June 13, 2007 – luchablog

CMLL CAN52 GdR (#81)

June 13, 2007June 13, 2007 thecubsfan

The first fall of the women’s trio match was so great. I mean Medusa, who’s never looked good and only looked okay in her mask match, was perfectly fine here. The end was super too. When Amapola spiked Lady Apache with notDevil’s Wings and sat on her to count the pin, she seemed like the greatest wrestler in all the world.

And then fall two was not good, and fall three completely fell apart, and I was sad.

Main event was a Corelone main event. It’s not that Corelone that’s bad (at least here), it’s that he’s not doing anything but winning, and you can piece together the match before it actually happens at this point.

Finally, a time a wrestler profile feature is completely justified – Tarzan changing his name – and they only mention it on commentary. I dunno.

dark match wrestlers

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I was excited to see Super Comando on FSE this week. Even with now 4 hours of CMLL TV on a weekly basis, the very opening guys (and the minis) rarely make TV appearances. Comando’s spot here was probably pre-planned fill in duty, but it was also the first time he’s wrestled on either b-show.

Super Comando’s made 8 main show appearances since 2003 (the earliest I have CMLL TV indexed at the moment, and help with that would be nice) and also last December’s PPV,. I don’t get to see those shows regularly, and I was kinda surprised to see how much he has been on TV when I looked it up.

It got me to thinking, if the TV universe has been expanded so Super Comando is on TV every other month, than who’s taking his place as a guy who’s on a lot of DF cards but never making it to air? Thankfully, I have a large database of CMLL results for reasons like this.

SINCE 2003-01-01, only including CMLL shows at Arena Coliseo and Arena Mexico
TV appearances include main show, PPVs and both GdR shows, but not the old LA show*

People with 0 TV appearances, at least 15 matches.

19: Mano Negra Jr. – gone from promotion
23: Halcon Negro – ?
24: Meteorix – ?
27: AlacrÃ¡n De Durango – ?
28: Mini Fantasy – Mini
29: Ãšltimo Vampiro – regimmicked?
30: SicodÃ©lico Jr. – gone from promtoion
38: Ringo Mendoza – off TV
39: Bam Bam – mini
41: Zetta – ?
45: Explosivo – ?
48: Reyes Veloz – ?
59: Guerrero del Futuro – off TV
77: Sombrita – mini
83: Bracito de Oro – mini
87: PequeÃ±o Violencia – mini, tv match if I go back a little farther
111: Rayo TapatÃo I
113: Rayo TapatÃo II

I’m sure both Rayo Tapatios have appeared if I go back far enough, but this is a long dry spell.

Most matches with least TV appearances

1 appearance: Vaquero, 115 matches. (Fire has 113)
2: Polvora (132)
3: Flecha (108)
4: Sombra de Plata (128)

Lowest rate of appearance, at least 10 TV matches

06.1%: Ramstein (12 of 198)
11.7%: Tiger Blanco (18 of 154)
12.7%: Apocalipsis (21 of 166)
12.8%: Valiente (12 of 94) – this number looks to be improving rapidly
14.7%: Neutron/Metro II (19 of 129)

Highest rate of appearance, at least 10 TV matches (aka Guys Who Don’t Work Tuesday Coliseo)

93.6%: Marco Corelone (44 of 47)
89.3%: El Hijo del Santo (25 of 28)
88.6%: El Hijo del Perro Aguayo (132 of 149)
88.5%: Kenzo Suzuki (23 of 26)
83.4%: Hector Garza (96 of 115)

(Groon is 7 of 8. Kid Tiger is 3 of 4!)

Most TV appearances
184: Ultimo Guerrero (301 matches)
165: Atlantis (289 matches)
164: Rey Bucanero (267 matches)
143: Mistico (222 matches)
141: Dr. Wagner Jr. (241 matches)

141: Negro Casas (281 matches)
132: Perro Aguayo Jr. (149 matches)
129: Universo 2000 (229 matches)
129: Tozcano (229 matches)
129: Averno (243 matches)

* – I don’t know why I don’t have this show in the database, but I should fix it. Weeks were there’s no TV records skew things. Stellar moments are not counted. Matches which air twice (Best Of) are counted twice. Naturally, numbers are as accurate as I can make them, but surely not 100%.

06/13: Monterrey, Merida, Monclova

June 13, 2007June 13, 2007 thecubsfan 2 Comments

No Coliseo results on CMLL.com or Ovaciones (which has stopped covering Colisoe shows lately.)

AAA (SUN) 06/17 Arena Coliseo Monterrey [RFC]
1) Aguila Extrema & Arquero vs Invasor & Mercurio
2) Karis & Orus vs Ramses & Rey Infernal
3) Estrellita vs Tiffany, Sexi Star
4) Aventurero, Hator, Zumbido vs El Brazo, Pimpinela, the Mummy
5) Charly Manson, Elegido, Octagon vs Abismo Negro, Antifaz, Histeria

CMLL PYCV (SUN) 06/24 Poliforum Zamna de Merida [YucaRod @ box y lucha]
1) Corazon Rockero, Espartano I, Jhony Reyna vs Cachorro JR., Chupacabras, Proverbio
2) Butire Lee vs Panther Boy, Rey Persa, Dr. Siniestro [hair, mask]
3) Caballero Galactico, Mascara Purpura, Mascara Sagrada vs Dr. X, Nitro, Sangre Azteca
4) Alex Koslov, Negro Casas, Volador vs Guerrero Blanco, Mephisto, Texano Jr.
5) Mistico vs Averno [NWA MIDDLE]

Zocalo has a riveting photo of a man holding up a unreadable piece of paper. Anyway, there’s three paragraphs of explanation of why Lizmark Jr. was physically unable to wrestle at the Monclova show over the weekend. I was unaware people cared, but we do get details about his injury (right elbow, won’t be cleared till June 21st at the soonest which makes the since reversed booking for him on Friday awful odd.) After that, the last paragraph mentions Black Warrior no-showed the card and no one, not CMLL or the local promoter, knows where he was, as if that’s just a minor substory. Goofy.

(Ecos de la Costa) The Colima Secretary of Youth sponsored a local lucha show, looking to promote lucha libre in the development of young people. Also goofy!

(El Sol de Tijuana) The Tijuana interschool Olympic games of will have closing ceremonies on Friday, and there will be lucha libre matches for the Kids. Santo, Latin, Tiniebla and Alushe are listed as working the show.

Next news update won’t be till Thursday evening, though there should be a few recaps going up between now and then.

CMLL GdR on FSE #43 (06/03)

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taped 05/27

One day, I will stop doing these and then waiting until I forget what I wanted to say about them before I post them.

Metal was really quite awful in the main event, to a level I don’t recall seen since he’s been back in CMLL. He was either a beat slow or just off at points, including the end. He’s still among the best in taking one match storylines and selling them as if they’re the most dramatic events to happen in our lifetimes, but it does lose something when they turn out to be one match events.

I didn’t get as much the idea that Valiente was being elevated here as somehow Warrior and Metal got hooked into participating in an Arena Mexico segunda. Which would’ve made the opener a random spot show match, what with Skandalo and Tiger Kid. Neither of those guys really showed much – it was really all about building Texano/Maximo. Which, again, seems to be dropped after this match.

Tiger Kid using a casita as a finishing move was a really swell way to build up the later match storyline of Warrior using the Casas family move against Heavy Metal, but they couldn’t have even planned such a thing. It had to just work out that way.