Tomorrow adds another chapter to the longest running active female feud in Mexico, Amapola vs Marcela. The two have been the tent poles of CMLL’s women division since it’s restart in 2005. Singles matches are rare in Mexico, rarer still for women, and yet they’ve managed to have twenty six known different singles matches in the last six years. Most of those have been matches for the CMLL Women’s Championship.
Amapola has held the title for nearly four years, Marcela has gotten almost as many shots as everyone else combined, and lost every time. Marcela has lost to Amapola in Mexico, in Japan, even in Guatemala. She’s lost twelve times. Friday is the thirteenth. It’s a ridiculous situation – how does someone get thirteen shots at a title??? – but it’s a tolerable one because the two consistently have great matches against each other, at a level that couldn’t be expected from many other possible matchups.
Seven of the twelve matches in the streak have made TV. Three of those matches do not appear to be on any internet site:
2009-07-28 Arena Mexico (aired on C3)
2009-12-07 Arena Puebla (aired on TV Deportes)
2010-03-16 Arena Meixco (aired on C3)
Here’s the other four…
Arena Mexico, 12/02/2007
Arena Coliseo Guadalajara, 11/16/2008
Arena Mexico, 1/25/2011
REINA, 05/08/2011
(starts at 5:30)
BONUS:
Amapola (c) vs Marcela for the *IWRG* Women’s Championship, 10/06/2006, Arena Lopez Mateos. Starts at 1:37. Last time this belt has been seen.
Marcela (c) vs Amapola for the Mexican National Women’s Championship, Arena Coliseo, 08/05/2007. Last televised singles win for Marcela over Amapola.