What happened: Negro Casas & Shocker kept the tag titles. Rush no-showed his match, but it set up a Volador/Ultimo Guerrero singles match anyway. King Jaguar & Black Tiger versus Disturbio & Arez with the losing team losing a hair and a mask seemed to be set up for next week (though it was hard to hear exactly what was the stipulation.
What was good: Nothing, this was a disappointing show with no redeemable matches. Skip.
KDR (SAT) 07/16/2016 Gimnasio Hercules, Ciudad de México, Distrito Federal [+LuchaTV, Black Terry Jr. (Flickr)] 1) Kilvan, Shadow, Yoruba b Cosario Negro, Drako, Zafiro 2) Centvrión, Heddi Karaoui, Látigo b Freelance, Mr. Leo, Taylor Wolf Centvrion and Freelance fought after the match and want a singles match. 3) Arceus & Chris Boy b ?? [Torneo Sangre Nueva Kamicaze] 4) Herodes Jr. DQ Fly Warrior Wotan ran in for the DQ
A busy weekend of shows; Black Terry already has photos/video from the Saturday Kamicazes del Ring show. Centvrion versus Freelance sounds fun.
Lucha Memes (SUN) 07/17/2016Coliseo Coacalco, Coacalco, Estado de México [+LuchaTV, Black Terry Jr. (Flickr), R de Rudo]
1) Belial & Black Metal b Astrolux & Baby Star good match
2) Soberano Jr. b Demasiado
3) Rush b Caifan Hard hitting match. The bottom rope broke, which happened twice on this show. Rush attacked the referee with a chair after the match
4) Freelance b Drastik Boy
5) Corsario Negro Jr. & Drako b Trauma I & Trauma II draw, crowd wanted one more fall
6) Alas de Acero & Iron Kid b Dowki & Hanaoka
7) Aramis b Sádico good match
Rush & Caifan sounds like a very strong fight. Rush came in from Saltillo on Saturday, took off from here to head to Monterrey.
LLDLJ (SUN) 07/17/2016Arena Victoria, Ecatepec, Estado de México [+LuchaTV, Black Terry Jr. (Flickr)]
1) ? ?? ??
2) Fulgor I & Fulgor II b Fly Danger & Moria
3) Sádico b Fandango, Rey Celestial
4) Kilvan, Shadow, Yoruba b Andy Boy, Fulgor I, Fulgor II The Fulgors replaced Danger King & Guerrero Mixtico.
5) Brole, Mini Multifacético, Prayer b Arez, Belial, Impulso and Centvrión, Fly Warrior, Látigo Los Heavy Style, after their win, proposed a rematch with one hair or mask on the line with each team.
6) Wotan b Terremoto Negro [super libre] mask challenges followed
7) Fly Warrior b Ludark Shaitan [bull terrier] Fly Warrior replaced La Magnifica (double booked in Arena Azteca?) and won.
Magnifica worked a midcard match Arena Azteca Budokan; no idea if she just couldn’t make it to Ecatepec in time or decided not to make both, but never good idea to miss an advertised main event.
IWRG is being built on blood and heavyweights right now and this had both. It should air tonight on AYM. Photos show Mr. Electro still has quite a bit of hair backstage, but perhaps they shaved it off later.
CMLL’s back on streaming tonight in Puebla, with a strange show as the Arena Puebla 63rd Anniversary show. The main event is Negro Casas & Shocker defending the tag titles against La Mascara & Sharlie Rockstar. Negro Casas is one of the great wrestlers of all time but I’m not sure he can pull of that match. The better tag match will probably be Atlantis & Ultimo Guerrero versus Volador & Rush, another rematch from last week. There’s three 2v2 matches on the show, including a Black Tiger & King Jaguar versus Ares & Disturbio to continue that feud.
The rest of the show is random trios. Maximo teams with Stigma and Valiente against Dragon Rojo, Rey Escorpion and a much higher than usual Skandalo. There’s a women’s trios with Estrellita, La Vaquerita, Lluvia versus Dalys, Reyna Isis, and Zeuxis. The opener includes the debut of Heredero, Malayo, Hijo del Signo versus Arkalis, Meyer and Rey Samuray.
The show airs on CMLL.com & YouTube at 9pm CT.
Box Y Lucha 3242 has Rush & Mascara Dorada on the cover. Rush might have saved his career, or at least helped it a lot, by continuing that fight against LA Park. If he stops fighting after Edgar calls the DQ, it “proves” every fan complaint about inflated CMLL favorites being gifted victories. Disregarding the win put Rush above it.
While visiting Atlanta, Pentagon Jr. added another title. His current championships include but are not limited to the AAA Latin American championship, the Atlanta Mucha Lucha championship, and the Perros del Mal Light Heavyweight championship.
Cross Arm Breaker reviews LA Park vs Rush in Tijuana and in Elite. Elite seriously needs to rent Palacio de los Deportes, book that match, book whatever else, charge high prices, and then count all the money.
LOSS 04/18 Leon
WIN! 04/29 Xalapa (but by countout due to Perros interference)
LOSS 05/14 Orizaba
LOSS 05/31 Pachuca
LOSS 06/16 Naucalpan
LOSS 07/03 Ecatepec
LOSS 07/08 Mexico City
LOSS 07/17 Oaxaca
This is a cheat; the Lucha World Cup stuff is removed, and Psycho Clown picked up a few wins on there. And I’m not sure this is a terrible thing; AAA viewers are trained to only pay attention to the main shows as meaningful outcomes and only the most obsessive people will remember that match in Arena Aficion, for instance. Pagano will probably beat Psycho Clown one more time in Toluca, and that’s probably the right call. It’s just definitely a predictable thing, AAA’s become very routine about the lead tecnicos losing all their matches to their big show rival before getting that win on the big show (or not.)
Mary Apache came all the way to Oaxaca (5-6 hour bus trip each way) just to walk to the ring for a minute or so. It worked, so I guess it wasn’t a completely wasted trip. Averno & Chessman as tag team champions is definitely arguable as a wasted trip, since we’re back to the people who could’ve just stayed champion (just as Fantasma did thru injury) and all we got out of it was Argenis & Australian Suicide not winning the title repeatedly in matches with awful finishes. I’d think AAA would argue they couldn’t have gotten to Chessman/Avenro vs Faby/Mary without the tag titles, and that still seems like it has a good chance of happening at TripleMania. (The original reason the Apaches wanted to face Chessman & Averno was to get the tag titles, and the Apaches should be bugging Jack & Angelico now, but I’m guessing that’s not the way it’s going.)
Would the Mexico City commission have allowed AAA to do a men versus women tag title match? I guess it doesn’t matter now, but it may be a factor in why they made the change before TripleMania rather after. Jack & Angelico are facing a mystery team in Toluca, which may indicate their TripleMania program. Otherwise, we know just about as much about that card as we did before this taping. All the announcements are going to come on Twitter or mentioned on TV, it seems.
AAA “show opening segment where the people in the main event talk” to the list of WWE tropes AAA’s borrowing lately. There’s new patterns, but they’re definitely patterns.
Garza Jr. probably main evented small Arena Coliseo Reynosa instead. That’s probably the better choice for him (and “choice” may be overstating it, he may have taken that one first), but it’s weird working a small arena in Reynosa is the better choice than appearing on AAA TV – though he really doesn’t have much of a role here.
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