AAA (SAT) 05/30/2015 Parque Adolfo Lopez Mateos, Reynosa, Tamaulipas
1) El Elegido, Faby Apache, Pimpinela Escarlata vs Hijo de Pirata Morgan, Parka Negra, Taya Valkyrie
2) Angélico & Jack Evans vs Dark Cuervo & Dark Scoria
3) Monsther Clown, Murder Clown, Psycho Clown vs Brian Cage, Pentagón Jr., Texano Jr.
4) Blue Demon Jr., Fénix, Myzteziz vs Averno, Chessman, Electroshock
5) El Patrón Alberto & La Parka vs Cibernético & El Mesías
Air Date: 06/06 – opener looks to be internet only. First one taping show since January.
AAA’s TV announced this show and a Nuevo Laredo 06/01 taping this evening. KrisZ found the lineup, and RobViper points out the other show is likely to be about the same. That may explain why Cage isn’t facing Alberto on this show, the first time that’s happened since he’s been in, since that’ll be the hook on the other one. First tapings in these towns since the early 2000s.
Parque Adolfo Lopez Mateos is a baseball stadium. It’s got a 7,000 capacity for baseball, who knows for lucha libre.
Important note: AAA promoted their next four TV tapings in their upcoming TV schedule without mentioning the World Cup. I haven’t watched the entire show and am unsure if it was mentioned elsewhere, but it doesn’t appear to be a conventional TV taping. That’s a surprising choice. I assume it’s still got a very good chance of being on iPPV, but it may affect how they book the show: is there a point to running a big angle to set up a TripleMania match if it’s not going to air on TV? (Maybe there is, if you’re running TripleMania in the same venue.)
(It’s also here where we have to note this show is not 100% guarantee to take place given the violence in Reynosa and maybe having a World Cup show to air might just be a solid backup plan. I hope it goes well, but probably good to have options.)
Not a lot to say about this taping. Cuervo & Scoria face again Angelico & Jack, and will probably face again at Verano de Escandalo in some sort of stipulation match. Cage/Alberto and Psycho/Texano look like likely matches as well.
Should be easy to figure out the 6/1 card with some shuffling…
– Alberto/Myzteziz vs Cage/Texano
– Parka/Demon/Fenix vs Mesias/Electro Shock/Pentagon Jr
– Clowns vs Cibernetico, Averno, Chessman
– Angelico/Jack vs Cuervo/Escoria
– Pimpi & Fabi vs Hijo De Pirata/Taya
“Important note: AAA promoted their next four TV tapings in their upcoming TV schedule without mentioning the World Cup.”
They did have LWC graphics in their “News Ticker” (non moving) bar, at least on Sunday’s version of the show on terrestial TV in NL – it was kinda weird because they do include Chiapas taping in their promos while last night’s version went right away to Pachuca’s. The graphics have small NOAH, AJPW, AAA, ROH and TNA logos (no LU), it probably won’t be on the TV rotation, best guess is it could be PPV on SKY and a special show like the first Todo por el Todo event (or going back, other PPVs that aired on its own)
It would be interesting if it serves as a test run for either LU or another show with higher production values. In the US, “Sabado Gigante” is ending (after 50 years) so they’ll have 3 or more hours for Univision to fill. Lucha Underground might find a home there, but it is kinda “out of tune” with U. AAA is too focused on Mexican TV, Maybe they could have Dario reshooting his promo (that he did in AAAmania but was barely shown) with LU later airing in the new time slot…
Reynosa is on a Saturday while NL is the following Monday, so they might be some guys gone by Sunday when there’s bound to be many big shows all over the country so who knows if they’ll have the same guys (unless they change NL to 5/31)
Eric Van Wagenen said on the lastrealheels podcast this week that there will be no LU team in the world cup.