CMLL (SUN) 06/05/2016 Arena Coliseo Guadalajara [Domingos Familiares]
1) Guerrero de la Muerte b Micro
Guerrero took 2/3.
2) Diplomático & Quca b Fugaz & Johnny Dinamo
Rudos took 2/3.
3) Cosmos, Marvel, Randy DQ Gran Kenut, Mr. Apolo, Relámpago
Tecnicos took 2/3. Randy’s debut. Cosmos and Relampago are feuding, with Cosmos tossing his mask to Relampago to draw the DQ.
4) Explosivo, Reycko, Star Black DQ Linterna, Mr. Brisa, Thunder Boy
Tecnicos took 1/3. Brisa fouled Star Black, as they feud.
5) El Divino, Flash II, Nautilius DQ Joker, Mr. Trueno, Rey Trueno
Tecnicos took 1/3. They won the first by excessive violence DQ, and the third when Joker unmasked Nautilius. Nautilius wants a title or hair match with Joker. Flash II’s first match here this year.
Three DQs in a row to end a card is never good, though they at least seem to be going somewhere with these. Joker/Nautilius have a singles match this week. Star Black & Mr. Brisa are in a tag match against each other, and Cosmos & Relampago are in a trios. A cage match sometime this month is likely.
CMLL (TUE) 06/07/2016 Arena México [Box Y Lucha, CMLL, thecubsfan]
1) Artillero & Inquisidor b Bengala & Flyer 
16:21. Rudos took 2/3
2) Astral, Eléctrico, Shockercito b Demus 3:16, Pequeño Olímpico, Pierrothito
13:02. Tecnicos took 1/3.
3) Amapola, La Comandante, Reyna Isis b Estrellita, Marcela, Skadi
16:58. Rudas took 2/3.
4) Pólvora b Fuego [lightning]
8:46, Super Polvora Driver.
5) Brazo de Plata, Guerrero Maya Jr., Valiente b Dragón Rojo Jr., Rey Bucanero, Vangellys
8:46. Tecnicos took straight falls. Dragon Rojo unmasked Maya for the DQ in the first. Maya got a new mask and returned to defeat Dragon Rojo in the second, then demanded a title match. Super Porky replaced Dragon Lee in the preview. Valiente replaced Rey Cometa.
6) Diamante Azul, Marco Corleone, Titán b Felino, Mr. Niebla, Negro Casas
11:38. Tecnicos took 1/3.
Minis match was good, but you could skip this show without missing much. Guerrero Maya versus Dragon Rojo sounds promising, mostly because everything involving Guerrero Maya sounds promising. (Plus, Dragon Rojo’s been talking about being in good shape and wanting to go to the top, so he gets a chance to back up his words.)
Verano de Escandalo will not be happening on the 19th, and will not be happening in Monterrey, if I understood a Facebook video by Roberto Figueroa correctly. That card is 11 days away, there’s been absolutely no hype for it, and -as Roberto mentions in the video – AAA’s had trouble filling up Arena Monterrey even with stacked cards, so there’s no real sense to running that building with what they’ve got going on now. Roberto says Monterrey will instead get Heroes Inmortales in October.
It’s unclear when or where Verano de Escandalo would be happening. AAA has enough regular TV taped to take them thru June 18, and can go even longer if they’re allowed to air the Lucha World Cup shows right away. There still sort of needs to be a Verano de Escandalo, if only to close off the spring storylines and actually set something up for TripleMania, but the build to it wasn’t ever strong and the show seemed like it was going to be disaster. I think the only reason it was that week was to fit in between Lucha Underground taping weekends; they could move it to the weekend in July 2nd.
Dragon Lee will be out 6-8 weeks, according to a Facebook video with him. (Today’s a big day for Facebook videos.) That would push his return to late July or early August. Dragon Lee explained he has a partially ruptured tendon, and believes the doctor wants to operate, but he’d like to rest and rehab the knee. He noted he was told last time to rest by his doctor for a month and a half last time, came back in three weeks, and then immediately reinjured his knee. This time, he’s going to wait to return until he’s 100% healthy.
Tonight’s Lucha Underground episode is #20 of the season, “The Contenders”. Matches announced:
- Marty Martinez vs Killshot
- Aerostar & Drago vs Jack Evans & PJ Black in a nunchuck match
The episode description talks about more in the Mr. Cisco/Cortez Castro/Joey Ryan plot and Pentagon Jr. making his return.
There’s one more match which hasn’t been announced. It’s hinted at in the preview clip, which also announces a match for a future show. Tonight’s show starts the finishing kick of the season.
Chris DeJoseph is a guest on today’s Ross Report. He mentions they have interest in running live events, sounding more certain about the possibility than people with Lucha Underground have in the past. He’d like the show to be 90 minutes to give everything enough time, but likes 60 minutes leaves people wanting more. He feels the wrestling of Lucha Underground Season 3 might be the best of all of it so far.
Flamita talked about the Octagon Jr. situation once again while doing interviews about his Elite debut. He put a lot in building up the Flamita name and didn’t like throwing that in garbage, and he felt like he was being used as a pawn in other people’s chess games and didn’t like that either. He has no interest in getting revenge on Octagon or his family. In another interview, Flamita mentions he was contacted by Elite when he was still working for another company, which fits with the stories about Elite calling up everyone in AAA to try to get them to jump. Flamita says he’d like to face Negro Casas and Ultimo Guerrero, tough opponents to show people he can wrestle on that level.
CMLL has an interview with Rayo de Jalisco, who pines for the chance to be in the Gran Prix like old times and tells tales of the fearsome power of Haku and Steele. Hey, if Canek can be in the Lucha World Cup, Rayo’s not wrong. The real point of this interview is made clear in the first interview: “There are imitations, everyone wants to make their own tournament, but the first and best [international competition] is in Arena Mexico.” This remains 100% about the Lucha World Cup and it’s so weird CMLL is upset about that of all things.
AAA has an interview with Mary Apache building up the tag title match.
AAA also has multiple angles of Johnny Mundo’s award winning dive. There weren’t as many candidates for the best dive as I would’ve guessing going in; it was either this or Dragon Azteca’s tornillo.
LuchaWorld has the latest Lucha Report.
Kcidis draws his take on the Lucha World Cup.