AAA on Televisa: 2015-04-04

recap – includes the matches which didn’t make TV.

taped 2015-03-18 @ Auditorio Benito Juárez, Zapopan, Jalisco

Fénix vs Hijo del Fantasma © for the AAA World Cruiserweight Championship: [great] This recap is going to be worse than usual; rewatching this show is depressing and not as enjoyable as it should be for a show this strong. This was a great high spot match. It was nothing but big spots, but those big spots were really good. Finish was weird, but they’ve addressed it after the fact. Crowd was sure Fenix was going to win when he hit the Fire Driver. The angle after turned out to be overkill, but it got edited off TV.

Villano IV vs Blue Demon Jr.: [good] old school brawl, very much like Villano IV’s two high profile matches in 2014. This one got cut in half on TV and may have benefited in some ways; it took a while for them to get to where they wanted, and not everything worked smoothly. Villano IV probably needs to put the tope on the shelf forever and the finish seemed messed up or at least miscommunicated. There stuff in between was really good, with their brawl feeling very real and powerful. Villano IV’s willing to do whatever it takes to get a match over and scarified his head a few times. (I’m not sure he should be worried about the chair shots to the head coming back to haunt him later in life, because he’s already later in life.) AAA cameramen need to pan way from a guy on the ground after they’ve been posted, instead of keeping a tight shot of them as they blade themselves as Demon obviously did here.

Aerostar vs Psycho Clown and El Mesías and Texano in a AAA’s Rey de Reyes Tournament match: [great] strong tournament final, with all four guys having their moments and ending with an extended Texano/Psycho battles that’s a worthy sequel to their TripleMania encounter. There’s a lot of blood on this show and a lot of big spots, but the usage here worked with their history. The finish didn’t go as well. The cruiserweight finish is weird but doesn’t reallya ffect anything. This one, it’s a definitely distraction from the rest of the match, because they’ve just done it so many times with no real payoff. No different this time. Match was so good that I didn’t realize the video board briefly went to a Windows 8 start screen until rewatching it.

 

Myzteziz & Rey Mysterio Jr. vs el Hijo del Perro Aguayo & Pentagón Jr.: [good?] Near impossible to rate as a wrestling match; I enjoyed it at the time, but now it’s importance is little about it’s artistic qualities. (For what it’s worth, there was no sign Perro was suffering from a neck injury; if anything he has hurts a leg muscle taking a tope from Myzteziz. ) The early 619 fakeout spot with Perro was something that was really good at the time, but nothing I wanted to see now. These two sides did work well together and probably would’ve had better matches with more chances to do so. Pentagon and Rey should have more chances, and they were really good with the ones they had here.
The match the crowd was into the most all night, for sure, even with it airing

Ludxor & Venum vs Carta Brava & El Apache: [good] another fun opener involving these two teams, who’ve been doing it on and off for a year now and work together very well. There probably needs to be something progress if this is meant to mean anything, but it’s also probably not supposed to mean anything and instead just be as simple as possible. The frequent partnerships have allowed apache & Carta to come up with some nice combination offense, which works perfect with the style the Space Cadets are doing. I write this every third match, but it’s amazing Apache can still go the way he goes after all these years. (Also, using a top rope submission appeals to me)

Faby Apache, Mascarita Sagrada, Pimpinela Escarlata vs Mamba, Mini Abismo Negro, Taya Valkyrie: [ok] Fine relevos AAA. Pimpinela was kept to a minimum, Mascarita Sagrada was the secret star. Abismo’s great catching him and all, but this Macarita is so much better than the recent ones. This was one of the rudo post match beatdown segments with no real payoff. I may be underrating this match; there didn’t see much wrong with it, just didn’t have a strong feel about it.

Bengala, Drago, Súper Nova vs Daga, Hijo de Pirata Morgan, Súper Fly: [good] This was really fun for the time it lasted. Daga’s looked the best he has in a couple years on this return. He and Bengala need a midcard feud; they had timing issues here but would be great if they got used to each other. May end up missing opening card Hijo del Pirata when he’s teaming with Electroshock instead. Super Nova fits in okay here. Mist finish is random, but this might have just been a situation where they wanted to do as many things as possible to make up for the delay and that was just one of the things. It feels like this must’ve got it’s time cut, because it’s awful short for AAA match. It’s hard to see where they saved time though, since the show ended up going to long.

Angélico, Jack Evans, La Parka Jr. vs Averno, Chessman, Cibernético: [ok] This is one I know I liked a lot more live, and just wasn’t into it a month later. The Hell Brothers dominated periods really slowed things down and they really weren’t all that good with Jack and Angelico after. There was twice as much done in the six man with less time. Adding Mesías to this doesn’t help it a whole lot, but Parka/Cibernetico matches are just going to be ths way.