Month: August 2012

IWRG (THU) 08/30/2012 Arena Naucalpan [The Gladiatores]
1) Sky Ángel COR Matrix Jr.
Matrix Jr. hurt his hip on a dive and could not continue.
2) Eita & Infierno Kid Jr. b Freelance & Serpiente de Oro
Eita pinned Freelance for the win.
3) Alan Extreme, Black Terry, Temerario Infernal b Chicano, Dinamic Black, La Cobra
Rudos took 2/3 when Chicano didn’t get along with his teammates. Chicano is a rudo going forward, and Dinamic Black challenged him to a singles match.
4) Cerebro Negro, Dr. Cerebro, Pirata Morgan, Relampago b Cien Caras Jr., Comando Negro, Eterno, Heddi Karaoui
First Cerebro Negro match here in over a year. Piratas appear to be tecnicos now. Their team won 2/3 to take the match, Pirata beating Cien Caras Jr. Pirata had earlier said he wanted a Heavyweight title match if he beat Cien, and he beat him.
5) Hijo de Pirata Morgan b Hijo de Máscara Año 2000 [Rey del Ring]
only Pirata Morgan’s title is on the line. Seconds were Cien Caras Jr. & Pirata Morgan, and they interfered in the third fall. Mascara ripped at Pirata’s mask a lot too. Pirata took the first, Mascara the second. Mascara pulled Pirata’s mask and rolled him up in the third, but Pirata Sr. jumped in and argued before the count. Cien Caras Jr. argued about Pirata Sr. arguing, and Pirata Sr. used the distraction to turn over the pin. Hijo de Pirata hung on for the win to keep the title. Capos challenged Piratas to an apuesta match for the year end show in December.

Today’s CMLL show is headlined by Terrible versus Tanahasshi for the CMLL Universal Championship. Both are heavyweight champions of their company, but Tanahashi would normally be the favorite. That’s not the case at this very moment, with Terrible going in to the biggest match of his career. I’m not really not sure a win helps Terrible all that much – people know Tanahashi is supposed to be a big deal, but he hasn’t ever come across himself as one, no more so than Yujiro – but a loss would take something away from the hair match with Rush in two weeks. I’m not sure NJPW is thrilled with the idea of Tanahashi losing (and it won’t be clean if it happens), but CMLL really needs to give their own guy the win here.

Kcidis draws Terrible and Tanahashi’s big plans.

The semimainis a four way trios tournament, with no particular on the line. Volador & Mr. Niebla were scheduled on their teams and seemed destined for another battle, but both are now in the tournament. Instead, the stories seem to be about the Guerreros breakup (Ultimo teaming with the two partners he’s broken up with), and possible someone new challenging Bufete del Amor, who have run thru all their challengers so far. Puma King and Rey Cometa have one more match in the tercera.

Lluvia, missing shows the last few days, will be out 9-12 months due to knee surgery. She hurt the knee a while back, took sometime off to let it recover, and had been working with a giant knee brace but obviously struggling.

Cuervo says he’ll be teaming with Fabi Apache to take on Mari Apache & Gran Apache on 09/16 AAA TV taping in Ecatepec. That storyline seemed to get put to the side during the build to TripleMania. He’s also decided to join the Bizarros, which should make for some awkward group meetings with Billy.

Hijo del Espanto appeared on last night’s Tercera Caida, claiming he owns the right to “Espanto Jr.”, not CMLL or the new wrestler. That seems surprising, since the new Espanto Jr. is the son of the original Espanto Jr., but the original had to get permission to use that name from the family and it sounds like the new hasn’t. Still, this seems likely to play out like the Triton name issue, where the CMLL never publicly addresses the complaints of the indy guy.

Enrique Vera has a retirement show Saturday. The undercard includes a Sangre Chicana Jr. vs Fishman Jr. vs el Pulpo mask match. Pulpo, who seems like the most likely loser (though it’s no sure thing) , talks about the match.

LuchaWorld has KrisZ’s news update.

A show in Nuevo Laredo this weekend includes Tito Santana, and also “John Cena Jr.”

Sangre Costena lost his mask in a cage match.

Lineups

CMLL (SUN) 09/02/2012 Arena Puebla
1) Asturiano, Blue Center, Dinámikoo vs Fuerza Chicana, Policeman, Siki Ozama Jr.
2) Molotov, Sensei, Stigma vs Artillero, Hooligan, Súper Comando
3) Dalis la Caribeña, Luna Mágica, Marcela vs Amapola, La Comandante, Zeuxis
4) Stuka Jr. vs Pólvora [lightning]
5) Atlantis, Diamante Azul, Titán vs Rey Bucanero, Terrible, Tiger
6) Rush vs Hiroshi Tanahashi

Rush vs Tanahashi completes the set of matches with Terrible vs Tanahashi tonight and Rush vs Terrible in 3 weeks. Pretty good chance they all go 1-1.

CMLL (MON) 08/27/2012 Arena Puebla [El Sol de Puebla, Porra Fresa]
1) Espiritu Maligno & King Jaguar b Black Tiger & Milenium
Rudos took 1/3.
2) Aereo, Niño de Acero, Shockercito DQ Pequeño Black Warrior, Pequeño Nitro, Pequeño Universo 2000
First match in Puebla for Nino de Acero since the knee injury that put him out for years. He did not seem nervous. Tecnicos took 1/3, rudos DQed for excessive violence.
3) Estrellita, Goya Kong, Marcela b Amapola, Princesa Blanca, Princesa Sugheit
Tecnicas took 1/3.
4) Shigeo Okumura b Pegasso [lightning]
Okumura won with his brainbuster. Pegasso was strechered out.
5) Blue Panther, Brazo de Plata, Valiente b Averno, Ephesto, Mephisto
Tecnicos take 2/3.
6) Atlantis, Diamante Azul, Rush DQ Hiroshi Tanahashi, Rey Bucanero, Terrible
Rush tried to jump Terrible, but Bucanero & Terrible got the best of him. Rudos took the first with a Tanahashi frog splash on Diamante Azul and a double armbar on Atlantis. Atlantis won the second with a Atlantida on Tanahashi. In the third, Azul pinned Terrible with a german suplex, Tanahshi beat Azul with the Sling Blade, and Tanahashi fouled Rush to avoid being beat. Rush challenged Tanahashi to a singles match in Puebla.

No Terrible/Tanahashi issues before their match this Friday. No lineup for next week yet, not sure if they’re actually doing Rush vs Tanahashi (which didn’t happen in the G1, they were in separate blocks.)

Luchadors have been regularly taken on a stretcher from Okumura and Kraneo’s brainbusters, and from other neck attack moves. No one seemed to think the Pegasso bit was out of the ordinary, but Pegasso did miss the next day’s show. Pegasso was limping noticeably last Tuesday, the actual injury could be his right knee injury flaring up again.

Attendance was way down. 20% may be optimistic. School has started and it is a 9 pm start, but it still was a huge drop off from the last month.

CMLL (TUE) 08/28/2012 Arena Coliseo Guadalajara [Fuego en el Ring]
1) Sádico & Thunder Boy b El Divino & Javier Cruz Jr.
2) Leo & Soberano Jr. b Èvola & Ráfaga
3) Goya Kong, Marcela, Tiffany DQ Amapola, La Comandante, Princesa Blanca
Goya replaced Dark Angel, as expected. Tiffany replaced Lluvia, as not expected. Lluvia missed a show in Monterrey this past Sunday; maybe her knee injury is flaring up? Tiffany turned on her team for and hit ref Edgar for the DQ.
4) Smaker b Barbaro Cavernario [OCCIDENTE MIDDLE]
Decision match for vacant championship. Seconds were Leo & Evola. Barbaro got his knees up on a top rope move to take the second fall, Smaker powerbombed Barbaro for the first, then Smaker submitted Barbaro in the third. Crowd saw it as an upset, maybe because of Barbaro’s recent hair match victories.
5) Atlantis & Shocker DQ Terrible & Último Guerrero
Tecnicos took 2/3. Terrible fouled Shocker, setting up a singles match next week

Fuego has a post match interview with Barbaro. The interesting part isn’t anything the luchador says, but the interviewer strongly saying Barbaro was better than Smacker in the title match (and not quite getting the rudo to say the same.)If people really were surprised Barbaro lost, it’d mean they didn’t know Raziel was originally supposed to go the final, and there really wasn’t any point in taking him out of the match.

Las Luchas showed how Barbaro actually got to the final, picking up with Fuego laying on the ramp and looking hurt after his elimination. Barbaro and Stuka were the last two, and Stuka decimated Barbaro with a tope and was having no problem with him in the ring until Barbaro dodged a dropkick and ref Loco Estrada got hit. Stuka almost immediately got a pin, but the ref called the DQ instead.

CMLL sent out a press release hyping up Friday’s trios tournament. In one of those things that illustrate that everyone who gets these things posts them without really reading them, the teams in the press release don’t exactly match the ones CMLL announced on their website. Mr. Niebla and Volador are out of the tournament – that can’t be a concidence – and Rey Bucanero is illogically on the Peste Negra team, while Black Warrior joins the Invasor squad.

I no longer believe there’s much of a shot of CMLL doing Niebla/Volador later next month. Pulling them from the trios tournament pushed it aside, and it doesn’t actually fit into the Anniversary show right now. Terrible/Rush will be main event, Cometa/Puma will likely be fourth and, based on all the promos, Mistico is surely going to be in the semimain. They’ve just been doing basic Mistico matches since his debut; something like teaming with Atlantis and La Mascara versus Ultimo Guerrero and some rudos fits, but Volador & Niebla really do not. That would leave them in the tercera at best, , not a good place to push something that’s supposed to main event a big show.

LEGEND announced the mystery people for their top two matches on 09/30:

4) Daga, Fenix, Magnus, Turbo vs Heddi Karaoui, Kansuke, Maya Balam, Zumbi [elimination]
5) Monster Clown, Murder Clown, Psycho Clown vs Alex Koslov, Chris Masters, Rocky Romero

Main event should be amusing. Semimain has a wide range of people involved. Kansuke is now Dowki in IWRG, and will probably be Dowki here. Magnus, still training in CMLL gyms and soon to be on CMLL affiliated El Luchador, has been pulled from shows featuring AAA wrestlers and I would not be surprised at all if that happened again here.

Or maybe not, since Magnus is telling people on Twitter that the high attendance for Mistico’s debut was created by honoring all the tickets from the previous week and giving away 4000 more.

Meanwhile, Mistico says the crowd is about 50/50 behind him on most shows, and he’ll be a big focus of El Luchador. This is what he says about his friend Magnus:

Magnus es un buen compañero, un gran amigo que estimo muchísimo pero la verdad con este gran personaje que me acaban de otorgar pues cambio muchísimo la relación entre él y yo. Todo eso ustedes lo verán en esta serie y por eso le digo a toda la gente que lo espere muy pronto porque sé que les va a encantar y quizás después viene una tercera temporada. En esta segunda parte le eche todas las ganas para que la gente se dé cuenta de lo que en verdad era Dragon Lee. Hoy en día no se que haya pasado con Magnus, es una persona que no entiende, que no ha madurado pero igual lo quiero muchísimo y es un gran amigo.

Quick transation: Magnus has not matured but he’s still my friend and you’ll see more about us on the show.

IWRG’s Sunday card has changed. The Negro Navarro & Trauma I vs Hijo del Wagner & Hijo de LA Park match is now for the tag titles. Seems like Veneno won’t be back from Japan, because Freyser has been put in his spot in the semimian and Multifacetico takes the open spot in the tercera. Danny Casas, who had a rough time with the Traumas recently, is off the card and Oficial AK47 takes his place.

Angel Azteca Jr., missing from CMLL for the last few months, is listed on a show in Coahuila.

Mil Mascaras says he sleeps five hours a day, runs 3 to five miles, and paints. He also talks about drawing 22,000 to a mask match with El Halcon, with 10,000 more outside the building unable to get tickets.

SuperLuchas has had disturbing issues the last few weeks, so they’ve posted the last two editions online for free. Definitely worth checking out

Rob has his CMLL lucha libre TV weekend thoughts.

An update on lucha in Morelos.

Lucha Libre in Japan

(all from Puroresu Spirit)
08/30 NOAH: KENTA & Maybach Taniguchi [X] b Super Crazy & Ricky Marvin [O]
08/30 WNC:
– Hijo del Pantera [O], Backpacker Joe & Lin Byron b Takuya Kito, Yusuke Kodama & Josh O’Brien [X]
– Veneno b Hoshito Takahashi

Super Crazy & Ricky Marvin vs Hijo del Pantera & Yusuke Kodama & Dave Finlay vs Ray Mendoza Jr. (!?!?!) have been announced for 09/20 WNC show.

Lineups

CMLL (SUN) 09/02/2012 Arena Coliseo San Luis Potosi
1) Magico vs Bogar Jr.
2) Astral & Shockercito vs Gemelo Del Averno I & Gemelo Del Averno II
3) Dalis la Caribeña & Marcela vs Amapola & Princesa Blanca
4) Oro Azul & Sagrado vs Black Xtrem & Hijo del Signo
5) Máscara Dorada, Mistico, Valiente vs Dragón Rojo Jr., Misterioso Jr., Rey Escorpión

Mistico tour comes to SLP.

CMLL (TUE) 08/28/2012 Arena Mexico [CMLL, Kaiser Sports]
1) Camaleón & Robin b Guerrero Negro Jr. & Herodes Jr.
2) Dalis la Caribeña, Lady Afrodita, Luna Mágica b La Seductora, Princesa Sugheit, Zeuxis
Zeuxis no longer is purple. Tecnicas took 2/3.
3) Fuego, Guerrero Maya Jr., Triton b Arkángel de la Muerte, Hooligan, Skándalo
Guerrero Maya replaced Pegasso, who appears to have been injured in Puebla again. Triton pinned Arkangel with a tornillo moonsault for the win.
4) Mephisto b Sagrado [lightning]
Mephisto won in 6:55 via Devil’s Wings.
5) Diamante, Diamante Azul, Hijo del Fantasma b Namajague, Shigeo Okumura, Vangelis
Fantasma was wearing a new design on his mask.
6) Ángel de Oro, Máscara Dorada, Titán b Averno, Euforia, Pólvora
Tecnicos took 2/3. Polvora ripped up Titan’s mask, Titan submitted Polvora with an inverted Gori Special. Titan asked Polvora to accept his title match challenge, Polvora just walked out.

El Sol de Puebla has a recap of Monday’s show, but confuses Namajague and Tanahashi. I’m going to wait for a better one. No mention of the Pegasso injury, but I believe it was mentioned it on twitter.

Edit:

https://twitter.com/JavierLopezDiaz/status/240294421420183552

Rob has his Top 5 Spots of the Week.

LuchaWorld has KrisZ’s news update.

DJ Spectro has video of Misioneros de la Muerte vs Canek, Scorpio, Babe Face from 1983.

Nino de Ebano and Lucky Boy have named their team Velocidad 2.0.

Fantasma says CMLL wrestlers will be at this weekend’s sport and fitness expo.

Texano is satisfied with his move to CMLL.

Lucha Libre in Japan

08/29 NOAH: Super Crazy b Atsushi Kotoge

Pro Wrestling Wave has announced they’ll be hosting AAA Reina de Reinas on 11/27 in Tokyo. Kaguya (the Io sister not with Nosawa) is the first announced, of a field of 8. The Apaches worked for this group last year, so I would presume this is their deal.

Lineups

CMLL (TUE) 09/04/2012 Arena Coliseo Guadalajara
1) El Divino & Virgo vs Èvola & Sádico
2) Sky Kid vs Disturbio
3) Gallo, Smaker, Stuka Jr. vs Artillero, Malefico, Súper Comando
4) Dark Angel & Marcela vs Amapola & Princesa Blanca
5) Shocker vs Terrible

The false advertising of Dark Angel continues. Lineup also lists Metalico in the tercera, but they probably mean Malefico. Smaker being on the show and Barbaro not probably indicates how the title match ended.

CMLL (TUE) 09/04/2012 Arena Mexico
1) Camaleón & Robin vs Bobby Zavala & Disturbio
2) Hombre Bala Jr., Starman, Super Halcon Jr. vs Cancerbero, Hijo del Signo, Raziel
3) Triton vs Virus [lightning]
4) Delta, Guerrero Maya Jr., Stuka Jr. vs Morphosis, Olímpico, Psicosis
5) Ángel de Oro, Mistico, Valiente vs Ephesto, Mephisto, Misterioso Jr.
6) Pólvora vs Titán [MEX WELTER]
Polvora is the champ

Titan wins or we riot. A battle of good versus evil right there.

I’m not a big fan of Delta, but Delta & Guerrero Maya would be a fine tag team to send to the NJPW tournament. Angel de Oro & Valiente are not a team but it would be a fair reward for having to play set up man to Mistico for the last month. Super Halcon & Hombre Bala would be the worst of all possible choices. Look at me, thinking CMLL will send an actual tag team to a tag team tournament, how silly.

It’d be nice if CMLL TV got messed up enough to allow Triton vs Virus to air.

IWL (SUN) 09/16/2012 Centro de Convenciones Tlalnepantla
***IWL 2nd Anniversary Show***
1) ?, ??, Black Azteca vs ???, ????, Infierno Kid
2) Impulso vs Arkanos, Ninja De Fuego, Quimico Jr., Payaso Carroña, Payaso Terror, Cenovio Pitt, Juan el Ranchero, Niño de Ébano, Centinela
3) Carta Brava Jr. (IWL) vs Carta Brava Jr. (IWRG)
4) Hijo de Mascara Sagrada vs Fishman Jr., Canek Jr., Killer Jr., ?, Kato Kung Lee Jr., Universo 2000 Jr., Talisman Jr., Hijo De Brazo, Kung Fu Jr. [Copa Junior]
5) Aeroboy & Pesadilla vs León Rojo & Ovett and Tony Rivera & Zumbido and Ojo Diabolico & Sepulturero I and Black Terry & Zumbi
6) Ángel o Demonio vs Joe Lider, Extreme Tiger, Último Gladiador, Violento Jack, Super Mega, Cerebro Negro [electrified cage]
7) Nimrod JJ & Steve Corino vs Canek & Fantasma de la Ópera

 

 

Today’s Arena Mexico show is hyped as Mascara Dorada vs Averno; the two will soon be facing off in New Japan (and it wouldn’t be surprise if a title match between the two gets added to that tour.) The focus of this match should actually be on Polvora and Titan, who seem headed to a title match next week for the monthly fan appreciation show. Diamante and Diamante Azul team up for the first time on purpose in the semimain.

Mephisto and Sagrado are in the lightning match; it’s Sagrado’s fourth one in the last two months. Dunno how that works. Tercera is Triton, Pegasso, and Fuego vs Arkangel, Skandalo and Hooligan, which sounds like a match Mr. Cacao will sell on a DVD.

Dark Angel is still listed as working tonight in Arena Coliseo Guadalajara, but Apolo Dantes mentioned a few days ago that it’ll actually be Goya Kong.

SuperLuchas has an AAA interview with Machine Rocker, talking up his team and how they’ve been training for years. The interview says it was Machine Rocker who got the pin in their one televised match so far; I thought it was Soul Rocker, but was half confused on the names by the end of it. (It was the one who appeared to be Semental, I’m pretty sure.)  It might have helped if AAA did anything at all to introduce the characters before throwing them out in a match. Maybe they’ll do it on Pinterest? There’s vague threats to “the team that claims to be the strongest in AAA”, which could be both Consejo and Psycho Circus depending on how you read it.

Speaking of frequent complaints about AAA’s presentation, here’s a promo from Drago to hype up his participation in the panamerican tournament taking place in Colombia next month. Has Drago ever spoken on AAA TV? Has AAA ever done internet only promos for their own company? (Maybe that time where Octagoncito was calling Octagon but couldn’t get him to pick up. And the fake shoot fight.)

TripleMania XX part 1 has seen by 54,000 people, which means it still remains behind Emma Huevo vs Sexi Star in a kiddie pool. Good job, good effort.

In this week’s SuperLuchas, Trio Fantasma (Super Muneco, Super Raton, Super Pinocho) are interviews with the WWA Trios titles. Those haven’t been seen in a decade. They say they won them on 07/14 in Palenque de Tlaxcala in a decision match  over Coco Rojo, Coco Amarillo and Coco Azul in a tournament that included “Los Dinamitas, Rayo de Jalisco y Rayman, and others” and was endorsed by Benjamin Mora. I have no record of a tournament like that, and think we probably would’ve heard if Rayo de Jalisco and Cien Caras were involved. Anyway, they’re defending the belts on 09/01 vs Black Terry, Scorpio and Shu el Guerrero on the next legend show.

The magazine has been running a multiweek feature on the last shows of Santo. This week, that included an interview with Hijo del Santo, who talked only about his father and not about anything else that might be going on. Later in the magazine, El Hijo del Santo’s lawyer maintains that the 10 sons of El Santo might have the right their father’s name, but Axel is a grandson so it doesn’t count (which seem to me would prevent Hijo del Santo’s son from being Nieto del Santo at the same time, but I’m no lawyer.) The lawyer says they’re still fighting it in court.

As part of their usual plan of flying in US indy guys, IWL is bringing in Steve Corino for their next show. He’ll be in electrified cage match with Violento Jack, Super Mega and Angel o Demonio.

Besides not sharing his thoughts on new Mistico…

@luchablog Dragon Lee is Son of a BITCH

— Black T 🐯 (@Magnus_CMLL) August 27, 2012

…Magnus has been announced as working the semimain of the Mexico vs the World show on 09/30.

Rob has highlights of 08/14/12 CMLL.

Links

• El Hijo del Medico Asesino on Tercera Caida. I haven’t watched this one yet, but it appears the story isn’t that he got cut, but that he decided he needed to come back to Mexico to learn more lucha libre to help him succeed, and generally evading questions about wrestling unmasked.
• Highlights from last week CMLL press conference.
• Drastic Boy and Aeroboy agreed to a mask match – with Ciclope, who has not yet agreed.
• Ringbelles has an interview with Taya Valkyrie about wrestling in AAA and her adjustment to Mexico.
• Silueta says she’s still REINA-CMLL International Junior champion, so the new REINA title wasn’t meant to replace hers.
• Q & A with Big Mama.

Lineup

CMLL (SUN) 09/02/2012 Arena Mexico
1) Freesbe & Höruz vs Camorra & Ramstein
2) Aereo, Fantasy, Pequeño Halcón vs Mercurio, Pequeño Violencia, Pequeño Warrior
3) Delta, Fuego, Stuka Jr. vs Namajague, Shigeo Okumura, Virus
4) Estrellita vs Lady Apache [lightning]
5) Blue Panther, Diamante Azul, La Sombra vs Ephesto, Euforia, Pólvora
6) Negro Casas vs Ángel de Oro [NWA WELTER]
Negro Casas is the champ

The main event story should be about Angel de Oro having learned enough to finally beat Negro Casas, but I’d be okay for it to take a couple more attempts.

Let the short lightning matches continues.

They’re really doing Namajague & Okumura vs Fuego & Stuka soon! Maybe next week! (Or they’re fooling me good.)

CMLL (SUN) 09/02/2012 Arena Coliseo Guadalajara
1) Azteca de Oro & Indigo vs Demonio Rojo & Relampago Azul
2) Black Metal & Halcon de Plata vs Acertijo & Infierno
3) Esfinge & Metatrón vs In Memoriam & Mr. Trueno
4) Gallo & Smaker vs Artillero & Súper Comando
5) Hijo del Fantasma & Rush vs Mephisto & Rey Bucanero

A show.

IWRG (SUN) 09/02/2012 Arena Naucalpan
1) Radical vs Infierno Kid Jr.
2) Centvrión & Freelance vs Eita & The Mummy
3) Freyser, Golden Magic, La Cobra vs Carta Brava Jr., Chicano, Violencia Jr.
4) Relampago, Trauma II, Veneno vs Danny Casas, El Hijo del Medico Asesino, Heddi Karaoui
5) Negro Navarro & Trauma I vs Hijo de LA Park & Hijo del Dr. Wagner Jr.

Non-title main event with the tag team champs. I have strong guess at what next week’s main

Chicano is still on the tecnico side on Thursday. Dinamic Black and La Cobra should be on alert.

The return of the Mummy! I’m pretty sure I saw someone on the IWRG Facebook demanding such. Maybe they take requests, that’s a reason to sign up for Facebook right now.