Results
La Jarochita & Lluvia beat Dalys & Stephanie Vaquer
(12:49 [6:08, 2:01, 4:40], 1/3, ok)
Angel de Oro won Copa Junior
(2:07 battle royal + 46:23 elimination match, ok)
Order of elimination
- 12:20 Stuka Jr. beat Mephisto (torpedo splash)
- 15:10 Mistico beat Felino (casita)
- 21:31 Caristico beat Star Jr. (armbar)
- 24:15 Negro Casas beat Stuka Jr. (lariat)
- 26:52 Atlantis Jr. beat Soberano (Atlantida)
- 28:41 Dragon Rojo beat Negro Casas (grounded octopus)
- 30:19 Mistico beat Felino Jr. (double underhook facebuster)
- 31:43 Angel de Oro beat Atlantis Jr. (campana)
- 34:53 Mistico was disqualified (Dragon Rojo mask removal)
- 35:59 Caristico beat Dragon Rojo (inside cradle)
- 46:23 Angel de Oro beat Caristico (La Mistica)
Nueva Generacion Dinamita (Cuatrero, Forastero, Sansón) defeated Los Guerreros Laguneros (Euforia, Gran Guerrero, Último Guerrero) to win the CMLL World Trios Championship
(26:02 [11:18, 5:20, 9:24], 1/3, ok)
Volador Jr. © defeated El Bandido to retain the NWA World Historic Welterweight Championship
(28:43 [4:24, 1:50, 22:29], 2/3, excellent)
happenings
Atlantis appeared halfway through the card. He spoke of Kid’s Day being one of his favorite traditions and announced he would return to the ring on the 04/26 CMLL PPV to celebrate Kid’s Day this year. This would be Atlantis’ first match since November 2019 due to knee issues.
Volador beat Bandido to keep the NWA Historic Welterweight Championship.
NGD defeated Los Guerreros to become CMLL World Trios Champions, the first team to those belts, the national titles, and the Occidente titles at the same time. (Typically, winning the world title means swiftly relinquishing the national ones; no indication has been made as of yet.) Ultimo Guerrero took the pin from Sanson. Los Guerreros had a couple of small issues during the match. Euforia blamed UG for the loss and quit the group, which had been teased back in the fall before the winter lockdown.
Angel de Oro won Copa Junior, cleanly defeating Caristio with La Mistica. Mistico’s DQ seemed unplanned; Dragon Rojo’s mask came off and Edgar had no real choice but to call it. Dragon Rojo distracted himself by yelling at Angel de Oro so Caristico could cradle him for three. Some of the wrestlers wore tribute gear for family members; Caristico wore a Dr. Karonte homage mask for his father. Mistico wrestled in a half Septiembre Negro mask, for his uncle who passed away in November. Soberano wore a Euforia styled mask and gear. That turned out to be a story point in the trios match; Euforia’s gear matched his son, not his trios partners, foreshadowing the breakup.
Jarochita & Lluvia won cleanly and asked for a team to step up and challenge for the tag titles.
thoughts
Copa Junior looked like a one-match card, ended up a one-match card. There were redeeming moments in the other matches, but none of them were going to come close to the main event anyway. Volador & Bandido had the best match in Mexico not taking place in a mysterious empty building in Nuevo Leon. If there’s a better match in CMLL in 2021, it means crowds are back in a big way and everything went right – and they still might not get there. The failed attempt to go for an insane spot near the end shouldn’t take away from how strong the rest of the match was; it’d be on most people’s list of best matches of the year if most people could actually see it. So it goes.
It’s no big deal that the rest of the show didn’t impress, but also it didn’t impress. There was some glimmer of hope if you’re looking. The women were better than usual, and there was genuine effort to try new ideas in the first half of the Copa Junior. The polish wasn’t there, with many understandably looking rusty given the ragged schedule.
The trios match was the low moment on the show. Not as much badly worked as completely boring and unoriginal. It’s going to be a surprise if we get another NGD match that’s good because of anything they do. They’ve completely given up caring and giving them a third championship will just confirm to them they’re doing everything right. Euforia splitting off on his own is an interesting new direction and Angel de Oro winning the Copa strong is a sensible decision, it’s just not an exciting one.
It’s nice that Dragon Rojo is back. He’s back with exactly the level of knees you’d expect him to have after years of injuries. It’ll work out OK if the stuff with Mistico was to set up a mask match when fans come back. If it was just typical cibernetico interaction and Dragon Rojo’s just back without a purpose, it seems like a poor idea.
They don’t really need a direction, though. The novelty of Atlantis is going to sell to CMLL’s audience – assuming the fans of Atlantis can get their nephews or nieces to buy the PPV for them.