AAA on Televisa #988 (04/30/2011) 
Recapped: 04/30/11

Previously: Jack & Tiger beat the Maniacos in a non-title match, Tiger won the Rey de Reyes when half the teams were counted out, Perro beat Wagner and Cibernético cut up some gear.

Flashing Record Light Camera brings us Cibernético talKing to his friend, a Parka mask on a mannequin head. Styrofoam, from the noise makes as Cibernético pats it.

Match 1: Angelico, Argenis, Fenix vs Dark Dragon, Polvo de Estrellas, Tito Santana
Domo de la Feria de Leon, 03/21/2011

Winner: técnicos
Match Time: 8:03
Rating: fun.
Notes: No entrances, joined at the whistle. Pepe is ref. Angelico (“Spanish Sensation!”) is our old friend from IWRG, with Veneno to work with him. Rudos start a rudos chant.

Angelico and Polvo have a brief opening, long enough for the announcers to hype Angelico but not long enough for them to accomplish anything. Tags to Fenix and Dark Dragon. They get a little longer, enough for both to get in a move, Dragon to chest slap Fenix down and point to the crowd for a bit, and Fenix to jump off Dark Dragon's shoulder into a headscissors. That was neat. Argenis and Tito in after the next clip. Pólvora helps out, by failing a lot. Announcers talking about Cibernético and Parka's mask. Argenis' behind the back faceslam is different, and Tito rolls out after a superkick. We actually get to see the tag this time, Angelico tagging Argenis and Dark Dragon coming in for the rudos. Chop vs kick battle. Off the ropes evasion bits sets up Angelico high kick from the mat; I think I remember him doing that before. Something with Angelico and Polvo is completely edited out, though we get to see a lot of standing around after. Action picks up with Fenix running into a belly to belly suplex into the corner buckle, which is crazy. Polvo adds a dropkick to the face, and Tito rushes into smack Fenix down. This is the técnico corner Fenix got thrown to, but his partners are fine just letting Fenix get killed in front of them. Fenix dragged back to the rudo corner for a superbomb, and then finally Argenis comes in (because it's his turn to be hit.) One more replays of that belly to belly. Argenis takes a flapjack, from Tito, then Dark Dragon stops on his back, ducks and get a knee to the back. Argenis dropkick Argenis back as he's facing the corner, which seems an odd way to go. Angelico kicks as he's in. Polvo spears him. Announcers talk about the tag title match to come. Angelico set up in the middle of the ring, Dark Dragon tries a dropkick, Angelico moves, Dark Dragon crashes and burns, Angelico spin heel kicks Polvo, but misses a senton con giro on Dark Dragon. Tito decides to jump off the top rope onto Angelico, but Angelico rolls out of the way of that. Fenix miss a springboard dive, Polvo misses a splash, Angelico misses a springboard splash. Everyone's down and getting repositioned. Fenix kicks Dragon from the apron, and springboard dropkicks him out. Dive time? Yes, his reverse tope. Argenis gives Polvo a bad headscissors, and follows out with a springboard moonsault. Tito sets up for his own dive, but Angelico and his kicks are waiting for him. Kick to the midsection, sort of an enzugiri kick to the head, which defies physics and causes Tito to fall out the ring. Angelico tries to get the crowd behind him, and then does the old Fuego fosbery flop dive out of the ring – like a lesser version of the same dive Fenix just did. Oh well. Dark Dragon and Fenix back in, Dark Dragon flapjack into a powerbomb! One two NO. I don't know you beat that. Corner whip, quick reverse by Fenix into a fireman's drop, hop to the rope, that's it sign, flying double knee drop to the face, one two three. Crowd approves. They should.

Rey de Reyes title match recap. Tiger gets to cut his promo (well, just his line) in this vignette, which is better than the PPV alone.

Extreme Tiger says he's happy winning the Rey de Reyes to honor Antonio Pena, and hopes he and Jack Evans can win the tag team titles to honor the Aztec people. Sangre will be touched!

Upcoming shows – still just thru 04/30

Metal vs Electroshock recap.

Match 2: Silver King & Último Gladiador vs Extreme Tiger & Jack Evans for the AAA World Tag Team Championship
Domo de la Feria de Leon, 03/21/2011

Winner: Extreme Tiger & Jack Evans 
Match Time: 9:41
Rating: good!
Notes: No entrances. Piero is ref

Rudos rush the técnicos as the whistle. Double elbow for Warrior, and Tiger is chindropped on the apron. Back to Jack – whip, dropkick to the knees, flips him, and Silver flips UG on top for a moonsault splash. Silver fights of Tiger as UG covers (and get two), and then holds Tiger over the middle rope for a UG guillotine legdrop. SK drapping spinning DDT, UG covers with a foot on the bottom rope, one two Piero objects to that cheating. UG not a fan of that decision. Silver King dropkick Jack out. Clip? Yep, Jack is back up on the apron, Tiger is whipped to him, Jack holds on to his partner, Tiger superkicks Silver, and Jack springboard spinning heel toe kicks Gladiador. Tiger headscissors Silver out, and he and UG regroup in the ring. Técnicos sliding dropkick them both, and land stereo Asai moonsaults! Lots of replays, they're good on replaying high spots today. Piero is counting a bit fast, with Tiger and Piero making it back in at 16.

Another crowd shot clip. Tiger springboard moonsaults into Silver, who catches him. Tiger slips behind and shoves him into the corner. Silver charges out, Tiger fends him off, but Silver whips Tiger into the corner. Tiger ducks under a corner slap, kicks Silver, and throws him down by the back of his head. Tiger grabs the top rope, takes a look at Silver, and rope flip sentons onto the champ. May not be the intended move, but Tiger goes with it. Cover, UG runs in and walks over Tiger to break up the pin. Jack in, Jack eats a superkick. Silver & Tiger out as UG slaps Jack into the ropes. Whip, Jack springboard flips to escape, flip under a clothesline, and front flip dropkick to knock UG down. Jack stands on UG's chest, standing twisting moonsault meets knees! Lots of replays of that. Jack now at the apron when they come back, fighting off UG and springboard in with double knees to the chest. Standing tornillo lands this time, but Silver rushes into break up the pin. Silver slaps Jack in the back. Whip, double drop toe hold, roll, double dropkick to the face one two NO. UG knocks Jack to the floor.

Clip again. Técnicos on the outside, and Silver positions them – UG Asai tornillo onto both. Piero counts a bit slower this time. Maniacos make it back easily, but the técnicos are in trouble. Tiger rolls in to beat the count, but Silver King pulls him to the mat and rips at his mask. Tiger's mask is ripped pretty good, exposing about half his face. That doesn’t seem to happen him much, but Silver pulls him around by the torn mask. Tiger lifted onto Silver's shoulders, spun off into a gutbuster, one two NO. Silver loudly complains about the count, getting nowhere. Tag to UG, who rushes to the middle rope, shouts and drops Tiger with a flying front cracker. One two NO. UG is frustrated. Replay of that, and now Jack has come in to try to help, only to be hit. Tiger out. UG hands off to Silver King, who slaps Jack loudly. Corner clothesline, corner kick to the chest, Jack set up top, Silver King pulls him off over his shoulder, and drops him forward for a inverted powerslam. One two NO. Rudos are getting annoyed. Tag back to UG, he yells, and drops Jack with a seated powerbomb one two Tiger dropkick UG in the head to break it up. Tiger gets in one scream before Silver dropkicks him too. Jack leads Tiger chants from the apron as the rudos whip him. Tiger escapes a hiptoss and lands a dropkick on UG. Both guys are down, Silver walks around, them misses a senton on Tiger. Tiger off the ropes, back with a – uh, spinning headscissors? They should've edited that one while they were at it. Tiger ends up falling on top of Silver King as they both fall to the mat, but stops covering to roll to his corner and tag Jack. Jack in and fired up. Mid kicks to both guys. Jack's kick caught by UG, which sets up an enziguri on Silver. UG reacts quick and stomps both técnicos. UG is very hyper in this match, bouncing all over the place. Announcers, who've talked about a lot of history in this match, randomly talk about the Familia de Tijuana. Not the Halloween/Damian one (they did that earlier), but the one with TJ Extreme! There is context, but it's better without one. Rudos go for big moves, técnicos roll them both up, rudos just escape a second before time. Silver slams Tiger, UG piledrives Jack (?!?!), Silver slams Tiger, and UG top rope legdrops him. Double cover one two NO. At least one announcer is wondering why there wasn't a DQ there. Silver and UG go up again, but the Jack and Tiger catch up to them. Jack hangs UG in a tree of woe and drops double knees on him from the top, while Tiger does something to Silver King that the camera miss, but its most likely an inverted 'rana. Técnicos pull the rudos into position and go up again – Jack 630 senton, Tiger 450 splash one two three.

Crowd gives the champs a round of applause Jack runs around ringside hugging people and posing. Titles are brought to the ring after the match, by a ring girl, who hand them to Joaquin, who hands them to the local box y lucha commissioner, who gives them winners the belts. Maniacos have slunk away.

The Maniacos, backstage (where backstage is clearly a well lit portion of the AAA offices but roll with it), freak out about losing to the titles. Dorian and Konnan will be ticked! Chessman interrupts Silver & Gladiador to let them know Dorian and Konnan are indeed very angry about this and falling to recruit Electroshock. Chessman, however, is bringing an offer to help them redeem themselves. I'm very afraid when Chessman has plans.

TripleMania promo. Why does it end with a ring bell when there's never a ring bell?

Jesus Z sets up another vignette – someone has sent chickens (?) to La Parka's house. This is another hilarious Cibernético prank. Clip to later, where Cibernético drives by to let us know that it was him. In both of these, La Parka and someone with him (a brother?) are only shown from the back. I guess that's why we needed Jesus to set this up.

Perros vs Psycho Circus/Wagner recap.

Match 3: Dr. Wagner Jr. & El Mesías vs Damián 666 & LA Park
Domo de la Feria de Leon, 03/21/2011

Winner: Dr. Wagner Jr. & El Mesías
Match Time: 21:42
Rating: another brawl
Notes: No entrances for this one either, joined at the whistle.. Piero is ref.

Rudos rush the técnicos, again. La Park is in a blue dominated outfit instead of his usual black. It looks very weird. Brawl to start, Park paring off with Wagner (instead of Mesías.) Bestia 666 is at ringside and helping Dad choke the Puerto Rician. Mesías is slowly crotched on the post. Wagner and park battle into the crowd and into the grandstand. Bet they won't be counted out! I guess the other two are close enough in to prevent the count. No handheld camera keeping up with arena travelers, but the crane camera works pretty well. Family 666 continue to work over Mesías in the ring as Wagner & Park take their scenic trip around Leon. Park picks up a chair along the way back to the ring. Mesías gets a moment of offense, but Bestia trips him up and Park is back to hit Mesías in the back with a chair. Rudos trade off. Damian unties Wagner's mask as he holds him in the corner, then whips him into a Park chair shot. Strut! Brawling. Park sets up Wagner on the top rope so he can go for the mask too. Bestia gets in more shots on Mesías. Mesías is run into a chair face first. Hard to get into this action as meaningful much when I know there's still about 20 minutes left in this show. Park drags Mesías over to the crowd and taunts Marisela Pena. Someone in the group gets into an argument Park – the young skinny man that's always with them – but they actually miss the setup. (Replay is shown later, where Marisela threw a drink at Park.) He also throws a drink at Park, and Park tries to go in the crowd after him. Piero and security is in between to keep them apart, though Park does get in a shove before he's pulled away. Beatdown continues, with Damian holding Wagner in a abdominal stretch for lack off anything to do. Bestia comes in for the flying fist, which is not totally on target. Break.

TripleMania teaser.

I bet the comeback happens within 25 seconds. Park teaches Bestia how to do the strut, then whips him into the flying sit – only Mesías has changed places and with Damian, and the rudo takes it. (Even faster than it though!) Mesías clotheslines Bestia out, then Mesías and Park about a headscissors before it happens. They just hold onto each other, back up, and try it again. Wagner Dragon screw on Damian, quebradora con giro on Bestia, dragon screw on Park. Wagner teases it, then rips Park's mask by his eye hole. Park's mask rips pretty easily once you get it started. Is Park's head red? Whip, and Mesías takes out Park with a chair to the head. (Hands up.) Técnicos pose. Crowd shot. Clip?

Jesus Z is now talking about Shane Sewell. A lot of prep time this week on looking up title histories! Park and Wagner are exchanging chops. Actually, it's all just Park for four, then Wagner pays each one back. Wagner must not be able to count, because he gives Park ten. Wagner grabs Park's leg, tags Mesías, and Mesías kicks the leg. Wagner start to leave, then runs for the ropes, bounces off, and into a Park clothesline. That was odd! Wagner rolls out anyway. Mesías is baffled. So am I! Wagner comes in, and yells at Park. Park punches him, and Wagner just fires up. Both stop to listen to the crowd, who makes a lot of noise (“WAGNER!” and so on) and then suddenly cuts out. Mark down another clip.

Wagner is covering Parka, but Damian breaks it up. Damian chops just cause Wagner to walk around a bunch. More of them causes Wagner to touch Damian's nipples, naturally. Announcers are into saying English names of moves this week, though I'm pretty sure they just called a back elbow “superkick.” Mesías covers, but Damian breaks it up. Damian off the ropes, Mesías puts his had down too soon, Damian throws him down by it. Damian charges, right into a Mesías powerslam. La Park has to break up that cover with a kick to the head. Looks like it should be Mesías/Park now, but next thing we see is Wagner/Park. Facing off. Wagner headlock, shot off, clothesline misses, back elbow misses, big spinning kicks misses, and Wagner knocks over Park with a running clothesline. Announcers decide it's a spear, despite being a clothesline. Wagner lets Mesías stumbles to his feet and takeover. Park whips Mesías into the corner, Park runs into a double kick, Mesías out with a sunset flip, Damian tries to break that up and Wagner gets him with a sunset flip, kickouts all over the place. Wagner is more concerned with getting a fan chant than anything else, of course. Double inside cradles by the técnicos, double kick outs. Técnico headlocks, shot off into each other, and the rudos set up the Star. Wagner beaks out of that with a kick to Park's head. Rudos still keep control. Corner whips again, Mesías clotheslines Bestia, park gets Mesías, Wagner gets Park, and a shining wizard for good measure. Park goes out, Wagner to the apron after him, pose, waiting for Park to turn around, walking tope con giro to the floor. Damian and Mesías let in. Damian and anyone next ends well for Damian, so good move to do a tope onto Wagner here. Piero not subtly holds the ropes apart as Mesías adds his own slow tope. That was amazingly non subtle. Bestia stomps Mesías on the outside, and Park grabs a chair. Park measure Mesías, looks around and pulls back the chair – where Piero pulls it away from him. Piero tosses the chair behind him, in the ring. Meanwhile, in the ring, Damian tries a sunset flip on Wagner, but Wagner grabs the chair and smacks Bestia in the head. Wagner sets up the chair in the middle of the ring. I guess Piero is cool with it now? Damian reverses, and Wagner is drop toe holded into the chair. Parka and Bestia beat up Mesías on the outside. Park back in and slamming Wagner. Park lays a the chair on top, and both guys go to the middle rope. Dual flying headbutts miss, when Wagner rolls out of the way, of course. Wagner inside cradle on Damian, one two Park breaks it up. Park kicks Wagner, Damian holds, Wagner, Park kicks his partner. Wagner casita on Park, Damian breaks it up. I'm ready for this one to be done. Damian sets up Wagner in front of Park, Wagner of course moves, Damian chops his partner, Wagner covers, Park breaks it up again with a stomp. How many broken pins do we need? Wagner running up the ropes tornado DDT, Damian breaks it up. Anytime you want to join us, Mesías. Bestia does appear to be hitting him on the outside. Double spinebuster for Wagner, two man tapatia. Mesías finally crawls in, Bestia grabbing him by the legs and puling him back. Mesías kicks him away way for a third time , and then turns to punch Bestia instead of breaking it up. Finally Mesías sneaks in the tapatía for a pin, getting the rudos to let go on a kickout. Bestia steps in, fouls Mesías (kind of) and Park kicks Mesías out of the ring. Wouldn't want to pin him, I guess. Two man faceslam, Wagner kicks out of that two. Crowd has really lost it's steam. Park argues with Piero. Whip spot leads to Park hitting Damian for the fifth or sixth time. Wagner enziguri on Park, and he's slid out on his chest (Park doing much of it on his own.) Kick, Wagner Driver on Damian, one two three. Hooray.

La Milicia rush the ring, and beat up Wagner. Hey, Jennifer. Park and and Bestia pull Mesías away from the ring and work him over. Damian is still down in the ring, though no one much are. Park gives Mesias a martiente, which causes him to shake and stuff. Probably will keep him down for about as long as that piledriver in the tag title match. Announcers, who may just be reading off wikipedia tonight, talk about Abismo Negro. La Parka rushes to the ring, with the Dark Family. Milica can't decide if they're supposed to run or get beat, and decide to do a little but of both. They're gone quick. La Parka talks about being part of the AAA group. Wagner talks about how great AAA is and gets bleeped. Both Parka & Wagner are great leaders, and so is Marsela Pena. Blah blah blah blah blah, Wagner literally repeating himself before mentioning the “Psycho Clowns” in his group. Hooray it's done.

Crowd shots, but not even time for replays of the music video. Announcers tell us about Pachuca next week – good luck on that!