Day: June 4, 2010

IWRG (THU) 06/03 Arena Naucalpan [@gladiatores]
1) Comando Negro b Keshin Black
2) Tokoa Nakagawa b Ayumi
3) Avisman, El Hijo del Diablo, Gringo Loco b Suicida, Trauma I, Trauma II
4) Bombero Infernal, Maldito Jr., Samot b Black Terry, Cerebro Negro, Dr. Cerebro
5) CIMA, Kenzo Suzuki, Nosawa, Tozawa b Gato Eveready, Máscara Año 2000 Jr., Pantera, Veneno

Not only an all rudo night, but Mexico falls to Japan. IWRG is depressing, crushing promotion.

Previews of today’s Arena Mexico show: Notimex, Ovaciones, ESTO. No one cares about today’s Arena Mexico show; whatever they do will be build to Sunday’s show. The Ovaciones article that, thru the World Cup, CMLL will give free passes to anyone in a Team Mexico jersey.

Sombra won his match over Gedo in today’s Best of Super Junior match with what sounds like his rope flip moonsault, bringing him up to 2-1 and 4 points. NJPW’s YouTube channel has put up his last match in the tournament, versus Kota Ibushi.

La Parka Jr. just now realized he stands to gain absolutely nothing if he wins his match against LA Park. Probably should’ve figured that before signing the contract. Parka suggests, if he should lose, he’ll call himself something like “LA Parking” and just change his mask a little. It’s good no one is reading this interviews, they’re not helping.

Arturo Rivera was on a gossip show, showing footage of LA Park being slapped by Marisela Pena and throwing bottles at the crowd. Must not be a big deal if they’re showing it on other shows.

Todoluchas wonders who will be added to the AAA Hall of Fame at TripleMania. They’re adding someone to the AAA Hall of Fame at TripleMania? I haven’t seen that mentioned on the website or the TV show so far, but they didn’t add any one at Rey de Reyes so I’d believe this.

Marco Corleone promotes the first Masked Warrior taping on Sunday, says they have “the most athletic individuals in the world on our roster.” They do have Mascarita Dorada, I’m not sure I should argue this.

Dark Unicorn/Hailey Hatred has been suspended from wrestling in Monterrey for wrestling unmasked before she lost her mask. They didn’t realize this until she lost his mask?

IWRG says Dr. Wagner Jr. is coming in on Thursday.

Ultimo Guerrero signed autographs at Solar’s shop.

Nuevo Dia has an interview with local Nogales wrestler Xxtruendo.

Ras de Lona #100 has cake. I suspect tomorrow’s episode will be all 6/6 build up as well, but maybe from the Invasors side.

LuchaWorld has Slammin’ Stan #34.

AAA’s lineup for E3 was announced yesterday

AAA Slang (TUE) 06/15 E3, Los Angeles
1) Aerostar, Laredo Kid, Súper Fly vs Monster Clown, Murder Clown, Psycho Clown
2) Mascarita Sagrada & Octagoncito vs Mini Abismo Negro & Mini Charly Manson
3) Aerostar, Laredo Kid, Súper Fly vs Monster Clown, Murder Clown, Psycho Clown

AAA Slang (WED) 06/16 E3, Los Angeles
1) Mascarita Sagrada & Octagoncito vs Mini Abismo Negro & Mini Charly Manson
2) Aerostar, Laredo Kid, Súper Fly vs Monster Clown, Murder Clown, Psycho Clown
3) Mascarita Sagrada & Octagoncito vs Mini Abismo Negro & Mini Charly Manson

AAA Slang (THU) 06/17 E3, Los Angeles
1) Aerostar, Laredo Kid, Súper Fly vs Monster Clown, Murder Clown, Psycho Clown
2) Dr. Wagner Jr. & Silver King vs El Elegido & La Parka Jr.

Matches are at 1/3/5 on Tuesday, 12/2/4 on Wednesday, and 11/1 on Thursday, followed by autograph sessions directly after. They’re advertising Dr. Wagner as “#1 ranked luchador in the world.” Poor Electroshock. I guess that may be fixed by E3. If Wagner’s team wins, he’s on the cover, and Parka is the cover if he wins. (Parka is going to win.)

Monster Clown is listed as “Munster”. All famous lucha libre stars here. Matches should be good, though I wonder how they’re going to do two Air Force vs Psycho Circus matches when Super Fly inevitably hurts himself in the first match.

AAA press release
Perros del Mal press release

The Perros del Mal press release states they will not be doing an Invasion and they will not be coming part of AAA. If we take them at their word, that would just leave the Perros del Mal doing their own match somewhere on the card, and that seems the least of all options. IWRG was smart enough to get themselves treated as equals to AAA, it’d be absurd for the Perros to come in with a match the same importance as the cruiserweight trios. I don’t believe Los Perros.

The Perros explain they can not do an invasion or integrate because they have completely different styles. I guess that’s true. One promotion keeps the same guys on top on every show, builds matches around heel referees and no rules matches (except until the finish, when there are suddenly disqualifications) and has a heavyweight champion no one actually believes is the best guy in the promotion. And the other promotion has X-Fly as champion.

Besides the big questions of who the Perros will work with, there’s also the question of where this leaves Charly Manson., who walked out of a scheduled hair match in AAA last year. If the Perros del Mal continue to run elsewhere, Charly could just keep working those shows, but he probably would have trouble returning to AAA. It’d guess only the top guys are showing up at TripleMania, and the talk about keeping the promotion going is as much to avoid the rest of the crew from freaking out as much as a statement to the fans.

More details are supposed to come today, but we probably won’t know what we need to know (what these guys will actually be doing in AAA) until Sunday night.