03/30 CMLL Dos Leyendas Preview

CMLL (FRI) 03/30 Arena Mexico
1) Dark Angel, Lady Apache, Marcela vs Amapola, Hiroka, Mima Shimoda
2) Leono, Sagrado, Volador Jr. vs Black Warrior, Misterioso II, Tarzan Boy
3) Atlantis, Olímpico, Sangre Azteca vs Damián 666, Halloween, Mr. Águila
4) Dos Caras Jr., Lizmark Jr., Rey Bucanero vs Averno, Ephesto, Mephisto
5) Místico & Último Guerrero vs el Hijo del Perro Aguayo & Héctor Garza [ri]
6) Marco Corelone vs Universo 2000 [hair]

News(-ish) Previews
La Presna
Notimex
ESTO
– Ovaciones, of course.

In the ESTO interview, Universo says he has no idea if his brothers will interfere in the main event, because we they talk, lucha libre never comes up. I have no trouble believing they never talk about lucha. (And I’m sure they’ll run in.)

If Marco were to lose his hair, wouldn’t that be a fraud? When some random guy in some random promotion loses his hair twice in such a short time, I’d think it’s a pretty big rip off of the fans and a sign of some quite bad business practices. This is exactly what CMLL is proposing with this lineup – You May Get Ripped Off.

You know, I know, the rudo bellringer knows, Marco’s winning this match and he would be winning this match even if hadn’t just lost his hair. I still think even suggesting the possibility of a fraud is a bad idea, and Universo’s hair isn’t even close to be worth it.

My theory is CMLL got a bind. They were planning on doing Universo/Marco for hair at some point during this year, but not this soon. However, when they started getting close to Mistico/Perro, they realized they didn’t have a finish because of Mistico’s uncertain status, and had to do something else.

The actual problem is the “something else” – they’ve not really bothered to build up feuds in the last three months, and with Perro/Mistico out, the only possible thing that could main event was Marco/Universo, because those are the only two big feuds in the entire promotion. Park/Wagner got attention for about a week or two, and then died again (maybe the suspension was to cover another falling out?) They’re starting to do something with Averno/Mephisto/Ephesto but that’s not near far along now and I’m not sure them vs the Perros for the trios is a big main event. The feud they seem to be working hardest is El Hijo del Santo vs Paco Alonso, but that’s not going to have a good payoff for anyone.

CMLL, at least at the main event level, has been going downhill since Black Warrior yanked off Mistico’s mask one too many times after the mask match. This PPV lineup is lame. They skipped the major New Year card entirely, because they never left Arena Mexico (but still did Arena Coliseo cards.) The Year End PPV was lame. Even the Annviersary show was just okay. There’s a spark missing, a good feud that’s memorable some way, and CMLL hasn’t seemed to have in six months. Maybe getting pass this card and this feud will open up some new, better possibilities.

Match by Match:

1: 7-8 minute women’s opener to get the crowd (what of it in the building) going. I tend to overbook in these previews and would look for something like Mima beating Lady Apache to start the next title feud, but it’s a lot more likely the tecnicas win just to start the show on a happy note.

2: First of three straight matches which seem to exist just to get people onto the show. Will Tarzan Boy show? I’d figure the rudos take this one, just because as odd as it is for Black Warrior to be a segunda, it’d be too odd for him to be losing in a segunda.

3: The very loose idea here is Sangre’s contiyning tryout with the major league team. Guerreros didn’t win last week, so they gotta this week, or this bit is going nowhere.

4: Averno and company should keep rolling, and maybe they’ll start playing out a Lizmark Jr. turn in the ring, as opposed to the magazines. If they’re doing Perros/Triad of Terror down the road, they should’ve switched them to face off in these matches and had the Guerreros face the tecnicos. I think it would’ve worked better.

5: Mistico & Ultimo teaming for the first time ever is supposed to be a make good for not doing the hair/mask match, but I don’t know if it works out that way – you’re just waiting for something to go wrong with them, Ultimo to decide he dislikes Mistico more than the Perros at the moment, and foul him or pull of his mask or something. Maybe it won’t even happen till after the match, but I can’t see them playing the straight and the point is for them not to play is straight. This match is all about what angle they do, and not much about the finish.

6: Yea, Marco’s going over, but is he going to do it clean? This might turn into an AAA match with the runins (and counter runins.) If Marco to be the big new star, he ought to be getting a clean win here, but I doubt it’ll happen.

When this lineup was announced, someone said they were planning to go to the beach this weekend instead of going to the show. That’s the wise move – if I had that choice, I’d do that too. (Though it’s raining and in the 50s right now, so that may not work as well here.) If I was in Mexico, since it’s going to be on TV anyway, and it’s almost a normal TV card but the hair stip (and an extra “star” match), I doubt I’d buy it on PPV.

If I spot some live results on a message board, I’ll post them tonight, but I’m not going to look that hard. There’s nothing here that I can’t wait till the morning to find out about.

03/30: Guadalajara, Neza, Xalapa

CMLL (SUN) 03/25 Arena Coliseo Guadalajara [cmll]
1) Carlo Roggi & Nube Roja b Depredador & Rey Trueno
2) Magnum b Infierno
3) Cien Caras Jr. & Hijo de Cien Caras b Leon Blanco & Rayman [OCCIDENTE TAG]
4) el Hijo del Pierroth, Ephesto, Olímpico b La Máscara, Metal Blanco, Virus
5) Atlantis, LA Park, Último Guerrero b Alex Koslov, Lizmark Jr., Rey Bucanero

I thought there might be a title change, because it doesn’t seem like the Cien Caras kids are around here much. Didn’t turn out that way – it came down to Rayman and Cien Caras Jr., but the ref got distracted, Hijo de Cien Caras slipped in to foul Cien Caras Jr., and the champs retained. Ultimo snuck in a foul on Rey in the main event.

CMLL (TUE) 03/27 Arena Coliseo Guadalajara [CMLL]
1) Valentin Mayo b Nube Roja
2) Super Maquina b Golden
3) Metalik b Guero Loco
4) Oro II b Toxico
5) el Hijo del Pierroth, Máscara Mágica, Olímpico DQ Gallo, Leon Blanco, Sagrado
6) Alex Koslov & Místico b Ephesto & Mephisto

Magica fouled Sagrado; they seem to be setting up a feud there.

CMLL (TUE) 04/03 Arena Coliseo Guadalajara
1) Virgo vs Fraile de la Muerte
2) Idolo vs Danger (Guadalajara)
3) Metalik vs Depredador
4) Marcela vs Amapola
5) Metal Blanco, Oro II, Volador Jr. vs Malefico, Nitro, Toxico
6) Rey Bucanero & Texano Jr. vs Emilio Charles Jr. & Hector Garza

CMLL (WED) 03/28 Arena Xalapa Results [rodrigo_park @ Satanico’s Mansion]
1) Master & Pegaso de Plata b Cancer & Destructor
2) Gabriel O Gabriela & Karate Boy b Guerrero de la Noche & Perro Mocho Jr.
3) Mini Damian 666, Mini Halloween, Mini Hooligan b Mini Robin, Tzuki, Ultimo Dragon
4) Astro Boy, Impacto, Samuray b Arkangel, Eslabon Perdido, Loco Max
5) Mascara Purpura, Rey Bucanero, Shocker DQ Atlantis, Olimpico, Ultimo Guerrero

Ultimo faked a foul from Shocker. Astro Boy and Arkangel were feuding in the semifinal. Black Warrior, Tarzan Boy and Heavy Metal all missed the show, replaced by Ultimo Guerrero, Olimpico, and Mascara Purpura.

CMLL (SUN) 03/27 Arena Neza Results [Rudos de Neza]
1) Dark Devil & Red Bull b Boazz & Samy Rivera
2) Luis Cirio, Manny Cirio, Tony Cirio b Cometa Blanco, Cosmico, Insecto
3) Chac-Mol vs Ramstein, Rayo Tapatio I, Rayo Tapatio II, Tony Rivera, Valiente, Arkangel, Skandalo, Apocalipsis, Hooligan [ciber]
4) Dos Caras Jr. & Marco Corelone b Hector Garza & Perro Aguayo Jr.

Finals of the cibernetico was Ramstein vs Chac-Mol. When el Rey de Neza lost (yet again), he demanded a mask match and got into another fight with Chac-Mol. After the main event, they did a quickie Dos/Perro one fall match with a rudo and a tecnico fan’s hair on the line. Perro went down, the rudo fan got his head shaved and carried off on the shoulders of the other rudos fans.

AAA (WED) 04/18 Gimnasio Benito Juarez de Cuautitlan de Romero Rubio [triplea]
1) Billy Boy & Estrellita vs Apache & Tiffany
2) ?, Mexiacano, Mexico Bronco vs Cuervo, Ozz, Scoria
3) Nemesis AAA, Rey Cometa, Super Fly vs Alan Stone, Brandon, Scorpio Jr.
4) Elegido, Gronda II, La Parka Jr. vs Charly Manson, Chessman, Head Hunter I

People on Box Y Lucha have noted the oddness of this main event, so I thought I’d point out here. I’m pretty sure it’s just house show weirdness – a week later, Head Hunter’s working against the Head Hunters.

Martha Villalobos’s AAA-allied is group is running 8 shows in 12 days at a fair.

A request to run a CMLL show in Zacatelco, Tlaxcala was rejected by local government, because the city council was worried that the ring would mess up the basketball floor the show would be held on.

CMLL on FSE #8 (10/01/06)

taped 09/24/06 and 09/05/06 (for some reason)

The final segment of the show was cut out. I’m guessing they didn’t realize they were running long until the last second, and then just cut the last segment out becaus they had no choice. But maybe I’m giving them more credit than they deserve

I may have no actual factual basis to declare Ramstein “el Rey de Neza”, but based on this match, I have some video evidence to declare him “not so good in 2006.” The frog splash to finish off the second fall was so much less than Tony’s the previous fall, and that wasn’t a great one. Ramstein had bad timing and communication issues and he really should either watch this mistake to figure out everything he did wrong, or burn every copy of it and hope everyone forgets. Whichever is easier.

The rest of the matches from the 09/24 show never aired anywhere. GdR aired stuff from Arena Mexico those weeks. Maybe there were some sort of taping issues at Coliseo? It’s quite random.