AAA Mini Line - 06/14/08 (#837)
Recap: 06/29/08

Previously: Mari beat Fabi again. This video package makes it look like Mari got 100% of the offense. Mr. Niebla and the Vipers took care of Abismo. Zorro beat Cibernetico, kinda. This is also edited carefully, not even showing the finish. And people chose seconds.

Recap: Cibernetico didn't burn Mesias. Chessman fell off a lot of things and wasn't happy Mesias didn't do the same. This one was all about heavily teasing issues.

Match 1: Alan (c), Javi, Kevin, Ricky vs Jessy, Nygma, Polvo de Esterllas (c), Yuriko  
Domo de la Feria de Leon, 05/19/08

Winner: Night Queens
Match Time: 6:39
Notes: No entrances. Quite the pink outfits out of the Night Queens. Pepe Casas is ref. Hey, new fall graphic.

This match features a lot of crowd shots at times where it's not even clear something was blown. All Barrio Boys showcase to start, and then the Barrios kinda start their own beatdown, bringing in the Night Queens for combo moves. The Skateboard is back, dropkicked into Nygma questionably low. It turns in two on twos, and still the Barrios just run over the Night Queens with their offense. Kevin gets an Asai moonsault on Jessy and Yuriko, and they stand up in me to take a moonsault form Kevin. (Looks like Jessy got his left leg trapped underneath him, and needs medical attention.) Polvo eventually gets control by using a garbage can to cut off an Javi tope attempt. Rudos get to use the trash can a lot while Pepe Casas is busy – at least he has a legitimate excuse. Alan rushes the ring to make the save, dropkicking Polvo out, and getting Nygma with a flipping neckbreaker. Alan climbs the ropes as Nygma not-so-subtly sneaks towards the corner. Alan barely makes up before Polvo shoots his fireworks gun at Alan, blinding him and causing him to fall backwards into the ring. Polvo covers, while Nygma takes out Javi with a tope. Javi still has the trash can on and can't see, so it's a good think Nygma could land on his own. Yuriko directly Pepe Casas back to the ring to make the count, and that's it.

Not sure if that got cut off home early due to Jessy's injury, because it was quick to the ending but didn't seem changed. Jessy seems to be up on his feet now. Kevin is so upset about the finish, he poses on the turnbuckle.

Vignette: Gran Apache is looking forward to Reina de Reinas, because he knows Mari is going to win. Except for this part where he daydreams about Fabi winning. Huh. Hedging his bets, I guess.

Match 2: La Diabolica, Mari Apache (c), Martha Villalobos vs Cinthia Moreno, Estrellita, Fabi Apache (c)
Domo de la Feria de Leon, 05/19/08

Winner: Rudas
Match Time: 9:55
Notes: Welcome back Cinthia. You're back from a bad back injury and you don't even get an entrance. AAA is mean. No entrances fo ranyone. Naturally the Apaches are captains. Piero is ref.

Slow start with the others until Fabi and Mari get in. There's a big chant for Cinthia, but her sequence with Martha gets completely cut out. Fabi gets Mari with a spinning backbreaker, but Mari takes it upon herself to start the beatdown right then. Fabi worked over first, Estrellita next (though she tries to leave way early) and then Cinthia gets stomped into the mat. Tecnicas are all whipped into one corner for the big Martha corner splash, but everyone moves to safety in time and the comeback starts right there. They do the Super Porky camera shake when Martha falls over after a dropkick, and that's about right. Fabi and Mari start the one on ones and Fabi has a leg bar on until Diabolica breaks up. Estrellita meets her, and just barely makes it on a tope. Cinthia has to fight Martha, which is something that's going to cause back issues all over again. Cinthia accidentally pulls down Martha's trunks on a sunset flip spot, but Martha's thankfully wearing black pants underneath. That could've been scaring. Martha is completely unaware and continues to wrestle with her trunks half down like that. She climbs up for a splash, but Cinthia pulls her off for a super armdrag. Cinthia covers, one two oh Piero's evil this week. Mari back in, and doing something which we don't see, but it knocks Cinthia off the ring. Fabi gets Mari with a plancha, 'rana one two NO. Fabi was sure that should be three, but that might've been a fair count. Fabi over the ropes, lifted up in the Atlántida, Fabi slips down the back for an inside cradle one two NO that still doesn't work. Fabi can't believe it. She heads up top, but Mari cuts her off with slaps. Mari going up to join her. Both all the way up – top rope superplex! I think that may do it. One two THREE. She didn't even need to use the Michinoku driver that time.

Random music pays every where as everyone stands around so the announcers can hype Reina de Reinas a bit more. Tecnicas run off the rudas from attacking Fabi anymore. They scrolled a couple promos for that taping during the match, so yea for selling things.

Noti AAA
- TripleMania will be in Mexico City. Cibernetico (w/Roldan) vs Zorro (w/Konnan), Mexico vs the World featuring La Parka Jr., Ricky Marvin, Juvi, Crayz vs Super Crazy, Jack Evans, Bryan Danielson (not pictured) vs Familia de Tijuana
- Charly Manson fractured his leg. They flash back to the last time this happened, 03/30/2001. That's still horrible looking. 
- Bobby Lashley! Look at all this footage taken from WWE TV! I can not believe they haven't gotten in trouble for this yet. More Test than anyone wants to see.
- Who's the new Hermano? Well, some Lider/Nicho vignette has them going into an SUV and Nicho telling Lider it's one more extreme wrestler close to his heart.
- look, the TripleMania bus.

Mexico vs El Mundo Video Package: La Parka, Charly Manson (not so quick) and one more vs Kenzo Suzuki, Electroshock (very foreign) and Bobby Lashley Same footage we saw before. Did someone at AAA actually buy that December to Dismember PPV for this cage match footage? I think anyone who does should get to use the footage, it wouldn't be many.

(Self)-Interview: FdT are not happy with Nicho and Lider for their little bit last week. TJ Extreme gets no words in.

Match 3: Joe Lider (c), Nicho el Millionario, X-Fly vs Extreme Tiger, Halloween (c), TJ Extreme  
Domo de la Feria de Leon, 05/19/08

Winner: Hermanad
Match Time: 11:07
Other Match Notes: Hey, they have their belts this week. TJ Exteme, who's dressing more and more like Halloween II, brings weapons to the ring so we know how this is going. The Mexican Powers music plays, but we get Nicho and Lider instead. Someone fixes it to the right music. Lider is still wearing his Lider gear, but he must be doing to mock them. Lider says they're the only Extreme group in AAA, and the Mexican Powers certainly aren't. Nicho steals Mesias catchphrase (that's going around), and introduces member number 3 – the ex-Mosco de la Merced, X-Fly. He's shaved his head or lost his hair since that Teleton show. Seems like he's gained weight if anything – he's Valiente sized. He's also wearing a mask the whole time here, if it means anything.

Nicho starts to taunt Halloween some more, and gets slapped and beat down by FdT to start the fight. Hijo de Tirantes is ref, who's called the most extreme referee as a joke. Despite the surprise the Hermanad gets beat bad to start. X-Fly's first memorable moment is being dropkicked of the apron into some set up chairs. Nicho being powerbombed into a metal box is sold big, including getting the Tecnologia Televsa Deportes replay. Lider's speared once and set up for a whip into a spear, but Nicho and X-Fly pull out two of them, and Halloween charges at Lider after he's picked up a chair. That doesn't work out too well for Halloween. Halloween started bleeding after some chair shots, and stumbles over to the front row to freak them out. Blood mixed with face paint can't be too fun. This is yet another rudo vs rudo battle with the fans not particularly caring about either side, but reacting for some of the bigger shots. Halloween fires up and turns the tide all by himself for about five seconds, until Joe Lider gives him a move where it's impossible to tell how Lider's hurting him. So, normal. It magically turns back into one on one encounters. TJ Extreme takes a sunset flip bomb off the apron thru a table from Nicho, Tiger gets him with a tope con giro, X-Fly teases a dive, pulls up when Tiger isn't ready, slide dropkicks Tiger over, and flattens him with a slingshot senton.

Lider sets up a chair, but Halloween's walking over to Stunner anyway. Halloween sets Lider in the chair – lucky Lider happened to set it up. Halloween backs up, charges, and takes a STO into the chair. Lider is quick out to get yet another metal box, and sets Halloween in the corner with the box on his head. Missile dropkick to the box, one two three

TJ Exteme gets one more chair after the match. Nicho flips Halloween on to his back, pulls up shirt, and spray paints his back (while Hijo de Tirantes mostly directs traffic, great job there.)

Video Recap: the friendship between Porky and Abismo that just will not be. This has sad romantic music, and makes me sad we don't get more of it. There's random Vipers interviews inter mixed in. THUMBS UP.

Match 4: Mr. Niebla & Psicosis II vs Oriental & Super Porky  
Domo de la Feria de Leon, 05/19/08

Winner: Tecnicos by DQ
Match Time: 8:57
Other Match Notes: No entrances. Hey, Oriental. Who's clearly only because Abismo wasn't going to show up here either. Pepe Casas is ref.

Oriental gets to showcase a bit, leading to a tope on Psicosis. Crowd is hot for Porky whenever he's in, but the Vipers end up double teaming and hitting him square in the head with a chair. They've also got bats, and bat Porky on the gut. That's not very nice. Of course, they bring in Oriental to be the target for their double team moves. Porky's comeback involves the slowest duck of a double clothesline ever. Porky knocks down everyone with his gut, even his own teammate. Niebla evens it out by slapping around Psicosis. Besides Porky, the crowd isn't getting into much here. Niebla charges in a boot, then charges again and ends up throwing himself out. Oriental follows him with a tope rope moonsault, which does get a reaction. They're just very quiet between moves. Porky evades a Psicosis corner charge, slams Psicosis, goes to the second rope (almost on his own) and adds the big splash. Porky covers. One – no, Pepe Casas stops counting to watch Antifaz, Black Abyss and Histeria run in. That's a DQ, not that it stops the tecnicos form getting destroyed. Oriental gets a fireball and a frog splash from Black Abyss. Play Porky's music because he's getting pounded. Niebla at least enjoys himself dancing around to it. This is where Abismo Negro should run out to make the save, but, uh, no.

Match 5: Mesias & Ozz vs Kenzo Suzuki & Konnan vs Alan Stone & La Parka Jr.  
Domo de la Feria de Leon, 05/19/08

Winner: Alan Stone & La Parka Jr.
Match Time: 14:30
Other Match Notes: I think sounds just doesn't travel well in this building, because Kenzo's music is much quieter than usual. Kenzo actually ends up in the ring instead of the announce desk. Maybe he got lost. Oh no Konnan. Why is he wearing a now shirt? There are no answers. We're closing in on a year since the Sect has defended those titles they wear to the ring. This is totally a triangle tag match for the sake of doing a triangle tag match. At least this gets some tecnicos involved, because the crowd just chants for Cibernetico against the first two teams. Parka goes face to face with Mesias instead of dancing, which isn't as fun. Alan gets last entrance, oddly. Piero is ref and is wearing a Guapos shirt. He's going need new gear,

Either there's a clip, or everyone just spontaneously ends up at their corners. If there's a clip, they could've done it after the ref has a long discussion with Kenzo about this being two men in at a time and not 3 men in. Parka and Mesias start the fight, and quickly end up brawling outside. Mesias brings it back in and throws Parka down by his hair. Parka ducks a clothesline and comes back with a headscissors, which is more than usual from him. Ozz cuts him off with a dropkick quick. Corner whip, Ozz charges in, Parka moves out of the way, and Ozz splashes the empty corner. Armdrag, one arm spinning backbreaker (Ozz doing a lot of work there.) Parka gets Ozz to look up, look down, and look at Parka's boot as it hits Ozz's face. Tag to Alan, who pulls Mesias in. They go face to face, and then closer – Mesias headbutts Alan to open him for some punches and a knee lift. Alan dragged by his hair, just out of the reach of a tag. More knees and punches Ozz comes in while Mesias holds Alan, and that goes as well as usual. I don't know what I'd do if that worked. Mesias ends up dropkicked out, Ozz moves, but Ozz actually gets a chest slap on Alan, more than. Ozz charges Alan while he's on the mat, and takes a big monkey flip to the floor. Alan waits for him to get up, and knocks him back down with a springboard plancha. Mesias and Parka back in. Konnan and Kenzo are just hanging out in their corner, watching as Mesias spears Parka. Mesias drags Parka in the middle of the ring and very slowly starts to put on a scorpion deathlock. Mesias waits to turn it over, for a weird length of time, which becomes less weird when Vampiro shows up and Mesias drops the hold to stare at him. Vampiro walks to the ring, get son the apron, and points at Mesias. Security has caught up to him, and Vamp's not getting in the ropes. Instead, he gets a good view of Parka pulling a Blue Panther, grabbing a fujiwara armbar out of nowhere for the submission. Perhaps we're supposed to be charitable and say "Mesias tapped quick because he wanted to be let free to attack Vampiro", but, uh, no, you just got submitted by La Parka Jr., that's terrible.

Security is pretty week, and Vampiro and Mesias are quickly able to grab each other, but not do much. Crowd is wild for Vampiro. Mesias and Ozz actually get sent to the back first, and hang on the stage to yell and point. Match comes to a half for the moment, and there's a big clip while Vampiro finally gets talked out of the ring. About a minute of downtime there, and the Legion is beating up on Alan and Parka as the cameras turn back to the ring. Konnan goes for Parka's mask. Everyone takes turns suplexing Alan Stone for fun. Well, not Piero, I guess I need to specify that here. Alan is whipped for a Kenzo chair shot, but ducks under and Parka steals the chair away to hit Parka instead. Alan punches Konnan a bit, who then walks over to Parka and presents his back to take the chair shot. He rolls out and sells by walking around on the floor. Alan punches Kenzo in the corner, who slumps down, and that's about all the comeback they're getting. Parka and Alan both get turns for one on one offense with Kenzo. Konnan does little and is out of position on the one dropkick he's supposed to take. Tecnicos double team on Konnan backfires to take out Alan, Parka punches Konnan a bit, and Konnan yanks his mask for the DQ.

Despite not having his mask (Kenzo wears it as a hat for a bit, which is great), Parka just pulls his long hair in front of his face to talk on the mic with Konnan, and then to dance after the match. Doesn't seem to bug him all that much that he doesn't have a mask, though that's the idea.

Video Package: recap of Zorro getting a title shot (Teddy's help is shown here) and the seconds announced.

Match 6: Jack Evans & Teddy Hart vs Chessman & Cibernetico  
Domo de la Feria de Leon, 05/19/08

Winner: Hart Foundation II
Match Time: 7:49
Other Match Notes: Teddy and Jack have USA flags. Zorro gets his entrance. He has a chair, which I guess he's going to use to sit and watch the match, surely. I think the deal is he was supposed to be in here when this was a trios, but this got changed to a tag when Charly got hurt and Zorro's hurting anyway.  Rudo gets kisses from girls in the crowd, gotta be tough to be a rudo. Oh, actually Zorro's going to watch the entrances from inside the ring. Chessman has, by far, the shortest entrance in the whole promotion. Cibernetico has his belt. Hijo de Tirantes is the ref.

Cibernetico has to talk before the match, which is probably for the best. Though I want to see Teddy vs Cibernetico desperately for all the wrong reasons. Oh, he's yelling at Zorro, they probably could've made that a bit clearer. Ciber explains he's the still the main man, and Teddy jumps him from behind to start the match.

After Cibernetico's knocked down in the corner with forearms, both Teddy and Jack rush for Chessman. He's knocked out of the ring, and Jack holds him in place for a Teddy top rope moonsault. Jack comes back in to take care of Cibernetico by himself, and actually surprises him with some kicks to the legs before Teddy comes over to help. Punches. And not much more, which gives us a chance to see Teddy's moonsault again. Jack uses his bandana to choke Cibernetico, which is at least better than a choke. Lots more stomping and choking than we've seen from this team. Cibernetico escapes to the outside, and Chessman comes back in to be worked over. Punches, but a bit more here. Whip, double clothesline. Jack poses on Chessman while Teddy adds a legdrop. Teddy works over Chessman with punches, and take himself and Chessman out with a big clothesline. Jack posts Cibernetico climbing back in, and works him over with kicks as he tries to get thru the ropes. Cibernetico selling for Jack Evans is just odd. Cibernetico's whipped, Jack wheel kick, Cibernetico staggers on his feet (maybe because it kinda missed), and Ted knocks him out of the ring with a dropkick. Jack rushes over to kick Chessman as he comes in. Teddy gets in his STO variant, and spots for Jack's standing corkscrew moonsault. One two NO. Jack and Teddy knocks Chessman out of the ring. Cibernetico back in, and met with punches from Teddy. Unlike with Jack, Cibernetico fights back with punches as his chants get longer. Jack forearms Cibernetico, no sell, and Jack runs when Cibernetico turns around to spot him. Cibernetico backs him in the corner, picks him up and press tosses him. Cibernetico turns to yell at Zorro, and Teddy takes advantage again, forearming him from behind jus as how the match started. Teddy knocks Cibernetico out as Zorro lays his chair inside the ring for a moment. Chessman back in. Whip, Chessman ducks Teddy's clothesline and superkicks Jack. Kick for Teddy, back elbow for Jack, powerbomb on Teddy - no, Jack breaks it up before it going. Teddy picks up Chessman, big double knee backbreaker. Jack adds another standing corkscrew moonsault, both guys cover, one two Cibernetico makes the save. Jacks' stuff all looks really great. Back live, rudos try a double whip strike spot, but the Hell Brothers duck under both and spear both men. Cibernetico and Teddy roll out as Chessman covers Jack. One two foot on the ropes. Chessman can't believe it. Chessman rallies the crowd and sets up for something, but Jack ducks under his running in-ring plancha. Jack misses a dropkick, Chessman blocks a clothesline, scoops him up over his shoulders – Atlántida backbreaker drop! Jack's dragged towards the middle of the ring, now towards a corner. Chessman quick to the top – huge guillotine legdrop! Jack may be dead. Chessman going up again! Moonsault, no one's home! Jack stands and deal, a spinning leg lariat to the head. Chessman out, Jack after him – handspring tornillo con giro! Teddy and Cibernetico back in, and square off. Punch battle. For a brawling guy, Cibernetico has some awful short arm punches here. It's like he's hammering a wall, even though that makes no sense. Teddy looks to be distracted Hijo de Tirantes on the outside, so something's up. Cibernetico gets the better of the punch. Whip, Kick, Stunner. Teddy flips twice after impact, always fun. Cibernetico sys this it, and – sets Teddy on the top rope? Why? Cibernetico looks for a superplex, but Teddy fights him of with an eye poke and punches. Cibernetico drops to the mat, Teddy goes all the way up – Shooting Star Press eats knees! Cibernetico got them up way ahead of time, it wasn't even close. Cibernetico waiting for Teddy to turn around – chokeslam! Zorro in, and chairshotting Cibernetico. He pulls Teddy back – hey, returning the favor – and of course Hijo de Tirantes comes back in just after Zorro leaves. Uno dos tres.

I enjoyed this a lot more than last week's match with the Mexican Powers, and I know that makes no sense. Let's take a moment to note Teddy got the champ beat last week, and beat the champ himself this week, and know that none of this is going anywhere (except in Teddy's mind, for sure.) Prez. Roldan shows up with is his security, so Zorro decides to hit one of them with a chair, while aiming for Roldan. Roldan only escaped because he ducked, fine security that is. Zorro and company leave the ring before anything can be done with it. Meanwhile, off in the background, Chessman and Cibernetico seem to be having an argument about something. Chessman keeps raising his arms about something and shoving Cibernetico. Roldan's cutting a promo about what just happened, and it takes about two minutes for anyone to realize there's a problem with the Hell Brothers. It was so off in the background, it was like they were working their own angle. I guess that's a slow burn. Far more interesting than Zorro talking and Cibernetico talking. Chessman and Cibernetico argue more after Cibernetico talks, and the announcers finally pick up on it.

Lots of replays. I'm still not sure why Chessman is upset there in particular.