10/05-06 lucha times

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== AAA ==

AAA-Televisa: I got the picks right last week for this show! That never happens except for the second week of two week tapings. This is a second week show. This should have Mesias/Parka/Psycho vs Chessman/Negra/Texano and Angelico/Suicide/Jack vs Eterno/Pentagon/Pain and Carta/Apache vs Maxima Velocidad on UTDN

== CMLL ==

FOX: Niebla/Casas/Volador vs Sombra, Marco, Rush

52MX: Guerrero Maya Jr. vs Virus, Atlantis/Mascara/Mistico vs Revolucionarios

C3: Tag Team tournament Block B, Euforia, UG, Volador vs Angel de Oro, Valiente, La Sombra

TVC Deportes (Puebla): not sure if it’s airing, but Avernos vs Mascara/Marco/Rush

En Busca de un Idolo: trios match in between the round – Negro, Stuka, Valiente vs Fuego, Vangellys, Virus

Terra: Maximo/Stuka/Porky vs Revolucionarios is the Terra main event on Friday (opener looks very interesting.) Virus vs Guerrero Maya Jr. is Sunday, plus Atlantis, Dorada, Mistico vs Guerreros.

== Other ==

IWRG-AYM Sports: Thursday’s airing was a repeat, so this should be the Sunday show with more Terry vs Tony Rivera and Traumas/Toscano vs Piratas

Noches de Coliseo: Hopefully the Gemelo Muerte II tribute show

IWL: Not sure if/when this airs again.

DTU: I need to start figuring this out. Next week!

pictures from my Mexico City trip

I’ve put photos sets from my trip to Mexico City a couple weeks ago over on Flickr. I generally took less photos as the week went on, as my camera phone filled up and I decided the photos I did take weren’t coming out too well. But it’s still good enough for website content. (It’s also good for jogging my memory before the podcast I’m doing tonight.)

We went to Arena Naucalpan on 09/12. It was not a greatly attended show, but it was one of my favorites. I appreciated getting to see the fabled Corona coolers and AYM technology in person. The Fresero dollars paid for most of the rest of the trip. I illegally recorded video of Sky Angel vs Fulgor II and then uploaded it to the internet, which is vastly out of character for me.

Before the Anniversary show on Friday, we walked the 80 Years of Lucha Libre photo exhibit. (That’s where we ran into the Super Libre crew, identified by the Canal58 channel jacket.) This is where I struggled with the concept of standing in front of objects when taking photos of them, leaving you with a lot of angled shots. I really liked this Oro Jr. picture. This Hector Garza one is very good too, especially with Averno’s expression.

My picture count says I took 600 photos of the Anniversary show, though Flickr has says only 541. I’m not sure why. Either way, I kind of fell in love with the burst/multiple photo option on my camera, then regretted it later when I have many photos of people getting ready to do moves, and not much space left on my phone. Still, it got me a nice Blue Panther dive photo. This shot of Volador before the match looks nice. The way I put my thumb on the camera accidentally nicely framed this post match shot. I also have a quick video of what the building looked like right after the main event finish. And a workable unmasked Volador photo I could’ve used that night.

We went to Expo Mascaras on Saturday. Ice Killer’s gimmick table was the last one I saw and my favorite one. We also want to the IWL show, where I took as many photos of stuff outside the arena as I did of the show. (This is a real bull who lost the bull fight.) The ATM outfits are weird.

We went to Coliseo Coacalco on Sunday, even though it turned out there was no show. The day looks a lot better in pictures than in real life. The area behind the tarp here is the dressing room. People can watch the event from a nearby rooftop, which sounds vaguely familiar to me.

I took a lot of tourist photos on Tuesday. (I had cleared off a lot of stuff from my phone at this point, and wasn’t scribbling notes about shows.) The photos actually turned on really well from both the anthropology museum and the historic district. Maybe it’s easier to take photos of things which aren’t moving? The historic district was amusing for the very old buildings where very modern businesses operate now. You can see the removal of the bleachers from the Zocalo from the previous day’s military parade as well as the security to block people from getting in. No one was getting in to run any show any time soon.

Going backwards to finish up, I took photos of the inside of Arena Mexico and the new mural. The timeline of masks really fascinated me, since it appears to be a historic record of everyone who’s lost a mask in this building (at least after a certain point.) I haven’t figured out everyone, but maybe we can. Starting from the far right, and with a lot of overlap.

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I had to distort this one to make it viewable, and even then it’s pretty iffy. Going right to left, going backwards in time. Namajague is the newest mask, preceded by Mercurio, Rey Cometa, Aereo, Goya Kong (difficult!), Averno, Olimpico (Pequeno Black Warrior skipped), Bracito de Oro (out of order), Fabian el Gitano, Felino, Tigre Blanco, Rosa Negra.

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(R to L) Rosa Negra, Villano V, Shockercito, Goddess, Blue Panther, Mictlan, Hijo del Lizmark

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(R to L) Goddess, Blue Panther, Mictlan, Hijo del Lizmark, Black Warrior, ????, Pantera, Amapola, Universo 2000, Angel Azteca

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(R to L and really blurry) – Amapola, Universo 2000, Angel Azteca, Violencia, Bulldog (Pequeno Violencia skipped), Solar II (Poder Mexica skipped?), Veneno? (or Mascara Magica?), Hijo del Gladiador, Villano III, Shocker, Mr. Niebla IWRG, Scorpio Jr.

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(R to L) Bulldog, Solar II, Veneno?, Hijo del Gladiador, Villano III, Shocker, Mr. Niebla IWRG, Scorpio Jr. (Halcon Negro skipped?), Mr. Aguila, Steel

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(R to L) Mr. Niebla IWRG, Scorpio Jr.,  Mr. Aguila, Steel, Bronco (Guerrero de la Muerte skipped?), Kahoz, ???, El Boricua (out of order?), Sombra 90s (Coliseo), Justiciero?, Mano Negra, Ciclon Ramirez

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(R to L) ricua (out of order?), Sombra 90s (Coliseo), another Supremo? (should be Justiciero), Mano Negra, Ciclon Ramirez,  Supremo I, Love Machine, Anibal, Gallo Tapado (Konnan skipped!), Huracan Ramirez II, Kung Fu, Cien Caras (Ninja Turtles AND Animals skipped), ? (and now we’re in the period where I won’t know many), and after that, I’m not really sure. All Star should probably be one of the three left (yellow, white, orange) but doesn’t quite match up with any of them.

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The spade mask is As Charro. The devil mask is probably Belcebu. I don’t see MS-1, who should be in this group. The green mask needs to be brought back ASAP. This is also where some non colored masks start appearing; not sure if they were trying to reproduce an effect or they just didn’t have a color reference.

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A better look at the last few. The Egyptian mask is cool.

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That looks like MS1. He lost his mask two years before Cien Caras and there’s an awful lot of masks in between.

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Another shot of pretty much the same masks.

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The one in the middle is Lawrence of Arabia, who lost his mask in 1980. Perhaps he’s the old guy hanging out with the Tuareg! The mask on the far left is Sangre Chicana, who lost his mask in 1977. Dragon Rojo Sr.’s mask should be somewhere in between – maybe the white and red one?

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El Halcon (77) is right next to Sangre Chicana. One of those Green masks is El Faraon. I’m not sure if the space indicates something, or was just room for a mask that wasn’t painted yet.

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I had no idea SuperLucha’s Dr. Mascara (red, center) had lost his mask in Arena Mexico! That changes things. Many doctors and nurses around this time, and the end of the Espantos.

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More Espantos, but it’s also at that point where the mural turns into something else – unless Santo & Rayo de Jalisco lost their masks without anyone ever finding out until just now. It’s a strange placement, because here are still more masks that people look before them.

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There’s Black Shadow right near the beginning of this blurry mess, and some other less well known guys. There are faintly painted masks to the left of him, which more look like the first masks ever used than necessarily ones which people lost.

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And the mask time line mural ends – or starts! with prehispanic masks like the ones I saw at the anthropology museum. The bigger mural above also connects that culture to the lucha tradition.

Dr. Wagner Jr. wins IWL Heavyweight Title, Arez loses his hair, RCH, hurricane relief

IWL (TUE) 10/01/2013 Arena Aficion [Criterio Hidalgo, Estrellas del Ring, Tercera Caida]
2) Arceus b Loco Max, Shadow, Arkanos, Corcel Infernal, Fly Star, Fly Metalik
Arceus did a dive off the upper level.
3) Medics III b Kid Jaguar [IWL LIGHT]
Medics III kept the title.
4) Fresero Jr. b ? [Copa Función Estelar IWL]
No list of participants
5) Aeroboy, Demente Extreme, Pesadilla, Violento Jack b Ángel o Demonio, León Rojo, Ovett, Perico
6) Carta Brava Jr., Cerebro Negro, Fantasma de la Ópera b Súper Muñeco, Súper Pinocho, Súper Ratón [WWA TRIOS]
Secta Negra’s second defense. Super Muneco had the winning pin but the referee would not allow it because he had someone else’s mask on (???)
7) Dr. Wagner Jr. b LA Park, Canek, Villano IV, Super Crazy [IWL HEAVY]
LA Park’s falls in first defense. LA Park beat V4 with a backcracker, Canek beat Super Crazy (added to the match) with a press slam. LA Park & Canek worked together, than turned one each other and Canek was eliminated. Wagner beat Park to win the title.

Everyone gets a chance to be champion.

There’s no IWRG show tonight – RCH takes over Arena Naucalpan again for a show with indy lucahdors. The main event is Canek vs LA Park vs Dr. Wagner Jr. for money. (More than usual, I guess.) It’s the fifth variation of LA Park vs Dr. Wagner in the last seven days. AYM says they’re airing a show at 8:30pm tonight, so the RCH may air live. It is not on LAS.

Last night’s Tercera Caida show has results from more sure, including the Arena Ichiban Fusion show on Sunday. Stukita won the Norte Lightweight Championship from Jerry Brown in a three way. In the main event, Apolo Estrada Jr. defeated Arez in a hair versus hair match. Match featured blood, a Chico Che surprise appearance, a Chico Che rudo turn, the third fall going to a double count out, the fourth tiebreaker fall going to a double pin, and finally Apolo won.

CMLL luchadors pose with the donations they received for hurricane relief on Tuesday. A lot of them are in OXXO bags; that’s a convenience store that is part of the same city block as Arena Mexico, so either they donated some bags or people just went around the corner to buy the items to give them away. CMLL says they we’re working on more plans to help the hurricane victims.

DTU’s show tonight (at midnight) looks like it’ll have their show from Arena Solidaridad in August, which included Tomahawk T.T. vs Drastick Boy for the Alto Impacto title.

La Mascara says the match versus Sombra & Atlantis will be tough and different because it’s tecnico vs tecnico. Mascara notes he faced Atlantis a lot when he was a rudo, but Atlantis was also his partner back when he won the Gran Alternativa.

LuchaWorld has 40 to 31 on the 2012 top 100 countdown and KrisZ’s news update.

Lucha Libre in Japan

This may barely count, but Mr. 450 Hammet from Chicago lucha libre promotions (and Puerto Rico more importantly) is on AJPW’s next tour. Random but great for him.

Links

Lineups

IWRG (SUN) 10/06/2013 Arena Naucalpan
1) Fulgor I & Fulgore II vs Emperador Azteca & Látigo
2) Bugambilia, Diva Salvaje, Miss Gaviota vs Alan Extreme, Imposible, Picudo Jr.
3) Black Terry, Dragón Celestial, Golden Magic vs Bombero Infernal, Ciclón Black, Tony Rivera
4) Dr. Cerebro, Extreme Tiger, Relámpago vs Canis Lupus, Eterno, Fuerza Guerrera
5) Toscano, Trauma I, Trauma II vs Hijo de Pirata Morgan, Pirata Morgan, Pirata Morgan Jr.

Either Bombero is a traitor to the FILL school or Tony Rivera is going to have a bad Thursday.

DTU (SAT) 10/19/2013 Arena Queretaro
1) Atomic Star, El Lacandón, Energy, Jhonky vs A Queretaro Luchador, Benji, Gremlin, Kastigador
2) Artikus & Lanzeloth vs Kaleth & Pequeno Cobra and Ángel del Misterio & Calibus Frescura
3) Flamita & Rocky Lobo vs Black Fire & Septimo Dragon and Hacker & Hormiga
4) Cíclope & Drastik Boy vs Dragon De Oriente I & Dragon De Oriente II
5) X-Fly vs Paranoiko, Demente Extreme, Dance Boy, Miedo Extremo, Crazy King [5000 thumbtacks]
6) Crazy Boy & Joe Lider vs Aero Boy & Violento Jack and Ángel o Demonio & Ovett

DTU’s posted their full schedule for the month: 11 shows! That’s their busiest month ever. This one is also listed as a TVC Deportes taping.

10/02 AAA TV Results (SLP)

AAA TV (WED) 10/02/2013 Auditorio Miguel Barragan de San Luis Potosi [AAA]
1) Aerostar, Octagoncito, Pimpinela Escarlata b Black Mamba, Gran Apache, Mini Histeria
Pimpinela beat Mamba.
2) Espíritu & Scoria b Axel & Fénix and Pentagón Jr. & Último Gladiador
Scoria wrestled, despite having a shoulder injury. Pentagon and Gladiador attacked him early, causing Scoria to be taken to the back for medical help. Espiritu still won when Cuervo distracted the referee and Ozz slipped into drop Axel with an Ozz driver.
3) Angélico, Australian Suicide, Jack Evans b Carta Brava Jr., Eterno, Steve Pain
Australian Suicide is the surprise gringo, as usual. Tecnicos gave Carta a crucifix powerbomb, 630 senton, and a twisting shooting star press for the win.
4) Chessman, Silver King, Texano Jr. b Monster Clown, Murder Clown, Psycho Clown
Texano defeated Psycho Clown after pulling his mask. Both men bleed. Texano said he would trick his way to a win at Heroes Inmortales. Psycho disagreed.
5) Cuervo & Ozz b Cibernético & El Mesías and el Hijo del Perro Aguayo & Psicosis
Cuervo & Ozz pulled the upset when Espiritu ran in to help. The AAA & Perro teams ran the Secta off post match

Air Date: 10/12? Looks like Plan Sexenal will be air a second week this weekend and a Wednesday taping is a stretch to turn around by Saturday.

This show was listed on the poster as an 8:30 start, but appeared to start around 9:30 pm local, and then was done by 11:15 pm for an under 2 hour show. It may have just been internet issues making it look shorter than it was.

La Secta got big wins! At the weirdest time, since it can’t really be followed up soon. The Scoria & Espiritu win is weird because they already put out the lineup with Pentagon & Ultimo Gladiador making the final (though this could be a little bit to prove that wasn’t real.) It’s also weird because Scoria already lost in this secret tag team tournament, losing with Cuervo back in Toluca (but I guess there are no rules in secret tag team tournaments.) It’s mostly weird because Scoria’s arm is legitimately messed up, so bad that they didn’t even have him participate in the run-in at the end of the show, and it seems unlikely he’s going to be feeling better in two weeks. (Or one week when he’s in an atomicos.) Maybe they’ll just sub Ozz or Cuervo on. Whatever they do, this means La Secta will be on Heroes Inmortales (instead of working a spot show in the middle of nowhere) and will probably be interfering in other matches. They stand a good shot at winning the tag team titles too.

I would guess the idea in the semimain is AAA doesn’t want Texano losing for four months straight to build up the title match, but Psycho Clown taking a loss on the last TV before the title match is peculiar way to build up that title match, even with the cheating. There are other people in these matches, they can probably lose.

Next taping is a week from today in Tlahuelilpan, an annual show as part of a fair.