CMLL (FRI) 08/06 Arena Mexico [@cmllmagazine, Cesar]
1) Bengala & Starman b Artillero & Súper Comando
2) Eléctrico, Fantasy, Tzuki b Pequeño Nitro, Pequeño Universo 2000, Pequeño Violencia
3) Blue Panther, Sagrado, Toscano DQ Felino, Shigeo Okumura, Vangelis
4) Héctor Garza b Metro [CMLL Universal, eightfinal]
5) Jushin Lyger b Negro Casas [CMLL Universal, eightfinal]
6) Volador Jr. b Valiente [CMLL Universal, eightfinal]
7) La Máscara b Mr. Águila [CMLL Universal, eightfinal]
8) Jushin Lyger b Héctor Garza [CMLL Universal, quarterfinal]
9) La Máscara DQ Volador Jr. [CMLL Universal, quarterfinal]
10) Jushin Lyger b La Máscara [CMLL Universal, semifinal]
11) La Sombra, Místico, Shocker DQ El Alebrije, Olímpico, Psicosis
While Jushin Lyger moves onto face Sombra next week, the big story of this week’s tournament was Volador’s behavior. Drawn against two tecnicos, Volador Jr. worked as a full rudo. He pulled Valiente’s mask to pin him, then utterly beat up La Mascara and ripped up his mask before being caught fouling Mascara. Lyger picked up the scraps to take the win and get his rematch versus Sombra.
Volador will be a rudo starting Sunday (besides the usual old bookings for spot shows.) Sunday’s actually the relevos increibles match, and he’s booked on the rudo side on Monday in Puebla. This was an undramatic way to do the turn, but let’s see where it goes now that it’s happened.
Main event was a straight falls wins for the tecnicos. The rudos ambushed them, setting up a Mistico stage dive. After Monito and Shocker took out Cuije and Alebrije, Sombra and Mistico beat Psicosis and Olimpico (in that order) with their finishes. Rudos went after the tecnicos masks in the second, tecnicos rallied back, and Mistico got la Mistica on Psicosis. This time, Olimpico ran in and pulled off Mistico’s mask for the DQ. Sombra came back in, but Olimpico fouled and pulled off his mask as well. While Psicosis seemed more amenable to a mask vs mask match, but this finish seems to indicate Olimpico and others may be getting involved. They just did a relevos at Dos Leyendas, and they just did a cage match, so that complicates things. Maybe a tag where the entire side loses their mask if they lose?
Tercera was a straight fall win by the tecnicos. Felino had the Mini Parrot with him, who can talk. (90% sure it’s Mini Maximo in yet another gimmick.) They teased Monito vs Parrot violence here, but CMLL builds slowly even in mascot vs mascot fights. CMLL announced a email contest to name the parrot on Ras de Lona.
Tzuki did show. And got the win.
In a big surprise, CMLL’s anniversary show will be September 3rd. It’s very strange to have it that early. I can’t find a record of a show happening that early in September (closest is the 8th in 1991, and am not sure if that’s correct.) More importantly, it takes two weeks of build away from a main event they really haven’t even stongly built towards. My best guess is there’s a second big event already on the books for either later that month or early in October (like, maybe they know AAA is going to run Heroes Inmortales in DF and want to run against it) and they’re trying to spread things out.
Besides the hype for Rush/Loco, Ras de Lona had a segment with Garza, Terrible and Texano, convinced they should be the rightful trios champions. Video footage showed Tirantes was counting to three when Garza had Sombra pinned, but La Mascara pulled him out of the ring. I think Tirantes might have got to three anyway, but the bigger issue is La Mascara was already eliminated from the match, so it should’ve been a DQ (and titles change on DQs.) Instead, Tigre Hispano stopped counting, Garza slapped the tecnico ref, and Sombra rolled Garza up for a three count to retain the titles. Rematch is coming, probably at some point where it doesn’t affect an ongoing tournament.
Also, someone needs to put together a comp of Jushin Lyger interviews in Mexico. This week’s highlight: “Maestro?!? MAESTRO!?!?!” Runner up: “Number uno – quien? quien? QUIEN? YO! Jushin. Thunder. Lyger. NUMERO UNO.”
As Mistico did a few days ago, Rafa El Maya also is demanding something be done about Tirantes and his biased refereeing. Maya questions if Tirantes is even licensed, and is generally upset that he’s making the serious & stable less so.
Rob has thought on the second episode of Lucha Libre USA while 411 reviews last night’s fourth episode. They were much, much higher on Brewer/Mango than I, but the trios match was a crazy spot fest worth seeking out.
Cronicas Y Leyendas writes about the end to Fishman’s mask. Stop me if this sounds familiar: a new promotion started, flying in big names and promising big money for everyone, but ended up breaking promises and quickly falling apart.
El Cuadrilatero has interviews with Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr., Hijo de LA Park and Histeria.
Estrellas del Ring has an interview with Tiffany.
LuchaWorld has KrisZ’s news update.
Lineups
CMLL (FRI) 08/13 Arena Mexico
1) Molotov & Sensei vs Disturbio & Durango Kid
2) Astral, Mascarita Dorada, Último Dragoncito vs Demus 3:16, Pequeño Warrior, Pierrothito
3) Felino, Negro Casas, Rey Bucanero vs Charly Manson, Héctor Garza, Mr. Águila
4) La Máscara, Máscara Dorada, Místico vs Averno, Mephisto, Volador Jr. and Dragón Rojo Jr., Ephesto, Misterioso II and Atlantis, Olímpico, Último Guerrero
5) La Sombra vs Jushin Lyger [CMLL Universal]
Lyger is the favorite, just to get his win back. Not having this title (or the middleweight one) isn’t an issue, since he’ll probably be back next summer if not sooner. Not sure how this plays into things, but 09/03 is the first show if the post-G1 tour for NJPW. If Lyger sticks around for the Anniversary show, he’ll still miss a few shows for his home company.
Semimain is a mini tournament. Not only is Volador with the rudos, but Olimpico is back with the Guerreros (and in position for another encounter with Mistico.) I assume Sangre is not leading his team because they’re going to lose in the first round. Ras de Lona had Psicosis, Olimpico and Alebrije in their spot, with Dragon Rojo sliding over to the Guerreros team.
That looks like a really good minis match. Someone sitting in the first two rows will have Ultimo Dragoncito in their lap before the end of the third fall.
I predict Rob will hate the third Masked Warriors show! The fourth show was actually pretty good. I missed the first match though.
That 8/13 CMLL show is pretty loaded. Might be the best lineup they’ve had this year.
^^ first match was Brewer/Magno rematch, just okay. The Trios was EXCELLENT tho.
im guessing in the Liger/Garza match thats supposed to say Lyger b. Garza and not the other way around.
Fixed.
52MX has the expected matches.
“After Monito and Shocker took out Cuije and Alebrije”
Monito never ended up in the main event. He only came out to work his feud with the parrot. Cesar’s report says Mistico/Sombra teamed up to rip Cuije’s mask in the main event.
The Ras De Lona lineups make me think there was some major last minute shuffling done to last night’s booking.
The Anniversary is shaping up to be a cage main event (or tag masks w/ Tirantes’ hair on the line too?) and a Sombra vs Lyger semi-main for the CMLL Middleweight Title.
They’re back to starting late and cutting the opener of the GDL show.
They are airing the 07/13 show, which should mean a repeat in the main event. I don’t think the Teleformula show is ever going to air those Palacio Negro terceras.
LOL! A “Pirruris” Chant in Guadalajara! Awesome!
has anybody seen the Psicosis II vs. Mistico one-on-one match yet? was it good enough to make anyone think those two in a Mask Match would be worthy of the Main Event at Anniversary?
@JB: Cubs posted a link yesterday or the day before linking to someone who recapped the Mistico/Psicosis match and wasn’t a huge fan. I liked it. Some wild moments and definitely different than the usual CMLL by the book singles matches. As for whether it’s worthy of main eventing the Anniversary Show… well…
^^ preciate it, guess i missed the link. gonna look for it now and def. try and check it out myself when i can.
the reason i asked was since the start of this that is the one possible match that i thought had name value and would gain fan interest as well as be potentially good (because i dont see Mistico vs. Volador happening at all lol).
Yep, it’s the main event from last week being repeated. So odd.
AAA on galavision is listed at 90 mins. today
Fwiw, I thought the Mistico/Psicosis match was ok. I don’t think they were going all-out, but it wasn’t bad by any means. I did think the one-fall Sombra/UG match was pretty damn good for being short and on the same show. Was a solid WWE tv length match.
New dance sequence to start LATV’s CMLL show…Probably a new show.
Looks like they skipped a couple weeks.
They’re showing
2) Diamante, Pegasso, Rey Cometa DQ Arkangel de la Muerte, Loco Max, Skándalo from 07/16
No mention of the main event yet. Other unaired match (besides the opener):
5) Blue Panther, Místico, Rayo de Jalisco Jr. b Jushin Lyger, Psicosis, Universo 2000
Yup.
GDL TV starts with Leo and Hierro vs Exterminador and Mascara Magica. The tecnicos look nothing alike even though their names rhyme. Rudos are covering up their bald heads and Leo looks to be weighing in at roughly 43 pounds this week.
I think Cubs is right about a second big CMLL show on the books.
WWE is running on a Friday 10/8, which is gives CMLL a month to build between 10/3 and the WWE date.
Magica and Exterminador are hilarious! Fun match. Two falls and edited but it got edited in the right place so lots of action for the time given. Couple of nice spots and dives. Ended just in time to join the C3 opener in progress so all is well.
Next week’s Mistico/Dorada tag match goes head-to-head with the mini’s Torneo. That will be tough.
Aweosme dive by Tiger Kid!
I think I know why Yoshihashi isn’t allowed in DF. God this match is AWFUL.
BTW, fans @ Arena Mex on Tues had a ‘Happy Birthday Guerrero Maya’ sign. We have his b-day as tmrw though…
Valiente was already celebrating the win as 30 seconds later Yoshihashi finally decided to stay put in the right spot for Delta’s moonsault. Soooooooooooooooooooo awful.
AAA on Galavision USA starts very late. I believe that was the episode from a few weeks ago when CMLL “ran late” and Televisa ran a 10 minute or so infomercial between CMLL and AAA.
@LLL: as A noted, there was a very late change in the lineup for the show to start a half hour late. (It’s the same the rest of the weekend.)
This is the show where they cut out Rocky Romero’s match and turn (though he’s still very visible with the rudos at the end of the show), so maybe they just didn’t have two hours worth of content
@thecubsfan: Maybe they cut out the Romero match because he quit.
My cable system is running lots of ads for LLUSA on MTV2.
Awesome bullet tope from Sombra. Garza would still be flying backwards right now if there were no seats behind him.
Really loved the C3 main event. Everyone was crisp with everything they did and the crowd was big time into the match. Sombra is such a star. Finishes as reported read a lot better than they came off…
1) When Tirantes said La Mascara gave up to a submission even though he didn’t… it happened so fast that the crowd didn’t understand Mascara was actually eliminated. It didn’t help that Tigre Hispano agreed with Tirantes and waved his hands to signal an elimination. He should have been more ‘WTF?’ about what happened.
2) Hispano was probably supposed to slow count Sombra and fast count Garza but he counted the same way for each pinfall so it didn’t come off like he fast counted or slow counted anyone. Came off as a clean finish in fact.
Like I said on twitter on the same night the match happened – Tigre Hispano can’t count to three properly on his best nights, why would you expect him to be able to play along and do fast/slow counts when needed?
ACM looks to be a repeat of the 06/13 matches.
Lucha booking is still so alien to me. I don’t understand why getting a win back in a major tournament in Mexico should matter to Liger, over La Sombra, when logically Sombra would get the most out of the win.
Now ACM is showing a match from October of last year between Elegido/Mesias vs Silver/Wagner.
@LUKIE: Well the idea of Lyger winning would be to build to a singles rematch at the Anniversary where Sombra would win. Winning on the biggest show of the year > winning the Universal Title tournament
Plus CMLL always protects Lyger who is considered a huge star and it’s good for political reasons too since Lyger has a say in the juniors that come to Mexico and which Mexican guys go to Japan.
who is Saber Claw?
^^ looked like Rocky Romero or Ricky Reyes to me for some reason but dont know.