CMLL CAN52 GdR #96

CMLL CAN52 Guerreros del Ring #96, taped 09/16, aired on 09/22

The India Sioux outside the ring bit was the best one ever. Almost the whole family in masks helped, having a guy from the other promotion make a secret cameo was also cool, but it just came off more intersting than the previous ones. Maybe it WAS just everyone in masks.

Luna Magica is very into doing advanced dives. She’s not good at them, but she’s very into trying them. I don’t know where I’m going with this, so let me move on to the next paragraph.

The main event was interesting to me (for the UG/Atlantis stuff – the fans were far more into Wagner/Mistico.) Crowd totally turned on Mistico after Wagner was pinned clean, which everyone should’ve seen coming by now. You’d think they’d make it work by having Atlantis foul Wagner and Mistico unknowingly get the pin, but this wasn’t thought out like that.

Wagner being upset is no surprise; he’s hearing these huge crowd wanting to cheer him as the top guy, and there’s no chance CMLL will go with it. The thing is, if he jumps to AAA, does that reaction come with him? There’s a percentage of cheers he’s getting for being Dr. Wagner Jr., but there’s another percentage who are cheering for him because he’s the guy who’s not Mistico. Wagner’s still going to be over, but I don’t know if it can be the same. (That, and can he believe AAA will push him ahead of Cibernetico and Mesias? Wagner’s gotta be silently rooting for Park/Santo to be huge enough to open a third option.)

4 thoughts to “CMLL CAN52 GdR #96”

  1. SUPERLuchas is saying Santo Jr vs LA Park masks match will “hardly happen”, but if Park has agred to drop the hood, I think Wagner might be the one thinking of being the third option, rather than joining it. Who’s to follow Santito? Kato Jr? Mano Negra? Solar?

    Who cares, it would seem that even Ultimo Guerrero is one of Wagner proteges, so it would be scary for CMLL to have Wagner opening his own promotion…

  2. It was Hombre Bala, who’s India’s dad and Monsther in AAA.

    Wagner vs Park would be great, but it doesn’t have the same potential to be the start of something with legs as a match with Santo. Wagner/Park seems like a one night money grab, while Santo could get grab money on regular basis.

  3. Wagner vs Park has been drawing since 2001 or so when luchas 2000 invented a feud for them, they actually toured feuding for quite a while and always drew huge (for instance, the AULL match) but it lost its appeal once Park turned “rudo”.

    Santo and Park would get something started if they feuded towards that match, not really having the match and then feuding, if a company starts with that huge match, then what else can you put on to draw fans?

    BTW, that outside the ring skits were my least favorites of all, those masks were pretty ugly (save India’s) and made them unwatchable for me… OK, I never watch those anyways…

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