging, and getting hiptossed out. Alex collapses, so no dive for him quite yet. Averno is slow getting up, so Alex does end up with plenty of time - slingshot tope con giro! Time for the corner guys to earn their pay with towel waving. Both back in, slow up. Averno draws from the crowd some more, but he probably should look at Alex. Clip here? Alex rolls thru a sunset flip for a dropkick, but Averno ducks it and gets the cradle anyway, one two no. Both slow up. We could've used the big moves that put them in this situation rather than just see them suddenly tired. Replay of the last pinfall because we got the time. Meanwhile, something might have happened, but they're both slowly up now. Averno ducks a clothesline, kick to the midsection, Devil's Wings - no, Alex escapes with an armdrag into the Red Scare! He's got it locked on, but they're close to the ropes. Averno isn't moving though, and Magadan is yelling for the surrender. Averno is refusing to give, trying to turn his body to get his feet to the ropes, but he's just short. Moving towards the ropes some more, Alex trying to turn it to stop it, Averno almost there but can't quite - now he's got it. Alex immediately lets go, collapsing in his own exhaustion, as we zoom in on Averno's hand on the ropes. Olimpico talks to Averno as both wrestlers try to get back up for more. Alex is moving a little bit quicker, but it takes them both a while to get up. Alex grabs Averno, and powerbombs him. Alex look to his corner - for a Russian flag? He lays it on top of Averno, and heads up. He's got a long way to go if he's going for a splash, I don't know about this. Top rope splash - connects! one two NO! Alex can't believe it - he splashed him with the flag, how could he survive. Replay shows the dive from a better angle; they were hedging their bets on Alex making it on the first one. Now Alex has grabbed his ha - time for the dance step kicks. Off the ropes, dropkick to the knee by Averno, and the hat goes flying. Another dropkick tot he knee, and a regular dropkick to knock Alex out. Averno leaps to the apron - apron tope con giro! Both men down on the outside again, time for a replay or two. Averno first back in, but Alex behind him. Averno makes that mistake of celebrating, and Alex has seen enough lucha to know this is where he puts the cavernaria on. Averno fights it, fights it, no one's ever giving up in this spot, and Averno's breaks the hold to keep the trend intact. Both men down, crowd rooting for Averno. Alex up to his feet, but hurting. Off the ropes charge, Alex 'rana, Averno rolls thru, one two NO! Announcers thought it was three and celebrating like it was three for a moment. Both slow up, Alex misses a dropkick to the knee, Averno tries a 'rana, Alex powerbombs him, feet on the ropes, one two NO. Alex questions the referee, Averno inside cradle, one two NO. Averno can't believe, Alex can't believe he nearly lost like that. Look at the Averno fans in the crowd, while Alex gives Averno some mounted punches. Alex heading up again - well, first he'll look at the tecnico fans, never a good idea. Frog splash, but no one home this time. Ref puts a count on both men, and there's a chance he might get there with the way they're reacting. Averno gets an arm on top of Alex, one two NO. Averno up first, nodding his head to the crowd chant. He yanks up Alex and slams him. Going up? The crowd is not sure about this one, and Averno hesitates while listening to the crowd. Averno decides - not to go up! Slam, and now he'll hurry to get up - tope rope somersault senton misses, but Averno rolls thru and is actually waiting for Alex to get back up. Dropkick to the knee by Averno, La Majistral is shoved off, Alex La Majistral one two NO! Crowd has been buying into these near falls, as has the announces. As has Alex, judging from his expression. Alex up first, but looking staggered. Clothesline misses, Averno kick tot he midsection, Devil's Wings, one two three.
That's it.