AAA TV (FRI) 10/18/2013 Gimnasio Miguel Hidalgo de Puebla
***Heroes Inmortales VII***
1) 1, 2, 3 vs 4, 5, 6
2) Octagón vs ?, Daga, Axel [Copa Antonio Pena, semifinal]
3) El Mesías vs Monster Clown, Silver King, Fénix [Copa Antonio Pena, semifinal]
4) Cibernético vs el Hijo del Perro Aguayo, Psicosis, Chessman [Copa Antonio Pena, semifinal]
5) La Parka vs Parka Negra, Electroshock, Máscara Año 2000 Jr. [Copa Antonio Pena, semifinal]
6) Crazy Boy & Joe Lider vs Angélico & Jack Evans and Pentagón Jr. & Último Gladiador and Aerostar & Drago [AAA TAG]
Joe Lider & Crazy Boy are champions
7) Semifinal 1 Winner vs Semifinal 2 Winner, Semifinal 3 Winner, Semifinal 4 Winner [Copa Antonio Pena]
8) Psycho Clown vs Texano Jr. [AAA HEAVY]
Texano’s eight defense.
Air Date: 10/26 & 11/02
Hey. I want to be honest with you. Sometimes, I’m lazy. I feel like I know lazy pretty well. And this card – this card is pretty lazy. I’m not sure what parallel universe I’ve crossed over to where CMLL builds to every match on it’s big show card and AAA just throws this out and calls it good enough. The tag team match could be awesome and I actually still believe Texano Jr. and Psycho Clown could have a really fun match despite the mind numbing build up. The rest of this card is just effortless, and not in the good meaning of that card.
Copa Antonio Pena is normally a battle royal (except in years where it’s a reverse cibernetico.) It’s always one match. It’s not one match here, because turning into five means there’s four more matches AAA doesn’t need to figure out for this card. It’s not as though those four matches are good or even especially relevant. The Parka/Parka feud continues in group 4 and I guess Cibernetico/Perro is supposed to still be going, but the few things which have been built on TV are not to be seen. Instead, Daga is stuck with at least two people who aren’t any good (and plus maybe Australian Suicide, who would be good?), Fenix and Monster Clown will attempt to do spots together, Cibernetico is in a strange match where the other three people have no reason to fight each other (so they definitely will), and group 4 probably features a long Electroshock versus Mascara Ano 2000 Jr. section as everyone else fights off in the crowd. La Secta, who might make matches better, might have reasons to fight all these people and definitely seemed like they were supposed to be important for at least 5 minutes, are nowhere to be seen.
AAA has done vignettes pushing the importance of this tournament, but it feels like a tournament they run ever year and forget about two weeks later. (The bit about Texano being stripped of winning last’s year tournament went nowhere.) That’s fine when it’s one match in a card like most years. It is most of the Heroes Inmortales card this year, and it’s very unimpressive.
Tag team title match gives away Pentagon Jr. & Ultimo Gladiador are winning in SLP next week. Unless AAA freaks out and changes their mind. (It probably doesn’t matter and it’s definitely a better match with Pentagon Jr. in it.) That could really be one of the best matches of the year, or it could be a nonsensical stunt show depending on how much Crazy Boy & Joe Lider lead things.
Opener is probably the usual mixed match. Maybe it’ll be Glow in the Dark, which was unwatchable last time they did it (but involved people who didn’t seem to have glow in the dark outfits.)
The good thing remains really good matches slip thru on TV. There’s just not a lot of good momentum. There’s a lot of carrot on a stick talk about how things are happening soon and people are breaking thru any moment, but this is a tedious wait to get there. At least make the waiting a little more interesting. There’s no hint of this being on iPPV and that’s OK.