CMLL CAN52 GdR - 02/02/08 (#115)
Recap: 02/02/08

Intro: Promos by Los Perros (with Texano doing most of the talking) and Negro Casas (whose forehead is expanding) 

Match 1: Arkangel de la Muerte, Loco Max, Nitro (c) vs Ángel Azteca Jr., Flash, Neutrón (c)
Arena Coliseo, 1/27/08

  1. tecnicos
  2. rudos
  3. rudos

Winner: Rudos (2-1)
Match Time: 8:23
Approx Rating: Baaaad. Even without the injury.
Other Match Notes: No entrances. They've got a new picture of Arkangel, in his Rebeldes gear. Except, part of that gear is a hood and scarf completely covering up his face, making him completely unrecognizable in the identification picture. Do you see the problem there? Loco Max is still shown in a S&M gear he hasn't worn in at least half a year, so I'm thinking MVS doesn't. Loco Max cuts a serious promo (odd!) to talk about the team. Neutron cuts a promo like a guy who isn't used to cutting a promo. Announcers have already forgotten/given up on the Rebeldes idea and are calling the Guerrero Tuareg

1: I think this is Angel Azteca's satellite shows debut, though he's been on Cadena Tres a bit. He and Loco start. Lockup, Azteca gets a waistlock, Loco flips him to the mat with a fireman's carry, Azteca's cover for two, Loco manages to armdrag out. Tags already? Azteca wants more, but Loco is content to tag out. Shpt of the announcers who are, in fact, watching the wrestling match. I'm shocked. Nitro and Neutron. Lockup, Neutron with a waistlock, out into an armbar, Neutron tripped up but pops up with an armdrag, Nitro zero leg trip, they get crossed up both going for zero leg trips, standoff. Nitro hammerlock, Neutron setting himself, back elbow, and jumping snap mare to escape. Nitro's open hand slaps to Neutron's chest ends up hitting him in the head, Nitro's lost for a second but ends up with a full nelson, Neutron reveres to his own, Nitro re-reversed to a waistlock, trip into a pin, cover for zero, both up and slight shoving. Arkangel sticks his two cents in, into that it helps any. Not that Neutron has any other colored gear (except maybe a red/yellow dealio), but it'd probably look better if he wasn't wearing the black and silver the new rudo unit is sporting. Tags to Flask and Arkangel. Flash's gear looks the same as usual, but it may be new material. It looks different on my TV scene, that's what I'm trying to say. Test of strength, which Flash somehow manages to stay even. Arkangel twits it around, Flash flips over his back, kicks away one wristlock, Arkangel falls down before he actually gets hit by a kneelift, Flash spins over him, holds into the wristlock, and walks up the ropes for a rope flip into a headscissors. Is Flash going out? He runs and leaps to the ropes in one bounce, springboard plancha to the ramp. Loco stets up for his own dive, but Angel Azteca cuts him off with a springboard dropkick. Loco goes out, Angel Azteca runs at the corner to flip up and out to the middle rope, but totally gets stuck halfway up. Moonsault is still good. Nitro and Neutron left in, Neutron rallies the crowd a bit, ducks a clothesline, shoulderblock, up the corner, and back with a reverse tope. That's the fall.  

El Baul del Ring: Guillermina Zaroza shows off a collection of match used masks. 

2: Rudos are just starting the beatdown as the show picks up. Angel Azteca takes a double backdrop, and the others are cleared off the apron. Neutron's brought back in the ring. Arkangel and Nitro hold Neutron so his legs are resting on the top rope, and call Loco Max back from beating up Angel Azteca to come help. Loco Max tucks Angel Azteca's feet under the middle rope, so Neutron's calves are now threaded thru the top two ropes. This is a bad idea, and Loco realizes his mistake and starts to correct it, but Arkangel is now alone holding Neutron upper body so Nitro can come off the middle rope with a splash, and Neutron's legs are at a harder angle to adjust. Loco fixes Neutron's left leg (on screen right), but Nitro splashes Neutron before the right leg is freed. Neutron's right leg is tied in the ropes, with the knot just above his ankle, and the rest of his body is hanging from that ankle. The rudos and the referees quickly work to untie Neutron, but he's in obvious high pain. Neutron actually starts crawling towards the entrance, across the ring, before he's stopped and the doctor and a referee look on him. Meanwhile, the rudos are cleaning up on the other two, and we a replay of the splash. Rudos don't get pinned - tecnicos actually go outside, presumably to draw the fight there for a minute. As usual, the rudos attack the injured guy, though it looks like Arkangel hits Neutron's left/not-hurt ankle. After they get the stretcher away from Arkangel, Neutron's put on it and carried out (thought hey can't figure out which way to go at first.) Flash is pinned (mostly off camera) thrown down in the aisle and Angel Azteca is beat up alone in the ring. Arkangel gives him a low blow looking middle rope elbow drop to finish him off, and they decide to call that he fall.

El Arte de Catch: Valagueza 

Two foreign female fans are interviewed.

Inmortales: Rayo de Jalisco Jr. vs Cien Caras, mask vs mask, 09/21/1990 - I don't actually mind this, as much as I usually mind this interruptions, because I feel like this is just taking filling time for the next fall going short. And seeing Cien Caras have to try and go thru a mob of fans to try and get the back is kinda amazing. I could do without the old TV frame. I know it's old, Rayo is approaching "in shape." The Corona ad was just on the side of the ring in 1990.  (2:35)

3: Beatdown continues. Azteca is theoretically set up to be flapjacked onto Loco Max's knees, but no one but Nitro and Loco Max appear to know that's the plan and it falls apart. Arkangel is held on the outside for a Loco Max thru the ropes dropkick, which doesn't actually come close to hitting. A replay helpfully illustrates that fact. This is is a bad match. Flash somehow blocks a double corner whip, I guess because someone's not ready. Nitro trips him and crotches him on the post, and this week, that's a DQ.

Rudos decide to beat up Flash and Azteca some more. Nitro gives Azteca a low blow kneelift and Loco stomps him low.  

El Diseno: Ephesto, who over dramatically rants thru this.

Match 2: Damián 666, Héctor Garza (c), Texano Jr. vs Blue Panther (c), Marco Corelone, Negro Casas
Arena Coliseo, 1/27/08

  1. Perros
  2. tecnicos
  3. tecnicos

Winner: tecnicos (2-1)
Match Time: 10:01
Approx Rating: Had it's moments, mostly the usual.
Other Match Notes: Dubbed entrances. Panther has a white mask with blue only on the Panther part, and it looks better the other way. He does a laid back promo. Perros come out separate. Damian does the promo for his team, no one does it for the other team. No Marco? 

1: Rudos jump the tecnicos just before the whistle. Brawling. Texano battles Corelone a lot. Negro and Damian blow a corner whip. This is not a good week! Announcers randomly plug ESTO in here. Nothing much more notable besides the finish, with Hector and Damian holding Panther up for Texano to drive him down. Panther does not move after being pinned and a referee waves help over. Whatever happened wasn't as obvious as the last one.  

Q: [Damian 666] ?Quien Desenmascaro a Ultraman 2000?

another El Baul del Ring segment, which includes a mask Oro wore days before his death.

A: Psicosis

2: Beatdown continues. Corelone takes the slingshot/catapult, slingshot senton combo. Garza adds a hard kick to the back when Corelone's whipped into the ropes, and the rudo fans ask for another. Instead, Corelone ducks a double clothesline, socks Garza with a left hand punch, leapfrogs over Aguila, Damián and Texano, and sets his partners up to suplex those two. Corelone leaps over the rope with a plancha onto Garza, which is mighty impressive. His partners easily finish things in the ring. Damian gets a powerbomb for hanging around the ring too long, and Negro puts him in a sharpshooter for no particular reason.

El Arte de Catch: headscissors. They seem to be repeating the basic things. 

3: Negro and Garza start, with Negro knocking down Garza just They show the graphic for the fall. Negro boots Garza out of the ring, and he decided to pick a fight with the cameraman instead. Inside, Damian takes a kneebreaker and tries to explain this as a low blow. Not so much, though it was more up the thigh anyway. Damian recovers enough to mockingly do Corelone's bit, not realizing Corelone is now standing right behind him. Corelone does something for the ladies that we don't get to see - twice! Kick to Damian, whip, leapfrog, leapfrog, stop sign (Alex files a complaint), left hand ducked, Damian congratulates himself on ducking, left hand does not miss. Texano rushes in and kicks Corelone in the back of the leg. Hip swivel by Texano! Corner whip, Corelone leaps to the top rope, back with a plancha, Texano tries a kick, it's caught and he's spun, Corelone left hand punch misses again, Texano makes the same mistake of celebrating, and Corelone punches him in the back of the head, knocking Texano out of the ring. Garza comes in and tries to make peace by clapping for Corelone. Arm raised! Garza going to turn on him? No, he escorts Corelone to his corner so he can tag out to Panther. Ha! Panther comes in, and Garza makes fun of his height, and then the Blue Panther chant. While they show the rabid fans (including the blond ringleader doing Shocker's bit for some reasons), Garza knocks Panther down. Panther comes back with a few armdrags, but, Damián breaks up an attempt at a submission. Both rudos hold Panther in the corner and unite his mask for a bit, but Panther rallies back form a corner whip, kicking Damian and using Hector to headscissors Damian. Hector stops that with a loud kick to Panther's thigh, and Texano makes fun of Panther's hobbled collapse from the apron. Crowd rallies for Panther while Garza chops him hard in the corner. Corner whip, reversed, Panther charges in, Garza backdrops him , Panther comes down with a headscissors. Damian back in and cutting Panther off with punches and chops. Garza slowly wanders over to join them, and connects on a kick tot he midsection. Panther grabs Garza and starts yanking the tights, but Garza fixes them in time. Panther is walked across the ring for no particular reason, and they kill time in that corner for a bit. Corner whip, Damian whipped in, Panther backdrops him to the apron, Garza in, and his kick connects. Damian tries to hold Panther, Garza kicks again, and Damian takes it instead. That happens a lot to tot he Perros. Negro tries to help out, but Garza lifts him to the apron and tries to shove him off - of course, this turns into a silla on Damian. Garza ends up throwing himself out on a missed corner charge, and Panther follows with a tope. Texano and Corelone are left alone. Corelone leapfrogs once more, Texano waistlock him, then shoves him off, right into the ref left in the ring. Corelone turns to look at the ref, and Texano has no problem foul kicking him. Texano stairs the ref, but he got pretty hard. Texano turns back to Corelone, Corelone uppercut fouls him, then punches him in the face to be sure. Those were quite some good punches. My picture actually goes out for a second here, but it's back in time to see the referee count three.

Julio Cesar interviews referee Tigre Hispano, who says he only saw a pinfall and nothing more.

Replays, and that's it.