AAA #883 (05/09)

taped 04/10, aired 05/15. Watch as I refuse to stop typing even when I ought to below:

– La Diabolica, Cinthia Moreno, Billy Boy vs Aerostar, Mari Apache, Fabi Apache – maybe it’s was swayed by knowing this was her final night, but it seemed like La Diabolica was better than usual. Still don’t think CMLL brings her back. This was a good women’s tag match with two men involved, and I still don’t think anyone’s quite sure if they were meant to be in the match or not.

– Scoria vs Alan Stone – would’ve been better on AAA {Pro}, where Alan, Chris, Argenis, and the La Chiva who keeps showing up on spot shows are having ***-**** matches in a feud with Dark Family. Someone needs to put that up on YouTube.

– Extreme Tiger vs Crazy Boy – pretty sure they think it would’ve been a better match under DTU rules. For all the moves these guys (and I think I mean “guys like these two” and not just these specific two) learn off YouTube, maybe they can watch a couple video where someone gets the heat for a while, and then someone makes a comeback. They seem to be ffwding the last couple of minutes of near falls, and then stretching it out to 9 minutes. It doesn’t work, it never works. OTOH, Tiger’s 450 splash is a nice replacement to the barricade guillotine legdrop as the move he really can’t do but won’t stop trying.

– Teddy Hart, Jack Evans, Electroshock © vs Ultimo Gladiador, Laredo Kid ©, Super Fly – I brush by this point at the end, but why are we having a cruiserweight tournament? Why not just give a(nother) title to Electroshock, since this match demonstrates the eventually champion will just be a lesser wrestler not on the level an average heavyweight just protected by the weight limit.

It’s really strange to realize this, given what AAA has been in the past – look, Hijo del Santo’s back! – but the promotion of Rey Misterio and Psicosis and the Gringos Locos and other welter/middleweight wrestlers will not have another headliner as long as the current regime remains such. Only the heavyweights can be top guys, maybe a light heavyweight will sneak thru if they’ve enough or they’re low on options, but anyone less looks to be treated as a lesser wrestler who has be very lucky to be heavyweight type guys (no different than Rey in WWE now, actually), and probably can expect much more of this, where a guy who gets treated as a generic goon when tagging with heavyweights could beat up 3 guys at once (even with his teammates fighting!)

I don’t want to act like AAA was some sort of all junior all the time promotion, because it hasn’t been (Dinamitas in the main event of the first show! and for plenty after), but this is a natural and unfortunate progression of how things have gone. they made a heavyweight title, they made it the most important title for the top matches, they made it the only big title, and so all the top matches are just going to be heavyweights. Doesn’t mean there can’t be great fun in the middle, but (and this might actually be my point here) if you’re hoping this Jack Evans turns is leading AAA to go all the way with him, it probably matters little about how good he is in the ring or how over he is with the crowd, but how much more newly acquired muscle weight he can pack on his body to look the part.

– Cuervo, Ozz, Silver King © vs Elegido, Marco Corleone, La Parka Jr. © – random captain rules being enforced! The only thing I could figure is they wanted Elegido to actually get a pinfall here since he’s going to be in a big role eventually, and then decided they might as well go all the way to the last elimination (and toss the Dark Familly a bone.) Of course, that would mean long term planning, and if you were doing that, wouldn’t you have had the dissension in the last match led to Super Fly ending up pinning Electro to resolve that story before you started his rudo turn? Dunno.

– Nicho & Joe Lider vs Mesias & Dr. Wagner Jr. – exactly what I thought it was. This, of course, is another thing borrowed from 00s WWE – tag team champions who can’t actually beat anyone who means anything in tag team matches. Does Tirantes think Wagner is a rudo? Is Wagner a rudo, since he’s actually invading the company and disrespecting our hero Mesias? What must you ingest to think Mesias would get cheered over Wagner?