Recapped: 12/24/2019
Matches:
Asturiano & Tigre Rojo Jr. beat Joker & Policeman
(13:00 [5:17, 2:57, 4:46], 1/3, n/r, VideosOficialesCMLL)
Oro Jr. & Súper Astro Jr. beat El Malayo & El Perverso
(10:05 [5:04, 5:01], ½, n/r, VideosOficialesCMLL)
Okumura, Olímpico, Rey Cometa beat Sagrado, Stigma, Templario in a relevos increíbles match
(9:00 [2:12, 3:22, 3:26], 1/3, ok, VideosOficialesCMLL)
Mephisto, Terrible, Vangellys beat Atlantis Jr., Kráneo, Volcano
(13:50 [3:16, 4:30, 6:04], 1/3, n/r, VideosOficialesCMLL)
Titán beat Soberano Jr. in a lightning match
(7:55, springboard double stomp, good, VideosOficialesCMLL)
Euforia, Valiente, Volador Jr. beat Carístico, Felino, Negro Casas in a relevos increíbles match
(11:15 [2:18, 2:54, 6:03], 1/3, ok, VideosOficialesCMLL)
What happened:
Volador used a mask pull to beat Ciaristoc. Challenges set up a match next week.
Mr. Niebla was remembered with a moment of applause between the fourth and fifth matches.
Rey Cometa attacked Stigma from behind to start the match. Neither of Stigma’s partners is much concerned with helping him out. Cometa unmasked and fouled Stigma at the end.
Thoughts:
The main event was average for Puebla, which helped a lot by a loud crowd willing to get at the rudos doing a lot of stalling in the third fall. The Caristico/Volador stuff was fine, but the same stuff we’ve seen many times by this point. No one had a particularly strong match, most of this felt like killing time to the win, but it wasn’t terrible.
I still haven’t gotten to the title match from Titan/Soberano, which makes me unqualified to watch this lighting match – I can’t tell you how much of this is a repeat. It did seem to be a lot of Titan taking most of the action, stringing together moves in a way that felt more like a Japanese match than a usual lightning match. Soberano was present and fine but just didn’t have a big impact on this match. The effort was enough to make it enjoyable but it still felt slight, like there were four more minutes to come.
The tercera was effective at building up to something I didn’t really want to see. I still don’t want to see, using Rey Cometa to give Stigma a big win is absurd. This match wasn’t much beyond the feuding. Theo there four didn’t get much and didn’t make a big impression when they were in.