Perros beat Pirates, Sin Cara, Queretaro, TNA

(photo by Black Terry Jr.)

IWRG (THU) 07/21/2011 Arena Naucalpan [Black Terry Jr. (flickr), Estrellas del Ring, Mi Lucha Libre (3), Mi Lucha Libre (4)]
1) Dragon Fly & Tritón b Imposible & Muerte Infernal
2) Bugambilia del Norte, Dinamic Black, Miss Gaviota b Carta Brava Jr., Keshin Black, Polifacético
3) Hijo de LA Park, Oficial 911, Shiima Xion b Angelico, Hijo del Dr. Wagner Jr., Multifacético
Park stole Wagner’s mask and pinned him for the win.
4) Bestia 666, Damián 666, Halloween, X-Fly b Barba Roja, Hijo de Pirata Morgan, Pirata Morgan, Pirata Morgan Jr.
Bestia beat Hijo de Pirata for the deciding pinfall. Perros should be getting a tag title shot next week.

CMLL (TUE) 07/19/2011 Arena Queretaro [Ciudad y Poder]
3) Dragon de Oriente I & Dragon de Oriente II DQ Rayo Tapatío I & Rayo Tapatío II [Queretaro TAG]
Dragon I was hit by a Rayo dive. The local rudo’s head hit a seat and split open, bleeding badly before being stretchered out. There’s no update about his condition, just a mention it was a serious wound. His partner (brother?) won when the Rayos were caught pulling a switch after one had been eliminated.
4) Metal Blanco & Palacio Negro b Dragón Rojo Jr. & Nitro
Nitro replaced Escorpion.
5) Último Guerrero & Volador Jr. DQ Mr. Niebla & Negro Casas
Ultimo Guerrero got caught fouling Niebla.

The link has a picture of the gruesome injury.

Sin Cara

SuperLuchas explains they haven’t mentioned the Record interview with Sin Cara because the conversation was not meant to be on the record (ha) and they are trying to make sure their friend doesn’t get in more trouble. Huh. At least they’re honest about it. I assume they are friends with the AAA Cruiserweight Title so they’re not talking about it’s current troubles. Get well soon!

By the way, everyone who is saying Record article got pulled is wrong. It’s not on the front page, because it’s a few days old, but they’ve got articles about past drug policy violations which includes Sin Cara, and a cartoon poking fun at the recent drug violations in Mexico on the front page now.

Sin Cara was out of taking out of the opening video for Superstars. Uh oh.

Lucha Libre Expo

It starts tomorrow! Hope everyone going has a fun time.

Volador Jr. hypes it up for ESPN Deportes. He says he’ll have a lightning match with Hector Garza. When?

Arturo Gaona Jr., Babe Torres and Andy Barrow talk about their triangle hair match.

Shiima Xion talks about his DTU match at the show.

Lucha Libre in Japan

07/22 NOAH
5) Aerostar [O] & Jack Evans b Tatsuhito Takaiwa & Osamu Namiguchi
Team AAA is 1-1.

Veneno is back in SMASH on 08/11, taking on Hajime Ohara in the second round of their tournament. Don’t like Veneno’s odds; Ohara has to stay alive long enough to lose to Ultimo Dragon.

Other News

This week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter includes a long bit about TNA wrestlers unhappiness about the conditions in AAA. They like performing in bigger, more excited crowds, but the conditions at the arena are much worse. Outside of TripleMania, security to keep the fans from grabbing them or throwing things at them has been non-existent, and the locker rooms are very primitive (often, no running water.) Velvet Sky and Angelina Love are mentioned as upset about how hard Mari Apache hit them in their match; I think the consensus of those watching the show was surprise about unusually lightly Mari treated them. It appears Mr. Anderson wanted more money to deal with the conditions, and so he was replaced by Scott Steiner.

Not much of story points on today’s Arena Mexico show. Estrellita continues to feud with Amapola, and we’re waiting to see if it’ll be a title or hair match with them. La Mascara and Averno are locked together. Main event is an odd rudo/rudo match, except it’s also Ultimo Guerrero & Atlantis teaming up on a big stage after Atlantis’ recent stint on the tecnico side.

LuchaWorld has KrisZ’s news update.

Links

07/23-24 lucha times

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This week’s monkey wrench is the aquatics world championship. No, really. In Mexico, Galavision has coverage of the event, likely focusing on their past medal winning divers (the things I learn about doing this) on Saturday and Sunday afternoon. Lucha gets cut, as it often does. Both Saturday CMLL show and AAA’s return to Sunday are cut down a single hour. For AAA, this is extra problematic; they actually added a show to the taping which should air, so they’ve got about 180 minutes of footage to squeeze into a single hour, and it’s all got to set the card for Verano de Escandalo next week. CMLL is much more simple – they ran one fewer matches last week, so the only match that gets cut (the opener) is the same one that always gets cut. CMLL either got alerted to the time change ahead of time or ends up quite lucky.

52MX: It will be the Arkangel show, so hopefully they choose the two matches most related to Arkangel, the cibernetico and his trios match.

LATV: should be onto a kind of bleh taping, good guys mixed with not so good in random matches. Dr. X vs Fuego continues.

Teleformula: the same rerun again

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CMLL-Gala: Double title matches. Both the Generacion Dorada vs Hijos de Averno and Polvora vs Valiente feuds have been going on here, so should the title matches.

AAA: six matches in one hour isn’t going to work; they have to be considering (or planning) to split this up into a double taping and just eliminate one taping down the road. (That would also explain adding the extra match.) The main event and the Psycho Circus/Perros stuff is most important for Verano, so figure on it.

FOX: Estrellita as a tecnica, and Atlantis vs Negro Casas. Hey, maybe they can do Negro Casas/Mr. Niebla vs Atlantis/Blue Panther for anniversary?

C3: Fuego vs Dr. X, this time in singles.

Mega6: Demus 316 vs Electrico

Puebla: Yoshihashi vs Rush

Monterrey: Konnan Big. Always, Konnan Big.

Perros: I dunno, but I do know the cage match with the Perros, Psychos, and Payasos aired tonight.

IWRG: Oficial 911 vs Multifacetico.