CMLL (FRI) 10/15 Arena Mexico
1) Mascarita Dorada, Shockercito, Último Dragoncito vs Pequeño Nitro, Pequeño Warrior, Pierrothito
2) Amapola, Princesa Blanca, Princesa Sujei vs Estrellita, Seuxis, Tiffany
3) Valiente vs Dragón Rojo Jr. [lightning]
4) Blue Panther, Metro, Rush vs Histeria, Mr. Águila, Ray Mendoza Jr.
5) La Máscara, La Sombra, Máscara Dorada vs El Alebrije, Olímpico, Psicosis
6) Negro Casas vs Charly Manson [hair]
Show is subtitled “Entre El Cielo Y El Infierno” – Between Heaven and Hell.
Like the 06/06 Sin Salida card, this is mainly a CMLL vs Invasors show. On CMLL’s side, a lot of usual names are left off. Everyone will (rightly) make a big deal about no Mistico, but there’s also no Volador, no Ultimo Guerrero, no rest of Peste Negra, no Hijos de Averno. Histeria makes the card, but not Hector Garza. Ray Mendoza Jr. plays Invasor (to feud with Panther) but no Taichi.
If you look at this as a second Anniversary card, Amapola, Princesa Blanca, Princesa Sujei, Blue Panther, La Máscara, Máscara Dorada, Dragón Rojo Jr., Negro Casas, Charly Manson, Mr. Águila, Olímpico, Histeria, Psicosis, La Sombra, and El Alebrije all end up working both.
If you look at this at the start of running monthly or six-weekly major shows, then that’d really be interesting. But we wouldn’t find that out for a while longer.
On it’s own, it’s not a strong card. The Negro/Charly is a bigger hair match than Maximo/Taichi, but the entire CMLL/Invasors concept is significantly colder than it was four months ago. There’s no added attraction like Rayo de Jalisco returning to face Universo one more time. I don’t know if a trios title match in the semimain would’ve helped things, but if CMLL knew they were ending up with this card ahead of time, they really should’ve built that semimain up.
There’s no TripleMania across town. And ticket prices seems cheaper. This is not an exciting card but it still might do OK.
Match quality wise, this should be a good show. They just did that minis match on 52MX, and it was a really good match. Everyone (but the Rush/Villano V) spectacular has a chance of being good or even really good.
I’m kinda new to Lucha, so this might be a dumb question. I see the term lightning after a lot of CMLL matches. What does that mean, exactly?
@Nick White: Everything else (in CMLL) is 3 falls and no time limit, but lighting matches are 1 fall with a 10 minute time limit.