AAA #857 (11/08)

taped 10/10, aired in the US 11/08

Where do you even start here?

Bigger missed shot?
– Alex Koslov pulling off his mask
– Cibernetico spearing Chessman into a table on fire

I will grant no longer doing the 30 second cuts to the crowd to hide action is an improvement, but wavey dissolved from shot to shot only gets you up to public access level. AAA never seemed to have an idea how to run a three hour show that was actually three hours long and they seem even more clueless at two hours.

I’m told Mesias is a good worker and he gets credit for taking big bumps to make opponents offense look good. The problem is, he’s been here now two years, and I can’t think of any good match he’s had. His matches are completely devoid of any psychology – it’s not like the main event, where they tried US spots and they just didn’t get over – it’s all random you hit me for a while, I hit you for a while and on and on until our time is up and we do the finish. I expect that from Chessman, but Mesias is supposed to be better than that. There’s no drama built in the match, there’s just occasion noise from the fans when Mesias insult them and his love of garbage wrestling is Lider-like and I don’t have to see Joe Lider singles matches.

Does anyone know who’s supposed to be a tecnico and a rudo? You’ve got give Konnan credit for at least booking his stuff where it’s very clear, especially in comparison to the confusion and pointless fake out swerves the rest of the show. The Dark Family/Chessman made some more sense watching compared to reading – Chessman was only hinted to be back with the group, so it wasn’t really a turn – but then you have to try and figure out why Chessman turned on Dark Family (no reason given, just done for shock) or why the Psycho Clowns worked the match as tecnicos then got bailed out by a rudo (swerve? bad booking? who knows.) Mesias clearly is supposed to be going tecnico, but he wrestled his match as a rudo while Chessman is clearly supposed to be a rudo and got the tecnico spots in his match and the rudo spots in other people’s matches.

Cibernetico’s not told the reason why he’s backing Mesias because no one could figure out a reason for such a thing, right? They created a mystery without even a clue of the solution, just because they wanted to get Mesias on the tecnico side so they could give the illusion of changed matchups, but never bothered to really think it out.

If this was live and not a month old, I’d be sure they were writing Teddy Hart out here. That seemed like a message it might coming, if nothing else, but obviously he’s still being booked. Maybe the end of the year will be the end of it. I like how Jack cared about it one segment, then was over it by the end of the show.

FWIW, DGM were clearly on one more was to come. Still hasn’t.

Zorro couldn’t save this for me. Now I’m just wondering if he’s supposed to be crazy or just really drugged up at all times. Either way works for AAA.

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7 thoughts to “AAA #857 (11/08)”

  1. AAA needs a “fan cam” that is not hooked up to the “live to tape” feed they use for tv. This would solve some of the problems mentioned regarding Koslov’s mask and Ciber spearing Chessman.

  2. I’m assuming they are just coyping the way the WWE records things just to make sure their product is an exact ripoff.

    I’m slowly trying to catch up on AAA TV and I noticed on the 6/29 taping they used this fucking annoying ringside camera that seemed to be stuck on permanent “zoom” mode. It was so pathetic. I’m guessing that’s a WWE thing that they bust out once in a while to cover a blown spot so AAA yanked it but instead used it to film about 30 seconds of action in a row.

  3. This comment is exactly the way I feel as well when watching AAA…

    “AAA never seemed to have an idea how to run a three hour show that was actually three hours long and they seem even more clueless at two hours.”

    I thought the 3-hour shows were too long, whenever I watched them while they were actually airing due to all the commercial breaks and that little trick they’d pull. The one were they’d go ahead and take a 5-minute commercial break and come back to repeat what had just happened in the previous match and then take another commercial break. At least those shows didn’t seem too screwy.

    The 2-hour shows have been pretty awful IMO. They’re copying the same formula that WWE uses, but at the same time they’ve limited some of the better possible matches (Morenos vs. Apaches, Fuerza Aerea, etc.) by increasing interviews and the Konan-Roldan angle.

    Another thing I’ve noticed since they’ve added more singles matches, which at one time I thought was a good idea, is that the majority of those singles matches have either sucked or been big letdowns. Even the much anticipated Jack Evans vs. Aerostar match was disappointing. Chessman has been pretty disappointing in singles matches as well. I’m almost wishing they dump the singles matches and return to the old clusterfucks of trios and atomicos matches.

    What’s the last good singles match in AAA that didn’t involve Fabi or Mari or Gran Apache?

  4. “”
    I thought the 3-hour shows were too long, whenever I watched them while they were actually airing due to all the commercial breaks and that little trick they’d pull. The one were they’d go ahead and take a 5-minute commercial break and come back to repeat what had just happened in the previous match and then take another commercial break. At least those shows didn’t seem too screwy.
    “”

    That’s the US version of it, the real 3 hour show would only have comercials between matches, and only once in a while, would they return with replays. Now with 2 hours, it looks as if they have to keep the same amount of commercial breaks than with 3 hours.

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