Volador Jr. goes for his 20th defense of the NWA Historic Welterweight Championship tonight in Arena Mexico. It appears to be Taven’s final match in Mexico for this tour. Taven’s previous big matches in CMLL have gone pretty well, Volador will likely want to go all out in an Arena Mexico main event, so it should be worth watching. It’ll be also worth seing if Taven brings a different flow to the match or if it follows Volador’s big move/kickout/rest/repeat rhythm.
The semimain has Rush & La Bestia teaming once again with Kraneo against Atlantis, Caristico and Valiente. The Kraneo big matches make sense if they’re going some place with him. It’s not clear they are, and it’s CMLL bizarre that he’s teamed more with Los Ingobernables on Friday nights than Terrible. It certainly seems like CMLL is not behind that storyline with how little follow up they’ve done.
The Axis of Evil is back together on a Friday night for the first time in a while, taking on the Peste Negra unit of Mr. Niebla, Negro Casas and Cavernario. Sam Adonis is threatening to put Casas out for two more months. Felino is one match lower, teaming with Drago Rojo & Kawato San against the Panther family. The women’s match is a repeat of H2L: Kobayahi, Marcela and Princesa Sugehit versus Dalys, La Seductora and Zeuxis. The rudas won the previous meeting. The show opens up with Flyer & Robin taking on Akuma & Templario in what seems like a much better than usual CMLL primera.
The show starts locally at 8:30pm. It’s still an hour later (9:30 CT/10:30 ET) if you’re in the US or Canada or anywhere else who switched their clocks. Mexico starts Daylight Savings Time early Sunday morning, which means this problem goes away for people in the US – but people in Japan have to get used to the same one hour later bit for the next six months.
The show will air on MarcaClaro’s Facebook page – link is up already, so they may remember to start on time this time. That’ll be the best way to watch; the website link is geoblocked again.
Local promoters KDNA said Verano de Escandalo on June 3rd in Monterrey’s Plaza de Toros Monumental. That’s a Sunday, so probably around 6 or 7pm CT start on Twitch. Verano de Escandalo is the last major show prior to TripleMania. KDNA says they’ll have the card next week, though announcing an AAA card two months ahead of time just seems like a way to be announcing an incorrect lineup.
MDA announced Ricky Banderas would be coming to their promotion. That’s who is in the picture, anyway – the text is careful not to use any name.
MedioTiempo interviews Los Alvarados about their futbol fandom. They’re all America fans, but Maximo is the only one in tears over the outcomes. Maximo cried when the team wins a final, and he cried when the team loses a final (and his son hugged him to tell him it would get better.) Maximo is guessing this weekend’s America game against Cruz will be a 5-0 win, while Psycho Clown and La Mascara are only saying 3-0.
Reto 4 Elementos is doing a bit where one person who lost early on the show may get to return, based on hash tags. This includes the AAA crew. AAA’s mentioned it but hasn’t pushed it hard, which might mean they’re content not have to go back on the show again. (Australian Suicide seems to be getting votes though.) Anyway, if there’s a chance they might end up back on the show, that also might be why they haven’t been around AAA except for a Zona Ruda appearance.
Mary Apache’s daughter Natsumi debuted in Stardom on March 28th. She took the loss to Io Shirai. Faby & Mary Apache appear to have been an unbeatable team in the promotion, and will team with Natsumi on Stardom’s 04/01 show.
Puma King has a video of his travels thru March.
LuchaWorld has the latest edition of their podcast.
Caristico says if Mistico keeps betraying him, he’ll have to confront him.
Imagen has a video story on the micro luchadors (and some minis.)
Horacero has a story on brothers who were unmasked in Arena Mexico. I have no idea why they used a Fiero picture.
Atlantis says a mask vs mask match is the most important match for a luchador, can’t go to wrestling shows as a fan because too many people spot him masked or not.
Super Astro & Super Astro Jr. were interviewed on Claro.