CMLL (FRI) 08/27 Arena Mexico [@cmllmagazine, Cesar]
1) Diamante & Sensei b Inquisidor & Mortiz
2) Astral, Eléctrico, Último Dragoncito b Pequeño Nitro, Pequeño Violencia, Pequeño Warrior
3) Ephesto b Máximo [lightning]
4) Héctor Garza, Mr. Águila, Texano Jr. b Felino, Mr. Niebla, Negro Casas
5) Atlantis, Strong Man, Último Guerrero b El Alebrije, Histeria, Olímpico
6) La Sombra, Místico, Shocker DQ Jushin Lyger, Psicosis, Terrible
Tecnicos took the main event in straight falls. Lyger and Psicosis pulled for Mistico & Sombra’s masks (switching recent feuding partners.)
Monito speared Cuije in the semimain, and nothing else matters. Atlantis & Ultimo Guerrero ripped up Olimpico’s mask after the match.
Mr. Aguila got Negro Casas with a casita and a fast coutn from Tirantes. More hair/hair challenges there.
Ephesto beating Maximo is a little bit of a surprise, but the guy in the cage match probably should be winning over the guy who’s not. Patented Ephesto surprise cradle for the win.
Over 20 CMLL guys are headed to or already in Guatemala for the show there. This was the show pushed back due to volcanos.
The other big item of discussion yesterday was Alex Koslov wrestling as Carlos Sanchez on WWE SmackDown! and losing to Alberto Del Rio (ex-Dos Caras Jr.) The show was taped ten days ago, so it’s surprising it was kept quiet all this time. Over on Twitter, Dorian Roldan said this was Alex’s tryout for WWE, he’ll be in AAA for the rest of the year, and then Alex is heading to FCW. This is all a great opportunity for Alex, but if AAA is trying to compete with WWE, I can’t imagine they’d want one of their most visible guys (the guy leading the attack on the Smashing Pumpkins a couple days ago) looking like a jobber on their competition’s show. Maybe AAA’s given up trying to compete with WWE? That’d be a lot less stress for everyone.
AAA didn’t touch that, but did mention that Dorian’s umbrella group, covering the Legion, the Militia, Los Perros and every other rudo, is called La Sociedad.
I’m half watching Masked Warriors while writing this, and they started the show with a casual mention of this episode being the season finale. They did not mention it again until the last minute of the show, and only said to check their website to find out when Season 2 premieres. And there’s no mention of anything on the website. That makes it sound like the end but, if it was over, why bother taping today in Charlotte? They were still plugging that show and the following taping during the show. The way it was mentioned, they probably added ‘season final’ late on, and no one knows when/if more will air at this point.
The show also aired commercials for Heroes del Ring. Also, Carlitos’ theme music is the current opening music from RAW; someone’s a genius. Possible a soon to be sued genius, but I’ll miss the hilarity of this show.
Update: via wrestlingobserver
The plan is to do all the taping from a single location, similar to TNA, but also tour the country with house shows. However, we don’t know the location, but they do have tapings scheduled in a few weeks in Texas. That group doing house show tours doesn’t sound like the wisest of ideas.
Wasn’t doing everything in one location Rumble Queen’s idea? It was a good idea! Whether it’s one location or touring, they really need to be in a small building they can fill up rather than 1,000 people in huge arena, so that would be a big improvement. Doing house shows is probably not going to do much, unless it’s just to give people something to do in between tapinsg.
The Texas location is definitely not the permanent spot, because that’s a minor league baseball stadium.
Definitely canceled is today’s Perros del Mal show in Cancun. They say the promoter didn’t pay the money they needed ot before the show, so they called off the show yesterday.
Espaldas Planas has a lot of big IWRG announcements in video interviews. They’ll be back on TVC Deportes in September, Dr. Cerebro will be going to Japan (Dragon Gate) to win the IWRG title back from that dastardly CIMA, and they’ll be doing a IWRG vs AAA trainee show on 10/05. All of those are interesting, but I’m fascinated to see AAA trainees.
SuperLuchas posted a longer version of the interview posted on Fuego en el Ring the anti-cage interview from Mistico. In parts not previously included, Mistico says CMLL is a show, not a show like WWE where they hand out scripts, but that they knew the cage match was going to happen a few hours before it announced. I’d be surprised if they only knew it a few hours before, but maybe all lucha promotions keep a tighter lip on plans.
Dos de Tres has video of Laredo Kid challenging the Oficials, and the Oficials celebrating their win.
R de Rudo has video of Traumas vs Iron Love & Chucho el Roto from the IWL show.
Ras de Lona was heavy build to the cage match. Not the much in the way of news.
More Heroes del Ring game info: Dr. Wagner Jr. vs Electroshock, Abismo Negro bio, and Cibernetico bio.
ESTO has a random interview with Fresero Jr. He’s hoping to get into CMLL.
Estrellas del Ring talks to Dick Angelo about his career.
The Gladiatores interviews Tamaulipas luchador Gallo Dorado.
LuchaWorld has KrisZ’s news update.
Lineups
IWRG (SUN) 08/29 Arena Naucalpan
1) Guizmo vs Guerrero 2000
2) Brazo Metalico & Miss Gaviota vs Magia Negra & Mr. Power
3) Jack & Super Halcon Jr. vs Comando Negro & Epidemia
4) Black Terry & Cerebro Negro vs Avisman & El Hijo del Diablo and Oficial AK47 & Oficial Fierro and Chico Che & Suicida
5) Dr. Cerebro, Freelance, Hijo de Pirata Morgan, Oficial 911, Veneno vs Chris Stone, Decnnis, El Brazo, Ozz, Último Gladiador
Updated lineup; the IWRG side is a lot different than what we had last week. The original IWRG lineup had Veneno, Scorpio, Terry, Los Cerebros and Chico Che as the Nueva Corporacion – the name used by an past rudo mega group, without Chico Che but with Pantera and (most importantly) Silver King – which would’ve been fun to see. Still, that’s a great motley crew of IWRG defenders.
Wasn’t taping LLUSA in a single, smaller location the original plan for this show, with studio tapings in NY being the basic idea?
Now that you mention it, I do remember that being said.
If Alex and Christina do leave, who will be next AAA Mixed Tag Team champions? Sexy Star and Billy Boy?
I thought that was Alex Koslov on Smackdown, but they threw me off when they said that Carlos Sanchez was a local championship wrestler, and as Cubs said that thing was kept very quiet especially in an age where iformation travels fast.
yep it was my idea i sent them a tweet told them when i saw the producer in vegas and wrote it on your blog luchablog thay are reading are tweets to each other imagine what 2,000 fan would look in side the inpactzone in olando fl
thank god thay start runing those ads for luchalebreAAA video game with alot LLUSA roster is on game
I like him better as Carlos Sanchez.
52MX looks like the expected matches.
Hey Cubs, you understand what these women are talking about, right? :)
I have the TV on mute and am listening to a podcast, so I believe they’re actually talking about Palacio Negro. Pictures seem to argue with me.
Is this a new record? Does it just seem like a new record because I need to go but are waiting for them to finish and they keep coming up with more bullet points?
@thecubsfan: LOL! The older lady has been married a few times and I can see why. She’s got a long list of rules for dating.
…and its over! Yay!
1703, JOINED AT THE FIRST FALL GRAPHIC.
It is the scheduled match, so we’re good.
BOO! Joined in progress! Thanks a lot old lady with numerous bullet points!
Ugh! I knew the run of good luck on Teleformula would end at some point. The match froze mid-way in the 3rd fall and when they returned to action, they re-aired the finish of the 2nd fall and re-started the 3rd fall.
I think they only aired the 2nd fall finish.
This is getting ridiculous! Match froze again. This time they went to commercial. If they post that show on their web site and it works fine, then I think they should be embarrassed for even airing that show the way they did on TV.
They never went back to show the ending of the match.
I hope that Christina doesn’t sign with TNA.
Hey Cubs when ya gonna do my radio show?
PWInsider is reporting that talent was told that tonight’s LLUSA is now a house show (despite doing pre-tapes yesterday) and that additional TV tapings have been postponed until 2011.
Thanks
LATV looks to be a repeat
Looks like ACM is starting with the Reina De ACM match
Wow, I about lost my shit when I saw Alex Kozlov on Smackdown. Good for him if he’s going to FCW. The kid has all the talent and charisma in the world, if he can just keep from fucking himself over.
@John G.:
You say “The kid has all the talent and charisma in the world” but don’t get your hopes up, he’s being used as a jobber. He doesn’t look like much of a star in the WWE Universe.
By the way I can now use the reply button. Maybe it’s because I updated my Web Browser
Still laughing over the fact Daniel saw Alex Koslov on Smackdown but even though he recognized him right away and knew it was him he was still a little thrown off b/c the announcers refered to him as “local wrestler Carlos Sanchez”.
I’d love to meet you in real life, Daniel. I have some magic beans to sell you.
Esther Moreno’s profile’s randomly been added to the AAA site
@Rob: Oh, I know he won’t ever be world champion, but by the time he runs through their pipeline, no one will remember this match. The dude is a solid upper mid-card, though, and that’s a good place for him to shine.
@Rob
If my memory serves me correctly the beans that Jack bought really were magic and he did end up getting the fortune. So I’m a lot wiser than you think I am.
@Daniel: Says the guy who once again couldn’t figure out the reply button.
CMLL TV starts with Maximo vs Efesto. SKIP.
Peste Negra coming out now. I presume it’ll be another 4 match show but I gotta stop watching b/c the feed is terribly jerky today.
@Rob:
it’s not that I couldn’t figure it out, it’s that my web browser didn’t support it.