Day: March 6, 2016

CMLL (SAT) 03/05/2016 Arena Coliseo [CMLL]
1) Camorra b Bengala
2) Robin b Espanto Jr.
3) Flyer DCOR Raziel
Flyer replaced Magnus earlier in the week. Neither man could return to the ring after a Flyer dive. Flyer was injuried.
4) Reyna Isis b Lluvia
Match stopped due to Lluvia knee injury on a plancha the next day. (She seemed OK on Twitter the next day.) By stakes of a bet this past Wednesday, Lluvia will have to serve salad in a bikini on next week’s CMLL Informa.
5) Skándalo b Esfinge
Skandalo replaced Sagrado and pulled Esfinge’s mask for a DQ
6) Blue Panther Jr. & Fuego b Fujin & Raijin
Very good match.
7) Ángel de Oro, Atlantis, Mistico b Gran Guerrero, Terrible, Último Guerrero
Atlantis wants a shot at UG”s Middleweight championship after beating him for two straight weeks. UG accepted.

Atlantis/Ultimo Guerrero should do a better than normal turnout for these shows. Probably more so if CMLL actually advertised the match on their shows instead of running the same generic Sabado Retros 30 second clip they’ve run 15 months.

CMLL ELITE (SUN) 03/06/2016 Arena Coliseo [CMLL]
1) Hombre Bala Jr. & Robin b Luzbel & Tanque Infernal
Debuts of Luzbel & Tanque Infernal (who’ve wrestled for FULL.)
2) Amapola & Zeuxis b La Jarochita & La Vaquerita
3) Dinamic Black, Metaleón, Rocky Lobo b Cancerbero, Okumura, Raziel
4) Golden Magic b Argos
Magic won with a (jumping? off the middle rope?) package piledriver for a slight upset
5) Marco Corleone & Volador Jr. DQ Negro Casas & Rush
Rush fouled Marco, then fouled Volador, then fouled Casas! He attacked the referee for good measure and threw a drink too.
6) Ángel de Oro, Carístico, Mistico b La Máscara, Mephisto, Niebla Roja
Mistico accidentally took out Caristico, but Angel de Oro still brought the home with the mecedora on Mephisto. Mascara unmasked Caristico after the match.

Arena Coliseo looked quite full. You put the same Elite audience in that building and it looks a lot better. They’re back in Coliseo next week. Not sure the last time when someone’s won in two straight days in Arena Coliseo like Robin, Angel de Oro and Mistico, since two straight days of Coliseo shows is a new thing and a historically rare thing.

(I neglected to mention it, but Friday’s crowd was also noticeably up.)

Chairo (SUN) 03/06/2016 Arena Naucalpan [MasLucha]
1) Karisma b Zoom Driver
2) Máximo DQ Súper Muñeco
Maximo made good on his promise to kiss Super Muneco. Demasiado attacked Maximo after the match, continuing their feud from WMC
3) Solar I b Hijo del Solar
4) Freelance, Mike Segura, Pantera I, Sádico b Aéreo (Ciudad Juarez), Alas de Acero, Aramis, Iron Kid
Sadico replaced Rocky Lobo (Coliseo instead). Said to be a great match.
5) Dragón Lee (CMLL) b Rey Horuz
Dragon Lee won with the Dragon Driver. Horuz was stretchered out. Said to be a great match.
6) Pagano b Último Guerrero
Pagano fouled UG. Solar challenged Pagano to an extreme match.
7) Extreme Tiger b Máscara Dorada [falls count anywhere]
Said to be a great match.
8) Caifan b Atlantis
Caifan won! via mask pull, but still. Caifan and Atlantis made mask versus hair challenges.

Horuz went to the hospital after taking the Dragon Driver, but is said to be OK. Tiger/Dorada, Lee/Horuz and and the atomicos sound like the matches worth going out of your way to check out, if/when they turn out. This looked like another packed house and so you’d expect to keep on seeing these shows a few times a year.

CMLL luchadors went 2-3 on the show! Atlantis & UG did get cheated (though it’s really unclear to me how a foul is cheating in a Pagano match – there are no rules.) This is not a criticism, more a curiosity – no other major promotion would be open to such things. CMLL has no cares. At least the greatest heavyweight and lightweight champions of the world were able to hold the CMLL banner high.

When AAA announced the (re)debut of Octagon Jr., I anticipated Octagon complaining about it. That was predictable and maybe even a planned outcome. I did not expect people being upset about Flamita no longer being Flamita. Partly because he hadn’t been Flamita in AAA for months, but I think the indie fans who were upset about don’t pay enough attention to AAA to know AAA already changed his name to Fireball. The Gladiatores has a good column about their feelings about the situation, pointing out people might have said the same thing when Dark Dragon got a new gimmick, and Pentagon Jr. seems to have worked out OK for him. Flamita was more world traveled and accomplished than Dark Dragon was at that point, but becoming Pentagon Jr. got AAA behind him, and it should do the same for Octagon Jr. Like WWE, AAA generally goes farther with people they’ve got their stamp on. I like the complete new identity of Octagon Jr. better than knockoff name Fireball, and I like how AAA is acknowledging his history as Flamita.

Mas Lucha has their video of Octagon Jr.’s intro, and clips of his first match. (I’m holding off to wait for it to air on TV – hopefully next week.) Octagon Jr. talked about the name change and Pentagon Jr. promises to hurt him.

If you’re interested in going to the March Lucha Underground tapings (believed to be March 19 & 20, and March 26 & 27th), you should keep an eye on their social media accounts on Monday. I have no special info, but that’s about the right time for those tickets. They might even do the tickets for the April shows too, so just pay attention.

Rey Escorpion says he was surprised to be teaming with the Ingobernables but enjoy it and will work with whatever trio he likes. He doesn’t know how Dragon Lee & Polvora feel about it, but Escorpion is the leader of the Revolucionarios and so can do whatever he’d like.

Lucha Mutante will have an extreme show in May in Xalapa with ZEX. ZEX runs Club Apolo and they ran an extreme shows with WMC in the past, when WMC couldn’t run the show in Mexico City due to regulations. This is probably the same deal.

Hayabusa is on the cover of this week’s Box Y Lucha.

Diosa Atenea is headed to Stardom in Japan for three months. She’s the current WWS champ. This was the gig Star Fire was doing, but she’s still out of action since suffering a knee injury in September, and went in for surgery this past week.

La Boom announced Rush & La Mascara for their 04/09 show in New York.

LuchaWorld has KrisZ’s news update

Segunda Caida reviews some random CMLL 2016 lucha and this week’s Lucha Underground.