Recapped: 11/09/2019
Matches:
Magnus & Príncipe Diamante beat El Coyote & Hijo del Signo
(12:00 [4:56, 3:25, 3:39], 2/3, ok, 00:00:00)
Amapola, Dalys, Reyna Isis beat La Jarochita, Sanely, Shoko Nakajima
(14:17 [9:23, 1:53, 3:01], 2/3, ok, 00:18:43)
Audaz and Hijo del Villano III went to a draw in a lightning match
(3:04, DCOR, below average, 00:42:33)
Dulce Gardenia, Fugaz, Star Jr. beat Ephesto, Luciferno, Mephisto
(17:24 [6:16, 3:19, 7:49], 1/3 DQ, ok, 00:50:49)
Cavernario, Negro Casas, Último Guerrero beat Soberano Jr., Titán, Valiente
(13:39 [7:04, 2:29, 4:06], 1/3, ok, 01:18:20)
Carístico, Místico, Volador Jr. beat Cuatrero, Forastero, Sansón
(16:50 [3:08, 6:14, 7:28], 2/3, ok, 01:42:26)
What happened:
The lightning match ended early while both men were fighting outside. A dive spot looked bad to start it, they did a lot more to make up for it, and doing a lot more kept them around 30 seconds.
Thoughts:
This show came across as a boring spectacle, all the matches featuring the usual people doing their usual matches with no extra thought or intensity put into them. There were a couple of flawed matches, but the problems were more with the repetitive nature of the matchups. This was people clocking into their shift, making the required wrestling product, and moving on with their lives. Just yet another CMLL show where there’s no reason to go back and watch it if you missed it.
The main event exemplified that, the same NGD/?Sky Team? match seen many times over. It did seem at a slower speed, perhaps trying to length out what had been a very short show to that point. The second fall felt like a lot of stalling. NGD could’ve done something interest, and instead, sort of did their usual spots at a lackadaisical speed. That set up the tecnicos doing their exact same comeback as always at a normal speed. They picked up the energy in the third fall but the moves weren’t special and it was hard to care about following two hours of nothing.
The semi-main had some hints of good matchups – mostly involving Cavernario – but didn’t really progress to anything interesting. The long first fall had some back and forth holds, but also seemed to eat up most of the time. This was forgettable if not terrible.
Atlantis Jr. has shown a lot of improvement in his one year in CMLL. His rival Hijo del Villano hasn’t grown. Usually, it’s a lack of offense. This time it was carelessness. Not being ready for Audaz’s dive was spiraled into trying to do a lot to make up for it, and forgetting there was a referee making a count. CMLL referees make mistakes all the time but the wrestlers were the ones who made the referee look bad this time.
The women’s match featured Dalys taking the tecnicas’ best shots, then getting up to give them some offense. She did not get beat in the one fall the tecnicas won. Nakajima seemed like she was going Dinastia speed compared to the usual CMLL women, which also makes it hard to imagine any here working well with her. She didn’t get to show much.
The opener was around the usual level. The rudos didn’t mess up anything, which should be celebrated. Principe Diamante is hesitant and not as fast as some of the other flyers but he did appear to be trying. Everything Magnus did wen fine but he just felt like he was going thru his usual motions with no excitement.