CMLL FSE GdR - 09/02/07 (#53)
Recapped: 09/05/07

Intro: Atlantis talks while Polvora and Vaquero take control of the opener. Dr. Wagner Jr. rants in front of the blue screen.

Outside the ring: Dos Caras Jr.

Match 1: Amapola, Hiroka, Mima Shimoda (c) vs Dark Angel (c), Diana la Cazadora, Lady Apache
Arena Mexico, 08/03/07

  1. rudas
  2. tecnicas
  3. tecnicas

Winner: tecnicas 
Match Time: 9:58
Approx Rating: Good, though abrupt end.
Other Match Notes: No entrances. Diana still has short hair. 

1: Dark Angel and Hiroka start, with Sarah demolishing the ex-champ and Hiroka squirming free. They do a test of strength, and Hiroka actually wins as the start before the inevitable happens. Dark Angel had a headstand head scissoring here, but her run is cut off by a Hiroka boot. Snap mare, spine kick, kick to the chest for good measure. Hiroka stops to taunt the crowd, and then gets back to kicking Dark Angel. Whip, reversed, Dark Angel charges, Hiroka gets her legs up, and Dark Angel catches them and pulls her off in a hard powerbomb. One two kickout. Hiroka actually the first one up, but only because Dark Angel is baiting her - Dark Angel rolls to her feet, and gets a corner swinging headscissors. Springboard plancha connects, clothesline connects, Hiroka really needs help. She doesn't get it, and Dark Angel knocks her out of the ring with a dropkick to the face. Good start. Diana in and chasing after Amapola. Amapola backs off into the corner and gets angry at the crowd for chanting Diana. Diana off the ropes, cartwheel over a drop down, Amapola pos up and back elbows her. Corner whip, reversed, Amapola knocks down Diana as she charged with a double jump dropkick. Stomp, taunt to the crowd. Whip, Diana comes back with a bodyscissors into an armdrag. The top Diana is wearing, I dunno about it. Anyway, Diana tries a run up the ropes armdrag, and is so fast off the top rope and that I think she slips the first time I watched it. Dropkick to knock Amapola in the corner. Corner whip, reveres, Amapola charges in and ends up spearing the post. Diana celebrates and tags out to Lady Apache. Apache teases coming in before she does, and then immediately rolls into a Mima Shimoda kick. Forearm to the back. Corner whip - no, they change their mind and do a normal whip. Mima's clothesline misses, Lady Apache's does not. Stomps. Chop. Corner whip, reversed, Mima hits a running back elbow but Apache ignores it and pulls Mima down by her hair. Lady Apache does a forward roll off Mima's knees, gets caught by Amapola, but moves out of the way of a chop. Mima and Amapola shove, then take turns bumping around for Apache. Headscissors sends Mima out, Mima trips up Apache, Amapola tries to get in the dropkick to the face, Lady Apache rolls out of the way and Mima takes it. Amapola kinda had to see that one coming, but maybe she didn't care because she just got hit. Lady Apache gives Amapola the hamstring kick to knock her thru the ropes, and Dark Angel adds a plancha. Tecnicos in to clean up - but the rudas reverse - Tiger suplex! Fisherman's suplex! Referee can't just count Hiroka's fisherman's pin, has to run around the pin the wrong way and check each individual shoulder is down before counting, so Hiroka has to hold the bridge for five seconds longer. I'd be annoyed if I were here.

2: With no Sujei around, Hiroka stops the ring card girl cold at the top of the ramp, refusing to let her go further. Hiroka's acquired a 100% Rudo noisemaker somewhere along the way. Meanwhile, Amapola and Mima are actually attacking the tecnicos. Hiroka joins in. Dark Angel is pressed onto upraised knees. Lady Apache gets a double punch to the midsection, and is hung over the top rope for an Amapola dropkick to the head. Amapola taunts Diana to come in, and she's kicked by the Japanese women before she comes with in five feet of Amapola. Amapola gives Diana a backbreaker, and Mima drops Hiroka from her shoulders into a splash. Dark Angel back in, and stopped immediately. Double hiptoss, everyone high fives, off the ropes - oops, Diana and Lady Apache tripped Amapola and Mima. They turn around to argue, while Dark Angel lays out Hiroka with a spinning backbreaker and kicks. Rudos turn, charge, boot her down, and then move out of the way of an Apache dropkick. Diana takes double chops as she comes in, but a double clothesline on Apache misses. Tecnicos with a horrible looking headscissors - Apache's is fine compared the mess that that is Diana's. Submission victories from there - Dark Angel gets Hiroka with a reverse step over double armbar for good measure.  

El Arte del Catch: La Balaguesa - that's got to be a typo, you know it as a Valaguesa.

3: Match seems in progress as we join. Apache is ducking a double clothesline and powerbombing Hiroka, though a quick cut obscures how that one went down. It looked like there was trouble before the clip. Lady Apache holds on for the cover, but Amapola breaks it up with a dropkick. They're acting as if this one has gone for a while, so it probably has. Double corner whip for Apache, rudas follow in but take a Diana missile dropkick. Lady Apache fakes a dive and drops down, and then Diana stands waving her arms in the middle of the ring. That somewhat kills the idea of surprise. Apache boosts up a charging Diana for a pescado, but it's way off to the hard camera side and rudas have to move to catch her. Apache adds a top rope tope con giro. Mima and Dark Angel left in, sit down powerbomb one two three. 

I wonder why that was edited so short? Super Luchas doesn't have fall times for this one, though the final time is about two minutes short of their total time. The matches usually are that short, so I'm guessing they just edited the third fall instead of the first. 

El Diseno de Dr. Wagner.

Vignette: Limping Mistico comes to the Arena Coliseo so the ring announcer can explain his injury and he can vow revenge.

Match 2: Atlantis (c), Olimpico, Toscano vs Dos Caras Jr., Dr. Wagner Jr. (c), Volador Jr.
Arena Coliseo, 08/05/07

  1. rudos
  2. tecnicos
  3. rudos

Winner: Rudos (2-1)
Match Time: 8:16
Approx Rating: N/A with such an ending. It wasn't on the way to being anything great.
Other Match Notes: Volador does a rambling interview. He could be reciting the Gettysburg address, but it's tough to pay attention when they've got the camera rocking back and forth like they're sailing the boat into the teeth of a hurricane. Atlantis rushes Dos Caras and nails him in the gut for no apparent reason. He just exploded with hat any more. Olimpico talks about his life long (or five minute long) feud with Dr. Wagner Jr.

1: Rudo beatdown. Dos came to the ring wearing his belt, so Atlantis is now using it as a wedge to drive into his throat. I can only assume that's why Atlantis never wars his - he knows the trouble that'll bring. Double boot for Wagner. Volador gets a double suplex, and then is brought up for Toscano's missile dropkick. Dos comes back in but I'm distracted by Magadan sending a shout out to Chicago again. Dos gets the slingshot/hold over knees/Olympic splash - that's a pin. Wagner brought in, and whipped directly into the Atlántida. Call it.

2: The beat(down) goes on. Corner clotheslines for Wagner. Olimpico redeems himself slightly by doing a rolling back elbow for his corner charge. Wagner's kicked out, and Dos is kicked when he straddles the bottom rope as he comes in. He never makes it in, so Volador attacks instead. Ring card girl is just now making her way to ringside - but she's cut so it's okay. GdI sit to Volador. Dos still hasn't moved since getting crotched, so the Guerreros grab him. Corner whip - no, wait Dos has  to stop selling to respond to the crowd. Okay, here we go. Dos ducks a double clothesline, leapfrogs over Atlantis and Olimpico, climbs the ropes, and does a inverted plancha. It's startling to realize this, but Marco does this same sequence at least twice as good. It's not close. Toscano tries to hit an elbow drop and ends up adding himself to the pile. Volador is thrown on top, Wagner and Dos press him down, but all the rudos kick out. Volador stomps and chops Atlantis as everyone else just kinda hangs out. Wagner gives Olimpico a dropkick to the knee, and Dos throws Toscano out and gets back to posing. Tecnicos just wander back to their corner. That was not the most high energy comeback. Wagner and Olimpico goof around a bit, leading to Dos hitting the top rope enziguri. Wagner goes to the apron and hits his tope con giro on Olimpico. Back inside, Dos sorta kinda hits Toscano with a superkick, and Volador adds a no hands tope con giro. Atlantis managed to blindside Dos with a forearm shiver. Celebrate! Whip, Dos does the fake thru the ropes, Atlantis misses a clothesline, Dos gets him in the waistlock, slight battle over what's next, and Dos switches to the armscissors into the cross armbreaker. That's it. Dos should stop trying to get that move on anyone over 38. Tecnicos grab Ultimonito, who has totally done nothing at all this match, and tease hitting him. He does get dropped, but only when we're looking at someone else. Replays. 

El Arte del Catch: Tijeras Voladoras -  your standard headscissors.

3: Volador and Atlantis starts, but Volador's too fired up by the crowd to start wrestling. Off the ropes, over, under, ducking a clothesline and hitting a superkick. Volador off the ropes, thrown to the top, back flipping back, taking Atlantis' arm and turning it into a satellite headscissors. Olimpico in, Olimpico out with a spinning headscissors. Volador poses, and goes back to his corner. Tag to Wagner, who's also fired up. He's got Atlantis, and he's also making funny faces. Posing for the cameras. Strutting. Posing in the corner like Steve Austin. Now he's challenging Atlantis to out do him - somehow, Atlantis gets booed. Wagner pose in the center of the ring - and Atlantis boots him. Good move. Atlantis celebrates kicking Wagner in the head (lightly.) Whip, clothesline misses, Wagner back with a plancha, cover for zero - I guess, we can't se the ref. Wagner armdrags Atlantis around, spinning backbreaker, and he's going for the mask. Thankfully Toscano spares us that. Toscano does a great impression of Wagner's strut, but we're too busy looking at the crowd to see it. 

Actually, we're looking at the wrong thing twice - that's the spot where Atlantis got KOed, and only the referee on that side realizes anything is up at first. Camera man does zoom in on Atlantis, and we take a look at a replay - Toscano's knee, lower leg land right on Atlantis' head. You can see why people though Dr. Wagner did it at first - Wagner was the last one to do anything to him, but it was Toscano who actually hurt Atlantis. It seems like Toscano's going to hold Wagner in the corner in a choke, but nope - they do a corner whip that takes them right past where a referee and the Doctor are checking on Atlantis. Toscano misses a corner splash, and Wagner calls for him to stop right there while Atlantis is checked on. Wagner asks the referee what the deal is, the referee must not have given him a good answer, because Wagner kicks the ref right in the shoulder (which we pretend is the face.) Referee's like "huh? oh, DQ!" and that's it. I guess Wagner meant for the match to immediately end like that and wasn't just maliciously kicking a referee?

Referee actually raises Atlantis' limp arm. Volador and Dos wander over to the ref to argue with him, but he blows them off like he doesn't have the time right now - he's busy trying to untie Atlantis mask. Wagner has a freak out, attacking the guys who came out with the stretcher, then grabbing the stretcher and trying to hit Atlantis with it. Toscano has to fight him off, and then gets into a fighting stance when Wagner tried to come around the back way to attack Atlantis. Dos is walking around with the stretcher, instead of actually giving it to the ref, threatening to use it on the rudos. Tecnicos keep trying get to Atlantis to attack, and rudos have to keep running interference. We see a replay of the ko blow, and skip ahead to Magadan asking Wagner if he's a rudo or a tecnico, which Wagner responds to by asking the crowd if he's rudo or tecnico. Rudo seems to be winning out.

That's it.