CMLL CAN52 GdR - 09/08/07 (#94)
Recapped: 09/09/07
Intro: Miguel, Juan Carlos and Perro (dying to jump in and say something) are ringside. They talk more about the anniversary main event than this match. You'd think Perro was facing Mistico in tonight's main event - he's not, and they have a forced segue to a Dos Caras Jr. promo. Dos Caras is all out of breath for some reason.
Reoccurring feature: Astro Rey (Sr.) and C3 talk about Dr. Wagner Sr.. He and Texano Sr. beat both C3 and Astro Rey for their masks. When I realized "Robot C3", as he's listed here, is about to unmask, I got really thrilled with the idea that it might help fill in a luchawiki gap. And then he took off his mask and said his name, and I still have absolutely no idea who this man was. So it goes.
Match 1: Ephesto (c), Texano Jr., Virus vs Felino,
Heavy Metal (c), Sagrado
Arena Mexico, 08/31/07
Winner: Tecnicos (2-1)
Match Time: 11:39
Approx Rating: pointless->bad
Other Match Notes: No entrances.
1: Metal has a new red outfit, bright end to do things to my color tint settings. Sagrado and Felino are wearing white and black outfits, and Virus is wearing white/dark red, so it seems like the teams are misaligned. We join the tailed end of Sagrado/Virus, and then get Felino schooling Ephesto on the mat for a bit. Metal and Texano tease brawling in the ring, don't really, then take it outside to do more nothing. Zero leg trips. Slaps, and Heavy's punch misses by enough that I think Texano pauses for a microsecond. a bit before selling. Virus and Sagrado start again, but Texano helps out, and just as the beatdown is starting, we take a look at some Perros del Mal stuff animals. Metal is left by himself against all three, thinks about it, and crouches in a covered up position. That seems like a rudo bit. He takes a double hanging reverse suplex, and immediately gets to his feet. Texano's sitting on the top rope waiting to do a move, so I guess you could say Metal thought he was supposed to stand back up to take a missile dropkick, but it more seemed like he did to say "hey, look, wrestling's fake!" Virus yanks him down by his hair so Texano can hit his frog splash, one two three.
2: Beatdown goes on as announcers hard sell the anniversary show. Maybe I should pay more attention to the announcers. Metal drops to his knees and covers up when he goes in, but this time it's just a fake to live dive Texano. That doesn't get him too far. They all put him in submission, but nothing much comes of it. Though he hasn't been involved in anyway, Monito is out at ringside. Texano gets the bullwhip and Metal doesn't want to stay still for the shot, but he gets it anyway. Ref argues with Texano about it, which allows Sagrado to grab him, but that's it. Whip to Sagrado's back, and Texano throws down the bullwhip to pose. The refs yank it away as Texano and Virus work on Felino, and Ephesto chokes Sagrado. They all come together on Sagrado, and immediately miss a corner charge, Ephesto spearing the post. Sagrado gives Texano a enziguri, and then leads Virus into a Felino inverted plancha. Texano ends up elbow dropping his partner, and Felino throws his brother into a double dropkick on them. Felino does the double springboard - oh he does not! He completely blew the first springboard and the crowd seems to have had enough of this match. Felino slips thro the ropes and dives off the apron as Meta l does his own tope con giro. Sagrado gives Metal a tilt-a-whirl backbreaker, a a slam, and a moonsault for the tying pin. Monito apparently does a top rope splash on Ephesto, but the cameras cut away as he's going for it. GOOD TIMING.
El Arte Del Catch: La Mecedora - hey, we're repeating from the other show. That's actually fine, I wanted to double check if I was using this right the last couple weeks. I think so, but I'm less sure. I need to take pictures of these or something.
3: Metal was far more interested in the ring girl then wrestling with Texano to start the fall. Texano wanted the handshake, but Heavy busied himself with the crowd. Metal slapped Texano five and slapped a headlock on him. One shoulderblock later, Metal wanted out of the match, selling the pain to an absurd degree. Texano dominated Metal early, including a clothesline where Metal took a weird bump. He sits up right in time to evade an elbow drop, and covered for two. Texano misses a clothesline, Metal eye poked him, hit the Heavy punch, and he's done for the day. Virus/Felino, with a matador fakes. Felino was ailing around the ring early, including getting the rudos on the apron to hit each other, but then stopped to put on an abdominal stretch and looked over at the rudos corner till Texano Jr. came into break it up with a dropkick. I don't know if this match ahs more issues than usual or I'm just noticing them today. Sagrado gets a showcase against Ephesto, then Texano, ending with a tope con giro over the top rope which Sagrado didn't really catch, more like got in the way of. The other four ended up in the ring, with the rudos taking cont roll till Virus tried a middle rope 'rana on Felino. As usual, Felino blocked that and superbombed him. Metal got Ephesto with a bodyscissors cradle right near the ropes, but didn't grab them. Thought he might, seemed about right.
El Diseno de Solar
Match 2: El Hijo del Perro Aguayo (c), Terrible,
Villano V vs Dos Caras Jr. (c), Rey Bucanero,
Volador Jr.
Arena Coliseo, 09/02/07
Winner: Rudos (2-1)
Match Time: 12:51
Approx Rating: pointless->bad
Other Match Notes: Entrances. Volador has his Mexican Trios title. Dos
has his title too. Rey does NOT have his title, but doe the promo. Someone's
figured out they can use the Perros music for the rudos, but it's still a dubbed
soundtrack because - I don't know, actually. I thought it was so they wouldn't
have two ring announcers, but Julio does the tecnicos and Magadan does the
rudos, so that's not it. Maybe it's because Villano V comes out to his own
entrance, so they'd have three different ring announcers? Terrible does the
promo for his side.
1: Dos and Volador confront Terrible and Perro outside the ring for some reason. NOT a beatdown to start, how odd for a Perros match. It does take them a while to actually get going, with Volador going to every corner to get the fans to cheer for him until Terrible got annoyed enough to shove him down, and then Volador very slow to get up. Volador grabbed his head when he got up, then took Terrible down and tried to hit punches on him. Except none of them came close to landing, and Volador abruptly stopped to look at Villano 5 as he came in the ring. Both men up, Terrible shoving Volador from behind (Volador not falling down this time) and things are settled down. Again, Volador takes Terrible down and actually makes contact with forearm, but he again pulls up and looks to be broken up well before he actually is. Camera man is more instead in Perro's new fuzzy boots. Volador gets a half crab, and the rudos rush for a third time - this time it is is the beatdown. Took two minutes, but we got there. Perro beats Dos out of the ring and up the aisle. Rey and V5 do a spot where they appear completely on differing pages. V5 and Terrible work over the two in the ring, but we spend more time watching Dos and Perro brawl around the ring. It is fun watching an old lady give Perro the business - in fact, Perro dares her to bring it ion, and she totally would if the ref didn't cut her off. Terrible gets the pinfall with a splash on Rey while we're paying no attention to him. There's a laughable gutbuster in the ring shortly after - V5 "drops Volador on Terrible's knee", though Volador actually bails on the move and doesn't come within 6 inches of hitting the knee. They were unlucky enough to have the worst possible angle of that too. Meanwhile, Perro argues with the old lady some more - leaving him open from a Bucanero charge.
Why did they just replay the blown move?
Q: Con que nombre luchaba el Terrible? Also, why did they just replay the
blown move.
A: Engendro del Mal
2: As we return, Dos is seated up in a corner with his mask loose, and barely hanging on as Perro punches him. Lots of ring girl and crowd shots. Next shot is Dos being in a Tree of Woe, and Perro giving him a running kick. There's not much chemistry with this team - V5 doesn't have any with the other guys, and Perro's too busy wandering off to pose anyway. Dos ducks under a double clothesline, which gets Terrible instead, and starts the comeback form there. Rey hits the sit on V5 and Perro, and Dos and Volador hit stereo 619 s on Terrible in a nice looking spot. Dos brings Perro out the floor to beat him up there, much to approval of something's crowd. Volador gives Terrible a top rope hair pull, and Rey goes after V5's mask. After things settle down, Rey and V5 start in the ring, and V5 has the most fake looking punches in the history of everything. Everything is visibly pulled short of actually making contact. It's playfighting is what is is. Rey rallies back and knocks him down by the real triumphant is it being over. Volador and Rey set up the rudos for a Dos Caras top rope plancha, but that only gets two. Which makes absolutely no sense, because the tecnicos just win immediately after anyway. All I can figure is Dos's finish is supposed to be a waistlock that he lets go of to put on armscissors into a cross armbreaker, because here he's doing it again, despite making no sense.
El Arte del Catch: La Cerrajera - this is the thing I call a standing octopus hold.
3: Rudos entertain themselves by starting a Villano chant. Rey entertains himself by doing his bit. I entertain myself by not paying any attention to this match any longer. Rey does a usual sequence, and Perro breaks it up by doing his insane punching act. Dos decides he's not taking any of that and steps in the ring to confront Perro, who quickly backs up to the ropes. He found his sanity much quicker than usual, that's for sure. Perro spits at Dos, so Dos gets a small Perro's shirt and wipes his nose with it - then wipes it on Perro. Head to head - well, head to chest. Chop battle. Perro wants out, but Terrible kinda blocks his path and encourages him to keep on fighting at the same time. Perro sets up for the chop, and then goes with the insane punching and knees to the back, and this time Dos gets beaten down. Rey cuts Perro off from doing anymore, and spits at Perro as he's being ordered out by the ref. Perro comes back in and stokes the crowd as Dos recovers and also points to the crowd some. Eventually, they get to wrestling, which turns out to be a lot of spinning backbreakers and an occasional superkick. Terrible and Villano kick to Dos in turn, so we're left with the other four. Terrible and V5 don't have the beginnings of a plan, and Volador quickly gets boosted into a dropkick by Rey. Rudos go out, Rey jumps out at them from the middle rope but gets caught, Volador tries to add a tope but only gets Rey. Well, that's it for sure. Dos and Perro sped time waiving at the crowd before going to the finish. V5 and Terrible hand back long enough to allow Dos to kick Perro and press him, but break it up before he can do any more. It's not quick to the finish either - Perro misses a corner charge and gets his trunks pulled . Dos is finally slammed by Villano of all people, and Perro adds a sloppy middle rope stomp to end it.
Congratulations on being heavyweight champ, Dos, now take random pinfall loses to Perro. Not that it doesn't confirm what we already know. Magadan hangs out with the winners, and Perro celebrates with a #1 finger he found. Rudos take turns ranting and wearing the #1 finger. Perro does jumping jacks because he's got plenty of energy left. Perro cuts a promo on Mistico in the middle of this. To top that, Dos does a tope on the rudos in the midst of this - Magadan's out of the way in plenty of time, so perhaps he had a tip off. Rudos recover to beat up Dos. It helps that Volador and Rey have vanished. Dos ends up completely destroyed and his mask gets almost yanked. Rey stands in the aisle and yells at them to stop, which just gets him beat up. Way to go.
Replays and we're out not a moment too soon.