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Video post will be up a little later.

Bufete del Amor kept the trios titles last night in Arena Puebla. (The article has the wrong text, recapping the March 4th show instead.) On the way home, Marco Corleone and his driver got into a bad car accident.   Car upside down, crawling out of the wreckage bad! Marco says he and the driver are banged up but otherwise alive.

Siluelta will defend the REINA International Junior Championship vs Chik Tormenta on the Chilanga Mask’s 05/19 show.

Arena el Jaguar has Golden Boy, Simbolo, Silencio and Rey Demonio in a cage apuesta match this Sunday.

A mask collector claims to have 10,000 masks, the most of anyone in the world.

An Aerostar is working the opener of Sunday’s Arnea Lopez Mateos, but probably not that one.

Lineups

DTU (SAT) 04/13/2013 Autolvado VM, Tulancingo, Hidalgo
1) Extreme Boy vs Jhonky, Hellboy, Artikus, Atomik Star
2) Araña de Plata, Cíclope, Eterno, Pequeno Cobra vs Comando Negro, Jorge Kebrada , Kaleth, Slayer Pack
3) Lucky Boy & Niño de Ébano vs Gemelo De Chilpancingo I & Gemelo De Chilpancingo II
4) Hormiga vs Hacker, Nino Hamburguesa, Principe Halcon
5) Sangre Guerrera vs Paranoiko, Pesadilla, Super Mega
6) Crazy Boy, Konami, Lanzeloth vs Angel del Futuro, Angel del Misterio, Jinzo
7) CIMA, Drastik Boy, Rocky Lobo vs Eita, Flamita, Tomahawk (Dragon Gate)

DTU (SUN) 04/14/2013 Arena Aficion
1) Hellboy & Jhonky vs Artikus & Extreme Boy
2) Lanzeloth & Rocky Lobo vs Gemelo De Chilpancingo I & Gemelo De Chilpancingo II
3) Kaleth & Nino Hamburguesa vs Jorge Kebrada & Slayer Pack and Araña de Plata & Pequeno Cobra
4) Principe Halcon vs Hacker, Jinzo, Angel del Misterio
5) Pesadilla vs Super Mega, Paranoiko, Black Fire, Hormiga, Eita
6) CIMA & Tomahawk (Dragon Gate) vs Crazy Boy & Flamita and Lucky Boy & Niño de Ébano

The Dragon Gate/DTU shows this weekend. A lot of matches, not as much stuff being built in. There’s an issue with DTU and IWRG over CIMA – DTU is flying CIMA in for these shows, IWRG wants to use CIMA while he’s here without contributing to the flight costs – so he might end up just working these shows despite already being listed elsewhere.

CMLL (SUN) 04/14/2013 Arena Coliseo
1) Bengala & Camaleón vs Apocalipsis & Camorra
2) Magnus, Soberano Jr., Super Halcón Jr. vs Arkángel de la Muerte, Bobby Zavala, Nosferatu
3) Metálico vs Hijo del Signo [lightning]
4) Delta, Guerrero Maya Jr., Rey Cometa vs Misterioso Jr., Puma, Shigeo Okumura
5) Marco Corleone, Rush, Thunder vs Ephesto, Felino, Terrible
6) Mistico, Valiente, Volador Jr. vs Averno, Máximo, Mephisto [Relevos Increíbles]

Volador won’t lose to Mistico this time! Unless you count fouling your own partner a loss…

Metalico and Signo finally get their singles match.

CMLL (SUN) 04/14/2013 Arena Coliseo Guadalajara
1) Meteoro vs El Piraña
2) Halcón de Plata & Javier Cruz vs Mr. Trueno & Rey Trueno
3) Azteca de Oro vs Demonio Rojo
set up last week
4) Olímpico, Sangre Azteca, Virus vs Leo, León Blanco, Smaker
GDL vs DF
5) Ángel de Oro, Diamante Azul, Gallo vs Bárbaro Cavernario, Dragón Rojo Jr., Ráfaga

My hunch here is Sunday Guadalajara is heading to a cage match (with Azteca de Oro, Demonio Rojo, El Hippie, Sadico, and others) and a title match as the semimain soon. The title would come from that GDL vs DF match, but there’s three different titles involved so less sure.

CMLL (MON) 04/15/2013 Arena Puebla
1) Black Tiger & Tigre Rojo Jr. vs El Malayo & Siki Ozama Jr.
Malayo’s debut
2) Metálico, Starman, Stigma vs Hijo del Signo, Hooligan, Skándalo
3) Diamante, Hijo del Fantasma, Sagrado vs Misterioso Jr., Morphosis, Vangelis
4) Atlantis, La Máscara, Máscara Dorada vs Ephesto, Mephisto, Psicosis
5) Ángel de Oro, La Sombra, Mistico vs Dragón Rojo Jr., Pólvora, Rey Escorpión
rematch from last week

Malayo is a Puebla indy guy who appears to have been trained by Centella de Oro.

I don’t know that they’re going for it here, but Polvora vs Mistico would be a fantastic test of Polvora’s title match super powers.

IWRG (SUN) 04/07/2013 Arena Naucalpan [IWRG]
2) Centvrión, Dinamic Black, Golden Magic b Alan Extreme, Carta Brava Jr., Imposible
3) Pasion Kristal, Polvo de Estrellas, Yuriko b Chico Che, Spartaco, Trauma II
Espartaco’s debut. Lots of exotico comedy.
4) Negro Navarro & Trauma I b Cien Caras Jr. & Hijo de Máscara Año 2000 [IWRG IC TAG]
Navarros took 1/3 to keep the titles. Navarro & Trauma I sixth known defense. The Psycho Circus came out for this match while the Navarros were still at ringside, challenged for a tag title shot, and got into a brawl with the Navarros.
5) Monster Clown, Murder Clown, Psycho Clown b Danny Casas, Heavy Metal, Veneno
Casas Family took falls 2/3, the last when the Navarros (this time with Trauma II) distracted the Clowns. Navarros asked for a title shot (the Casas Family just kind of disappeared.)

Some of this will turn up in tomorrow’s video post. I had three ideas on how record the segunda, they all didn’t work out, and all I have is a few minutes of mat work and LAS cutting away when they went to the first dive. (When they came back, the match was over.) The tercera went forever, 40 minutes from pre-match interviews to the time they started interviews for the next match, with a lot of non-wrestling fooling around before, during and after the match. It didn’t occur to me last night, but I bet they were stalling since Negro Navarro was coming from the Arena Coliseo, which again went very long. Negro did find time to change gear somewhere along the way.

Silver King, Silver King Jr. and Alebrije Jr. (? – maybe the new AAA one) won the main event of a show in new Arena Pericoapa. That show reads like it’s a Silver King trainees show (+ Steve Pain.)

AAA will interview the Inferno Rockers tonight.

LuchaWorld has KrisZ’s news update.

Lucha Libre In Japan

Maximo is listed on the NJPW 05/03 PPV, working an atomicos opening match. He’s also on the tour that accompanies the show, starting on 04/19. Just trios and atomicos, and no matches with Taichi’s (so FantasticaMania was the end of that, as it seemed.)

(via Open the Puroresu Gate) All Japan announced they’d be sending 2 wrestlers, Andy Woo and Hiroki Inaba, to Mexico to train. Andy Woo is a masked wrestler doing Chinese martial arts character (and presumably not actually Chinese.) Inaba is a trainee who hasn’t debuted in AJPW. They say they’re not going to work only for a specific promotion, but do mention possibly working with AAA and training with Pantera. There’s no specific mention of when they’re coming to Mexico and they say their length of stay depends how it goes. The last AJPW trainees to come to Mexico were Bushi (now NJPW), Kai and Yamato, who all worked primary with IWRG.

Lineups

IWRG (THU) 04/11/2013 Arena Naucalpan
1) Galaxy vs Dragón Celestial
2) Mr. Leo & Saruman vs Alan Extreme & Fulgor
3) Dinamic Black, Trauma II, Veneno vs Apolo Estrada Jr., Eita, Tomahawk
4) el Ángel vs Eterno [IWRG IC MIDDLE]
Angel is champion. Attempt at a 5th defense.
5) CIMA, Toscano, Trauma I vs Máscara Año 2000 Jr., Súper Nova, X-Fly

Such a random group of individuals in the main event.

Eterno is a fine luchador to be getting a title shot, but Centviron just won a shot at this title before the holiday break. What happened?

photo by CMLL

CMLL (SUN) 04/07/2013 Arena Coliseo [CMLL, Terra]
***Arena Coliseo 70th Anniversary Show***
1) Metatrón & Soberano Jr. b Espanto Jr. & Guerrero Negro Jr.
Oro Jr. was announced at the initial press conference, but changed to Metatron on the week of the event. Tecnicos took 1/3 in a match that was good for this level.
2) Hombre Bala Jr., Metálico, Super Halcón Jr. b Hijo del Signo, Nosferatu, Taurus
Tecnicos took 2/3, the last when Signo pulled Metalico’s mask off for a DQ. They feuded heavily during the match.
3) Goya Kong b Marcela, Estrellita, Dalis la Caribeña, Silueta, Amapola, Princesa Sugheit, Princesa Blanca, Zeuxis, Tiffany [cibernetico, Trofeo Arena Coliseo 70 Aniversario]
No seeding battle royal. Eliminations went Silueta (Zeuxis Spanish Fly), Princesa Sugheit (Estrellita submission), Zeuxis (Devil’s Wings by Dalys), Dalys (Tiffany submission), Estrellita (by Amapola), Tiffany (Marcela double stomp), Marcela (Princesa Blanca powerbomb), Amapola (Goya Ros Driver) and Princesa Blanca (Goya). Goya got the win back over Princesa Blanca, who unmasked her last year. The tecnicas celebrated with Goya, and Guerrero del Futuro gave Goya a trophy.
4) Averno, Blue Panther, Shocker b Black Terry, Negro Navarro, Villano IV
Good match. Fans were happy to see the independent guys, and cheered big the first time Panther and Navarro got in together. They were hostile towards Shocker, who did not have a good match. Averno submitted Navarro to a kneebar in the first. Navarro submitted Averno and V4 submitted Panther in the second with a Noria. Averno submitted Black Terry and Blue Panther submitted Villano 4 in the third. Negro Navarro and Blue Panther teased more. Lots of money thrown in, with Panther & Navarro going in to the seats to collect more. All the guys hung around in the ring for a long time, to the point of Tony Salazar trying to get them to leave.
5) Atlantis, Diamante Azul, Rayo de Jalisco Jr. b Máscara Año 2000, Ray Mendoza Jr., Universo 2000
CMLL vs independents. Tecnicos took 2/3, beating all the rudos in the last. Mendoza, accompanied by one his sons, earlier declared this would actually be his last match, and was crying in the ring after the match. He also did a sad farewell interview.
6) Dragón Rojo Jr. b La Sombra [CMLL MIDDLE]
Standard quick falls to begin, Dragon landing the Dragon Bomb in the first and Sombra giving Dragon Rojo the Brillante Driver in the second (on the second try). Long third fall of near fall teases ending with Dragon Rojo using his arm submission for the win. Dragon Rojo’s seventh defense, third versus Sombra.

Really long show; they gave every match time and the show ran close to 3 hours 10 minutes as a result. Every match was good, no great, though the Negro Navarro match was the best. They did a really good job of making this feel like it was a special show. To that end, a fan who went to the first show 70 years ago was given an award for being back at this show.

Didn’t seem a sell out; the shots I saw of the top level seemed more filled than usual, but definitely not full. Los Colisenos said the floor seemed 60% full, the middle level 100% full and the top 20% full.

Negro Navarro vs Blue Panther was definitely teased for some sort of rematch. No idea if they’ll actually do it.

We’re just waiting on a date for Metalico/Hijo del Signo. They pushed the Arena Mexico Anniversary show later this month, which may be connected.

CMLL (SUN) 04/07/2013 Arena Coliseo Guadalajara [@acogdl]
1) El Divino b Relampago Azul
2) Azteca de Oro & Black Metal b Acertijo & Demonio Rojo
straight falls. Rudos were DQed for fouling black Metal in the first fall. Azteca de Oro got away with a foul in the second.
3) El Hippie b Sádico
Acertio & Demonio Rojo ran in to help Sadico, but Hippie got the win anyway. Black Metal & Azteca de Oro cleared the rudos and set up a match between Azteca de Oro & Demonio Rojo.
4) Arkángel de la Muerte, Olímpico, Sangre Azteca, Virus b Gallo, Leo, León Blanco, Smaker
DF vs Guadalajara. Eliminations went Arkangel (Gallo), Gallo (Olimpico), Smaker (Sangre Azteca), Virus (Leon Blanco), Olimpico (DQ for fouling Leon Blanco), Leon Blanco (Sangre Azteca, taking advantage of the foul) and Leo (Sangre Azteca.)
5) Negro Casas b Máscara Dorada [NWA WELTER]
Negro Casas won the first with a casita, Mascara Dorada blocked in the third and put on his own, Negro Casas blocked Dorada’s try in the third to win. Negro Casas’ sixth defense.

Dr. Wagner Jr.’s latest story is his AAA contract ends the last day of August, so he’ll start in CMLL the first day of September and may be added to the Atlantis vs Ultimo Guerrero mask match if the fans demand it. Wagner explains AAA only focuses on their favorites and didn’t give him enough attention. Dr. Wagner just says ludicrous stuff, I look forward to see what he says in September.

Pierroth’s daughter says Pierroth had agreed to let CMLL debut a new Pierroth before his stroke. That’s years ago at this point. She doesn’t know the details of the deal (if they’ll be paid, or if they’ve already been paid) and he can’t say much.

FMLL is headed to El Paso for a show with Hijo del Santo and CMLL wrestlers.

DJ Spectro remembers Solitario, who’s death anniversary was Saturday.

Lucha Libre in Japan

04/17 NJPW: Tama Tonga & Terrible [O] b La Mascara & Valiente [X] [CMLL TAG]
- first defense. Match was said to be good. Valiente landed the Valiente Special, which hasn’t tried here since he stumbled on it at the Tokyo Dome. Mascara looked good too, so it was a good night despite the loss. No sense of a second challenger set up.

REINA announced two matches, both of which have been mentioned but to make them clearer:
06/29 in Tokyo: Dump Matsumoto vs Goya Kong
06/30 in Kanagawa: Marcela vs Ray – for the CMLL title if Marcela is still champion, but happening even if she’s not (and should be quite good.)_

REINA sent this to me in a press release. To me! Weird.

Lineups

HECTOR (SUN) 04/21/2013 Arena Solidaridad [KrisZ]
***Hector Garza Benefit Show***
1) Extreme Boy, Silencio, Sky vs Ciber Payaso, Desafio, Mortifero
2) Hector Garza Jr., Humberto Garza, Ninja Jr., Ultimo Ninja vs Bestia Solovino I, Bestia Solovino II, Titanik
3) Big Neurosis, Hijo del Ninja, Simbolo 2000 vs Coco Viper, La Sombra, Pierko el Boricua
4) Bello Rubi, Orquídea Negra, Pimpinela Escarlata vs Bengali, Difunto I, Potro Jr.
5) Diluvio Negro I, Diluvio Negro II, Rey Hechicero, Silver Star vs Golden Boy, Mongol Chino, Rey Demonio, Vaquero Romo
6) Coco Amarillo, Coco Azul, Coco Rojo vs Antifaz del Norte, Dizzy, Pirata Morgan
7) Atlantis & Rey Bucanero vs Euforia & Último Guerrero
8) Cibernético, El Elegido, LA Park vs ?, Parka Negra, Psicosis I
wrestler in main event is a surprise member of Perros del Mal

Loaded show, breaking the restriction on CMLL and AAA luchadors being on the same show in Mexico. CMLL could always change their minds, but it’s hard to pull people from a benefit show. Latin Lover will also appear on the show.