CMLL (FRI) 04/23 Arena Mexico [SuperLuchas, Ovaciones (PDF), @cmllmagazine, Fuego en el Ring, Cesar]
1) Inquisidor & Mortiz b Molotov & Trueno
2) Bracito de Oro b Pequeño Warrior [lightning]
3) Puma King & Último Guerrero b Pegasso & Toscano [Gran Alternativa, eightfinal]
4) Durango Kid & Texano Jr. b Ángel Azteca Jr. & Shocker [Gran Alternativa, eightfinal]
5) Delta & Volador Jr. b Felino & Tiger Kid [Gran Alternativa, eightfinal]
6) Averno & Raziel b Guerrero Maya Jr. & Valiente [Gran Alternativa, eightfinal]
7) Puma King & Último Guerrero b Durango Kid & Texano Jr. [Gran Alternativa, quarterfinal]
8) Delta & Volador Jr. b Averno & Raziel [Gran Alternativa, quarterfinal]
9) Delta & Volador Jr. b Puma King & Último Guerrero [Gran Alternativa, semifinal]
10) Blue Panther, Místico, Strong Man b Atlantis, Dragón Rojo Jr., Rey Bucanero
Mistico wore a Mexico World Cup futbol jersey. He’s a tecnico. He got Dragon Rojo with La Mistica to win.
Delta & Volador, the favorites, move on to face Polvora/Garza next week on Kid’s Day. Hmmm. Matches were between 3 and 8 minutes for the tournament.
Bracito de Oro beat Warrior clean.
Team Perros del Mal defeated Team Delicoso in the first round of CHIKARA’s King of Trios. Cuije stole the match by being Cuije, not a big surprise. Oriental, Alebrije, and Cuije move on to face the BDK Trio of Claudio Castagnoli, Ares, and Tursas tonight in the quarters.
Fuego en el Ring talks about Latin Lover’s meeting about the name. So does Gladiadores. And Estrellas del Ring.
AAA announced Chris Daniels will start with the group in 04/30, so the TV lineup they just gave out is changing.
The story about Team Mexico not making the tournament got picked up by Luchas2000. In the comments, Gigolo Americano, who I believe originally brought Skayde to CHIKARA before his own fall out with the company, defends Skayde over in the comments of that post.
A video shows Super Brazo now has a shaved head, fulfilling the stip of a cage match from a week or so back.
Ultimo Dragon says DragonMania will be on 05/29.
Rob writes about 09/05 and 09/12/09 52MX, and some July 09 FSE.
LuchaWorld has KrisZ’s news update.
Heads up. TVGuide says CMLL starts in 10 minutes, at 2:30p CST.
Yeah, Dr. Lucha said it begins at 3:30EST and has a full 2 hours.
Bracito vs Peq Warrior starts off. Thank goodness b/c I was worried we’d get to see the GA unedited. Thankfully this match will take care of that!
Ouch!
Don’t forget C3 starts early today too. 16:00 in Mexico so 5pm EST. Will be airing the same time as this show’s main event.
That was a clever spot to do the worked injury on Warrior…
The dude who won the trivia deal this week posts on ElMartinete. He announced he won a few days ago.
Momentos was kind enough to air the edited out Rey Cometa dive from last week.
Oh, ever better.
GA semi-finals and final only.
I don’t think this show has had enough commercial breaks. Needs more.
That backstage segment with Atlantis was amazing. I didn’t even listen to what was said, but the doctor checking his blood pressure as the interviewer walked up and then Atlantis standing up to pose with the doctor as they faded out were great touches.
As expected, Fox Sports got Fuego/Metro/Pegasso vs Ark/Euforia/Nosferatu and Shocker/Strong Man/Toscano vs Atlantis/Hector Garza/Ultimo Guerrero.
I don’t understand why you’d hype 8 teams in the tournament to start the show if you are only airing the semi-finals. Why not just say 4 teams are entered instead of telling everyone watching that whoever got eliminated in the first round isn’t important enough to show on TV?
Durango Kid also pinned the Universal Champ.
No matching gear with Delta/Volador? That’s kinda disappointing. Good match though.
That was a fun tag match. Thought they did a great job elevating Delta and Puma King.
Agreed. Both guys came out looking great. Even though he didn’t win this was a big moment for Puma King.
Hopefully Delta gets the win in the finals. He’s gonna be a star.
52MX appears to have
Dr. X, Nitro, Raziel vs Delta, Guerrero Maya Jr., Molotov
Brazo de Plata, Máximo, Sagrado vs Shigeo Okumura, Taichi, Villano IV
Is CMLL calling Taichi “Luchador de Azucar” new? Amusing.
I’m going to guess 4:06 on IWRG.
Is that Dragon Rojo or did Gronda jump to CMLL?
C3 just started here: http://www.tvporinternet.tv/mx/cadena-tres-canal-28
Canal 44 has different programming so probably won’t air it this week.
@thecubsfan: 4:10 has come and still nada!
Okay, now I’m not sure there’s a show this week.
Dare I write 4:20…OOPS! Just did.
Linares eyeing Que Monito! RUN QUE MONITO RUN!
Another stellar day in the world of Lucha Libre TV shows!
@Alfredo: IWRG has started down here. Anything in the US yet?
It started here at 4:20, almost on the dot.
Looks like
4) el Ángel, La Roca, Suicida b Oficial 911, Oficial Fierro, Veneno
5) Pirata Morgan & Scorpio Jr. b Canek & Máscara Año 2000 Jr. [relevos suicidas]
6) Máscara Año 2000 Jr. b Canek [IWRG IC HEAVY]
@Alan: Yes, it just started at 4:20 Cubs time. 2:20 pacific! LOL!
Let’s see how Teleformula butchers the IWRG show this week.
@Alfredo: Meanwhile, CMLL went off at 4:20. I can understand going off before the top or bottom of the hour when soccer is on. I can’t understand why Televisa would do that for a movie.
CMLL aired from 2:35-4:20p. Let’s see if this movie beats them in the ratings.
Predicition:
Intros + second fall of opening match.
First fall of main event + JIP finish of title match with the show going off the air during the final three count.
@LLL: LOL! That’s right.
When is La Roca suppose to join CMLL? I know they mentioned him on Ras De Lona as one of the trainees. I’m guessing he’ll be winning the 2011 Gran Alternativa.
@Rob: No intros. First fall aired. I bet they go to the main event after the break.
We are back to the …..THIRD FALL!
@Alfredo: Let us know what airs on LATV. Right now, I’m in a part of the country that does not have an LATV affilate.
Match joined with Scorpio Jr. already bleeding quite a bit. Maybe he just walks around like that?
stopping a match to cut promos on each other must be that old school wrestling I’ve heard so much about
MEXICO TV HAS THE MINI JOE LIDER & MINI CRAZY BOY MATCH. This day has turned around.
Really, how many visual pinfalls does Canek need before he takes a loss? (A: One more. Always one more.)
@thecubsfan: YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES! AND THE ORIGINALLY UNAIRED FUERZA AEREA MATCH! RIGHT? RIGHT!!??!!?!?!?!?!?
That Hernadnez interview on AAA was great.
LATV is the matches from 3/26 which I think is a repeat.
LATV is a repeat with the undercard from 3/26.
LATV was a repeat of the 3/26 matches (minis and Poder Mexica). It took time to figure it out since they didn’t mention what was going to air in the intro.
@Alfredo: Not cool.
Is anyone taping the mid-week repeats? Maybe new stuff is airing there by accident?
@Rob: I am taping those, thinking the same. But so far, it’s been the same episodes.
Usual LATV screwnews.
Doesn’t look the unaired Air Force match aired. For some reason, it didn’t record last Sunday’s episode. I think that was the remainder of the 04/20 taping but obviously am not sure. They also didn’t air the relevos from that half missing taping, and they usually air everything, so I suspect it’ll turn up on Sunday. But we’ll see.
Strange thing is LATV (based in LA) has a twitter account and someone was tweeting 2 hours ago saying Los Angeles Celestiales vs Euforia/Nosferatu/Polvora was on followed by the other unaired 4/9 match with Toscano, Panther, etc.
@Rob: They responded to my tweets back when the FSE show was airing on LATV, so there may be a real live person to get back to you about this. But I suspect it’s semiautomated and got caught.
It is interesting that there was at least a plan to air a new episode.
FWIW, my listings have ACM lasting 90 minutes this week.
LLF-tastic!
Is Dark Unicorn Goddess under a different gimmick?