taped 2012-02-07 @ Arena Mexico
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Dalis la Caribeña, Goya Kong, Marcela vs La Seductora, Tiffany, Zeuxis: They were more off than usual here. Dalis and Tiffany were on different pages a few times (Tiffany doing her best to cover), and Goya and Zeuxis took turns creaming each other. They can do better than this.
Fuego, Metro, Sangre Azteca vs Misterioso Jr., Namajague, Shigeo Okumura: Extremely técnico focused, which is odd for a debut of a rudo. Not too odd for CMLL, they don’t usually think that way. Namajague did not come off as a rookie to me – he was very demonstrative and expressive, doing the little shaking and reacting you wouldn’t expect to see from a new guy (or a new guy to a masked gimmick), but more what you’d see from a veteran.
Virus vs Loco Max: that felt like a long way to go to get that finish. Loco really had little he could do the match; for a guy who’s been in so many midcard singles matches, he did not seem like much of a singles match luchador here. If there was a story here, and I’m not sure there was, the idea was Virus was going to eventually win and Loco picked how he lost instead. But maybe the story here is this is a better trios feud than a singles one.
Hijo del Fantasma, Máximo, Super Porky vs Kráneo, Olímpico, Psicosis: The typical match you’re getting between these two teams, with four to five minutes cut out of the first fall to make the time work. You can see this one more complete on many a show, and at a higher gear. Máximo did do a heck of a leap to sell the fake low blow. Was Porky trying to plank here?
Atlantis, Marco Corleone, Rush vs Pólvora, Rey Escorpion, Último Guerrero: They showed the replay graphic for about five minutes thru the first fall and post fall, because they forgot to turn it off when they got back to live footage. Pompin screwed up the count in the third fall. That’s what this match was. Rush may say he respects no one, but he sure has some nicer feelings towards Escorpion (who does as much damage to Rush as anyone) than Pólvora (who was shrugged off and destroyed.)