Month: October 2019

CMLL (FRI) 10/11/2019 Arena México [CMLL, ESTO, Lucha Central, Lucha Central, Marca, Ovaciones, The Gladiatores, thecubsfan]
1) Espíritu Negro & Grako DQ Eléctrico & Príncipe Diamante 
4:49. Straight falls, second fall DQ when Electrico accidentlly pulled off Grako’s mask while taking a powerbomb.
2) Átomo, Gallito, Microman DQ Chamuel, El Guapito, Perico Zacarías 
13:19. Chamuel fouled Microman.
3) Felino b Rey Cometa [lightning] 
7:03. Felino won via superbomb, grabbing the ropes
4) Atlantis, Atlantis Jr., Audaz b Hechicero, Hijo del Villano III, Mr. Niebla 
10:07. Tecnicos took 2/3.
5) Akuma & Star Jr. b Súper Astro Jr., Sonic, Magia Blanca, Yago, Espanto Jr., Furia Roja (Jalisco) [battle royal, Gran Alternativa] 
1:50.
6) Cavernario & Espanto Jr. b Ángel de Oro & Sonic [Gran Alternativa, 8f] 
6:09.
7) Súper Astro Jr. & Titán b Negro Casas & Yago [Gran Alternativa, 8f] 
6:13.
8) Furia Roja & Gran Guerrero b Magia Blanca & Niebla Roja [Gran Alternativa, 8f] 
5:25.
9) Star Jr. & Valiente b Akuma & Euforia [Gran Alternativa, 8f] 
1:56.
10) Cavernario & Espanto Jr. b Súper Astro Jr. & Titán [Gran Alternativa, quarterfinal] 
2:30.
11) Star Jr. & Valiente b Furia Roja & Gran Guerrero [Gran Alternativa, quarterfinal] 
4:35.
12) Star Jr. & Valiente b Cavernario & Espanto Jr. [Gran Alternativa, semifinal] 
7:12. Star Jr. & Valiente advance to face Fugaz & Mistico.
13) Carístico, Místico, Volador Jr. b Cuatrero, Sansón, Último Guerrero 
3:40. Straight falls clean.

CMLL promos: Valiente & Star Jr., Felino, Chamuel and Microman.

Pressroom interviews: micro tecnicos (Box Y Lucha, +LuchaTV), Mistico (Box Y Lucha, The Gladiatores, +LuchaTV), Valiente & Star Jr. (Box Y Lucha, The Gladiatores, +LuchaTV), Felino (Box Y Lucha, +LuchaTV) . I think Star Jr. would be a better pick for winning this tournament than Fugaz. I also think it would be a good thing if Mistico got a feud or a tournament win or something so people would stop asking him questions about staying or leaving in every interview.

No match you really need to see. There were a few highlights. The opener was a notable lowlight.

Star Jr. has been a bright, uh, star in CMLL’s early matches the last few months. He’s deserving of getting to the final. Espanto going far was not as deserved. It was more an expose of either bad planning to not have a better rudo available or worse talent evaluation.

CMLL will have a press conference Friday night before the usual Arena Mexico show. It’s a rare time for a CMLL press conference. It’ll likely be focused on the Dia de Muertos imagery to hype those shows for the press. They may announce the Rey del Inframundo qualifying lineup for the 25th but probably nothing more than that. This is a marketing department deal, so it may be the first appearance of Sofia Alonso in a CMLL press event since she was demoted from the position of president. There’s no chance anyone will ask about it.

Ovaciones recap of the show mentions the Gran Alternativa winning team will go to FantasticaMania 2020. That’s the traditional reward for winning the tournament. CMLL just hasn’t explicitly stated it yet. Mistico’s been on that tour for years. Fugaz obviously would be debuting. Star Jr. was there in 2018, but Valiente has never actually worked that January tour. He’s been in NJPW a few times during the year, but he’s been one guy left behind to be in a top position while everyone has gone.

Princesa Sugehit is set to return tonight in Arena Coliseo. In an interview with ESTO from earlier this week, Sugehit says she believes she suffered her brain injury getting thrown by her hair and landing badly. That’s seen as a low impact move relative to everything else that’s one.

AAA announced Rich Swann, Villano III Jr., Ayako Hamada, Aerostar, Drago, Flamita, Nino Hamburguesa, Lady Flammer, Willie Mack, Big Mami, Argenis and Maximo for the first episode of Lucha Capital. The graphic and the previous WON story about this being a trios tournament suggests those are teams, but it’s intentionally unclear. AAA’s release a couple of videos about the tournament but they’re just going over last year’s standouts and winners so far. I don’t think we’ll know the initial concept and field until Wednesday night.

Rich Swann & Wilie Mack are in from Impact, as had been mentioned in the WON. Mack was on the Saltillo show. Rich Swann was last since in AAA on the 2018 TripleMania, a part of the four-way title match that no one really remembers outside of the dive on Marisela. This is Lady Flammer’s debut in AAA, an odd pairing with her being The Crash’s Women’s Champion. Likewise, we know Flamita like won’t be on episode 3, because he’ll be off completing the rare AAA/ROH double.

Hijo del Vikingo returned last night on an AAA spot show. It’s his first match since a leg injury at the end of August. He was expected out six weeks and returned on that schedule. Vikingo says it’ll still take some time to get back his confidence.

Fenix very dramatically responds to Kenny Omega’s challenge.

Shows of note this weekend

Saturday

• The aforementioned Coliseo show includes Peste Negra vs Atlantis Jr., Caristico and Diamante Azul.
• Another AAA vs Elite show takes place in Ecatepec, with the Traumas vs Psycho & Escorpion on top.
• Nacion Lucha Libre runs in Neza with Cien Caras Jr., Hijo de Mascara 2000 & Mr. Electro against Brazo de Oro, La Mascara and Hijo de Dos Caras.
• NGX has a deathmatch tournament in Monterrey.

Sunday

• Rush & LA Park meet for the first time since Rush left CMLL in Monterrey.
• Zona 23 returns to the junkyard again.
• Nothing really notable on the Arena Mexico show.
• Solar & Satanico have a title match in Guadalajara in the year 2019.
• is Aramis & Impossible vs Super Nova & The Tiger the best match in Naucalpan? There are a lot of matches.
• Hijo del Santo & Vampiro are among the people scheduled for a show in the ex-ECW Arena.
• Blue Center & Ricky Marvin have a hair match in Puebla.
• Aeroboy & Airwolf are among those wrestling in GALLI but I’m not sure I can be bothered to leave my house.
• Both the Lucha Time and AAA LA shows scheduled for this day are canceled.

Ring of Honor will post the Rush ROH Heavyweight title win on YouTube this Monday. Rush will be defending his title for the first time tonight, against the winner of a battle royal.

MexaWrestling 10/26 at Arena San Juan

• Hijo de Gatubela vs Lady Lee vs Sadika

“Evening Night of San Juan” makes no sense. I think they want Late Night?

El Grafico interviews Hijo de Fishman.

Lineups

CMLL (FRI) 10/18/2019 Arena México
1) Angelito & Fantasy vs Pequeño Nitro & Pierrothito
2) Black Panther, Blue Panther Jr., Pegasso vs Misterioso, Okumura, Sagrado
3) Rey Cometa vs Stigma
4) Cuatrero, Forastero, Sansón vs Atlantis Jr., Audaz, Soberano Jr.
5) Ángel de Oro, Carístico, Diamante Azul vs Euforia, Gran Guerrero, Último Guerrero
6) Fugaz & Místico vs Star Jr. & Valiente [Gran Alternativa, final]

The tournament final is an odd mix of teams with no clear favorite. The fourth match should be good. Rey Cometa loses the lightning match, has the same lightning match the following week.

AAA TV (SAT) 11/09/2019 Estadio Revolucion, Torreón, Coahuila
1) Dragón Bane & Mr. Iguana vs La Parkita Negra & Mini Psycho Clown
2) ?, Bengala, Big Mami vs Keyra, Lady Maravilla, Último Maldito
3) Dinastía, Lady Shani, Niño Hamburguesa vs Arez, La Hiedra, Villano III Jr.
4) Flamita, Hijo Del Vikingo, Octagón Jr. vs Carta Brava Jr., Mocho Cota Jr., Tito Santana
5) Aerostar, Murder Clown, Nicho el Millionario vs Killer Kross, Monsther Clown, Taurus
6) Dr. Wagner Jr., Pagano, Psycho Clown vs Blue Demon Jr., Chessman, Rey Escorpión

This is two shows post AAA, though not much seems to have changed. The same three couples in the main event. Nicho appearing would be his first AAA appearance in AAA since 2017. The fourth match could be great. The empty match in the second match seems like a women’s spot; perhaps Flammer?

The next lineup is 11/17 in Ciudad Juarez. They’re keeping to a month ahead of time announcement, so that’ll turn up late this week or early next.

Tonight’s the second block of the Gran Alternativa. The Gran Alternativa is designed to make one thing about the promising future of CMLL. I, being a terribly negative person, think about the problems we can not escape. Or at least the problem wrestlers.

Most Gran Alternativa rookie appearance

• 5: Sangre Azteca (1999/2, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005)
• 5: Astro Rey Jr./Mephsito (1994, 1995, 1996, 1996/2, 1999)
• 5: Drone/Hombre Bala Jr. (2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2017)
• 5: Espanto Jr. (2013, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019)
• 5: Akuma (2013, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019)

(We’re missing most of the 1998 tournament, which might make Azteca & Rey the #1.)

Akuma started in CMLL very young, so there’s some reason for him to be still participating as a rookie in this tournament. It’s getting up there. Espanto Jr. is 33. He’s never been good and has gotten worse. He appears to have CMLL spot for the next decade regardless. The CMLL party line whenever someone leaves the company is the promotion has a dozen guys in their training school just as good to take their place. That’s hard to believe is true when it comes to a Dragon Lee or a Rush. It seems true when it comes to an Espanto Junior. Yet here he remains, for a long time to come.

If CMLL’s already in the business of making policies that anger luchadors, they should add another rule to weed out people. If you can’t make it to the Friday third match level by about your fourth full year, it should be time for both sides to move on. Just putting in that (very arbitrary) goal would put pressure on the luchadors to keep improving after they’ve become regulars. There would be some late bloomers who CMLL would miss out on. They seem to miss out on far more trainees who never get a shot on CMLL shows and go on elsewhere to do good work.

(You could also just make it simpler and just cut guys who are always not good, like Signo & Espanto right now, but the drama of a deadline is more interesting)

Espanto Jr. is still in this tournament. He & Cavernario are probably not advancing past the first round. It is tougher to figure out who will. Wrestlers like Sonic, Star Jr., Yago, Magia Blanca, and Akuma have some promise, but all would be good bets to not advance in this tournament against bigger name competition. There’s just not a bigger name in this half of the bracket. Super Astro Jr. would be a popular pick, but we already know Titan is in Japan by next week, so there’s no chance of them advancing to the final. Star Jr. has done well recently but has no history of winning anything and may not be a great fit against Mistico & Fugaz. Furia Roja is a complete wildcard, a larger rudo who might fit as an opponent for Fugaz, though it’d be strange to see an unknown from Guadalajara advance to the final for the second straight week. There is no favorite here. It would be hard to see a few people win it, but there’s a lot of people on the same level.

Once again, the Gran Alternativa is not the main vent. Caristico, Mistico and Volador team up against Cuatraro, Sanson and Ultimo Guerrero. They might cut that one a little shorter than last week’s title match if everything else runs long. The non-tournament matches are all in the “maybe good” range. Papa Atlantis & Atlantis Jr. team up with Audaz against Hechicero, Villano III and Mr. Niebla. Hopefully, we get some Audaz vs Hechicero. Rey Cometa meets Felino in a lightning match. Somehow, that’s the first time they’ve had a singles match. The Micros are back in trios with the usual crew. Electrico & Principe Diamante face Espiritu Negro & Grako in the opener.

CMLL airs at 8:30 pm on Claro’s YouTube. I’ll stream it on mine as well.

Lucha Central has a preview of the show.

Fenix & Penta are scheduled to face Golden Magic & Laredo Kid tonight in Aguascalientes. Who knows what that match will actually be. They’re not in the main event; AAA may see the Lucha Brothers as bigger stars in their return, but they’re always semi-main when not paired with those they believe are their actual top guys. In this case, it’s Hijo de LA Park & LA Park against Rey Escorpion & Blue Demon.

Ring of Honor announced Dragon Lee for a bunch of November shows: 11/02 in Pittsburgh, 11/03 in Columbus, 11/09 in Dallas and 11/10 in San Antonio. This makes sense for ROH where it might have not for NJPW. ROH already has Rush as champion, they’re going to keep using him, so they might as well use Dragon Lee as well. (This also helps fill Bandido’s spot, if he’s not back from injury.) Dragon Lee has dates to fill up and he’s a guy who can help get buzz for Ring of Honor.

ROH also mentioned a CMLL wrestler will return to the promotion on the 11/02 & 11/03 shows. No name was specified. There’s also usually a couple of CMLL wrestlers on the ROH Texas shows. That would obviously be a good sign for the Munoz/CMLL relationship if it happens.

NJPW has Dragon Lee coin purses to sell on the next tour. I presume the order was already in.

AAA will have a video on this season of Lucha Capital today at 4 pm. AAA on Azteca starts at 3 pm today (one week only), so there will be dueling AAA shows. The Wrestling Observer Newsletter says the tournament will be a trios tournament with the winning team facing off against each other. A trios tournament would require more people for each show and make it more likely for the tournament to stop making sense when one team member is no longer available (though it can be assumed it won’t make sense.) There will be a male and female tournament. Doesn’t seem like there are enough women for a women’s tournament unless new or rarely seen people are involved. Willie Mack & Rich Swann are scheduled to be part of the tournament. The show will last to 11/27, so seven episodes.

Vampiro mentions coming to AAA for “a week, maybe a week in a half” in his latest video. I expect he’ll be announcing the first two episodes of Lucha Capital. He mentions wrestling twice, so he’s on the Heroes Inmortales card as assumed. It’s AAA, so they’ll probably repeat the Konnan/Vampiro fight in Copa Antonio Pena.

Chik Tormenta is taking a break from lucha libre, because she’s pregnant. Tormenta mentions she and the child are “not in good condition”. She’s giving up her three championships (NWG/Guadalajara, AULL, and Muchas Luchas/Guadalajara?) as she doesn’t know when she’ll be back.

LuchaWorld has the latest Lucha Report.

Fobes Mexico has a video story on lucha libre. They got interviews with both CMLL & AAA people, which seems rare.

ELITE sent out a preview of Saturday’s show, a good reminder they’re actually running on Saturday.

Lector 24 interviews Mexico State luchador Papillon.

A non-profile lucha libre school in Tula, Hidalgo.

Lineups

CMLL (MON) 10/14/2019 Arena Puebla
1) Hijo de Centella Roja, King Jaguar, Millenium vs Espíritu Maligno, Rencor, Sombra Diabólika
2) Arkalis, Rey Samuray, Robin vs Black Tiger, Rey Apocalipsis, Toro Bill Jr.
3) Esfinge, Fuego, Stigma vs Misterioso Jr., Okumura, Sagrado
4) Stuka Jr. vs Templario [lightning]
5) Carístico, Soberano Jr., Valiente vs Cuatrero, Forastero, Sansón
6) Niebla Roja © vs Gran Guerrero [CMLL LH]
6th defense

This title match is two years delayed. It was scheduled for a Puebla show in September 2017. It was canceled due to the earthquake. They’ve faced off elsewhere but Gran Guerrero hasn’t gotten a title shot since that canceled match.

A lightning match is an odd inclusion for a show with a title match, and for a Puebla show in general, but not going to turn down Stuka/Templario.

CMLL (TUE) 10/15/2019 Arena México
1) Acero & Aéreo vs Pequeño Olímpico & Pequeño Violencia
2) Metatrón, Príncipe Diamante, Súper Astro Jr. vs Espanto Jr., Grako, Hijo del Signo
3) Drone, Esfinge, Magia Blanca vs Dark Magic, Pólvora, Universo 2000 Jr.
4) Fuego vs Disturbio [lightning]
5) Blue Panther, Flyer, Guerrero Maya Jr. vs Ephesto, Luciferno, Templario
6) Ángel de Oro, Niebla Roja, Stuka Jr. vs Mephisto, Negro Casas, Terrible

Very much just a show. Poor Super Astro. Poor us for the return of Metatron.

The Crash (FRI) 11/01/2019 Auditorio de Tijuana, Tijuana, Baja California
The Crash 8th Anniversary
1) Ovett Jr. vs Terror Azteca, Baby Xtreme, Soldado Del Invierno [TLC, THE CRASH JUNIOR]
vacant title
2) Jonathan Gresham © vs Black Danger, Oráculo, Dinámico [THE CRASH CRUISER]
3) Rey Horus © vs CIMA, Jeff Cobb [THE CRASH HEAVY]
4) Christina Von Eerie vs Lady Flammer © [THE CRASH WOMEN]
5) Solar I vs Negro Navarro
6) Bestia 666 & Mecha Wolf © vs Trauma I & Trauma II [The Crash TAG]
7) Animal, Demencia, Silver Star vs Arandú, Star Boy, Zarco [hair, mask]
8) Dragón Lee (Munoz) & Rush vs Penta 0M & Rey Fénix

The card order isn’t probably correct, but that’s all the matches. The title matches are the new additions. I suspect Gresham is losing the title to someone who might be here a bit more regular.

Tiago was the Crash Junior championship and seems to be working with EMW now. The former Mini Charly Manson is a possibility to return to AAA as a mini for Heroes Inmortales.

They should tape this show, they probably won’t tape this show.

NJPW officially announced the 10th FantasticaMania tour earlier this morning. Eight shows have been announced

• 01/10 (FRI): Osaka
• 01/11 (SAT): Ehime
• 01/12 (SUN): Kyoto
• 01/13 (MON): Aichi
• 01/16 (THU): Korakuen Hall
• 01/17 (FRI): Korakuen Hall
• 01/19 (SUN): Korakuen Hall
• 01/20 (MON): Korakuen Hall

That’s the same amount of shows as last year. The change is four of them will be run in Tokyo for the first time. FantasticaMania has had run three shows in Korakuen since 2016. Those three shows felt stretched for fresh main event matches this year. Adding a fourth show seems overkill, even before considering firing Dragon Lee costs them an easy main event for the last night. Perhaps they’ll just make the first one a normal tour show, with all tag matches and no special main event, but the other shows are still going to be a challenge.

The Korakuen Hall shows typically air live on NJPW World. The tour opener did as well this year. That Korakuen Hall week is going to have about seven CMLL streams (Japan & Mexico) in six days. I will probably die.

The FantasticaMania announcement comes one day after NJPW announced the Super Junior Tag League, with Volador Jr. in & Dragon Lee out. (Dragon Lee wished Titan good luck today.) Mistico staying with CMLL is an important deal for this tour since he is one of the bigger CMLL stars during FantasticaMania.

AAA announced officially Lucha Capital yesterday. They announced it twice, actually. The Lucha Capital Facebook popped back to life to mention it, then that post was deleted, and AAA instead did a slow surprise video roll out on their Facebook. The new season starts next Wednesday at the same Pinche Gringo BBQ as last year. The only change is they’ve pushed the start time to 9 pm, a half-hour later than usual. It’ll start immediately after the NXT/AEW TV shows finish. (Mexico doesn’t get AEW but they do get NXT live; either way, they’re hoping to draw some people who want even more wrestling after those conclude.) All shows will air live on Facebook Watch. It was simple to watch them on VOD, and even sometimes preferable given the slow times between matches.

We have no idea what the format will look like for Lucha Capital 2. We don’t know who will be involved, outside of Vampiro mentioning doing something with it. AAA didn’t announce anything beyond the time and date of the first episode. The first season seemed intended to be built around Fenix & Penta, which didn’t work out due to Fenix’s injury. Fenix & Penta are now in AEW, which would make it tough for them to be in Mexico most Wednesday. (It also will make it more difficult for AAA talent to appear on AEW’s show, though they really only need 8-10 people for Capital if it’s like last year, and it’s not like AEW’s been using a lot of AAA talent as it is.) Laredo Kid & Taya were the winners last year. Laredo Kid is out of action now. Taya could be back. AAA could bring in people from Impact, though that might be complicated if they also want to use Killer Kross in the tournament. There’s a lot of interesting questions to be answered, though we might not get any answers until 9 pm next Wednesday.

On CMLL Informa, Soberano stated his current goal is to break the record for the longest Mexican National Welterweight Championship reign. It’s technically held by Tarzan Lopez, though we don’t know exactly how long it is. Lopez gave up the belt sometime in 1939, no one’s tracked down when or even why. Soberano’s going with the number on wikipedia which ends Lopez’s reign the first day of 1939. That’s probably not correct but we don’t know what is correct. Soberano would need to hold the belt for 1027 days to break that record, which means thru March 4th next year.

Soberano also revealed he hurt his clavicle in his Super J Cup match with Rocky Romero, was told to take two weeks off, but decided he must keep on wrestling because he had too many big matches.

Princesa Sugehit was part of the CMLL media interviews on Wednesday, which seems to indicate she’s still on track to return this Saturday.

A 1999 WCW TV pilot for a lucha libre show, “Festival de Lucha”, will be added to the WWE Network today. WWE Network News had the story. One match from the taping had previously been shown, but the full taping has never been aired. It was taped for a TV show, so the matches are likely on the short side, but it was a long sought after missing piece of footage, featuring a lot of luchadors who rarely or never appeared in WCW otherwise.

The Crash 11/01 “Anniversary” lineup

• Rush & Dragon Lee vs Penta & Fenix
• Los Haragnes vs Triple Amenaza in a triple apuesta match
• Mecha Wolf & Bestia 666 vs Los Traumas for the Crash Tag Team championship
• Solar vs Negro Navarro – new
• Christina Von Eerie vs Lady Flammer (c) for the Crash Women’s championship
• CIMA, Jeff Cobb and Jonathan Gresham will all appear.

Christina Von Eerie announced she’ll be on this show last night. Casey Michael spotted that first. Von Eerie was an AAA regular in 2010, winning the mixed tag team championship with Alex Koslov. She returned to Mexico for one match in 2013. She hasn’t been visible much in the US, so it’s a bit of a surprise.

Lucha Memes 11/03 Battle of Puebla

• Tony Iron vs Arez in a quarterfinal
• Multy vs Makabre in a quarterfinal
• Prayer vs Aeroboy in a quarterfinal
• Aramis vs Malayo in a quarterfinal

+LuchaTV has a sit-down interview with Violento Jack.

LuchaTalk has a new edition of their podcast.

Lineups

CMLL (TUE) 10/15/2019 Arena Coliseo Guadalajara
1) Explosivo, Fantástico, Luminoso vs Frenético, Mr. Trueno, Rey Trueno
2) La Jarochita, La Maligna, Silueta vs Amapola, Dalys, Reina Isis
3) El Audaz, Rey Cometa, Star Jr. vs Olímpico, Tiger, Virus
4) Diamante Azul, Kráneo, Volcano vs Felino, Hechicero, Vangellys
5) Carístico, Soberano Jr., Valiente vs Mr. Niebla, Rey Bucanero, Terrible

No Arena Mexico or Arena Puebla lineup yet, but the Guadalajara lineup is out. And it is nothing special.

MDA (SUN) 10/20/2019 Arena Naucalpan
1) Atomic Star & Auzter vs Black Dragón & Príncipe Aéreo
2) Leo & Mike vs Ra-Zhata & Shil-Ka
3) Fly Warrior & Puma de Oro vs Fulgor I & Fulgor II
4) Alas De Plata vs Imposible, Brazo De Oro Jr.
5) Dragón Bane & Hijo de Canis Lupus vs Demonio Infernal & Lunatik Xtreme
6) Penta 0M & Rey Fénix (Indie) vs La Máscara & Puma King

MDA has the Lucha Brothers here. IWRG will have them again here on 11/01. Lucha Brothers are showing no sign of slowing down or an exclusive deal with AAA.

CMLL (TUE) 10/08/2019 Arena México [CMLL, Lucha Central, The Gladiatores]
1) Acero & Aéreo b Pequeño Olímpico & Pierrothito 
Tecnicos took 1/3.
2) La Comandante, Metálica, Reyna Isis b La Jarochita, La Vaquerita, Skadi 
Rudas took 2/3.
3) Disturbio, Pólvora, Universo 2000 Jr. b Drone, Oro Jr., Pegasso 
Rudos took 2/3.
4) Black Panther, Blue Panther, Blue Panther Jr. b Dark Magic, Misterioso, Sagrado 
Tecnicos took 2/3. Blue Panther reached 41 years of wrestling with this match.
5) Atlantis, Místico, Soberano Jr. b Ephesto, Luciferno, Mephisto 
straight falls
6) Carístico b Forastero 
Tecnicos took 1/3.

Caristico tells Forastero not to mess with his mask again. Blue Panther celebrates his Aniversario.

Box Y Lucha has a post-match interview with Caristico, La Jarochita, Mephisto, La Comandante (who is sticking with Terrible), and Forastero.

Main event sounds like it was about the same level as UG/Mistico the night before. Princesa Sugehit better actually be returning this weekend, because the tecnicas are going to get zero wins without her or Marcela on their team.

CMLL (TUE) 10/08/2019 Arena Coliseo Guadalajara [CMLL]
1) Furia Roja, Guerrero de la Muerte, Sádico b Explosivo, Johnny Dinamo, Reycko
Explosivo replaced Fugaz. Rudos took 2/3.
2) Magnus, Principe Daniel, Robin b El Coyote, Hijo del Signo, Joker
tecnicos took 2/3.
3) Dulce Gardenia, Fuego, Rey Cometa b Difunto, Okumura, Vangellys
tecnicos took 1/3.
4) Ángel de Oro, Diamante Azul, Niebla Roja DQ Rey Bucanero, Terrible, Último Guerrero
Tecnicos took 2/3, Bucanero fouling Niebla Roja.
5) Volador Jr. b Cavernario
Volador took falls 2/3.

Please don’t do a Rey Bucanoer/Niebla Roja match. I wonder if Fugaz has been kept over in Mexico City to prepare for the Gran Alternativa final. Cavernario probably should win in his hometown and the hegemony at the top of CMLL is part of the reason is currently boring. (Link to a dictionary definition of hegemony to be helpful.)

NJPW announced Titan & Volador Jr. for their Super Junior Tag League. This tournament was originally supposed to include Titan & Dragon Lee. Volador is replacing Dragon Lee as a result of CMLL cutting ties with him.

Dragon Lee seemed to be under the impression he would still be in NJPW. NJPW is going with an all CMLL team. It is just one tour, and perhaps Dragon Lee will be back later. The concept of “later” is the problem; maybe he will return as part of the January Tokyo dome shows? Could he be gone all the way until around the Best of Super Juniors in 2020? May is a long way away, even January seems a long way away when Dragon Lee probably has deals with other promotions available for him. (Looming over all of this is Dragon Lee mentioning at the press conference that he would have a big surprise soon; if it’s not a NJPW deal, it would have to be a deal that would make it unlikely for him to return to the promotion in the short term. Or he could’ve just been saying something at a press conference.)

On the other side, if NJPW & CMLL remain on good enough terms to put Volador in Dragon Lee’s place, it is likely FantasticaMania is still happening as normal. We’ll probably hear about it in the next couple of weeks.

CMLL probably knew Volador & Titan were the team when they announced Titan for CMLL Informa a couple of days ago. Pegasso is also on the list, and I’m not sure what he would have to talk about with no title matches or tournament appearances. CMLL will probably mention it sometime this weekend.

Sofia Alonso appeared a Mexico City Dia de Muertos tourism announcement, saying 20 luchadors would be part of the parade on a TuriLuchas bus.

This past week’s ROH TV show covers the Global Wars Espectacular tour with CMLL. There has been no mention of it by CMLL. It could just be them not bothering like always, but I suspect they’re not going to mention anything where Rush is involved, even with a partner.

An interview with Violento Jack mentions his Japan work visa runs thru June. He most likely will renew it, but I sort of read that as he’ll be out of Mexico until summer.

AAA/EMW 10/25 lineup

• Crazy Boy & Crazy King vs Ciclope & Miedo Extremo
• Bengala, Romeo, Drake vs Griff, Adrian Quest, Mirage
• Rayo Star, Fantastick, Black Destiny vs Xcalibur, Kamikaze, Genio del Aire vs Jake Atlas, B-Boy, Gringo Loco
• Lady Shani, Octagon Jr. vs Lady Maravilla, Abismo Negro Jr. vs Scarlett Bordeaux, Killer Kross
• Fenix & Pentagon Jr. vs Laredo Kid & Puma King for the AAA Tag Team Championship
• Psycho Clown, Pagano, Murder Clown vs Rey Escorpion, Texano Jr., Chessman – new

That’s probably it.

GCW announced Arez for their 11/08 show in Los Angeles. That’s his first match for the promotion since the outstanding trios match on All In weekend.

Riot has launched their own website.

LuchaWorld has the latest Lucha Report.