CMLL CAN52 GdR - 07/28/07 (#88)
Recapped: 08/03/07

Intro: Dr. Wagner hangs out with the announcers, while the Villanos cut a pre-taped promo. Villano III seems to be cutting a tecnico promo, or he's going right over my head. Announcers try to get Wagner to say something definite about his tecnico/rudo status, but no luck.

Outside the ring, but only about 15 feet away: Metalico's interviewed while standing on the aisle. Unlike the rudos, he appears to have no family nor home to go to. Actually, considering the places the guys a match higher on the card were living, it's probably best we don't see Metalico's house. Doing a Metalico profile would've been smart the week he stopped being Tigre Metalico - gives you something to talk about - but it feels like they just grabbed someone who was working out in the gym to talk for 10 minutes. Metalico also does a El Diseno to talk about his back tattoos and his mask - they usually do these mask bits right on the ramp, so I'm guessing they just ended up doing both features at the same time. 

Match 1: La Nazi (c), Medussa, Rosa Negra vs India Sioux, Luna Magica, Marcela (c)
Arena Mexico, 07/20/07

  1. tecnicas
  2. ruda
  3. tecnicas

Winner: tecnicas
Match Time: 13:14
Approx Rating: Some parts were really good, some parts were not really good.
Other Match Notes: No intros. I can't imagine a situation where the rudo side actually has a shot here. 

1: India/Medusa sequence is obviously clipped out. Medusa has streak of red in her hair, to match the accent color of her outfit (I assume). She and Rosa last about 15 seconds before Rosa goes out on an armdrags, but she does come back in to continue.  Medusa gets a figure four quickly, and Rosa has to battle to get to the ropes. She's limping from there. Marcela tosses her around with arm ringers, until Rosa blocks on and gets a fujiwara armbar. Marcela to a reversal, ends up underneath Rosa being pinned, back bridges up, goes over for a sunset flip, and Rosa Negra kicks her away. Nice dropkick followup. Whip, Marcela dropkicks her down. Who's got the giant balloon in the crowd? Marcela ducks a shoulderblock, and gets in a headscissors. Marcela loads up Rosa on her shoulders, and drops her forward in a gutbuster. That looked nice and go a reaction. Marcela does the fake dive bit, and Nazi boots her just as she gets to the pose. Crowd is actually into this. Luna rolls Marcela back into the ring, which isn't too helpful of her. Nazi throws Marcela around by her hair, and sandwiches her in the corner. Corner whip, Marcela goes to the middle rope and hopes off with a headscissors. Off the ropes, spinning headscissors, out goes La Nazi. Luna in, Rosa against her, and Luna goes over a drop down with a cartwheel, then jumps into a spin kick for no particular reason. Whip, reversed, Rosa does a springboard tope - I don't know if she meant to do that, because no one ever does it, but it did look cool. Rosa with a whip, Luna does a rolling backflip over her, Rosa's clothesline attempt is hooked, and Luna throws her down by her hair. Luan off the ropes, Rosa lifts her up (and holds her in place), and Luna gives her a faceslam. Dropkick, and out goes Rosa Negra. Luna starts running for a dive, and La Nazi destroys her with a clothesline. Crowd gets loud when Nazi gets in. Nazi misses a clothesline, and Luna tries a bodyscissors bulldog. It's not so good, though I think Nazi ended up hitting hard anyway. You never want the move to look less painful than it actually is, that's no fun. It's much better the other way. Luna dropkicks Nazi out, and follows with a tope. The other four hit the ring. India has this twelve step attempt at a Indian Deathlock (get it)! - it's a good thing everyone's watching Medusa take out Rosa with a fireman's carry into a backbreaker.

2: so we come back, and the beatdown is already in progress. BOOO EDITING. Luna gets leveled with another La Nazi clothesline, and a Medusa Bronco Buster doesn't look so fun. Luan's still doing that thing where she jumps right as she's being hit in the corner. This trio is actually pretty good as a destructive force, working over the smaller tecnicas. India just gets a La Nazi dropkick. Marcela comes in for an awkward series - the timing is off on an Infernales style rebound double hiptoss, so Medusa and Nazi compensate by tossing down Marcela as hard they can. Marcela's head bounces, and she doesn't move until referees check on her. India kinda takes the GdI sit from La Nazi, though they straighten her out quick. Rosa sets India on the middle rope - wow, superplex. That's do. Luna gets hung upside down for the submission

3: Beatdown goes on. Marcela has trouble mistiming a jump, and I wonder if she's out of it here. She takes a doublet takedown, and La Nazi squashes her with a splash. Rosa boot chokes India while Magica gets worked over. India gets thrown out by her hair, but the the rudas seem to be looking for her to do another spot. Nazi grabs Marcela in a headlock and pulls her around, as Marcela comes in instead. Double whip, La Nazi double clothesline, Marcela ducks, Luna does not. I have no idea if that was supposed to happen. Marcela dropkicks Medusa and stomps on her, but Rosa grabs her by the hair and pulls her over to La Nazi. They setup the double whip spot again - I guess that answers that - and this time La Nazi makes sure to throw the double clothesline so early, Luna and Marcela have no choice but to side step out of way. Dropkicks for everyone, India coming in with one for La Nazi as well. La Nazi get a double leg takedown and a Luna senton, and the tecnicas follow he outside for a moment. Match pauses as the rudas regroup. Medussa and India in, and India immediately gets the satellite armbar, but La Nazi just as quick breaks that up. Marcela tries to dropkick Nazi, that misses, a chop is caught and La Nazi puts her in a full nelson, but Rosa's missile dropkick ends up hitting La Nazi. Everyone ends up back in. Medusa is chopped down, Rosa is dropkicked and boot choked in the corner, Nazi is whipped into Medusa which sends her out. Luna goes to the apron, she can't be thinking Asai Moonsault! No, it's an Asai tornillo - it looked like she was looking for the armdrag too, but Medussa had no clue and dint' much catch her. Marcela holds Nazi in the corner with a boot choke as India gives Rosa Negra a (slow) reinera, dropping to her knees for a nice backbreaker. All the tecnicas cover Rosa Negra, but Nazi stops the ref from counting. Nazi tries to splash the tecnicas, but they move and Rosa takes it instead. A ref starts counting a pinfall, and La Nazi shoots him an annoyed look - who's he counting for? . I don't think the ref thought that one thru. India dropkicks La Nazi as she gets up, and Marcela climbs to the top - her missile dropkick connects too. Tecnicas tease doing more, and the crowd reacts - I think they're thinking this one should be done. It is - they've just got a nice double armbar submission pose to get in.

El Arte del Catch: Medio Cangrejo - half crab is easier for me to type.

Match 2: Terrible, Villano III (c), Villano V vs Alex Koslov, Dos Caras Jr., Dr. Wagner Jr. (c)
Arena Coliseo, 07/22/07

  1. rudos
  2. tecnicos
  3. tecnicos

Winner: Tecnicos (2-1)
Match Time: 16:17
Approx Rating: Usual.
Other Match Notes: Why show entrances if we can't get the music? So sad. I keep wanting to make V4 the healthy one for some reason.

1: Rudos jump the tecnicos while we're looking elsewhere, again. This is quite short - it's really just Wagner getting worked over after the whistle. Villano III and Terrible help stretch Wagner and get him up.

Random Trivia Question (/time filler)
Q: Antes de ser Villano V, ?Que personaje tuvo?
A: Rockambole

2: Beatdown goes on. Dos is worked over with some terrible punches from Terrible. Wagner is beatdown in the corner, and of course is waving at the crowd and feeling fine as he's pulled to the ropes. Whip for Wagner, Villano V throws a clotheslined (5 was expecting 3 to help throw a double clothesline, but he was lost in space), Villanos miss another double clothesline on the next pass, Wagner shoulderblock Terrible, misses a double clothesline on the Villanos, and the Villanos walk to the corners and brace themselves for Dos and Alex's missile dropkicks. That was all bad. Terrible gets backdropped to the floor and Wagner gets in his apron tope con giro. Dos and Alex reverse corner whips to take out the Villanos. Dos grabs V5 for the German suplex, and I think V5 objects. Dos turns him around does a 'rana instead. Alex gets the Red Scare with much less trouble. Villanos end up outside, and Wagner works them over as we watch replays.

El Arte del Catch: La Altena - this is like a hammerlock abdominal stretch, but that's not quite it. 

3: Wagner appears to start the fall, and just comes into get his named chanted before he leaves. I hope there was a clip here. Dos/Terrible instead. Pose off to start. Dos win that, and pretty much everything after that. His stuff looks good this match, a nice superkick, leapfrogging over the Villanos before dropkicking them out, and getting Terrible with a rope assisted enziguri. Wagner and Alex come into pose with him. Alex is next. Alex Koslov working with Villano three is weird. Villano III must think it's odd too, because he socks him in the face. V3 with a shoulderblock, off the ropes, into an armdrag. Another. V3 misses a clothesline, and gets enziguri-ed in the head. V5 in, but Alex gives him the stop sign so he can blow some kisses. Of course, V5 strikes him down. This gets into a chop battle, but Terrible ends that with a sneak kick from behind. Corner whip, Terrible whipped in, Alex moves and switches him in, V5 is kicked on the charge, Alex flips for no reason and ends up on the apron, sprig boarding back in with a kick for V5. Superkick for Terrible, and Alex has time to pose again. Wagner time. He doesn't actually get to do much posing before V5 knocks him down with a chop. Wagner does push ups while he's down. Chop again, and Wagner back pup again. This time, Wagner blocks the chop, and kicks V3 down. Wagner reaches out of the ring - and touches Alexis' wacky hair for power. It's very spikey this week. Whip, V5 back elbow, Wagner snap mare, kick to the back, dropkick to the head. Lots of crowd shots this week. V3 in and mocking Wagner's posing. You know, that gray stripe V3 has on his gear just accentuate his gut. I don't think that's the way I'd go. V3 corners Wagner  with punches and both men count along as V3 connects. Wagner finally blocks the seventh one, and gives them back (plus two) as chops. Wagner just stands around as V3 recovers, so V3 clotheslines him in the back of the head. Seems fair. Whip, V3 puts his head down, Wagner flies by, and falls to the mat? That looked messed up. V3 covers with hearty laugh. I guess the idea is V5 moved out of the way of a running kneelift, and Wagner wiped out in the process, but I dunno. V3 pulls down the straps and does the Wagner pose. Wagner kills him with a Shining Wizard and does the pose himself. Terrible in, and cornering Villano 3. What's Terrible going for here? oh, I bet that's when he licked the mask. Corner whip, Wagner moves, Terrible climbs the middle rope, Wagner stops short and they discuss. Wagner demands Terrible climb down, Terrible refuses, Wagner tries to climb up, Terrible shoves him down. Repeat! So Wagner just pulls Terrible off in a Diamond Cutter. Terrible angrily reacts to be foiled, but gets dropkicked out before he can do anything about it. V5 in again and working over Wagner with chops. Corner whip, Wagner leaps up for the corner sunset flip but not far enough, then gets high enough on the next pass but holds it and doesn't complete the move for a while, and then does but pushed V5 thru so he gets back on his feet. So odd. Villano 5 shoulderblocks Wagner into the corner, but Wagner moves out of the way and V5 spears the corner. Wagner goes to the apron, but V3 kicks him off before he can. dive. Alex jumps at V3, V3 moves and Alex ends up landing in the ropes. V3 clotheslines Alex out - except Alex won't go over. V3 tries again, and not only can Alex not get over this time, but V3 goes over the top rope by himself! That was so bad. Long crowd shot again. Alex leaves the ring somewhere in here. Terrible gets in a sliding dropkick, but on his teammate when Alex moves. Terrible goes for a move off the apron, but Alex yanks him off, and holds him for a Dos Caras top rope plancha. Wagner and V5 left in. Wagner stops to look at the crowd, and we look at the crowd to. Wagner off the ropes, and he dives at V5, who just ducks out of the way. V5 tries the same thing, and Wagner moves. Wagner grabs V5, and V5 fouls him. Don't know what the refs are supposed to be watching here, but not the ring. V5 grabs Wagner for a suplex, but Wagner fouls him back, and small packages him for the win. V5's not the captain this fall.

Wagner rants on the interview post match, blowing off the tecnico/rudo question.

That's it.