IWRG (SUN) 07/12 Arena Naucalpan [the Gladiatores]
1) Blasfemia b Imperial
2) Chico Che, Goleador, Jack b Epidemia, Heavy Boy, Keshin Black
3) Judas el Traidor b Rigo
4) Avisman, Black Terry, Dr. Cerebro b Mike Segura, Trauma I, Trauma II
5) Negro Navarro & Ricky Cruzz b El Alebrije & Veneno
The main event was IWRG (Navarro & Cruz) vs Super X (Alebrije & Veneno). Alebrije – the only tecnico in Super X at the moment – tried to get along with Veneno but failed. Navarro & Cruzz had less problems, since they both are pretty much tecnicos at this point, and so took advantage and won. Alebrije vowed to continue being professional, not that helped here.
Avisman snuck in a foul on Trauma II (the lightweight champ.) Suicida replaced Freelance.
Judas el Traidor won in straight falls. In the first one, Judas used a chain on Rigo without the ref seeing it, busting Rigo opened. Rigo grabbed the chain and hit Judas with it, but of course the referee saw that one. In the second, Rigo took Judas out with a dive, crawled in at 17, and started to celebrate. Judas snuck in just before count and pulled Rigo into a caverneria – and it actually worked!
Goleador hurt his knee, but his team still won. Whenever Goleador gets hurt, they really should pause the match, have four guys load him up on a stretcher, and carry him off. When he becomes a rudo, he should pop off the stretcher halfway thru, perfectly fine.
CMLL (MON) 07/13 Arena Puebla [ESTO]
4) Hector Garza, Hijo del Fantasma, La Mascara b Naito, Ultimo Guerrero, Yujiro
5) Mephisto b Mistico [NWA WELTER]
Notimex has Mephsito retaining the CMLL Welterweight Championship. That’ll come as a surprise to Negro Casas. In Universal, Mephisto makes the usual Mistico mask match challenge.
CMLL (TUE) 07/14 Arena Mexico [NotiMex, Record]
2) Pequeno Nitro, Pequeno Violencia, Pequeno Warrior b Bam Bam, Bracito de Oro, Electrico
3) Arkangel de la Muerte, Shigeo Okumura, Vangelis b Angel Azteca Jr., Angel de Oro, Angel de Plata
4) Atlantis, Felino, Negro Casas b La Sombra, Stuka Jr., Volador Jr.
5) Hector Garza, Hijo del Fantasma, La Mascara b Averno, Ephesto, Mephisto [CMLL TRIOS]
Rudos took the first, tecnicos the second, and Hijo del Fantasma pinned Averno for the win. Fantasma challenged Averno for his own title shot after the match.
ESTO says CMLL will announce the cage match participants on Thursday. They guess Hector Garza, Yujiro, Naito, Toscano, Black Warrior, Shocker, Mistico, Sagrado, Volador Jr., Sombra, all of Peste Negra, all of Hijo del Avernos, and all of Guerreros del ring. I’m thinking it won’t be a 20 man cage match.
Atlantis visited the Basilica Of Guadalupe and talked about his career, having reached 26 years.
El Manana talks to the Bizarros.
OEM has an article about the AAA movie. Not a lot new, except this is part of a greater project to revive the animation industy in Mexico.
Box Y Lucha talks to Super Muneco
LuchandoLibre looks at the previous career of Sugi
WagnerMania has last week’s CMLL stellar moments up on YouTube.
DTU points to a music video of their Desastre en Queretarock show by someone named RobViper. Never heard of him, but he’s got some iffy music tastes.
Luchas 2000 #478 has lots of coverage of it’s 9th anniversary show.
WrestlingObserver has their AAA recap.
Ohtani’s jacket thought rudo Faraon was excellent versus Atlantis in 1985.