AAA on Televisa: 2017-05-06 

Ricky Marvin

Recapped: 05/06/2017

Matches: 

All matches taped in Auditorio de Tijuana, April 21, 2017

  1. Monsther Clown & Murder Clown defeat El Mesías & Pagano (9:40, Murder splash Mesias, ok)
  2. Ricky Marvin beat Chessman (4:08, diving huracanrana, ok)
  3. Kevin Kross beat Hijo del Fantasma in a tables match (11:39, powerbomb thru in a table, ok)

What happened: 

This is going to be quite long.

Murder Clown is strong

Mesias & Pagano had apparently forgiven/forgotten the problems from the last match and were best friends again going into this match. Cuervo & Scoria run in with a bat again, this time before the match is over. They attack both Pagano & Mesias, leaving the bat with Pagano again. (The idea is Scoria distracted Piero from calling a DQ, which is hard to believe when they were both beating up Pagano on the outside at the same time. Also, Mesias & Pagano didn’t see their attackers) The Clowns pin Mesias, beat him up some more, and Pagano eventually runs them off with the bat. Of course that means Mesias again sees the bat with Pagano and thinks he’s got attacked by his partner again. Mesias is clearly an idiot if he really thinks Pagano is attacking him and keeps teaming with him, but he does make mean faces at Pagano.

Backstage, Averno got a phone call from Super Fly, with Fly saying he’s on vacation and won’t be there. At least Averno leads us to believe that happens, because he wouldn’t let Chessman talk to Super Fly for whatever reason. Averno could just be a jerk, it’s hard to say. La Parka was spying on this conversation.

Ricky Marvin has new music, wears an OGT shirt with the NO symbol thru it and has a new mohawk. He thanks the crowd for their support for a while to make it’s clear he’s a técnico. Averno taunts him to facing a real serious luchador tonight, takes of his coat to tease being that luchador and then announces Chessman as the opponent. Chessman is surprised but happy. Averno adds himself to the announce team and brags for a few minutes. Ricky gets in a DDT about two minutes into the match, covers, Tirantes counts two, and then collapses on the third count. He sells getting hit in the face, and I guess Chessman did it, but it’s impossible to tell from what we see and it just seems like Tirantes collapses for no reason. Averno wastes no time getting involved, and La Parka jogs to the ring for the save. It isn’t really much a save by the time he gets there, Ricky’s rolled out, but Parka still clears house while Tirantes remains down for an absurdly long time. Parka does his dive, leads into a huracanrana on Chessman, and Tirantes pops back to life for three.

Kevin Kross is a multitasker

Texano is interviewed in ring before the main event, and announces his neck is healing well and he’s be able to return soon, and he’ll come back to get this his title. Texano’s asked about his feelings about Fantasma, and says he has no problem with him, these things happen in title matches, and they’re still brothers. Texano joins the announcers and continues to insist he are best friends who would never betray each other.

The vignette explaining why Mundo isn’t facing Fantasma does not air, and there’s no real explanation of what happened there; they’re basically hoping you forgot. Announcers mention Fantasma was out six months after suffering two back injuries in a previous tables match. That’s the Lucha Underground Mil Muertes/King Cuerno match (and a real back injury), which I don’t think has been talked about before. It was not immediately clear what the rules were in a table match. The announcers refer to it as an extreme match, Fantasma covers for a two count, and then the announcers later say you must put someone thru a table to win. Fantasma goes for a pin about a minute later and Tirantes counts it like normal, with Kross either easily kicking out or Fantasma pulling him out. Kross uses a chair on Fantasma’s shoulder a lot and announced argue if that’s legal in a tables match. Kross spears a table when Fantasma moves and shoves him past, and Texano scrambles to explain that you have to put the other person thru the table to win, not by themselves. (Replay show Fantasma pushes Kross towards the table, but OK.) Kross takes back over with a foul and Texano loses it again. Kross threatens to throw Fantasma out of the ring into a powerbomb thru the table, but Fantasma’s rallies back. Fantasma almost kicks Kross of the apron into a table, but Kross escapes, confronts Texano, and moves out of the way as Fantasma accidentally topes his friend. Kross grabs Fantasma and powerbombs him thru that table for the win.

Kross starts to leave, then comes back to attack Texano. The fans decide to block his path, so Kevin convinces them he’s just trying to clear a path to get Texano out of there – then chokes Texano and tosses him off the stretcher as soon as he can. That’s actually hilarious. Announcers scream about how this could end Texano’s career. Kross removes the neck brace and chokeslams Texano thru a table of pork rinds. Kross keeps the brace and puts it on Zuniaga

all Fantasma’s fault

Noti AAA introduces us Niño Hamburguesa’s mom for mother’s day, who tells stories about a younger Niño Hamburguesa first falling in love with lucha libre and watching her son now. Niño thanks his mom for all his support.

The upcoming schedule bit doesn’t list (the canceled) Contla taping or the (replacement) Mexico City taping, so I guess they hadn’t figured out what they were doing when they put this together.

In a bonus segment, Faby Apache travels to a bar to meet Vampiro. Vampiro, like a ghost or Batman (or ghost Batman!) suddenly appears at the table when Faby’s looking the other direction. Vamp congratulates Faby for winning the trios championship and explains things and rules are changing in AAA (thanks to him) and she’s going to have to defend the trios titles against Poder del Norte next week, this time in an actual trios match. Faby points out her father and sister can’t actually wrestle right now, but I guess he’s got a week to find some partners. Faby looks away from the table and Vampiro vanishes. Some people might be spooked out by Vampiro’s magic tricks, but Faby’s seen some things here in AAA and just shrugs it off as normal.

Seven months after betraying Psycho Clown, Monster & Murder Clown have gotten their own music.

The EMW 1st Anniversary logo is displayed on the ad screen during the show, which doesn’t usually happen with the local promoter (but there’s also not usually a giant screen like Tijuana already has.)

Thoughts: 

Faby Apache has been thru so much that her boss vanishing in mid conversation barely phases her

The main event mostly about getting Kross over, which did need the help – the crowd didn’t seem to care about this match as much as the last two, or recognize him as a big deal during them. Destroying Fantasma and Texano should help in the long run but it made for a weird outing here. Kross’s selling, even by AAA standards, doesn’t seem so great – he recovered totally from being put thru a table a little took quick unless he’s supposed to be an indestructible android (and maybe he is.) The rules were about normal for a table match but their handling of them wasn’t great, and the story of this match didn’t leave a lot of room for this match to be all that great.

Marvin/Chessman was an absolutely nothing match, but Ricky’s dive was pretty cool so I’m not going to say no to it. I don’t have a lot of hope for the third different retooling of Ricky Marvin since he’s come to AAA, especially the way he was moving around here, but he did okay for a four minute match where he only had to wrestler two and half minutes of it. I’d rather see Parka just do his offense for one minute and then go away – I mean, if this wasn’t going to be anything good, at least it was short? I still don’t know what happened to Tirantes.

A rudo/rudo brawl with a lot of people you’d like not to see brawl for a while. This OK in the same way the second Tuesday match is ok, because I can’t be bothered to think of it’s worth it. It actually turns into a Pagano/Monsther Clown match for what seems like much longer than 80 seconds it lasts. Murder is so definitely better than Monster now, though it seem weird to have an opinion on that. Every time Pagano tries to do a tricky agile move to impress, it never actually positives impresses. He does try, while Mesias seems to be not at all interested in any of this. This storyline is so dumb nonsense that it’s approaching coming back around as entertaining.

ChilangaMask, IWRG, micros tonight in Puebla

Fly Star

Chilanga Mask (SUN) 05/07/2017 Berwyn Eagle Club, Berwyn, Illinois [+LuchaTV, thecubsfan]
1) Tigre Asiático b Zam Damisterious
2) Latin Dragón & Movado b Bandolero & Mano Del Diablo Latin Dragón & Movado vs Bandolero & Mano Del Diablo (posted by thecubsfan)
good match
3) Gavin Quinn b Barry Right and Fly Star Barry Right vs Fly Star vs Gavin Quinn (posted by thecubsfan)
4) Silueta DRAW Chik Tormenta Silueta vs Chik Tormenta (posted by thecubsfan)
double pin draw
5) Trauma I & Trauma II b Aero Boy & Mojo Mcqueen Aero Boy & Mojo Mcqueen vs Trauma I & Trauma II (posted by thecubsfan)
Trauma II submitted Mojo. Very good match.

This was a good show. I took video of some of the matches. They switched around the main event to put the Traumas on the same side and it worked out well, with Aero Boy doing a lot of mat wrestling to keep up with them. The loudest fans in this building are always the rudo fans, so Silueta kind of ended up working as an bitter tecnica with Chik Tormenta being cheered. Three way match was switched around and the two local guys didn’t seem as comfortable working with Fly Star as other people might have been. Fly Star slipped on a complicated armdrag early, did a couple neat dive spots later and mostly stayed out of the way. Bandolero remains really good, Latin Dragon was good too. Movado & Mano de Blanco came off as two guys came off a little bit as CHIKARA style luchadors, two guys in outfits doing some lucha while also kind of playing luchador rather than being them, but then they were also working very hard to be entertaining and their personalities made the match connect well with the crowd. +Lucha was shooting the show, so footage of it will turn up in much better form sometime later.

IWRG (SUN) 05/07/2017 Arena Naucalpan [+LuchaTV, The Gladiatores]
1) Adrenalina b Keiser Drago
2) Aramis & Shaolin b Lunatic Extreme & Vórtize
3) Atomic Star b Shadow Boy
4) Black Terry, Cerebro Negro, Pantera I b Hip Hop Man, Pibe Alfajor, Taylor Wolf
Terry surprised Wolf with a cradle in his debut here.
5) Freelance b Eterno
6) Hijo de Pirata Morgan, Pirata Morgan, Pirata Morgan Jr. DQ Heddi Karaoui, Veneno, Villano IV
Match was coming down to Pirata Sr. versus Villano IV. Pirata Jr. ran in to foul V4, missed, fouled his father, but left and the referee saw Villano standing over a fouled Pirata Sr. and gave the pirates the win. Recap notes the idea of the Villano IV/Pirata/Terry group seems to have disappeared (in usual IWRG fashion.)
7) La Mosca © b Dragón Fly [IWRG IC WELTER]
Dragon Fly had the win, but Hip Hop Man distracted the referee. Dragon Fly went after him and was beat by Mosca, who remains champ. First defense.

South American continues it’s grip on Naucalpan.

Tonight’s Puebla show has a main event rematch for no particular reason: psuedo-tecnico team Negro Casas, Maximo and Mistico defeated Diamante Azul, Mephisto and Ephesto and insisted on doing the same match next week. They’re setting up something next week, which might be Casas & Mephisto, though it’s may be totally different.

The rest of the show is the usual stuff – Guerreros vs tecnicos, boring rudos vs semi-promising tecnicos, mixed bad locals – but the show does also have the fourth micros division tag match, and only the second to air. It’s the third match on the show, so it should air about 45 minutes in. The entire show starts at 9pm tonight and airs on CMLL’s YouTube channel.

Brian Cage and Sam Adonis had a worked backstage argument/fight in UIPW which just happened to be filmed by other people backstage. Here’s Mariachi Loco’s version. Cage had teased something happening with Adonis, base off their twitter debate from a few months ago about gets to play Trump supporter, but I think you’d be able to tell it’s an angle based off that feud just by watching the video. Worth a try to get some publicity, but it doesn’t seem to have taken yet.

Arena Coliseo Guadalajara has a short video feature on Star Black, Destello and Black Sugar.

AAA & Roshfrans announced their third tryout will focus on female wrestlers. They’re put out the information about signing up for tryouts, which might be just standard or might suggest they haven’t gotten many women signing up so far.

Lineups

CMLL (SAT) 05/13/2017 Arena Coliseo
1) Bengala & Leono vs Apocalipsis & Cholo
2) Flyer, Magia Blanca, Starman vs Espanto Jr., Inquisidor, Metálico
3) Marcela, Princesa Sugehit, Sanely vs Dalys, Reyna Isis, Zeuxis
4) Blue Panther, Fuego, Stuka Jr. vs Cuatrero, Forastero, Sansón
5) Ángel de Oro, Atlantis, Carístico vs Mephisto, Shocker, Último Guerrero

Main event  would be Shocker’s first match in over three months, a jaw injury and multiple operations later. It’s CMLL and Monday lineup, so he might yet be removed. He indicated he was getting closer to returning on Twitter but wouldn’t be a surprise if it was still a few weeks.

CMLL (SUN) 05/14/2017 Arena México
1) Eléctrico, Fantasy, Stukita vs Mercurio, Pequeño Olímpico, Pequeño Violencia
2) Esfinge, Pegasso, Stigma vs Disturbio, Puma, Sangre Azteca
3) Blue Panther, Johnny Idol, Titán vs Dragón Rojo Jr., Gran Guerrero, Kráneo
4) Atlantis, Marco Corleone, Máximo Sexy vs Ephesto, Luciferno, Mephisto
5) Carístico vs Euforia

Caristico won when they did this same match six weeks ago in Coliseo.

CMLL (SUN) 05/14/2017 Arena Coliseo Guadalajara
1) Micro vs Guerrero de la Muerte
2) Javier Cruz Jr. & Tigre Blanco vs Demonio Rojo & Linterna
3) Black Sugar, El Alteño, Fantástico vs Gran Kenut, Mr. Apolo, Puma Negro
4) Cosmos, Sky Kid, Smaker vs Difunto, Espectrúm, Relámpago Azul
5) Magnum, Neutrón, Star Black vs Exterminador, León Blanco, Nautilius

Star Black/Nautilus feud continues.

FULL (SUN) 05/21/2017 Carpa Astros, Tlalpan, Distrito Federal
1) Ángel Del Amor, Saru, Shadow Boy vs Luzbel Jr., Pequeño Warrior, Rider
2) Reina Dorada vs Ludark Shaitan, Lady Apache
3) Pibe Alfajor & Zumbi vs Hip Hop Man & La Mosca (Argentina)
4) Garza Jr., Hijo De Dos Caras, Intocable, Zorro vs Alan Stone, Pirata Morgan, Rey Escorpión, Silver King
5) Blue Demon Jr., Cibernético, Tinieblas Jr. vs Mr. Águila, Roy Knight, Zak Knight
6) Alberto el Patrón vs Jack Swagger

Full line for the DistroMania show, which is going after a different audience than big match indie promotions for sure. They’ll hold a press conference on Thursday to hype this up (and maybe we’ll get cards for the rest of the stops, which run from the 19th to the 27th.)

great match roundup, week of 2017-04-29

Microman with a big win

We’re back to the crazy days of five shows in a week. If CMLL streamed Sunday every week, would I finally break from reviewing every (pointless) CMLL show or would I just break? I dunno. Anyway, this week was young people having good matches, some of them slightly short of stature.

Recommended Matches

rating matches TV Show taped
great El Gallito & Microman vs El Perico Zakarías & Mije LUCHA LIBRE DOMINGO DIA DEL NIÑO EN LA ARENA MEXICO (posted by VideosOficialesCMLL) CMLL YouTube: 2017-04-30 2017-04-30
great Dragón Lee vs Niebla Roja LUCHA LIBRE MARTES DE NUEVOS VALORES EN LA ARENA MEXICO 2 DE MAYO DEL 2017 (posted by VideosOficialesCMLL) CMLL YouTube: 2017-05-02 2017-05-02
good Australian Suicide & Bengala vs El Mesías & Pagano and Aerostar & Drago AAA Worldwide desde San Luis Parte 2 - Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide - Abril 2017 (posted by Lucha Libre AAA) Australian Suicide & Bengala vs El Mesías & Pagano and Aerostar & Drago (posted by thecubsfan) AAA on Televisa: 2017-04-29 2017-04-12
good Drone, Esfinge, Fuego vs Hechicero, Misterioso Jr., VirusLUCHA LIBRE DOMINGO DIA DEL NIÑO EN LA ARENA MEXICO (posted by VideosOficialesCMLL) CMLL YouTube: 2017-04-30 2017-04-30
good Carístico, Dragón Lee, Mistico vs Euforia, Niebla Roja, Último Guerrero LUCHA LIBRE DOMINGO DIA DEL NIÑO EN LA ARENA MEXICO (posted by VideosOficialesCMLL) CMLL YouTube: 2017-04-30 2017-04-30
good Último Guerrero © vs Carístico for the NWA World Middleweight Championship LA MEJOR LUCHA LIBRE EN VIVO DESDE LA ARENA PUEBLA 1º DE MAYO DEL 2017 (posted by VideosOficialesCMLL) CMLL YouTube: 2017-05-01 2017-05-01
good Esfinge, Guerrero Maya Jr., Soberano Jr. vs Bobby Villa, Dragón Rojo Jr., Pólvora 2017-05-05 CMLL on ClaroSports (posted by thecubsfan) CMLL on ClaroSports.com: 2017-05-05 2017-05-05

Other matches watched

rating matches TV Show taped
ok Big Mami, Lady Shani, Pimpinela Escarlata vs Goya Kong, La Hiedra, Mamba AAA Worldwide desde San Luis Parte 2 - Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide - Abril 2017 (posted by Lucha Libre AAA) Big Mami, Lady Shani, Pimpinela Escarlata vs Goya Kong, La Hiedra, Mamba (posted by thecubsfan) AAA on Televisa: 2017-04-29 2017-04-12
ok Dr. Wagner Jr. & Psycho Clown vs Carta Brava Jr. & Soul Rocker AAA Worldwide desde San Luis Parte 2 - Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide - Abril 2017 (posted by Lucha Libre AAA) Dr. Wagner Jr. & Psycho Clown vs Carta Brava Jr. & Soul Rocker (posted by thecubsfan) AAA on Televisa: 2017-04-29 2017-04-12
ok Dr. Wagner Jr. vs Psycho Clown AAA Worldwide desde San Luis Parte 2 - Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide - Abril 2017 (posted by Lucha Libre AAA) AAA on Televisa: 2017-04-29 2017-04-12
ok Leono & Príncipe Diamante vs Cholo & Espíritu NegroLUCHA LIBRE DOMINGO DIA DEL NIÑO EN LA ARENA MEXICO (posted by VideosOficialesCMLL) CMLL YouTube: 2017-04-30 2017-04-30
ok Pegasso & Starman vs Hijo del Signo & Metálico LUCHA LIBRE DOMINGO DIA DEL NIÑO EN LA ARENA MEXICO (posted by VideosOficialesCMLL) CMLL YouTube: 2017-04-30 2017-04-30
ok Atlantis, Marco Corleone, Volador Jr. vs Cavernario, Mr. Niebla, Negro Casas LUCHA LIBRE DOMINGO DIA DEL NIÑO EN LA ARENA MEXICO (posted by VideosOficialesCMLL) CMLL YouTube: 2017-04-30 2017-04-30
ok Centella Roja & El Hijo De Centella Roja vs Fuerza Chicana & Guerrero Espacial LA MEJOR LUCHA LIBRE EN VIVO DESDE LA ARENA PUEBLA 1º DE MAYO DEL 2017 (posted by VideosOficialesCMLL) CMLL YouTube: 2017-05-01 2017-05-01
ok Guerrero Maya Jr., Rey Cometa, Rey Samuray vs Misterioso Jr., Policeman, Sangre Azteca LA MEJOR LUCHA LIBRE EN VIVO DESDE LA ARENA PUEBLA 1º DE MAYO DEL 2017 (posted by VideosOficialesCMLL) CMLL YouTube: 2017-05-01 2017-05-01
ok Atlantis, Stuka Jr., Valiente vs La Máscara, Mr. Niebla, Pierroth LA MEJOR LUCHA LIBRE EN VIVO DESDE LA ARENA PUEBLA 1º DE MAYO DEL 2017 (posted by VideosOficialesCMLL) CMLL YouTube: 2017-05-01 2017-05-01
ok Máximo Sexy, Mistico, Negro Casas vs Diamante Azul, Ephesto, Mephisto in a relevos increíbles match LA MEJOR LUCHA LIBRE EN VIVO DESDE LA ARENA PUEBLA 1º DE MAYO DEL 2017 (posted by VideosOficialesCMLL) CMLL YouTube: 2017-05-01 2017-05-01
ok Eléctrico, Shockercito, Stukita vs Mercurio, Pequeño Nitro, Pequeño Violencia LUCHA LIBRE MARTES DE NUEVOS VALORES EN LA ARENA MEXICO 2 DE MAYO DEL 2017 (posted by VideosOficialesCMLL) CMLL YouTube: 2017-05-02 2017-05-02
ok Drone, Fuego, Star Jr. vs Canelo Casas, Forastero, VirusLUCHA LIBRE MARTES DE NUEVOS VALORES EN LA ARENA MEXICO 2 DE MAYO DEL 2017 (posted by VideosOficialesCMLL) CMLL YouTube: 2017-05-02 2017-05-02
ok Blue Panther, Blue Panther Jr., The Panther vs Rey Bucanero, Terrible, Vangellys LUCHA LIBRE MARTES DE NUEVOS VALORES EN LA ARENA MEXICO 2 DE MAYO DEL 2017 (posted by VideosOficialesCMLL) CMLL YouTube: 2017-05-02 2017-05-02
ok Atlantis, Rey Cometa, Valiente vs Cavernario, Felino, Mr. Niebla LUCHA LIBRE MARTES DE NUEVOS VALORES EN LA ARENA MEXICO 2 DE MAYO DEL 2017 (posted by VideosOficialesCMLL) CMLL YouTube: 2017-05-02 2017-05-02
ok Oro Jr. & Starman vs Arkángel de la Muerte & Espíritu Negro 2017-05-05 CMLL on ClaroSports (posted by thecubsfan) CMLL on ClaroSports.com: 2017-05-05 2017-05-05
ok Ángel de Oro vs Ripper in a lightning match 2017-05-05 CMLL on ClaroSports (posted by thecubsfan) CMLL on ClaroSports.com: 2017-05-05 2017-05-05
ok Dragón Lee, Stuka Jr., Titán vs Euforia, Niebla Roja, Último Guerrero 2017-05-05 CMLL on ClaroSports (posted by thecubsfan) CMLL on ClaroSports.com: 2017-05-05 2017-05-05
ok Carístico, Diamante Azul, Marco Corleone vs La Máscara, Pierroth, Rush 2017-05-05 CMLL on ClaroSports (posted by thecubsfan) CMLL on ClaroSports.com: 2017-05-05 2017-05-05
below average Arkalis, Black Tiger, Príncipe Diamante vs Arkángel de la Muerte, Nitro, Toro Bill Jr. LA MEJOR LUCHA LIBRE EN VIVO DESDE LA ARENA PUEBLA 1º DE MAYO DEL 2017 (posted by VideosOficialesCMLL) CMLL YouTube: 2017-05-01 2017-05-01
below average Estrellita, Marcela, Princesa Sugehit vs Amapola, Dalys, Zeuxis 2017-05-05 CMLL on ClaroSports (posted by thecubsfan) CMLL on ClaroSports.com: 2017-05-05 2017-05-05