AAA #876, 03/14/09:
– this was the really great Poder de Norte/Air Force match. I think I went on on this match already, so here I’ll just hope that the Air Force being good together doesn’t mean ill-fated attempts to break them up. And Gato Eveready and Billy Boy were underrated parts of this match.
– Electroshock had his working boots on! I wonder if someone told him what was down the road for him. If you stop caring about Super Fly losing every time, this was a nice little match.
– Zorro vs X-Pac was six minutes and so good to be only six minutes. Not that it was horrible, but they had six minutes of match to do and it would’ve been horrible stretched to 12.
– I think this was the best Chessman/Mesias match, now that I’ve liked a lot of their stuff in the past. Maybe it was just Chessman getting a genuine clean win.
– Main event was interesting only for the Latin Lover/Abismo Negro stuff, and Charly’s run-in at the end. You’ll see I tend to zoom thru the Abismo stuff, because there’s no real point to it now.
Day: April 21, 2009
04/21: Latin, Electroshock, Cibernetico
CMLL (TUE) 04/21 Arena Mexico
1) Rayo Tapatio I & Rayo Tapatio II vs Apocalipsis & Semental
2) Caligula, Messala, Polvora vs Angel Azteca Jr., Angel de Oro, Angel de Plata
3) Bam Bam, Mascarita Dorada, Shockercito vs Pequeño Damian 666, Pequeño Universo 2000, Pequeño Warrior
4) HIjo del Fantasma, Sagrado, Valiente vs Black Warrior, Lizmark Jr., Misterioso II
5) Averno, Ephesto, Mephisto vs La Mascara, Mistico, Volador Jr.
Previews: Ovaciones, ESTO – hype is around another matchup of Averno & Mistico, which reminds me how funny it was to hear the announcers talk about Negro Casas being Mistico’s biggest rival. Mistico has a lot of biggest rivals.
AAA says Latin Lover is scheduled to appear at tonight’s AAA taping. I was starting to wonder who Latin would be parodying, but it occurs to me that maybe the parody will be of Latin Lover.
Electroshock talks about the Lucha Libre Expo, his career, his time outside of AAA (“I was wrong, I needed help, therapy”), and haters on the internet.
(Reforma viz Jazzo) Cibernetico talks about making peace with the Perros, but also calls them all babies. I don’t think that’s going to work. The whole back and forth still seems like an angle being worked thru the press rather than Cibernetico leaving the promotion.
Kcidis illustrates Dos Caras Jr., the applause seeking rudo. Maybe CMLL thought they needed a new Wagner?
Hablando de Catch, which confused me this morning with it’s new template, takes photos of lucha merchandise outside of arenas and a preview of a series of CMLL books on the history of lucha libre. That should be good.
The Las Vegas Sun had lots of fun at Sundy’s show with Super Crazy & Super Parka and took some pictures.
Paraiso de la Lucha Libre has photos of a sparely attended benefit shot for Ricky Ricon.
Box Y Lucha #2919 has Mistico’s hand print (slow week?). Inside, Alebrije, Cuije, Nygma and Angel all talk about leaving AAA. (Is it time for a new list?) Also, It reads like Valiente was asked to lose weight if he’s going to get pushed. He’s has dropped a bunch of weight. Box Y Lucha also has an article full of Luchadores Versus Animals, with pictures.
Luchas 2000 #467 has a similar assemblage of headlines.
DTU has photos of their wrestlers attempting to look stern at a press conference for their show on Sunday.
Wrestling Obsverer has their AAA recap
Segunda Caida watched 03/26/09 IWRG.
Ohtani’s Jacket catches up with some recent CMLL off YouTube.
Cesar grades Mascara Purpura (marked down for being roja! – wait, he’s supposed to be a Cardinal?), Bronco and Ephesto.
LuchaWorld has Robert on CMLL TV 01/12/08 and C3 from 01/05/08 and KrisZ’s news update