CMLL (FRI) 03/24/2017 Arena México [CMLL, SuperLuchas, thecubsfan]
1) Demus 3:16 & Pierrothito b Eléctrico & Shockercito 
15:52. Rudos took 1/3.
2) Dalys, Reyna Isis, Zeuxis b Princesa Sugehit, Sanely, Silueta
18:05. Rudas took 1/3, Zeuxis defeating Sugehit again.
3) Hechicero, Kráneo, Ripper b Máximo Sexy, Stuka Jr., Titán
11:44. Rudos took 1/3. great match.
4) Niebla Roja b Dragón Lee [lightning]
6:49. Niebla Roja won with a modified Canadian Destroyer
5) Ángel de Oro, Mistico, Valiente b Cavernario, Felino, Negro Casas
8:54. Tecnicos took 2/3.
6) Diamante Azul, Matt Taven, Volador Jr. b La Máscara, Pierroth, Rush [Relevos Increíbles]
6:32. Straight falls. Pierroth was DQed for unmasking Diamante Azul in the first. Taven snuck in a foul on Rush in the second. Those two agreed to a match next week.
I really liked the third match, it was strong all the way thru. Roja/Lee had a good match but it still felt like a taste of what they could do. Taven/Rush for next week was a surprise. Zeuxis is winning all the matches but the big matches.
DTU (FRI) 03/24/2017 Arena Aficion [+LuchaTV, DTU]
1) Hard Boy, Masizito, Toto b Drolux, Luigi, Químico Torres
2) Dr. Pólux Jr. b Colmillo Blanco, Lokillo, El Exótico, Hormiga, Paranoiko
Los Masizos confronted Polux after the match. Polux had said he wanted an extreme match, and they offered him one against Crazy King.
3) Ayako Hamada, Moria, Niño De Cobre b Aero Boy, La Magnifica, Pesadilla and Jimmy, Kevin, Zuzu Divine
4) El Gio & El Junior b Corsario Negro Jr. & Crazy King
5) Ovett & Takashi Sasaki b Miedo Extremo & Violento Jack
Miedo offered Sasaki a title match whenever he wanted one. Sasaki invited the DTU wrestlers to come back to FREEDOMS any time. Money thrown in
6) Daisuke Masaoka © b Cíclope [KOF CHAMP]
Match will have 10,000 thumbtacks and other extreme weapons and was made a title match earlier in the night. Very good match. Second defense (in two days in two hemispheres!) for Masaoka.
Didn’t look like as good attendance as the December show but the last two matches sound like they went well.
Ultimo Guerrero beat Wotan in the main event of the Ancla show last night in Arena San Juan. Separately, Herodes is behind the OMLL promotion, and says they’ll be back in Arena San Juan on 04/01. WMC ran two shows their last month. Arena San Juan seems like it’s getting up to a show a weekend, and not as much Cara Lucha.
There’s no AAA TV taping or big CMLL show this weekend, but it’s still pretty busy. AAA is conducting it’s second La Llave de la Gloria tryout right now. (Super Fly is one of the trainers, and it does look like he got his head shaved in Monterrey.) CMLL’s Saturday show has Dragon Rojo defending his title against Angel de Oro (with no real thought of a title change.) Sunday has nothing of note. Everyone else is busier.
Saturday
- The Crash returns to Tijuana. The main event is Rey Mysterio & Daga versus the Young Bucks. The Bucks are said to be coming back in about six weeks, so there may be an angle out of that. It’s a big main event for Daga, who’s the mostly unknown guy in the US and could start to change that with a good night.
The semimain on a loaded card is scheduled as Garza Jr. & Sami Callihan versus Black Taurus & Bobby Lashley. However, last night Impact released a video with Karen Jarrett pulling Lashley from the show. James Storm will replace him. The video plays this up as a storyline where Garza Jr. will get a shot at Lashley and his title if he can get a win over Storm. That would be a logical main event for a Crash/Impact PPV, and probably would be announced tonight if it is happening in three weeks. Amusingly, this video paints Impact as an evil promotion messing around with The Crash, which certainly plays into the deal with AAA. This might be the opposite; Impact being helpful by explaining Lashely’s absence from this card (for whatever reason) and giving them a storyline to build to whatever match they were going to do anything.
- AAA wrestlers will be on WUW show in New York. Matches didn’t seem to be announced, but Psycho Clown, Pagano, Drago, Lady Shani and Lady Apache are scheduled for tonight’ show
- Lucha Memes runs in Puebla’s Arena Coliseo San Ramon. Centella de Oro, who was great when he was a regular in Arena Puebla years ago, faces Hechicero in the main event of a five singles match card.
- The FREEDOMS duo head to Monterrey for an NGX show. They’ll face Aeroboy & Violento Jack.
- Pentagon, Rey Fenix and Alberto are in Peru for a loaded show.
Sunday
- Lucha Memes returns to Arena Naucalpan for Chairo9. Atlantis vs Ultimo Vampiro is listed as the top match on the card, but they also have a flyers match of Dragon Lee & Soberano Jr. versus Sadico & Sammy Guevera, a tag title defense by Navarro & Terry against Hechicero & Virus, and much more. Lucha Memes’ promoter was on the Winter Palace previewing this show.
- Toryumon runs one of it’s quarterly shows with Argos & Ultimo Dragon against Rey Bucanero & Sam Adonis. Their next show is DragonMania in Arena Mexico.
- Mucha Lucha Atlanta returns with an AAA themed show. Dr. Wagner, Psycho Clown, and Rey Horuz. Penta was scheduled for this show but doesn’t appear on recent posters, so I suspect he was removed (due to the AAA/Rebelion conflict) at some point.
- The Aeroboy/Violento Jack vs Masaoka/Sasaki match comes to Tulancingo.
Today’s AAA TV show will air the Reina de Reinas elimination match, Mesias & Pagano vs Cuervo & Scoria, Psycho Clown & Dr. Wagner vs Murder Clown & Monster Clown and the Rey de Reyes torneo. That means next week will have two titles matches and the mask versus hair show, one of the bigger AAA TV shows in some time.
Vampiro did an impromptu Q&A livestream on AAA’s channel. The video wasn’t archived (which may just be a YouTube stream thing) and I didn’t have a chance to see it live. My hunch was this was a correction for accidentally questioning the possibility of Wagner/Psycho.
The KDNA promoter in Monterrey was teasing a Impact/AAA/Ricochet show on 04/09 opposite The Crash’s debut. There’s nothing to this, they just wanted to get people to hold back from buying tickets to The Crash.
A lucha libre exhibit opened in Xalapa.
(a) La Parkita says he’ll retire if he loses his mask in an upcoming mask match.
Fuego en el Ring has a new edition of their podcast.
Lineups
CMLL (FRI) 03/31/2017 Arena México
1) Stukita & Último Dragóncito vs Mercurio & Pequeño Nitro
2) La Jarochita, Princesa Sugehit, Skadi vs Amapola, Tiffany, Zeuxis
3) Blue Panther, Blue Panther Jr., The Panther vs El Cuatrero, Máscara Año 2000, Sansón
4) Marco Corleone, Máximo Sexy, Volador Jr. vs Kráneo, Mephisto, Pierroth
5) Diamante Azul, Stuka Jr., Valiente vs Negro Casas, Rey Bucanero, Último Guerrero
6) Matt Taven vs Rush
Taven had said he was going to the US on Friday. Maybe really late on Friday. Maybe we’re just Saturday Friday now.
I was very happy for no more Diamante Azul versus Pierroth until I noticed Pierroth was still getting booked.
No Lee/Roja, but Sugehit/Zeuxis is still going. It seems like it’s happening rihgt now just by process of elimination, but there’s still time to change directions and drop things without explanation.