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CMLL (FRI) 10/21 Arena Mexico Results [box y lucha]
1) Bam Bam & Mini Olimpico b Pierrothito & Mini Violencia
2) Sagrado, Texano, Maximo b Masada, Loco Max, Nitro
3) Hijo del Perro Aguayo, Hector Garza, Terrible b Universo 2000, Ultimo Guerrero, Rey Bucanero
Ovaciones was down on this match.
4) Atlantis, Jado, Gedo b Dr. Wagner, Dos Caras Jr., Hijo de Lizmark
5) Mistico, El Hijo del Santo, Negro Casas b Mr. Aguila, Damian 666, Halloween
CMLL.com pushes a feud between Mistico and Mr. Aguila.

CMLL (SUN) 10/23 Arena Coliseo Results [box y lucha]
1) Rayo Tapatios I & II, Zetta b Artillero, Zayko, Cobalto
2) Hooligan, Guerrero del Futuro, Apocalipsis b Kronos, Valiente, Danger
3) Lizmark, Safari, Brazo de Oro b Emilio Charles Jr., Hijo de Pierroth, Canek Jr.
4) Mistico, Dos Caras Jr., Negro Casas, Black Warrior DQ Ultimo Guerrero, Olimpico, Jado, Gedo
Jado and Gedo are reported to look good in the lucha style. Ultimo had a chance to win, but decided to low blow Black Warrior instead. Huh.
5) Rey Bucanero b Heavy Metal
Metal had taped ribs. Rey uses the ropes for the final pin.

According to KrisZ, both Electroshock (jump to CMLL) and Intocable (spinal injury) have returned to action in AAA. I’d assume this means Lady Apache should turn back up there as well. The CMLL crowd (and likely, some of the office) turned on Elektro pretty quick, he and didn’t appear to be getting high profile indy bookings, so this was just a matter of time. Intocable’s outlook was upgraded a few days after he was initially told never to wrestle again, but this is still an awful quick recovery.

Puroresu Fan says CMLL is in negotiations with NJPW to bring in Brock Lesnar. That’d be interesting. I have no idea who you’d choose to face him (too bad Porky’s gone) or how to work it at all, but I’d like to see them try.

On Saturday, Arkangel did an interview in Ovaciones, a little bit bemoaning his lack of publicity. Good reason to do an interview. He challenge Mistico to a title match, hoping to take a little air out of his balloon and pointing out he’s defended the title against the same guy most of the time. Ark’s 17 year old son was with him; he’s proud of his father’s wrestling but doesn’t plan on going into it.

Mascara Sagrada is supposed to have a press conference today to talk about his ownership of that name.

Another Texano tribute show will take place on 11/17 in Arena Coliseo. As mentioned last week, he’s back in the hospital – the articles seem to indicate it’s because of a relapse, and not the get the additional surgery he had mentioned.

El Hijo del Diablo will be facing El Hijo del Santo for masks in Tijuana, date to be announced. Devil versus Saint, seems fair enough.

Veneno, Bestia Salvaje, and Masada will be in the 11/03 IWRG 10 Man loser loses mask/hair match. Two more people will put their hair up, and five will put up their masks.

They went backwards, to an episode I didn’t know actually aired.

TripleMania 8
05/26/01 Pirata Morgan LOST Cobarde & Sangre Chicana [3, chain, hair] – TripleMania 8
05/26/01 Latin Lover b Hector Garza, Hijo del Perro Aguayo, Heavy Metal – TripleMania 8
05/04/05 Pegasso & Chivas Rayadas I & II b Los Diabolics
05/04/05 Angel, Zorro, Intocable b Hator, Histeria, Juvi
Konnan offers a spot in the LLL to any man who can beat him. They can’t.
Pena comes out to yell at them, and to reveal a Shocker shirt. Shocker debuts. Shocker talks. No one fights.
05/04/05 La Parka, Electro Shock, Vampiro DQ Konnan, Cibernetico, Charly Manson
Shocker runs in, teases turning on Vampiro, and attacks the LLL before he and Vampiro have a standoff. The rest of AAA seems okay with him. Everyone ends either joining the LLL outside or AAA inside the ring, but it’s just more talk. LLL leaves. Pena talks. They tease the Shocker/Vampiro handshake forever. Shocker wants to, Vampiro’s not so high on the idea. Meanwhile, LLL destroys part of the scenery. Lots of talking. Finally ah handshake hug, and then they go run after LLL.

while I’m surfing WWE.com, there was something else which caught my eye.

They’ve got a story about some guy from Germany who they’re giving a tryout to next time thru the UK, and maybe a development contract if he does well, based on an online application. That idea surely has no flaws. Anyway,

The response to the United Kingdom tryouts was so overwhelming that WWE has chosen to start accepting applications from fans in the United States. Some of the cities WWE plans on holding tryouts in include Pittsburgh, Daytona Beach, Mexico City and Buffalo, among others.

Besides learning the US has annexed Mexico City, the great thing here is just picturing how this is going to work. Most everyone is going to be doing things the lucha way, and the few who aren’t are going to be trying to do it a ROH or a High Spot Rific way. These tryouts have absolutely no chance of working out well, and I’d pay money to see it.

That was something. He was still funny eating ham. But I don’t know if it’ll last as long as, say, the bWo. Hope he didn’t burn bridges.

If the segment didn’t give you the impression the whole concept was stupid to be entirely the idea of the idiot network guy, perhaps noticing WWE.com has changed the news story about the formation of the division will do it. It’s now Palmer Canon (one n; did they just change it, or is no one who’s supposed to be paying attention to these things actually doing it?) who gets off the memorable “Midgets, dwarves, the little people; they’re all welcome.” line.

Luchas2000 (TUE) 10/20 Arena Coliseo Lineup [box y lucha]
23rd Anniversary Show for el Hijo del Santo
1) Antaris, Zorro Gris, Gran Cuchillo, Vampiro Metalico b Barones Siniestros I & II, Euforia, Zoku
2) Dr. Karonte, Principe Odin, Luzbel b Galante, Apolo Chino II, Condor Azul [10min, one fall]
3) Marcela & Sahora b Amapola & India Sioux
4) Aguila Solitaria, Pantera, Ciclon Ramirez b Destructores (Vulcano, Tony Arce, Tocco Valente
5) Hijo del Cobarde, Kato Kung Lee, Super Parka, Silver King b Cuchillo, Dr. Cerebro, Hijo del Espanto, Scorpio Jr.
6) Hijo del Santo, Mil Mascaras, Blue Panther, Villano III b Hijo del Cobarde, Kato Kung Lee, Super Parka, Silver King
Santo got many gifts, including a giant painting of the silver mask. Santo sent well wishes to El Texano, who’s back in the hospital.

Usually Arena Mexico preview
- Triple Main Event
- Santo teaming with Mistico
- Jado and Gedo return to Mexico
- Universo & GdI vs Perros; Tarzan nowhere to be found
- New Mexican trios champions are all together, working a nontitle match.
- Mini Pierroth is supposed to be working the opener.

On Box Y Lucha’s forum, there’s a picture of next week’s Acapulco poster. What’s with Terrible’s hair? Is that a beret?

I started watching TripleMania last night (expect a recap tonight or Saturday), and I’ve gotten as far as the Vampiro/Konnan intros. Valiant tecnico cornerman Antonio Pena made me tap out. Anyway, as the ultimate representation of all AAA is 2005, it’s only missing a spot fest, and a man/women/midget match. It’s sure got the internal match logic down.

Here.

I was thinking the other day about the time gap on CMLL shows. I know there’s plenty of good matches in the queue. I also know there are some lame matches, and the delay is stretching on forever. At this point, I’d prefer skipping them all rather than dealing with the delay longer. I could easily pick and choose tapes of what I wanted to see (and I’d still be okay with it if I can’t.)

If you’re like me, and the delay is annoying you just as much, then AAA turning back up is the worst news possible. When they’ve stopped airing CMLL in the past, they’ve just kept the tapes neatly ordered up, and picked up from where they left off. (That’s the origin of this delay – from picking up after lucha stopped airing on Gala, and from picking up after the AAA-only section.)

In AAA’s case, they did skip a taping from what we’ve last seen. Wacky theory: they didn’t receive the tape (or any tape) as scheduled last time they were airing AAA, so that’s why they switched back. We’re actually picking up within a week of the expected CMLL show, not any close to being current. If Alfredo’s listings are complete, we will (somehow) be moving faster thru time with AAA, since there’s about one taping a month. Based off those tape listings, I’ve created an Yet To Air – AAA list of it’s own, so you can plan out how things will go, if they stick with AAA.

Saturday: Split feed, but only the West Coast feed is affected. Weird group of matches; you’ve got Shocker’s match off a TNA PPV, a match from last week’s Triplemania, highlights of a match from last YEAR’s TripleMania, a trios match with the tecnicos all working under dual identities, and Nicho last match with the company as they swap Histeria in his place for the identity feud with Psicosis II.

Sunday: Perro Aguayo Sr in a hair match! Yea.