AAA (THU) 05/30/2013 Gimnasio Agustín Millán
1) Lucky Boy & Niño de Ébano vs Carta Brava Jr. & Eterno
2) Fabi Apache & Jennifer Blake vs Mary Apache & Taya Valkyrie
3) Aerostar, Atomic Boy, Axel vs Daga, El Apache, Psicosis
4) Drago & Fénix vs Angélico & Jack Evans
5) Electroshock & Heavy Metal vs Silver King & Texano Jr.
6) ?, Cibernético, El Mesías vs Canek, el Hijo del Perro Aguayo, Villano IV

Air Date: maybe 06/09? maybe 06/16? Any date in June?

I made this joke before, and it wasn’t really that funny, but it’s not stopping me: Texano’s group should really should stop being El Consejo and start going with El Toreo. It’s an Aguayo, a Villano and the Canek. Maybe Silver King could switch to a Fishman gimmick.

Unsure why Texano is facing off against Heavy Metal when he’s defending Chessman at TripleMania. Maybe this is just a light warm up match!

The first four matches all look like they could be very good. That’s probably the best looking Atomic Boy match in a while. Angelico & Jack appear to be a tag team going forward. AAA has some good tag teams, they probably could use some tag team titles.

This looks like the last taping before TripleMania, but AAA is full of surprises.

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AAA TV (SUN) 05/12/2013 Plaza de Toros, Durango, Durango [Lucha Libre AAA]
1) Lucky Boy & Niño de Ébano b Carta Brava Jr. & Dr. Cerebro
No Freelance or Segura. Two Spanish Flys from Maxima Velocidad for the win.
2) El Apache, Eterno, Mamba b Aerostar, Atomic Boy, Axel
Axel’s debut in AAA (though he was in AAA as Goldman way back in 1993.) Apache beat Atomic Boy with a top rope powerbomb. Daga made fun of Axel after the match.
3) Argos, Chessman, Halloween b Angélico, Drago, Jack Evans
Chessman beat Drago with a top rope legdrop. Rolling with the momentum of such a big win, Chessman challenged Texano for a title shot. Texano again said Heavy Metal is washed up as a luchador, so no title match for Heavy Metal. Texano ruled Chessman was a quality luchador who give him a good fight, and so accepted Chessman’s challenge.
4) Silver King, Texano Jr., Villano IV b Monster Clown, Murder Clown, Psycho Clown
Villano IV snuck in a foul on Psycho Clown. Villano IV declared he and his brothers were the best trio that has ever existed in the history of wrestling. La Parka (not the Clowns, who are champions here) appeared to disagree and proposed an AAA Legends vs Villano’s team.
5) Daga, el Hijo del Perro Aguayo, Psicosis b Escoria, La Parka, Ozz
As with all Perro matches, an unannounced no disqualification match. Perro said this result would repeat at TripleMania.

Air Date: let’s say 05/18 and 05/25, sounds plausible, though some matches will also air on Fusion so maybe just one week.

The rudos won every match, though sometimes Lucky & Nino are tecnicos and sometimes they’re tecnicos (and you can’t really tell which way it in any match, so maybe I should’ve just made everyone there black.)

What we’ve got for TripleMania so far

• Cibernetico vs Perro Aguayo Jr. [hair]
• Texano Jr. (c) vs Chessman [AAA HEAVY] – this would actually be very interesting. It can’t actually be happening. Heavy Metal and Chessman are on opposite sides of a trios match at the next taping which be the next chapter here. Mesias & Blue Demon might be involved in this match too, or might be in their own match.
• Daga (c) vs Axel [AAA CRUISER] – possibly a multi-man match by the time they’re done, because they’ve always done multiman match
• Villanos vs AAA Legends of La Parka, Octagon, Whoever Else  – the recap says “independents”, which might mean someone else besides Villano V. More likely he has a third last match ever.  Maybe the Psycho Circus involved? They’re facing Consejo again in Tampico
• Atomic Boy vs El Apache [mask vs hair] – they’ve dragged it out for this long

That leaves room for 2 or 3 matches. No hints about TNA or other outside involvement. Probably a Relevos AAA to get women and minis and exoticos on the card, since they all have no feuds. Maybe the Blue Demon Legacy Title? There’s a lot of different ways they could ‘add’ on a lot of extra people, no way of knowing which way they’ll go.

There’s missing a match that’s going to be a sure great match. Both Perro & Cibernetico and Atomic Boy & Apache look to be bloody memorable spectacles, but there’s no match that just has two or four or six really good wrestlers against each other – like the Fusion match at Rey de Reyes – , and AAA definitely has those luchadors. I assume they’ll be adding more people to the Cruiserweight match, but that hasn’t worked out well in the past. Maybe Demon and Mesias will be split out into it’s own match so Mesias can try for that great TripleMania match, as he usual does.

Upcoming tapings:
Friday in Puebla
05/24 in Tampico – probably the cut off for stuff airing in any meaningful way before TripleMania
05/30 in Toluca – semi-lame duck taping?
06/16 in TripleMania – getting close to a month away!

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AAA TV (SUN) 05/12/2013 Plaza de Toros, Durango, Durango
1) Freelance, Lucky Boy, Niño de Ébano vs Carta Brava Jr., Dr. Cerebro, Mike Segura
2) Aerostar, Atomic Boy, Axel vs El Apache, Eterno, Mamba
3) Angélico, Drago, Jack Evans vs Argos, Chessman, Halloween
4) Monster Clown, Murder Clown, Psycho Clown vs Silver King, Texano Jr., Villano IV
5) Escoria, La Parka, Ozz vs Daga, el Hijo del Perro Aguayo, Psicosis

Air Date: Sin Limite, 05/18 and 05/25. There’s no poster, and no mention if this is for a single brand or for everything, but that seems to fit.

This is the first Durango taping since 2002, as far as I can find. Escoria is from Durango and will main event in his home town. Maybe Parka will remember how they all used to be in the same group, about two turns ago.

There’s no sign of the Cibernetico/Perro Aguayo feud, the Heavy Metal/Texano feud and the possible Blue Demon/Mesias feud, so maybe this is the show that sets up the TripleMania undercard? At the very least, they might explain how Villano IV came to be in El Consejo (which ought to be El Universal or El Association at this point.)

First three matches all have chances to be very good. Clowns vs Consejo just won’t die.

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AAA TV (MON) 04/15/2013 Domo de la Feria de Leon [@Lucha_Libre_AAA, Lucha Libre AAA]
1) Mini Abismo Negro, Mini Charly Manson, Mini Histeria b Dinastía, Máscarita Divina, Rey Celestial
Mascarita Divina replaced Mascarita Sagrada, was beat by Mini Absimo.
2) Fabi Apache, Jennifer Blake, Lolita b Mary Apache, Sexy Lady, Taya Valkyrie
Jennifer beat Sexy Lady
3) Aerostar, Argenis, Fénix b Devil Rocker, Machine Rocker, Soul Rocker
Upset!
4) Alan Stone, El Elegido, Toscano b Argos, Máscara Año 2000 Jr., Silver King
Los Mirreyes won in their debut.
5) Cuervo, Escoria, Espíritu, Ozz b Daga, el Hijo del Perro Aguayo, Halloween, Psicosis
No DQ match (or usual Perros match.) Escoria won with a 450 splash. After the match, Axel ran in to attack the tecnicos, but unmasked to reveal himself as Ricky Marvin, the newest member of the Perros del Mal
6) Blue Demon Jr. & El Mesías b LA Park & Texano Jr.
Demon & Mesias fought during the match, but managed to win. Demon challenged LA Park to a title match, but Mesias attacked him again after the match.

Updated 10am Tuesday- note the finish in the fifth match has been fixed.

Air Date: 04/20 & 04/27

Lots of surprises on the Gran Sorpresa show (and not many I had in advance.)

The first big news of the show took place after the second mach. Blue Demon Jr. was brought to the ring, and it was announced he signed a contract to work for AAA on a regular basis. Demon introduced his guest, Axel (back to one x), who was also coming to AAA. Axel immediately challenged Daga to a title match, which Daga was not impressed by. They fought and were broken up with Joaquin Roldan helping. Joaquin and Demon announced the Leyenda Azul tournament, previously (and maybe still) ran in CMLL, would be coming to AAA as part of his signing and showed off a new belt for the championship.

Dorian Roldan and Konnan returned to AAA for the first time since they were fired in February to interrupt at this point, with Konnan announcing he was returning to in-ring competition. Konnan and Blue Demon had words and seemed to be setting up a match between them.

Later, in the La Secta vs Perros match, a man in an Axel mask ran in to attack the Perros. It wasn’t Axel, it was the returning Ricky Marvin, now the newest member of Perros del Mal.

Finally, in the main event, Mesias turned on Blue Demon Jr. and appears to be the rudo in the feud. Demon had already challenged LA Park to a Latin American title match, but Mesias appeared to challenge Demon for the new belt. (Texano Jr., the Mega champion, was pinned in the match and ignored in the post match.)

The Konnan return had been mentioned in the Wrestling Observer Newsletter earlier this year. He should be a major part of the AAA US Evolucion group, and this return should start things in that direction. Konnan and Dorian returning, with everything snapping right back to the status quo before they were fired in Pachuca, really makes that whole bit look very pointless. The story is they’re allowed back after Marisela Pena’s judgement, but part of her decision was the company would split in two, and the company has not appeared to split in any fashion as of yet. Maybe they will this weekend in Cordoba.

Ricky Marvin in Perros del Mal seems like it’ll be fun times. This was accidentally telegraphed by Marvin’s inclusion in the Fusion tournament, and Marvin’s been working shows with AAA guys when in Mexico. Marvin, Demon and Axel seem big enough names to get a LA Park/Dr. Wagner freedom deal – they’d control their schedule, not AAA (and AAA doesn’t get as much a cut – but no idea if actually that’s the deal. I have no idea where this leaves Super Crazy.

I’m not as enthused about Axel coming to AAA. He’s been more interesting as a trademark case than as an in-ring wrestler for many years, and didn’t stand out in any way during his short stints in CMLL. AAA seems to be employing Axel for the same primary reason CMLL did – to stick it to Hijo del Santo – but it’s going to end up in situations where he works a totally different style than guys like Daga. At the same time, I wasn’t really thrilled about Blue Demon Jr. showing up, and he was really good at Rey de Reyes. And he’s not this bad.

AAA has nine titles, already too much for one promotion and probably more than two smaller promotions need. At the same time (again!), a Leyenda de Azul tournament will probably end up being a good way to squeeze a lot of people onto TripleMania who wouldn’t otherwise get on if that’s the plan. It’d also be something to punch up an otherwise filler TV taping. It just doesn’t need to be something around every week.

Blue Demon Jr. seems to have more or less gotten Dr. Wagner Jr.’s spot in AAA. A nice gig if you can get it. Maybe I was right on the multiman match but for the wrong title – LA Park vs Demon vs Mesias, while Texano faces This Year’s Foreign Guest Star?

This post will be updated when AAA posts their recap.

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AAA TV (MON) 04/15/2013 Domo de la Feria de Leon
1) Dinastía, Mascarita Sagrada, Rey Celestial vs Mini Abismo Negro, Mini Charly Manson, Mini Histeria
2) Fabi Apache, Jennifer Blake, Lolita vs Mary Apache, Sexy Lady, Taya Valkyrie
3) Aerostar, Argenis, Fénix vs Devil Rocker, Machine Rocker, Soul Rocker
4) Alan Stone, El Elegido, Toscano vs Argos, Máscara Año 2000 Jr., Silver King
Toscano’s group is called Los Mirreyes
5) Cuervo, Escoria, Espíritu, Ozz vs Daga, el Hijo del Perro Aguayo, Halloween, Psicosis
6) Blue Demon Jr. & El Mesías vs LA Park & Texano Jr.

Card here.

Air Date: 04/20 & 04/27.

So when we all said TripleMania will sell out with after Perro vs Cibernetico was announced, little did we know that was all they were going to do. It’s still going to work. They still got two months to do something.

LA Park is an unpredictable man. Or he just likes punching Mesias.

This is the first time the Secta have teamed together in an atomicos match since 2010, when they squashed the Vipers out of existence.

[spoiler]As mentioned, the Alan Stone & Elegido & Toscano group is the Gran Sorpresa. Urban Dictionary, a source you can trust, defines Mirreyes as “high-class, modern, young males.” The list I had seen also had Angelico in the group.[/spoiler]

Welcome back Aerostar! It’s going to end badly for you but do a dive first.

Rey Celestial is the minis QPPLC winner making his debut. That just leaves Saturno, the men’s division winner.

Next taping is 04/20 in Veracruz.

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