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AAA TV (THU) 08/16 Gimnasio Agustin Milian [Lucha Libre AAA Funcions Blog]
1) Mini Abismo Negro & Mini Histeria b Mascarita Divina & Octagoncito
2) Ayako Hamada b Fabi Apache
3) Charly Manson b Kenzo Suzuki [torneo, AAA HEAVY, 1st]
4) Cibernetico b Mr. Niebla [torneo, AAA HEAVY, 1st]
5) Crazy Boy, Extreme Tiger, Joe Lider b Alan Stone, Scorpio Jr., Super Calo
6) Mesias b Cibernetico [IWC HEAVY]
7) Cuervo, Mesias, Ozz b Chessman, Elegido, Zorro
Air Date
Mex: 08/26
US: 09/15
CORRECTION: So FOUR HOURS LATER, they added one more match. So now I’ve got a rant below that may not be valid.
Short version: Elegido instead of Laredo is a billion times less interesting. The only logic I could figure for Mesias/Ciber is they needed a make good main event, so now there’s completely no reason to have done that match. I dunno.
old outdated rant follows below.
What the heck happened here? I’ve read the (very partial) summary, and I’m still very confused. Even if Laredo Kid left for Japan on Wednesday, or had to leave Thursday before the main event of this show, that doesn’t explain why Chessman, Zorro, Ozz and Cuervo all are MIA.
Maybe they just couldn’t get thru a show without Mesias versus Cibernetico? It seems plausible.
They gave no explanation for the missing main event, but they did setup the replacement thru the show. From the looks of it, Cibernetico squashed Niebla in their tournament match. Mesias confronted him after, and demanded a shot at Cibernetico’s IWC Heavyweight Championship.
IMMEDIATELY OBVIOUS LOGIC HOLES:
– the last taping ended with Mesias and the Sect punking out the Hell Brothers, and Mesias walking off with both Cibernetico’s IWC belt and Charly’s Mexican belt. They made a big point in focusing on it in a “look, he stole these titles – and the AAA title is next!” way. And now, randomly, Cibernetico (and Charly) has his belt back.
– why in the world would you do a match for a Heavyweight Title when you’re spending half the show building up the importance of a new different Heavyweight Title? You can pick a belt off the scrap heap and pretend like it means something, or you can make up a new belt and pretend like it means something, but you can’t do both at the same time!
It looks, at least for the moment, as though AAA’s not ditching worthless belts to create one that might be worth something. They’re just going to showcase as many as possible at once to make sure they all mean nothing, and then throw one more new in so everyone has a belt.
– why in the world would you do, with zero build, Cibernetico vs Mesias for a Heavyweight Title when that’s not only the obvious finish to your tournament (though maybe not anymore), but all the obvious main event of one if not both of your last two major shows of this year? That’s just straight lunacy.
Bad business is bad business, I really shouldn’t get too phased by it. I think what hits me harder is this was the taping where we were actually solicited something different from what we’ve been hit over the head with each week all year, and it turns out (for whatever reason) to be the exact essence of all I’m bored with.
ANYWAY, Mesias beat Cibernetico for title no one even remembered existed two tapings ago, probably thru some chicanery of some sort but the pictures don’t make it clear. I think we’re supposed to care.
The rest of the show had the same random, unthought out bits. Unless there are vignettes to explain it, the Guapos are breaking up out of nowhere. Their match versus the Mexican Powers turned into an Alan/Scorpio fight. As you’d figure, Guapito went with Scorpio and Super Calo went with Alan, so I’d guess they’re breaking the Stone brothers off onto their own. I can’t figure why they’d do that, since they’re all best used as rudos and it doesn’t seem like either group is turning tecnico.
The women’s singles match continued the odd trend of Fabi Apache being a ruda 90% of the time, except when a Hamada is around. Kaoru Ito interfered, Alfa interfered, and then Kenzo interfered, because all Japanese people are evil and stick together. Fabi tried to repay this interference in the Charly/Kenzo match, but it looks Charly asked her away. Charly did win the match, so it’s the two Hell Brothers moving on.
Minis opener had masks being yanked and swapped. Rudo minis are staying strong.
With Cibernetico working twice, and four singles matches, this has to be one of the smallest in-ring rosters for an AAA show in quite some time. They could’ve used about 5 more people.
Announced Future Tapings
– 08/19 Salamanca