Azteca did show clips of Negro Casas being honored, but skipping that match and the title change is bizarre. I thought maybe they were splitting up the episode into two until they showed the main event. It always seems Lucha Azteca is not a show designed to get over CMLL’s storylines.
CMLL Lucha Azteca: 2018-08-12
taped 2018-08-03 @ Arena México – Mega
1) El Audaz & Fuego vs Templario & Virus
2) Ángel de Oro, Blue Panther Jr., Niebla Roja vs Ephesto, Luciferno, Mephisto
3) King Phoenix, LA Park, Penta El Zero M vs Jay Briscoe, Mark Briscoe, Rush
IWRG (SUN) 08/12/2018Arena Naucalpan [+LuchaTV, The Gladiatores]
1) Holocausto b Shalom Shalom replaced Chicanito
2) Death Metal & Picudo Jr. b Kanon & Shadow Boy Kanon replaced Mexica. Picudo Jr. dedicated the win to Picudo.
3) Lolita, Pasion Cristal, Relámpago b Diablo Jr., Diosa Atenea, Dragón Bane
4) Emperador Azteca, Hijo del Alebrije, Multifacetico II b Hijo de Pirata Morgan, Súper Mega, Warrior Jr. Warrior Jr. replaced Super Mega
5) Dr. Cerebro b Trauma II [IWRG IC MIDDLE] 2nd defense
6) El Mesías, Hijo De Dos Caras, Imposible b El Hijo del Medico Asesino, Ovett, Trauma I Ovett replaced Mr. Electro. Mesias beat Trauma in the first, Medico & Ovett won the second fall, and Mesias got the three count on Trauma I in the third fall, but Trauma had gotten his shoulder up before that three count. Trauma I appealed for a fourth fall. The commission said OK, and Mesias said OK only if it was just him and Trauma I. Trauma I agreed and won, though his feet may have been in the ropes. Challenges followed.
IWRG’s been teasing a Mesias/Trauma I match since Mesias’ last appearance here, so it’s strange they would just sort of do it unbilled. It is IWRG.
Holocausto is luchador from Hidalgo who’s appeared on IWRG before. You can see his last appearance; he’s the guy in the non-descript black gear. (Death Metal is the guy who catches your eye in that match.) Shalom is a Freelance trainee who’s appeared in the last two FILL/Copa Higher Power cibernetico. It’s possible he was just the guy around Chicancito wasn’t around and IWRG didn’t even think about it the connotation of their match when they sent it to the ring. It’s an opener, so it’s not like IWRG drew any attention from having a Jewish-themed wrestler losing to the actual holocaust, but it’s also an IWRG opener so they could’ve done whatever result they wanted to do at no cost and that was the one they decided to go with.
My general sense is people in Mexican wrestling just see things like this as signifying nothing, not to be taken seriously and not to draw any meaning from it. There’s a definitely a cultural thing at play – look at the reactions to +LuchaTV posting about it on Twitter (which tend to be from outside of Mexico) and then non-reaction to the same on Facebook. It’s a lesson not to read too deeply into lucha libre, because the people responsible (and many of the people covering it) are not even thinking about it too much on a surface level. And all that said, it’s still flagrantly dumb and there’s plenty of smart people around IWRG who should’ve pointed out how it crossed way over the bad taste and done something about it.
Tonight’s Puebla show is a typical Puebla show, in that it’s not super interesting. The main event has a rematch of NGD versus Atlantis, Octagon and Matt Taven. It follows up on Sanson unmasking Atlantis last week. They’re possibly setting up to a singles match. This is a rare week where the opener is about as important: Joker pinned Shockercito last week and indicated he wanted a title match, and they meet again this week with Meyer and Mercurio.
Diamante Azul, Soberano, and Valiente take on Hechicero, Mr. Niebla, and Shocker in the semi-main. The tercera has Drone, Stigma, and Triton taking on Malayo, Kawato, and Okumura, which seems like the best chance for a good match on this show. It is typically CMLL weird that Kawato & Star Jr. were working well with each and then stopped getting booked together. La Jarochita & Mistique face Metalica & Reina Isis meet in the women’s match, and perhaps the feud from Friday carries over here. The show airs on 9pm on CMLL Monday.
Fenix (King Phoenix) is off Friday’s Arena Mexico show. He had suggested in post match interviews he wouldn’t be on the show – busy somewhere else, I’d guess – so it was a bit of surprise when he was listed. And a mistake, though it’ll be interesting how it’s handled going forward. Caristico gets moved up to the main event replace him, Diamante Azul is moved up to the semimain (which might mean a lot of ring time with Okada), Guerrero Maya moved up to Azul’s place in the third, and Esfinge is added onto the show in the second. Esfinge and King Phoenix, just about the same! You can see the corrected lineup here.
Valiente & Titan were wrestling in Costa Rica this weekend. While at the show, they helped announce four Costa Rican wrestlers would be coming to CMLL. Sonya, Kaiser, Escualo, Ares are said to be wrestling in Arena Puebla, Arena Coliseo Guadalajara, and Arena Mexico the week of September 24. A subsequent post says luchadora Sonya will be wrestling in Arena Mexico on September 25th. I don’t know this Facebook site, but it appears legitimate. There’s been more “guest” wrestlers in CMLL in the last year than before, with both the Pantera Blanca family and Dick Riviere coming to mind.
NJPW World will air the August 5 CMLL show on August 22nd. That’s the show with Christopher Daniels appearance (and also Drone/Kawato.) NJPW World is also listing a CMLL show on 08/29. I’m sure Okada’s appearance will air on NJPW World at some point, so it’d make since to be the 08/29 show.
Azteca’s Extalon show, including Dragon Lee, begins tonight. It airs on Azteca Uno in Mexico at 7:30pm. This is a three-hour show that airs every weekday. I can not imagine watching three hours of a reality show, I could barely make it thru the 90 minute show the AAA people were on.
MLW announced Pentagon Jr. vs LA Park on 09/06, in a Mexican Massacre match. That’s part of their TV taping though I’m not sure if it’s airing (they mention the show will also have a TV taping, so maybe that’s meant to be separate.) The singles match has not happened in Mexico yet.
Lineup
CMLL (SAT) 08/18/2018Arena Coliseo
1) Angelito & Último Dragóncito vs Pequeño Universo 2000 & Pequeño Violencia
2) La Guerrera, La Vaquerita, Mistique vs Metálica, Reyna Isis, Tiffany
3) Robin vs Cancerbero [lightning]
4) Drone, Fuego, Star Jr. vs Misterioso Jr., Sagrado, Virus
5) Kráneo, Rey Cometa, Valiente vs Ephesto, Forastero, Mephisto
6) Diamante Azul, Matt Taven, Volador Jr. vs La Bestia Del Ring, Mr. Niebla, Shocker
Nothing special here. Maybe they’re setting up another Diamante/Bestia classic. Raziel is still missing.
CMLL (SAT) 08/11/2018Arena Coliseo [CMLL]
1) Leono & Robin b Apocalipsis & Inquisidor tencicos took 2/3
2) La Comandante, Metálica, Tiffany b La Guerrera, Maligna, Princesa Sugehit La Guerrera replaced Lluvia. Rudas took 2/3.
3) Drone, Fuego, Guerrero Maya Jr. b Kawato San, Misterioso Jr., Tiger tecnicos took 2/3
4) Okumura b Black Panther [lightning] Okumura won via superplex.
5) Ephesto, Luciferno, Mephisto b Ángel de Oro, Soberano Jr., Stuka Jr. rudos took 2/3. Money thrown in.
6) Atlantis, Carístico, Diamante Azul b Gran Guerrero, Rey Bucanero, Shocker tecnicos took 2/3.
CMLL (SUN) 08/12/2018Arena México [CMLL]
1) Cholo & El Coyote b Príncipe Diamante & Sonic rudos take 1/3
2) Pegasso, Retro, Stigma b Hijo del Signo, Metálico, Sangre Azteca tecnicos took 1/3.
3) Drone, Fuego, Guerrero Maya Jr. b Disturbio, Universo 2000 Jr., Virus tecnicos took 2/3.
4) Blue Panther, Rey Cometa, Stuka Jr. b Kawato San, Okumura, Tiger tencicos took 2/3.
5) Cavernario b Niebla Roja Cavernario took falls 2/3 to actually win a feud! First time Cavernario won a sequence in two years.
6) Euforia, Gran Guerrero, Último Guerrero b Atlantis, Kráneo, Matt Taven Guerreros took 1/3. UG cheated to beat Taven and Taven demanded a singles match next week.
Taven/UG next week sounds like Taven is finishing up next week. I wonder if Cavernario would’ve gotten a feud win if this was still a feud with Dragon Lee. A win is a win.
Pentagon versus Kenny Omega was officially announced for All In. That’ll be the semi-main on the show, with the Young Bucks & Kota Ibushi vs Rey Mysterio Jr., Rey Fenix, and Bandido as the main event.
Criterio Hidalgo had an interview with local luchador Godzilla, who needs to have a more impressive mask for that name.
Lineups
IWRG (THU) 08/16/2018Arena Naucalpan
1) Mexica & Shadow Boy vs Death Metal & Lunatic Xtreme
2) Black Dragón & Zatura vs Diablo Jr. & Dragón Bane
3) Diva Salvaje, Pasion Cristal, Soy Raymunda vs El Hijo del Diablo, Hantar, Kronoz
4) Ciclón Ramírez, Emperador Azteca, Relámpago vs Alas de Acero, Freelance, Hijo del Alebrije
5) Aramis, Dr. Cerebro, Xtreme Tiger vs Hechicero, Imposible, Último Gladiador
6) Penta 0M vs Rush vs Carístico
A special Thursday show because why not. Main event should get attention, and semeifinal could be pretty good. Second match is interesting.
Lucha Time (SUN) 09/16/2018 Gimnasio Nuevo León Independiente, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon
1) Azarel, Galáctico, Vazco Jr. vs Lince Dorado, Muerte Extrema, Tormento Negro
2) Diosa Quetzal vs Suicci Love, Lady Flammer
3) Hijo del Volador & Rene Guajardo vs Ryan Rogan & Toscano
4) Bestia 666 & Black Taurus vs Psicótico & Sick Boy and Aaron Solow & Ricky Starks
5) Sammy Guevara vs Caifan II, Laredo Kid, Rico Rodríguez
6) Felino & Tiger (CMLL) vs Súper Muñeco & Súper Pinocho
Not a Revolucha show though it’s not far off from one.
AAA TV (FRI) 08/10/2018Auditorio Benito Juárez, Veracruz, Veracruz [AAA, Lucha Central, Record]
1) Angelikal, Dinastía, Vanilla b Draztick Boy, La Hiedra, Villano III Jr. Vanilla suffered a knee injury on a dive. Dinastia beat Villano III.
2) Hijo Del Vikingo, Iron Kid (Estado de México), Niño Hamburguesa b Black Danger, La Parka Negra, Low Rider Hamburguesa gotthe pin.
3) Carta Brava Jr., Mocho Cota Jr., Tito Santana b Ciclón Ramírez, Joe Lider, Juventud Guerrera Juventud betrayed his teammates.
4) Hijo de LA Park & Taurus b Aerostar & Drago Drago’s first match here since Verano de Escandalo (shoulder injury). Parka Negra attacked Hijo de LA Park after, who challenged Negra to a mask vs mask match.
5) Hijo del Fantasma, Rey Escorpión, Texano Jr. b La Máscara, Laredo Kid, Máximo Mascara attacked Maximo as soon as the match started, finally splitting up the team. Match proceeded 5 on 2 (with Samoano helping) until Mamba ran in to help the tecnicos. Fantasma ended up beating Mamba with the Thrill of the Kill.
6) Psycho Clown b Dr. Wagner Jr., LA Park, Pagano Prior to the match, LA Park mocked Wagner for losing his mask to Psycho, and told Psycho he’d show what it meant to really defend a mask. Match was essentially a LA Park/Psycho Clown match with Wagner and Pagano fighting during rest breaks. Fantasma attacked both Park & Psycho, and Psycho got the win on Park. Psycho did not get beat up after.
I saw much less of this show than the CMLL one, but this one was obviously the better of the two. I’m not sure if it’s effort or (relative) lack of exposure compared to the CMLL guys, but the AAA matches feel much less patterned and predictable than the CMLL ones. They also felt more out of control, though a lot of that had to do with LA Park being LA Park in the main event. 3/5 turned into angles, though the angle in the 5th match was so over the top that people seemed to like it for the silliness of it. The rest of the show was more normally good, and the main looked great.
Everyone had caught on that Psycho loses every match to TripleMania before winning at TripleMania, so this main event finish was a bit of a correction to confuse what might happen next.
Rey Escorpion & La Mascara did the Los Ingobernables fist pound after attacking Maximo. It could be those two, Texano & Fantasma end up as the AAA version of the group. Though back in Mexico City, it seemed like they were setting up Escorpion & Texano to team with Parka against MAD and now they’re getting along with Fantasma who is i MAD. I dunno and I’m not sure it matters.
AAA’s official results say the Parka/Park challenge was for a straight singles match, not for a mask one. That probably has a decent chance of being randomly added to a TV show. It’d be an all-time LA Park power move if it happened on TripleMania.
CMLL (FRI) 08/10/2018Arena México [CMLL, ESTO, Lucha Central, Marca, SuperLuchas, thecubsfan]
1) Oro Jr. & Star Jr. b Akuma & Espanto Jr. 8:47. Tecnicos took 1/3.
2) La Jarochita, Marcela, Mystique b Amapola, Dalys, Reyna Isis Tecnicas took 1/3, the last by DQ when Isis unmasked Jarochita.
3) Felino, Negro Casas, Okumura b Flyer, Soberano Jr., Titán Okumura replaced Cavernario (moved up). 11:26. Rudos took 2/3.
4) Valiente b Hechicero [lightning] 9:50 (9:09 on their clock), Valiente submitting Hechicero
5) Carístico, Diamante Azul, Mistico b Euforia, Penta El Zero M, Último Guerrero 10:29. Tecnicos took 2/3.
6) King Phoenix, Matt Taven, Volador Jr. b Cavernario, La Bestia Del Ring, Rush [Relevos Increíbles] Cavernario replaced Terrible (injury) on Tuesday. 7:17. Straight falls DQ. Rush was DQed for unmasking Phoenix. Cavernario unseen fouled Taven in the second fall but Volador made the save. Volador faked a foul from Rush for the second DQ. Challenges followed.
The matches were generally fine, but nothing was exciting outside the lightning match and it didn’t feel nearly as big a show as the one last week. There’s also no sense CMLL is four more Friday nights away from the Anniversario, nothing is being built up specifically that strong.
CMLL added Penta and King Phoenix to the list of wrestlers on the Anniversario show. There are still no matches announced. The Reina Isis/Jarochita bit seemed like it could set up a secondary apuesta match for that show, but it’s not being followed up on next week.
The Saturday show at Arena Coliseo Guadalajara was moved and then canceled a few hours later. It may be restarted and added a few times later at this rate.
CMLL (FRI) 08/17/2018Arena México
1) Oro Jr. & Súper Astro Jr. vs Disturbio & Yago
2) Blue Panther Jr., Guerrero Maya Jr., Rey Cometa vs Dragón Rojo Jr., Okumura, Pólvora
3) Atlantis, Diamante Azul, Kráneo vs Euforia, Gran Guerrero, Rey Bucanero
4) Audaz vs Forastero [lightning]
5) Negro Casas, Okada, Último Guerrero vs Carístico, Mistico, Valiente
6) King Phoenix, Matt Taven, Volador Jr. vs Cavernario, La Bestia Del Ring, Rush
That Okada guy is in the semimain. A lot of NJPW Mexico fans are already upset Okada working loser than La Bestia del Ring, not realizing this means they get to beat the traffic and leave early instead of watching a La Bestia del Ring match. One can only hope that Okada shows up two days early and is forced to give away tickets on Informa.
Main event is setting up some match for 08/24 (the night before TripleMania) but no one seems exactly sure what they’re doing. It could just be that they haven’t figured out what’s replacing Terrible/Rush vs Taven/Volador, or maybe there’s still some hope Terrible will be ready to go by then. At any rate, it’s interesting to see CMLL building up another program including Rush a month before the Anniversario show. And not building much of anything else.
Fourth match should be interesting. There’s as wide a range of opinions on Forastero as most anyone in CMLL, going from “lucky he ended up in the trio with his very good cousins” to “actually the best NGD guy”. Maybe we’ll have a better sense of him on his own.
Valientebeat Hechicero in a lightning match (9:50/”9:09”, estacas india, good, VideosOficialesCMLL)
Carístico, Diamante Azul, Mistico beat Euforia, Penta El Zero M, Último Guerrero (10:29 [2:58, 2:32, 4:59], 2/3, ok, VideosOficialesCMLL)
King Phoenix, Matt Taven, Volador Jr. beat Cavernario, La Bestia Del Ring, Rushin a relevos increíbles match (7:17 [3:03, 4:14], 1 DQ/2 DQ, ok, VideosOficialesCMLL)
What happened:
Misitco diving headscissors
The main event was two straight DQ finishes. Rush faked the corner dropkick on Fenix and pulled off his mask to end the fall instead. Cavernario fouled Taven in the second fall, but Volador broke up the pin. Volador faked a foul moments later, drawing a DQ on Rush. Challenges were made for a straight trios rematch and a Rush/Volador match. Cavernario also suggested a singles match with Taven backstage.
There was no storyline at all in the semi-main. Mistico & Carístico had no issues. Carístico & Penta had slight issues, but Carístico pinned Penta clean in the end. This was followed by a video announcing Penta would be the 09/14 Anniversario show.
There was a clock malfunction in the lightning match; the screen read about 7:47 when the match started, and then CMLL avoided showing it for a while. By my watch, the finish came about 10 seconds short of ten minutes, though they just had started to tease the draw in reality.
Isis pulled off Jarochita’s mask for the DQ in the women’s match. This either means nothing at all or everything during Anniversario season, depending on if they’re back next week.
Thoughts:
opening match teamwork (could be a little cleaner)
The main event was fine while it lasted but it didn’t really last, but it didn’t last long. Usually, two fall main events still go a decent amount of times, but this one felt like a little bit of action a lot of rushing to the finishes. Fenix got to do the least he’s shown since coming here, but that wasn’t as much him as of how everything went. This was really the sort of the main event you get after a big semifinal match, except there wasn’t one of those either.
Mistico & Carístico looked very good working with the rudos in the semimain. Maybe too good, if only because I would’ve thought they’d be setting up something with Penta and they just beat him as no big deal. The crowd was very into the idea of them facing off and they could’ve gotten a lot more out of that. This was a clean and nice trios match but could’ve easily been more.
bad times for Hechicero
Hechicero and Valiente seemed like a match that was going to be a slow started building to a few dives and a finish. Instead, they threw bombs in the first few minutes, with Hechicero both taking a big shot with the armdrag to the floor and coming back with his own moonsault. It was a hard pace early and they kept it up well throughout and felt like a big fight for the win. The crowd was really into the frontcracker reversal sequence late, and cared about the kickouts in a way they don’t normally seem to do in these lightning matches. Hechciero losing to Valiente before a title defense doesn’t make a lot of sense, but it was good otherwise.
Tercera was a generic showcase match for the técnicos, sticking out even more that way because they took the bulk of the first two falls. They ran thru their usual offense before the rudos had much of a chance to do anything. It didn’t really get much more inventive; everything was performed well but it was as if someone just ordered the usual. Okumura being a replacement in this match while his ribs are hurt enough to need wrap is a great CMLL mystery. Perhaps him getting a win over Soberano is a clue.
The women’s match was about the same women’s match as always. Literally as always, as Dalys, Isis and Amapola did the rudo control moves in seemingly the same way they always do. The action is usually OK, but don’t ever watch the other people waiting around to do their move – Jarochita & Reina Isis were holding hands and walking while out of the way when Jarochita was going her dive.
The opener was quick, it had a few decent moves, and it didn’t have Espanto messing up things. That’s an upper tier CMLL opener. Oro was also more solid than usual and he and Star had some good combination offense.
sure way to get Bestia dive is to dive right thru him
if I just use the smushed picture Twitter made, I don’t have to make my own
CMLL & AAA have shows less than an hour away by the time you read this. Maybe much less than an hour away. Maybe they’ve already happened and you’re reading this afterward, in which case a preview isn’t going to do you much good. Not sure if my previews are doing much good to begin with anyway, so you could just move on over to Lucha Central’s ones of the AAA show and the CMLL show. My shorter version is both shows look good, neither great, and both are marking time until bigger things down the line.
Everything that seems like it’s going to matter at TripleMania is already set, so these last two AAA tapings are only totally useful if they’ve got some fun matches. Tonight’s Veracruz taping has the classic b-show syndrome of matches with a bunch of good people and one person who isn’t on that level. (Let do this the hard way and name people: Hiedra is rarely good and Vanilla didn’t have a strong night last night out, Nino Hamburguesa sticks out like a sore thumb in the second match but might still get over, Joe Lider is Joe Lider and the entire rudo side doesn’t fit together, poor Laredo is stuck with both Mascara & Maximo.) The fourth match, with Aerostar & Drago taking on Hijo de LA Park & Taurus, could be great or could be an entirely different match if Drago is still out. The main event will be four way madness, and will end with Psycho Clown being unmasked again. This looks a lot like the Ecatepec show, which was alright while also being the signal that watching every AAA week of tapings is not necessary.
Not that the CMLL card is a vital watch either. There’s also a lot of stuff that should be good, something or other getting set up for next week, but that next week is the big show and this is just the show where we hope they maybe tell us what Okada will be doing. The main event was supposed to be Volador/Taven/Fenix versus Los Ingobernables and now Cavernario is in for the injured Terrible. I kind of wonder if Volador was so insistent about how the tag titles should be vacated with Terrible being hurt because he was under the impression he and Taven were actually winning them in a couple weeks. We’ll see what they end up doing here instead. The semimain may be setting up Penta & Caristico finally setting up their singles matches. Everything else is matches to have matches.
CMLL airs at 8:30pm on Marca and Facebook. Maybe I’ll stream it on YouTube, CMLL will have it on theirs later either away. AAA is insistent they’re actually starting at 8:30pm too tonight on Twitch. That seems unlikely but I guess we’ll see. Both shows should be fine, but if you decided to go watch a movie tonight instead, I think you’d be OK too.
There was another round of “Penta and Fenix to WWE?” discussion this week, even though it was all discussed last week and barely anything changed in the week – it just happened to get mentioned in the WON again, so the fifty sites who cut up the WON into their own news bites mentioned it again, and people who didn’t notice it the first time might have noticed it the second time. WWE having interest in Penta & Fenix is barely news – WWE is interested in signing anyone with any US indie buzz right now. The WON this week said Penta & Fenix aren’t guaranteeing 2019 bookings (probably coming up because people are trying to figure out WrestleMania weekend cards already.) I would read that more as them keeping their options open rather than having definitely signed with anyone yet.
Maybe more importantly, if we’re going with the idea Fenix & Penta are even free to sign with WWE, given their legal issues over the last couple years, then it seems a decently safe assumption that everyone associated with Lucha Underground is probably free to make their own move following Season 4. (Killshot also coming up in these stories with zero mention of a LU deal suggests the same.) Which is weird: going into the season, it seemed like LU were only allowing people to go if they declared they were going and did write off people with that idea. Now it seems more like a free for all. I don’t know if that’s a sign about the future of LU, or more about their place in the food chain.
Anyway, today’s relevance to this story is a strange paragraph in Leo Riano’s record column. He shoots down rumors that Penta has already signed with WWE, will start in a few months and so will lose his mask at TripleMania. This is shooting down a rumor that didn’t exist until he just made it up – or maybe it exists in the darkest corners of lucha libre Facebook I have yet to explore. Still, even bringing this idea just to shoot it down is an interesting way to plant a seed of doubt in the TripleMania result. (Penta’s still not losing.)
AAA separated out the post-match segment from the Queretaro main event, where Hijo del Fantasma takes credit for convincing Jeff Jarrett to come there. It’s not 100% clear if Fantasma means to come back to AAA (convincing Jarrett to join MAD before he had join MAD?) or specifically to Queretaro (possibly Jarrett wasn’t going to work TV tapings before he ended up with the belt.) It is clear that this segment didn’t get posted online until the show aired on TV, nearly a month after the taping happened. It’s not clear if any of these “bonus” segments actually matter. So far, only the stuff presented live on Twitch really seems to count.
The Familia Real versus Familia Munoz focused special Saturday Arena Coliseo Guadalajara show tomorrow is now taking place at Parque San Rafael in the same city. The explanation is there’s maintenance work being done on the Arena Coliseo Guadalajara building, which seems an odd thing to find out just a day before the show.
Maximo explained to MedioTiempo that he should’ve come to AAA “six to seven years ago.” Maximo says he was close to coming, but he was CMLL Heavyweight Champion at the time and did not want to leave in CMLL unprofessionally. You may recall Maximo actually left CMLL by being fired after destroying Ultimo Guerrero’s car. Maximo was also not champion “six or seven years ago”. He was champion from 2015 to 2017, until the time he was fired, and then still didn’t join AAA until this year. Anyway, he’s hoping he gets that hair match with Rey Escorpion now.
Black Skeller, the Ciudad Juarez luchador who previously unknown outside of his local area and became known after cheap shotting a valet ringside, is being brought in to work the next Zona 23 show against Angel o Demonio & Mr. Condor. A Black Skeller versus Zafiro (who spoke out against him on Facebook) intergender match also is apparently taking place on the AAA house show in Ciudad Juarez next weekend. That’s a peculiar thing, given the fuss about his license being retired last week. This wouldn’t be an AAA call, but whoever the local promoter is (though AAA could get it stopped if they were upset enough about it.) And I suspect the end result is people taking cheapshots at Black Skeller to avenge La Engimatica, but it’s all still a very dumb thing.
Flamita was added to Revolution Pro’s British J Cup in September. Should one of the lucha guys win, I hope they force the UK guys to change the promotion’s spelling to “Revolucion Pro” so the typo I keep making will actually be correct.
MLW will have LA Park vs PCO on 10/04 in New York. Everyone’s very excited for LA Park to do a LA Park vs Rush match and I kind of expect LA Park to the “strutting with the referee” US indie match he’s done for the last decade. Hope I’m wrong.
