CMLL (MON) 05/21/2012 Arena Puebla [Espectáculos Del Cuadrilátero]
1) Tigre Rojo & Tigre Rojo Jr. b King Jaguar & Sauron
Tigres took falls 1/3.
2) Amapola, Princesa Sugheit, Tiffany b Estrellita, Luna Mágica, Marcela
Rudas took 2/3, with Tiffany beating Marcela in the third.
3) Arissma, Asturiano, Espiritu Maligno, Lestat, Milenium, Stigma b Dragon Lee, Hombre Bala Jr., Pegasso, Puma King, Skándalo, Súper Comando [cibernetico]
Puebla vs DF cibernetico. There was nearly a brawl before the match, and Pegasso tried to make peace between the sides. Eliminations were Millenium (Super Comando), Hombre Bala (Espiritu Maligno), Puma King (Asturiano), Arissma (Super Comando), Espiritu Maligno (Skandalo), Pegasso (Stigma), Skandalo (also Stigma!), Arissma and Puma King eliminated each other on a double countout, Stigma (Dragon Lee), Lestat (pulling Dragon Lee’s mask to pin him.) Everyone argued post match, leading to the cage match next week.
4) Mr. Águila, Olímpico, Psicosis b Delta, Guerrero Maya Jr., La Sombra
Rudos took 2/3, Psicosis pinning Delta in the last.
5) Atlantis DQ Volador Jr.
Atlantis had issues with Volador and Tirantes. Volador took the first, Atlantis took the second. Volador found the strechered and started hitting Atlantis with it. (Proof he’s a Parka!) Atlantis grabbed the strecher, so Volador used a cameraman as a human shield. Both went for the masks. No pinfall, instead Psicosis, Mr. Aguila and Olimpico all attacking Atlantis. Sombra, Guerrero Maya and Delta ran out for the saves, but the rudos destroyed them and took their masks. Invasors challenged for a trios title match.
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CMLL (TUE) 05/22/2012 Arena Coliseo Guadalajara [Fuego en el Ring]
1) Virgo b Thunder Boy
2) Hombre Bala Jr., Metatrón, Starman b Demonio Maya, Magnum, Rey Trueno
3) Gallo, Sagrado, Stuka Jr. DRAW Espectrum, Misterioso Jr., Rey Escorpion
Gallo & Misterioso feuded. Sagrado & Escorpion double pinned for the draw. This sets up a rematch last week.
4) Dragón Rojo Jr. & Volador Jr. b La Máscara & La Sombra
Rudos took 1/3, Dragon on Sombra and Volador on Mascara. That last sets up a rematch. Best match of the night.
5) Atlantis DQ Mr. Niebla
Atlantis took 2/3, Mr. Niebla pulled Atlantis’ mask.
There were messages on Twitter saying Hombre Bala Jr. looked out of it. The Fuego en el Ring recap doesn’t even hint in that direction. His match may air on La Luchas at some point.
CMLL (TUE) 05/22/2012 Arena Mexico [@robviper, CMLL, Kaiser Sports (1-3, 6), Kaiser Sports (7)]
1) Apocalipsis & Zayco b Bengala & Freesbe
2) Metálico, Sensei, Super Halcon Jr. b Artillero, Disturbio, Súper Comando
Tecnicos took 2/3. Metalico pinned Super Comando while Sensei held off Disturbio in a Tarantula.
3) Fuego, Rey Cometa, Titán b Hooligan, Loco Max, Skándalo
Tecnicos took 1/3. Fuego armbared Hooligan, Rey Cometa 450 splashed Loco Max. Loco Max hung out with a Porra Tuareg!
4) Euforia b Triton [En Busca de un Idolo]
Euforia scored 34 points, Triton got 24.
5) Dragon Lee b Niebla Roja [En Busca de un Idolo]
Dragon Lee scored 31 points in judging, Niebla Roja 28.
6) Rey Bucanero, Terrible, Yujiro b Diamante Azul, Máximo, Rush
Yujiro went after Rush. Rudos took 1/3, Yujiro pinning Rush in the third.
7) Máscara Dorada b Psicosis [CMLL WELTER]
Kraneo, Mije, and Triton were seconds. Psicosis is wearing the original Psicosis colors (and wig), as is the original Psicosis in AAA. Confusing! Dorada took fall 1/3 to to keep his title. Dorada said he’d like to be in a major mask match this year.
I haven’t had a chance to grab the YouTube links (or finish my own!) but the Busca matches are indeed up. The speed on the uploads has been really fast the last couple of weeks, and hopefully they keep showing up for the rest of the tournament.
CMLL announced the final point totals for Un Busca de un Idolo this afternoon
293 Titan
238 Diamante
236 Euforia
229 Dragon Lee
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226 Niebla Roja
206 Puma King
196 Triton
165 Polvora
Niebla Roja narrowly missed advancing. He did get 39 out of a possible 40 points on the poll. Dragon Lee apparently leaped (springboarded?) ahead of Puma King sometime this morning, grabbing 23 points to Puma’s 16. That 7 point flip made the difference.
Polvora won 2 matches, and finished last. Titan won 1 match and drew another and finished first. I love the efforts of Porra Titan, but as a person who thinks winning should be the point, I am not fond of these rules for a sporting contest. It is interesting to see that, as much as the rudos are supported louder during at the shows, the people who voted in the polls were mostly behind the tecnicos. Niebla Roja did well at the end, though there did seem to be some Angel de Plata fans backing him strongly. It didn’t really effect Euforia, and Puma had more problems with winning matches, but had Polvora managed to finish middle of the pack in the poll, he wouldn’t be so embarassingly in last.
CMLL has not listed which people will be teaming with Ultimo Guerrero and Atlantis. They were probably hoping for two tecnicos and two rudos to make it easy. I’d put Titan with Euforia and Ultimo Guerrero for fun. No idea how the semimain will work, but normal seeding set up Titan/Dragon Lee and Euforia/Diamante (and most likely Euforia vs Dragon Lee as a final, though that’s not a sure bet.)
Rey Escorpion says his match with Black Warrior is the most important of his career. No disagreement there. Escorpion says Warrior has an advantage, having been in big matches in Arena Mexico before, but he’s not bothered.
The Traumas explain they were supposed to go to CZW in May, but paperwork issues prevented it. The concept of CZW and paperwork has just blown my mind.
Mr. Niebla, in hyping up his two singles matches this week in Guadalajara, says he’s more popular than Atlantis, and Rush has no idea what he’s doing. To be fair, I’m not sure Niebla knows what he’s doing half the time either. (And that’s why I hope that match turns up somehow, it could be amazing.)
Stuka calls Sangre Azteca a traitor, and demands a mask match with him. He’d also take a mask match with both Sangre and Misterioso.
The GONG network in France will start airing CMLL next Monday. The show is called “MINIS EXTRAVAGANZA”, with just mini matches from 2010 and 2011. Last year was not much of a year for the minis, but I recall 2010 being fun (Demus is going to win his way off the show!), and I’ve never heard of a just minis shows before.
Rob has highlights of 06/24/11 CMLL and Joe Lider doing something stupid.
LuchaWorld has KrisZ’s news update and Psycho Circus, Super Crazy, Euforia, Zorro and Ephesto.
Links
- LuchaShop is doing a half of sale today only, if you use the coupon code Konnan50
- Apolo Estrada Jr. lost his hair in Acapulco.
- Goya Kong says she’s going back to Japan in July, which suggests there will be REINA (or REINA like substance) for her to go back to by then.
- The Gladiatores reaches six years.
- Nosawa stopped by the Perros del Mal office.
- Sunday’s AULL show includes Sadico vs Flamita in trios.
Lineups
CMLL (TUE) 05/29/2012 Arena Mexico
1) Leono & Soberano Jr. vs Bronco & Inquisidor
2) Astral, Eléctrico, Fantasy vs Demus 3:16, Pequeño Olímpico, Pierrothito
3) Diamante, Dragon Lee, Pegasso vs Niebla Roja, Sangre Azteca, Virus
4) Delta, Guerrero Maya Jr., Hijo del Fantasma vs Kráneo, Morphosis, Olímpico
5) Marco Corleone, Rush, Super Porky vs Dragón Rojo Jr., Último Guerrero, Yujiro
Looks like Yujiro will get one singles match with Rush before splitting town.
Some good matches in the undercard. Rudo Sangre Azteca gets back in regular circulation.
This lineup means whatever’s left of the En Busca de un Idolo tournament (two semifinals and one final? something different?) is exclusive to Friday.
CMLL (TUE) 05/29/2012 Arena Coliseo Guadalajara
1) El Divino & Virgo vs Acertijo & Infierno
2) Esfinge, Fuego, Smaker, Titán, Triton vs Arkángel de la Muerte, Barbaro Cavernario, Hooligan, Ráfaga, Sádico [cibernetico]
3) Gallo, Sagrado, Stuka Jr. vs Espectrum, Misterioso Jr., Rey Escorpion
4) La Máscara vs Volador Jr. [MEX LH]
This is the fourth singles match between the two this year already. Volador leads 2-1, and won the last match here in Guadalajara.
I agree with the CZW comment. Didn’t know they had paperwork.
May not have been CZW’s demanding of paperwork that may have stopped it. Some guys won’t risk coming into the country without proper paperwork (at LEAST a travel visa – which if they didn’t have in time they would not have been able to enter the U.S. anyway) because of the risks associated. I know that the Extreme Reunion show wanted to book Super Crazy but he himself said that his paperwork had expired and he wouldn’t be able to get new papers in time. Different papers for getting entry to the U.S. vs. Japan.
@Kevin K: Interesting. I wonder if Super Crazy will be ready for the next Extreme Reunion show at the end of June? The venue is in Queens and right in the heart of el Barrio with a huge Mexican population.
Judging by how well the first Extreme Reunion was received I hope Crazy is prepared to perform to a mostly empty house.
@Wirehead: It’s a tiny gym that holds about 600-700. ECW fans are very forgiving.
My counter to your statement about Titan would be out of everyone involved in the tournament he had the second best winning % in CMLL during the year 2011, only losing out to Diamante (who missed time with injury). 20th out of 169 wrestlers in total although if you only count regulars he was top 10. So in a sense winning IS being rewarded… it’s just a delayed reward.
It would appear voting will be starting again for the next stage so #porraTitan will have to get back to work!
I should also add the tournament is “En Busca De Un Idolo” not “Let’s See Who Wins The Most Matches”.:p The fan voting SHOULD be the most important! When you find out who the fans love then you can worry about getting them lots of wins.
Unless it’s Dragon Lee.
Still trying to figure out what those 2,000 people were expecting in Philadelphia. The best match on the show by all accounts is with one guy who rarely wrestles and another who is retiring soon.
They were expecting a great show that focused on what made the original ECW great. What they got instead was Shane Douglas’s raping ECW’s corpse for profit.
You guys underestimate the cult following of ECW. It doesn’t matter that the (36th?) reunion bombed. They’ll run again and they’ll sell out. As long as they stick to the areas ECW was hot in during their prime (NY/PA) and don’t oversaturate it with monthly shows they’ll draw just fine.
@Rob: There should be a luchablog poll about this! :-p
@TKD: I second your motion!
The Extreme Reunion show was meant to be just that – a reunion. Everyone involved knew the “risks” associated – though certain things went worse than could have been expected while others (i.e. New Jack being a model citizen and locker room leader) were bizarro on the other side.
Bestia, being Damien’s son, and Pesadilla being trained by and relative of Crazy, made for a good logical match.
The reason you do not see HDRM II on more shows is that he is pretty expensive to book, only taking bookings through Rey Sr, and that prices him out of most group’s ranges.
I am pretty confident he will be working more and more over the next year throughout the country, but I doubt it is going to be on random shows.
I’m pretty sure his asking price is more than what anyone working for Evolve or on the U.S. roster side of DGUSA gets for a show with an exception of maybe Finlay.
But…by all means! As the ER project continues, more lucha stars will be brought in. I can tell you that some of the decision makers there do read the site.
@Kevin K: As far as I can recall, the Traumas have never been in the US, so it was probably a visa issue. They’ve traveling around Mexico a bit and may just not have gotten it done. It’s funnier to think they couldn’t get their CZW Wrestler License filled out in time.
@Wirehead: “Judging by how well the first Extreme Reunion was received I hope Crazy is prepared to perform to a mostly empty house. ”
I never put the Arena Aficion results on the blog, because they’re kind of irrelevant, but Crazy has worked plenty of those shows where they seem to draw 12 people. He’s well prepared.
@Rob: “When you find out who the fans love then you can worry about getting them lots of wins.”
Did they find out who the fans love, or did they find out which luchadors have the most passionate fans who can figure how to stuff the ballot? That was totally within the rules and there’s no problem with it, but I don’t know that they truly found out any more about how their fans feel about their wrestlers. And if took a web poll for them to figure out Titan is great and starting to get over, then they’re kind of clueless to begin with. (Just like if it took them four matches to realize Polvora is not a great in ring technician and Triton does not do a lot of llave contra llave, then what have they been watching the last couple years?)