AAA on Twitch: 2018-05-31

Taurus returns violently

Recapped: 05/31/2018

Matches: 

Dragón Bane, Freelance, Iron Kid (Estado de México) beat Draztick Boy, Impulso, Low Rider
(7:54, Dragon Bane 630 splash on Draztick Boy, good)

Big Mami & Niño Hamburguesa © beat La Hiedra & Villano III Jr. to keep the AAA World Mixed Tag Team Championship
(8:20, Hamburger splash Villano III, good)

Faby Apache © beat Ashley to keep the AAA’s Reina de Reinas championship
(6:35, Faby Apache German suplex, ok )

Australian Suicide beat Lanzelot to keep the AAA World Cruiserweight Championship
(5:57, Suicide tornillo SSP, ok)

Dark Cuervo, Dark Scoria, La Parka beat Dave The Clown, Joe Lider, Parka Negra
(6:27, Parka arm scissors Dave, ok)

La Máscara & Máximo beat Histeria & Psicosis
(9:29, Máximo kiss + elbow driver Psicosis, ok)

Murder Clown beat Pagano
(17:33, Taurus interference→ Murder Clown pin, below average, )

Hijo del Fantasma & Pagano went to a no contest with  Rey Escorpión & Texano Jr. © for the AAA World Tag Team Championship
(9:54, ref stop after Fatnasma walked out, ok, )

What happened: 

Pagano misses badly

(Black) Taurus returned to AAA, making multiple unexplained run-ins on the night. He attacked Lady Shani following the Faby Apache/Ashley match, attacked Psycho Clown in a segment explaining Psycho wasn’t cleared to wrestle tonight, and attacked Pagano at the close of his match with Murder Clown. Taurus wore an ELITE shirt during his appearances.

Psycho Clown & doctor appeared in the ring during the show to explain Psycho Clown wanted to wrestle but was not being allowed due to a knee injury. Psycho was not heavily showing sign of a knee injury and it appears as if he’ll still be wrestling on Sunday.

The rest of the show as building up Verano de Escandalo and TripleMania matches. The OGT did an in-ring promo solely to destroyed by Poder del Norte again. Shani attacked Faby Apache after her title match to continue the build towards TripleMania. Fantamsa argued with Psycho Clown and walked out on replacement partner Pagano in the main event (which ended with no finish.) The broadcast ended with Hugo as interviewer backstage, watching these people restart fighting backstage with the rest of the AAA roster trying to separate them. A masked MAD wrestler stood off to the side watching, very visible on screen but ignored by the other wrestlers.

That was the old MAD live appearance. A vignette, implied to be from this show but clearly taped at another building, had Kross & Guerrera & masked accomplices harrassing workers at a show. A hype video for Kross aired, as well as the videos for Sammy Guevara and Darbin Allin shown recently. There was also a profile video of Drago.

Thoughts:

Iron Kid dive

This lineup looked like a flashback to the AAA shows early this year and played out the same way: there was some really good stuff early, and the last few matches were not any good. The overall show seemed good for a while when watching it, though it doesn’t really hold up when I look back at everything.

The main event was an ill considered way to end the night. Even if Psycho Clown was legitamately unable to wrestle, the fans had seen Pagano just wrestle for 15 minutes in an unimpressive fashion and weren’t eager to see him come right back out again. Pagano himself couldn’t seem to decide if he should be selling the previous match, and understanable didn’t have much to do in this match. I’m unsure why they made it a title match, since Fantasma walking out on just made those titles seem not that important. A non-finish is a really hard way to end a show too.

Pagano/Murder Clown was a sloppy mess, with embarrassingly bad moments. Pagano is over with enough of the crowd and seems to be a made man in AAA, and no amount of bad matches are going to change how he’s being used. If this happened in a match where Pagano didn’t have that equitiy, he’d be mocked forever for the moonsault that missed terribly. Pagano’s not lazy when it comes to wrestling, but he just seems techinically poor at it. They gave these guys all the props they wanted to make the match workable, and they instead tended to just to find ways to make it less safe for them. This was exactly what it looked like it was going to be. The good part was it meant they wouldn’t be working with anyone else, but then the main event came.

careful with your arm

Vipers/Alvarados was the same match as the last taping, only with more chair spots. Máximo might have cared less too. I cared less. The crowd didn’t care at all. The Vipers are clearly trying to make a good impression on new management but suffer from not being all that good at this point in their career. It was obvious time filler match and it filled about 10 minutes.

Same Dave/Parka trios match as always. There was some half decent stuff for the others, Dave not being much good, and Parka getting the win. This is a garbage feud that only exists to keep Parka happy. The OGTs put Poder del Norte at every occasion and it’ll look like a bigger win for Averno’s trio for it. Parka beats Dave the Clown pretty much all of the time, so he’s really just locked himself into a feud with a loser. At least it was short.

Australian Suicide & Lanzelot’s rematch wasn’t near as good as their first match. They seemed sloppy at times – the moonsault that was blocked but not sold as blocked was no good – and the level of the action wasn’t as good as previous matches. There were a few ok spots but it was overall a disappointment. There were far worse matches on this show, but these guys have had better matches at pretty much every taping.

Dragon Bane 630

Ashley’s weak dropkicks were a rough way to start of her title match with Faby Apache. It got better, and Faby gave Ashley a lot more than she had to. The crowd just didn’t buy into Ashley at all, and weren’t much into this match. Faby’s one of the best of the world and looked in this match, so there was no way it was going to be bad. It still didn’t work as well as it given the long lead up.

The mixed tag match was probably the best these two teams have had, a borderline good match that made the most of what they could do, and unexpectedly was the second best match on the show. It’s not an exceptional lucha libre match but it was perfectly fun one with more wrestling than they’ve done in the past. It had the comedy of the previous matches, but the rudos also got to show more of what they can do beyond stooge around for the champs. V3’s probably can do more than he’s showing in these but these also wouldn’t be close to good without him.

The special opener on this show was not quite at the level as the last two, but still would’ve been a standout match in the first quarter of the year. They may a lot of the lesser amount of time they had, and it was generally another match built around a lot of spots where the spots all looked really good. Freelance looked as great as usual in his once every few years cameo in this promotion. His dives and his partners were the highlights of this match despite not much room to do them.