Quick results
Colibiri beat Silencioso to win the CROC lightweight title on Christmas Day in Arena Aficion. I have no idea what CROC stands for. Silencioso held the title at least back to 2009.
On the same day in Tijuana, Extassis took Tony Casanova’s hair and Hijo de Rey Misterio I (the first one) won a mystery championship and joined the Perros del Mal.
Not much more than results from the IWL Christmas show, but Groon XXX replaced Rayo in the main event. Groon’s only turned up very rarely since his injury on the Perros del Mal show in 2010.
Other News
Tomorrow is Dia de la Innocents. I’m not posting any joke stories, but if you read something that sounds funny (peculiar) on other sites, maybe it’s meant to be funny (hilarious).
At last update, Valiente was doing better but still under observation.
Rush says he’ll win the heavyweight title because he feeds on hatred. That’s what makes him a great rudo.
Ovaciones says the IWRG return to TV Azteca may happen in 2012. That’s a carrot on a stick story.
The Daily Mail has an article about Mexican women leaving the household and becoming luchadoras to make ends meet. This is kind of a story created out of thin air and not actually news.
It’s the time of year to start my favorite annual story: the lucha commission of Torreon (Laguna) announcing all luchadors have to get their license renewed. This is followed in a month by an article saying early licensing is almost over, and then by one noting almost no one’s actually gotten a license and everyone expressing total surprise this has happened (again).
LuchaWorld has KrisZ’s news update.
Lucha Libre (Titles) in Japan
Let’s see if I get this right. Ayumi has two title defenses scheduled in Japan.
01/03 UNION (branch of DDT) @ Korakuen Hall: Ayumi (c) vs Cherry [CMLL WOMEN]
01/15 REINA @ (ex? Chiba Blue Field): Ayumi (c) vs Haily Hatred [CMLL WOMEN]
REINA recently bought this building from MichinokuPro and will be running there now.
Ayumi’s surely coming back to Mexico with the title sometime in 2012, but I guess it could change hands back and forth until then if CMLL’s okay with it. It could also change hands if CMLL’s not okay with it, that’s happened a couple times in Japan with their other belts. Seems unlikely though.
Links
- Ohtani’s Jacket watches La Fiera vs Jerry Estrada in a chain match. I’m jealous of someone who’s only seen good lucha chain matches.
- Estrellita is doing a Twitcam chat today at 1pm, which is hopefully sometime after I’ve posted it.
- Segunda Caida watches CMLL LATV on 12/10/11.
- R de Rudo runs thru the history of the DTU title.
- La Catedral has ten more evaluations of CMLL luchadors. I think we’ve got in his head, because this is a list that includes the likes of Bam Bam and Strong Man, and yet there’s no suggestion to turn anyone rudo.
- DJ Spectro visits an outdoor show.
Lineups
CMLL (FRI) 12/30/2011 Arena Olímpico Laguna de Gómez Palacio
1) Dany Fantom & Imperio Negro vs Camorra Jr. & Detector Jr.
2) Piloto Negro & Piloto Suicida vs Gringo Loko & Oso Negro
3) Agatha & Lady Star vs Gatubela & Piel Canela
4) Dragón Rojo Jr. & Último Guerrero vs Mr. Guerrero & V-57 [CMLL TAG]
The rudos (or at least three of them) were teamed up last Friday here, but turned on each other and set up this tag title match.
Fun fact: they’ve done listed that tag match five out of the last six weeks (and maybe the sixth week was a typo.)
IWRG (SUN) 01/01/2012 Arena Naucalpan
***IWRG 15th Anniversary***
1) Astro de Plata, Astro Rey Jr., Centurión vs ?, Gemelo Fantastico I, Gemelo Fantastico II
2) Chico Che, Dinamic Black, Saruman vs Alan Extreme, Carta Brava Jr., Comando Negro
3) Golden Magic, Trauma I, Trauma II vs Oficial 911, Oficial AK47, Oficial Fierro
4) Súper Nova, Texano Jr., Ultramán Jr. vs Canis Lupus, Eterno, Máscara Año 2000 Jr.
5) Multifacético vs Apolo Estrada Jr. [hair]
Not listed on IWRG’s site, but Ovaciones posted it (or nearly all off it.) They’ve celebrated Arena Naucalpan anniversaries, but rarely IWRG one. It’s neat to good one – looking thru the records, there’s doesn’t seem to be a really clear demarcation from just being regular shows at Arena Naucalpan to being IWRG – there’s just slowly some titles (and Japanese people.)
Apolo is the favorite in the main event, I believe. 01/01 is also this blog’s anniversary. I do need a haircut, but I do not think I will be facing anyone in a match.
CMLL (SUN) 01/01/2012 Arena Mexico
1) Höruz & Molotov vs Artillero & Super Comando
2) Bam Bam, Eléctrico, Último Dragoncito vs Demus 3:16, Pequeño Olímpico, Pequeño Violencia
3) Hombre Bala Jr. & Super Halcon Jr. vs Rayo Tapatío I & Rayo Tapatío II [mask]
4) Delta, Hijo del Fantasma, Metro vs Hijo del Signo, Negro Casas, Rey Escorpion
5) Ángel de Oro, La Máscara, Máximo vs Averno, Mephisto, Mr. Niebla
6) Rush vs Terrible [CMLL HEAVY]
Title match is a rematch from seven weeks ago. That one was for the light heavyweight title, and part of the reason I figure Terrible is winning is because Rush already has a title. (Not that CMLL minds doing another tournament.) There also seems to be a reconfiguration of TRT going on. It was Terrible & Texano as the tag team and Bucanero as singles/pseudo-leader, now it’s Tiger/Bucanero as the team and Terrible as pseduo-leader/singles. Not that means much in the big picture, it’s not like Bucanero is going to be losing his singles title, but it points in Terrible’s way here. Crowd will totally be behind Terrible, no doubt.
Terrible winning would be an interesting turn of events. Many people expected Terrible to leave, and there’s been situations in other promotions where wrestlers were promised title belts if they hung around longer. Not sure that’s what’s happening here, but the timing is there. Even if that’s not the reason why, Terrible & Texano have both come out of this tag team breakup pretty well. One’s a focal point of the biggest angle in AAA, the other may be heavyweight champ in CMLL. A bit of divide and conquer.
Rayos putting their masks on the line and not getting out of the third match is awful lame; you’re hurting the importance of mask matches by putting them that low for the sake of not making other people unhappy to work lower matches. I’m sure the Rayos are losing their masks, but Halcon & Bala did not feel like the right team to win on 52MX this week.
PdM (SUN) 01/01/2012 Arena Lopez Mateos
4) Súper Nova vs Pesadilla, Peligro [PdM LH]
5) X-Fly vs Violento Jack, Aeroboy [PdM EXTREME]
6) Texano, Toscano, Zumbi vs ?, el Hijo del Perro Aguayo, Halloween
Taped for TVC Deportes.
CMLL (MON) 01/02/2012 Arena Puebla
1) Blue Center, Milenium, Stigma vs Espiritu Maligno, Policeman, Siki Ozama Jr.
2) Lluvia, Luna Mágica, Marcela vs La Seductora, Tiffany, Zeuxis
3) Diamante, Sagrado, Sangre Azteca vs Ephesto, Shigeo Okumura, Vangelis
4) Marco Corleone, Máximo, Rush vs Dragón Rojo Jr., Rey Bucanero, Terrible
5) La Máscara vs Volador Jr. [NWA MIDDLE]
La Mascara is running thru rudos rather quickly.
Close to Trio Senscaion vs new TRT in the semimain.