On Informa yesterday, Cuatrero & Sanson announced they’ve vacated the Arena Coliseo Tag Team championship and are entering the CMLL World tag team tournament. It’s unclear why they would have to give up the other set of tag belts to challenge for this one, except CMLL wants to move those belts onto someone else without having the NGD lose. It is clear they’re still going to lose, since Cuatrero & Sanson are obviously not advancing to the final since it’s on Homenaje a Dos Leyendas and Cuatrero is facing Angel de Oro in a mask match on that show.
It would take five seconds to say “if Cuatrero (or Angel de Oro) advance to the final, we’ll hold the tournament final on a different day”, but that apparently is too costly a five seconds for CMLL to spend on making sense.
CMLL’s press release on the situation makes it sound as if there will be a match for the vacant Arena Coliseo Tag Team Championship, not a third tag team tournament. We can only hope.
The CMLL Teleformula show is being called “A Ras de Lona“. At least for the first couple weeks, it appear to be airing the same exact matches that CMLL is airing on Azteca USA.
AAA’s partner in Monterrey, KDNA, says they’re hosting a TV taping on March 25th. If that’s correct, that means AAA would be taping (and airing on Twitch) three times in eight days. They’d start with a Cuernavaca taping on Saturday, go to San Luis Potosi on Wednesday and end up in Monterrey. It would also suggest many matches will end up being Twitch exclusive, because be taping too much material to air unless they get a longer time slot.
AAA has a press conference today in Puebla with Fantasma & Texano to talk about their Rey de Reyes apuesta match. There’s a chance we could find more about that show’s lineup. They’d probably have announced it if not for the Rey de Reyes qualifying matches coming up and they may still.
The complete list of people under consideration for DTU’s Visoria contest, winner gets a trip to Dragon Gate for a tryout:
- Mini Flash (Veracruz)
- Cobre (DTU)
- Kevin Nerd (DTU)
- Lokillo (DTU)
- Jimmy (DTU)
- Rey Volador (Veracruz)
- Sadico (Tampico)
- Rey Gladiador (Pachuca)
- Adrenalina (Guadalajara)
- Vengador (Queretaro)
- Kastigador (Quetetaro)
- Moria (DTU)
The winner will be decided on Saturday’s Arena Neza show. I’m guessing Cobre. Whoever told “Rey Volador” to go with that name, be it himself or his trainer or his friends, is doing him a disservice by letting him use a generic name.
03/03 Pura Raza Productions at Arena Lopez Mateos has so far
- Princesa Sugehit vs Zexuis
- NGD vs Dragon Lee, Mistico and Rush
- Audaz & Titan vs Sadico & Yoruba
- Los Traumas vs Jean & Pierre Montanez in a submission match
The Montanez are said to be MMA fighters, so this is a mixed style match. I couldn’t find anything about them with a quick search and they didn’t turn up in Sherdog’s Fight Finder.
The Crash announced Penta 0M vs Austin Aries at WrestleCon on 04/06. The WON reported it’s unlikely Rey Misterio Jr. will be on this show – not because of a WWE deal, but because he’s currently scheduled in England the night before.
The Gladiatores has a fuller report on the Baja Callifornia awards. Black Danger vs Arkangel Divino on 01/21 won luchador of the year and Black Danger was awarded luchador of the year. It does seem like only those licensed thru or belonging to Baja Calfiornia were eligible, which probably reduces the amount of The Crash matches which could be picked.
+LuchaTV talks to Terrible about advancing to the tournament final.
LuchaWorld had the latest news update.
Segunda Caida reviews Lucha Undergorund episode 3×31.