Lots of stories about the death of La Parkita & Espectrito II; I’ll pick the Reforma one because it seems to have the most details about the death. ESTO has a good obit.
La Parkita (the original in AAA, Alberto Perez Jimenez) and Espectrito II (Alejandro Perez Jimenez – and NOT Guerrerito del Futuro), brothers who were 35 years old, were found in their hotel room Monday at 2pm. They’re both younger brothers of Espectrito I, who is quoted about the deaths in the Record article
The police believe they checked into the hotel the previous night, bringing with them two prostitutes. They think the prostitutes spiked the drinks. The articles make it sound as if the spiked drinks scam is very typical, but it usually doesn’t kill the victims. The luchadors were found the next morning when the hotel workers came to clean the rooms. They found the drug at the scene and none of the wrestlers possessions, so it looks pretty open and shut.
Though it’s always tough to tell with another wrestler using the same name at the same time, it looks like La Parkita was working pretty regularly in the extended Mexico City area – he was on a show Sunday in Mexico State just before his death (SuperLuchas has a map!), and was on the Bizzaros debut (final?) show before that. Espectrito II turns up less frequently, but may have been misidentified as Espectrito I at times. Both were working in IWRG late January and early February. This was the same La Parkita as in CHIKARA; Milenio actually links to video of his appearance there.
Al Filo del Ring reposts their recent interview of Parkita.
CMLL (TUE) 06/30 Arena Mexico [ESTO]
3) Euforia, Hooligan, Nosferatu b Fabian el Gitano, Flash, Horus
4) Dragon Rojo Jr., Lizmark Jr., Misterioso II b Blue Panther, Mictlan, Valiente
5) Hector Garza, Hijo del Fantasma, La Mascara DQ Averno, Terrible, Texano Jr.
Rudos won the first fall won and seemed to be on their way for a sweep, but ripped off Hijo del Fantasma’s mask instead. For the third, they pulled La Mascara’s mask. This annoyed the tecnicos enough to agree to a title match next week.
CMLL (TUE) 06/30 Arena Coliseo Guadalajara [Fuego en el Ring]
1) Milenio b Meteoro
2) Thunder Boy b Skaxy
3) Ebola b Nube Roja
4) Drago b Saturno
5) Leon Blanco b Infierno
6) Gallo, Metro, Stuka Jr. b Dr. X, Mascara Magica, Vangelis
7) Felino & Mr. Niebla b Sagrado & Toscano
Sagrado replaces Shocker. Rudos won clean.
Since he’s now going to be back for his 25th year anniversary, Nitro wants to celebrate on October 3th with a mask vs mask match vs Ultimo Guerrero. It’s good to want things, but not that particular thing.
Juvi says his first promoted show (except for the others ones) will be on July 31st. The article is more about a trip to South Africa with NWE.
At a campagin rally for a PRI candidate, they held a match between a man in a white mask with green/red “PUEBLO” on it, and a man dressed as Mistico, since he’s in those commercials for the PAN party. The PRI wrestler yanked fakeMistico’s mask and the candidate celebrated with him, though the article notes that means PAN won by DQ.
El Sol de Zacatecas is sure Dos Caras Jr. is still going to work on the spot show there tonight. I hope they enjoy Ray Mendoza Junior. Still a good lineup:
CMLL (WED) 07/01 Gimnasio Marcelino Gonzalez
1) Molotov & Trueno vs Caligula & Méssala
2) Mascarita Dorada, Pequeño Olímpico, Tzuki vs Pequeño Damian 666, Pequeño Universo 2000, Pequeño Violencia
3) Angel de Oro, Angel de Plata, Mascara Dorada vs Euforia, Nosferatu, Vangelis
4) Hijo del Fantasma, Sagrado, Valiente vs Ephesto, Mephisto, Texano Jr.
5) Hector Garza, Mistico, Toscano vs a replacement for Dos Caras Jr., Averno, Lizmark Jr.
Not that CMLL is the only one who has weird lineup issues. Just yesterday, AAA posted a lineup for tonight’s Cancha German Evers show in Mazatlan. The local paper hypes the show, with a different lineup. Most of the wrestlers are the same.
Those new lineups also have Super Fly working as a rudo on some Baja California Sur spot shows, as alluded to on AAA’s site a couple days ago.
AAA has articles on Who is Shiima Xion, and Silver King’s face paint from TripleMania
Box Y Luchas Cotorreando has an interview with Alebrije & Cuije.
Ovaciones previews the UWE show tonight, and the Luchas 2000 (with Lizmark Sr.!) on Saturday.
