CMLL on Fox Sports #172 (11/21/2009)

taped Arena Mexico, 11/15/2009

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Bracito de Oro, Pequeño Olímpico ©, Shockercito vs Pequeño Nitro, Pequeño Universo 2000, Pequeño Violencia © – sure seems like there was some sort of mandate to cut these openers down to a minimum amount of time. They’ve never been long, but they’re super abbreviated in this stretch, and things are clearly going longer on the recent shows. Anyway, this match has 3 guys who are good, 1 guy who I’ve not yet decided on (Nitro) and 2 guys who appear to be here just to make up the numbers (Bracito and Universo.) This would’ve been an interesting tag team match.

Blue Panther, Héctor Garza, Shocker © vs Felino, Negro Casas ©, Ray Mendoza Jr. – thought this was going to be bad (the first fall backed that up), turned out to be just OK, I’ll take that as a victory. It is nice that, instead of continuing to repeat the same Garza shirt tossing, everyone’s making fun of it now. Garza got pinned on Friday while stripping up his shirt, so maybe it’s going away.