Impact Wrestling announced their 04/06 show at WrestleCon will now be a co-promoted show with Lucha Underground and air live for free on Impact’s Twitch. Pentagon, Fenix, King Cuerno, Drago, Aerostar, Killshot, Matanza, The Mack, Jack Evans are listed so far as LU wrestlers. Austin Aries, Alberto El Patron, Eli Drake, Moose, Eddie Edwards, LAX, oVe and Sami Callihan, Trevor Lee, Brian Cage, Allie, Rosemary, Taya Valkyrie and Scott Steiner are listed as Impact, though obviously there’s people who fit in both promotions. No matches announced. Johnny Mundo is noticeably not listed for either side, so far. Teddy Hart was earlier announced for this show but doesn’t appear on this list.
This is billed in the press release as a deal Dorian Roldan put together with Impact – and as so, it’s a rare live event where Pentagon and Fenix can be billed simply as “Pentagon” and “Fenix.” Those guys are already working The Crash show, and it’s now possible some of the other wrestlers being brought in for this show (Cuerno/Fatnasma, Drago, Aerostar) might also pop up elsewhere since all the promotions like to share talent (and share the costs of bringing in talent) on this weekend.
That LU/Impact show is the late show on Friday night at WrestleCon, which goes up against the WWE HOF ceremony. The Crash show is the early show, with the UK’s RevPro in between.
The latest MMM show talks a lot about the experience of going to the first set of S4 Lucha Underground shows (without spoilers), and tell the story of the 90s rapper who happened to come along with. I usually listen to their podcast but this might be a better one to watch for the visual aids.
The Crash
The Crash on 04/06 at WrestleCon
- Penta el Zero M vs Austin Aries
Fenix vs FlamitaFenix vs Flamita vs Rich Swann- Rey Hours vs Flip Gordon vs Laredo Kid
- Rebelion Amarilla (Bestia 666, Mr. 450, Garza Jr.) versus LWO (LA Park, Damian 666, Nicho)
- Daga vs Willie Mack vs Brian Cage vs Sami Callihan – NEW
- OVE vs Black Boy & Bandido vs Zachary Wentz & Dezmond Xavier – I think it’s a tag match, anyway – NEW
- Also appearing: Black Danger
That’s got to be pretty close to the full card.
AAA
Record has an interview with person in charge of Latin American for Twitch, Ignacio Estanga, who says working out a deal to stream AAA was part of a plan to build viewership for their site in Mexico. Estanga said they’d be open to doing a deal with CMLL as well if they were interested. My impression is CMLL is doing better in views on YouTube right now, helped by having a couple year lead up.
La Parka, Hijo del Vikingo and Angelikal went on a tour of Puebla to promote Sunday’s show.
R de Rudo pointed out Hahastary has apparently changed her name to Hades. AAA filed for a trademark on that name back on February 9th, part of a series of trademarks for Australian Suicide, Bengala, and (again!) Penta Zero M. None have been officially approved; there are ones AAA filed from last September which haven’t been authorized yet, the process just is slow.
AAA’s Twitch will stream Chessman playing video games this afternoon at 4pm, as part of a new feature called LUCHA GAMER. He’ll be playing Street Fighter V & FIFA 18.
Xataka has a story about the 2010 AAA Lucha Libre Heroes del Ring video game. There’s a lot about the game and how it came to be that I’m going to accidentally overshadow by noting the article mentions the game sold 25K copies for PS3, and 8K for XBox360. That’s why there wasn’t a second one.
Vampiro was on Steve Austin’s podcast. Haven’t listened but will. My favorite thing already is Austin asked for questions on Twitter for the podcast, and Vampiro just started answering them all on Twitter.
CMLL
CMLL (TUE) 03/06/2018 Arena México
1) Stukita & Último Dragóncito vs Mercurio & Pequeño Nitro
2) Flyer, Magnus, Príncipe Diamante vs Metálico, Príncipe Odín Jr., Sangre Azteca
3) Arkángel de la Muerte vs Hijo del Signo [lightning]
4) Drone, Fuego, Guerrero Maya Jr. vs Disturbio, Misterioso Jr., Sagrado
5) Audaz, Dragón Lee, Soberano Jr. vs Ephesto, Luciferno, Mephisto
6) Gran Guerrero, Marco Corleone, Máscara Año 2000 vs Kráneo, Pierroth, Rush [Relevos Increíbles]
Drone is listed as returning. This would be his first match in over 40 days, after apparently being suspended following his performance on the FantasticaMania tour.
Arkangel/Signo seems bad. The main event seemed like it might be setting up a Pierroth/Mascara2K match. Might be worse.
Audaz leaping by the Fuego & Maya guys to be up with Dragon Lee & Soberano is a surprise.
Tuesday’s Guadalajara lineup:
CMLL (TUE) 03/06/2018 Arena Coliseo Guadalajara
1) Omar Brunetti & Rielero vs Difunto & Guerrero de la Muerte
2) Kaho Kobayashi, La Vaquerita, Marcela vs Amapola, Metálica, Zeuxis
3) Esfinge, Titán, Tritón vs Cuatrero, Forastero, Sansón
4) Diamante Azul, Mistico, Valiente vs Euforia, Furia Roja, Último Guerrero
5) Atlantis © vs Cavernario [MEX LH]
4th defense
So that confirms Cavernario will have singles matches on three straight days: Dragon Lee on Sunday, Volador on Monday and Atlantis on Tuesday. Only this Guadalajara match has a title on the line. Still a decent chance he could go 0-3. All the losses would make sense as individual matches and no one’s looking at all these things together.
Puma King has relaunched his YouTube channel as one that’ll follow around his life and travels. His first video, with his wife Barby, is up now. As a guy struggling to get attention inside CMLL, this seems like a plan to get himself attention outside of it.
ROH World has a good interview with Soberano about his career, goals, and incompetent referees. He says he’s studying Flip Gordon’s match with Punishment Martinez to see if he can do some of the same things when he faces Martinez this Saturday.
Cuatrero talked about his mask match. There’s a video interview as well.
Others
No full results from IWRG yet. Pachuca/LLB’s Ram el Caranero lost his hair to Lunatik Extreme in the main event cage match.
Canek was on Azteca to promote the upcoming Arena Azteca (Elite) show. Canek is 65 and absolutely should not be wrestling, but I guess we’ll be getting him in the ring at some point. The important thing is Azteca is doing interviews to promote the show, so they really believe it’s starting on 03/11. ELITE hasn’t publicly said anything since 02/12, when they canceled the last show.
A highlight video from the recent DTU Arena Aficion show.
LuchaTalk has a new episode.
Lineup
MDA (SUN) 03/11/2018 Arena Coliseo Monterrey
1) Octagoncito vs Mini Hator
2) Chik Tormenta vs Mystique
3) Emperador Azteca (IWRG) vs The Tiger
4) Trauma I & Trauma II vs Caifan II & El Divo
5) Hijo del Dr. Wagner Jr. vs Hijo de LA Park
6) Sharly Rockstar vs Juventud Guerrera
7) LA Park vs Rey Wagner vs Zorro
Only Zorro & Juvy representing MAD on the next MDA show, though they’re hinting at new members.
Hijo del Dr. Wagner Jr. getting to use AAA TV to make him more valuable as an indie guy is weird, but surely the deal everyone agreed with. Situations change and we don’t know the exact circumstances, but I wonder how things would’ve worked out had Fenix, Penta, Daga and other been offered the same freedom within that seems to be afforded to guys like Pagano & the Wagners.