day after thoughts about Guerra de Titanes

Update: Fuego en el Ring has photos from the AAA FMLL show – and no Fabi Apache. Estrellita was in her place. Fabi most likely didn’t get her hair cut, and just won’t be around in AAA for a while to hide it.

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Over in Google Reader, I have 160+ unread links to check out. (Insert sad face here.) The news update may take a little while, so let’s spin things off to smaller posts where possible.

Couple talking points from Guerra de Titanes, most of which have been discussed a bunch in the comments.

– At least in front of the crowd in Ciudad Madero on Friday, Fabi Apache did not get her head shaved. She did get some hair clipped in front of the crowd, which may have just been some hair extensions. It’s possible they did shave her head in the back, but no one’s seeing it.

About the time you’re reading this, the AAA show is closing out the Festival Mundual de Lucha Libre, and one of the big matches was supposed to be that Fabi & Aero vs Billy & Sexi apuesta match. It’s going to be pretty hard to Fabi to disguise having a full head of hair in two days if she didn’t get it shaved and it’ll illustrate how little AAA cares about their hair/mask stips, in a mask/stip match. We’ll know what happened here pretty quick – either Fabi shows up in GDL shaved, or she didn’t get cut. If Mari or someone else subs, she’s disappearing for long enough to “grow the hair back” which she hasn’t lost.

Fabi losing to Sexi is still a really dumb move – it’s a surprise to do a surprise, not something that helps AAA in any other way. The only think I can think of is this as a response to the situation around Charly walking out – AAA’s showing it’s wrestler they maintain the right to have anyone lose their hair/mask whenever they want. Which doesn’t work if Fabi still has hair, but no one said this would work.

– I still like the finish of Mesias using the illegal move to win the match over Dr. Wagner, but do agree that they could’ve done a lot better job of building to it.

Looking back at it now, it’s pretty clear AAA must’ve decided on that finish the same time there was the blurb in the Observer about Teddy getting yelled at for using all those piledrivers. They must’ve known they were going to use that in a few weeks, and decided they cared enough to make sure it was enforced.

Maybe that was sort of wrong move – they really needed to establish the illegal-ness of it above else. If Teddy or someone else did a piledriver, and got a DQ, and everyone got to talk about how it’s a horrible move, that might’ve be stronger. As it was, it’s kinda of like how AAA uses captains rules as a similar cheap finish out – they’ve long stopped explaining them, and they very rarely even announce anyone as a captain, unless it’s a week where they feel like doing a fake out finish for whatever reason. (CMLL’s “DQ for throwing a guy over the top rope” is a similar deal – it never comes up unless they need a cheap DQ.) People who pay way close attention and know what’s going on may understand it, but AAA needs to work it’s finish to a broader fan base than that.

Alternate idea: finish should’ve been a foul. Or a mask pull.

I really want to see the match before I make any decision on that. As usual, we’re waiting to do year end until at least mid January, when we might have seen most of the 2009 year stuff. I think there might be a few things on this show which get votes.

– So World Champion Mesias has to beat the WWE’s Carlito, right? (Assuming Carlito is even the WWE’s Carlito by that point…)

9 thoughts to “day after thoughts about Guerra de Titanes”

  1. @CM93

    Both of those guys have already recieved numerous title shots. If either of them had won, we’d be seeing the same old story we’ve been seeing for the past two years.

  2. Faby might not have lost her hair, & addition to that Estrellita may not be retired. All male lucha fans rejoice.

  3. I shall rejoice. But I am surprised that Billy Boy/Aerostar lucha de apuestas was done at Guadalajara in what technically amounts to a house show. That feud was pretty hot at one point, and I would have expected it to have taken place at TripleMania earlier this year. Alas, it was not to be.

  4. I wonder why Faby did not lose her hair?

    Did Faby think Sexy was losing her mask when she heard about the stip match, never thinking she’d be asked to lose? Was AAA unable to pay her what they promised after the poor turnout(it looked kind of weak anyway), resulting in Faby keeping her hair? Or was the screwjob f*ck the fans strategy in effect all along?

  5. Oh, and if the most influential person in wrestling, Vince McMahon Jr., is willing to lose his hair in a big match to pop a crowd, I don’t see why Fabi, or anyone else for that matter, can’t.

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