Day: November 14, 2009

CMLL (TUE) 11/17 Arena Mexico
1) Apolo Estrada Jr. & Corazón de Barrio vs Camorra & Zayco
2) Astro Boy, Delta, Trueno vs Bronco, Calígula, Méssala
3) Fabián el Gitano, Flash, Rouge vs Arkangel de la Muerte, Hooligan, Pólvora
4) Máximo, Metro, Toscano vs Euforia, Nosferatu, Vangelis
5) Atlantis, Negro Casas, Último Guerrero vs Blue Panther, Máscara Dorada, Shocker

More Negro/Dorada. On Tuesday’s lineup, they spell his name “Rush.” On Sunday’s, it’s Rouge. Maybe there are two! I’m scared.

CMLL (FRI) 11/20 Arena Mexico
1) Guerrero Maya Jr. & Metálico vs Disturbio & Semental
2) Ángel Azteca Jr., Ángel de Oro, Ángel de Plata vs Puma King, Skándalo, Tiger Kid
3) Euforia vs Máscara Dorada [lightning]
4) Blue Panther, La Sombra, Volador Jr. vs Ephesto, Mephisto, Virus
5) Naito, Shigeo Okumura, Yujiro vs Terrible, Texano Jr., Vangelis
6) Místico, Shocker, Strong Man vs Averno, Felino, Negro Casas

Vangelis? With two Hijos de Avernos in the semimain and one in the main? Have they forgot Terrible & Texano are in the group? Possibly!

I think I just suggested Vangelis in the main event. Maybe I need to rethink this. Anyway, remember how they had to give Okumura the Gran Alternativa to justify him being in the semimains with No Limit – does this mean that didn’t work and Vangelis is on his level, or it didn’t have to happen since they can just book anyone in meaningless extra man in feud positions.

(At some point, I promise to you I will get over Okumura winning the Gran Alternativa. It just might take until the next one.)

There are good matches, but is there anything else going on here? Not so much. Judging from the comment on the news page, they may be wanting to get Mistico some Friday wins to make up for losing the IWGP title. You know what might work? Doing the Leyenda de Plata tournament.

CMLL (SUN) 11/22 Arena Mexico
1) Rayo Tapatío I & Rayo Tapatío II vs Artillero & Súper Comando
2) Mima Shimoda, Yezca, Zeuxis vs Dark Angel, Estrella Mágica, Star Fire
3) Dr. X, Hooligan, Loco Max vs Pegasso, Rey Cometa, Starman
4) Máscara Dorada, Máximo, Rouge vs Euforia, Pólvora, Virus
5) Blue Panther, Héctor Garza, Místico vs Atlantis, Negro Casas, Último Guerrero

Toughest match for Dark Angel – this one with 4 novatas, the one where she had 2 rudas on her team and was facing 3 rudas (what happened to the Zorras, anyway?), or any match with the Beautiful People?

No Brazo de Plata and Strong Man this week. They’re only two feuds away from being done for the year.

CMLL (FRI) 11/13 Arena Mexico [SuperLuchas, Cesar, ESTO]
1) Escorpion & René Guajardo Jr. b Bengala & Súper Camaleón
2) Estrella Mágica, Lady Apache, Lluvia b Amapola, Mima Shimoda, Yezca
3) Ángel de Oro b Arkangel de la Muerte [lightning]
4) Ephesto, Mephisto, Virus b La Máscara, La Sombra, Máximo
5) Shigeo Okumura, Tetsuya Naito, Yujiro b Averno, Terrible, Texano Jr.
6) Héctor Garza, Místico, Strong Man b Atlantis, Negro Casas, Último Guerrero

Clean tecnico win in the main event. Mistico got Ultimo Guerrero with La Mistica.

Ola Amarillo took the semimain in straight falls. Okumura got the pin on Averno in the first, Yujiro fouled Texano and got away with it for one pin in the seond fall, and Terrible got fouled and rolled by Naito while complaining about it. This led to Texano & Terrible challenging No Limit for a hair match, which sure sounds like the last major main event of the year. No date was put to it here, but figure it happening the first or second Friday on December.

Mima Shimoda fell to Lluvia in the women’s match for the deciding pinfall. On her blog, Mima says she’s got to visit the dentist after getting hurt in that match.

Nothing much of note elsewhere. Cesar says all the matches were good.

Hans Greeman has a collection of 20 full & partial 2001-2003 lucha libre posters, as an illustration of deisgn. For our purposes, it has a couple interesting lineups – do we have the wrong date for Brazo de Platino‘s mask loss?

Box Y Lucha looks back at Dizzy Gardenia Davis.

Cronicas y Leyendas writes about La Guerrilleras and Ultraman 2000.

No lineups.