Recapped: 05/04/2017
Matches:
All matches aired live from Arena Mexico. The first match and part of the second match did not air due to technical issues.
Eléctrico, Shockercito, Stukita beat Mercurio, Pequeño Nitro, Pequeño Violencia (16:43 [4:37, 5:17, 6:49], 1/3, ok)
Canelo Casas, Forastero, Virus beat Drone, Fuego, Star Jr. (14:38 [7:01, 3:26, 4:11], 2/3, ok)
Blue Panther, Blue Panther Jr., The Panther beat Rey Bucanero, Terrible, Vangellys (14:24 [6:56, 3:02, 4:26], 2/3, ok)
Video: VideosOficialesCMLL
Dragón Lee vs Niebla Roja (14:12 [2:40, 2:26, 9:06], great)
Video: VideosOficialesCMLL
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Dragon Lee Spanish Fly (2:40)
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Niebla Roja Furia Roja (2:26)
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Niebla Roja inverted huracanrana (9:05)
Atlantis, Rey Cometa, Valiente beat Cavernario, Felino, Mr. Niebla (7:46 [0:52, 1:57, 4:57], 2/3, ok)
What Happened:
Niebla Roja defeated Dragon Lee cleanly in something close to a tecnico versus tecnico match. And that’s all.
Review:
I liked the Dragon Lee/Niebla Roja more on the rewatch. The first time thru, the reverse huracanrana doesn’t feel like the right finish, not being a move that’s usually a finish for Niebla Roja (or anyone here despite being a Big Move) and being the rudo winning cleanly. It kind of works better when you factor in what each man had already done to each other, and Niebla Roja just escaping Dragon Lee’s emergency finish. Dragon Lee did get spiked pretty well, part of his pledge to land on his head in every match. The speed here was a little slower than Dragon Lee’s bigger matches and risk tasking was more one sided, but they did play off each other well and pulled out a few things playing off their previous spots. Niebla Roja came off as a guy very good in CMLL singles match style, but my expectations were for him to show more things I wasn’t expecting and he didn’t quite do that. Still worth watching.
The main event was the usual easy match following a big singles match that makes you wish they had just done the singles match last. Peste Negra got over as easy as usual but the effort wasn’t quite there; this is a Valiente match without a dive, amazingly enough.
The usual bit of unexpected finishes in a Panther match, though it doesn’t seem to ever amount to as much it could be, and the surprise of the roll ups at the end mitigates the big Terrible/Panther ending they seemed like they were head towards. It’s kind of a teaching match, don’t expect everything to be wrapped up nicely, but it doesn’t make for this to be much of a match. The Panther stands out much more than his brother, who had little presence in this match.
Drone looked great, so then Canelo Casas beat him to win the tercera and everyone was sad. I’m not sure how I feel yet about Drone’s new shoulder tattoo. This match really was one more positive wrestler away from being good match but what can you do. Forastero is a useful luchador even outside of his trio, which is nice to see.
We saw most of the opener, which appeared to be the usual minis match and maybe unnecessary to see. Stukita was super charismatic as always, Eléctrico had good moves with odd hesitations as always. Pequeño Violencia wouldn’t be wearing the Ingobernables logo if La Sombra was still alive.