The hype for Mistico II is unprecedented. When they run on-screen graphics hyping where he’ll be(Arena Pachuca, Arena Quertaro), the graphic is accompanied by music from his intro music.

08/04 @ Arena Mexico: specific vignettes shown twice on every single show, mentioned during matches in passing

all the other Mistico debut matches: mentioned in passing during some but not all shows – usually with a graphic that’s on the screen but not even the announcers acknowledging it – and no other mentions.

It was neat to see Arena Puebla highlights a couple weeks ago on 52MX, but the better business move would’ve been a 30 second event center deal going over the Mistico shows the next week. I adored the La Mascara/Averno vignettes leading up to their match so it was nice to see them again on Galavision, but same deal there.

Pena called his second show on 52mx LLL. But Pena being Pena was unable to work with 52mx for the long term and bought his own production truck(Vicky, named after his mother), and did his own thing without 52mx.

CMLL continues to work with 52mx to this day. The benefit is that their show looks pretty good from a production standpoint, while AAA still does not even show replays and looks like a cult niche product like ECW of 1995. But there is an energy that comes from AAA television while I find CMLL un-watchable.

CMLL, because of their production, is able to secure television exposure beyond Televisa. AAA would not be able to secure anything on their own because the quality is unacceptable. They may be able to use content from the big shows, to con someone into thinking their television looks like that every week, but what we know as their weekly show would be laughed at.

By the way Rob according to your logic Mistico’s matches outside of Arena Mexico should have sold out since the people had not yet seen him on TV.

Spoken like a real man willing to stand by his opinions……………….. until he’s proven wrong in which case he’ll never admit he was a fool.

Is that you Vince Russo?