CMLL (MON) 10/30/2017 Arena Puebla [CMLL, Efekto, Wrestling With GIFs]
1) El Perverso & King Jaguar b Millenium & París 
2) Cancerbero & Raziel b Espíritu Maligno & Tigre Rojo Jr.
3) Virus b Astral [lightning]
4) Olímpico, Pólvora, Sagrado b Blue Panther Jr., Fuego, Rey Cometa
5) Diamante Azul, Marco Corleone, Soberano Jr. b Hechicero, Kráneo, Rey Bucanero
6) Mistico, Valiente, Volador Jr. b Cavernario, Ephesto, Mephisto
This show didn’t sound good outside of Soberano’s performance. The Voldaor/Cavernario stuff last week wasn’t followed up on.
There’s not a lot more interesting coming on today’s Arena Mexico show. CMLL hypes it as the last show of the month and the last show before Dia de Muertos, which is not an exactly exciting sell. The most interesting match is probably a seven minute one, as Zeuxis faces Lady Maravilla. Maravilla had good performances before coming to CMLL, but has only shown a little of it since her debut. Facing Zeuxis is her best opportunity to do a little more.
Last week was the Niebla Roja/Cavernario title match, and there’s no other new big story here yet. Sunday’s regular lineup says CMLL feels no urgency to have big main events for the Dia del Muertos show, so I would not expect anything big there. The main event is Hijos del Infierno vs Angel de Oro, Marco Corleone, and Niebla Roja. Soberano is back, teaming with Panther, Guerrero Maya against Rey Bucanero, Terrible and Vangellys. The Panther Brothers team with Johnny Idol versus Sagrado, Disturbio and Misterioso. The show has a minis match with Electrico, Shockercito, Stukita versus Mercurio, Pequeno Olimpico and Pierrothito and opens with Flyer & Magia Blanca & Apocalipsis & Cholo.
Again, the show will be an hour later – 8:30pm – this one time only.
CMLL & ROH announced Esfinge & Rey Cometa are working the ROH 11/17 San Antonio and 11/18 Dallas Survival of the Fittest shows. Misterioso & The Panther worked these shows last year.
Naito is teasing the idea of visiting Mexico in November.
Ricky Marvin announced on Facebook late Monday that he’s done in AAA. He’s looking to pick up independent bookings. Marvin was not listed on any upcoming TV tapings, and his last appearance would’ve been as part of the domed cage match at Heroes Inmortales. The original plan for the cage match seemed to be setting up Marvin losing, but then the teams of Poder del Norte and Aerostar/Drago/Raptor were added to the match during the show and Tito Santana lost instead. Marvin came into AAA on a hot indie run after leaving NOAH and is leaving the promotion colder, but his international recognition should help him get going. Ricky will probably wrestle for upper level indie groups (and maybe The Crash), but he also should be in a guy in demand for seminars and advice from the guys who work those groups, since he’s been the places they’d like to be.
AAA has been promoting the main event of Friday’s TV taping in Queretaro as Rey Escorpion versus Psycho Clown. The card lists it as a three way with Texano, and I wonder if that’s somehow a quiet acknowledgement Teaxno won’t be there. Maybe he’ll already be in Ontario for the Impact tapings by that. That would also mean the semimain would have to change, since Pagano’s probably going to Impact too. It also could just be AAA being random and Texano being moved into a different match without AAA explaining it.
Something’s changed with the Lucha Underground wrestler contract status again. Originally, the idea was no one under contract to LU could appear on any other US based wrestling show. Then, Lucha Libre FMV (which manages the contracts and is run by Dorian Roldan) seemed to allow people to appear on Impact, but it seemed to be only available to those people who were good terms with AAA. Those who walked out of AAA couldn’t work Impact, but even those LU people who never were part of AAA seemed unable to appear on TV. (This apparently is what led to Ricochet not wrestling on the NJPW US shows, and his speaking part being edited out later.) Now, it looks like Impact is able to use those guys – LU workers who weren’t part of AAA – on their TV. PW Insider says Sami Callihan will debut on their upcoming tapings, and that Impact tried to recruit Ricochet but turned down (because Ricochet has obviously been going to WWE since last June and isn’t going to screw that up, but it was worth a shot.) There’s no way Impact is going to put someone on TV unless they’re allowed to be on TV, so something’s changed with Callihan and Ricochet’s status.
It could be that LU/Lucha Libre FMV have softened their stance even more when it comes to allowing people on Impact now that there’s no TV show on the air, and possibly no TV show on the air ever again. Or maybe because Impact’s a Canada based show now, they’re not bound by the same rules? All I know for sure is Callihan is obviously showing up, because it was teased heavily on TV and all the guys he normally works with have shown up in Impact lately.
The reason this matters on the lucha side immediately is it appeared Johnny Mundo was still working in AAA primarily because it allowed Johnny Impact and Taya to get some work on Impact, and that wouldn’t be available to them if he walked on AAA. Johnny’s been more professional than most would be in his circumstance, so I would guess he might still stick around until the scheduled end of his run. But that might be his choice now rather than his obligation. (Or, these contracts could continue be applied very differently in different situations – that seems to be the one consistent thing about them by now.)
This all becomes moot if/when LU is canceled, and really important if/when LU S4 is picked up. There’s still nothing official. El Rey’s deadline to renew will come at some point, sooner than later, and everything continues to be on hold until the deadline pressure forces a decision.
126F Pro Wrestling Magazine has a bunch of quotes from The Crash’s Nacho de la O. I assume there was a press conference for Saturday’s Tijuana show yesterday. The latest story in the never ending quest for TV is the pilot has been delivered, The Crash is hoping to hear back within three weeks, and they hope to be airing shows by the end of the year.
The tag team titles are vacant. Nacho said there would be a match for the vacant championship on the 11/06 Nuevo Laredo show between the Lucha Brothers, War Machine and the team of Mecha Wolf & Willie Mack. (The current chard has Wolf & Mack in a singles match and Bestia & Taurus in that match.) Nacho also explained The Hardy Boys will be coming back to The Crash in two years, just as soon as their WWE contracts are done. They’re going to have new/better belts for the winners.
The Crash would like to expand their deal with CMLL, and very specifically bring in Dragon Lee. They’re working at bringing in Kenny Omega & Will Ospreay in the first quarter of 2018.
They say they’re running Tennessee in November (?) and have plans to run in the US in 2018, but they’re going to take their time on that. They’re already announced for New Orleans for WM week, but that didn’t seem to be mentioned.
DTU announced Violento Jack vs GCW’s Jimmy Lloyd on 12/03.
IWRG is posting videos on Castillo del Terror entrants. The one on mystery newcomer Capo del Norte lists him as a 6 year vet, trained by Navarro, Terry, Bucanero and Morgan, and wrestled in IWRG, Puerto Rico and AULL.
Nicho is listed on the 12/17 Mucha Lucha Alantis show, which would be his return or close to it.
In Arena Aficion, Vulcano Jr. & Angel Azul took Copernico’s mask and Esquimal I’s hair. Copernico is Miguel Garcia, from Mexico State, 51 years old, 30 years a wrestler.
Arlequin Negro took Coco Amarillo’s hair in a cage match.
LuchaWorld has this week’s Poster-Mania.
Segunda Caida checks out Imposible vs Relampago.
Box Y Lucha’s year end awards ceremony are 12/04. These come with a party, and usually controversy about very unfamiliar luchadors winning awards (with suspicions Box Y Lucha is essentially selling the awards.)
Lineups
CMLL (MON) 11/06/2017 Arena Puebla
1) Lestat, Rey Samuray, Tigre Rojo Jr. vs Fuerza Chicana, Perverso, Policeman
2) La Vaquerita, Lady Maravilla, Sanely vs La Comandante, Reyna Isis, Tiffany
3) Johnny Idol, Rey Cometa, Stigma vs El Malayo, Olímpico, Virus
4) Volador Jr. vs Negro Casas [lightning]
5) Mistico, Niebla Roja, Valiente vs Kráneo, Rey Bucanero, Terrible
Maybe Cavernario had some place to be on Monday, because Negro Casas seems like a fill in. A good fill in, but still. This is a shorter card than usual and one not that interesting outside the lightning match.