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AAA on Televisa #934 (04/17/2010)

May 11

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Gimnasio Juan de la Barrera, 03/19/2010

Maybe they’re just figuring out how they’re going to run these double tapings and started out with the easiest solution was first half as first week. It seemed odd watching it on TV; surely the matches for the next week went a big longer, and airing one or two of them might have spared us from so much filler telling us to tune in for those stars next week.

Of the two similarly set up matches – simple fast paced uncomplicated tecnicos vs rudos – the Extreme Tiger, Jack Evans, Rocky Romero vs Rió Bravo, Tigre Cota, Tito Santana match lapped Aerostar, Laredo Kid, Súper Fly vs Cuervo, Escoria, Espíritu. Some credit goes to the rudos, because this was a good night for Poder el Norte, but the match with the foreigners and Tiger had a lot better lucha build than the one featuring lucha tecnicos. That’s credit to Jack, Rocky and Tiger for working a smart match, but it’s also disappointing to see the Air Force fall into a bad funk. You treat guys like meaningless jobbers long enough, they will act like it.

The previous women’s match was better Rain & Sexy Star vs Cinthia Moreno & Fabi Apache, but they did get over the broom spot and that was the point.

There was a stretch where there was no wrestling for about 45 minutes. I’m not sure Yurem vs Alex Koslov counted. Of that 45 minutes, at least 30 minutes were spent on Alex Koslov doing Alex Koslov things. I would’ve appreciated maybe an Alex Koslov match instead. If they’re going to do these double tapings, they ought to consider taping a seventh match.

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AAA on Televisa #933 (04/10/2010)

Apr 28

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Plaza de Toros Santa Maria, Queretaro, 03/12/2010

Marco Corleone vs Jack Evans, Ozz, Decnnis [AAA RdR, SF]: Decnnis got a lot more than I would’ve figured (and Jack got a lot less.) I think this was the best of the three semis.

El Elegido vs Hernandez, Crazy Boy, Kenzo Suzuki [AAA RdR, SF]: Really just a Hernandez showcase. I would hope they have an full plan for how they’re going to use him here, as opposed to “we’ll just book him in random trios until he goes where ever he’s going.”

La Parka Jr. vs Zorro, Chessman, Octagón [AAA RdR, SF]: About what you’d expect.

Marco Corleone vs Hernandez and Chessman [AAA RdR, FINAL]: Very strange they set up the Marco/Hernandez program on what was Marco’s last show, including Marco getting the pin on Hernandez. Did they not know? And if they didn’t know, why did Chessman win?

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AAA on Televisa #932 (04/03/2010)

Apr 24

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Plaza de Toros Santa Maria, Queretaro, 03/12/2010

Cinthia Moreno, Fabi Apache, Mari Apache vs Christina Von Eerie, Rain, Sexy Star: A notable improvement over last week, and I’m not just saying that because I like Rain more than you. The match just had a better flow, they have a better idea of what they were doing. Nice build to a match they’re not actually doing any more.

Extreme Tiger vs Alex Koslov for the AAA World Cruiserweight Championship:not at all what I wanted out of this match, a collage of bits done in other matches without any understanding why they were being done. Soon, someone will create an easy way to splice YouTube videos together, and then these guys won’t even need to go to th ering

Joe Lider, Nicho el Millionario, Pimpinela Escarlata vs Dr. Wagner Jr., Silver King, Último Gladiador:kind of weird, but kind of worked.

Cibernético vs Konnan in a lumberjack rules match: beyond pathetic. All this TV time into a match that goes 3 minutes and is heavily, heavily edited. Time was not an issue – they could’ve easily bumped one of these matches to next week – this match was just awful and they were doing their best to hide it. No more feuds ending with Konnan in the ring, please. I want the same with Cibernetico, but there’s no hope there. I think they hurt the big angle by speeding thru it thru clips, you didn’t have much time to soak in what was happening. ANGRY DANCING.

El Mesías vs Mr. Anderson and Electroshock for the AAA World Heavyweight Championship: can’t understand why Mesias didn’t take the loss if they’re not going to that match. Electro’s reign not getting off to a great start.

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AAA on Televisa #931 (03/27/2010)

Apr 22

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Gimnasio Miguel Hidalgo de Poza Rica, 03/05/2010

this show killed my soul.

- Fabi Apache & Mari Apache vs Christina Von Eerie & Sexy Star:weirdly laid out, lesser than similar matches. Christina was not bad, but it seemed like her first lucha match (because it probably was, I know.)

- Joe Lider & Nicho el Millionario vs Jack Evans & Rocky Romero: the Hermandad match I don’t quite get into but other people like, so they’d probably like this.

- La Parka Jr. vs Silver King: bad. LA Park vs La Parka Jr. is probably going to be worse, but maybe people caring might make it work. Might not. If they knew they were about to do Park/Parka, they really should’ve given Parka the win to end this. AAA stretches out feuds so long that people care less by the time they actually do the match, and are so intent on continuing to stretch it out for spots that they never get around to doing a finish to the feud on TV.

- Cibernético & Extreme Tiger vs Alex Koslov & Zorro: Cibernetico having no time for Alex was funny.

- El Mesías, Marco Corleone, Octagón vs Dr. Wagner Jr., Electroshock, Último Gladiador: the normal main event. The last bit before Rey de Reyes is about Wagner & Electro, which makes sense from live events but not really as a TV bit.

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AAA on Televisa #930 (03/20/2010)

Apr 21

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Auditorio Teopanzolco, Cuernavaca, Morelos, 02/27/2010

- Aerostar, Fabi Apache, May Flowers, Octagoncito vs Mini Abismo Negro, Polvo de Estrellas, Sexy Star, Último Gladiador: Fine enough, I guess, though I have no memory of it except the belt shots in the finish Same thing for May.

- Atomic Boy, Crazy Boy, Lasser Boy vs Billy Boy, Decnnis, El Brazo: not enough Atomic Boy. “Boy” is the kiss of death in this group.

- Jack Evans, Laredo Kid, Súper Fly vs Cuervo, Escoria, Ozz: maybe we need a running counter of Dark Family stories that appear to have been dropped. It’s March, and I’ve already got

  1. THE LOADED GLOVE
  2. The feud with the Vipers (though maybe this one was actually resolved)
  3. Their weird alliance with Zorro
  4. Kidnapping Jack Evans – never mentioned again?

Record setting pace!

- Extreme Tiger, Latin Lover, Marco Corleone vs Alex Koslov, Joe Lider, Nicho el Millionario: Pretty sure they thought Latin was still going to be around if they had him beat Alex (of the three) here. Not the match, but I thought the parking lot bit with Nicho & Konnan was really good.

- Cibernético & El Mesías vs Chessman & Zorro: and Chessman, taking the pins all the time, is clearly not the soon to be Rey de Ring at this moment. It’s all very strange knowing what’s coming next.

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AAA on Televisa #929 (03/13/2010)

Apr 7

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taped Gimnasio De La Unidad Deportiva, Toluca, Estado De Mexico, 02/18/2010

- Aerostar, Laredo Kid, Súper Fly vs Billy Boy, Decnnis, El Brazo: I don’t want to ask what the point of Hilario is, because that’s a culdesac of thought. But – does it really make sense to give Guapito a bodyguard? The two things Guapito has going is Being Guapito, and getting beat up on occasion. He’s probably not change those things, so any bodyguard is going to look ineffective. It’s kind of silly, sillier than a blue painted asylum escapee

- Mascarita Sagrada, Mini Charly Manson, Octagoncito vs Mini Abismo Negro, Mini Histeria, Mini Psicosis: they’ve not been as good late. Or at least this one didn’t work for me.

- Extreme Tiger, Jack Evans, Rocky Romero vs Alex Koslov, Joe Lider, Nicho el Millionario: Is there a storyline explaining why Hijo de Tirantes can be evil again after being warned not be? I understand it’s an excuse so Piero can end the show pulling Hijo del Tirantes out and making the count for the tecnicos, but what was the point of him being forced to play it straight? This was on the short side for this sort of match.

- La Parka Jr., Marco Corleone, Pimpinela Escarlata vs Dr. Wagner Jr., Electroshock, Silver King: This was not particularly good, but the finish was well done.

- El Mesías & Latin Lover vs Chessman & Zorro: this finish was NOT well done. Of all the stuff for AAA to cut out, Latin and Chessman completely blowing a finish is an odd thing to leave in. I refuse to believe they were planning to have Chessman win Rey de Reyes at this point.

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AAA on Televisa #928 (03/06/2010)

Apr 7

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Gimnasio Lazano Cardenas, Salamanca, 02/07/2010

- Gato Eveready, Lasser Boy, Relampago vs Rio Bravo II, Tigre Cota, Tito Santana: and so, in week 2, the announcers start of the match by calling Lasser Boy “Super Boy” for a while, then he loses clean to a guy who’s only on TV half the time and booked as an opening card act. CMLL put more effort into Dragon Rojo, and it wasn’t even their movie! Oh well.

- Fabi Apache & Mari Apache vs Alex Koslov & Sexy Star: far better than I expected. Alex sold like crazy for the Apaches, like they were a serious threat. He got the win, but it was not an easy one. Extreme Tiger is kind of a jerk.

- Crazy Boy & Extreme Tiger vs Joe Lider & Nicho el Millionario: if I wasn’t so done with the Hermandad, I think I would’ve been okay with this. Seven minutes to the point, and the right guy took the pinfall.

- Cibernético, Monster Clown, Murder Clown, Psycho Clown vs Alex Koslov, Chessman, Konnan, Zorro – Cibernetico seemed pretty fine for getting the crap beat out of him last week. This was good when the CiberClowns were on offense, less so the other way. I don’t know if it’s the people involved or because there’s no real set units in the Legion, but there’s never a lot of teamwork stuff with the Legion.

- El Mesías & Marco Corleone vs Dr. Wagner Jr. & Electroshock: Usual bit with all four guys. Finish looked good.

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AAA on Televisa #927 (02/27/2010)

Apr 3

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Gimnasio Ignacio Manuel AltaMirano de la BUAP, Puebla, 02/05/2010

- Mascarita Sagrada, Mini Charly Manson, Octagoncito vs Mini Abismo Negro, Mini Histeria, Mini Psicosis – this was not one of the better minis matches. They really tried to pack a lot in 7 minutes, but not a lot of it was good.

- Atomic Boy, Lasser Boy, Zumbi vs Angel Mortal, Gran Apache, Mantra – well, no, not really, they couldn’t be bothered. It’s not so present here (because they only showed 15 seconds of it) seems a lot like when they brought back the Espectro de Ultratumba gimmick, made a big deal of picking exactly

If you ranked the Mysterious AAA Luchadors Who Are (almost) Never On AAA TV But May Be Secretly Awesome

1) Jesse
2) ZUMBI
3) Nemesis
6) Whoever’s the Chiva Rayada at spot shows now
4) Alebrije II
5) Argenis
LAST) Mantra

Atomic Boy would be #1 is technically on TV too often to count (by the rules I just made up), though it really could’ve been me in the suit this time and next for all the different it would’ve made. He’s been edited like crazy.

- Amnesia, Black Abyss, Histeria, Psicosis vs Cuervo, Escoria, Espíritu, Ozz – we probably could save some time be adding the Vipers to that list. This was as complete a burial as you will ever see. The Vipers 2.0 were crushed for 5 minutes, didn’t really even get token offense, and then were pinned clean. This whole match astounded me when I saw it.

It seems like the same thing as Lasser Boy. They picked the guys to play these characters, they actually had plans for the characters, and then belatedly realized that they didn’t much like the guys after all. The blame is probably going on the Vipers for not being at the level they were expected to be, but it probably should really be on whoever is deciding on which people play which characters. We’ve all complained/mocked AAA’s talk about making bigger stars of existing wrestlers (“this is the year we’re going to push Laredo Kid!”), but they’re many times worse when it comes to completely new characters. Whether it’s a foreign person being brought in, or a new guy under an old gimmick, they’re never given any sort of introduction and often turn out not to be what AAA wanted to be.

Other points to make
- couldn’t they have just given Poder el Norte the gimmicks and saved us all some time?
- there’s circumstantial evidence to suggest this is the start of a Dark Family push (as sort of a replacement for the Vipers), but the last two years suggest not to believe this

- Alan Stone, El Elegido, Pimpinela Escarlata vs Alex Koslov, Chessman, Zorro – Welcome back to TV, Alan! In this match, you’re a guy who’s not at the level of the Legion. Neither is Elegido, and Pimpi’s the only guy keeping your team in the match. (I look forward to seeing the big RFSMania main event of Alan & Chris vs Ogun & Groon!)

- El Mesías, La Parka Jr., Latin Lover vs Dr. Wagner Jr., Electroshock, Silver King (and part 2) – Do you think Silver King ever looked to his side to see Electroshock on the road to the AAA championship, then looked across the ring to see he was feuding with La Parka Jr., and just hated his life immensely? I’m not worried about Dr. Wagner Jr., because I’m sure he believes he’s Global World Champion at all times, but not so much Silver King.

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AAA on Televisa #926 (02/20/2010)

Apr 2

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Polyforum La Huizachera, Tehuacan, Puebla, 02/01/2010

Fabi Apache, Mari Apache, Pimpinela Escarlata vs Cinthia Moreno, Polvo de Estrellas, Sexy Star – and so Fabi returns with hair and we all agree never to mention again. This match was about Cinthia & Sexi not getting along, setting up the match…that they never got around to doing.

Crazy Boy, Extreme Tiger, Rocky Romero vs Decnnis, Joe Lider, Nicho el Millionario – and speaking of bits going nowhere, this is Decnnis getting his revenge on Hermandad, the last we ever heard of that issue. Perhaps the Hermandad getting turned on is part of a slow build to their sorta tweener status now? Too much credit?

Takeshi Morishima vs El Mesías – This wasn’t much except for some spots, but Mesias got Morishima on his shoulders and that was a pretty impressive spot. They really should’ve shown that every week for a month.

I’ve deduced the Air Force’s run in to attack Morishmia was because they were upset about their match being bumped from TV. If only they knew what was going to happen to the tag team titles, maybe they would’ve brought chairs.

Dr. Wagner Jr., Electroshock, Último Gladiador vs Alex Koslov, Chessman, Zorro (and part 2) – about what you’d expect. A long time for a wacky finish.

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AAA on Televisa #925 (02/13/2010)

Feb 23

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taped @ Centro Civico de Ecatepec, 01/17/2010

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Cuervo, Escoria, Espíritu, Ozz vs Amnesia, Black Abyss, Histeria, Psicosis III: and in match #2, the Vipers win by DQ when the Dark Family use a loaded glove. Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely love the idea of Escoria’s loaded gloves. It’s a perfect bit for AAA, and I hope they start racking up many wins with them, but maybe AAA would’ve been served better in getting them a few wins before launching into a feud for them. (Assuming this is meant to be a feud and not just a random happening.)

Extreme Tiger & Jack Evans vs Joe Lider & Nicho el Millionario: PASS.

Crazy Boy, La Parka Jr., Laredo Kid vs Electroshock, Silver King, Último Gladiador: 14 minute match that felt like it needed to be 7. I think CMLL has broken me here, because I always expect the big comeback to be followed by a finish (which works there since they have 3 falls), but AAA comebacks often lead to tecnicos getting 2 minute showcases each and nothing’s really counting until momentum changes again. Or maybe CMLL is just right and AAA is wrong! (This site is still cmllblog.com, right?)

Cibernético, Monster Clown, Murder Clown, Psycho Clown vs Chessman, Kenzo Suzuki, Konnan, Zorro: this was better timed, even if it there wasn’t actually that great. They tried hard to get the idea over that the Psycho Circus had been pushed harder than ever before, but it kind still is Konnan running from a tecnico while his henchman do the work.

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