AAA on Televisa #970 (12/25/2010) 
Recapped: 12/26/10

Six sided ring because it's a big show. Too bad the fans didn't believe the same.

Match 1: Aerostar, El Elegido, Octagón vs Alan Stone, Chris Stone, Super Fly in a street fight
Auditorio Benito Juarez, Zapopan, Jalisco, 12/05/2010

Winner: Alan Stone, Chris Stone, Super Fly
Match Time: 10:15 (1:38+6:10+2:17)
Rating: eh.
Notes: Entrances. Elegido has monks, alter boys and a nun in short pants. Weird staggered entrances – Elegido is followed by the rudos (all at once, no separate entrance for Super Fly.) Aerostar does the Abismo Negro fire bit, though he needs a bit more practice. Also, Super Fly attacks him when he's doing it the second time, which is probably a poor idea. Octagon is a slight hurry to the ring when his friends are being attacked but Super Fly still punish him out on the way out. Super Fly is wearing his black outfit, which he actually was wearing as a técnico but who cares. Copetes is referee.

Rudo beat down, with chairs and brawling right away. This goes thru the first segment and well into the second. Rudos rip up masks and Octagon bleeds from a chair shot to the head (though he gets the hand up.) Fuerza Guerrera's name gets dropped when talking about Octagon rivals. Rudos eventually start doing tag team moves. Crowd is making noise, but the match is every beatdown they do, just longer and supposedly more server. Is Aerostar going to take the backwards press slam to the floor in every match? That seems like a really bad idea.

After the second break, Octagon casually moves out of the way of a corner charge to start the comeback. Quebrada on Alan, Aerostar springboard headscissors on Chris, and Alan just ends the run when an Atlantida into a side backbreaker That was absurd. Elegido gets in his offense, but Alan stops him with a big boot too. Aerostar – called Super Fly by Arturo! - takes out Chris with a top rope tope con giro to the floor. Elegido gets Alan with a tope. Super Fly and Octagon in, and Super Fly begs off. Crowd is unnaturally loud here – like I'm having trouble believing the noise. Super Fly bumps big for all of Octagon's moves, including a punch to the face, then blatantly uppercut fouls him. One two Super Fly stops covering three. Super Fly did realize a bit late that he should still cover.

Aerostar attacks Super Fly, but Super Fly takes him down and goes after his mask. Alan throws Elegido and returns to the ring to help stomp Octagon. Chris takes Aerostar out side and beats him. Super Fly unmasks Octagon and the rudos rip up the mask. Elegido crawls back in to cover up Octagon, so the rudos stomp both of them for a while.

Dr. Wagner and Psycho Circus talk backstage. Wagner tells them that they're the best, and the Clowns are going to squash the Perros, and Wagner is going to observe. I think they're doing the union bit after editing out the last version.

Zorro rants to Zorro.

Match 2: Dr. Wagner Jr. vs Zorro for the AAA World Heavyweight Championship
Auditorio Benito Juarez, Zapopan, Jalisco, 12/05/2010

Winner: Zorro
Match Time: 13:33 (1:18+6:52+5:09+0:14)
Rating: a waste
Notes: Konnan is with Zorro. Dr. Wagner has a nurse and Joaquin. The nurse would be a better second. Wagner also has four or five different people jumping the rail to hang out with him. Security misses the first three, who all end up right in front of the camera. Hijo de Tirantes is ref. Zorro has a new red/yellow outfit that's similar to the Messi jersey he's been wearing as of late. Konnan brought a bat to the match, because there was a danger there wouldn't be a weapon in play. Most distracting part of the match is a cameraman who climbs up on the top rope to shot the match, occasionally getting in the way of spots.

They do the whole serious belt photo and rule discussion, and then Konnan is walking in the ring and breaking up submissions with in the first three minutes of the match. Even Zorro is appalled at that. Konnan returns moments later to break up a standing surfboard, and Joaquin menaces him with the stick. Zorro tries to talk to Konnan about maybe picking his posts, but I don’t believe Konnan understands that concepts. In the meantime, Wagner grabs a chair, and does nothing with it. They lookup, Zorro ends up with a cloverleaf, and Joaquin breaks it up with a cane shot. Tirantes teases a DQ, but Wagner ignored him at first, then threatens to hit him. Zorro breaks that up and goes for Wagner's mask. Zorro switches it up and goes for the cane. Shot to the ribs, shot to the head. Zorro slingshot dropkick is completely botched. Wagner moved, but Zorro tripped over the ropes. Wagner goes up, and falls off the top rope for a splash. Konnan breaks that up. Wagner slams Zorro, climbs up, clip, and Zorro is covering Wagner. EDITING! Joaquin breaks it up, and then he and Konnan discuss. Break.

Zorro & Wagner exchange chops and clotheslines for a bit, knocking each other out, before La Milicia run out. There may be another clip before they show up It's Decnnis, Chris, Alan, and Billy, but they're met by some well aimed flying drinks, and security (with Gran Apache). Konnan and Joaquin come into the ring, maybe to get away from the drinks as anything. Joaquin somehow has the bat, and hits Konnan in the ribs with it. Meanwhile, Tirantes kicks the cane over to Zorro, and he javelins Wagner as he gets back up. Kick to the ribs. Chop, chop. Corner whip, reversed, Zorro kips up and out, Zorro belly to belly overhead suplex, one two no. Corner whip, reversed, Wagner clotheslines, Zorro whipped the other way for another clothesline, Wagner puts Zorro up top and pulls him off with a cutter. Hey, when they're actually getting to do multiple moves in a row, it's not bad. Wagner waves to the crowd and kicks Zorro in the head, knocks him out of the ring. Wagner after him with the apron tope con giro, as usual. Dorian slides in the ring to check on Konnan, and he and Joaquin have a shoving match. Arturo loses his mind. Joaquin shoves down Dorian, but Milicia and security get in the middle of them. Marisela shakes her head in her seat. Both sides walk of their Roldan, but the Milica storm the ring for some reason. Wagner has the bat – bat to Billy, bat to Decnnis' ribs as he comes off the top rope, kick and bat to Alan's head, shot to Chris. Yet another obvious clip, and Zorro is on his knees, ready to receive his bat shot. Wagner pulls back to swing, but Tirantes pulls ti away and Zorro knocks him down from behind again. Whip, Zorro puts his head down too soon, Wagner kicks it, and Zorro runs into hiptoss. Clothesline by Wagner, clotheslines by Wagner, Wagner all fired up. Another kick try by Zorro, another Dragon screw. Zorro tries again, and meets the same fate. Break.

Wagner off the ropes, Wagner hits him in the back with the bat, Zorro rolls him up fast one two three before Joaquin can break it up. What a horrible finish in a bad match with some bad editing to come back just for 10 seconds.

Joaquin grabs Tirantes, whips him to the ropes, and knocks him down with a bad clothesline. It does get a crowd reaction, but this all looks so minor league. The edecanes bring the title belt back out, which is a great bit for another match. Wagner can't understand that he lost. Zorro gets the title and poses with it some. Apache hits the ring to argue with Tirantes again. Zorro poses with the belt a lot. Look at all those empty seats. Zorro climbing the light tower to pose really frames those empty seats. Zorro gets a long celebration, and his music repeats many times. Replays.

Ultimo Gladiador and Silver Kain rant. It's a great day for them. Electroshock is in the trash, and Heavy Metal should watch to see why he'll join. UG says they'll keep the titles.

Match 3: Silver Kain & Último Gladiador vs Joe Lider & Nicho el Millionario and El Ilegal & Hernandez for the AAA World Tag Team Championship in a ladder match
Auditorio Benito Juarez, Zapopan, Jalisco, 12/05/2010

Winner: Silver Kain & Último Gladiador
Match Time: 16:32 (3:08+6:57+3:58+2:29)
Rating: ok! Not a botch fest for once. I would not watch it again but nothing wrong.
Notes: Copetes and Tirantes are the referees, because you clearly need two rudo referees for this match. Belts are hung above the ring. And they wait all the way until the whistle to brawl.

Six way brawl. Nicho still has a short hair cut, but his slingshot tope con giro looks good. After that, they settle down to two people fighting in the ring and the other four people hanging outside, which at least makes it easier to follow. Silver Kain slides a ladder in, but Lider goes outside of the ring to dramatically hold it up, and Ilegal dropkick it back into his chest. Joe Lider, moron. Wait a minute here, aren't Ilegal and Hernandez and Silver and Gladiador all in the same faction? They don't seem to know this! First segment comes and goes without anyone making an actual attempt at climbing the ladder.

Silver Kain gets to do the Terry Funk spinning around with a ladder around your head bit, good for him. Ultimo Gladiador manages not to get hit, but then does a flying legdrop onto a ladder in a way, landing on the ladder in such a way I can't believe his leg didn't become trapped inside. Maniacos attempt to actually win the match by climbing the ladder, but it just ends with Nicho giving Gladiador a cutter from the ladder. Rudo teams are generally avoiding fighting each other since the opening, but that's more because everything is built around 187 doing wacky spots ladder spots. Like setting up a legdrop splash combo on Hernandez instead of actually getting the belts, and Lider riding the ladder down onto Ilegal, and such. Gladiador piledrivers Nicho, so I guess that spot is back. Oh, wait, the rudos are fighting now, Ilegal moonsaulting Gladiador on a ladder. Gladiador seems to be taking 100% of the painful bits for his team. Lider and Ilegal fight on the ladder while both referees hold the ladder. Maybe one day they can get some decent ladders here? Lider knocks Illegal off, but Hernandez powerbombs him anyway. Break #2!

Tirantes already was pulling at 187 when they climbed the ladder, but now even more so. Nicho and Hernandez fight on the ladder, with Hernandez climbing up to the top step, but being thrown off painfully off into a table. That was a spectacular fall. Tirantes can't get the table shards out, so ring crew comes into the ring to pull it out while the luchadors are still doing spots in the meantime. Silver King spears Lider off the ladder. They really could use some replays of these spots. Crowd reacts to Electroshock's music, huh. The man comes out with a black outfit. Punch for Gladiador. Point at Silver. Silver charges, gets speared. Electro brings a chair, and hits Silver's head hard. Chair tossed at Gladiador, and he's powerbombed down. Security storms the ring to get Ultimo Gladiador, because we can'ts have turn-ins in our matches. Electroshock argues this and it takes four people to drag him to the back. BREAK #3.

Ilegal sets his good friend Silver King on a table, climbs up a light tower, and does a senton con giro thru Silver (though more thru the table next to him.) 187 lay out the other two. Lider sets up the ladder next to the ropes, nowhere near the belt, and tries to jump off to splash Hernandez thru his second table of the last ten minutes. Lider must slip or something, because he comes down feet first, hits the apron on the way down, and sort of elbow drops Hernandez. Lider grabs his shin on the ground. Nicho stats climbing, but Ultimo Gladiador breaks ti up. Tirantes tells him to beat up Nicho, and he'll set up the ladder. Gladiador drops Nicho with a Michinoku Driver, sets up the ladder, and Nicho just gets back up and climbs the other side. I'm not even sure it's Nicho's fault for not bothering to sell – UG shouldn't have given him such a big move if Nicho was required to pop up a few seconds later to continue the match. They fight each other from the top rungs, Gladiador starts to untie the belts, Nicho gets back up, Tirantes TACKLES him, and Ultimo Gladiador gets the belts.

UG celebrates with both belts. Nicho raises his arm? Huh. Someone's strechered out, and AAA does their best to hide it. Presumably Lider, since he's not around ringside. Lots of replays.

Music video. Done.