Recapped: 2017-02-21
What happened: Psycho Clown got an actual pin on Dr. Wagner. (He was still beat up to end the show.) Super Fly pinned Aerostar. Dave the Clown got a profile piece and Mesias and Pagano argued a bit. Chessman cost Faby Apache a match.
What was good: I liked the second match, though it could’ve used more time. Nothing was horrible.
Where can I watch it: It’s on AAA’s channel.
Previously: “La Parka, Angelico and Australian Suicide beat Cuervo and Scoria!” And no one else, no one else at all was in that match! Zorro’s back slips through in the highlights sometimes, but he’s now a non-person. Averno’s burn of Joe Lider is left in, so the Perros aren’t meant to be gone. (Nothing is shown of the opener, hope they’re not all gone!)
Upcoming events lest Rey de Reyes now in Plaza de Toros Monumental, which could’ve been easily figured but wasn’t said prior.
Match 1: Big Mami & Faby Apache vs Goya Kong & Lady Shani
Salón Rojo del Club Toluca, Toluca, Estado de México, 01/27/2017
Video: ENTRE SEGUNDA Y TERCERA, Lucha Libre AAA, thecubsfan
Winner: rudas (Goya middle rope splash Faby)
Match Time: 10:32
Notes: Tirantes is referee, which makes Faby unhappy but actually doesn’t otherwise affect the match. Shani & Goya do a fake breakup bit, like Halloween & Damian and plenty of others have done over the last 30 years. Only, they’re women, so when they do the kiss to make up, someone decides to use the shot farthest away from the ring. No idea if this was just usual lucha bad production or if AAA or Televisa thought we couldn’t handle the idea of two women kissing. (Shani’s mask covers her mouth too, so this whole thing is ridiculous on many levels.) Chessman walks out to yell at Faby late in the match, and Shani tosses Fbay off the top rope. Goya adds a midl rope splash and gets the pin. Chessman slides in to taunt Faby before they quickly go to break.
Review: [ok] They tried to mix the comedy of Goya & Mami with more serious stuff from Faby & Shani, and that’s really hard to pull off. The comedy overwhelms unless the wrestling is good, and there’s littler they could do to make the wrestling good. Big Mami on offense is so bad, but Big Mami selling is also not any good. There’s no winning on this. Shani does nail her with a kick ot the head on what seems like a mistimed spot, and Goya seems to drop a leg very hard on her, and Mami keeps going so she’s cleary tough. She’s just not useful much outside the comedy.
This was the first time Faby has lost to a women’s side since last May. As best I can figure, this is the first direct pinfall she’s taken from another woman since September 2015, when La Hiedra beat her as she was getting set up for a title match. (La Hiedra was Taya’s ruda best friend who suddenly decided she wanted to face her friend for the title, the same angle they’re doing again.) Goya got the pin probably because the middle rope splash was the more impressive visual, but Shani should’ve gotten the pin given where they’re going. It’s a minor thing, but that also indicates Shani’s title match is currently seen as a minor thing. With or without the women’s title, Faby is the important person.
Match 2: Aerostar, Argenis, Bengala vs Carta Brava Jr., Mocho Cota Jr., Súper Fly
Salón Rojo del Club Toluca, Toluca, Estado de México, 01/27/2017
Video: ENTRE SEGUNDA Y TERCERA, Lucha Libre AAA, thecubsfan
Winner: Rudos (Super Fly double powerbomb)
Match Time: 7:04
Notes: Mocho Cota points and blows a kiss to the sky as Arturo Rivera brings up his recently passed father. The rudos beat up the técnicos after the match and powerbombed Super Fly thru a table. Rudos took Aerostar & Argenis’ masks and wouldn’t let the medics get to Aerostar for quite a while. Carta Brava ended up with Argenis’ mask and then his backup mask too, though the announcers didn’t make much note of it.
Review: [good] The standard formula you’d expect between these teams, with Aerostar looking impressive with a couple of creative spots and the rudos showing some good team work when they’re in control. Most of the luchadors looked like solid average guys, but that’s plenty enough to have a good match. These matches need more time to develop – this one ended on the only near fall of the match – but they’re simple and entertaining and Super Fly came thru strong. This feud could use something to make you believe this is actually the start of something for Super Fly, and not just the usual wins a rudo gets before losing the big apuesta match, but that’s a different issue.
Noti AAA
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La Llave de la Gloria hype
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Backstage, Mesias tells Pagano that he’s all to blame for them losing at Guerra de Titanes. Pagano says what happened at Guerra de Titanes wasn’t good, but he’s talking about what Mesias did to Dave the Clown. Mesias and Pagano go face to face for a moment. After the segment, Jesus speculates about them split.
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We get a Quien es? Getting To Know segment with one of the new stars of AAA, Dave the Clown. I feel like I’m being trolled, but this is a good thing to do with everyone (and Jesus says more are coming). A bad thing to do is Dave in an interview where his mouth is muddled. Dave credits Pirata Morgan for getting him into wrestling, and says he’s been trained by Apache, Abismo Negro, Murder Clown and Monster Clown. AAA is the best in the world, Dave the Clown tells us
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The tribute to Chavo Guerrero is shown, with the Roldans highlighted.
Match 3: Hijo del Fantasma, Psycho Clown, Texano Jr. vs Dr. Wagner Jr., El Mesías, Pagano
Salón Rojo del Club Toluca, Toluca, Estado de México, 01/27/2017
Video: ENTRE SEGUNDA Y TERCERA, Lucha Libre AAA, thecubsfan
Winner: técnicos (Psycho Clown backcracker Dr. Wagner)
Match Time: 13:44
Notes: Monster, Murder and Dave Clown come out with Pagano, but Piero announces they’re kicked out for interfering in the Guerra de Titanes match. Wagner interrupts to bring up the contract signing, polls the crowd, and sends his friends to the back. Pagano and Mesias have an argument for no particular reason while they’re working over Texano, and it goes for a while. Wagner stays out of it.
At the end, Piero gets turned around, and shows a remarkable dedication to stay turned away from the ring for quite a while. This allows Wagner to foul Psycho with no penalty. Unfortunately, Psycho picks this moment to be mostly impervious to a foul kick, turns Wagner around easily, and drops him with a backcracker for the win. Announcers declare it “1-1”, so I guess we’re not supposed to remember anything that’s happened in 2016. Not sure that’s a bad call! Mesias and Pagano have another discussion after the match, but don’t fight. Psycho gets to cut a victorious promo before the Clowns run out to beat him up like always, though they cut away from that so fast that I’m not sure they wanted us to see it.
Review: [ok] this were I’m so emotionally disinterested in the main event scene that it makes it hard to give this a rating. This felt like an ordinary AAA main event, where it was tough to really care about what was going on in the match for the first two thirds because it’s never going to end until they get in the same story beats as are in every AAA match. (Texano and Fantasma going for pinfalls early was unique, but also meaningless, because AAA’s trained us that their main event matches are never going to end in two minutes.) They seemed to be working decently hard and there weren’t any big problems outside of the failed attempt at catching Texano on a pescado, but this was a match I knew I was going to forget as soon as it ended. Pagano seemed to be working the hardest of the rudos during the beatdown, but the trade off was a very choreographed set up so he could fly off the middle rope into a chair. They made a point of doing the Pagano/Mesias arguments to push that along, but the arguments themselves never played a part in the flow of the match like you’d normally expect for a split.
