Day: August 8, 2007

08/08: Coliseo, injuries

thecubsfan 8 Comments

CMLL (TUE) 08/07 Arena Coliseo [CMLL]
1) Shockercito & Tzuki DQ Pequeno Violencia & Pierrothito
2) Arkangel, Loco Max, Nitro b Astro Boy, Molotov, Trueno
3) Nosferatu, Okumura, Skandalo b Mictlan, Stuka Jr., Super Nova
4) Averno, Ephesto, Mephisto b Alex Koslov, Felino, Maximo
5) Dos Caras Jr., Heavy Metal, Volador Jr. b Damian 666, Mr. Aguila, Terrible

Nosferatu got away with a foul on Stuka in the third. Tzuki’s mask was yanked in the opener.

CMLL.com reports Ultimo Dragoncito will be out 10 weeks because of an ankle fracture suffered on Saturday in Queretaro.

Ovaciones says Atlantis will return to the ring on Sunday, for his previously scheduled match in AC Guadalajara. I hope this means his injury was much less severe than it sounded and he’s not rushing back for a meaningless match, but I feel naive even hoping that.

The newspaper also says the AAA Heavyweight Tournament includes eight men, so we’ve got all the first round matches (unless they just mean eight men so far.) After reading AAA’s blog on the tournament, I’m now sure we’re supposed to treat the UWA Light Heavyweight, Mexican National Heavyweight, and IWC Heavyweight (and/or the Campeon de Campeons – that’s what it looked like the first time I saw it) as vacant and possibly defunct.

It doesn’t actually matter how AAA’s treated it’s titles in the past (or how CMLL treats them now), because the guy who made those decisions is gone and the new crew seems to have a different philosophy on these things. They’re rebooting the importance of titles by ditching all the olds one and creating a new one, and deserve the benefit of the doubt they’ll do something with the new belt.

Super Calo and Chris Stone visited Ovaciones’s office, at the same time. That’d be a far more amusing sentence if Chris Stone really had been doing the Super Calo gimmick. Anyway, the Stones hope to do the trios thing soon – perhaps they too can win a version of the Mexico State Trios titles.

indy (SUN) 08/26 Parque Deportivo Beto Avila
1) Apolo, Celestial, Conquistador vs Dr. Crimen, Practicante, Triple XXX
2) Huracan Ramirez & Huracan Ramirez Jr. vs Coco Rojo & Coco Verde
3) Hijo del Santo & Tinieblas vs Bestia Salvaje & Negro Navarro

Notiver’s preview article hypes that show as the first time Hijo del Santo & Tinieblas have ever teamed…in Veracruz. Somehow, I doubt even that.

CMLL IBARRA (SAT) 09/15 Salon Ferrocarillero de Frontera [Zocalo]
1) King Balam & Super Brazo vs Iviz Guajardo & Maniacop
2) LA Park vs Dr. Wagner Jr., Ultimo Guerrero, Blue Panther

I had not heard that four way were the In thing this summer.

AAA #634 (07/21/07)

thecubsfan 3 Comments

taped 06/21

The recording issues were less than I thought going in, but got pretty annoying by the last half of the show. Let’s note that everytime they do Fuerza Aera/Apache Army Atomicos, my recording gets messed up. I don’t know what the means, but it sure is annoying.

All I got of the opener was is Explosivo is a tall man (or more likely a taller man with small guys.) He could stay, he could go, I don’t care. Aero Star has a great tope, that too.

The good thing about the bloated 3 hour AAA TV show is some matches get plenty of time and make some of it. If AAA was most promotions, with a sane amount of TV time, we’d probably hoping the Apache/Air Force atomicos got booked on a major show, because otherwise it’d be squashed down to fit time commitments. AAA can random undercard 10-15 minute match anytime they want, and usually do, because they’ve got plenty of time and are wise not save it for the main event. This would’ve been better with Laredo Kid remaining conscious for all of it, but it was still pretty fun from what I saw.

The bad thing about the bloated 3 hour AAA TV show is osme matches get plenty of time and make you wish for the sweet release of death. Seriously, whoever booked the women’s tag team match, I hate you. I hate you so much. I’m not a big fan of whoever was producing it either. Not only do we have the Run In That Goes Forever, Copetes is cheating rudos (?!?!) and taking the longest ref bump ever. I have never set my foot in the ring, so what the heck do I know, but I’m thinking you can only pin someone while the ref is out once. The moment you try it again, you look a moron. You know you can’t win, so what are you exactly accomplishing.

There’s like a dozen things I want to complain about that match – why did the Morenos fight to backstage, comeback, and then play no part in the finish – but we’ll be here all day. GET TO THE POINT AND GET OUT.

Are you sorta amazed we’ve gotten this far without Extreme Tiger, Crazy Boy or Joe Lider being badly hurt? Maybe I’m unfair and should be crediting it to skill, but it’s seem just like luck. Extreme Tiger was centimeters from someone really bad, and I don’t know that it meant much. I’m sure it looked real nice in a magazine. So will the photo of the hospital bed.

Should the Cuije Is Fine bit been saved for TripleMania? I dunno, this match might have just been here to make sure we knew Cibernetico was in the building.

Main event was really short, and that was fine. The pecking order is really obvious, as if it hadn’t been for the last year. La Parka Jr. is a spot show draw, and someone who will always been around in an important role. They’ll use Latin Lover as long as they think he’s making them money, but they’re not getting behind him anymore and I don’t know if they believe in him (which makes the Abismo/Latin teases absurd, unless Abismo needs cash.) Cibernetico is the franchise, and the main event is about him.