IWRG (THU) 01/07 Arena Naucalpan [Black Terry Jr. (photos), The Gladiatores via Luchando Libre, Black Terry Jr. via Box Y Lucha]
1) Volaris b Halcon 2000
2) Eragon & Imperial b Comando Negro & Flama Infernal
3) Avisman, El Hijo del Diablo, Gringo Loco b Brazo de Plata Jr., Brazo Jr., Brazo Metalico
4) Black Terry, Cerebro Negro, Dr. Cerebro b Pantera, Suicida, Zatura
5) Negro Navarro, Trauma I, Trauma II b Angelico, Solar I, Ultramán Jr.
Not taped for TV, but Black Terry Jr. put up video of the main event at the Box Y Lucha link.
Brazos were about to win when Avisman used a referee distraction to pull Brazo Metalico’s mask and help his partners cheat to a win. That is quite the trio of evildoers. Brazo Metalico impressed in his debut, except for the whole getting beat part.
CMLL (FRI) 01/08 Arena Mexico [R de Rudo, Cesar]
1) Diamante & Starman b Durango Kid & Inquisidor
2) Astral, Eléctrico, Pequeño Olímpico b Pequeño Nitro, Pequeño Violencia, Pierrothito
3) Loco Max b Ángel Azteca Jr. [lightning]
4) Averno, Ephesto, Virus b La Máscara, Stuka Jr., Valiente
5) Shocker, Toscano, Volador Jr. b Naito, Ray Mendoza Jr., Shigeo Okumura
6) Héctor Garza, Místico, Strong Man DQ Atlantis, Rey Bucanero, Último Guerrero
UG fouled Garza, and Garza challenged him to a heavyweight title match. Maybe it’ll work better for him if he tries it outside Arena Puebla. UG made the same point, saying Garza’s got to be him in a non-title match before he gets another shot. Atlantis replaced Mr. Niebla, who’s knee must be acting up again. (Or he violated his double secret probation.)
Interstingly, in the news blurb that went up, the tease was for Ultimo Guerrero vs STRONG MAN, not Garza. Late change of plans?
Shocker pinned Naito to win the semimain.
Fourth match heavily pushed a Mascara/Averno feud. Averno got away with a foul and a mask pull to pin him for the win.
They’ve got a clock in the arena for the lightning matches. Perhaps that means they won’t accidentally go over 10 minutes now? (Or it’ll be funnier when they do.)
Mini Olimpico replace Tzuki.
Inquisidor was strechered out after the opener.
Estrellas del Ring interviews Perro Aguayo Jr. about the deal with Santo. The 01/31 show is back at Sala de Armas de la Magdalena, and Perro says there will be no titles or hairs on the line, but they are talking about Perro’s hair vs Santo’s mask at some point. The interview was part of a trip to the hospital to visit sick children.
AAA has a very open and honest interview with Marco Corleone. Maybe it’s a bit too honest for AAA’s website when the first answer is “maybe I’ll go back to the WWE someday”, but that just means it’s a better read for me. Marco discusses why he think he’s done better than other US guys brought in to Mexico lately, and Jack Evans vs Marco’s Carpet.
Cesar says the new Mexican Trios champs are CMLL’s first bad decision of the year. And it only took them six days!
DJ Spectro looks back at Hulk Hogan in El Toreo, and an old Box y Lucha about real and fake brothers.
Cronicas y Leyendas looks back at the Cowboys of 1981 (Negro Navarro instead of Silver King) and Angel Blanco unmasked.
AAA the Movie will be 90 minutes long. On the website, Konnan hypes up the movie.
IWRG (SUN) 01/10 Arena Naucalpan
1) Ángel de la Noche & Guizmo vs Guerrero 2000 & Keshin Black
2) Dinamic Black & Imperial vs Alan Extreme & Comando Negro
3) Chico Che, Eragon, Hijo del Pantera vs El Hijo del Diablo, Gringo Loco, Masada
4) Bushi vs Dr. Cerebro [IWRG IC Light]
5) El Alebrije, el Hijo del Canek, Pantera vs Hijo de Pirata Morgan, Máscara Año 2000 Jr., Pirata Morgan
Bushi’s Last Stand? I dunno, I just like saying that. Odd that Avisman & Gringo Loco were the last guys teased to get a shot and it’s Dr. Cerebro who’s getting it.
CMLL (TUE) 01/12 Arena Coliseo
1) Astro Boy & Bengala vs Cholo & Ramstein
2) Diamante, Fabián el Gitano, Guerrero Maya Jr. vs Durango Kid, Puma King, Tiger Kid
3) Ángel de Plata, Fuego, Stuka Jr. vs Arkangel de la Muerte, Nitro, Skándalo
4) Sagrado, Shocker, Valiente vs Rey Bucanero, Sangre Azteca, Último Guerrero
5) Héctor Garza, La Máscara, La Sombra vs Felino, Naito, Negro Casas
Looks like they’ve might moved these back to Arena Coliseo full time, as was the rumor a couple months ago. Naito seems to be taking Mr. Niebla’s spot this week.
CMLL (FRI) 01/15 Arena Mexico
1) Starman & Tigre Blanco vs Artillero & Súper Comando
2) Último Dragoncito vs Tzuki, Shockercito, Fantasy, Pierrothito, Pequeño Warrior, Pequeño Violencia, Pequeño Nitro [cibernetico]
3) Ángel de Plata vs Raciel [lightning]
4) Hijo del Fantasma, Máximo, Metro vs Naito, Ray Mendoza Jr., Shigeo Okumura
5) Brazo de Plata, Máscara Dorada, Volador Jr. vs Terrible, Texano Jr., Vangelis
6) Héctor Garza vs Último Guerrero
Hooray for random ciberneticos. Lightning match sounds good. After that, I’m not so sure. No Averno/Mascara followup. (No new trios champions teaming up either.)
CMLL (SUN) 01/17 Arena Coliseo
1) Principe & Trueno vs Cholo & Disturbio
2) Delta, Leono, Metatrón vs Apocalipsis, Durango Kid, Inquisidor
3) Ángel de Oro, Pegasso, Rey Cometa vs Dr. X, Hooligan, Loco Max
4) Hijo del Fantasma, La Máscara, Sagrado vs Felino, Naito, Negro Casas
5) Héctor Garza, Místico, Shocker vs Atlantis, Rey Bucanero, Último Guerrero
Metatron seems to be sticking around.
Actual Arena Mex results are MIA.
Should we do a poll to see if Tzuki shows up next Friday for the Cibernetico?
I love that the Tuesday shows are going to Arena Coliseo.
CMLL just started with Virus vs. Valiente lightning match.
Is the Perros show at the Sala de Armas in Ciudad Deportiva where they ran their first show a year ago?
CMLL TV also advertising Panther vs Averno and Guerrero vs Villano.
Wonder if this is a two-week deal based on the fact all these matches are from the first quarter of the year…
@Rob: I think you’re right Rob. I say that b/c Cubs figures AAA is a best-of next week, so Televisa probably wants both groups to have best-of shows.
Marcela vs Amapola.
The best of sure seems to be a compilation of lighting matches thus far…
@Rob: and they’re cutting the matches down to three minutes.
they announced the tag tournament. blah.
Dark Angel vs Sujei now which never aired originally but as Keith notes… is cut to the finish.
So the best CMLL had to offer this year was just lightning matches?
Relampago matches really don’t need to be cut for television. They are ideal for television in full-lenght. Oh well.
CMLL should put at clock on the giant screen for the relampago matches. Those fans would do a countdown as the match is in it’s last seconds, when it runs that long.
anyone else lose the feed?
The feed = Tzuki
I wonder why Ocampo no longer covers CMLL Friday?
More lightning matches. Dragoncito vs Pierothito, Mascara vs Ephesto, and Dorado vs Drago Rojo.
Ooohhhh… two more unaired matches! (1 & 3)
Juarez feed has UG vs Texano
I found a feed for Teleformula, but I think you do have to download a player to see it. I know Rob hates that. watching it now.
http://www.freeetv.com/it/Video_Stream-page-watch-id-2870.html
IWRG looks to be the 12/6 show with Oficiales/Fantasma vs. Suicida/Bushi/Zatura & the Porky main…
Did this air already or is it just the way the show starts that makes it feel repetitive?
Yeah looks like this just part 1 of 2 covering January – July.
So they announced a tag tournament starting in 2 weeks? A parejas incriebles tag tournament for actual titles?
Just whats needed, another set of titles to ignore
I didn’t see the announcement but from the comment on the ByL forum it sounds like this tournament is what Dr. Lucha was hinting at on F4D two weeks back when he said they want to do a league style deal with wrestlers from different areas teaming up. I.e. GDL vs Torreon vs Tijuana vs DF vs Puebla, etc.
Again, IWRG just randomly ends. Fucking ridiculous!
@Rob: The promo for the tourney was at the beginning of the program. Mistico said he was representing DF. Panther, Torreon. I forget who was Guadalajara.
@Alfredo: Bad editing seems to be the trend in Lucha these days. Only show with any real effort is RdL. CMLL was garbage today. AAA is always edited like an US indie.
C3 only airing top 3 due to length of the trios titles match I would imagine.
A post over the ByL forum says these are the teams for the CMLL tournament where the 4 major schools (DF, Nuevo Leon, Jalisco, Laguna) will be represented:
Atlantis y Mascara Dorada (Jalisco)
Blue Panther y Misterioso Jr. (Laguna)
Ephesto y Euforia (Laguna)
Héctor Garza y Toscano (Nuevo Leon)
Mr. Niebla y Maximo (DF)
Místico y Averno (DF)
Hijo del Fantasma y Mephisto (DF)
Negro Casas y La Mascara (DF)
Ray Mendosa Jr y Brazo de Plata (DF)
Rey Bucanero y Valiente (DF)
Rush y Texano Jr. (Jalisco)
Sangre Azteca y Felino (DF)
Shocker y El Sagrado (Jalisco)
Sombra y Dragon Rojo Jr. (Laguna)
Terrible y Volador Jr. (Nuevo Leon)
Ultimo Guerrero y Stuka Jr. (Laguna)
No wonder I was having problems trying to fantasy book a tournament where every place was equally represented!
Tournament takes place on the 22nd/29th/5th.
Lots of interesting combos and possibilities of angles coming out of these matches. The only real question is how will CMLL fuck this up?:)
anyone else watching ACM? who the hell is voltaje negro? this match is crazy.
Decision match for the National Trios Titles was very good. Metro (and Dragon Rojo to an extent…) are clearly not ready for the big stage but they can only get better working in big matches like these with better workers. I *think* the refs screwed up again by not counting Metro down after he didn’t kick out and to make it worse… it was the new ref who screwed up. So just when you think they got a new ref who knows what he’s doing…
Well, that was a new screw up for me…
52MX had
Bronco, Dr. X, Nitro (this is still wrong) b Molotov, Sensei, Starman
Brazo de Plata, Shocker, Toscano b Dragon Rojo Jr., Ray Mendoza Jr., Rey Bucanero
They didn’t air Dorada/Felino. They did air the match with Porky, Villano V, and freaking Toscano again. Why am I watching this show again?
If anyone is bored, CMLL is on VEO7 in Spain right now.
So CMLL on VEO 7 from Spain was all from 7/22/07 from Arena Coliseo. Some matches get in all three falls without a commercial break. It’s listed today for 10pm Madrid time which is 10p EST if anyone is interested.
That Traumas/Navarro v Solar/Angelico/Ultraman match was pretty fn swank…
@Alfredo: You are right, this was a repeat from 12/19. Not a good sign!
AAA is a Worst of 2009 recap.
Wagner vs Mesias from TripleMania reminds me…Did that commercial version of the DVD ever come out?
Puebla starts with the women.
Figures… opener actually had four of my favorite locals!
@Rob: not to fear, opener is airing second!
Minis are third… And since I’ve been jumping between this and football, I’m kind of shocked at how we can be on the third match only 40 minutes into the show.
Because the women suck and got edited down to 3 minutes hopefully?:D
All five matches make it this week.