CMLL (FRI) 05/21 Arena Mexico [SuperLuchas, @cmllmagazine, Ovaciones (PDF)]
1) Rayo Tapatío I & Rayo Tapatío II DQ Inquisidor & Mortiz
2) Astro Boy, Guerrero Maya Jr., Sensei b Arkangel de la Muerte, Hooligan, Skándalo
3) Eléctrico b Pierrothito [lightning]
4) Misterioso II, Pólvora, Sangre Azteca b Ángel Azteca Jr., Ángel de Oro, Ángel de Plata
5) Místico, Strong Man, Toscano b Averno, Ephesto, Mephisto
6) La Máscara, La Sombra, Máscara Dorada b Hiroshi Tanahashi, Shigeo Okumura, Taichi [CMLL TRIOS]
Tecnicos took falls 2 and 3 (Mascara powerbomb on Tanahashi, planchas by the other two) to win the trios championship.
Mistico came out for his match wearing his horned mask, teasing a union with the rudos, but the ripped it off to declare he was staying a tecnico. (SuperLuchas also says Mistico made an obscene gesture towards the rudo fans.) Today, CMLL.com confirms Mistico is done with acting a rudo. Mistico got Averno in the usual way.
Rayo Tapatio II took the Mortiz Fly in the opener, but the rudos still got DQed when Inquisidor fouled Rayo I.
Yahoo Mexico had a front page interview with the old trios champs.
As expected, AAA has officially put both Silver King & Ultimo Gladiador and Nicho & Joe Lider in the AAA Tag Title match at TripleMania, following their draw earlier.
Ras de Lona was a hard sell for 06/06. The first 2/3rds seemed to be people almost exclusively talking about Rayo Jr.’s return, and the press conference aired in the second half. Only in CMLL does someone turn against the company by walking around a chain link fence and hugging someoen at a press conference. Garza explained his side doesn’t need him on the Invasors vs CMLL show, while Panico confirmed Tirantes would be refereeing on the show. Outside of the main angle, Mistico was asked about his light heavyweight title match versus Volador form this past Monday, bitterly blaming his loss on Tirantes corrupt refereeing. They seemed to be positioning Mistico & Fantasma as the big opponents of the Invasors. Also, Tanahashi does a better promo in Spanish than Taichi and Okumura.
Octagon says AAA needs to give the guys in the first and second matches a chance to prove themselves, and there’s no need to bring in new people. Octagon is clearly not booking AAA.
R de Rudo also has an interview with Quidam from Japan’s 666 promotion.
A luchador named Guerrero Rojo talks about wrestling in the US, says he was a fan of Ultimo Guerrero growing up (despite being 35), and the article states learning lucha libre cures any vice. Not sure which is the biggest fib.
Local wrestler Guardian visited a children’s hospital.
Sensacional de Lucha looks back at LA Park in 2003, revealing his real name to prove he was the original La Parka.
Segunda Caida has a review of IWRG 01/31/10 and awards for January.
LuchaWorld has KrisZ’s news update.
Lineups
Tuesday’s main event now has Hijo de Fantamsa in Mistico’s place. I would assume this is related to Mistico burying the rudo bit on Friday; that match must’ve been planned with Mistico & Volador not getting alone, and it seems like they don’t want either of them to be a rudo now, so they’ll just keep them apart.
CMLL (FRI) 05/28 Arena Mexico
1) Metálico & Starman vs Disturbio & Semental
2) Dark Angel, Lluvia, Luna Mágica vs Amapola, Mima Shimoda, Princesa Blanca
3) Rush vs Cancerbero [lightning]
4) Ángel de Oro, Blue Panther, Valiente vs Euforia, Misterioso II, Sangre Azteca
5) Hijo del Fantasma, Máximo, Volador Jr. vs Ray Mendoza Jr., Shigeo Okumura, Taichi
6) Gigante Bernard, Shocker, Strong Man vs Héctor Garza, Terrible, Texano
Ehhh. Fourth match looks good! Gigante Benard teams with the guys we know he’s facing next week, I think I know how that’ll go. Garza finally gets to team with Terrible & Texano.
A permanent trio of Garza/Terrible/Texanito could be pretty damn entertaining…
Did CMLL give their new booker a week or two off and that explains the recent booking?
“Hey, we just announced our big event for June 6th at a press conference that was covered by tons of media. Now we’ll book a main event teaming two wrestlers that will be facing each other June 6th. Nobody will see the turn coming!”
watching AAA on Galavision USA, Rumbo a Triplemania segment is Pena’s mother talking about family issues, Heavy Metal reminding Vampiro that he taught him how to rock-n-roll, Tirantes in the gym, Rivera talking, gringas locas talking maids outfits.
So, not once did the Triplemania segment mention:
Time, date, location, or PPV. Nothing. Unreal.
Are you sure the U.S. broadcast isn’t just editing out those references? Last year they had a special Triplemania graphic w/ the date, location, etc. and it was edited off all the U.S. broadcasts. I clearly remember b/c there was a Relevos AAA match one week where Mascarita Sagrada 2000 looked amazing but when I watched the U.S. version I noticed a lot of his spots were missing. So I compared it to the Mexico version and of course he did all his stuff while the Triplemania graphic was on-screen.
LATV is from 5/7. I forgot if this aired or not.
@Tim: w/ Fuerza Aerea vs Tuereg and Arkangel vs Azteca? That’d be new.
Yep that’s the one. The Fuerza Aerea match would have been better if Rush wasn’t there.
Opener on Cadena Tres again this week
And of course I forgot to turn it on in time for the first two falls.
Two weeks in a row Cubs has predicted a ACM match correctly.
They actually aired the match with the gunshots?
No. The only new match aired was a pretty good Sangre Chicana Jr/Simbolo vs Lover Boy/Estrella Dorada Jr. match. I think you would like it Rob.
AAA has been noticeably blurring messages out stuff on their TV show this year; I haven’t gone and compared, but I’m relatively sure it’s about upcoming events and show times. They definitely have been cutting out the upcoming tapings mentions from the US TV (maybe to hide how old it is), so I just presume they’re cutting out the PPV info/ads.
52MX opened with a recap of the Psicosis/Sombra post mast shennagins. Hooray for trying on this storyline.
52MX has the expected matches, and we found out Single Girls is definitely Blanca’s music. This is Maniaco’s first TV match since – maybe 2006 on Lucha LIbre Azteca from Gimnasio Nuevo Leon?
Teleformula had a rerun of #25 again.
It’s possible that Televisa is messing with material that would make AAA time/date sensitive, now that they are selling the show on a worldwide basis.
The Rumbo a Triplemania segment that I saw with Pena’s mother wasn’t edited. I remember watching it on xej. Let’s see what airs today.
Well, xej joins semi main event in progress.
AAA starts at 3:30. tvguide changed since I last checked on Friday.
Noti CMLL previewed Giant Bernard coming to Mexico and clearly said (both in the audio & the on-screen graphic) that he is coming for Strongman!
And they’re teaming on Friday. Lovely.
Which thread do I use to discuss the Blackhawks winning?
AAA has a Triplemania spot on their website.
Hopefully, LLdeMex will upload the show on his youtube page so I can see the entire episode.
xej ran spots for LA Park on an indie on 6/5.
FYI It seems CMLL TV today aired the Electrico vs Pierrothito match and did not air the especial w/ Los Angeles vs 2/3 Poder Mexica & Polvora. Guessing it was a timing issue b/c they couldn’t afford editing out the extra 10 minutes of fart machine commercials.