CMLL Guerreros del Ring on 52MX #279 (03/26/2011)

Magnus' push

taped @ Arena Coliseo, 03/20/2011

Recap: here
File: here

Dragon Lee, Enrique Vera Jr., Magnus vs Inquisidor, Rayo Tapatío I, Rayo Tapatío II: you could not be doing this feud without the Tapatios. The rookies are really raw (nearly running over each other here), Inquisidor isn’t much better (superkick!) and yet this is actually working really well. This might be the best possible use of the Gen2011 guys, because them working each other might be disastrous, and this whole bit has gotten over Dragon Lee as a star. Well, a star to the tiny percentage who see this show, but still.

Hijo del Fantasma, Sagrado, Sangre Azteca vs Ephesto, Shigeo Okumura, Vangelis: I really wish this was 2001-2003, and CMLL TV had weekly vignettes with Sangre Azteca trying to get along with his new tecnico partners. Sagrado, being a nice guy and man of the cloth, clearly would work hard at convincing his fellow tecnicos to trust Sangre now, and maybe they’d all bond over all the times they’d monkey flipped Sangre and how none of them really like Ultimo Guerrero. Payoff would be La Mascara refusing to be friends, getting into a brawl with Sangre, the two having one more title match, and finding some level of mutual respect thru battle. In reality, Sangre’s getting some good routines as a tecnico and seemed completely conformable at it for once.