Verano de Escandalo part 1 was an awesome show.
– The Mixed Tag was a MOTYC until it went all interference crazy at the end. It was still pretty great and worth watching.
Nice to see the Apaches acting like normal human beings and not freaking out because of a chair shot gone wrong.
– Minis match wasn’t quite as great; there were moments of iffyness and even more AAA run-in wackiness, but it was far superior than anything else taking place in the tournament. If they plan on giving title matches this sort of time, it’s going to be really nice to get this title back i play.
– Even the ladder match and the Chessman/Cibernetico match were as good as they could possibly be expected to be. I mean, the ladder match had plenty of people doing stupid things to themselves, all of which will be forgotten tomorrow. (If this stuff was getting them over, why are they still wrestling the same people at the same spot on the card?) And the finish to the main event was pretty dumb. But, given how bad both things have been recently, this was perfectly finely.
Kinda interesting Jack and Teddy vanished from the ladder match with 8 minutes left.
I didn’t even mind the talking to open it up. Not that I want 20 minutes skits, but at least Konnan got pwned in hilarious fashion and it improves next week’s show by bumping a match there. Three matches in three hours is still going to stretching it, but it’s a better plan than they’ve had in the last two years doing this.
I don’t have high hopes for next week’s show – the Guapos match is going to be comedy, the Mesias/Vampiro match is going to be comedy of another kind, and I keep forgetting the Legion match was even on the card. But at least this was a good one.
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“Nice to see the Apaches acting like normal human beings and not freaking out because of a chair shot gone wrong.”
I was pleasantly surprised as well. I kept waiting for Apache or Mari to attack her.
“the Chessman/Cibernetico match were as good as they could possibly be expected to be.”
I dunno. I expected a whole lot more Chessman death scenes and the usual cluster ending, which would’ve been infinitely more appealing than what we got.
“he Mesias/Vampiro match is going to be comedy of another kind,”
That is a pretty apt description. Except it stops being “funny” after a certain length…
“keep forgetting the Legion match was even on the card.”
I’m fairly certain this was all about X-Pac’s return and turn, really.
i loved the after the chair shot part of the match that happened outside the ring. Fabi, with a neck brace and no weapon, was able to chase La Diabolica off while she still held the chair. that was classic.
Notice how Teddy Hart beat his chest and said “LLL”. Good for Teddy for acknowlwdging that LLL still exists.
My fucking ZEN screwed up somehow and only converted the first hour so I didn’t get to watch the garbage tag.:( But I did see the mini’s 3 way and it was… well… I wasn’t impressed. It had the same problem as Aero Star vs Jack Evans and goes all the way back to why I was so against having “agents” telling people how to work matches – the 3 way was booked like a generic heavyweight match. You could have put Elegido, Pirata Morgan and Cuervo in the ring and they’d have had the exact same match. That shouldn’t be the case when you have three great smaller workers in the ring. They should have been told to go all out and do whatever they can to win the crowd over. The first half of the match was just lazy wrestling, plain and simple. It’s WWE-syndrome. Every match looks the same. I never want to see that type of style invade Mexico.