Recapped: 08/08/2018
Matches:
Acero & Angelito beat Pequeño Nitro & Pequeño Olímpico
(13:23 [5:36, 3:17, 4:30], 1/3, n/r,VideosOficialesCMLL)
Cancerbero, Disturbio, Nitro beat Astral, Eléctrico, Súper Astro Jr.
(14:07 [6:19, 4:42, 3:06], 2/3, n/r,VideosOficialesCMLL)
Black Panther, Blue Panther, Blue Panther Jr. beat Dragón Rojo Jr., Pólvora, Virus
(13:20 [3:31, 3:23, 6:26], 1/3, ok,VideosOficialesCMLL)
El Audaz beat Luciferno in a lightning match
(7:25, mask pull disqualification, ok,VideosOficialesCMLL)
Ángel de Oro, Niebla Roja, Stuka Jr. beat Ephesto, Hechicero, Mr. Niebla
(11:38 [4:21, 3:08, 4:09], 2/3, ok,VideosOficialesCMLL)
Atlantis, Diamante Azul, Kráneo beat Gran Guerrero, Rey Bucanero, Shocker
(11:00 [3:57, 1:46, 5:17], 2/3, n/r,VideosOficialesCMLL)
What happened:
Stuka beat Hechicero to set up a title match next week. This time for sure.
Thoughts:
This show was full with matches where the crowd reacted nicely and I had a hard time caring. This particular match was a safe build to next week’s title match, with Stuka getting his tights ripped up but coming back to win anyway. They didn’t work against each other as much as normal for that situation. Angel de Oro & Hechicero worked the torture rack escape armdrag they failed at last time I saw them together, so that’s good.
Audaz & Luciferno essentially tried for the Dragon Lee & Luciferno tournament match in the lightning match. The difference is Audaz doesn’t have as deadly offense as Dragon Lee does yet, and they’re not ready to give Audaz this win yet. The general principle of the old bumping rudo making the young guy look good was there, though there are moments where it’s clear Luciferno would’ve been better at this a couple years ago. Audaz pulling him off the top rope with a headscissors didn’t quite go smoothly, and he stayed away from the fancier spots in this one. It’s still a good opponent for Audaz on the way up, a match-up worth going back to later even if this wasn’t a superb match on its own.
Trios was a simple Panther match, with a surprise submission finish and the crowd reacting to the older Panther’s every move. I’m not sure this would work as well if he was still masked: every tourist understanding that there’s an older man in this fight makes a difference and lets them get more out of little bits. This wasn’t really all that much.
The opener gets off early by not being interesting enough to bother with a negative rating. The segunda too. They were both poor but no one cares.