CMLL (SUN) 07/17/2016 Arena Coliseo Guadalajara [Domingos Familiares]
1) Quca b El Tapatío
2) Sky Kid & Smaker b Diplomático & Relámpago
Hermanos del Aire (Sky Kid & Smaker) return in their return to the building, taking 1/3.
3) Carlo Roggi, Exterminador, Gran Kenut b Johnny Dinamo, León Blanco, Randy
Rudos took 2/3. Exterminador & Randy are not feuding, the rudo winning when Roggi helped turn over a pin and helped hold the pin.
4) Frezzer, Neutrón, Reyko DQ El Chakal, Mr. Apolo, Sádico
Tecnicos took 1/3. Sadico unmasked Reyko for the DQ.
5) Flash II, Magnum, Nautilius b Maléfico, Mr. Trueno, Rey Trueno
Tecnicos took 1/3.
The feud turns out not to be in the main event, but new ones in the undercard.
CMLL (MON) 07/18/2016 Arena Puebla [CMLL, thecubsfan]
Arena Puebla 63rd Anniversary
1) El Heredero, El Malayo, Hijo del Signo b Arkalis, Meyer, Rey Samuray 
18:35. Rudos took 2/3.
2) Ares & Disturbio b Black Tiger & King Jaguar
8:50. Straight falls for Ares & Disturbio, cheating to win fall 2. This set up a relevos suicidas for next week (though sides weren’t clear.)
3) Dalys & Zeuxis b Lluvia & Reyna Isis
8:31. Vaquerita didn’t make the show, so Estrellita didn’t wrestle and Isis moved to the tecnica side. Rudas took 2/3.
4) Dragón Rojo Jr., Rey Escorpión, Skándalo b Máximo Sexy, Stigma, Valiente
10:04. Rudos took 2/3.
5) Marco Corleone & Volador Jr. DQ Atlantis & Último Guerrero [Relevos Increíbles]
9:12. Marco Corleone replaced Rush. Marco & Voaldor took 2/3, the last when UG fouled Rush. This set up a singles match next week.
6) Negro Casas & Shocker © b La Máscara & Sharlie Rockstar [CMLL TAG]
13:10. Casas & Shocker took 2/3 to keep the titles (though Mascara kicked out before three.) 10th defense
Show was not fun and should be avoided. There’s no explanation at all for Rush not appearing, which gives us free reign to speculate irresponsibility. (Maybe CMLL has no control over LA Park but can make Rush pay for their match? Maybe Rush just picked up an injury working three shows in two days and skipped out on this show? Maybe Rush was working on his WWE mock draft? Who can say. Rush could, he was on Twitter this morning, but he did not say.)
Calling it an Anniversary show was a way to get a big house out of a build up show; the real big show is next week. UG/Volador is set (and non-title, so the winner is more uncertain.) I’m not exactly sure what the matchup is for the other big match. Even the TV announcers didn’t know it was meant to be a relevos suicidas at first, and it’s a different match depending on who teams with whom.
Today’s CMLL Mexico show is main evented by Maximo, Johnny Idol, and Marco Corleone against Sam Adonis, Rey Escorpion, and Pierroth. There’s no feuds carrying over from last week, no new people debuting, and the lightning (Fuego/Virus) is a repeat of one from a few weeks ago. The preview lists no changes, though Super Porky has been missing a decent amount of his matches. The most interesting match is Hombre Bala Jr., Pegasso and Star Jr. versus Fujin, Raijin and Okumura in the tercera; it’s the first streaming appearance for the NJPW rookies in four weeks. The show will air at 7:30pm CT, om CMLL.com and YouTube as normal.
CMLL’s back on the NJPW World scheduled for this Friday’s show (Saturday Tokyo time.) No word if it’s region blocked, but the show will still air on ClaroSports as always.
AAA TripleMania on 08/28 in Arena Ciudad de Mexico
1: Psycho Clown vs Pagano in a mask versus hair match
2: Mary Apache & Faby Apache vs Averno & Chessman
The idea is Averno & Chessman finally agreed to the match after Mary cost them the tag titles. They’d still be tag champs if they had only not been so stubborn! I hope we’ve all learned an important lesson (don’t mess with the Apaches.) The match will be probably be good but it’s even more helpful as something that’ll get attention in places this TripleMania card will not. It may not always been positive attention, but there is a need to do something to get people starting to talk about this show when they don’t have the star power of last year.
AAA’s announcing these one at time, but we pretty much know Pentagon/Mundo is set and Texano/Wagner/Cage as well. It gets very fuzzy after that.
On Facebook, Pagano is upset people are writing off his match with Psycho Clown because they know he’s losing his hair. (Mr. Lucha noted this first.) I am not a fan of Pagano or that match but if you are a fan of Pagano, I’d think you’d be happy about this. He’s been doing stupid stuff for little to no pay for quite a while, and he’s actually going to do less of the stupid stuff and make a lot of money (by AAA relative standards) for once. He’s also lost every single apuesta match he’s ever been in that we can find, at least he figured out a way to do it at TripleMania for once. (Unless you’ve convinced yourself Pagano matches are ‘real’ and all the other ones are ‘fake’ and are upset he’s doing the fake stuff now, which is a decent possibility with Pagano fans.)
Oakland Raiders’ running back Latavius Murray visited the AAA show in Mexico City.
Cibernetico is out two months after (unspecified) surgery. Caristico is out for an indeterminate time, so both of the top stars of Elite aren’t around right now. LA Park suddenly becomes even more valuable to the group.
DTU/Lucha Libre Boom on 08/13 in Arena Lopez Mateos
1: El Gio, El Junio vs Yoruba, Shadow vs Vengador, Kastigador vs Flystar, Toxin Boy
2: Ovett & Angel o Demonio vs Misterioso & Pierroth vs Carta Brava & Fantasma de la Opera
3: Sadico & Mike Suicida vs Ronnie Mendoza & Draztick Boy vs Arez & Belial
4: Dr. Cerebro & Cerebro Negro vs Pesadilla & Rocky Lobo (c) vs Stuka Jr. & Titan [DTU NEXO]
Guess Titan is still on good terms with the promotion after whatever happened with the Neza show. Titan’s Super J Cup match takes place early Wednesday morning (4:30 AM CT.) I’m not sure if I’m going to stay up for it; Wednesday is going to be a long day either way.
I got to be a guest on the Strong Style Story podcast, helping preview the Super J Cup.
Chilanga Mask 08/21 show in Coacalco
1: Black Terry vs Wotan
2: Caifan 3 vs Solar
3: Roberto Paz Jr. vs Jeque
4: Laredo Kid vs Extreme Tiger vs Jason Kincaid
5: The Platino & Mr. Maldito vs El Sagrado & Bobby Z
6: David Crist & Jason Gory vs Akon (Arez) & Impulso
Crist and his brother were supposed to appear for ChilangaMask long ago, but things happened and they didn’t make the trip, as he notes in a promo building up his appearance. Match should be interesting if he makes it this time; I’ve seen him on AAW shows and he’s been good.
Lucha Memes 08/21 in Club Atlantico, Mexico City.
1: Virus vs Alberto Dos Rios
2: Zafiro vs Arez
Arez gets announced for two matches in the same day on the same day. This Zafiro is the Juarez luchadora, who teased her match in a YouTube promo. She wrestled in a women’s tag match back on WrestleMania weekend in Texas, in a match I remember hearing was very over despite not being very good.
Konnan, Blue Demon Jr. & Dr. Wagner Jr. will appear on Monterrey’s ColiseoMania IV show on 09/04. That might be his Konnan’s wrestling show appearance since leaving AAA, though he definitely hasn’t disappeared.
The Fubo.tv streaming service, which was promoting carrying Lucha Underground along with it’s soccer coverage, says it’s gone up 50% in quarter 2. It’s still only 71K viewers and no idea how many are watching LU, but I hadn’t seen an estimate about how many people were using those kind of services. (I’d still suspect a lot more people have the larger SlingTV service.)
Matches from the WWS Women’s promotion are starting to show up on the Stardom World subscription service, with the promotion suggesting more will come.
Fenix will face Will Ospreay on night one of PWG’s Battle of Los Angeles. Fenix will probably exit the tournament after one round, but it’ll be a great one round. Fenix is also back on Twitter, this time at @fenixanimo.
On his latest podcast, Kushida said he believes CMLL only made the match with him and Volador after they found out the show was going to air on NJPW World.
LuchaWorld has the latest news update and this week’s Poster-Mania.
The latest Podcast Boom talks about AAA’s most recent show in Monterrey and AAA pay.
Black Terry Jr. posted highlights of Black Metal & Belial vs Astrolux & Baby Star, Draztick Boy vs Freelance, Rush vs Caifan and Sadico vs Aramis.
CageSide Seats has a photo gallery from the Atlantis Mucha Lucha show.
There’s a bus trip from Guadalajara to the CaraLucha show this Saturday, for the (Jalisco) Muchas Luchas vs CaraLucha match.
Guerrero Negro Jr. is listed on the AAA card in Nuevo Laredo on Monday, so he’s probably at least getting a look at being brought in.
Cross Arm Breaker reviews Dragon Lee vs Kamaitachi from 01/09/2015, Negro Casas vs Maximo from 01/11/2015 and Ciclon Ramirez vs Javier Cruz from 06/10/1994
Lineups
IWRG (WED) 07/20/2016 Arena Naucalpan
1) Bambino, Canario, Rey Flecha vs Fly Tiger, Magic Dragón, Último Caballero
2) Ángel De La Muerte I & Ángel De La Muerte II vs Skanda & Vampiro Metálico
3) Alas de Acero, Aramis, Dragón Fly vs Araña de Plata, Demonio Infernal, Guerrero 2000
4) Vardeus vs Keshin Black, Osiris, Keiser Drago, Omega
5) Adrenalina, Blue Monsther, Emperador Azteca, Galaxy, Hijo del Alebrije, Kanon, Power Bull, Shadow Boy vs Eddy Santos, Juana La Loca, Lord Phantom, Rey Profeta, Rosario Negro,Vengador, Viajero Extremo, Viajero Jr.
Gym FILL (Black Terry) vs Gym Infierno (Judas)
FILL 52. The outsiders are from other Mexico State towns, including Tultitlan.
ELITE (THU) 07/21/2016 Arena México
1) La Jarochita & Marcela vs Amapola & Muñeca De Plata
2) El Bandido & Emperador Azteca vs Heddi Karaoui & Príncipe Orión
3) Golden Magic, Metaleón, Titán vs Argos, Hijo del Dr. Wagner Jr., Magno
4) Teddy Hart vs Rey Escorpión [Liga Elite]
5) Mr. Electro & Sharly Rockstar vs Extreme Tiger & Súper Crazy
6) LA Park vs Diamante Azul [Liga Elite]
Lineup isn’t out the internet, but that’s an Elite/internet thing, it’s posted already. Of the four people listed in Liga Elite matches, three were not in the tournament to start. Extreme Tiger is actually in the tournament and could’ve faced LA Park if they wanted to do a match that made sense but we’re getting past that point.
The semimain is the first time the Electro/Rockstar brothers will be on the same team in 5 years.
Titan would almost literally have to get off the plane and get into the ring to make this match, so don’t count on him making this match (and it’s unclear why they booked him in the first place.)
MDA (SUN) 07/31/2016 Arena Coliseo Monterrey
1) Mini Hator vs Mini Difunto
2) Chamaco Gurrola vs Tekilita
3) Epydemius, Ninja Jr., Obsesión, Último Ninja vs Golden Magic, Lince, Metaleón, Tormento [super libre]
4) Delta & Hijo de LA Park vs Galactar & Laredo Kid
5) El Divo, El Hijo del Solitario, La Máscara vs Pierroth, Rambo, Silver King
6) Hijo De Octagon & Octagón vs Fuerza Guerrera & Juventud Guerrera
7) Atlantis vs Caifan
8) LA Park vs Rush [super libre]
The rematch of LA Park versus Rush in a super libre match takes place on 07/31 in Monterrey. (This match may air on TV as soon as 08/07, but Monterrey TV is totally inconsistent and even the people who are part of the show have no idea when it airs.) No one in Monterrey is going to stop a match for getting out of control, many Konnan Big matches have taught me that, but there’s also a 100% chance of some sort of screw job finish. Should still be fun. Atlantis/Caifan in Monterrey would make this worth watching on it’s own.
Eric makes the case for LA Park vs Rush being the anniversary main event.