CMLL (TUE) 03/15/2016 Arena Coliseo [CMLL]
1) Flyer & Metatrón b Artillero & Camorra
2) Canelo Casas, Hijo del Signo, Metálico b Magnus, Robin, Star Jr.
3) Fuego, Pegasso, Tritón DQ Disturbio, Skándalo, Virus
Disturbio pulled Fuego’s mask for the DQ. Mask vs mask challenges followed.
4) Ángel de Oro, Guerrero Maya Jr., Stuka Jr. b Misterioso Jr., Pierroth, Sagrado
5) Marco Corleone b Kráneo
Marco took 1/3 to win the super Heavyweight battle
6) Stuka Jr., Valiente, Volador Jr. b Euforia, Gran Guerrero, Niebla Roja
Stuka replaced Super Porky
CMLL didn’t end up streaming this show. Their streaming events actually started in Arena Coliseo, but those were done by Terra. They worked well for a while, not so much near the end. Terra had it’s own set up (satellites!) and it may just be that old Arena Coliseo doesn’t have the internet connection to stream video.
Earlier in the night, CMLL posted an interview with Super Porky declaring he wasn’t retiring any time soon. This was in direct response to the Monterrey card which listed it as part of his retirement tour. (That was both announced and corrected weeks ago, CMLL’s really slow in responding.) Porky was also sad people were questioning him belonging in the semimain of H2L, because he’s a legend who’s earn those spots and used to main event three shows in the same day. After all of that, he didn’t main event last night and was replaced with no explanation by Stuka.
CMLL actually having dives in the opener is weird.
There’s no big news coming out of last night’s Lucha Underground activities at SXSW, but the show last night sounds like it went really well. This super positive review matches the reactions, It looked like a full crowd, though no idea how many people that actually is – the Austin Music Hall can seat 3,000, but there was far less there with the ring and the band set up. It was “a lot of people”, I’m going with that, and a lot of people who were excited to be there. It’s one show, but it seemed like a promising sign for house shows sometime in the future. When is still a question – “it’s part of the long term plan” is what Van Wagenen said yesterday before the show. After the show, he was saying they’d be back to SXSW.
You can read brief results of the show here; there were four matches, and there was also Vampiro giving a DDT to his psychiatrist. You know, the normal deal. They treated it as if was occurring in between last week’s episode and this week’s episodes, so there’s no real spoilers. The show didn’t appear to be taped as if it was going to air TV show, though they did have a camera around (and did interviews with fans before the show), so footage may end up on YouTube or used in promotional material. They had special shirts and they appeared to be giving away posters and hard copies of the comic book.
The spot that’s gone viral from the show was Aerostar’s dive from a balcony. There’s a second angle here. Aerostar was put on a stretcher and in a neckbrace after the match, but it was just precautionary – he suffered a bloody nose, was checked out at the hospital and released. I feel like I’ve seen Aerostar do even crazier/ill-advised stuff though; this was more about the catch not going well. That spot going everywhere is more the power of SXSW (and also allowing people to take video during a Lucha Underground show, which is a bit different than usual for them.)
There was no intergender wrestling on the show. It’s one show, there were only two women wrestling (and Melissa announcing), it doesn’t mean much, but it’s a data point.
ProWrestlingTees has seven new Lucha Underground shirts. It’s good there’s more shirts. It’s a little disappointing there’s no character specific merchandise: it’s mostly LU Training Academy logo shirts and one poster shirt. Guessing it’s not an oversight but a plan not to do character specific items yet.
There’s a show today too! It’s the eighth episode of second season, Life After Death. Matches on the show
- The Disciples of Death (c) vs Angelico, Ivelisse & Son of Havoc for the Lucha Underground Trios Championship ; Angelico, Ivelisse & Son of Havoc must leave The Temple should they lose.
- Texano versus Chavo Guerrero in a bullrope match
- Mil Muertes (c) vs Fenix for the Lucha Underground Championship; Fenix relinquishes the Gift of the Gods championship in exchange for this match.
Aztec Warfare 2 is next week. This and next week are part of the finishing kick of Act 1 of this season – two title matches, and a gimmick match for a feud which dates back to last season (and a gimmick match is usually the blowoff for feuds in LU.) Eric has a bigger preview of this episode.
Elite posted a teaser photo of the return of it’s Liga Elite with the usual bit of silhouettes of not yet announced people. Caristico is the guy in the middle, and Rush and Volador are fairly obvious. I think that’s Extreme Tiger on the far left; I guess he’s not busy with TNA for quite a while after this week anyway. They say it starts as 03/30, so maybe no Wednesday show next week.
Box Y Lucha is selling digital issues of it’s magazine, which is great news. They’re selling them for 100 pesos for 5 issues, which is a really good price – about $1.10USD per issue. The problem is, at least at the moment, you’re required to either have a Mexican credit card or a Mexican bank account or a Mexican prepaid card – they don’t take foreign credit cards or Paypal. That’s disappointing. They mention having old issues up soon.
Segunda Caida reviews Sombra versus Liger
LuchaWorld has this week’s Lucha Rankings.
Mexico City area luchador Babe Perez passed away.
Fuego en el Ring praises Malefico.
Univision Digital announced a five episode series entitled “Becoming a Luchador” to be released in March.
Adictos al Deporte has a list of the seven most ridiculous Konnan Big matches. Cutting it down to only seven must have been rough.
Black Terry Jr. has updated list of his videos.