CMLL FSE GdR - 07/29/07 (#48)
Recapped: 08/03/07
Intro: Felino does a promo while bebopping around. He's hyper active, of course. Nosferatu joins the announcers to retort. They pitch as experience vs youth - of course, youth is evil in CMLL. Dos Caras Jr. talks up his match, but is too quiet. Universo points a lot and threatens to send Dos to the hospital. Is Universo going to trick Dos into trying a dive? Wait, youth is good in that match up! So confused.
Outside the Ring: Terrible
Match 1: Euforia, Nosferatu, Satanico (c) vs Felino
(c), La Mascara, Valiente
Arena Coliseo, 07/01/07
Winner: Rudos (2-1)
Match Time: 9:11
Approx Rating: Not so good.
Other Match Notes: These guys wrestled the match like they had somewhere
else to be.
1: Exchange are Mascara/Euforia (barely anything) and Satanico/Felino before the beatdown starts. Wonder if they cut Nosferatu out. Euforia looks skinner, and he's already a lean tall guy. Beatdown is so exciting, they show the Magadan training skit from last week in a corner of the screen. Rudos beat Valiente, hit Felino with a finisher like double team, and then boot him out because they've got more to do. Eh. It feels like there was actual momentum with this group for a couple weeks, and they they got forgot, and now we're supposed to pretend this is just following up on that.
2: You'll never believe this, but La Mascara moves out of the way on a corner charge to start the comeback. There is a nice spot before hand where Satanico's trash talking Mascara, and then trying to rip a tooth out. Valiente gets in a tope on Euforia, wiping them both out hard. A front row fan marks out so hard, he accidentally dumps half his drink on Valiente. Mascara's 'rana on Nosferatu is especially loose. Satanico takes an invisible drop toe hold from Felino - he took the bump as if Felino actually had done the move, but Felino was thinking about something else and was just waving him by. Satanico feeds his arm for a La Majistral, because he has to get pinned here, but Felino just sits him up and has him beg off. They all wander outside, while the refs start counting them out (because the match is still going.) They spent 14 seconds teasing Felino hitting Satanico, and then Felino just chokes him and kicks him questionably low. Valiente and Mascara wander back in, and refs decide "screw it" and call it a fall.
El Diseno de Stuka Jr.
3: Valiente looks great in the 10 seconds we get to see him with Euforia. And we get 15 seconds of Felino/Satanico before everyone else gets in the ring. All the tecnicos try for bulldogs, and after debating the timing for a while, get bumped into each other. Felino quickly gets put into the double team full nelson, and that's it.
Satanico rants about Satanico.
Match 2: Toscano, Ultimo Guerrero (c), Universo 2000
vs Dos Caras Jr., Marco Corelone, Rey Bucanero (C)
Arena Coliseo, 07/01/07
Winner: Tecnicos (2-1)
Match Time: 11:48
Approx Rating: They got their idea across
Other Match Notes: Entrance, but again with the overdubbed intros and
music. Rey's promo could be Rey's promo from last week, except he's wearing a
different shirt. They're repeating some of the same generic music for multiple
wrestlers. They can't even use their own cover of We Will Rock You?
1: We get Universo coming to the ring, Ultimo's promo, the lineups, and come back to the ring to see the rudos having the tecnicos now. How did it start? Eh. Universo ripped off a lot of Dos' mask in no time. Dos waves for support while being kicked. Normal brawling beatdown. Rey and Marco happen to fall in the laps or right next to front row ladies, it's amazing how that happens often. Dos gets the jumping sit. Rey takes the slingshot hold legdrop - oh, that's it for him. Ultimo holds Corelone up for a bit on a suplex, that's at least cool.
2: Corelone sells Ultimo's headstand sit like he's been knocked out, which is great. You'll never believe this, but Dos Caras Jr. moves out of the way on a corner charge to start the comeback. Actually, he ignores the clothesline he just got hit, and uses Ultimo as a springboard to do a clothesline on Universo. Universo and Dos Caras have a slow speed chase around the ring while the other guys fight. It's a stroll. Dos stops to hang out with fans, and then passes up Corelone's offer to hold Universo for him. That's much too much. Universo and Dos get around to doing spots on the floor right as the other four are cleaning up things in the ring, which is oddly worse timing than usual. Rey has kindness for his ex-teammate Toscano, and gives him a drop toe hold/la majistral for the past-the-point pin, instead of forcing the guy with the damaged neck to take a Buca Storm. That's nice of him.
El Arte Del Catch: La Campana. La Mascara couldn't have been busy, why not have him do his move? Look at me, sticking up for La Mascara, that's odd.
3: Rey slipped on an exchange with Ultimo, which seems impossible. It got better from there, and Rey laid out both of his teammates with backbreakers. Dos came into face Universo, but Universo won't go, so we're stuck with the Marco exchange first. This week, Corelone does the bit with a lot of leapfrogs - it's good that he has a B-set of sequences. He's also go a really bad hiptoss in here, though I guess maybe Toscano was thinking it was an armdrags? IT was just odd. Ultimo takes the big punch, which leaves Universo, which leads Dos in again, and maybe this time they'll fight. No, Dos has decided the key to success is to point to each corner until there are people are yelling, and then fight. This results in him getting kicked. Dos rallies back, and gets in a backdrop - Universo bangs his head off the mat very hard on the landing. Superkick is very smartly shown from a bad angle - there was no good angle. Dos clothesline Universo out, Guerreros clothesline Dos out, Guerreros are too high on a clothesline for Corelone again, and Corelone climbs them in the back to set up for the double Bucanero sit. Guerreros are up just in time to get dropkicked out by Corelone, Rey follows out with a slingshot tope con giro onto both - I think they tried to catch him and hold him up, but no dice - and Corelone gets everyone with a diving plancha from the apron. Tecnicos celebrate on the outside as Universo and Dos get back in the ring. There's a boom microphone swaying back and forth over the ring, right at the top of the picture. Very odd. Dos puts his head down too soon for a backdrop, and almost gets small packaged for the loss. That would've been it. Dos starts waving to the crowd again, and gets kicked in the back. Universo manages to powerbomb Dos (Dos might have boinked his head off the mat there), one two NO. Dos points to the crowd some more. Maybe some offense? Dos blocks a Universo kick, ducks under a clothesline, and German suplexes him - one two three! That looked good - good enough that we're going to pretend Universo was the captain. (Maybe he was supposed to be, and the graphic people screwed up. I dunno.) Everyone reacts to the finish and no one looks for another pin.
We watch replays as the wrestlers talk to each other. So we miss the big challenge for next week. Oh, wait, Dos is going to talk to Julio Cesar and they do explain it there. You can see everyone filing out of the building, so they've heard all they need to hear.
That's it.