Recapped: 02/18/18
Matches:
Fantasy & Último Dragóncito beat Pequeño Violencia & Pierrothito
(9:23 [4:08, 3:10, 2:05], 2/3, n/r, via VideosOficialesCMLL)
Astral, Oro Jr., Star Jr. beat Espanto Jr., Nitro, Sangre Azteca
(13:15 [5:25, 3:02, 4:48], 2/3, n/r, via VideosOficialesCMLL)
Audaz, Fuego, Guerrero Maya Jr. beat Kawato San, Misterioso Jr., Virus
(11:57 [6:34, 2:39, 2:44], 2/3, ok, via VideosOficialesCMLL)
Felino, Hechicero, Rey Bucanero beat Rey Cometa, Soberano Jr., Titán
(7:56 [5:39, 0:50, 1:27], 1/3, ok, via VideosOficialesCMLL)
Cuatrero beat Ángel de Oro
(11:04 [2:46, 1:49, 6:29], 1/3 DQ, ok, via VideosOficialesCMLL)
Carístico, Niebla Roja, Valiente beat Ephesto, Luciferno, Mephisto
(14:29 [6:27, 3:25, 4:37], 1/3, ok, via VideosOficialesCMLL)
What happened:
Without provocation, Angel de Oro fouls Cuatrero and unmasks them. Mask match challenges followed, and they agreed to the match the next day.
It’s unclear why Tirantes disqualifies the rudos in the second fall of the fourth match. It might be Felino & Rey Bucanero both being in the ring too long while untying Soberano & Titan’s mask. No one, including the announcers, is all that sure.
Thoughts:
A not very exciting main event finished a not very exciting show. Even by usual Tuesday easy matches, this one seemed boring during the rudo control portion, just a lot of stomping. The técnicos were not much better. Mephisto giving up before Niebla Roja even finished applying his finish was a proper way to finish this.
The singles match had not much of action early, replacing it with a lot of mask ripping. I can understand trying to get over the feud if this was on a Friday show. The Tuesday show is either hardcore fans who will go to anything, or tourist fans who don’t care about any of this. This probably happened on a Tuesday because it was just the date where it worked out to have this match, but it didn’t feel right for the setting. They picked it up later on, but it was a lot of just generic back and forth. I’m not really any more sold on this feud than Gran Guerrero & Niebla Roja, except for knowing that turned out fine in the end.
The fourth match seemed to be a moving along as a fun match for this level that both sides quickly gave up on once Tirantes called the second fall DQ. This was really disappointing given the names involved and I could see grading it lower. I give them some credit because it seemed like Tirantes called the DQ himself to mess up the match, but we were still left with a pretty short match.
At this point, the lucha libre action seems to moving way too fast for Kawato to keep up and he seems lost or unsure what to do. This is weeks ago by time you read this, so hopefully he’s gotten much better. Misterioso being his mentor, perhaps because Virus is busy was Audaz, was an unexpected development. The rest of the match was an ordinary match, except for noting Fuego & Audaz is a previously rare team of CMLL wrestlers from Oaxaca. Maybe it won’t be rare going forward.