Day: September 23, 2011

Puebla, Mexico preview, Heroes Inmortales

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CMLL (MON) 09/19/2011 Arena Puebla [Porra Fresa]
1) Blue Center & Centella de Oro b Arissma & Fuerza Chicana
Tecnicos won 2/3 in a good match.
2) Dalis la Caribeña & Goya Kong b Mima Shimoda & Princesa Blanca
No Lady Apache or Seductora. Tecnicas took 1/3.
3) Dragon Lee, Sagrado, Sangre Azteca b Hijo del Signo, Rey Escorpion, Yoshihashi
Hijo del Signo replaced Okumura. Tecnicos took falls 1/3.
4) Héctor Garza, Jushin Lyger, Super Porky b Felino, Mr. Niebla, Negro Casas
Tecnicos took 2/3.
5) Averno, Ephesto, Mephisto b Máximo, Rush, Toscano
Rudos took 1/3, Averno sneaking a foul on Rush.

Other News

Today’s Arena Mexico show will have a main event of Atlantis versus Ultimo Guerrero. A significant amount of people believed that match would be happening on this day, and the promotion did led them to believe it. Unfortunately, those people also thought September 23rd would be the anniversary show and the match would be for the masks, and neither of those are true. It still is the first major singles match between the two since their breakup (the Puebla match has been mostly ignored outside Puebla) and so a pretty big deal. It’s also the first super libre match in many years, and we’ll see if it actually makes much difference.

Elsewhere on the card, TRT feud face off Peste Negra in the final Friday preview before the cage match. TRT’s been dominant of late. Jushin Lyger teams with the two guys he spent the last year feuding with, Sombra and Mascara Dorada, which make sense as a setup for something but no guarantees here.

The Leyenda de Plata returns,though returning the second match on the card indicates a lack of importance. Like I said last week, La Mascara and Volador stick out as favorites, though it’s not impossible a Stuka or Valiente could break thru like Guerrero Maya did in the Super Light tournament, just because CMLL likes to spread out all the wins. More importantly, it could be a really great multiman match, because it’s full with fun people. Out of the twelve people, I’d say there are nine guys who are pretty reliably entertaining on their own (Volador, La Mascara, Stuka, Valiente, Guerrero Maya, Metal Blanco, Palacio Negro, Tiger, Puma.) For the other three: Polvora has been in a really good match so we know he’s not hopeless, Delta’s weaknesses can be hidden in these sorts of matches, and Okumura is…Okumura. This is probably destined for Fox Sports, but worth seeking out next week.

(photo by Black Terry)

On the Figure Four Daily with Dr. Lucha podcast, Steve mentioned the title match for Heroes Inmortales is supposed to be Jeff Jarrett vs LA Park. That makes some sense, but it totally blindsided me; it doesn’t feel like they’ve done much to hint in that direction.

NJPW’s channel posted Super Crazy & Ryusue Taguchi vs Ultimo Guerrero & Rey Bucanero from 04/28/2003, from Guerrero & Bucanero’s first tour with the promotion (and reminding people who Ultimo Guerrero is leading up his return.)

Tiger explains he’s not happy with Puma King – he worked too tecnico in those relevos increible matches recently, and is generally an immature kid – while Rey Bucanero has coached him up, so he’s 100% with Bucanero. Tiger expects to teach Puma a lesson tonight.

TVC Deportes says they’ll be airing CMLL’s 2010 Anniversary show this Sunday.  It’s been on YouTube for months and months, and really wasn’t that great, but I wonder what version they’ll be airing.

Lucha Libre in Japan

REINA 09/24:
1) Aio Ishibashi b Lady Afrodita
3) Amapola b Dama de Hierro
4) La Comandante & Zeuxis b Aki Kambayashi & Saya [REINA TAG, SF]

Team CMLL will face the Canadian Ninjas for the titles tommorrow (or later tonight for most of us.) They should end up with the titles, since they’re regular hairs and the Canadian team appears just in for this set of shows.

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