taped 2013-04-14 @ Arena Coliseo

No.

Metálico vs Hijo del Signo in a lightning match: This match was not much good, and bad for Signo. This was the first singles meeting between two guys who had been feuding for weeks, and Signo didn’t bring any extra intensity or aggressiveness; he was more passive than usual. It seemed like there might have been a good match laid out if things worked out right, but a lot of stuff did not go well. Metálico wasn’t great himself, but Signo seemed like the problem more often than not. Unimpressive outing for a guy who got a chance to help himself out. CMLL had clearly made the decision to go with Rey Cometa & Namajague as the Arena Mexico Anniversary apuesta match before this one took place, which could’ve gone to this feud instead, and the match they had here justified the exclusion.

No one will miss Marco more than La Comadante

Marco Corleone, Rush, Thunder vs Ephesto, Felino, Terrible: uneventful match which was edited down for this show. I watched this live and didn’t at all pick up on how Marco never does a springboard and keeps it pretty non-impact thru the whole match. It really sticks out when you find out he’s out with a knee problem. He was still better than Thunder.

Troll Maximo

Mistico, Valiente, Volador Jr. vs Averno, Máximo, Mephisto in a relevos increíbles match: Good match. It’s really unusual how the crowd reacted to Místico using La Mistica here. They didn’t boo him for ‘stealing’ the move. They didn’t cheer the move like they’d normally cheer a big spot. They just all went quiet for a moment, then came back to life after Volador interrupted things. Místico still doesn’t look smooth and was outclassed by everyone else in the match. Máximo seemed much more the reluctant rudo on the rewatch. Never enough Valiente.

photo by CMLL

CMLL (SUN) 05/19/2013 Arena Mexico [@therealfredo, CMLL, Terra.com]
1) Herodes Jr. & Ramstein b Bengala & Fresbee
Rudos took 2/3.
2) Demus 3:16, Pequeño Violencia, Pequeño Warrior b Aéreo, Bam Bam, Shockercito
Bam Bam actually showed. Rudos took 1/3, Demus snuck in a foul on Bam Bam.
3) Fuego, Hijo del Fantasma, Hombre Bala Jr. DQ Misterioso Jr., Puma, Virus
Tecnicos took 2/3. Fantasma landed the Phantom Attack in the 2nd, but missed in the third and Misterioso took his mask.
4) Pólvora b Delta [lightning]
Polvora beat Delta clean with his valagueza into a front cracker in 8:08.
5) Atlantis, Blue Panther, Super Porky b Boby Zavala, Dragón Rojo Jr., Rey Escorpión
Tecnicos took 1/3.
6) Máscara Dorada, Mistico, Valiente b Negro Casas, Niebla Roja, Último Guerrero
Tecnicos are Estetas del Aire this week. Mistico submitted Ultimo Guerrero. Dorada/Casas was played down this week.

Said to be a very strong show. I wasn’t able to record any of it.

Announcers were hyping up the En Busca de un Idolo vote totals. As of right now, Vangelis had 62,000 votes, leading the way. Those would be very impressive totals if they were individual voters. They are not – they are people using very easy methods to vote multiple times in a very short of time. We’re talking hundreds of votes a minute. (I know, because I did that last year and nothing’s changed.) It’s nice to see Hijo del Fantasma and others campaign for votes, but all their  Twitter and facebook posts aren’t going to do near as much as someone with coding ability and 15 minute to burn. This whole conversation is a repeat from last year, and we’re no closer to figuring out if CMLL actually believes these vote totals (which would be naive), if CMLL does not but goes with because it sounds good (which would be promoting) or if some of CMLL is fooling the other part of CMLL here (which would be interesting.)

CMLL (SUN) 05/19/2013 Arena Coliseo Guadalajara [@acogdl]
1) Brillante & Meteoro b El Piraña & Thunder Boy
Javier Cruz Jr. replaced Meteoro. Thunder Boy left the match after a Cruz shot caused his nose to bled. Tecnicos won 2 on 1.
2) Azteca de Oro & El Divino ?? Demonio Rojo & Évola
Evola’s team took the first, Azteca de Oro’s team took the second, no mention of third fall finish.
3) El Hippie, Esfinge, Halcón de Plata DQ Demonio Maya, Exterminador, Sádico
Tecnicos took 2/3.
4) Sagrado, Smaker, Thunder b Maléfico, Shigeo Okumura, Shinsuke Nakamura
Thunder replaced Angel de Oro. Tecnicos took 1/3.
5) Diamante Azul b Mephisto
Azul took 2/3, the last with a German suplex.

CHILANGAMASK (SUN) 05/19/2013 Coliseo Coacalco [MT]
1) Belial b Astro Rey Jr., Relámpago (Coahuila), Aero Boy, Canelo Casas, Milanito Collection AT, Kenbai
Belial won. Aero Boy complained about being quick counted (which seemed to be teh case.)
2) Black Terry DDQ Arkángel de la Muerte
Started out as a mat wrestling battle, but Isis got involved a few minutes in. Arkangel hit the ref by mistake, Black Terry went for his mask, Skandalo ran in to help Arkangel and the Traumas made the save for Terry.
3) Valiente & Virus DQ Trauma I & Trauma II
Good mat wrestling back when Trauma I accidentally fouled Virus. challenges filed.
4) Extreme Tiger DCOR Stuka Jr., Magnifico
All three ended up outside for the draw. Tiger and Stuka challenged each other to mask matches.
5) Christina Von Eerie b Chik Tormenta
Silueta was originally scheduled, but pulled a few days before the show. Christina Von Eeire pulled Tormenta’s mask and rolled her up for the win.
6) Rey Bucanero b Masada [super libre]
Rey Bucanero was announced as replacement for Rush a few days before. They kept it on the mat to start, then graduated to bigger moves. Aero Boy got involved for the DQ.
7) Masada b Aero Boy [super libre]
Aero challenges Masada to a hardcore match and Masada accepted immediately. They had a violent match, which Masada won.
8) Negro Navarro DQ Negro Casas
Casas desperately fouled Navarro and was belatedly caught.

If you ever wanted to know what the finishes would look like on an AAA vs CMLL show with singles matches, it’s probably this. Matches sounded like they were generally good up to that point.

AULL anniversary and Rey del Ring full results to come (what was with today and the level of shows?), but we do know Cerbero Maligno lost his mask in AULL and Oficial 911 won Rey del Ring. That one means Factor has gone from two titles to none in a short amount of time.

TVC Deportes says it’s IWRG who currently doesn’t want to renew their contract with the cable network. This happens from time to time, and more often when they have another TV deal.

LuchaWorld has KrisZ’s news update.

Rob has highlights of late December 2002,  AAA 04/05/08 and AAA 04/16/08.

Bill has highlights of IWRG FILL 04/17/12.

Lucha Libre in Japan

05/19 STARDOM: Dark Angel b Miho Wakizawa [WONDER OF STARDOM]
first defense

Links

• WWL says they’ll have no less than 10 matches for their Arena Coliseo Monterrey show.
• Santo & Park beat Wagner & Blanco in Tijuana
• Video of Fresero Jr.’s AAA TV debut in Puebla.
• Dave the Clown lost the ICHIBAN Heavyweight title to Angel del Misterio in Veracruz.
• The Gladiatores have nothing to do with a promotion in Durango who’ve ‘borrowed’ part of their logo.
• CMLL promo for next Friday’s show.
• DJ Spectro looks back at Carta Brava II vs Satan.

Air date: 05/25 and 06/01

Looks like Demon vs Mesias is set, and seperate from the title match. And Chessman vs Texano is real, though Metal will still find his way back into it, I guess. More Sunday?

The En Busca de un Idolo matches are being live streamed on a Terra subsite, though the actual poll to vote in is on CMLL’s sub site (and works the same way as last year.) I’m staying out of voting this year. It appeared the Busca matches will not air on Fox Sports after all – matches 1/2/7 were taped for Televisa and 3/6 for Fox Sports. At the time I’m writing this, the En Busca de un Idolo matches have not been uploaded to a CMLL YouTube channel either.

WWL announced Los Mamitos and Monster Pain would be wrestling on TripleMania. Monster Pain is the former Black Pain from WWC, the current WWL World Heavyweight Champion, and a sort of Abyss-like character. He won that title in a battle royal, after having an awful singles match earlier on the card (and apparently a dark match even before that.) WWL says he’ll be defending his title on TripleMania. Los Mamitos are Mirreyes like pretty boy wrestlers, though they appeared to be heels on the WWL show, and went to a time limit draw for the new WWL tag team titles on that show. They’ll get another shot at the tag titles here, against what probably is an AAA team but who knows. These guys are all unknowns to the audience that goes to TripleMania, and AAA will have a lot of work to do make their fans care about these guys at all; as of now, they just seem like they’re going to be taking up space which ought to go to guys who are around all year.

Rob has highlights of 04/06/13 Fusion.

Rico Rodriguez defeated Super Crazy (twice!) in Crazy’s first match in Arena Coliseo Monterrey since 2005.

IWL says Steve Corino and Kevin Steen will be coming to their Anniversary show. I’m unsure when that actually is.

Nino Hamburgesa and Yuta, likely up to no good.

Lineup

IWRG (THU) 05/23/2013 Arena Naucalpan
1) Imposible vs Dragón Celestial
2) Centvrión, Saruman, Seiya vs Alan Extreme, Eita, Tomahawk
3) Dr. Cerebro, Golden Magic, Trauma II vs Apolo Estrada Jr., Danny Casas, Factor
4) Hijo de Pirata Morgan vs Eterno
non-title
5) Dinamic Black, Trauma I, Veneno vs Canis Lupus, Carta Brava Jr., Oficial 911

A different mix in that main event. 2 and 4 could be good.

CMLL (FRI) 05/24/2013 Arena Mexico
1) Molotov & Sensei vs Artillero & Súper Comando
2) Dalis la Caribeña, Marcela, Silueta vs La Seductora, Princesa Blanca, Princesa Sugheit
3) Blue Panther, Rey Cometa, Stuka Jr. vs Averno, Ephesto, Mephisto
4) Hijo del Fantasma vs Sangre Azteca [En Busca de un Idolo]
5) Valiente vs Misterioso Jr. [En Busca de un Idolo]
6) Máscara Dorada, Rush, Super Porky vs Mr. Águila, Negro Casas, Volador Jr.
7) Atlantis, La Máscara, La Sombra vs Pierroth, Shinsuke Nakamura, Último Guerrero

Sombra versus Nakamura, take two, seems to be two or three weeks away. Still might get Rush match.

indy (SAT) 05/25/2013 Deportivo Benito Juarez
1) Piggy vs Calle 13
2) Batman, Big Tormenta, Chicago Rush, El Pulpo, Gato Salvaje, Magia Negra, Pankratos, Terror Thanos vs Ángel Del Amor, Canelo Casas, Cometa Maya, El Resplandor, Hijo de Clímax, Kato Kung Lee Jr., Ultimo Rebelde, Yago [Torneo Estelar Copa de Poder a Poder]
3) Lola Gonzalez, Miss Janeth, Olimpia vs Atenea, Lady Afrodita, Reina Isis
4) Cirujano & Violencia Jr,. New Zafiro vs Fuego, Metálico, Relampago
5) Coco Verde & Hijo De Black Shadow vs Namajague & Shigeo Okumura and Misterioso Jr. & Valiente
6) Coco Amarillo, Coco Azul, Coco Rojo vs Arkángel de la Muerte, Rey Bucanero, Skándalo

The lineup for the CMLL versus independents show. Would assume that’s a lot of Arkangel trainees.

Great/Excellent Matches

nothing! Two straight weeks!

Shows Watched But Nothing Made The List
- CMLL Guerreros del Ring on 52MX: 2013-04-20
- CMLL on CadenaTres: 2013-04-20
- CMLL on Fox Sports (Mexico): 2013-04-20
- CMLL on Televisa: 2013-04-20
- AAA Fusion: 2013-04-24
- AAA on UTDN: 2013-04-25

Matches Worth Consideration But Will Be Watched Later

IWRG TV: 2013-04-21
taped 2013-04-14 @ Arena Naucalpan
Black Terry, Centvrión, Golden Magic vs Canis Lupus, Carta Brava Jr., Imposible

stereo Brillo Dorada

Argenis, Bugambilia, Dinastía vs Argos, Mamba, Mini Abismo Negro: Argenis had a bad match and then used two straight piledrivers to beat his brother, in the opener of the show. So dumb. Not enough Mini Abismo vs Dinastía and too much of everyone else. Exoticos are very much opening match luchadors. You didn’t miss a lot if you didn’t watch the UTDN version of this show.

suplex machine

Atomic Boy, Flamita, Jinzo vs Gran Apache, Lucky Boy, Niño de Ébano: A good match that had a rough start and went too long. Niño de Ebano and Lucky Boy stood out as guys who looked very overwhelmed by the crowd early on, though they weren’t the only ones. The match did pick up as it went along, but it turned into a Alto Impacto special where every spot just must be gotten in (there was no reason for the last bit of dives except they hadn’t gotten to do those dives, for instance.) They’ve given Atomic Boy a look that stands out a bit more, but they’ve worked hard enough on his look that maybe they’re not keeping his mask anymore.

Dragon Suplex for the win

Blue Demon Jr. vs Texano Jr.: This was another good solid match. It’s still a lot technical title match and not a lot of brawling, and they made good use of the time they have. (Weird that they gave the opener more time though.) Rey de Reyes match was a little bit better but this was still good. Finish is an unexpected big move from Demon, but a lot of what he’s done has been unexpected.

AAA starts the first half of a two taping weekend tonight in Puebla. The main event is Electroshock, Blue Demon and Mesias versus Silver King, Mascara Ano 2000 Jr. and Texano Jr., where the tecnico team might have problems getting along and the champion might be distracted by challengers.  Of note, there’s a mystery person scheduled to be teaming with Halloween & Psicosis vs Los Mirreyes. That seems like the spot for Ricky Marvin’s AAA first in-ring match since returning, but AAA oddly edited off his previous appearance from the Televisa broadcast, so maybe something is up. (I always seem to be thinking up.) AAA has two more TV tapings between this and TripleMania and a month to go, but it’s about time for the main matches to be sorted out so they can start hyping them. The heavyweight title match should be clear by Sunday, and maybe tonight.

AAA published an interview with Mesias, where he blamed Blue Demon Jr. for their fighting last time they were a tag team and said he wouldn’t start anything tonight if Demon behaved. Whatever those two are doing for TripleMania – either facing off for the new Blue Legacy championship or something else – should be clear by the end of tonight’s taping.

Jinzo tweeted about going to the Puebla show; maybe he’s been added to the opener?

The Puebla commission held some tryouts for the dark match at tonight’s taping. The winners were Jeygo & Zaeta Rojo Jr. (tecnicos) vs Avaricia & Mini Espiritu (rudos). Someone named Israel Ramírez is listed here as co-ordinator for AAA events; unclear if that’s all AAA events or just those in Puebla.

CMLL’s show kicks off En Busca de un Idolo. All matches will air on Terra.mx, in similar fashion to the shows on Sundays. Those matches should take place around 9:20pm CT, but we’re not quite sure when the feed will actually go live. Terra lists a start time of 8:30pm, the start of the CMLL show. It’d probably be easier for CMLL just to air the whole show on the internet, but their TV deals may not make that possible. We’ll have a better handle on it in a week. Tonight’s Busca matches are Stuka vs Tiger and Fuego vs Vangellys, and I’ll pick Stuka and Vangellys to win.

The actual main event has Sombra teaming with Diamante Azul and Maximo vs Negro Casas, Nakamura, and Pierroth. Nakamura says Sombra thinks he’s good, but Nakamura is the best in the world (and he’s so little interested in the other two as to not bother insulting them.) Namajague and Cometa remain linked together in the undercard. The show is a 7 match card – as Friday cards will be for the duration of the tournament – so matches might be shorter than usual.

Silueta is off the ChilangaMask show on Sunday. Sounds like CMLL pulled her off to work another show.

Vivaelhoy has a good interview with Casandro, talking about his career and his appearance in Chicago for the recent Lucha Va Voom show.

There’s a story saying “luchador Azteca Negro killed his brother.”  I can’t find a single match Azteca Negro had; he could be a very low level luchador, but he probably was a lot of other things too.

Rob has his En Busca de un Idolo picks.

LuchaWorld has KrisZ’s news update.

Links

• AAA and sponsor Pelon Pelo Rico are holding a lot of autographs signings starting today, and help you create your luchador name.
• SLP luchador Astro Latino won the IWL Junior Championship from Cerebro Negro.
• Volador is running a raffle.
• Tips for selling things FROM Mexico.
• AAA posted the first part of their interview with Crazy Boy and Nino Hamburguesa.
• Herejia talks about his “strategic” (read: cheating) AULL Light Heavyweight Championship.
• Rompe Huesos has a bio of Ultimo Dragon.
• Hijo del Santo talks about his trainer.
• Cassandro talks about karma.

taped 2013-04-06 @ Arena Lopez Mateos

super swinging neckbreaker

Flamita, Jinzo, Lanzeloth vs Eterno, Lucky Boy, Niño de Ébano: Usual Alto Impacto match; a hundred spots, most of them done well, some of the not so well, most of which wash over you by the end of the match. Still a good match. They did save the biggest spot for the end, which is always nice. Right guy won.

Canadian Destroryer not sold so Fenix can take a clothesline bump on his head

Electroshock, Fénix, La Parka vs Chessman, Parka Negra, Pentagón Jr.: I found it hard to stay interested in this match. La Parka also found it hard to stay interested in this match, and he was in the match. The epitome of bloated AAA main event trios matches, going twice the length it needed to go and generally being a drag to watch. You could probably make a nice highlight video of it, but that’s sort of point – if you cut it down, there was decent stuff there, but there was a lot of not great stuff done to fill out the time. Finish was amazing in that two guys who can do some great moves did an easy one in a very substandard way to end the match.

double double springboard tope con giro

IWL airs this Sunday night on TVC Deportes in the usual IWRG slot. Not sure which show it is. TxT does not appear to be on Cadena3 schedule this week.

The Gimnasio Nuevo Leon show from last week airs sometimes Sunday on the local TV Azteca channel (7). I thought I had a way of getting a feed of that show, but no luck.

No promises on recording Terra this week.

== AAA ==

AAA-Televisa: The rest of the Durango taping – Apache vs Atomic Boy, the great Chessman vs Heavy Metal match is made and definitely won’t change no way no how, and Consejo vs Clowns.

AAA-Fusion: these guys should be off to the Puebla taping already. Opener is a sure thing, the rest is a guess.

== CMLL ==

Galavision/Televisa: Cometa/Namajague trios, Dragon Rojo vs Angel de Oro (farewell for now) and the exciting debut of Pierroth.

FOX: the exciting debut of Gran Guerrero and the women’s trios.

52MX: Blue Panther vs Virus, other stuff you saw on Terra already.

C3: TRT vs Cadetes, more Signo vs Metalico in an early amtch

MegaCable (Guadalajara): Not sure, this was a rerun last week.

TVC Deportes (Puebla): Still no way of recording this right now, but I do know this should be the 04/29 taping, with Negro/UG/Volador vs Atlantis/Dorada/Titan in the maine vent.

Terra: Cadetes vs Casas/Roja/Guerrero. Find out who replaces Bam Bam in the segunda!

== Other ==

IWRG-AYM Sports: Rey del Ring, if a new episode airs.

Noches de Coliseo: maybe the Skayde match from this past week?

OUT

Sangre Azteca – enjoy France!

Vangellys – actually best chance for someone totally changing how people look at him, because he’s a guy who has gotten much better (including in ways CMLL over-rewards) in the last few years, but being the unknown may hurt him in getting credit.

Tiger – Puma & Tiger never do well in these. I have no idea why but it’s a good straw to grasp when you need to cut four.

Fuego – first, I almost put Misterioso here before realizing all four rudos would be out. It came down to Fuego or Fantasma, two guys who are very dedicated to having the same match each time out, and Fantasma is a tiny bith flashier.

IN

Hijo del Fantasma – biggest danger: Mephisto being added to judging panel. second biggest danger: using the Phantom Attack in every match, causing the judges to turn on him badly by match 3.

Stuka Jr. – will remain excitable, should have extra popularity and confident from H2L

Misterioso Jr. – will give Stuka Jr. a Rosa Driver at least once.

Valiente – the best. Closest thing to a favorite – not just a win, but to get Sangre Azteca to have a good match.