Day: March 18, 2011

Fabian el Gitano

Not a lot new this morning. The latest reports seem pretty sure it was a murder that followed a fight, though less sure of the reason. Shocker was seen visiting Fabian’s family. IWRG, where Fabian started, held a moment of applause for him during their show; that would’ve been the first most people their would’ve heard about it. There surely will be a similar moment during tonight’s CMLL show. Cesar shares his memories of Fabian. Dorian Roldan sent condolences. Box Y Lucha reprinted it’s interview from when Fabian lost his mask.

CMLL hasn’t said anything yet. I wonder if someone’s on vacation this week, and if only takes one person on vacation for the site to not get updated for the week. Maybe Lluvia can recruit people at her cyber cafe to help?

IWRG (THU) 03/17/2011 Arena Naucalpan [Black Terry Jr. (flickr), Estrellas del Ring]
1) Alan Extreme & Saruman b Dragon Celestial & Sky Angel
Alan Extreme replaced Dinamic Black
2) Eterno, Explosivo, Miss Gaviota b Carta Brava Jr., Hammer, Magnifico
3) Multifacético, Trauma I, Veneno b Comando Negro, Oficial 911, Oficial Fierro
straight fall win for the tecnicos, building to Sunday’s title matches.
4) Bestia 666, Damián 666, X-Fly b Chris Stone, Sugi San, Último Gladiador
Perros focused on Ultimo Gladiador. They yanked off his mask in the second fall (which wasn’t a DQ), beat him bloody, and Damian gave him the valagueza for the win. Perros want a trios title shot.

I’ll be hosting a chat on CoverItLive (click here for the link) talking about both major shows tonight. They do not get started until 9:30 CDT, and that’s about when the chat should get going. Radiocmll.com will be broadcasting from the CMLL show. I’m hopeful a stream of the AAA show turns up, but I do expect to at get live tweet/text coverage. I’d expect the chat to go past midnight.

Tonight’s Shows

I’ve pretty much covered both shows tonight in earlier previews (Rey de Reyes, Dos Leyendas), but there’s a few last things to add.

Apuesta Record Over Last Ten Years
Brazo de Plata (3-5)   Maximo (10-2)             Terrible (4-0)      Texano (4-0)                
LOSS Tarzan Boy        WIN Conde 2000            WIN Bestia Salvaje  WIN Maniacop
LOSS Villano III       WIN Cesar Dantes          WIN Cien/Mascara2K  WIN Heavy Metal
LOSS Pierroth Jr.      WIN Destroyer             WIN Mascara Magica  WIN Maximo
WIN Asesino Negro      WIN Sexy Piscis           WIN Naito & Yujiro  WIN Naito & Yujiro
LOSS Halloween         WIN Loco Max
WIN Asesino Negro      WIN Mr. Mexico
LOSS Scorpio Jr.       WIN Emilio Charles Jr.
WIN Asesino Negro      WIN Rambo
                       WIN Police Man
                       LOSS Texano Jr.
                       LOSS Okumura
                       WIN Taichi

Match actually looks close when you throw in Maximo’s run of 2005-2006 hair match wins. It’s only those last three that really matter; most of the others were indy shows or guys who weren’t really getting pushed at the time. The direct Texano defeat of Maximo is pretty telling. This match, and this show, is really just about building people up for future shows. At some point, Texano & Terrible’s hairs will be on the line in a match where they might not win, but they’ll be able to point back to their stellar record so far. This show will be off a benefit then, but not so much right now. (The same bit was done a lot better with No Limit.)

One more list for CMLL, alluded to elsewhere:

Hijo de Avernos Singles Championships, Start of 2011
Averno: NWA World Middleweight Championship
Mephisto: NWA World Welterweight Championship
Ephesto: CMLL World Light Heavyweight Championship
Texano Jr.: NWA World Light Heavyweight Championship

Texano lost his title to Shocker. Ephesto lost his title to Rush. Mephisto lost his title Sombra. Averno’s the last one standing, with Mascara Dorada expected to complete the shutout tonight. (If you can’t take a guy off shows because you need him so much, you still can take away his title.)

Rey de Reyes is nearly as straight forward to pick. Electroshock paid the price for someone else’s unreliability a year and a half ago, losing his hair in place of Charly Manson when Charly jumped ship. If he wasn’t winning already, Electroshock is surely going to benefit tonight from Metal’s bad week.

On our podcast Wednesday, Dr. Lucha seemed pretty sure Extreme Tiger was going to win Rey de Reyes (Mesias and Park take each other out, Tiger pins Carlito.) This would involve AAA giving a big win to a guy they don’t already focus on, so I find this impossible to believe until I see it happen. Charly is a title contender to kill some time, and because he’s a guy who would have no problem losing. (We hope.) Nothing suggests the Parka/Cibernetico and Perros/Clowns feuds are close to the end, so the finishes are whatever makes people happy tonight. Apache will probably get a little bit of revenge on Hijo de Tirantes in the opener.

Zorro previews his title match by saying he has no idea how or why Charly Manson is getting a title shot; Charly isn’t in Zorro’s league. Zorro vows to be a great champion anyway. I really want to use the picture in that link for the title history page on the wiki, it’s kind of great.

That article also says Metal vs Electroshock is best out of three falls; there’s been talk it may be a cage match. It’d be mostly pointless to have it a cage match if they haven’t already announced it.

NJPW announced Hirooki Goto would be heading to Mexico. I believe he’ll be in Mexico in time to wrestle on next Friday’s card, perhaps as Yoshihashi’s partner in the Gran Alternativa. Goto’s been in Mexico previously (Sep 2006 to Dec 2006, March 2007 to Sep 2007), mostly teaming with Okumura & Ohara. No mention of how long he’ll be around this time, winning the NWA International Junior Heavyweight Championship (an Ultimo Dragon title, which ended up back with him in short order.)

Prometeo Lucha Libre, in it’s role as obvious secret voice of AAA, explains AAA pulled it’s content from Box Y Lucha because the magazine had been charging the promotions to have their information included, but the breaking point was when they pulled the last part of the Marisela Pena interview for a El Hijo del  Santo retort. Presuming Santo didn’t like Pena saying he was begging to be on TV. Blog entry includes a random shot at the box y lucha forum!

Mil Mascaras, to Imperial Valley Press, (via SuperLuchas), claims he rejected an offer to work in CMLL (implied to be tonight), because they would only put him in the semimain. Mil Mascaras explains he’s second to no one, and if he didn’t draw the line, they’d soon have him in the opener. As much as I would like to see Disturbio/Zayco vs Mil Mascaras/Tigre Blanco, the last time he wrestled in Arena Mexico for CMLL (09/27/2002), he was in the semimain to a hair match of questionable merit (Pierroth vs Mascara Ano 2000.) Maybe he’s just become a bigger star in his 60s? If CMLL even made this offer…

Links

• Atlantis talks about beating Villano III for his mask eleen years ago, saying it’s his biggest mask win ever.
• Zorro wants Charly Manson’s hair.
• Dr. Landru interviews Mascara Ano 2000 Jr.
• Cuadrilatero Penisular interviews Merida’s Corsario Jr. & Cachorro Jr., who are challenging for titles on the next IWL show.
• Impacto interviews Crazy Boy and Super Devolucion to hype DTU’s show Saturday.
• Cronicas Y Leyendas looks back at Blackman.
• SuperLuchas has video of Chilean lucha.
• Segunda Caida reviews the maestro trios from UWE’s show. Looks like Black Terry Jr. is uploading his own version of this match (fall 1, fall 2, fall 3) R de Rudo called the same match “sleep inducing.”
• Estrella Universal is stalked around town to set up Saturday’s big CMLL show in Laredo, Texas.