CMLL (FRI) 02/13 Arena Mexico [Ovaciones, SuperLuchas]
1) Starman & Tigre Blanco b Puma King & Tiger Kid
2) Ángel Azteca Jr., Pegasso, Rey Cometa b Bronco III, Pólvora, Skandalo
3) Pequeño Damian 666 b Bam Bam [lightning]
4) La Máscara, Shocker, Toscano b Black Warrior, Dragon Rojo Jr., Sangre Azteca
5) Blue Panther, Maximo, Último Guerrero DQ Ephesto, Texano Jr., Villano III
6) La Sombra & Volador Jr. b Heavy Metal & Negro Casas [CMLL TAG]
Champs retain. Casas took the first fall with Casitas, but then the champs tok the second with the guillotine legdrop and a german suplex, then Volador got Negro with a casita while Sombra took out Metal with a dive for the win. Rudos would like another try.
Pretty much everyone who was subbed out during the week ended up showing up. For the semifinal, that meant the rudo side started with Ephesto, Villano and Texano Jr., but ended up with Averno & Terrible joining in for the third fall DQ.
Shocker did show up for the tercera, and his team won. That ends Poder Mexica’s undefeated streak in the building, so unless they’re setting up a title match from a random trio, that probably means only whomever is charge of Tuesday’s programming is really interesting in pushing Sangre, Dragon and Warrior.
Perhaps Heavy Metal will get over the loss at today’s music concert for his 21st anniversary of wrestling.
SANTO (FRI) 02/13 Arena Neza [Black Terry Jr.]
3) Cerebro Negro, Dr. Cerebro, Veneno b Freelance, Mike Segura, Veneno
4) Coco Verde & Cocolores b Hermano Muerte I & Hermano Muerte II
5) Damián 666 & Villano IV b Scorpio Jr. & Villano III
6) Blue Demon Jr. & El Hijo Del Santo b Dr. Wagner Jr. & el Hijo del Perro Aguayo
According to Ovaciones, V3 and Scorpio Jr. agreed to a hair match here in two weeks. Either V3 is winning, or that throws a monkey wrench into the proposed V3/V5 vs Panther/UG match for Dos Leyendas.
Alfredo has started his countdown of the top 100 wrestlers of 2008 over at Luchaworld. Where will Marco rank this year?
Box Y Lucha has interviews with Laredo Kid (happy for Pegasso & Rey Cometa’s success, just doesn’t want them to call themselves the Air Force since that’s a Pena idea) and Mini Abismo Negro (always training to get better, not causing problems like others who’ve come and gone.)
SuperLuchas links to a Santo interview in Colombia.
LAist has an article and lots of pictures from last week’s Lucha Va Voom; sure looks like Hector Garza some how made it to the US from that. I hope that means his legal issues with entering the US are over.
Al Filo del Ring talks to Juvi about how to react (and not react) when you lose your mask.
SuperLuchas looks back at Irma Gonzalez vs Vicky Williams
No lineups up yet.
Shit… I must have missed the message on Friday or it just never clicked. I’ll be sure to catch it next week or find someone who knows how to record streams.
I don’t usually address Tim but…
@Tim: “If you want to see a match with too many dives, just watch the Mini’s match from tonights FSE.”
I just did. They did 5 dives, 3 of them coming in a sequence in the first fall. That’s too much for you? Skip the tag title match then b/c with only four guys they did 8 dives.
That mini’s match was AWESOME! Between the mind-blowing dives, the awesome brutal triple-team spots by the rudos and great spots inside the ring by Dorada/Shockercito – that’s an early candidate for favorite mini’s match of the year for moi. Shockercito looked the best he’s ever looked and did two dive of the year candidates! TWO!!! Maybe losing his mask was a good thing.:)
Astro Boy/Caligula got all chopped up but even in the 2 minutes that aired I felt bad for Caligula as Astro Boy was his usual sloppy self. He couldn’t even take Caligula’s big move properly.:( I was stunned he pulled off the Metalik dive though! I’m sure Henrik’s jaw dropped as well as when he busted out the Stardust Press.
@Rob: I agree the minis match was solid, but I thought Dorada looked off his game a bit. The Shockercito monkey flip off the ring apron spot was spectacular though. The Warrior fall to the floor didn’t look quit as bad as I remembered it, but my wife pointed out that he caught his head on the apron which I had missed earlier.
I liked Astroboy/Caligula more on tv than live, so I don’t think they missed anything big in the clipping.