Day: October 21, 2009

This is going to descend into a list post. Your time may be better spent watching part 1, part 2 and part 3 of the Perros del Mal debut show.

Diaro de Yucatan (picking it up from El Universal?) has my favorite article of the week: a serious discussion of CMLL is out of balanced in favor of the rudos. I don’t know about that being actually true, but if you’re willing to conceded it, you have to like the all the work to get actual quotes for people involved. Some tecnicos suggest it’s because CMLL doesn’t support tecnicos groups, and Panico says it’s up to the tecnicos to make their own groups because that’s what rudos did. (Really?) They explore tecnicos not being able to get along, and of course Mistico & Garza snipe at each other. They point out the fans seem to be more behind rudos, and many are switching that way.

Early on, the article claims there are only 13 tecnico stars: Mistico, Garza, Shocker, Panther, Toscano, Maximo, Fantasma, Mascara, Volador, Sombra, Mascara Dorada, Stuka and Valiente. I’m glad we all can agree Mictlan is not star, but it’s the suggestion there’s 25 star rudos that seems surprising. Let’s see if I can work them out (in no real order)

1. Atlantis
2. Averno
3. Black Warrior
4. Dragon Rojo Jr.
5. Felino
6. Heavy Metal
7. Mephisto
8. Misterioso – on the level of Stuka & Valiente, surely
9. Mr. Niebla
10. Negro Casas
11. Sangre Azteca
12. Terrible
13. Naito
14. Ultimo Guerrero
15. Yujiro
16. Hijo de Lizmark – article seems written before his jump
17. Okumura – ???
18. Satanico – still a star
19. Euforia – starting to reach; hard to argue Flash shouldn’t be on the first list when including these guys
20. Nosferatu
21. Virus

How do you get the other four? Can’t include the Tuareg, which would mean a lot more tecnicos should be included. Whom am I missing? Same with the minis and the women.

Anyway, if I circle back around to a point worth making, CMLL’s problem isn’t in quantity, it’s CMLL not giving keeping tecnico acts going from show to show, and keeping groups together. It’s either indicative of how quickly things get forgot, or how old article this is, that the Super Sky Team isn’t mentioned. (Garza’s group is considered to be only him, Mascara, and Fantasma, which may come as to news to Hector Garza.)

For my money, Toscano and Garza are completely right and Panico is full of it.The tecnicos are jumbled together in random combination for every match, never teaming any group long enough to get momentum unless they happen to be challenging for titles at that moment. (12 shows DF per month, and Flash & Stuka team up an average of 1 of them.) Meanwhile, rudos teams are always kept together – No Limit rarely wrestle separately, and they’ve got Mendoza as a third for no apparent reason except to give them a permanent third, Poder Mexico usually has at least 2 in any match where there’s 1, the Avernos team are always booked together, the Guerreros (both of them!) are always booked together.

If CMLL wanted to get a tecnico trio over, they could do it in a month – as long as they didn’t completely give up on it the next month. They were actually doing it with something as dumbly named as “Super Sky Team”, and stopped booking them together too. It’s simple: there are no strong CMLL tecnico groups because CMLL doesn’t want unified tecnico groups.