quick news notes

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Forgot to include this morning:

– During an online audio interview Juvi said X-Pac had recently tried to commit suicide. PWTorch quotes Sean Waltman (scroll down to Monday’s entry) saying he accidentally mixed anti-depressants and alcohol. Either way, WWE extended an offer to pay for rehab for any of it’s ex-wrestlers, and X-Pac’s taking them up on it right now. I wouldn’t expect to see him on upcoming tapings.

– Updated card on CMLL.com

CMLL (FRI) 02/15 Arena Mexico
1) Astro Boy & Metálico vs Pólvora & Vaquero
2) Bam Bam, Pequeño Olímpico, Último Dragoncito vs Pequeño Black Warrior, Pequeño Violencia, Pierrothito
3) Heavy Metal, Máximo, Sagrado vs Misterioso II, Shigeo Okumura, Virus
4) Alex Koslov, Grey Shadow, Marco Corelone vs Damián 666, Héctor Garza, Terrible
5) Místico, Sombra, Volador Jr. vs Averno, el Hijo del Perro Aguayo, Mephisto

Sombra and Grey Shadow swapped spots. Shadow got demoted. There’s no explanation given by CMLL, though I guess we’ve now got a Foreign Tecnico trio.

I dunno it really matters for finishes, because the semimain looks like it’s just the Perros turning on Hector again, and Garza figures on determining the main event too.

– This isn’t really news, but I notice it comes up in the RSS feeds I check every morning: David Brashear at Inside Pulse sure appears to be just rewording my stuff for his own use. I can usually tell when people do this sort of stuff (though rarely with me), because they report the also report the same errors I report.

I’m pretty sure I’m supposed to be upset about this, and I’m not for some reason. I think it’s because I feel like much of what I’m doing is also just rewording stuff written elsewhere (it takes more work when it’s another language.) And I think lucha needs more coverage, and if I can’t be bothered to do it, someone else might as well do it for me, using me.

The thing is, his report is completely without links – both to me, and to the people I’m linking to who actually wrote the original stuff. Without links, the way David Brashear is writing it currently, it’s plagiarism. This isn’t the crime of the century, but it’s still not the way to go about things, and I hope this message is enough to change things.

As far as ‘mainstream wrestling’ articles that continually pop up in my lucha RSS feeds, the far more annoying one is 411Mania’s weekly Buy or Sell article. Google news pulls it because “BUY or SELL focuses on topics like the U.S. Independent scene, Lucha Libre, Japanese Wrestling and pretty much anything else that isn’t mainstream wrestling,” is included in every edition. That’s actually a neat concept, but the reality is ROH, ROH, ROH, a bit more ROH, other people trying to do their own versions of ROH, more ROH, and occasionally some NOAH or DG when there’s some ROH crossover. Slight exaggeration, but I’m pretty sure there’s not been any lucha libre.

Maybe they should take lucha libre out of their boilerplate until they’re ready to Buy or Sell “AAA really has a plan for this Rey de Reyes tournament.” If only there was some sort of ROH/CMLL connection.