Devitt vs Volador, TNA/AAA, new Perros, Gran Alternativa retruns

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CMLL (FRI) 03/23 Arena Mexico [CMLL, Kaiser SportsLa Catedral]
1) Leono & Tigre Blanco b Artillero & Súper Comando
Tecnicos take 2/3.
2) Virus b Triton [lightning]
Virus won in 5:41. Triton was said to look nervous and not have a good night.
3) Estrellita, Goya Kong, Marcela b Amapola, La Seductora, Tiffany
Tecnicas took straight falls, Estrellita beating Amapola cleanly.
4) Ángel de Oro, Black Warrior, Stuka Jr. DQ Euforia, Pólvora, Rey Escorpion
Tecnicos took 2/3, Escorpion fouling Warrior in the last.
5) Felino, Mr. Niebla, Negro Casas b Atlantis, Delta, Guerrero Maya Jr.
Peste Negra took 1/3, Niebla beating Atlantis in the final.
6) Marco Corleone, Prince Devitt, Rush b Mephisto, Último Guerrero, Volador Jr.
Devitt’s debut. Tecnicos took 2/3, Devitt beating Volador with the Bloody Sunday vertical DDT. Devitt challenged for Volador’s NWA Middleweight title, and Volador accepted.

CMLL C3 will start a couple hours late today, due to coverage of the Pope’s arrival in Mexico.

Psycho Clown was talking up an upcoming match with TNA wrestlers before Rey de Reyes. I would not be surprised if they get around to that match at TripleMania. Jeff Jarrett wrote on Twitter about another meeting with Dorian Roldan this week, so AAA’s not done with Jeff or his guys quite yet.

AAA’s posted a pre-Rey de Reyes promo with el Consejo, hyping up that match. Timing is a bit odd, but odder is Texano seems to have some sort of right hand injury. There’s also a new Consejo logo, though they have not removed the old one.

Perros del Mal announced re-enforcement: Taya Valkyire (guess they haven’t decided what name to use), Keira,  Vaquerita (both have been on PdM shows) and Pete Powers (another Canadian.)

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Lucha Libre in Japan

Zeuxis & Mima Shimoda won the REINA tag team titles from Lluvia & Luna Magica. Silueta kept the CMLL-REINA Intenational Junior titles over Aoi Ishibashi in 16:45 via moonsault.

Something of Dos Leyendas must’ve aired on Samurai TV this morning, because there were a few Japanese tweets fascinated with Namajague.

Lineups

CMLL (MON) 03/26/2012 Arena Puebla
1) Dinamico & Lestat vs Espiritu Maligno & Karisma
2) Astral, Fantasy, Último Dragoncito vs Demus 3:16, Pequeño Nitro, Pequeño Olímpico
3) Diamante, Sagrado, Sangre Azteca vs Hijo del Signo, Shigeo Okumura, Vangelis
4) Ángel de Oro, Black Warrior, Hijo del Fantasma vs Averno, Ephesto, Mephisto
5) La Sombra, Prince Devitt, Rush vs Felino, Mr. Niebla, Negro Casas

Prince Devitt faces his toughest test yet – Zacarias el Perico.

No minis title match yet.

CMLL (FRI) 03/30/2012 Arena Mexico
1) Astral & Último Dragoncito vs Niño de Acero & Pequeño Violencia
2) Ángel de Oro, Black Warrior, Hijo del Fantasma vs Ephesto, Pólvora, Rey Escorpion
3) Delta vs Mephisto [lightning]
4) La Máscara & Pegasso vs Blue Panther & Rey Cometa and Dragon Lee & Rush and Máscara Dorada & Titán and Niebla Roja & Último Guerrero and Euforia & Terrible and Bobby Zavala & Rey Bucanero and Negro Casas & Puma King [Gran Alternativa, semifinal]
5) Volador Jr. vs Prince Devitt [NWA MIDDLE]

Last year, the report was CMLL was so unhappy with Volador that they wouldn’t let NJPW bring him over for shows. This year, Volador gets a title match with Prince Devitt. Things can change in a year. This is the first Volador/Devitt match but probably not the last.

One young person tournament ends, another starts. Added bonus: it includes the equally young Euforia, who would be an awesome winner but probably won’t win. We can rule out Pegasso, Cometa and Zavala teams. Niebla Roja is a totally new name to me. Teaming with UG means he’s someone important, but probably not going to win. Negro Casas & Puma King would be fun but probably mean there’s a tecnico coming out of the other half of the bracket that’ll win. Dragon Lee & Rush would be obvious if Dragon Lee just won the other tournament. Dorada/Titan?

DTU (SAT) 03/31/2012 Auditorio Municipal Hidalgo
1) Super Xtreme vs Arsenal
2) Excentrico & Radical vs Atomic Star & Concord
3) Miedo Extremo vs JhonkyElectro BoyFlyer
4) Hacker & Sacristan vs Lanzeloth & Slayer
5) Black Fire, Drastik Boy, Pesadilla vs Araña de Plata, Ciclope, Pequeno Cobra

DTU Academy show.

PdM (SUN) 04/01/2012 Plan Sexenal
1) ? vs ??
2) ? vs ??
3) ? vs ??
4) Violento Jack vs PeligroAeroboyPesadilla? [PdM EXTREMO]
5) el Hijo del Perro Aguayo & Texano Jr. vs Héctor Garza & Toscano [Relevos Increíbles]

The poster has a whole bunch of people scheduled to appear. The lineup is not really interesting, except in how many ways they can do the same exact matches. A bit surprising they’re going to the same building so soon, and most surprising they’re doing this show the same day as an AAA TV taping. They’ve avoided doing that before and it means they don’t have too many rudos for the main event.

Semimain means X-Fly left his title behind too. Or maybe he’ll be the mystery man.

CMLL on Fox Sports (Mexico): 2012-03-10

Bucanero is strong?

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taped 2012-03-02 @ Arena Mexico
Diamante Azul, La Máscara, Marco Corleone vs Rey Bucanero, Último Guerrero, Volador Jr.:   first of what is sure to be many Diamante Azul’s showcases. He worked a ton with Ultimo Guerrero, so perhaps he’s a special project. He did okay here. For all he’s set up to look like Blue Demon, the real revelation here is that isn’t the wrestler he’s trying to be in the ring. Diamante Azul is the new Dos Caras Jr. A few bigger moves, a more spectacular luchador, but he also has the same inability to connect with the fans that his predecessors had (at least here.) It’s be nice if he didn’t drop people on their head, but that’s the part they really must fix.

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Blue Panther vs Negro Casas for in a hair vs hair match: When I did that rant a few recaps ago about too many leglock finishes, I totally had forgotten this was a leglock finish. At least it’s Panther, who could conceivably use a leglock at some point. I think the story in the end is that Panther is more skilled, but Negro makes him angry and causes him to do stupid things – Panther cost himself his hair because he’d rather smack Negro Casas in the face a few more times, which I do believe makes Negro Casas the real winner of this battle. There are few luchadors in this promotion, and in Mexico, which could get a 2012 crowd to be this involved in a match going at this relatively slow of a pace and long of a match. This was good, but was also the CMLL equivalent of Negro Navarro vs Solar, where the point is less about the outcome of the match but more to show how differently they wrestle than everything else. For a feud built on finding out who was better, the finish is a detraction.

Bestia wins Junior crown, Devitt to debut, LLUSA returns, new Perro

(photo by Black Terry Jr.)

IWRG (THU) 03/22/2012 Arena Naucalpan [Black Terry Jr. (flickr), Estrellas del Ring, The Gladiatores]
1) Galaxy & Sky Ángel b Arkano & Matrix Jr.
2) Charly Madrid, Chicano, Dinamic Black b Comando Negro, Pacto Negro, The Mummy
Charly Madrid replaced Centvrion
3) Alan Extreme, Eterno, Trauma II DQ Aeroboy, Hormiga, Violento Jack
Hormiga surprised Eterno with a cradle in the first, Trauma II submitted Violento Jack in the third, and Violento Jack fouled Eterno for the DQ.
4) Damián 666, Halloween, X-Fly b Hijo de Pirata Morgan, Pirata Morgan, Scorpio Jr.
Bloody match, Pirata bleeding a lot. FdT took 1/3, Damian sneaking in a foul on Pirata.
5) Bestia 666 b Trauma I [IWRG JUNIORS]
Trauma II & X-Fly were the seconds. Trauma I took the first, Bestia the second, and everyone got involved in the third, and Bestia beat Trauma with his own hold to win the title.

That looks like a new belt. They had been using an old Estadio de Mexico championship. Estrellas del Ring talks to the winner and loser.

Prince Devitt is confirmed as wrestling tonight. CMLL sent out a message yesterday to confirm he’d actually be on this show this week, which was nice of them. It’s masks vs no masks in the main event: Rush, Marco & Devitt vs Ultimo Guerrero, Volador, and Mephisto. Everything is pointing in the direction of Volador & Devitt, so that should actually get started tonight. There’s a couple ongoing issues that just keep going on, but the other match sticking out to me is way down in the segunda. Virus, who seems to be in more lightning matches than most, faces Titan. That should be a fun match in itself, but the preview suggests Titan will also get a title shot if he can beat Virus here.

Lucha Libre USA returns (again!) tonight, starting a six week live tour in Reno, Nevada. They’ve got the full list of announced shows on their website; it’s now up to 10 shows thru May 12th. Tonight’s show is headlined by Blue Demon vs RJ Brewer with Demon’s career on the line, and Lizmark Jr. defending his title versus Chavo Guerrero Jr. in a match straight out WCW Worldwide 1997. (This is a good thing!)

Everyone I’ve talked to about these shows does not have high hopes for their finical success. They’re running large building with expensive tickets and no national TV  it’s not a great formula. They are reairing the shows on local TV where they’re running the live events, but I’m not doubtful that’ll be enough to overcome the cheapest ticket being $29; that seems higher than WWE prices without the brand loyalty. Still, if you can get in to these shows at a decent price, they look like they’ll be fun shows.

X-Fly & Halloween are listed on AAA cards as far in the future as April 16. Damian is not on any AAA card.

Perros del Mal (via the Gladiatores) have a note up about always finding new stars, and they’ve found a new Perro: Canadian Kira Foster. You may know her as Taya Valkyrie from the World of Hurt reality show with Lance Storm. There was a report of her signing a WWE Developmental deal back in October; either that didn’t happen or it’s over already. She’s on Twitter, and was at Rey de Reyes, so she may start turning up on TV as soon as this weekend. She’s most likely the mystery woman on Queretaro taping.

CMLL made Diamante Azul do an interview where he said his gear was 100% unique and all his own idea. I think this is an old interview from a month or so being recycled.

Interviews with long time Monterrey wrestlers/trainers Mr. Lince & Rudy Reyna is interesting before it descends into the “no one knows how to wrestle today, every show we were on sold out” usual.

Rob has highlights of 02/11/11 CMLL.

LuchaWorld has KrisZ’s news update.

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CMLL on Televisa: 2012-03-10

 

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taped 2012-03-02 @ Arena Mexico
Ayumi vs Marcela in a lightning match: The title change is not much of a surprise now – they turned Ayumi rudo (the gold changes people!) and she lost, it’s a pretty good indication something’s up. This was a lot of trying to get in moves to fit the time limit, but they got in some painful looking stuff. Next week should be good if it got time.

 

think it was actually Angel de Oro who screwed up, but Mr. Aguila gets to look like a weirdo

Ángel de Oro, Super Porky, Valiente vs Averno, Mr. Águila, Olímpico: not a lot of a match due to time considerations. They spent about 2/7ths with Olímpico and Valiente just warning up the mat, so they didn’t exactly make the most of it. It was fine but I wouldn’t exactly miss it.

 

spit > slap

Atlantis & Mr. Niebla vs Rush & Terrible in a National Parejas Increible final match: Not a lot as a match in itself, just a long backdrop to Terrible & Rush breaking it up. If last week was about how destructive they could be if they got along, this was more about how self-destructive they’d rather be if they were put together.

03/24-25 lucha times

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=== CMLL ===

52MX: Sombra/UG. Can’t tell if they’re airing 2 or 3 matches week to week, but this would be a nice week for the third (Cancerberos/Dragon Lee/Cometa.) I’d take just third fall airing of a match rather than a few minutes shorter show (as it was this past week.)

GALA/Televisa: The Amapola/Estrellita feud has been airing here, so maybe that, maybe the lightning match, maybe Diamante Azul.

FOX: Rey Escorpion vs Black Warrior trios, Felino/UG/Volador vs Atlantis/Sombra/Shocker.

C3: Sangre Nueva final, Psicosis vs La Mascara in yet another Mascara singles match.

GDL: Avernos vs Marco/Atlantis/Dorada

Puebla: Polvora vs Stuka

=== Other ===

AAA: they do have the 90 minute time slot his week! This should be part 1 of Rey de Reyes, but no telling what it means. At least one of the Rey de Reyes final and the title match; I’m thinking both since the LA Park story weaves thru.

ACM: Batman & He-Man vs Ninja

Perros: I think this is still airing?

IWRG: Bestia vs Trauma I

Random AYM show: 11am Saturday.

CMLL Guerreros del Ring on 52MX: 2012-03-10

 

Dragon Lee & Rey Cometa

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taped 2012-03-04 @ Arena Coliseo
Diamante, Dragon Lee, Rey Cometa vs Euforia, Namajague, Shigeo Okumura: Good for the time. Dragon Lee did Dragon Lee things here. Rudos really didn’t get much but got the win, so I think they went home happy. Not enough karate.

 

Fuego & Stuka

Fuego, Stuka Jr., Valiente vs Hooligan, Pólvora, Skándalo: Good week 1 set up for the title match. They probably need more weeks than that, but I’d trade less predictable build for more frequent title matches. Bette planning might work too.

La Sombra, Shocker, Super Porky vs Kráneo, Morphosis, Psicosis: Run of the mill match. Shocker’s about the same as Shocker’s been, which is not really anything worth noting. Better to have him than not and the fans enjoyed the match, but it’s routine.