CMLL (TUE) 06/26/2012 Arena Coliseo Guadalajara [Fuego en el Ring]
1) Relampago Azul & Thunder Boy b El Divino & Virgo
2) Èvola & Malefico b Black Metal & Metatrón
3) Princesa Blanca b Marcela
Princesa Blanca threw a drink in Marcela’s face and rolled her up for the win.
4) Sagrado, Stuka Jr., Valiente b Namajague, Sangre Azteca, Shigeo Okumura
Sagrado beat Okumura, challenged for a title shot. Okumura walked out without answering.
5) Averno, Mephisto, Volador Jr. b La Máscara, Máscara Dorada, Super Porky
Rudos took 2/3.
In the second part of Kaiser Sport’s interview with New Mistico, he says he will not be relying on La Mistica, but coming up with new holds of his own. He’s looking forward to being able to team with his brother. That’s going to be quite a team.
Today’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter says Abyss has been pulled from Saturday’s AAA TV taping. The section suggests TNA will send someone else instead, and it may be Robby E or Robby T in his place. It goes on to say AAA is high on Robby T. You may remember Robby T as tall muscular man Robby Terry, who wrestled Mesias at last December’s Guerra de Titanes. You probably do not remember him, because no one cared and the whole thing was forgettable. The idea of sending any one from TNA to Mexico thinking they’d get popular over time misses the point that TNA (and AAA) seems incapable of sending anyone regularly to Mexico, or even on occasional important dates. The only guy who was around consistently and long term was Hernandez, and while he was recognizable by the end of his run, he didn’t mean much.
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- Estrellita feels she’s proved she’s at the level of everyone else. She’s looking for Tiffany and Amapola in the cage.
- Kcids draws the three faces of Remo Banda.
- The women in the cage match emphasis what a big opportunity for them to be in an Arena Mexico main event.
Y’know… I wonder how much of the inconsistency in exchanging talent between AAA-TNA is on the wrestlers themselves. Sarita has never seemed to have too many issues doing CMLL and TNA… I wonder if the TNA guys were able to get a full schedule in AAA if things would be different – especially when TNA tapes multiple shows in a row.
I’d rather they had left Abyss. At least I enjoyed his work at one time.
When Moody Jack was replaced, you had to figure things would change between AAA and TNA. He was the intermediary at first. Not sure how strong ties are today, but this isn’t a good sign.
At one time, TNA was interested in AAA talent but the LLUSA deal prevented them from working together. Since then, TNA has taken a new direction of marketing the company as a white southern promotion by using Country music videos to promote talent. Wrestling fans today are mostly minorities or the kind of whites who like hip-hop, not Country music. This white southern strategy is probably why TNA no longer wants a relationship with a Mexican office. Especially with Bischoff around. He moved to the middle of nowhere to get away from minorities and tweets all kinds of Tea Party shit all day. His influence alone will strain any relationship between TNA and a Lucha office.
Well, let me break it down and be a little more specific.
When TNA was running a PPV in Orlando on a Sunday, followed by TV tapings on Monday & Tuesday (and the occasional Wednesday) all in the same building, it was easy for Sarah Stock to fly out of Mexico City Saturday, work those three shows, and then fly back to Mexico to work her normal schedule starting on Wed/Thurs. She could then stay on her normal schedule for two weeks. At that point she could fly out onWednesday, work house shows on Thurs, Fri, Sat & Sun, then work TV tapings on Mon & Tuesday in Orlando, then fly back to Mexico and work the normal CMLL schedule. Stock appeared to make it work, as you never really heard anything about her no-showing for either group on a regular basis.
The problem with AAA is they only run TV tapings, so if they fly someone in, it is for one shot, maybe two if they do a Fri-Sun set of tapings. Considering that many of the TNA guys take indy bookings, and that TNA runs house shows on the weekends themselves, you gotta wonder if offered a chance to work TNA, if it just isn’t easier (and more attractive to a non-Spanish speaker) to just stay in the US and work in front of 250 people for the same amount of money. Since AAA kinda just books their guys out to other promoters for the house shows, there isn’t really a guarantee of work if they would stay in Mexico for an extended run – especially when the local luchadors will probably draw more and work cheaper.
Look at Japan – the promotions that run strong tours do not seem to have any problem booking US talent. A company like NJPW, AJPW, or NOAH can bring a guy over for two weeks and give them 10 bookings. CMLL runs a lot of shows, between what they run weekly, and the spot shows they book guys out on.
:ets say that TNA offers a guy like Robbie E $1000 to come work a match at Triplemania. He could take the money and work one match that weekend (and have to deal with two international flights and long travel time & layovers to get there), or he could work three indy shows for $350 a pop and get back home with more money.
It isn’t a knock on AAA, because I am a fan of mixing styles and talent – their business model is just not conducive to bringing in outsiders. Look at how CMLL uses guys like Devitt, Yujiro, Stock, and Strongman compared to AAA. Hell, in a lot of ways IWRG even uses foreigners better. It is all because of scheduling, I think.
I think Dark Angel got TNA to agree to let her continue working Mexico regardless of the AAA/TNA deal which will probably fall apart after Mania. Sara is low on the Knockouts pecking order so they don’t really need her for many house shows.
You’re right about AAA’s business model. Sold shows. If they wanted to bring someone in for a week at a time, AAA would have to get several local promoters to agree to pay the jacked up fees for TNA guys, and that isn’t going to happen. So they end up working the tv taping and maybe one house show and that’s it.