CMLL Informa has Angel de Oro, Sanson, Drone, Akuma, and Espanto Jr. announced. The next PPV is still months away, so these are guests primarily talking about TV matches this week.
The price for that next PPV is now 196 MXP. CMLL and Ticketmaster are continuing to do the bit of raising the price as time goes by, though they’re not advertising it or explaining it at all.
Dragon Lee & Kenny King won the ROH Tag Team Championship on this past week’s ROH TV show. Rush retained the ROH Heavyweight Championship. Dragon Lee is currently TV champion, so that group has three of the five active championships in the promotion. There is a four-way #1 contenders match for Rush’s Heavyweight Championship next week; Jay Lethal is most likely to be that next opponent.
ROH has a bonus Dragon Lee versus Brian Johnson TV title match airing on YouTube today at 6 pm CT; Johnson earned the title shot via fan poll on ROH’s private Facebook group, where the match will also air. Next Tuesday (noon CT), ROH’s Week By Week show will include a Bandido vs LSG vs Tracy Williams match. Both of these are exclusively online, will not air on TV, something they seem to be doing more of as tapings go by.
MLW today (6 pm CT) has LA Park & Hijo de LA Park defending the MLW tag titles against Simon Gotch & Daivari. Laredo Kid faces Calvin Tankman on the show, which also has a MLW World title match. I still assume Laredo’s taking another L, though I’m not sure it even serves MLW purposes to book Laredo Kid this badly if he’s going to eventually beat Lio Rush to get the AAA title back and so he needs to get some credible win eventually. Maybe Laredo Kid won’t be the guy who wins the AAA title back, or maybe MLW will just pay as little attention to that change as AAA’s paid to Rush’s win so far.
AEW Dynamite tonight has Fenix teaming with Pac tonight against unnamed opponents. It makes some sense – AEW says more teams will be added to their PPV Tag Team Battle Royal tonight, and this establishes them as a team before being added. Fenix & Pac in a tag team battle royal is less than exciting given the level of those guys, but it may be a roundabout excuse to run a Young Bucks vs Fenix/Pac match people will really like in a few weeks since the winner gets a title shot.
The Tlaxcala government, in talking about their plans to revive tourism in the area, mentioned AAA’s broadcast “with a reach of 400 million people around the world” 400 million is just slightly suspect. Of course, the bigger issue is AAA’s Facebook and YouTube are not available around the world. Someone down the line clearly doesn’t know that, and I just wonder how far down the line it is.
This is probably not a thing but I’m going to feel dumb later if it turns out to be a thing and I didn’t note it: AAA’s YouTube TV version of TripleMania included five of the matches. They left off the Psycho Circus/Demon/Park trios, which is no big deal. They also left off the Marvel Lucha Libre match, which surprised me. That relationship still seems fine, so maybe it’ll show up in some other form or location.
If you donated to the Lucha Memes show, check your email for some WeTransfer links to download the first two matches from the show, with a promise the rest would come later this week. The email mentions music issues; it seems the plan was for the show to be a private link on YouTube instead.
You don’t have to wait until later in the week to watch the entire show, though – it’s already up on IWTV. I think it’s a bad look to make the show available on IWTV before the people who paid for the show get it. Even if it was the same day, it’d feel off. The fundraiser didn’t specifically mention any timed exclusivity, but it seems like a courtesy to give those people who specifically donated a week or two to watch the show before the general public. Going up early may be an IWTV call for all I know, since they do appear to have edited it. It’s annoying but not the end of the world.
RIOT is teasing an upcoming show, COVIDIOTAS. It’s planned to be a no-fans event relying on donations. It’s going to be an uphill battle because Mexican promotions have not done well fulfilling the expectations of the public on these events, as seen above.
Box Y Lucha #3462 has a lot of recent news stuff – NJPW/CMLL, Mistico doing a press day (he promises he’ll ask CMLL if he can leave before ever leaves), a Taya retrospective. There’s also an interview with La Infernal, who says she was out of lucha libre until Lucha Libre Real asked her if she wanted to work the Lyger retirement show in Arena Coliseo. That was enough for CMLL to call her up for the Universal tournament. Infernal was happy to still be remembered, but I can not imagine how dispiriting that must’ve been if you were one of (few?) women training at CMLL’s gym and got leapfrogged.
Mas Lucha has a new edition of their podcast.
GCW announced Hijo de Canis Lupus for a 04/08 show,. Dragon Bane was announced for a different GCW, so Los Golpeadors are going to be on all sorts of GCW events. I’ll check in back on this once they get to announcing matches.
Indy Army Wrestling is advertising a secret show. No dates, no location.
Nacion Lucha Libre continues to tease a return.
boring story time: About 10 days ago, +LuchaTV posted a show from Guadalajara’s Nueva Generacion Independiente. There’s little information about the show on the video – just the main event apuesta match – and what I believe is the promotion’s Facebook page hasn’t been updated in two months. I took a quick glance at it, noticed that it was packed building with no one wearing masks, and figured it must be an old show being put up. I was then surprised to read on Mas Lucha’s website that this was the first apuesta match of 2021. (Looking again, you can spot one or two people who masks at the show.) There’s no difference between this show and the CAR The Crash show except one got raided and the other didn’t.