Accion
CMLL: Mistico vs Wagner, of course. Even in clips, there’s lots of shots of the soap opera costars. Mostly Wagner highlights, with Mistico getting in his stage dive. They skip the setup to the Ultimo run-in and the Mistico pin. Heroic job by Baby Richard for not noticing Ultimo climbing the ropes as he came back in to count the pin.
AAA: TripleMania main event, though it’s listed as Kenzo/Mesias vs Ciberentico/Chessman. We do get to see Charly and X-Pac, so who knows what that’s about. Chessman’s suicide attempt gets the skeletal replay, and it’s listed as 6m (19.6 feet) dive. The table not breaking sure didn’t help anything. Mesias’s accidental fire spot is well done, as those things go, and I was all set to mock it.
I missed DeporTV America today, but the video should be up tomorrow.
IWRG (THU) 07/26 Arena Naucalpan [superluchas, IWRG]
1) Halcon Salvaje b Shuriken
2) Yamato b Cerebro Negro, Nitro, Alex Koslov, Hijo de Mascara Ano 2000, Black Terry, Villano III, Pierroth, Pierroth JR., Electroshock, Loco Max, Kai, AK47, Hijo del Solitario, HIjo de Anibal, Hijo del Diablo, Captian Muerte, Fantasma de la Opera, Kid Tiger, Trueno, Marco Rivera, Freelance, Fierro, 911, Cyborg, Xibalba, Sasaki, Ave Fenix, Star Boy, Misterio Verde [Rey del Ring]
That’s in reverse order of elimination (Yamato is the winner, Cerebro Negro was second to last, etc.) Match went 1h40m and airs on a special IWRG/TVC broadcast, August 13th.
(box y lucha foro) On Tercera Caida, Konnan said he plans to be back in two months. He floated bringing in ROH guys to AAA. I expect US indy guys to show up in AAA in the next couple months, and almost would be disappointed if they don’t. At the same time, I don’t expect them to be specifically ROH guys – since they won’t have much name recognition in Mexico, you find better bargains in cost and availability elsewhere, and ROH has been down on lucha forever – like about since Konnan’s match there, right? Not that I’m trying to make a connection, that’s just the last time I can think of it happening, maybe there was some Super Crazy stuff after.
THAT was a pointless digression.
CMLL on FSE #48 had
07/01 Coliseo: Euforia, Nosferatu, Satanico b Felino, La Mascara, Valiente
07/01 Coliseo: Dos Caras Jr., Marco Corelone, Rey Bucanero b Toscano, Ultimo Guerrero, Universo 2000
Did I score a perfect on my lineup project this week? Yay for me. (The FSE lag helps.)
New highlights are up and they are AWESOME! 3/4 of the clips are the opening matches! Flash looked awesome. Nobody knows Metalico’s name. Dr. X’s family was in attendance since he gets to wrestle so rarely it seems. Pequeno Damian looks farmiliar with his head shaved. Volador Jr. had two good spots.
Robert, I guess you won’t have to go buy into the Spanish digital tier thanks to Cubsfans’ find on Aztecaamercia.com allowing you to see footage for DeporTV.
This week was a disappointing week in terms of production. DeporTV footage was just one camera, and dark. FSE was dark, and AAA looked like shit from Monterrey. Only the earlier matches on AAA were ok because the sunlight always helps.
Nah, the Super Crazy stuff came before Konnan. Not sure why he’d want to bring in ROH guys other than to please Meltzer and/or the smark community. Someone with more time than I have right now could make a pretty good analogy to this situation and Konnan thinking ECW was the wave of the future and shoving it down everyone’s throats in 1995/1996. Just saying…
Yeah Keith, if they put stuff online for free and I have cubs to teach me how to save the files properly, I have no need for extra channels.:) It’d be a different story if they ever offered Lucha Libre on the channels though.
I thought the Monterrey taping looked fine.
The earlier matches from Monterrey was ok when it was light outside. But it was shitty by the end of the night. And any outside the ring activity was total darkness.
Konnan says he wants to bring ROH guys, but who knows if the Roldan’s will let him. The comparison of ECW 1996 makes total sense. But Pena himself was a little bit of a mark for that shit too, so Konnan is not totally to blame.
Forgot to mention, tonight’s FSE show ended with Dos Caras Jr. challenging for the CMLL heavyweight title, so that should be on next week.
I didn’t see the Tercera caida interview, but maybe Konnan was coerced to say the ROH guys are coming or it was a confusion… I guess they asked him about the TNA deal falling out and he responded “there are lots of talent in the US”, the TC guys going “like the ROH workers”, Konnan “sure”….
On the US FSE show, the interview was Terrible, El Terrible, he had hundreds of Horror masks all over his apartment. Little wonder where his money goes.
On Gala this morning they interviewed Director Tim Burton, I mention it because it was about his love of lucha libre. He wore what looked like a pentagon mask for the length of the interview.
When Konnan left TNA, it wasn’t long after TNA broke relations with ROH. Konnan realized both ROH and himself now had a common enemy, TNA. So he probably called Sapolsky(who looks like Joel Gernter 1997) and tried to convince him that both AAA and ROH should work together against TNA.
Makes sense for ROH to work with AAA. ROH is expanding(I think they have announced or are announcing Canada dates soon), and AAA is available in 50 million US homes, so it more coverage for ROH, even if it’s in Spanish.
I think it might be more SoCal guys than anything else.
Rocky Romero is the other announced foreigner for the NOAH tour. Maybe NOAH will trick AAA and ROH into an alliance and I’ll be wrong.