01/02: Mexico, IWRG hair loss

CMLL (FRI) 01/02 Arena Mexico [Ovaciones]
1) Camorra & Policeman vs Astro Boy & Tony Rivera
2) Marcela, Princesa Blanca, Sahori vs Amapola, Hiroka, La Nazi
3) Ángel Azteca Jr. vs Puma King [lightning]
4) Máximo, Mictlán, Stuka Jr. vs Euforia, Nosferatu, Shigeo Okumura
5) Dragon Rojo Jr., Negro Casas, Sangre Azteca vs La Máscara, Mascara Dorada, Sagrado
6) La Sombra, Shocker, Volador Jr. vs Black Warrior, Terrible, Texano Jr.

Haven’t seen ESTO or Notimex put up their general previews. I think everyone but me is off. Including half the guys here; they’ve done a lot with Terrible and Texano the last few weeks, but it’s still different to see them in the main event. This show is mostly marking time until things start ramping up again; Mistico will probably be back next week, but I think it might be 01/16 or 01/23 until anything huge of note.

There should be some sort of definite direction out of the Blanca/Marcela stuff after this third week of teaming (and failing.) The storyline makes it a clear 2 fall match, so there should be room for a third on next week’s FSE. Lightning match is different, just because they’ve tended to be one opening card guy and one lower mid guy who occasionally makes TV, and Puma and Azteca are both almost never on TV.

Ovaciones also has a short interview with Hijo de Fantasma, who wants to win a title this year. There’s also a small bit about Perro’s promotion, saying he will announce a second show, sometime soon.

Mr. Reyes posted photos from yesterday’s Neza show with Los Perros. As many (or impossible more) than CMLL’s Mistico show last week. Very weird that a local hair vs mask match gets set up on a CMLL show (with CMLL workers involved in the match!) and gets blown off on a different promotion’s show. Building > promotion I guess.

A post on LMdLL says IWRG’s big multistage cage match ended with Dr. Cerebro taking Cerebro Negro’s hair. I always think IWRG values their own guys less than they ought to; it should be a bigger deal when one of these guys loses their hair.

By the way, el Martiente is now disabling anonymous visits. You have to log into an account to read messages. If you have an account, they’re also asking you to post to prove you’re not an inactive user. While for them this means badly translated posts as I try to stay unbanned, for you this means probably less links there from here; it doesn’t make sense to link to something not everyone can read. I’ve long doing the same for Box Y Lucha, and it’s not like either board is bad (they’re good!), it’s just trying to make the links useful for anyone who might click on them.

ESPNDeportes writes about Vampiro’s work with the Guardian Angels

In Colima, local wrestler Angel Star is now sponsored by the government as Literato, who encourages children to read (by bringing books to the ring, apparently.)

Ohtani’s Jacket watches
* Negro Navarro & the Killer Family vs Angel Azteca Jr., Brazo de Platino, Mascara Ano 2000 Jr., Shu el Guerrero from AULL 11/06
* Space Cadets versus Exoticos from 1984 UWA
* Blue Panther & Sergio el Hermoso vs Solar & Super Astro from 1987

Roberto Acosta posted. Also, Guerreros del Ring covers for 169, 170, and 171.

AAA says the next taping is 01/18 in Guanajuato. The Observer previously had 01/17, but I believe that’s just a show for a retiring referee that happens to be packed.

LuchaWorld has KrisZ’s news update