CMLL PPV

Hey, remember there was a CMLL PPV last weekend? The anniversary show? The one with Mistico vs Warrior? Yea, anyway, I finally got that recap done. Bullet points!

1) The opener’s women’s match was almost too short to have a point of existing. Rather than six people trying to get their stuff in, this would’ve been better served being either a random women’s lightning match or the previous week’s singles match with a couple more minutes tacked on. They’re clearly booking this with the idea of doing the Hiroka/Lady Apache hair match, which only makes sense to do if Hiroka’s winning, and I have little expectations that Lady Apache is losing her hair.

2) Not much to say about the second match. Because I’m behind on various things, this was the first I’ve seen of Koslov, and I think he fits in well. Everyone – not just here, but all over the card – seemed to be turning it up a notch for the PPV. Even Dragon seemed to be trying (and it’s a little depressing that doesn’t mean much.)

3) Third was all about the Dos/Corelone feud. You know, coming into this show, there was talk about what CMLL has left to do once Mistico/Warrior was wrapped up. Dos Caras vs Marco Corelone as a strongly pushed program is what they should be doing – I don’t know if they’re going to work at the level of that spot, but it’s worth finding out now. And Corelone is certainly not going to be around forever; at some point, someone who matters in WWE is going to see some of his highlights here and decide they can find a use for him (this time for sure!). Might as well see if the people are interested in Dos yet, or if more work has to be done.

4) Fourth match felt just like it looked on paper, an excuse to get some guys on that they felt had to be on, and to bring in Groon. Thing is, Groon seemed to be a lesser star compared to Wagner, and Groon wasn’t at all protected in this match – the old Groon would’ve run crazy over all three rudos, with them getting scared of taking him on one and one and Groon having no problem beating them two on one. Here, he was just a Guy In A Wacky Red Suit, no longer a killing machine. He was booked as a human, and I’m not sure there’s a point to a human Groon. (It was almost like something they’d do to get bury him on the way out, but that can’t be the idea.)

You know, YOU may be looking forward to the now-more-possible La Parka vs La Parka match, but all of the sudden, I’m dying to see GRONDA VS GRONDA. (and then neither man ever again.)

5) I thought this was much better than I had heard. This may just be me marking out for groups of my favorite guys, and like everything else, you could easily point to a place where they’d benefited from five more minutes, but with the time they had, they did a great job with it. I was surprised with the crowd reactions – I don’t think Shocker can go tecnico, at least not in Arena Mexico, with the reception they were giving him. In the abstract, I think they’d be okay with Atlantis as a tecnico again – the fans seem to be back with him – but he’s working well where he’s at. The weird thing about the Shocker turn is it didn’t definitely cause the loss – Hector was distracted by the shirt toss, but the Perros were already down a man and it was a 2 on 1 situation in the ring. (Garza more screwed them over, by accidentally kicking Shocker and not paying attention to break up the pin – maybe this was an attempt to keep Shocker tecnico as part of the turn.)

6) The third fall made it work – it was a night where both guys were hitting everything they needed, it made the match memorable enough that it was the Big Match Win for Mistico they were looking for, and they did enough that people will still pay to see them match up again. This beat my expectations, easily.

Maybe if I didn’t know about the short matches going in, I would’ve been disappointed, but knowing what I did, I was pretty happy with the show. Now, I’m going to post this, and then go over to Robert’s site, and find out he saw this 180 degrees different, surely.

2 thoughts to “CMLL PPV”

  1. I still have to read through this but I did notice you forgot to edit the main event finishes. It just says ‘a’ to each fall.

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