IWRG (THU) 04/29 Arena Naucalpan [Estrellas del Ring]
1) Keshin Black b Dinamic Black
2) Alan Extreme & Eterno b Guizmo & Miss Gaviota
3) Black Terry & Cerebro Negro b Trauma I & Trauma II
4) Oficial 911, Oficial AK47, Oficial Fierro b Bombero Infernal, Maldito Jr., Samot
5) Avisman, El Hijo del Diablo, Gringo Loco b Hijo de Máscara Año 2000, Máscara Año 2000, Máscara Año 2000 Jr. [EdM Trios, final]
As the two teams were posing with the belts before the main event, who should happen to walk around the ring than Silver King. After shaking hands and taking free drinks, Silver King invited the fans to attended the filming of Nacho Libre 2, coming soon. (Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.) Silver King then took a seat in the front row to watch the match. Mascaras took the first, Gringos took the second. In the third, Avisman took out Hijo with a dive. Mascsara Jr. submitted Gringo Loco to a Gori Stretch, and Diablo pinned Mascara Sr. This left Jr. & Diablo in the ring, but Mascara re-entered and fouled Dibalo, then Junior picked up the pin.
After the three count, Silver King jumped over the rail and told the referee about the vile act of cheating he had seen. The referee believed the masked man (guess he can wear the mask if he’s not wrestling?) and overturned the decision. Silver King celebrated with the Gringos. The Oficials hit the ring, both sided argued, and Silver King fouled 911. Wagner vowed to bring Electroshock and Ultimo Gladiador to take on Los Mascaras next week, while the Officials demanded to face the Black Family (?!?!).
AAA has acknowledged this event, so it’s not as if Silver King was just off being goofy by himself.
(I guess they decided they did need rudos! I’d put in for Oficial/Terry/Cerebro tecnico teams, but they’d be teaming with rudos a week later.)
Previous to all of this, Oficials won the semimain in straight falls, yet La Ola Maldita still want a title match from Oficials. It does make a little sense because the falls were a DQ for excessive violence, and a DQ for 911 fouling Bombero and then throwing Bombero his mask to draw the foul call.
After their win in the tag match, Cerbero Negro & Black Terry made challenges for hair/mask and for the Americas title.
Nothing seems to last in IWRG more than a month, so I’m sure if much should be made of this AAA/IWRG feud. In interviews, IWRG management has always talked about preferring to get back to CMLL if they were partnered with either of the major two, saying the AAA style wouldn’t fit with the product they want to produce. Even if that’s true (and I’m not sure it is), it’s just a nice thing to tell magazines – it really shouldn’t be as much about what style you want to produce as what matches and people that’ll get people to actually pay for your product. AAA can always use two more dates to a week to rent out it’s talent, especially places with shorter drives.
This is going to get a lot of comparisons to the ex-AAA/CMLL feud, and it should. Someone saw the buzz of that story and wanted to replicated on it’s own. It does seem kind of reversed – instead of the smaller group launching attacks on the bigger group to make a point, AAA is invading IWRG because…they had nothing to better to do on Thursdays? (Maybe because it’s weird and a little cool? Because it is that too.)
A Black Family vs. Los Oficiales feud would be kinda fun.