Recapped: January 28, 2020
What Is It:
A soft relaunch for MexaWrestling, which hasn’t been running since the October show where Principe Aereo passed away. It’s unclear if his death or general COVID issues with home base Arena San Juan have been the reason for the shut-down. Origen is a series of episodical shows going up on Mas Lucha. MexaWrestling has generally just run all-star shows in recent years, while these are more building on each other. The shows are going up on Mas Lucha on Wednesdays and there’s no indication of how many episodes they’ve taped. Social media clues suggest these episodes were taped around the 2020 Christmas season.
What Happened:
The main event was a three-way with Toxin, the returning Alan Xtreme, and a surprise wrestler. Eterno, who hasn’t been seen in that identity lately, appeared as the surprise wrestler, got the win, and challenged everyone.
Aero Panther & Fight Panther defeated Atomic Star & Baby Star. The Panthers are brothers, the Stars are not, and Atomic attacked Baby after their loss. That sets up a singles match on show two.
Lunatik Fly, Lunatik Xtreme, and Torito Negro lost to Dick Angelo 3G, Legendario, Mexica when the latter team snuck in a foul. Rematch challenges followed.
Full results can be found on the luchadb.
What’s Worth Watching:
Probably just the main event; it’s more polished than the rest of the show, by the standards of indie lucha libre. It never deeper than the frequent AutoLuchas three-way matches, but it would fit alongside them fine. Alan Xtreme has lost so much weight that he’s barely recognizable without the mask. It doesn’t seem to have hurt his performance. Eterno looked pretty dominant in the win, which is useful if this is indeed going somewhere.
Everything else is fine, usual indie level prelim level. The opener has spectacular moments in both ways. Atomic & Baby seemed like the better team in the match they broke up (and the breakup seemed to escalate too quickly to believe.) The trios match was more solid than you’d expect from those guys but not memorable.
Match ratings for dumb completeness:
Fussion vs Sol vs Blue Monster Jr. vs Dash vs Magic Boy: [ok]
Aero Panther & Fight Panther vs Atomic Star & Baby Star: [ok]
Lunatik Fly, Lunatik Xtreme, Torito Negro vs Dick Angelo 3G, Legendario, Mexica: [ok]
Toxin vs Alan Extreme vs Eterno: [good]
What’s Next:
Episode 2 is already up because I’m far behind in posting these.