Since I’ve got no place else to say this at the moment and will forget again in the morning…
As mentioned yesterday, CMLL scored a 2.3 rating. They were on Sunday. Televisa aired a lot of commercials. It was a very low rating. However…
rating the week before CMLL moved: 3.4
rating the week after CMLL moved: 3.4
The big dropoffs happened the second and third weeks of the move. Moving it Sunday and all those commercials are probably a factor, but it’s not as those problems didn’t also exist the first week, and no one jumped off that week. There has to be other factors, like the content.
The two main storylines over the last two weeks has been the Japanese trio quickly winning and then losing straight matches to drop the titles and Mistico cementing himself as a tecnico team. The Mistico angle is a outright rewrite of a well received storyline from weeks ago and fall back into matches that have been done many times over the last five years. The trios title feud has featured a weak championship team of a career undercard wrestler artificially inflated to fit the spot, a wrestler on half year stay who has not impressed in his stint, and a wrestler who is hyped as super talented but hasn’t really had a chance to prove it (and one still so anonymous, CMLL.com’s own recap of Tuesday’s show currently lists him as ‘Taichi’), versus a team of liked (but not super liked) tecnicos with no particular connection between them. These are not the most compelling issues. Meanwhile, the most interesting storyline in CMLL, and the one they’re actually pushing the hardest, is CMLL vs the Invasors, and it has yet to be represented as a match on CMLL’s main show.
The other thing to keep in mind is Mexican ratings are very fluid. CMLL has dropped 1.1 in two weeks, to a low number. In those same two weeks, SmackDown has dropped 1.4 points, and there’s no concern for that show. Since the start of the year, CMLL has dropped or gain 0.5 in a week at least 6 times (there’s 4 weeks with no numbers.) If the rating dropped to something like 2.1 this week, I’d be concerned, but I wouldn’t be shocked if it just as randomly bounced to some number of 3.
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AAA-US: Aerostar/Relampago vs Billy/Decnnis in what should be a fun match, Daniels debut in a cruiserweight trios, and La Parka vs La Park in trios doesn’t quite come off
CMLL-52MX: Cats/Durango vs the All Marooned Squad of Horus, Metalico and Starman. I wonder what Durango Kid thinks of the Invasors? Also, Metro, Rush, Valiente vs Dragon, Euforia, Vangelis.
CMLL-LATV: if they pick up the next week, it’s a really good looking minis trios and Poder Virus vs Fuego/Stuka/Sagrado
IWRG-TF: no new episode in four weeks, not sure why I’m bothering. Could one of the dozen people who cover IWRG ask what’s going on with this show? Does anyone who writes about lucha libre on the internet watch (non-WWE) lucha libre on TV?
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CMLL: Still on Sunday, so this seems to be a long term switch. Show features entirely predictable Bernard/StrongMan break up, the entirely forced Maximo/Taichi feud, and a nice looking trios which will probably be clipped. I don’t know where you live, but the weather is looking pretty great here on Sunday; not a wise idea to spend it inside watching this show.
AAA-MEX: Torreon taping, with a tag title match, an arrest, and a main event with no particular finish.
CMLL-FOX: show with Fabian/Dr. X feud and Maximo/Taichi feud. This show is NOT a winner this week.
C3: insta-Volador/Atlantis feud and Tanahashi’s final match, for now. Not really a lot great on this show.
Puebla: Dorada match should air, or someone’s asleep at the controls.
ACM: maybe 3-5 from this past Sunday, lots of AAA (though maybe not the AAA you want in all cases.) Maybe Tiffany actually makes TV?
Perros del Mal: Charly Manson vs X-Fly. No, really. They aired SLP last week, which means this should be the Tijuana show, so maybe one hair match and undercard match, and then the cage match and the semimain next week? Which would put them on the DF taping the week after (3 days after the Masked Republic PPV debuts, so maybe not?)
By the way, nothing is more amusing than last week’s show starting with a Mr. Aguila promo. Oops! Truly, they are the difference, in editing this shows way ahead of time.
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CMLL-TFN: if I’m back synced up, this is the week with the minis match?
CMLL-TFN should be from 29/5/09 and feature
– Mascara Dorada, Valiente & Maximo vs Poder Mexica
– Averno (c) vs Blue Panther (CMLL Middleweight Title)
Looking at my notes, next week will feature the first appearance on this run of NO LIMIT, which is interesting timing as I just laid down commentary for their final match (Hair match with Terrible & Texano) yesterday. I’m really gonna miss them.