AAA 01/19/08

aired 01/19, taped 11/30/07

Of the ladder match was four and a half stars, the mixed tag must’ve been 13 or 14 stars. That match was great. I can’t believe AAA aired a 22 minute match that didn’t drag at all. It was always good, quite often better, and got over the big storyline points they set out to achieve:

– Oriental & Cinthia get the next shot
– Fabi & Billy are a quality top team
– but no one can withstand the power of Mari Apache’s crippling Michinoku Driver

Mari’s gone from looking completely bored and moderately unhappy to be there to the scary top women’s wrestler in the group. Ayako has worked her way out of my dislike list for good. Gran Apache/Espiritu mat wrestling was far better than anything I saw last week.

You need to go out of your way to see the four way mixed tag match.

The ladder match was filled with missed spots, mostly missed spots, and moments lacking completely logic. The AAA Tag Team belts were completely and totally buried – Chessman and Charly rejecting them needed to be explained in some way if that was supposed to work at all, but it clearly worked just the way it was shown. The belts are crap that the Hell Brothers don’t want to be deal with, and the Mexican Powers having them doesn’t mean they’re best team in the world – maybe that’s even one of the two teams in the tag title match last week, since their joke belts were positioned higher on the card than this.

The mixed tag belts mean something after there match, but I’m not sure any other belt means something given how they were used on this show.

Cage match was okay. There’s been better cages matches in AAA of late and this one dragged a bit. It was laid out fine but there was nothing new in this match that we hadn’t seen weekly for the last few months. Well, I don’t know that Guapos all mooned in those other matches, but I could do without that. They put over the hair stip strong, but I hope Scorpio Jr. doesn’t get shaved three Decembers in a row.

Layout of the show was pretty sharp. I’ll take 30 minutes of clips to go hype the major angles if it means only one break in a match the rest of the night.

17 thoughts to “AAA 01/19/08”

  1. That was a great match. I thought Fabi looked better than ever in the ring. It’s amazing how Mari went from being a frumpy girl to something of a kiss-ass heel.

    Did you notice Alan Stone freezing on top of the cage, or did I misunderstand something?

  2. Konnan says BELTS DON’T MATTER, ONLY THE DANGEROUS SPOTS DO!

    I still love how Roldan is getting credit for booking AAA in the WON awards. Yes, Roldan knows who Teddy Hart is and booked him. Yep. He also knew exactly how a TLC match works and made sure the guys worked that style. Yep.

  3. I don’t think Alan froze. You’ve escaped a cage once you get one leg over the side, so the match ended like it should, and he was probably too tired to climb down and then climb back for the psing they wanted to do on top of the cage.

  4. It seems that the Mexican cage match ends when one steps outside of it, not getting both feet on the ground as in the US. I guess it helps to pose and celebrete on the top so everyone can see him/her.

    Konnan only books the foreing guys, so Roldan should get the credit for the rest, well, I think Apache book his angles, probably MexPow book themselves… well pretty much everyone books themselves.

  5. Robert. You crack me up. I guess you got WON today since it’s not a holiday up in Canada. I have to wait until tomorrow.

    Dangerous spots worked in ECW because that’s what the crowd came to see. Smaller venues, no kids, and a mostly male rock-oriented crowd made the ECW violence that much more fun. Also, ECW was on at 1 or 2 am in key markets, forcing Paul E. to cater to the type of people who would be watching wrestling at that time.

    AAA is the complete opposite of all of this. Shame Konnan can’t see that.

  6. Nah, I don’t subscribe to the WON ever since Meltzer raised the rates in 2000 (or 2001?) and I thought he handled the situation horribly from a business standpoint.

    I read the Mexico news section every week though since it’s fun to see Konnan’s section (AAA news) and also to see what Meltzer thinks is worth mentioning in the CMLL section.

    At this point I think the best thing would be for the WON to just drop covering Mexico news and just pay cubs to do a weekly update on the online site and/or just copy his daily updates from here.

    It would leave more room for shoot fighting news since shoot fighting + American Gladiators + roller derby = wrestling.

  7. Meltzer’s main sources from Mexico are probably Sims, Ocampo, and Konnan. Every Observer source seems to have their own agenda. Sims is probably the exception.

    Just got back from the supermarket, and was thinking about all this. Then Santos in the pasta aisle saw me, and immediately told me that he saw CMLL on FSE last night. Like me, he refuses to watch Univision’s female demo programming on Sundays, so he switches to FSE. If only FSE would put on better matches, that timeslot could really take off with the male demo.

    Back to Konnan’s highspot vs. title mentality. I remember going to MSG as a kid to see Snuka vs. Muraco MSG steel cage Intercontinental title match. Back then, titles meant alot. Still, the feeling I got was that we all came to see Snuka do the highspot leap off the top of the steel cage. Few came hoping for a title change. This supports Konnan’s claim to a degree. Still, he should be able to see he’s overdoing the tables, ladders and chairs.

    WON’s prices shot up in part because his sub base has probably been reduced greatly by the internet, or just outgrown wrestling. I don’t think he has more than 1,500 subs. Rumors of “5,000” or “7,000” are just that.

  8. Meltzer’s main sources from Mexico are probably Sims, Ocampo, and Konnan. Every Observer source seems to have their own agenda. Sims is probably the exception.

    Just got back from the supermarket, and was thinking about all this. Then Santos in the pasta aisle saw me, and immediately told me that he saw CMLL on FSE last night. Like me, he refuses to watch Univision’s female demo programming on Sundays, so he switches to FSE. If only FSE would put on better matches, that timeslot could really take off with the male demo.

    Back to Konnan’s highspot vs. title mentality. I remember going to MSG as a kid to see Snuka vs. Muraco MSG steel cage Intercontinental title match. Back then, titles meant alot. Still, the feeling I got was that we all came to see Snuka do the highspot leap off the top of the steel cage. Few came hoping for a title change. This supports Konnan’s claim to a degree. Still, he should be able to see he’s overdoing the tables, ladders and chairs.

    WON’s prices shot up in part because his sub base has probably been reduced greatly by the internet, or just outgrown wrestling. I don’t think he has more than 1,500 subs. Rumors of “5,000” or “7,000” are just that.

  9. It just popped into my head b/c I clearly remember him reporting Zumbido was suspended and may not be back in AAA because of the no-show.

  10. That tag team 4-way sucked. I don’t know what the Observer guy was watching, but if that was 4 1/2 stars, then I guess CMLL’s FSE show is airing weekly 5 star matches for free.:)

    There was a point in that match were it seemed everyone was just tossing a chair.

    Robert, you forgot boxing.

  11. I may have liked the TLC clusterfuck 4 way tag, but it was nowhere near 4 stars.I probably wouldn’t even give it 3 stars. At least it was a lot
    better than most hardcore matches involving the Mexican
    Powers for the past year or so. Maybe it had to do with the fact that Chessman and Charly were in it.

    The elimination mixed tag team battle was easily the best match of Guerra de Titanes. Mari has become the Amazing Kong of AAA now.

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