CMLL on Televisa: 2013-02-23

recap

taped 2013-02-15 @ Arena Mexico

apron dropkick

Hijo del Fantasma vs Dragón Rojo Jr. in a lightning match: Gen 75 battle! Felt like the last 7 minutes of a three fall title match (that probably should’ve happened now, come to think of it) – there’s always too many period when guys appear to be dead tired four minutes into the match and too many dives forced into a short period of time when they do it this way, but the crowd got into and it was exciting by the end.

 

Stuka probably would’ve rather going into the post.

Ángel de Oro, Stuka Jr., Valiente vs Averno, Mephisto, Namajague: really annoyed about how badly they showed did the double Namajague bit, but the match was fine. It was almost too much rudo dominated, but made sense for the time they had. I’m hoping the eventual match won’t be just rudos holding and hitting guys followed by 90 seconds of técnico high spots, but that’s where the matches have gone the last few weeks.

 

Zacarias, master of style and dance

Atlantis, La Máscara, Super Porky vs Euforia, Niebla Roja, Último Guerrero: a match build to the Ultimo Guerrero/Atlantis confrontation at the end, which lasted about five seconds. So, that was not much. Niebla Roja was doing some interesting stuff on offense and not as well when on the defense. Just a usual match otherwise.