Month: June 2011

CMLL (SUN) 06/12/2011 Arena Mexico [Cesar, CMLL]
1) Artillero, Disturbio, Ramstein b Bengala, Camaleón, Trueno
Rudos took 2/3.
2) Ayumi, Luna Mágica, Marcela b Amapola, La Comandante, La Seductora
Tecncias took 1/3. Ayumi/Amapola worked against each other. First Seductora match since January.
3) Black Warrior, Metro, Sangre Azteca b Euforia, Misterioso Jr., Vangelis
Tecnicos took 1/3. Good match.
4) Blue Panther, Hijo del Fantasma, La Sombra b Dragón Rojo Jr., Shinsuke Nakamura, Volador Jr.
Tecnicos took 2/3.
5) Último Guerrero b Rush [CMLL HEAVY]
Dragon Rojo seconded UG, Rush’s good friend Metro seconded him. Rush took the first quick, UG took the second quicker. Crowd was behind Guerrero, of course.

AAA TV notes

Not a great way to start off TripleMania week.

In Mexico, the usual Sunday afternoon show was moved to Saturday. It was right after CMLL, so some people who might watch both shows may have stayed tuned for it, but anyone looking for the go home show for the PPV in it’s usual spot would have not seen it. AAA did not appear to know about this change and surely is very unhappy about it.

In the US, the show was pre-empted, ostensibly for Gold Cup coverage. CMLL aired in AAA’s slots on Saturday and Sunday overnight, but pushed back due to the soccer games. Back when CMLL came back on Galavision, my theory was they were brought back primarily due to being in HD – Galavision is try to push it’s HD channel on local cable companies and AAA isn’t in HD yet – and that would be a reason to make sure CMLL airs. However, the stuff Galavision was airing in the slot that could’ve had AAA on Sunday was stuff like nature documentaries, not something live/vital that couldn’t be bumped off to put AAA on if AAA wanted to put it on. Galavision is currently not listing AAA for next week either, though they tend to repeat last week’s schedule at first then change it all up during the week. The Gold Cup continues next weekend, but I do not believe the Galavision will be carrying any of the games.

TripleMania will air on PPV on Saturday, as it has the last two years. Last year, AAA also aired it in the regular order of tapings (though a bit clipped down.) The year prior, AAA waited to air as part of their end of the year vacation shows. This year, they may again be pushing back the TripleMania airing. This Saturday’s TV show mentioned they’d be taping on 06/24 in Queretaro. AAA doesn’t need to tape again this soon, unless they’re skipping airing TripleMania on regular TV, so that’s probably what they’re doing. I am sure it’ll turn up online soon after the show, and I hope it’ll turn up in a stream (but I don’t want to encourage piracy, oh no.)

Other News

MVP says he is not working the Perros del Mal show and was never contacted about it. Perros del Mal haven’t said anything yet.

Avisman and Freelance were due to have a hair match tonight.

In possibly fictional movie news, El Hijo del Santo and a Televisa executive talk about a plan to updated existing El Santo footage to HD and create a new “El Santo vs El Hijo del Santo” movie. Televisa is starting a new HD movies channel and wants all the Santo movies in HD, and this gives them something new to promote. (Interesting, but not surprising, that they’re not just making a new movie with El Hijo del Santo; the expensive of digitally inserting the original is evidently worth it. )

Also in possibly fictional movie news, Rayo de Jalisco talks about signing a deal for three movies, where Rayo would play another luchador in the first movie. I’m not sure why you pay Rayo to be in a movie if he’s not going to be Rayo – that’s what he’s got going for him – but few of these movies ever seem to get made or finished. The Santo one probably will because it’s got Televisa behind it, this one has “people in Spain”.

Atlantis vs Ultimo Guerrero is supposed to take place at the Congress Theatre on June 26. We’ll see.

SuperLuchas #417 hypes TripleMania. Inside, a story about CMLL trademarking the Sin Cara name and image in Mexico. It was a couple weeks after Sin Cara was introduced, but a couple of weeks before WWE thought to do in Mexico. Also, which CMLL lucahdor has risked life and limb by accidentally being interviewed by someone who sent the interview to SuperLuchas? Hint: his favorite wrestlers include Sabu & Pac.

Luchas 2000 #574 has a double issue about Friday & Sunday’s matches.

Rob has highlights of AAA tapings from 10/31 Neza and 11/07 Tlalnepantla and CMLL highlights from 03/25 & 04/11.

Links

• R de Rudo files an anti-report from Mask Expo @ el Mujam.
• CMLL Gaceta hypes Mascara & Averno‘s careers leading into Friday.
• Decnnis, Tito and Violento Jack discuss Jack joining la Milicia.
• SuperLuchas looks at TripleMania I, Mi Lucha Libre does TripleMania II.
• SuperLuchas also previews the big LA Park match with previous big LA Park matches.
• DJ Spectro looks back at Enigma de Oro vs Betman
• I forget if I’ve already linked to the FMLL list of top contenders to the Champion du Monde, but it’s great enough to deserve multiple links.

Lineups

IWRG (THU) 06/16/2011 Arena Naucalpan
1) Dragon Fly & Tritón vs Alan Extreme & Dark Devil
2) Dinamic Black, Eragón, Hijo del Pantera vs Carta Brava Jr., El Pollo Asesino, Imposible
3) Último Gladiador vs Hijo del Brazo, Villano V, Veneno, Damián 666, Drago, Oficial AK47, Solar I, Máscara Año 2000, Multifacético, Máscara Año 2000 Jr., Pimpinela Escarlata, Rayo de Jalisco Jr., Trauma I, Negro Navarro, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 [Rey del Ring]

The weekend of big shows starts on Thursday – Rey del Ring! I’ve only figured out 15 based on the posted, and they may not be totally correct.

IWRG (SUN) 06/19/2011 Arena Naucalpan
1) Saruman & Tritón vs Epidemia & Keshin Black
2) Dinamic Black & Eragón vs Alan Extreme & Imposible
3) Centurión, Golden Magic, Hijo del Pantera vs Carta Brava Jr., Comando Negro, El Pollo Asesino
4) Black Terry, Cerebro Negro, Multifacético vs Oficial 911, Oficial AK47, Oficial Fierro
5) Argos, el Ángel, Pantera vs Bestia 666, Dr. Cerebro, Super Crazy

First match for Argos here since 2007.

IWRG (SUN) 07/03/2011 Arena Naucalpan
***Festivals de las Mascaras***
1) Golden Magic & Niño Tormenta vs Alan Extreme & Karibe King
2) Eterno, Orito (Segura), Panterita vs Capitán Muerte, Cerebro Negro, Dr. Cerebro
3) Bobby Lee Jr., Coco Rojo, Veneno vs Cuchillo, Kahoz, Rambo
4) Fray Tormenta, Pantera, Solar I vs Black Terry, Negro Navarro, Scorpio Jr.
5) ?, Konnan, Rayo de Jalisco Jr. vs Cien Caras, Máscara Año 2000, Universo 2000

Annual “Everyone gets to wear their mask” show. Fray Tormenta is being honored, so he’s in the semimain and two of his students are in the opener.

 

 

CMLL (FRI) 06/10/2011 Arena Mexico [Fuego en el Ring, MT (4-5), MT (6), R de Rudo (4-6), Record (1-3, 6), Record (4-5)]
1) Demus 3:16 & Pequeño Olímpico b Astral & Eléctrico
Astral seemed to be hurt at the end of the match – he rushed to the back.
2) Virus b Stuka Jr. [lightning]
Win in 7:15 via submission.
3) Blue Panther, Fuego, Pólvora b Atlantis, Delta, Guerrero Maya Jr. [Forjando un Idolo]
Panther’s team, working as rudos, took 1/3. Atlantis had Panther in the Atlantida, but Fuego and Polvora broke it up and held him in a small package for the win.
4) Diamante, Hijo del Signo, Negro Casas b Ángel de Oro, Rey Escorpion, Último Guerrero [Forjando un Idolo]
Negro’s team took 2/3, beating Angel and Escorpion in the last fall. Every group is now 1-1.
5) Ephesto, Felino, Mr. Niebla b Máximo, Toscano, Valiente
Felino got Toscano with a submission.
6) La Máscara, La Sombra, Rush DQ Averno, Mephisto, Shinsuke Nakamura
Averno pulled the fakeout distraction again. Mascara charged the guy in the roobe, but it was Ephesto this time. Averno jumped Mascara and eventually pulled his mask off for a DQ. Rudos held the advantage while Mascara left to get another mask. He returned, beat up all the rudos, and was about to put Averno in the campana when Ephesto ran in for the DQ. Rudos ripped off Mascara’s new mask too, and ripped up the rest of his gear.

results fixed!

Averno says he doesn’t care who won last night, because he’s going to win in straight falls next week.

CMLL in Japan

NJPW 06/10: Kenny Omega (O), Daisuke Sasaki, TJP b KUSHIDA, Mascara Dorada (X), Hiromu Takahashi

Mascara Dorada meets Ryusuke Taguchi for a third time this year next Saturday, getting his rematch for the CMLL Welterweight Championship on NJPW’s 06/18 PPV show.

Other news

Ras de Lona didn’t have much news. Plenty of interviews. La Mascara was interviewed with his wife, Averno was interfered with his father, both about Juicio Final.

Wrestling Observer had a really good interview with Konnan yesterday. Highlights included a mention of the TripleMania dark match (something like Fenix/Aerostar/Argos/Laredo vs Dragon/Tito/Tigre/Decnnis), Konnan saying AAA saying four different CMLL guys had talked about jumping, but all ended up with better money and spots in CMLL and Konnan saying they’d signed anyone they thought WWE might be interested in to long term deals. I’m not sure who that would be.

LuchaWorld has KrisZ’s news update.

Links

• Mi Lucha Libre interviews Kaleth, who says Paranoiko was the former Kaleth.
• DJ Spectro has Hijo del Santo’s interview with Bobby Lee.
• Kcidis draws Averno.
• Veneno is on the next SMASH card, on July 15.

Averno’s “I’m Not Leaving” tour made stops with MedioTiempo yesterday. I genuinely like Apollo Valdez asked the question, got the answer Averno has been telling everyone, and then moved onto talking about the actual mask match. Averno’s got nothing new to say about WWE (and has his story down pretty well), the match with La Mascara is more interesting at this point. In that MT interview, Averno says Mascara rushed into challenging for a mask match; all his other (unnamed) rivals refused to pick a date for a mask match, but La Mascara did and now he’s caught. Averno promises to his fans that this will NOT be a hold versus hold battle, vowing to break any rules he needs to get the win. Averno also calls La Mascara ugly again.

LA Park says the people are wrong to support Mesias. Mesias is not Mexican, and LA Park is the best luchador in Mexico, which everyone knows and everyone in wrestling agrees on. LA Park promises to shave Mesias on June 18, and a picture of bald Mesias will be on the cover of newspapers throughout Mexico on June 18. LA Park respects Mesias as a great fighter, but will win and be the idol of the people.

Mesias says the only way LA Park will beat him is if Park kills him in the ring. That will make the post match head shaving a bit morbid, so I’m not sure LA Park wins that way. Mesias says his match with Dr. Wagner two years ago was really good, but this year’s match is something people will still be talking about 30 years from now, and this show will mark a milestone in the history of wrestling. This is amazing hype, but I want to believe. Mesias also talks about TNA, since he’s been there. He points out TNA can’t really hate Mexico all that much if they’re coming here to fight the top people in the Mexican promotion. Mesias also plans on giving scouting tips to Jack & Tiger, based on his own feud with Abyss.

Rafa el Maya looks in good spirits. He’s still in the hospital and the recovery from his his heart incident will take a long time (and may possibly result in him ending his career), but he seems to have a positive attitude about the whole thing. The doctors are still checking out the situation and he may undergo surgery again.

Stuka Jr. wants a shot at the CMLL Super Light Championship. If he really wanted a shot, maybe he should’ve been one of the 16 men in the tournament that just happened! (My theory: he did not submit the proper paper work in time because he was too busy racking up kills in Aces Over Europe.) Anyway, this comes up because Stuka happens to facing Virus in tonight’s lightning match, so that’s one match for today’s Arena Mexico that has a story going into it.

Main event does too, one last trios match with Averno & La Mascara before their big hair match. Averno teams up with Mephisto & Nakamura, Mascara goes with Sombra & Rush. The two Forjando un Idolo matches have the Averno/Shocker group (1-0) versus the Blue Panther group (0-1) and the Negro Casas group (0-1) vs the Ultimo Guerrero group (1-0). 2-0 teams will surely make the final, 0-2 teams are done.

The Head Hunters will appear on the June 18th Lucha Libre USA taping. “Television cameras will be on hand to film this live event to top off the Second Season” sounds like it’s the season finale.

Links

• New Balance is giving away CMLL tickets for hashtags.
• Records calculates the five luchadors who’ve appeared on the most TripleManias.
• There are rankings for the FMLL Champion de Monde and they are great.

Lineups

CMLL (TUE) 06/14/2011 Arena Coliseo Guadalajara
1) Leo vs Virgo
2) Camaleón & Trueno vs Ángel del Mal & Malefico
3) Guerrero Maya Jr., Hombre Bala, Starman vs Arkángel de la Muerte, Ráfaga, Skándalo
4) Lluvia vs Amapola [CMLL WOMEN]
5) La Máscara & Rush vs Mr. Águila & Volador Jr.

I actually want to see that title match.

Guerrero Maya has been so busy in Mexico City, this is his first visit to GDL in 2 months.