AAA Mini Line - 11/03/07 (#649)
Recapped: 10/10/07

Outdoor setting - they're in a park. Dr. Morales is with the announcer crew. Six sided ring. Recap from last week has additional footage of Mesias being loaded into an ambulance. Also, Piero helping the Guapos.

Vignette: Gran Apache rants about Fabi Apache to - Mary Apache? While Gran Apache still can't get over "Alfa is Billy Boy", he's not giving up yet.

Match 1: Billy Boy, Fabi Apache vs Cinthia Moreno, Oriental
Parque Tabasco, Villahermosa, Tabasco, 09/30/07

Winner: Cinthia Moreno & Oriental
Match Time: 11:58
Notes: Morenos have their tag belts. Cinthia doesn't have her shoulder harness thing! That's good. The video for the second team second Billy Boy and Fabi Apache, as do the graphics, but he still comes out as Alfa to do the big reveal for the fans who haven't seen Verano de Escandalo yet. New music for them, no gear for Billy Boy. Pepe Casas is ref. Arturo gets Fabi and Billy to kiss before the match. Billy and Fabi are still the rudos here, but the Morenos want to shake hands before the match. Fabi and Billy hesitate, so the Morenos back up, and then make a sudden charge with dropkicks. New Happy Couple moves out of the way. They do some stereo spots before settling down into singles, Moreno's being showcased. This culminated with Cinthia armdragging Billy into the second row, in quite the random spot. Billy and Fabi start a beatdown from there, and we get a break just as they get going. Billy and Fabi receive a decent amount of cheers, which makes sense given what's just occurred with them. Fabi Apache stomps Cinthia right in the head during this, and the match comes to a halt for a moment while Cinthia covers up and doesn't want to continue and only Oriental seems aware of the injury. He sneaks in and shortly starts a comeback. Cinthia seems a bit slow on her spots. Oriental gets in a middle rope moonsault to the floor  on Billy Boy. Cinthia takes Fabi back in, gives her an electric suplex, flips her over on her stomach for a reverse toe hold, and Northern Lights Suplex when he tries to break up the hold - while still having the hold applied. Oriental tries to add a dropkick and just ends up breaking it up. More double teaming work from there, with the crowd reacting to the big spots like fireworks, with the moments of cheering and relatively silliness otherwise, Oriental takes out Billy Boy with a big tope, and Cinthia has the best of Fabi Apache before sending her out with a top rope plancha. Oriental and Billy back in, lots of near falls, and then Oriental grabs a chair from nowhere to hit Billy Boy on the run. That seems like a rudo move, but it's not treated like such. DVD on to the chair to end it. Pepe Casas has no problem with any of that.

I guess the idea is Billy Boy didn't lose clean, they had to use a chair, but if chairs are so okay as to not be a DQ, he lost clean. So Billy and Fabi do their big angle and then lose clean the next week (even though they're still building up a title match for both teams.) 

Interview: Guapito and Decnis, talking about Decnis' membership in the group. Jesus Z gets the glasses so eh can be Guapo to close out the interview. 

Match 2: Decnis, Scorpio Jr. (c), Zumbido vs Alan Stone (c), Chris Stone, Super Calo
Parque Tabasco, Villahermosa, Tabasco, 09/30/07

Winner: Guapos
Match Time: 15:19 (4:50; 10:29)
Notes: Arturo Rivera now knows all the words to CHRIS Stone's music. Not the same. Hey, Alan's music has words again! And not just Arturo singing them. Even though Alan is now a tecnico, he still can't help bringing that mirror with him to check himself out. Zumbido's music has lyrics again. Maybe they fixed the rights issue? Decnis has a dance move. *A* dance move, but he's working well on this identity thing. Your referee is Mr. Fast Forward, Piero. 

Guapos jump the rudos immediately after the introductions, with Guapito and Piero freely getting involved. Chris Stone, playing Mascara Magica to Alan Stone's Shocker, is now dying his hair some weird shade of aqua. We get two cycles on the beatdown before Alan starts to turn things around (yes, by corner charge evidence) about four minutes in. Break soon after. Is that the new thing?

While the Stones tease killing Piero, Scorpio sends Guapito running to the back. Ah, he's got them some silverware. Actually, the forks look very plastic. Zumbido gets handed one on camera and then tries to play dumb. Guapito races in the ring to distract the Stones, and the Guapos jump them from behind. All three Guapos go the work on Alan's forehead, and they still only get him cut very little. Zumbido poses for the camera with a fork in his mouth - I was wrong, the handle is plastic, but there's metal on the end for sure. This is taking a while, so they kill time with Guapito at the announce desks. Alan is bleeding and in pain as we return, and they work on Chris next. They don't get Calo, and he makes the comeback this time, off some double teams gone bad. All Stones from there, with highlight moves, Zumbido getting busted open, and the Guapos teasing a walkout before things get settled down. Chris works against Decnis, sends him out with a clothesline, captures Guapito when he tries to attack, and presses him out to the floor - where Decnis catches him. Chris topes them both (though he just barely made it - did he hit the ropes on the way thru?) and Guapito ends up flying in to the front row. Calo and Zumbido have a back and forth, but when Zumbido is backdropped onto the apron near Alan, Alan, cranks him with the mirror. Zumbido drops to the floor, and Calo gets him and the others with a tope con giro. Alan puts Scorpio in a Gory Stretch, but Guapito breaks that up. Something gets clipped out here - it seems like that's happened a few times this taping, but I haven't been looking for it. Alan goes for Guapito, Scorpio pulls Alan's trunks (blur) while getting him a low blow uppercut from behind, and cradles him for what Piero counts as three, but then signals as two. If he's cheating enough to fast count, why does it matter Alan kicked out? Alan continues to wrestle halfway sticking out of his trunks, getting a casita on Scorpio only for Guapito to break that up too. Guapito gets in a low blow, and just to make sure everything's repeated, Piero fast counts Alan again. What the heck. 

Break replays break.

Video Package: Mexican Powers highlights.

Match 3: Cuervo (c), Espiritu, Ozz, Scoria vs Crazy Boy, Extreme Tiger, Juventud Guerrera (c), Joe Lider
Parque Tabasco, Villahermosa, Tabasco, 09/30/07

Winner: Mexican Powers
Match Time: 12:02 (5:14 +6:48)
Other Match Notes: Sect have the belts. Espiritu's wears a hooded outfit all the way to the ring, so we can't see his bald head just yet. They're still using a cover version. Espiritu pulls off his head to reveal his bald and white painted head. This being AAA, he does it facing away from the camera that's on. MPs have a cover version of their song and seem to get much less of a reaction than usual. Hijo de Tirantes is ref. The valet's backsides get blurred out! That's a new one. Actually 3 of them do and 1 does not, and I wonder what rules were used to decide that. 

Rudos jump the tecnicos. AAA is either doing odd placed crowd shots or making their clips very obvious this week. MPs start to make their comeback about 90 seconds in, which makes me sure something was cut out. It's a two part comeback, and it takes quite a while to get the second part set up for whatever reason. There's another big clip right after the start of the comeback - Crazy Boy goes from standing in the ring to running towards the ring from backstage. He had to get a chair, you see. Break is randomly places in the tecnico showcase. 

Ozz cuts off Extreme Tiger from diving onto Espiritu to start the second beatdown. This lasts seconds before Lider and Crazy randomly storm the ring and take over. For a MPs match, this is making less than usual. It's very much spot trading - you do yours, then I do ours, and then we both go to the stage so I can moonsault off it. Scoria takes Lider's brainbuster on the apron, though  it's very much on his shoulder and looking unfun. Espiritu takes out Lider with an slingshot tope con giro, Extreme Tiger tries to hit both of them with a top rope Asai corkscrew moonsault, but he overshoots them and doesn't actually get caught. That sucks. Two chairs are set up in the ring in position for Lider to be powerbombed thru them eventually, but just when you think the match isn't going to end til we get to that spot, Juvi gives Ozz and pumphandle Juvi Driver for the win. The guy at the music controls is the last person to know, because he never hits the button. 

Halloween runs in from the crowd, right next to the announce desk. The photographers see him coming, because they all zoom over to take photos of him jumping the rail. None of the MPs are paying attention (although you can watch them all look in Halloween's direction and then turn away to get to their spots.) Halloween takes out Juvi with a spear, crotched Lider, and attempts to suplex Crazy onto the chairs. He misses, but grabs a chair to throw at Tiger. Tiger sings, Halloween ducks and asks him to stop. I can't tell if Halloween's wearing face paint, or if his face is just normally that shade of orange after years of wearing paint. BREAK in the middle of the run-in, wow.

Ah, it's facepaint. Just lightly done. Halloween gives Extreme Tiger a recruitment speech. I like how Lider goes thru chairs and tables and stuff, but he's taking out by being crotched on the top rope. Tiger still has the chair and asks the crowd what he should do. Tiger and Halloween have the briefest handshake and hug ever, and get to work in destroying the rest of the MPs. Lider gets a superplex and a chairshot right to the top of the head. Triple legdrop too. Tiger and Halloween seem to spend a lot of time celebrating. Juvi rolls out of the ring so he can stand up. Lider gets powerbombed on to light bulb tubes, which mean a whole lot when he was powerbombed onto light bulb tubes just last week. Ain't my back. Halloween says he'll have one more next week.    

Vignette: Mesias walks out of the hospital. You know how there's just one coffee bar in AAA's world. There's only one hospital - this appears to be the same one Billy Boy was interned at. Mesias talks about his injury while wearing a shirt with a word that probably should be blurred if this show were to air in front of US audiences. I think Mesias will be fine, he managed to work in the catchphrase. He does look to be hurting quite a bit as he walks off. 

Match 5: Kenzo Suzuki, X-Pac, Zorro (c) vs Charly Manson, Chessman, Cibernetico (c)
Parque Tabasco, Villahermosa, Tabasco, 09/30/07

Winner: Rudos 
Match Time: 18:49 (3:33+14:14+1:02)
Other Match Notes: Cover version for Charly. And Chessman. They're wearing the football jerseys again - they're all number 6. That makes sense. X-Pac still has the DX music, but there's no X-Pac or DX on his gear. Hell Brothers won't let Kenzo in to do his eagle pose, so he climbs the announce desk instead. Mesias actually walks out in gear and no visible back brace, though you can tell he's sucking in pain on every step. He gets handed a microphone before he even makes it halfway up the aisle, but walks almost all the way to the ring anyway. You'd think he'd have his title belt here, but NOPE. Break before he starts to speak.

Mesias welcomes us to the world of Mesias. He points out he's #1 in Mexico and champion of AAA - if only he had a prop to illustrate that. Never mind. Lots of gazing into Mesias' wacky contacts. Mesias says he's not wrestling here. He's got a replacement - an upstanding Mexican better than everyone here, and the newest member of the group - Zorro. New Evil Zorro wears white and black and makes "oh, I'm so so scared" hand motions. Copetes AND Hijo de Tirantes are here to be referees, so something's going to happen here. Zorro both hits the AAA catchphrase (it's a new era!) and Mesias' catch phrase in under 15 seconds. Cibernetico and Zorro have a contest over who can be more fake scared of each other. At some point they're going to wrestle, right? talk talk talk talk. OH NO HE CALLED HIM "ZORRA". (It gets a chant too.)   

Cibernetico wants Zorro, chases Zorro around and outside the ring, and then gets distracted by Mesias into a beatdown. During this, Zorro works over Cibernetico with a random leg hold. Lots of throwing and knocking people into the first couple rows here, and a random commercial break. Hijo de Tirantes seems to be here to count everything fairly. Copetes is here for - actually, I don't know yet. Long beatdown, highlighted by Zorro doing Kenzo's eagle dance with him. We're looking at Mesias when the HBs do whatever it is they do to turn it around - they're triple spearing the rudos as we look back at the ring. Mesias gets chases slowly backed up to the entrance, and the rudos jump the tecnicos before they can get to Mesias. HBs make a comeback there by reversing some whips, and X-Pac and Chessman brawl to the side of the entrance for no reason (except they're setting something up.) I can't imagine anyone live can see this. A ladder just so happens to be leaning on a truck so both of them can climb up and fight there. I believe I saw it this in Double Dragon. X-Pac takes a backdrop on the top of the truck (which appears to have some sort of plastic canvas top - footing is an issue.) Zorro climbs up the ladder to join the fun. Zorro canes Chessman, who very slowly and very carefully falls down. The top of the truck is wet, which can't help. Chessman gets in position, turns around, eats a Zorro superkick, looks back towards the floor, and carefully falls off (in a tope con giro fashion) thru a table. SAFETY! Chessman completely misses one of the two tables he's supposed to hit. Chessman bounces off into the darkness, and no one pays any attention to him as Cibernetico makes a brief comeback before the numbers get to him. Kenzo's a help here. Apparently Mesias got Charly somewhere else. Rudos roam back to the entrance, and we have another break.   

It's good they've learned nothing from Mesias getting hurt.

The match wanders back to the ring, because a pinfall matters so much. Somehow, Charly and Kenzo are left in the ring, and left long enough for Charly not just to get his reverse Indian Deathlock on, but spend forever stalling while teasing actually locking in the move. Zorro finally shows up to break it. Everyone gets to do their move to Charly, and X-Pac pins him after his finish. We do get a shot of a doctor checking on Chessman, but later see the same doctor with Cibernetico. Perhaps he just figured Chessman wasn't worth it.  

Cibernetico crawls out back in front of the entrance. Which is nice, it means the Sect don't have to walk far when they come out to stomp him. Chessman flew off the top of a truck thru a table, and they're making sure the only person we care about getting beat is Cibernetico. Chessman seems like a nice guy, but he's also a moron. Rudos randomly beat up Hijo de Tirantes in here as well. I bet Zorro was upset at him for not calling a DQ at some point. Chessman's dive is finally replayed about 12 minutes after it happened. We never see him and he'll be find next week. After the rudos leave, Charly and Tirantes get back up in the ring to get a pop from the crowd. This show is like five minutes short and we're getting lots of filler.

Video package and it's over.