Tag: Teleton

12/11: CMLL Vip, Teleton

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CMLL VIP (SAT) 12/09 Monumental Monterrey Results [lomejordeluchalibre]
1) Corazon Adicto DRAW Dr. Cianuro
2) Orientale I, Orientale II b Dralion, Morvius
3) Diana la Cazadora, Dark Angel b La Bruja, La Nazi
4) Super Raton, Super Pinocho Jr., Super Muneco Jr. b Llamarada, Leono, Oro II
5) Hijo de Rey Misterio, Rey Misterio, La Mascara b Pierroth, Pierroth Jr., Alex Koslov
6) Mistico, Blue Panther, Sagrado b Nicho, Averno, Mephisto

2000 people in a 11000 person arena, according to the report.

Let me explain the Teleton matches bit in once place, so it’s easier for me to recall later:

Around 1pm on Saturday, CMLL and AAA both had matches.
– Dos Caras Jr., Shocker, Heavy Metal b Atlantis, Ultimo Guerrero, Olimpico
– Abismo Negro, Chessman, Charly Manson b La Parka Jr., Intocable, Head Hunter I (who had to be filling in for someone)

After the matches, they proposed the two winning teams would face off – but only if the people watching at home would donate 4,000,000 pesos ($367633 US) in the next half hour. They went over four million, so the match was on: Dos, Shocker and Metal vs Abismo, Chessman, Charly. (It’s been noted that all the CMLL guys had once been in AAA.) Shocker and Abismo were captains.

In the one fall match, Heavy Metal pinned Charly Manson with a ‘rana, but then Chessman beat Heavy Metal. The next pinfall would be the deciding one, and Dos took himself and Chessman out of the picture with a dive. Abismo and Shocker got into a tapatia, leaned back, and both sets of shoulders were down for the three count. It was a double pin draw, though both sides complained and vowed revenge.

Sports newspaper Esto has announced it’ll start covering lucha libre. YAY INFORMATION. As a person not living in the US, it’s pretty mindboggling that a newspaper would decide to start to cover wrestling. I’m not complaining.

There’s wire articles about the teleton match in many places – Vanguarida and mundo hispano are two

Latin Lover has had some falling out with the producers of the Solo para Mujers shows and won’t be appearing with them any more. However, he’ll still be doing his other show and just signed a seven year exclusive contract with Televisa, so he’ll probably be doing okay. They’re going to start filming on a lucha movie early next year. (tabascao hoy)

A blog entry on Milenio talks about piracy in lucha libre, mostly with Rayo de Jalisco Jr. If I’m not mistaken, Rayo claims Rayman – the wrestler who El Hijo de Rayo de Jalisco Jr. till the name had to be changed – was someone who is not family and was pirating the name. That can’t be right – there’s gotta be confusion somewhere here.

Paper Magazines
– Luchas 2000 #247 has Rey Misterio Jr. recovering from his knee surgery, and hype for one hair match with results for another
– Luchas 2000 Special #16 says goodbye to Lizmark.
– Super Luchas #191 features AAA stars with indy stars from a recent spot show.

Internet Magazines
– El Halcon #81 has interviews with Rey Bucanero, Hijo del Diablo, as well as results from Queretaro, Gimnasio Nuevo Leon, and the CMLL Vip show
– the Gladiatores #21 has results form Naucalpan, Tijuana, Neza and another Villalobos show.

12/09: Mexico, Teleton

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CMLL (FRI) 12/08 Arena Mexico Results
1) Danger, Valiente b Artillero, Super Comando
2) Fabian el Gitano, Mascara Purpura, Metro II b Arkangel, Hooligan, Loco Max
3) Damian 666, Halloween, Mr. Aguila b Blue Panther, Sagrado, Volador Jr.
4) Heavy Metal, Shocker, Universo 2000 b Alex Koslov, Kenzo Suzuki, LA Park
5) Atlantis, Tarzan Boy, Ultimo Guerrero b Dos Caras Jr., Dr. Wagner Jr., Rey Bucanero

Hooligan replaced Nitro in the GdR special. Both teams in next week’s trios match won. Metal and Park both got taken out of their match, and I’m quite surprised Kenzo didn’t get a win here. They must be killing off this bit after Friday.

I expect to hear about the AAA taping sometime in March.

Again, no GdR or Galavision today because of Teleton coverage. There’s like a 50% shot I’ll forget to tape GdR this week because it’s on Sunday.

KrisZ notes, in the comments, that Televisa indeed did get it’s wish of a CMLL vs AAA show – except it was one match, and it was a draw.

Hiroka has a shot at Lady Apache’s Mexican National Championship next Sunday. This is a odd thing, seeing as only Mexicans are supposed to have a shot at the Mexican National championships, and Hiroka sure appears to be Japanese.

CMLL has no idea how they’re spelling Efesto/Ephesto yet. This shall annoy me greatly. It really needs ‘f’ or it’ll be massively confusing.

11/20 Teleton Arena Mexico Results

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CMLL (MON) 11/20 Arena Mexico Results
1) Super Muenco, Super Pinocho, Super Raton b Hombre Sin Nombre, Loco Max, Sangre Azteca
2) Virus CO Mascara Purpura
3) Dos Caras Jr., Mascara Sagrada, Shocker b Blue Demon Jr., Hector Garza, LA Park
4) Blue Panther, Canek, Super Parka b Negro Navarro, Signo, Texano Jr.
5) Villano III, Villano IV, Villano V b Damian 666, Halloween, Mr. Aguila
6) Pierroth, Ultimo Guerrero, Universo 2000 b Electroshock, Satanico, Silver King

I’ve read three reports
– Ovaciones, which says the show was super and drew 10,000
– poster Cesar on Box Y Lucha, who did not like the wrestling at all and found the show far poorly executed than usual
– poster Alvin on El Martiente, who was somewhere in the middle (but definitely on the thumbs up side.)

I don’t know why I didn’t notice this earlier, but it’s funny that in Electroshock’s big return to Arena Mexico, he’s teaming with Silver King and facing Ultimo Guerrero. Last time in Arena Mexico, as part of his one month stint, he was in a trios match teaming with Bronco (Silver King) and facing the Guerreros (including Ultimo), Electro looked bad, the crowd turned on the tecnicos about halfway in the match and there was a rumor the Guerreros had sabotaged Electro’s debut on purpose. This time, Electro got booed just for being there and the crowd never let up on him – if he’s going to be around (and he probably shouldn’t be), they’re going to have to turn him rudo immediately.

At least Electro was there. Groon was MIA. After the second match, they had representatives of each match come out and draw a number to determine the order for the rest of the show (which leads into another issue I’ll get to in a moment.) By incredible luck, Groon’s match happened to be moved to the main event. Combine that with the previously unannounced Virus/Mascara Purpura match (which was said not to be good), and Cesar’s mentioning of long breaks between matches, and it seems like they were stalling for Groon to get to the building. He never did, so either he couldn’t get from wherever else he was working that day in time, or perhaps he was holding CMLL up for more money (it’d fit his rep), but I can’t think missing a CMLL Arena Mexico main event is going to be good for your career. (Of course, they still employ Lizmark Jr., so who really knows.)

In connection with the order drawing, CMLL hyped up that they’d award a trofeo to the best winning trio in the top four matches, and they’d decide the best by bringing them all into the ring at the end of the show, and letting the fans cheer for who they want. Apparently, none of the wrestlers were listening or cared, because everyone else had left by the time was the main event was over. The officials handed the trofeo to the rudos and got out of there. Whoever was in charge of running the show did not have a good night.

Sounds like Mascara Sagrada and Canek were the worst guys on the show, though people weren’t high on the Villanos, El Signo and others on the show, including Satanico in the main event. Blue Panther and Negro Navarro did a lot mat sequence in the first fall, which Ovaciones thought was the greatest thing ever, but Cesar thought was quite bad. Super Parka wore his mask for the whole match, which is something they’ve had people do on legends shows, but never in Arena Mexico before.

Mr. Aguila tried Halloween’s ring announcing spot for the Perros and apparently didn’t learn enough English during his WWE stint – that’s the one thing I want to see from this show.

The 10,000 attendance number is probably not too far off – Monday was a holiday, so they drew a big crowd and may have made some money for the Teleton. I don’t believe this was successful enough to change future plans, but I do believe they’d opt to do it again next year rather than do a show with AAA.