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07/12 CMLL in Nuevo Laredo Results (Oriental loses his mask to Mistico)

Jul 13

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CMLL Gutierrez (MON) 07/12 Plaza de Toros Lauro Luis Longoria [@ENRIQUEYNIESTA]
1) Mini Alebrije, Mini Cibernetico, Mini Oriental b Astral, Mascarita Dorada, Shockercito
2) Lady Apache, Lluvia, Marcela DQ Rossy Moreno, Sexy Flor, Tiffany
3) Ephesto, Mephisto, Rey Bucanero DQ Charly Manson, Juventud Guerrera, Mr. Águila
4) Hijo de LA Park, Hijo del Dr. Wagner Jr., Scorpio Jr. DQ La Máscara, Máscara Dorada, Valiente
5) Héctor Garza, Terrible, Texano b Jushin Lyger, Shigeo Okumura, Yoshihashi
6) Místico & Oriental L Atlantis & Olímpico and Averno & Último Guerrero and El Alebrije & Volador Jr. and Histeria & La Sombra [ruleta de la muerte]
7) Místico b Oriental [mask]

Oriental is Noe Astro Moreno Leon, according to CMLL Magazine. (Astro?) He’s 37, 17 years a wrestler. No photo as I type this, but I’m sure we’ll see one later.

Order of escape went Sombra & Histeria (who’s now free to put his mask up on Sunday), Alebrije & Volador, Averno & Ultimo Guerrero, and Atlantis & Olimpico. Mistico beat Oriental in what seemed like a longer match than the entire eliminations prior.

The big news from the rest of the show was the appearance of Dr. Wagner Junior. It was hinted early this morning by SuperLuchas, and was revealed a few hours before the show by Box Y Lucha. He appeared after the fourth match, first posing with his son, then circling around in the ring, all while wearing his AAA World Heavyweight Championship belt (he also had the video game belt.) When he went to the ring and posed, everyone was under the impression this meant Wagner had left AAA and was joining CMLL as an Invader. Upon returning to the locker room, Dr. Wagner instead told the press that he was on good terms with AAA, and everyone backed off saying he was leaving.

People who are on good terms with a company do not show up at a major show for a rival promotion, being as visible as possible. (And CMLL isn’t going to let Wagner be part of the show unless they wanted him to be part of the show.) Wagner may end up staying with AAA, uninterrupted, but this was a very petulant move to make a point; AAA’s treated him as an afterthought to the Perros del Mal entry, the Parka/Park story, and the Legion stuff, and Wagner has always felt he should always be on top. That seems to be the wrestling he grew up with – in the UWA, Canek doesn’t seem to have ever been cycled down the card or bypassed much; he was either the top rudo feuding with the top tecnico, or the top tecnico feuding with the foreign guy. That’s spot doesn’t really exist in either promotion, but Wagner can sure come close by jumping back and forth between them like this.

This bit was also totally hilarious. For most of the night, AAA only response was an enigmatic tweet from Lucha Libre AAA, which is so unspecific, it may have nothing to do with any of this. Later, Dorian Roldan seemed surprised, generally the same reaction as everyone else, though his post gives the impression Wagner left.

Dr. Wagner is not listed on any lineups from now until the Toluca taping, though he’s almost surely scheduled to be on the Lucha Libre Expo show, and there’s probably other lineups AAA hasn’t put on it’s website. At the point, the expectation is he’ll still be working AAA shows, but it’s a fluid situation. We’ll know more soon. This would be a fantastic time for Cesar to come back from his blog vacation.

If we’ve been reminded of anything, anything at all, from La Parka vs LA Park, is that people remember what they saw in the ring and not what was said later. Tonight, Wagner made people believe he’s jumped to CMLL, and interviews aren’t going to undo that.

Not a lot of noteworthy material on the show. Tiffany was the mystery woman for the Invaders. At the time of the press conference, she was still working AAA spot shows, which is probably the reason they kept it quiet. Not sure if this means anything for her brother, ex-Night Queen Jessy, who’s also working AAA spot shows without making TV in years. Tiffany was a big part of AAA in the mid 2000s, but really hasn’t been used much since Pena’s death and since she left to have a kid. She was still good, last we saw her, and would fit in well in CMLL if that’s why she and they want to do.

The first four matches all did have non-clean finishes. Mini Cibernetico broke the law by removing Dorada’s mask before pinning him, but was not charged with the crime. No specific word on the DQ in the second match, but it probably was for one of the rudas pulling Lluvia’s mask. DQ in the tercera was for Ephesto taking off his own mask and tossing it. (Mephisto hurt a knee in this one.) DQ in the cuatro was for Scorpio (Solitario replacement) fouling and unmasking Mascara. Japan vs Renegados finished clean, we think.

Before the opener, Enrique pegged the crowd as 10,000, 80% of capacity. It’s possible it filled up a bit more as the show went on. The show was to be taped for television, but there were lots of pre-show issues – many guys only made it last minute, and the lights were late – so who knows.

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thoughts on CMLL’s Universal Championship

May 22

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MVS needs to update that picture

Let’s start here: CMLL has announced a tournament of champions. The man on the right, the man covered with championship belts, is not in the tournament.

CMLL announced plans on Thursday to create a new championship, called the CMLL Universal Championship. This will be the 19th active championship in the Mexico City branch of CMLL. Not including this championship, there are 9 active CMLL World championships, 5 active National championships held by CMLL wrestlers, 3 active NWA championships, and 1 Arena Coliseo specific championships.

That 19 total does not include the 2 IWRG championships still held by CMLL wrestlers (Super Welter – Mistico, Middle – Negro Casas; considering the Women’s title as defunct), the 4 annual tournaments run by CMLL (Plata, Azul, GA, Rey de Aire – perhaps 5 if we count the minis), the Occidente championships (2 of which, the Light Heavyweight and the Tag Team, are worn on CMLL TV more frequently than the previous 18 official ones), the 2 WWA Championships which may not be official (Middle – Mistico, Perro & Hector – Tag), and Dr. X’s XNW Championship, which is at least as credible as the WWA ones. Counting these additional 11 championships, CMLL currently has 29 different titles in play. On June 19th, CMLL will have 30. Unless Yurijo and Naito get their titles back before then.

The actual CMLL announcement goes like this: they’re holding a tournament to decide the champion of champions. Both AAA and CMLL have done this before, AAA most recently with the AAA Heavyweight Mega Championship. This time, the winner will become the first CMLL Universal Champion. The champion is said to involve all National and World Champions. Announced participants:

- Ultimo Guerrero: CMLL Heavyweight

- Rey Bucanero: CMLL Light Heavyweight
- Texano Jr.: NWA Light Heavyweight

- Averno: CMLL Middleweight, NWA Middleweight

- Negro Casas: CMLL Welterweight
- Sombra: NWA Welterweight, CMLL Tag Team
- Sangre Azteca: Mexican Welterweight

- Mascara Dorada: CMLL Super Lightweight

- Volador Jr.: CMLL Tag Team

- La Mascara: CMLL Trios
- Hector Garza: CMLL Trios
- Hijo del Fantasma: CMLL Trios
- Black Warrior: Mexican Trios
- Dragon Rojo Jr.: Mexican Trios

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National/World Champions not included, who are not women or men
- Mistico: National Light Heavyweight, WWA Middleweight Champion

That’s it, that’s the list. I’ve read the box y lucha coverage, the superluchas coverage, and the notimex coverage, and I have yet to see an explanation of why Mistico’s not in this tournament. Mistico has consistently been consistently treated as the best wrestler in the company, winning the annual tournament to decide the best wrestler in the company (Leyenda de Plata, 3 years in a row!), and he’s MIA in a tournament to crown the best wrestler in the company, and no one thought this needed a little bit of explanation?

Obviously, the tournament is and was planned for someone else to win the championship, and it seems like Mistico isn’t here so he doesn’t have to take a singles loss. Those are the sort of things that make the hardcore fans dislike Mistico, regardless of how it happens.

Getting back to the tournament itself, it’ll be a near standard three week single elimination bit for CMLL. Group A of 7 wrestlers (not specified – why not?) will go down on June 5, Group B will take place on June 12, and the final will take place on June 19. CMLL’s designed a simple but smart way of handling the odd number; winning the seeding battle royal gives you a first round bye, actually giving that part of the tournament some more sense and an actual conclusion. (Without a bye, it’s always made no sense to participate – the first one out has to wrestle first, but gets the longest rest between matches and doesn’t have to wrestle the semifinal and the final back to back.)

The hype for the match brings up the possibility that partners could end up fighting each other, which is true though not necessarily all that interesting. They also emphasize that wrestlers of different weight divisions could face each other, as if this was not standard operating procedure for CMLL, and as if there was a great difference in sizes between all these wrestlers. Perhaps if Dos or Lizmark was in, this might be true, but the difference between Ultimo Guerrero and Mascara Dorada does not appear to be all that great, and those two squared off in a trios match just back on March 1st, on LATV. It wasn’t a big deal.

This tournament would be flawed and frustrating if it occured at any time of year. As opposition to TripleMania, it also seems like an absurd business decision. Tournament shows have never been more than uninteresting to watch, and usually fall to the levels of disappionting. The matches sound much better than turn out to be, because the time requirements of the night force most of them to five minutes of limited action. Perhaps it’ll be better with one less match in the tournament, but it’s not to be expected.

They’re also harder to sell as shows, because of the format CMLL uses to decide seeding. CMLL can’t hype any of the singles matches, some of which might sell some tickets, because none are determined until an hour into the show. It may work better this way to keep people from figuring out the finish (though we can usually guess pretty accurately even without the matchups), but it’s unhelpful in getting people in the building to see that finish happen.

This also means the time and energy that’s gone into building both the Rey Bucanero & Ephesto and Dos Caras Jr. & Shocker has been wasted for the time being, since it’s unlikely they’ll be main eventing any of these three shows with an additional big singles match (they’ll be doing six of those already), plus Bucanero will be tied up in this tournament for at least one of those weeks. This seems to indicate the plan for this tournament came at a late stage.

On first look, Ultimo Guerrero and Negro Casas are the clear strong co-favorites to win this tournament, with the second tier being Hector Garza, Averno, and maybe Sombra. There was a time where we could put Black Warrior in that second tier, but that’s passed. There may be a time where Texano Jr. or Hijo de Fantasma go on that list, but not yet.

I’ll break down the rest of the press conference tomorrow, and more on the tournament down the line, but it’s worth note that the announcement of Fantasma, Sangre and Dragon Rojo heading to Europe for the week of June 10th means those three have to be in Block A of this tournament. In addition, the latest Wrestling Observer mentions CMLL has been talking to TNA about bringing in two (unspecified) wrestlers to challenge Sombra & Volador for the CMLL Tag Titles on June 12. It’s not confirmed, but that would make sense as a main event over a tournament, and would mean those two are also penciled in for Block A.

More, later.

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04/13: Mexico, GDL, Perros

Apr 13

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CMLL (SUN) 04/12 Arena Mexico [box y lucha, SuperLucha, Ovaciones, proyeccion luchistica, Cesar]
1) Sombra de Plata & Trueno b Cholo & Semental
2) Arkangel de la Muerte, Dr. X, Hooligan b Leono, Metalico, Molotov
3) Hijo del Fantasma, La Mascara, Stuka Jr. b Misterioso II, Sangre Azteca, Shigeo Okumura
4) Marcela b Rosa Negra [mask]
5) Atlantis, Lizmark Jr., Ultimo Guerrero b Dos Caras Jr., Maximo, Shocker
6) Negro Casas b Mistico [CMLL WELTER]

Negro took the first with a castia, Mistico did one of his own for the second. In the third, Negro Casas pinned Mistico when Mistico’s second (La Mascara) accidentally distracted the ref, and Negro took Mistico’s mask. The crowd booed Mistico. Stop me if any of this sounds familiar. In the usual mask vs hair mic work after the match, Mistico talked about liking boos, which is a sure way to get the crowd to cheer him.

Dos turned on his partners, of course, and rudos took in straight falls. They seemed to reunite Dos and Lizmark. If I was planning long term here, those two be the next challengers to the tag team titles, so let’s thank god I am meaningless. SuperLuchas did an interview with Maximo this week, and it sounds like he hasn’t decided if he’s leaving or not, but he’d be going to the indies and not AAA if he did.

Rosa Negra vs Marcela reads like a brutal match. Maybe not even in match quality, but in destroying the particpants. Marcela got hurt early on – Rosa moved out of the way of a dive and Marcela hit the stage – and SuperLuchas says she spent most of the match crying. Rosa Negra suffered what is believed to be a major elbow injury in the finishing sequence, and she was put on a stretcher after returning to the locker room, and taken to the hospital. Match still sounds like it’s pretty good, so I hold out hope it’s better than Villano V vs Ultimo Guerrero.

Rosa Negra is Jessica Dayna Hernandez, from Mexico City, 17 years a professional wrestler (and no age given.) The PL link has video (of the MVS video on the big screen) of her unmasking. Obviously, she didn’t stick around for the post match publicity pictures, so it seems everyone just took a picture of her while she was on the stretcher. Remind me never to be a luchaddor.

Molotov’s chin connected hard with the ropes in his match, taking him out of it and requiring seven stitches.

Cesar – who’s new blog looks really interesting – says Tuesday drew over 12,000 and Sunday over 10,000, though these are at Fan Appreciation prices.

CMLL (SUN) 04/12 Arena Coliseo Guadalajara [Fuego en El Ring, MT: 4, 5]
1) Leon Blanco & Thunder Boy b Angel del Mal & Infierno [torneo tanque dantes]
2) Palacio Negro & Samurai b Acertijo & Mr. Trueno [torneo tanque dantes]
3) Katana & Malefico b Boomerang & Gallo [torneo tanque dantes]
4) Blue Panther, La Sombra, Mascara Dorada b Averno, Ephesto, Mephisto
5) Rey Bucanero b Volador Jr.

In the most important wrestling league format tournament to end on April 12 (except maybe this one), the favorites were robbed of victory in the final match. Palacio Negro & Samuari reached 8 points (4 wins, 1 loss) with their win. Boomerang & Gallo need to win to match, but Malefico yanked Gallo’s mask and covered him for the win, the first for his team in the tournament. That wraps up the tournament:

8: Palacio Negro & Samurai
7: Boomerang & Gallo (and Meteoro)
5: Leon Blanco & Thunder Boy
4: Acertijo & Mr. Trueno (and Rey Trueno)
4: Angel del Mal & Infierno
2: Katana & Malefico

Note the top 3 teams are the tecnico pairs. Rudos went 2-7 against tecnicos.

In matches people beside me might care about, Rey got Volador clean in the main event, with mask/hair challenges after. In the semimain, Panther caught Averno with an armbar for the finish and requested a shot at his title. Quick, which title is that?

PERROS (SUN) 04/12 Plaza de Toros, Texcoc [SuperLuchas]
1) Dr. Wagner Jr. b el Hijo del Perro Aguayo, Cibernetico

The bit they did here, and on Wednesday in Acapulco, is Cibernetico snapping on Perro Jr. after one too many accidents. It is about time for them to get a new main event feud and Cibernetico vs Perro sounds like it – they’ve already got it on the cover of Luchas 2000 #466.

Pierroth II and Pierroth Jr., talking about their recent benefit show for Pierroth and plans for future ones mention that Pierroth is in motor and language rehab right now.

Al Filo del Ring talks to the original Mascarita Sagrada, La Parkita and Octagoncito about AAA passing their names on to others. All have no problem with the men using the name since them – they’re just working under orders – but are unhappy with AAA trying to pretend they don’t exist and trying to keep them from using the name.

Super Astro thinks cage matches are crap lucha and should stop. I love Super Astro.

WagnerMania covers Dr. Wagner Jr.’s first AAA TV match, noting that AAA held a moment of applause for Abismo Negro before the main event. Mr. Reyes has tons of pictures of the show, from the upcoming Gladiatores report. AAA’s recap of the show omits the Juvi skit and mentions Fabi’s not happy with Aerostar for kissing her.

There’s a odd licensing wrestling situation in Los Mochis. Usually, when licensing comes up, it’s that the wrestlers haven’t bothered to get themselves licensed. Here, the wrestlers want and need to get licensed, and the commission hasn’t gotten around to issuing licenses. Local wrestlers have been prevented from working shows outside Los Mochis because those commissions won’t let them work unlicensed, but their commission is ignoring requests to hand out licenses.

Box Y Lucha 2918 has Dr. Wagner in AAA. The article headlines include two more AAA departures: Picudo, and Espectro de Ultratumba (one and done!). FWIW, “Mascara Divina” is listed as working a Villalobos card. Maybe he’s left AAA too, but it could always be one of her characters misspelled. There’s also a new episode of their TV show.

Ohtani’s Jacket checked out Atlantis, El Hijo del Santo, Tony Salazar vs El Satanico, El Dandy, Espectro Jr. from the mid-80s, and Mascara Dorada, Metro, Valiente vs Euforia, Nosferatu, Virus from this week. Why won’t CMLL just do the Valiente/Virus feud already?

CMLL (WED) 04/15 Arena Coliseo Acapulco [apux @ box y lucha]
1) Fuego Negro, Orca, Pez Tigre vs Black Silver Jr., Capitan Atomo, Hijo de Black Silver
2) El Guerrero vs Histrion [hair]
3) Dark Angel & Marcela vs Amapola & Princesa Blanca

First CMLL lineup I’ve heard in this building – which was a weekly stop at one point – since last November.

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03/22: IWRG, Toreo, Mistico, Wagner, Juvi, Dos Leyenda, lineups

Mar 22

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IWRG (SAT) 03/14 Arena Xochimilco [SuperLuchas #307]
1) Mixteco Jr. b Goleador
2) Galactik & Miss Gaviota b Avisman & Vampiro Metalico
3) Black Terry, Cerebro Negro, Dr. Cerebro b Multifacetico, Trauma I, Trauma II
4) Solar I, Super Astro, Ultraman Jr. DQ Arlequin, Hijo de Pierroth (IWRG), Pierroth II
5) Mascara Ano 2000 Jr. b Scorpio Jr. [Rey del Ring]

New champ. Scorpio had MA2K Jr. done in a half crab, but both he and the refree were distracted by Hijo de Pierroth (Mascara’s second) beating up Multifacetico (Scorpio’s second) on the outside. Scropio let go, Mascara snuck in a foul and pinned him for the win. DQ in the semimain was for Pierroth II yanking Solar’s mask.

El Toreo (WED) 03/18 Arena Lopez Mateos [SuperLuchas #307]
1) Sombra Escarlata & Spider Boy b Mr. Flama & Sol de Oriente
2) Azabache Negro, Rey Cobra, Sismo b Black Man II, Falcon, Flecha (Skayde)
3) Romano Garcia b Danny Boy [hair]
4) Robin Hood Jr. & Super Panda b Epitafio & Terry 2000
5) Canek b Cibernetico [#1 Contenders, UWA HEAVY]
6) Dos Caras Sr., Killer Jr., Sicodelico Sr. DQ Villano III, Villano IV, Villano V

Mil was supposed to be in the main event, but was angry about something – I think the article says about not being in the main event, which doens’t make sense – and walked out of the building before his match (walking in front of the crowd to make sure they knew he showed.) Doesn’t look like this bit is drawing sell outs any more, at least not this night. Villano V yanked Dos’ mask for a DQ.

It took Cibernetico being accidentally hit by his second (Killer Jr.) and being fouled by Canek for him to lose here. That’s actually not as much as I’d thought.

Again, fighting between the seconds (Robin Hood Jr. and Rocky Santana) allowed Romano to sneak in a piledriver on Danny Boy for the win.

SuperLuchas #307 also has a big interview with Mistico. Besides the usual “I’d like to face whoever win the mask match” bit, Mistico also notes that when he was in Japan and CMLL did a Sombra/Volador vs Averno/Mephisto tag title match, it was a poor house. Mistico wants more people to be stars, but feels he should get more credit for how much he means and how hard he works. Mistico feels like he’s winning the crowd back little by little this year (though that didn’t seem to be case Friday night.) This interview is totally worth going out of you way to read for yourself.

IWRG (THU) 03/19 Arena Naucalpan
5) Dr. Wagner Jr., Fuerza Guerrera, Zatura b Hijo de Pierroth (IWRG), Mascara ANo 2000 Jr., Oficial 911

Give him credit – Dr. Wagner indeed made this show. The usual trend for guys who join one of the big 2 is to promise they’ll still be doing all their independent bookings when the press is there, and then quickly bail on them. (Silver King and Super Porky come to mind.) Lots of respect for Wagner if he’s breaking that tend.

Coincidentally, Wagnermania has Wagner cutting a promo on website commenters critical of him joining AAA. Dr. Wagner Jr. is a YouTube shooter, which can only mean the world is coming to an end. The Gladiatores have their own interview with Dr. Wagner about current effects.

Didn’t occur to me last night, but there was no Wagner angle on Friday’s AAA taping despite one being obviously set up in Madero. AAA is now listing Wagner’s self promoted shows, which are now using AAA talent.

The other news not exactly mentioned on luchalibreaaa.com is a backstage incident with Juvi, at least if you’re willing to believe his story in Record. “The leader of the Mexican Powers” (that’s what the article says) tells Record that he went out for his match, and came back to find his bag filled with human waste. Juvi went to Jack Evans to accuse him of doing it, when Konnan attacked him and Jack joined in. Juvi claims he’s got a broken nose, and bruises on his face and body.

This is surely the same story Lizzy Valentine is referring to on her mySpace page when talking about leaving AAA. This is also all Juvi’s side of the story, and his history of telling tall tales makes it really hard to take anything he says at face value – there’s definitely more going on here. (FWIW, Jack was in Juvi’s match, and still in the ring when Juvi escaped the cage, so Juvi really could really stand to improve his sleuthing abilities.)

However, the general public (and the press) are probably going to be unaware of Juvi’s history and this story looks really bad for AAA if it gets picked up in more places. It really depends on how far the story gets, but it’s tough to spin the leader of the wrestlers taking part in a two on one mugging and there’s probably some public punishment coming if this gets taken seriously. Also, whomever gave to okay to hire Juvi back inside the company (not Konnan!) is probably not too thrilled with it going so bad so quick.

Short term, Juvi’s done in AAA. I’d assume Ultimo Gladiador takes his spot in the cruiserweight tournament. Ultimo Gladiador seems to be a good dude, but no one’s been as quite as fortunate with absences as he has in AAA – he got started their with Crazy Boy’s injury and has gotten to hang around and better spots because of Juvi’s flakiness (and Super Crazy not coming in.)

Dos Leyenda follow up stories:

- Villano V says he never even considered he was going to lose, and was hoping to main event a third straight anniversary show. He vows to continue fighting.

- Ultimo Guerrero wants Villano IV to finish the Villanos off. UG credits Blue Panther with coming up with the idea to use the toque universal to pin Villano in the end, and goes as far as dedicating the win to Panther.

- ESPNDeportes restates the point that Villano IV is and will be the last masked Villano standing; they’ve told their sons to create their identities and not take their names (just as they did with their father Ray Mendoza), so there’ll be no Villano VI coming.

- Televisa Deportes picture comes along with tons of pictures

- I was wrong – Accion indeed has video of this match tonight. If ever one needed to understand the difference between the two promotions, this was a good two minutes for you – CMLL had a huge match decided by an abdominal stretch cradle, and this was followed by Chessman/Mesias in a cage using light tubes, and walking above the cage on barbed wire cords. Are they really both promoting the same lucha libre?

Box Y Lucha posted a truck load of articles Friday morning, none of which I saw until much later because Google Reader decided not to show new articles in half my feeds. (I think I fixed it, but who knows. As always, if I miss something worth reading, let me know.) There’s so many of them, I’m not going to write as much about them, but that doesn’t mean they’re not interesting.

They’ve got La Parka Jr. telling LA Park to get over it already and complaining about not being nominated for the the Televisa luchador award (he thought the idea was for the nominees to just be Mexican)

Dos Caras Jr. explaining his teased rudo turn was resolved off camera (everyone’s friends again, hooray), Axel talking the end of his CMLL sting much like in his SuperLuchas interview, Dark Angel talking about her trip to Japan (and not TNA, yet), Star Fire talking about her short career so far (totally wins me over in one interview, I’m a sucker), Sombrita and Mascara Dorada talking about the Puebla cage match, and Juanito Diaz, lightweight champion of the 60s. There’s also columns on Solar/Negro Navarro, Villano III on backstage fights (how timely!) and history pieces on Angel Azteca. Plus, a couple look back at Ultimo Guerrero‘s career, as if teasing a major change this past Friday.

An editoral in El Siglo de Torreon complains about the quality of libre referring. For some odd reason, they don’t think referee Viruta getting caught in the moment and doing a top rope plancha onto the wrestlers shows much impartiality.

LuchaWorld has Robert on the 12/08-9 and 12/15-16 CMLL MVS Shows, as well as KrisZ‘s news update.

Lineups

IWRG (THU) 03/26 Arena Naucalpan
1) Garra de Aguila vs Keshin Black
2) Galactik & Mascara Magnifica vs Carta Brava Jr. & Mixteco Jr.
3) Fantastik, Freelance, Turbo vs Black Terry, BLack Thunder, Capitan Muerte
4) Head Hunter I, Head Hunter II, Veneno vs Arlequin, Hijo de Pierroth (IWRG), Pierroth II
5) Fuerza Guerrera vs Oficial 911 [IWRG IC WELTER]

911 lost, will get a title shot. OKAY. Turbo and Black Thunder appear to have become regulars here (as much as anyone who’s not a core guy is a regular.)

IWRG (SAT) 03/28 Arena Xochimilco
1) Garra de Aguila vs Comando Negro
2) Eragon & Latin Brother vs Carta Brava Jr. & Vampiro Metalico
3) Mascarita Sagrada & Octagoncito I vs Espectrito de Ultratumba & Piratita Morgan
4) Negro Navarro, Trauma I, Trauma II vs Black Terry, Cerebro Negro, Dr. Cerebro
5) Dr. Wagner Jr. & Universo 2000 vs Hijo de Pierroth (IWRG) & Mascara Ano 2000 Jr. [relevos sucidas]
6) ? vs ?? [mask]

Actually, I’m taking a leap and assuming they’re doing the final on this show, but the tag match is solicated as a relevos suicidas. Pretty clear favorite to lose of the four.

CMLL (SUN) 03/29 Arena Coliseo
1) Rayo Tapatio I & Rayo Tapatio II vs Cholo & Zayco
2) Dark Angel, Marcela, Sahori vs Amapola, Princesa Sujei, Rosa Negra
3) Hijo del Fantasma, Mictlan, Sagrado vs Ephesto, Lizmark Jr., Terrible
4) Blue Panther, Dos Caras Jr., Mistico vs Heavy Metal, Mr. Niebla, Negro Casas

Been racking my brain all day, trying to figure out what the bonus match is. There’s no feud that I can think of – the show two weeks ago has little to do wtih the today’s show (thanks to all the subs.) One of Bam Bam, Pierrothito, Sombra or Sangre Azteca is probably defending their title here, if it’s at all being set up tonight. Feels like it could just be a typo.

CHOLO! Getting worried about him for a bit. Speaking of MIA guys, anyone seen Mascara Purpura lately? No matches in the last month, since the lightning match in Puebla.

CMLL (SUN) 03/29 Arena Coliseo Guadalajara
1) Katana & Malefico vs Angel del Mal & Infierno [Torneo Tanque Dantes]
2) Palacio Negro & Samurai vs Leon Blanco & Thunder Boy [Torneo Tanque Dantes]
3) Boomerang & Gallo vs Acertijo & Mr. Trueno [Torneo Tanque Dantes]
4) Maximo, Sagrado, Valiente vs Black Warrior, Dragon Rojo Jr., Sangre Azteca
5) a replacement for Toscano, Hector Garza, Shocker vs Atlantis, Rey Bucanero, Ultimo Guerrero

Toscano’s booked like normal this week, but can’t make any of those shows. Warrior continues to work in GDL. That’s round 4 of the torneo, and I’m sure I’ll do a breakdown of the tournament later (so you know there’s a post coming to skip.)

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03/20 CMLL Arena Mexico Lineup (Dos Leyendas)

Mar 3

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CMLL (FRI) 03/20 Arena Mexico [ESTO]
1) Pequeño Olímpico, Shockercito, Ultimo Dragoncito vs Pequeno Violencia, Pequeno Warrior, Pierrothito
2) Blue Panther, Sagrado, Toscano vs Averno, Ephesto, Mephisto
3) Hector Garza, Hijo del Fantasma, La Mascara vs Black Warrior, Dragon Rojo Jr., Sangre Azteca
4) Dos Caras Jr., Shocker, Volador Jr. vs Atlantis, Mr. Niebla, Rey Bucanero
5) Negro Casas vs Mistico [CMLL WELTER]
6) Villano V vs Ultimo Guerrero [mask]

What did I say?

By the way, there’s very little chance SuperLucha’s expected Dos Leyendas card (including these trios titles against the other trios titles in unification match) coming thru. Even the welterweight title match tease is unlikely, or more likely another day – that’s the usual method of CMLL chain yanking.

Yea, I don’t know what I’m talking about. Point for SuperLuchas.

On the actual card:

- I’m not really sure they did it wrong, but – CMLL’s spent the period before the mask match and the period since the mask match pushing Blue Panther much harder than Villano V. Yet, six months down the line, Panther’s in a random segunda and V5 is headlining the show.

- If CMLL believed Ultimo Guerrero vs Villano V would sell out, they wouldn’t have Negro Casas & Mistico on the same show. Probably no coincidence that feud showed up just as they went away from the tag main event.

- Even if it’s a not a title match – and it’s not listed as such, perhaps because at least one of those teams will have a title defense before then – why put a meaningless trios match ahead of it on the card? Matches 2 and 4 are just about getting guys a slice of the payday. So is the champion vs champion match, unless they plan on following it up, but they could at least protect it as meaningful a little better.

- Happy for the minis to make it on here. That should be good, and a few other matches could be, if that’s what they’re looking for. I don’t know that they put together a card of excellent matches but for the general fans who just want to see the stars, they look to be giving enough. Tickets don’t go on sale until tomorrow, and hopefully they go fast enough that CMLL feels safe putitng his on PPV.

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02/28: Mexico, Neza

Feb 28

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CMLL (FRI) 02/27 Arena Mexico [Ovaciones]
1) Angel de Oro & Angel de Plata b Calígula & Méssala
2) Mascarita Dorada, Pequeño Ninja, Ultimo Dragoncito b Pequeño Universo 2000, Pequeño Warrior, Pierrothito
3) Rey Cometa b Artillero [lightning]
4) La Máscara, Máximo, Sagrado b Ephesto, Terrible, Texano Jr.
5) Black Warrior, Blue Panther, Último Guerrero DQ Averno, Mephisto, Villano V
6) Atlantis, Negro Casas, Rey Bucanero b Héctor Garza, Marco Corleone, Místico

Ovaciones says Negro humiliated Mistico in the main event in the main event, pinning him clean with the casita in the third fall, then challenged him to a welterweight title match on Dos Leyendas. That would work.

Semimain was straight falls. V5 tried a ‘rana on UG in the first fall, which of course was turned into a powerbomb. Villano 4 ran in during the second for the DQ.

Ultimo Dragoncito replaced Nino de Acero. Ovaciones actually lists Rey Bucanero as working the lightning match but that’s clearly a typo. A funny one, but still.

Mr. Reyes posted photos of last night’s show at Arena Neza on his mySpace. Looks like a bloody night, and that Scorpio Jr. lost to Villano III in the hair match.

LuchandoLibre checks in on Dark Angel wrestling in Japan this past week (which is probably a reason why she’s wasn’t at TNA.)

Proyeccion Luchistica has a short profile of female wrestler Dark Magic

Luchaworld has their full top 100 list of 2008.

Lineups aren’t up, but I’ve got to go.

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Mistico (and Dragon Rojo Jr.) back in NJPW on 05/03

Feb 24

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Ovaciones reports today that Mistico will be back in NJPW on 05/03. SuperLuchas had that over the weekend, but this article says he’s facing Jushin Lyger in a title match. The problem is, Lyger’s not IWRG Jr. champion currently. SoloLuchas also has this story but says challenging Tiger Mask IV. It’s probably whomever is the champion on May 3rd.

Dragon Rojo Jr. is also going for that show, which should also be entertaining and hopefully also good.

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02/12: notes, GDL

Feb 12

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FCW (SAT) 02/07 Cudahy Sports Center, CA [el maldito enmascarado, SuperLuchas]
1) Roeglio Ruiz & Timothy Thatcher b Phoenix Star & Zokre
2) Candice La Rea DQ Aiden Riley
3) Black Metal b Chris Kaddilack
4) Enigma de Oro & Kayam b Brandon Cutler & Dustin Cutler [FCW TAG]
5) Hijo de Rey Misterio, Matt Jackson, Nick Jackson b Joey Ryan, Mascara Ano 2000 Jr., Scott List
6) Scorpio Jr. b La Park, Mascara Sagrada, Rey Misterio Sr., Tinieblas Jr, Diabolic, Cyanide, Kamala, Jaguar de Oro, Super Porkirio, Mascara Ano 2000 Jr., Black Metal, Joey Ryan, Nick Jackson, Matt Jackson, Vintage Dragon, Scott Lost, Rogelio Ruiz, Perfectly Rude, Chris Kaddilack, Roeglio Ruiz, Timothy Thatcher, Phoenix Star, Zokre, Brandon Cutler, Dustin Cutler, Enigma de Oro, Kayam, Hijo de Rey Misterio, ? [FCW, battle royal]

Main event was a 30 man battle royale and no one could keep track of everyone in it. Scorpio own, though LA Park though he was cheated.

Mistico, who should be on his way to Japan by now, is already looking past Mephisto and talking about facing Tiger Mask IV. Mistico isn’t particular about who’s putting up what title but just wants the challenge.

While Mistico head to Japan, SuperLuchas back at Mil Mascaras and Dos Caras Sr.’s 1983 trip to All Japan’s Tag Tournament.

In Ovaciones, Arkangel throws out a challenge to Flash & Stuka. He’d take their masks or the tag team titles. It is about right for the Guerreros Tuareg to get a title shot, though promos in Ovaciones don’t actually mean anything. Arkangel also says he’s leaving this week for a two show tour of the United States. Where?

Ovaciones also says IWRG will resume airing on TV Azteca in March. The poster for today’s show lists it airing on TVC Deportes.

Tercera Caida, via WagnerMania, had a story on the AAA video game. They mentioned it’ll be available on the 360, PS3, Wii and DS and it’ll include Cibernetico. It looks like they’re just showing a story from the latest Dos de Tres.

Notes from theGladiatores recap of IWRG’s 02/08 show: Fuerza may be back on the tecnico side already, since he saved Zumbido from a post-title match by Fuerza’s second (Oficial 911, who had early gotten thrown out for interfering.) The semimian wasn’t just a title match, but the usual IWRG title/mask/hair deal. Dr. Cerebro was first out, and will have to be a hair match later on. Bushi totally had his feet on the ropes for the pin.

The Gladiatores also have a recap with yet to debut CMLL female wrestler Star Fire, who trained with Vicky Carranza, Mr. America and Skayde before joining CMLL.

The Katharis lucha libre museum exhibit has move to Nuevo Leon

Hablando de Catch has lots of photso from the Santo de mi Devocion art show. There’s another Santo related art show today.

(SuperLuchas) Ultimo Dragon‘s next major show in Japan on 03/20. Presumabrly, this is the show people (Brazo de Oro) were talking about going over for, but only Okumura and Ohara have been officially announced.

LuchaWorld has KrisZ’s news update, as well Arena Coliseo Monterrey 03/02/03 (los Caifans!), CMLL TV 09/08/07, AAA 08/19/07:

This feud is draaaaaaaaaaaaaaaging. Get healthy Konnan!

CMLL (SUN) 02/15 Arena Coliseo Guadalajara
1) Palacio Negro & Samurai vs Katana & Malefico
2) Leon Blanco & Thunder Boy vs Acertijo & Mr. Trueno
3) Boomerang & Gallo vs Angel del Mal & Infierno [Torneo Alfonso Dantes]
4) Valentin Mayo vs Nube Roja
5) Averno, Ephesto, Satanico vs Marco Corleone, Mascara Dorada, Mictlan
6) Shocker vs Terrible

That tournament is apparently a points format. I trust Apolo Dantes and whomever else is programming here over the AAA bookers, but I could use actual details.

CMLL (TUE) 02/17 Arena Coliseo Guadalajara
1) Meteoro vs Milenio
2) Atenea vs Magnifica
3) Idolo vs Skaxy
4) Metratron vs Dragon
5) Neutron vs Rafaga
6) Blue Panther & Mictlan vs Averno & Ephesto
7) Marco Corleone & Toscano vs Black Warrior & Mr. Niebla

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01/11: Hora Cero, GDL

Jan 12

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I keep forgetting to mention: all the Lucha Listen-Ins are now hosted at archive.org. You can download all four episodes or just get them streamed to you. We also have an iTunes/RSS feed too. Thanks to Tony for getting this all set up.

CMLL

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CMLL (SUN) 01/11 Arena Mexico [Ovaciones, CMLL, WiLlYeR @ elMartinete, cesar @ box y lucha]
1) Pegasso & Rey Cometa b Calígula & Méssala
2) Euforia & Nosferatu b Flash & Stuka Jr.
3) Blue Panther, Mark Corleone, Shocker b Ephesto, Terrible, Texano Jr.
4) Black Warrior, Mr. Niebla, Rey Bucanero b La Sombra, Místico, Volador Jr.
5) Shockercito L Pierrothito, Mascarita Dorada, Último Dragoncito, Pequeño Warrior, Pequeño Universo 2000, Pequeño Olímpico, Tzuki, Nino de Acero, Pequeno Ninja, Fantasy, Electrico, Cosmico [mask, cage]

Wrestlers had to stay in the cage for seven minutes, but all the tecnicos just left at the start of the match to confound the rudos. They were ordered back in the cage, and Dorada and Shockercito ended up doing dives off the top of the cage as their way of getting back in. Pequeno Ninja ended up leaving early again and didn’t seem like he realized it, because the ring announcement to allow escape was just after, but the referees explained it to him and he climbed back in and then climbed back out later.

Order of escape went Cosmico, Electrico, Fantasy, Pequeno Ninja, Tzuki, Pequeno Olimpico, Pequeno Universo 2000, Pequeno Black Warrior. This left it 3 tecnicos (Dragoncito, Dorada, Shockercito) vs Pierrothito. Dragoncito took off and escaped, and Shockercito seemed to be next, but Dorada did a “spectacular” series of moves to escape before Shockercito, leaving him with Pierrothito. Those two wrestled to a fall, and Pierrothito made Shockercito give up to a bridging reverse facelock. Shockercito is Javier Cortes Sanchez from Villanueva, Oaxaca, 8 years a professional wrestler (so he’d wrestled a little over a year before taking this gimmick.)

Shockercito unmasked photos: CMLL, box y lucha. This match seemed to be on track for 52MX, but CMLL.com’s preview of the show says “EVENTO GRABADO PARA LA TV POR TELEVISA CANAL 9 GALAVISIÓN”, so perhaps it WILL be on the main show? Maybe they can save the tape for the next time they plan on running a notPPV.

Warrior blatantly foul kicked Mistico, but got away with for the semimain win. They have a singles match next Sunday.

CMLL.com’s recap mentions Euforia and Nosferatu’s win may have set them up for a third shot at the tag team titles. Attendance is said to be good – maybe 75%?

CMLL (SUN) 01/11 Arena Coliseo Guadalajara [MT]
4) Mascara Dorada b Dragon Rojo Jr.
5) Héctor Garza, Hijo del Fantasma, La Máscara b Atlantis, Negro Casas, Último Guerrero

Garza pinned UG clean in a third, then demanded (and received) a trios title shot for next Sunday. Dorada pulled Rojo’s mask before pinning him for the semifinal win.

Dos Jr. is still listed as working tomorrow in Arena Mexico. We’ll see!

In Monterrey, Caifan is hurt again. This time, it’s an abdominal injury, which will require three months of rest. He’s had nothing but bad luck the last year.

Box Y Lucha #2905 has Mistico conquering Japan and Chessman explaining his first wrestling payday was a chicken pie. Article teasers include Bam Bam responding to Freelance, Super Fly saying the only real Fuerza Aerea, Hector Garza saying he’s not copying Alex Koslov and memories of Aguila India.

SuperLuchas looks back at Silver King’s past failures and success in Tijuana.

WrestlingObserver posted their AAA recap

AAA (SUN) 01/11 Arena Cuatro Caminos Nuevo Laredo [RFC]
1) Anubis, Lady Storm, Mini Laredo Kid vs Mandragora, Mini Black Mamba, Mini Rio Bravo
2) Black Fenix, Power Ranger I, Street Boy vs Black Mamba, Oscuridad, Violento
3) Principe Diamante, Sangre Chicana, Universal vs Hombre de Negro, Kendor, Soberdosis
4) Estrella Universal, Hombre Sin Miedo, Laredo Kid vs Rio Bravo, Tigre Cota, Tito Santana II

Or, you know, they’re not taking two months of here.

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12/27: Tijuana (w/Perros), AOL, Mexico, lineups

Dec 27

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AAA (THU) 12/25 Auditorio de Tijuana [SuperLuchas]
2) Black Abyss, Histeria, Psicosis II b Arandu, Extreme Tiger, TJ Boy
3) Joe Lider & Nicho el Millionario b Jack Evans & Teddy Hart [AAA TAG]
4) Alex Koslov, Rocky Romero, X-Pac b Chuck Palumbo, Damian 666, Konnan

Yep, that’s Damian 666 in the main event. The post has video, with most of the main event. Could mean something is going down with the Perros and AAA. Could mean Rellik just couldn’t get there and they found a local replacement. I dunno.

indy (THU) 12/25 Arena Olimpico Laguna de Gomez Palacio [El Siglo de Torreon]
1) Mini Maximo b Pentagoncito
2) Guerrero Inca b Semental
3) Euforia, Misterioso II, Mr. Guerrero b Angel de Oro, Hooligan, Scriba Jr.
4) Atlantis, Dragon Rojo Jr., Ephesto b Blue Panther, Stuka Jr., Ultimo Guerrero

In the end, Ultimo Guerrero could not stand being a tecnico any longer and turned on his partner. Same deal with Hooligan in the semimain.

CMLL (FRI) 12/26 Arena Mexico [Ovaciones, ESTO]
1) Puma King & Tiger Kid b Sensei & Trueno
2) Hiroka, Mima Shimoda, Princesa Sujei b Lady Apache, Marcela, Princesa Blanca
3) Skandalo b Angel de Oro [lightning]
4) Máscara Púrpura, Stuka Jr., Valiente b Satánico, Shigeo Okumura, Virus
5) Black Warrior, Dragon Rojo Jr., Sangre Azteca b Dos Caras Jr., Hijo del Fantasma, Sagrado
6) Averno, Terrible, Texano Jr. b La Máscara, Místico, Volador Jr.

Averno got away with a foul in third fall for the main event win. Sangre Azteca led his new team to victory the first time out. ESTO says the lightning match went 7 minutes.

Tecnicas lost in straight falls, and CMLL.com thinks it’s Marcela who’s turning ruda. Huh.

ESTO said the turnout was good, but the crowd was quiet until the main event.

Box Y Lucha posted articles…

- AAA Notes Column says Arturo Rivera was in a bad car accident coming back from the last TV taping. Hope he’s doing better.
- Lluvia talks about why she got into lucha libre (she’s Herodes’ niece and had been training for only 14 months before debuting)
- Villano 3 talking about touring the pacific Coast

El Hijo del Santo talks about the global economic crisis.

CMLL (TUE) 12/30 Arena Mexico
1) Sombra de Plata & Trueno vs Calígula & Méssala
2) Lady Apache, Lluvia, Yezca vs La Seductora, Medussa, Princesa Sujei
3) Bam Bam, Mascarita Dorada, Último Dragoncito vs Pequeño Damian 666, Pequeño Halloween, Pequeño Warrior
4) Dos Caras Jr., Sagrado, Valiente vs Black Warrior, Dragon Rojo Jr., Sangre Azteca
5) Volador Jr. vs Último Guerrero

Main event is non-title.

CMLL (FRI) 01/02 Arena Mexico
1) Camorra & Policeman vs Astro Boy & Tony Rivera
2) Marcela, Princesa Blanca, Sahori vs Amapola, Hiroka, La Nazi
3) Ángel Azteca Jr. vs Puma King [lightning]
4) Máximo, Mictlán, Stuka Jr. vs Euforia, Nosferatu, Shigeo Okumura
5) Dragon Rojo Jr., Negro Casas, Sangre Azteca vs La Máscara, Mascara Dorada, Sagrado
6) La Sombra, Shocker, Volador Jr. vs Black Warrior, Terrible, Texano Jr.

All you need to ever know about CMLL groups is summed up right here – show #4 of Poder Mexica has them all on the card but not teaming up. What does being a group in CMLL actually mean?

Poor Sahori. Doomed!

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