Let me make sure I’m getting this right: in this AAA angle, a member of the group has abandoned the group and the group has decided to give a new person the identity, and this is an evil, unethical substitution. By putting a new wrestler under the mask, the story goes, they’re deceiving the people. It’s a safe guess that this will end up with the original proving he’s superior to the new version. And this is happening IN TRIPLE A.
This will never stop being totally fascinating to me.
Like La Parka Jr. doesn’t get hassled enough. He’s got a hurt shoulder, be nicer to him.
Accion’s CMLL highlights were of the main event. Mephisto with a shaved head and a mask showing off the empty skull looks very strange – like something Loco Max would do. Perro taking la Mistica and rolling free enough to give Mistico a double powerbomb is a bit surprising. Hector’s hair is growing back slow. Main event looked very action packed from the highlights they showed, and the clean pin at the end was emphasized.
AAA’s highlights were the Zorro/Cibernetico match for Torreon, featuring a rest hold and a Charly Manson dive to start up. Mesias gets involved, gets accidentally caned by Zorro, and runs into hit Cibernetico with a chair, no accident there. Funny things:
– the chair never actually hits Cibernetico, maybe because they’re protecting his back, but he does a decent job of selling for Cibernetico and it works
– Zorro is confused for a second, then thinks this may be a week where running in and attacking someone is not a DQ, causing him to dive onto Cibernetico for a pin
– Mesias realizes the same thing a second later, and has to pull Zorro off the pin to make sure his evil plan works
– Hijo de Tirantes, the man who takes a minute to decide not to DQ someone, instantly calls for the DQ
AAA main events! I’m so glad they actually make money with this stuff, because at least it subsidizes the parts of the show I like for the right reasons. (How many weeks am I behind on AAA now?)
What aired of CMLL this week? Top 3?
Ovaciones interviews Hijo del Diablo, who’s signed a one year contract with “Luchas Azteca” – I wonder if that means he’s got the deal with IWRG or the TV company? Hijo del Diabolo explains we haven’t seen him lately because an (unnamed) individual was refusing to work for promotions if Hijo del Diablo worked for them. He’s already part of Veneno’s latest IWRG faction.
Ovaciones also notes Ultimo Dragon will be unable to wrestle on a tour of Spain due to an ankle injury suffered Tuesday in Guadlajara. He’ll go and sign autographs anyway.
CMLL (SUN) 04/20 Arena Coliseo
1) Molotov & Sombra de Plata vs Carrona & Cholo
2) Metálico, Neutrón, Tony Rivera vs Apocalipsis, Euforia, Nosferatu
3) Flash, Máscara Púrpura, Mictlán vs Dr. X, Ohara, Shigeo Okumura
4) Felino, Grey Shadow, Máximo vs Damián 666, Misterioso II, Texano Jr.
5) Alex Koslov, Místico, Negro Casas vs Sangre Azteca, Toscano, Último Guerrero
Bucanero turned back to the rudo side just after Toscano got suspended, which made it possible for the GdI trio to get back together, except the suspension thing and all. Toscano’s now been back for a few weeks and they haven’t done it – are they waiting for a inevitable decision match for the trios titles?
Has been Apocalipis been hurt or just not booked for other reasons? He had disappeared for a couple months before working last Friday. I know I should not care because it’s Apocalispis and he’s not good at the lucha libre, but I always wonder if there’s an interesting story I’m missing.
I totally missed it, but Box Y Lucha had a live telecast with Fuerza Guerrera about leaving AAA. That’s all I know. I would set the under/over line at “8 months” before he makes the usual surprise return to attack Octagon and tease the mask match again.
Nicho and Dandy work the IWRG shows this week. More tomorrow when I get more time to put this stuff together.
I liked seeing Accion being sponsored. Must be something new within last three weeks.
Surprising seeing Perro Jr. no-sell the Mistica like that.
I wonder if Fuerza would go to CMLL? He should lose his mask at Arena Mexico.
Black Abyss vs. Abismo Negro mask vs.mask at Triplemania.
Perrito has been doing that counter to La Mistica for over a year now…
CMLL aired top 3 so you can look forward to a nice little segunda airing next week.
Dammit, Neutron always seems to end up in the dead spots.
Give him some Sunday or Tuesday segundas dammit! :(
Oops, Friday instead of Sunday i mean :o :)
Someone should post a pic of Shocker and Mr Niebla IWRG tauting Mr Niebla next to a pic of Mr Niebla and Black Abyss tauting Abismo Negro…
You’re so right about AAA. I watched this weekend even though I said I would stop, and noticed they aired from Texcoco. That show, as you exposed here, was taped before Rey de Reyes with angles building the show, but aired after. And this group wants to run a PPV? They would air their “go home” episode after the PPV.
Well if you insisted on airing things in order, what would you have aired the 2 weeks after Rey De Reyes since they had no tapings in the can? Would you just not air anything?
I think your logic is flawed here b/c AAA is a television promotion. Their core fan base follows what airs on TV, they don’t rush to the internet or magazines to see all the results ahead of time. As far as they are concerned what happens on TV *is* the current show no matter if it was taped weeks ago.
If they rushed to the magazines, SUPERLuchas wouldn’t be selling 15,000 (I don’t know why Rivera complained at all, although it made sense that AAA was the one banning SL and not the other way around)
I just think someone needs to sit down and figure out when each episode airs in order to build the big events and supposed PPV.
Can you see AAA doing Triplemania PPV and doing angles for the PPV that air after it happens? I can, and that needs to be addressed if they are going to do a PPV.
Speaking PPV, WON said AAA is dealing with someone in the US to get Triplemania on in June.
That show went out of order because of the Teleton, it’s not like if every show and angles come out of order (if anything, the WWE stuff does so more often in the local cable stations)
What do you mean Chui by “local cable stations”?
Teleton or not, you always get back in order as soon as possible.
During syndication days, I alerted WWF of episodes in the Philly market airing one week late. WWF called me back and couldn’t be more happyier.
But back to AAA, they really better be on the ball if they think they’re doing a PPV in either Mexico or the US.
ECW gets aired somewhere… and there’s also a Velocity or something type of show. Of course, they hype events that happened long ago as “coming in a few weeks”.
In Mexico, they’ve been in order for years, save for that Teleton show. I even think they got 2006 right.
If a broadcaster in Mexico is airing RAW or ECW episodes hyping Mania(example) after it happened, than the broadcaster is probably at fault, not WWE. WWE sends the shows to affiliates like 52mx by satelite, assuming the shows air that week.
But in the case of AAA, they have to make sure all the angles for Triplemania air before the event if it’s a PPV.
Didn’t AAA do something last year like have a tv taping in Puebla with Ciber vs. Mesias in a bull terrier match with Sabu even doing a run in but the taping aired while Mania was happening in Toreo, so the big taping to build Mania wouldn’t have helped sell tickets anyway?
Sabu? Selling tickets?
That thing you’re saying has been happening in AAA for years and will continue happening for as long as they tour and tape shows, after ‘mania, they did Leon the very next day and Madero the Friday, much, much earlier anyone from those cities had watched ‘mania itself, so I don’t see a point on whinning about that since that’s they way they run things, as mentioned by Rob, 99% of the fans follow it on TV, ignoring magazines/net.
What is a “go home” episode? It’s the last episode of tv that airs before a major event. It’s meant to sell tickets or PPV’s for an event. It’s the last episode fans see before the event, and a legit promoter wants it to be a strong as possible. Like Andre ripping the cross off Hogan’s neck. Like the promo Micheals and Flair did before Mania. Like the standdowns between Sabu and Taz before ECW’s first PPV. My point is, if AAA wants to do PPV’s they’d better be able to properly schedule a “go home” tv taping. I don’t think they’re at that point yet. This website is a great way of tracking that flaw.
Who says AAA wants to do PPVs?
I understand your point perfectly and I complained a lot about the Peña Memorial show not being pushed at all, but even with that lack of prommoting, it drew better than Hijo del Santo’s Todo x Todo which was ultra hyped and talked about everywhere.
More important for a lucha show than a “go home” episode is bringing in the stip matches. AAA needs to put hair and masks on the line for big shows, people will show up for that even if the build ups are horrible (look at CMLL, heck, even IWRG does sold outs with random guys brought in for dumb cage matches.)
That is something AAA will need to fix for AAAMania, Zorro vs Mesias and Ciber vs Konnan for a dumb title won’t sold Palacio out… They should at least put Halloween and Chessman at a hair match but even that seem to have cool down.
BTW, last week AAA said they’ll run Mexico City once per month, which would be perfect to do another tv show (I guess an hourly show with a new match just taped and recaps for the current angles). Just put it Saturdays mornings to go head to head with TV Azteca… hehehe…
Another thing that AAA should address quickly is their prices, they’re just too high, even if Torreon prices were not at expensive as in other places, they were 3 or 4 times higher than what shows used to cost a couple of years back (while Peña was still alive). The gate was probably 6 or 8 times what they used to pull, but the other smaller house shows they run might pay the price…
They need that second TV show and produce even more stars, doing more shows at a cheaper price tag.
Konnan been pushing for AAA to do ppv in the US for years and it hasn’t happen yet. I doubt it will happen because there is no money to be made in the US ppv market.ROH ppv buyrates BOMB BIG TIME. TNA buyrates are terrible and with UFC/WWE/HBO boxing, it’s too much.
Konnan should try to get a deal to air a special on Univision in primetime. That would be a bigger investment.
Good point about tickets. I mean, I hate to stereotype Mexicans as “poor”, but the cost of bring a family of 4 to these shows with such high prices has to hurt.
At one point, I thought Multimedios could be AAA’s second tv show, but it only covers northern Mexico. AAA could probably try Unicable which is Televisa owned as a cable outlet. But with Televisa devoting so many hours to Telemundo shows, it could be harder to find a slot for AAA.
Monthly DF? That might make sense. Juan de la Barrera for house shows could work. They stopped doing tv from there when the venue asked for a rights fee and Pena laughed.
Aren’t newspapers and magazines influential in Lucha? Every time I go down there, I have no problem finding Lucha mags at every newsstand, and most major newspapers cover Lucha, plus the sports papers. Results must reach a big chunk of the audience this way. Probably more than the internet or Observer reaches in the US.
Magazines used to be influential, but not anymore, people don’t actually read them at all, they just watch the pics (therefore, the success of “Los Graficos”).
Off topic: I think I saw Semental booked in a CMLL show… is he gone from IWRG so soon?