AAA Mini Line - 07/07/07 (#632)
Recapped: 07/07-08/07

The show title here is El Regreso (the Return), because it's Parka's return to the ring. Apparently, they were really close to the beach to this taping, and someone made the executive decision to skip the backstage bits, and film everything at the beach. Seems like a smart move. So, during the intro, we have Jesus Z talking to el Mesias while Mesias does squats! While Mesias talks about whatever he talks about, we see clips of him doing squats, crab walking, and swimming. I guess he's working hard. Announcers end the segment by trying to do squats of their own.

Vignette: El Apache is on the beach. Jesus Z's intro talks about Billy Boy, which Apache doesn't dig. Apache promises to destroy Billy Boy's life, piece by piece.

Match 1: Gran Apache & Super Calo vs Laredo Kid & Super Fly 
Parque de Beisbol Rojo Gomez, Coumel, Quintana Roo, 06/08/2007 

Winner: Rudos
Match Time: 8:58
Notes: Air Force is wearing matching gear, yay for that. Super Calo enters before the break, Gran Apache after - because they're brawling to start the match. Pepe Casa is the ref. Air Force actually gets the better part of the brawl. Announcers sound weird - like we're getting the sound via the PA system rather than directly thru the microphones. Either that, or we're getting radio quality audio. Air Force brings Super Calo in, but Apache yanks out Laredo and works him over. Super Fly chase s out Super Fly, so Apache comes in to face him. Fly off the ropes, over, handspring flip run for no reason, Apache mocks with the Crane pose. Fly shoulderblocks him over, backflip splash, no cover. Fireman's carry slam, Fly up top, moonsault but the pool's empty. Calo in, he hops over Super Fly, hops to the top rope, and hops of with a diving clothesline. Apache rolled out in here. Calo sets up Fly on the top rope, backs to the middle of the ring to taunt, charges, with slaps, but Fly kicks it Aiwa. Middle rope headscissors. Calo quick to his feet and tomahawk chopping Fly. Fly kips back to his feet, and Calo back elbows him down. Laredo Kid's slipping in. Corner whip, Laredo backdrops Super Fly (who lands on the apron, and drops to the floor), and kicks Calo away as he charges. Fly Laredo drops Calo with a wheel kick. Laredo forces him into the corner for chest slaps. Either the crowd is dead or we can't hear them, and I think it's the latter. Corner whip, Laredo does a handspring enziguri. Kinda weird, not sure how that actually works. Laredo quick to the top rope, top rope back elbow drop! Don't see those often. One two Apache cuts off Pepe Casas, then gives the big slap to Laredo. Calo rolls out and argues with the front row. Apache yells a bit rather than follow up. Corner whip, revered, Apache stops short in the corner, but still turns into an armdrags. Laredo gives him a climb up headscissors, and Apache retreats to the corner. Laredo backflips off him, but stops to pose, and Apache wants no time in dropkicking him. Calo and Apache now both in and taunting the crowd from there. Double whip, double clothesline, double whip, double boot. Apache yelling. Announcers sound like they're on radio now. Corner whip, Apache knocks down Laredo, catapult/Diamond Cutter combo looks beautiful. Laredo dropkicks Laredo out, and slaps Super Fly as he steps in the ring. Another one to knock him down. Corner whip, Calo splashes him in the corner, and Apache flapjacks him out. Lots of talking to the crowd. Super Fly is worked over with chops in the corner. Corner whip, Apache misses a clothesline, Super Fly jumps to Apache's shoulders - this leads to Apache trying to toss him off for another Calo Diamond Cutter, but it's mistimed and looks as bad as the first one looked good. Announcers are talking about Winners/Super Calo. Super Fly is knocks out of the ring. Laredo tries coming in with a dropkick, but he's side stepped. Super Calo with a fireman's carry forward slam, and Apache hits the top rope tope con giro. Both guys pause, and they actually get some cheers this time. Double armbar on Laredo, but Super Fly breaks that up with a dropkick.

Holy crap, AAA has learned how to show a replay in one part of the screen while we can still see the action in another. This is the tope con giro, but they do this sport of thing all show. 

In the ring, everyone but Super Fly gets dropkicked by someone, and Super Fly goes out with a Asai moonsault of his own. Back in, Laredo reverse a corner whip, but Calo hits a springboard sunset flip. He rolls thru oit on his own, which is probably not the best of ideas. Calo hits a running bitg boot, but charge again with Laredo on the mat, and that always leads to a monkey flip to the floor. Springboard tope con giro! Laredo wasn't in a hurry to turn over on that one, making it look quite different. Fly and Apache back in, Apache looking for a handshake he shall never get. Fly moves out of he way of a corner charge, flips for no reason, shoulderblock, off the ropes, handspring back elbow connects. Fly headed up, calling a flippy move, but Calo's over there - and Super Fly is crotches. Apache rolls out as Calo goes to the top rope and brings Super Fly with him. Off the top rope rope 'ran! This may be it - one two NO! Okay, it wasn't it. Fly rolls out, Calo starts running - tope cut off when Laredo kicks him as he goes thru the ropes! Laredo springboard in with a plancha on Apache. Laredo ducks a clothesline, hits the enziguri. Hope he has plan? When did his tope get unzipped? So many questions. Yelling suplex, and Laredo goes up tope. Laredo almost loses his balance, adjusts himself, and then goes for the 450 - maybe that extra time was the difference, because Apache got his boots up. Calo back in to help. Whip, spinebuster, rolled into a bodyscissors lift by Apache. Calo with a double springboard stomp to Laredo's back? Not sure about that, neither is Apache because he adds a senton. One two three. Super Fly is much much too late to make the save, and Apache and Calo kick him out of the ring too. Guess we're doing single pinfall.

Vignette: Some masked man is visiting Giminasio Latino Americano - Apache's lucha school. I like how the woman at the door is totally by a masked man. In the ring, Apache and Calo are instructing the students - I think I spot a blond woman (Angel Williams?), a Japanese woman (Ayako Hamada?), a Japanese guy (no idea) and other people. It's less instructing, more beating up people. Calo is wearing a Wolfpack nWo tank top. Masked guy keeps trying to get Apache's attention, but he' want to keep beating up the kids. Apache eventually leaves Calo in charge, and talks to masked guy - he wants to train with Apache. Apache explains he's busy with these guys right now, but if he comes back next week, Apache will have some time for him. So that's that.  

Vignette At The Beach: Check out that cruise ship. Konnan talks about being all over the world to find the best talent for Legion, and introduces two new members - Angel Williams and Ayako Hamada. He's also bringing along the best woman's wrestler in Mexico - Fabi Apache. It's nice that she's over the time the Legion randomly attacked her and her dad. Anyway, Konnan bad mouths the other women, including calling Cinthia Moreno "Scareface". That's cruely hilarious - Jesus Z is apalled, Fabi is amused. Anyway, if the trio proves themselves with a win, they're in the group permantly. 

Match 2: Ayako Hamada, Canadian Angel, Fabi Apache (c) vs Cinthia Moreno, Estrellita, Sexy Star
Parque de Beisbol Rojo Gomez, Coumel, Quintana Roo, 06/08/2007 

Winner: Tecncias
Match Time: 13:20
Notes: Cinthia has her mixed tag team belt. Konnan enters before the ruda woman, and gets lots of cheers from the crowd. They actually get louder as he gets to the ring. Konnan works them into starting a cibernetico chant. Konnan calls the tecncia women ugly and says they can't wrestle. Angel Williams is introduced as "Angel" here. Oh, I guess Konnan is doing the introductions for all the ruda women to explain who they are, that's pretty smart. Ayako Hamada has no belts! Fabi Apache is using her dad's music. The tecnicas can't believe she's on the ruda side, so apparently they don't take the issue between Sexi and Fabi as strong as she does. Fabi kicks her on the way in to make that point clear. Copetes is ref. 

the results listed he name as Canadian Angel 
the vignette said her name was Angel Williams 
the graphic lists her name as Angel
Communications problem? Angel was a sub, so they probably didn't have it figured. It's all close enough.

Anyway, the match was below average compared to CMLL women's trios matches, perhaps well below average. Maybe to AAA ones, but we really haven't gotten much of them lately. Even Fabi and Cinthia blew a spot badly near the finish. Angel Williams looked exactly like you'd expect for someone trained to be a WWE divas - rail thin, doing very little but clotheslines, and none of them looked particularly good. She took a lot of flat back bumps and looked confused at how the match was progressing, as you'd expect for a foreigner unfamiliar to the style. She ended up in the front row off an early Cintha Moreno clothesline, and may have clocked Estrellita good with a forearm on her dive. 

The memorable part of this match is a dive by Sexi Star, where she leaned forward and overshot Esterllita (thinking about it now, Angel probably should've been around that spot to be the target, but she was no where to be seen.) Estrellita had no shot of catching her, and Sexi Star faceplanted herself into the floor a high rate of speed. If I didn't already know she worked the next taping, I would've though she was done forever. Somehow, she pulled herself up (or more, Estrellita pulled her over) to help catch an Ayako Asai moonsault. That dive was just as far off actually, though Ayako landed safer, and Sexi actually bailed on catching it. The next we saw of her, she was laying on the floor, being attended to by medical personal.

The AAA women tried higher difficulty stuff than the CMLL woman generally do, but when it doesn't work, it's a far worse product. And Diana's better than Angel Williams looked here.  

Finish saw Cinthia get a La Mistica into her Farmer's Roll, and Copetes decide to make the three count after steadfastly refusing to do it before, for no particular reason. To top it, Ayako got Konnan's crutch and stood there while the count was being made, only tapping Copetes with the crutch after the three count. That was dumb.  

Konnan hit the ring post match, and directed Ayako and Angel Williams to beat up Fabi. Sure, blame the Mexican. Tecnicas didn't make the save. Gran Apache came in with a chair, but once we start involving the men, Apache ain't going to win that. La Secta ran in and beat him up before he could do anything, and Ayako gave him a chair shot. The match wasn't much good, but I see where they're going for this, and it made sense. Estrellita and Cinthia actually tried to make the save for Fabi after all of that, but the men cleared them out. 

Interview At The Beach: Psicosis explains he's with the legion because he's more rudo than he's Mexican. Hey, me too!

Match 3: Escoria, Espiritu, Psicosis II (c) vs Crazy Boy, Extreme Tiger, Joe Lider (c)
Parque de Beisbol Rojo Gomez, Coumel, Quintana Roo, 06/08/2007 

Winner: Mexican Powers
Match Time: 12:32
Other Match Notes: Escoria and Espiritu have their Atomicos belts. Juvi's in a sling and talking on the microphone, but no one's turned the microphone out. The announcers explain Extreme Tiger's taking his place. This week, Extreme Tiger is wearing Juvy's old vest. Tirantes is the ref.

There seems to be an occasional idea that the tecnicos want revenge on Psicosis for turning on them. The (disjointed) start where Tiger dropkicks the other two rudos out of the ring to leave Psicosis in alone, but they mostly abandon that to work the same MP/Sect match we've seen all year. That includes a chair being brought and used with no DQ so they could spots.

Not one of the better Mexican Powers nights, for sure. They skip the wacky team moves on the comeback, presumably to have a longer showcase, and all of them have things go wrong there. I don't know what move Joe Lider tried to do Espiritu before he sent them out - it might have been a bad double knee gutbuster, it might have been a bad dropkick, all I know was it was bad. Crazy has this hammerlock double knee to the back bit which I can't tell if it's supposed to look like what he's doing (and if so, why?) Extreme Tiger flies over Psicosis on his tope con giro, which might have been more Psicosis' fault, but I bet it felt worse for Tiger. 

The end game has Psicosis trying for that chair added senton from the title match, this time on Extreme Tiger. While Juvy reappears to protest, Tiger moves out of the way. Tirantes and Juvy have the longest argument ever because the two guys in the ring have to do a bunch of spots, and Extreme Tiger wins with a - top rope 'rana? And he actually hit it fine? That's a nice change of pace. 

Noti AAA
- So, Tiffany and Estrellita were on some show that AAA couldn't get decent video from, because it looks like a VHS generation copy. We're still doing Tiffany and Estrellita can't get along, but also Estrellita is confronted with the Cibernetico kissing random woman footage from a few weeks ago, and she also seems to have no idea what that was about.
- Let's pretend Fuerza caused Juvi's injury. We may be pretending Juvy's actually hurt in the first place
- Jesus Z talks to Prez Roldan to confirm TripleMania will be huge. It will be, Pres Roldan explains. This is so informative!

Interviews ON THE HIGH SEAS: Guapos are getting tans on a boat. Well, we only see Alan and Scorpio. Oh, yea, Guapito is there too. Zumbido is fishing! Wow, if you ever wanted to see Zumbido in a thong, this is the show for you. I could do without.  Anyway, Jesus Z's deal is he thinks these guys are relaxing when they should be training, but since they're on this show like once a month, I don't think they need to do too much. Guapito is steering the ship. 

Match 4: Alan Stone, Scorpio Jr. (c), Zumbido vs Alebrije, Elegido, Oriental (c)
Parque de Beisbol Rojo Gomez, Coumel, Quintana Roo, 06/08/2007 

Winner: Guapos
Match Time: 12:47
Other Match Notes: Guapos annoy me by all getting separate entrances, including Guapito. Cuije comes to the ring with a walker, because he's hurting from last week's Head Hunter splash. My thought is, if you've got to use a walker to get in the ring and guys attack you on a weekly basis, perhaps you should not go to the ring. That's just how I would do it. Break, and we come back to find Oriental is captain (really?) and of course, Guapito beating down Cuije. Rudos have jumped the tecnicos, who've all decided to match in Alebrije-purple today. Pepe Casas and Copetes are refs.

Lots of replays to explain the Cuije angle, which is nice. Guapito beats Cuije past the point of unresponsiveness, which seems like a waste of effort. Maybe he's angry he had to pilot the boat and couldn't fish. Highlight of the rudo beatdown is Elegido getting a moment of comeback and opting to dance. Everyone kills him, but the actual comeback is soon after. Alebrije holds Guapito for Cuije to hit, but it's tough for Cuije since he has to take one hand off his walker to do it. Where do you get a mini walker anyway? Should I be distressed that they happened to have one just laying around, because it's not like they would think ahead to get one of an angle? This is a usual Guapo match - good, but I know it's not going anywhere so I can't get much into it. Oriental looks good as well, especially on a tope. Elegido - well, Oriental looks good. Alan and Elegido has a dance contest, and for once, Elegido is the one attacking the dancing guy. In a similar role reversal, Elegido yanks Zumbido's trunks, instead of the other way around. (They're blurring it out, thanks.) Zumbido was supposed to do the same thing, but lost Elegido on the sunset flip, and they cut out Elegido doing something lewd to Zumbido as cover. Zumbido's gear appears to be shedding tassels thru the match.

Elegido gets Zumbido in a near finish hold, but Scorpio whips Alebrije into them to break it up and send them both out. Alebrije blows a flair flip to the apron, and just steps thru to the ropes because that's where he's supposed to be. Missile dropkick connects, as does the legdrop, but Guapito low blow headbutts him. I have no idea why Copetes and Pepe Casas are supposed to be looking outside at this point, but they are. 

Interview: La Parka gets the rundown of his opponents. He's not all the way back, but he'll fight for AAA against the Legion.

Match 5: Cuervo, Kenzo Suzuki, Mesias (c), Ozz vs Cibernetico (c), La Parka Jr., Zorro, Chessman
Parque de Beisbol Rojo Gomez, Coumel, Quintana Roo, 06/08/2007 

Winner: Rudos (Mesias pins Cibernetico)
Match Time: 5:55
Other Match Notes: Kenzo enters first, and Konnan walks out with him. Ozz and Cuervo have both their belts with them. Number of fans who jump the rail for Cibernetico: 1. Number of fans who jump the rail for La Parka Jr.: 4. I don't mean this as a popularity comparison, just humorous to see it happen for one person, and then security is even worse for the next guy. They do appear to actually have security, it's just not good. Seeing Cibernetico clap along to La Parka's dancing is BIZARRE. Parka's left should must really not be good, because Chessman has to take of the t-shirt Parka's wearing for him. At least they're admitting it's a problem. Tirantes is the ref.   

Match started out backwards - the tecnicos won the opening fist fight and dominated, until Ricky moved out of the way a corner work and hit a double clothesline to start the comeback for the Legion. Scoria and Espiritu joined the match, and the crutch would use - as everyone would expect. As everyone else fought on the outside, Mesias and Cibernetico were left inside. Parka was fighting with one arm, but had a bit of advantage, before Kenzo broke - I guess, plasterboard? Something solid and powdery - over Parka's left shoulder. Parka went down, and Tirantes covered him up and called - I thought at first for the DQ, but apparently he was just waving to get medical help. Tirantes (briefly) and Chessman try to cover up Parka from further damage, but Kenzo pulls them off so Mesias can stomp. 

This is a good time for a replay, because Kenzo's attack was hidden till the last second. They do show the replay, and a second angle gives it a better look - I guess it was a light bulb tube? Tirantes is selling is like he might have re-broken his shoulder, frantically waving in doctors to get Parka stretched out. Chessman and Cibernetico block off the legion to get Parka on the stretcher. In the process, Mesias gives Cibernetico a (bad) urange for the pin.  

Parka is rushed t he back, leaning on his right shoulder, as the rudos stomp down the other tecnicos. Parka is put in ambulance. After the Legion gets bored and leave, Cibernetico vows La Parka Jr. will return and they'll get revenge on the rudos. Legion doesn't seem much worried.

That's it.