Updated 2015-10-16
AAA TV (MON) 11/02/2015 Polyforum la Fe, Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas
1) Faby Apache, Mr. 450, Pimpinela Escarlata vs Hombre Sin Miedo, Mocho Cota Jr., Taya
2) Aerostar, Australian Suicide, Laredo Kid vs Daga, Hijo de Pirata Morgan, Steve Pain
3) Angélico, Garza Jr., Jack Evans vs Hijo del Fantasma, Joe Lider, Pentagón Jr.
Garza Jr was originally listed only as a surprise wrestler.
4) Electroshock, Fénix, Psycho Clown vs Taurus, Texano Jr., Zorro
Match added to the card on October 16th. Fenix, Psycho Clown and Texano Jr. had previously been booked in the main event, Zorro. Taurus and Electroshock were added to the card.
5) Drago, La Parka, Speedball vs Averno, Chessman, Cibernético
6) El Patrón Alberto & Rey Misterio Jr. vs Brian Cage & Johnny Mundo
Cage & Alberto added to the card on 2015-10-16, with Myzteziz being removed.
Promocions Cantu released a new lineup. Not exactly a new poster – Myzteziz is hanging there in the background – but AAA is doing a nice job of making up for pushing back the date and losing one of the top guys: El Patron Alberto, Brian Cage, Zorro, Taurus and Electroshock are all being added. People who wanted to see Myzteziz will probably be very okay with the replacements. (Garza Jr. was also revealed to be the mystery tecnico in the tercera.) This might be the exact line that happens on the 2nd – Mr. 450 is probably not in Mexico for that long – but it’s good they’re even updating lineups. That should be a standard thing to do, but it’s not so it’s got to be appreciated when it’s actually done.
Adding a match seems to make this a two week taping (airing on TV November 7th and November 14th) and bumps back Xalapa (November 21st) and Ciudad Juarez (November 28th). That leaves the December 5th, 12th and 19th TV shows left open (with Best Of probably starting the following week.) Two of those weeks are Guerra de Titanes, so maybe just one more regular TV taping left to announce for this year, unless they’re going to carry extra TV into 2016.
Electroshock is a tecnico? Or is going to turn tecnico tomorrow night? I’m not sure, though it might begin to explain why he’s on the opposite side of Taurus in Juarez, since he’s now on the opposite side from him here too. That Juarez card is probably the next to get rearranged (and it can only be for the best.)
Otherwise, this should be a good card. New main event is interesting – if Mundo and Alberto are now matched up, does that mean we’re getting Brian Cage versus Rey Misterio Jr.? That’s intriguing.
Original post follows.
AAA TV (MON) 10/19/2015 Polyforum la Fe, Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas
1) Faby Apache, Mr. 450, Pimpinela Escarlata vs Hombre Sin Miedo, Mocho Cota Jr., Taya
2) Aerostar, Australian Suicide, Laredo Kid vs Daga, Hijo de Pirata Morgan, Steve Pain
3) ?, Angélico, Jack Evans vs Hijo del Fantasma, Joe Lider, Pentagón Jr.
4) Drago, La Parka, Speedball vs Averno, Chessman, Cibernético
5) Fénix, Psycho Clown, Rey Misterio Jr. vs Johnny Mundo, Myzteziz, Texano Jr.
Air Date: 10/31 or 11/07. Thinking more the first.
Remains weird the tapings for after Heroes Inmortales have leaked out and not for the show itself. Maybe they’ll holding it until after tonight’s Cancun taping.
Same roster as Reynosa, same basic matches with a few people moved around and a different set of locals. Laredo Kid will be in a fantastic match, that’s pretty cool. Speedball is getting brought all the way to Mexico for a match with La Parka and the Hell Brothers, that seems a waste. (Even though it’d be a demotion for the new guy, I’d rather see Pimpi in that spot and Speedball int he opener.) Weird the Reynosa show has two mystery person and this one only has one – whoever is coming in as the rudo isn’t sticking around for both shows.
(I guessed Chris Hero might be one of the surprises on the last taping, so something where he could only work one show before flying to NOAH or something would make sense. Except, the closest NOAH tour starts on October 16th, prior to Reynosa tour. It’s their singles match league tournament, which Hero was in last year and could be in this year. It’d be impossible for him to be in AAA if he’s on that tour. So maybe we need another guess.)
I understand the travel limitations mean these these cards can’t have a variety of people but, if these double tapings are going to keep on happening, it’d be nice if there were something besides slightly different meaningless trios matches on back to back weeks of TV. The television product would be better if it felt like there were meaningful matches going on. Taya’s on both these shows, Taya’s had zero televised defenses in her year plus as champion, why not just have a Taya title defense against Faby on one of these shows? (There might be a problem getting a good finish, but AAA never has a probably doing a bad finish.) I’d assume the tag team title match is being saved for a reason, but they could do Psycho Clown versus any one on the rudo side in the same way. Good TV needs some special hook to happen one every show, and this is more the CMLL-like way of making boring TV then the Lucha Underground way of making something people have to check out each week.
This may be uneventful TV, but every match – except that semimain – has a chance of being very good and I’m interested in seeing it. Weirdly, the cycle of TV leading up to TripleMania appears to be the most boring section of TV this year. The TV prior was better, the TV leading to Heroes Inmortales looks good, and these shows leading to Guerra de Titanes will at least have some good matches.
No idea of when the next taping is, because this is far into the future. There should be 2 or 3 more tapings after this until Guerra de Titanes. The end of the year is already on the horizon.