CMLL CAN52 GdR - 04/05/08 (#124)
Recap: 06/07/08
Open: Olimpico
You know, when the women’s match looks iffy even in the opening highlights, that’s a bad sign.
Intro: Promos by V3 & 4 and Dos, debating the ownership of this house.
Outside the Ring: Mr. Aguila, part 1
El Baul del Ring, before any action starts. Tip off!
Match 1: Hiroka (c), Mima Shimoda, Rosa Negra vs Dark
Angel (c), Goddess, Luna Mágica
Arena Mexico, 03/28/08
Winner: tecnicas (2-1)
Match Time: 7:34
Approx Rating: not as bad as I feared
Other Match Notes: This lineup = Uh oh. No entrances.
1: Clip to start too, joined just as Luna is making a comeback on Rosa Negra. That doesn’t last long, for which we’re fortunate. Dark Angel/Mima are face passed, though Dark Angel is faster. Hiroka helps out after her partner is thrown out, but stakes a springboard headscissors and a float around DDT. Even though Hiroka ends up laying on the ramp, Dark Angel still teases a dive. Goddess and Rosa in next. You don’t see may kick, off the ropes, spinning neckbreaker sequences in Mexico, but Goddess gets it done here. Unfortunately, she tries again and gets it reveres in to a back suplex. Hiroka clears off the tecnica apron to start a beatdown. Dark Angel isolated in the ring for the double choke, which the camera seems to totally miss. Kick, double suplex into a neat triple powerbomb for the win. That was pretty cool – Hiroka caught Dark Angel’s legs as the other two started to fall back on the suplex and repositioned her, then they all dropped her hard to the mat.
2 Beatdown continues. Once again, Luna’s sequence is just finishing up as they join in, and Luna Magica taking a double boot is very much covered up by a graphic. Goddess is brought in, and everyone pounds her on the back then tosses her up and down in the air before just letting her drop on the mat. Simple enough. Dark Angel in, Dark Angel thrown by her hair out. Luan back in, and she takes a corner clothesline, then is whipped out into a drop toe hold so Rosa can add her missile dropkick. Everyone pose. Sarah in again, but she backdrops Rosa Negra away on the corner charge, and leads the other two in a middle rope double clothesline from Luna Magica. Angel topes Negra on the floor, leaving Goddess and Luna to work combo spots in the wrong. Even before I can start rooting for them to succeed, they stumble thru a spot. Luna tries to lift Goddess on her shoulders, but Goddess slips. Luna barely hangs to her, but hangs enough to sorta powerslam Goddess onto Hiroka and Mima, still down from that double clothesline. Luna sits on top of the pile, and somehow that’s enough for three. Goddess was probably supposed to be tossed onto the rudos another way, so that’s close enough. Nice that they went with what happened instead of forcing the move. Replay of Sarah’s tope, which was pretty good.
El Arte de Catch
3: If this fall wasn’t edited, maybe it should’ve been. Hiroka clotheslines Goddess hard, but it's obscured by the fall graphic. The next spot is Hiroka lifting Goddess up for a powerbomb, and then collapsing into the mat. She didn’t have Goddess up there for long and there’s no obvious reason why it happened. Goddess is up first from the pile and stomps Hiroka. Whip, reversed, Goddess’ armdrag looks bad even from the far way view they give us. Hiroka is hurting, her lower back bothering her since the landing form the failed powerbomb. Goddess lock on armbar, then a crucifix cradle for two. Hiroka probably needs to get out but doesn’t, and Goddess get an abdominal stretch cradle for two. Hiroka grabs onto Goddess’ legs while break free, puts on a Boston Crab, and gets obliterated by a Dark Angel running boot. As the original two roll out, Rosa Negra comes in for the rudas, misses a clothesline, but lands a springboard tope. Not a reverse tope, front of the head first, odd but designed spot. Corner whip, Angel reverses, Rosa kips up and out but Dark Angel isn’t there yet. Angle slips by her, elbows her, and gets out of the way so Luna can land a silla on Rosa. The silla is short, but knocks down Rosa anyway. Mima knocks down Luna with a kick, and holds her for Rosa. That works as well as usual (not at all), and Mima’s dropkicked out. Luan dropkicks Rosa out, then – stands around? Ah, they’re slow at picking it up, but it’s actually Goddess doing the dive, top rope plancha onto both rudas. This means there’s more people to catch Luna’s Asai moonsault, and it helps. Captains left in, Sarah escapes a Hiroka double arm lift and drops her with a single arm slam. One two three.
El Diseno: Hooligan
Match 2: Villano III (c), Villano IV, Villano V vs Blue
Panther (c), Dos Caras Jr., LA Park
Arena Coliseo, 03/30/08
Winner: Tecnicos
Match Time: 13:43
Approx Rating: Of all the matches to get 13 minutes, this would not have
been my pick. How is a two fall match longer than most three fall ones?
Other Match Notes: Dos has his belt. Blue Panther has a beatdown at the
hands of the Villanos, who enter early to jump Blue during his entrance. Panther
and V5 explaining they have issues in promos is a bit pointless after the attack
has started. I wonder why Five isn’t the captain.
1: Villanos brawling beatdown. It’s a lot easier to tell which one is IV and which one is V when one of them is feuding with Blue Panther and the other one is just around. And then everyone ends up beating up Panther, so never mind. Rudos go after the masks, so I that’s coming up later. Dos makes a comeback despite limping a little bit on his left leg, evading corner charges form two Villanos and enziguri-ing the other. Panther goes right for V’s mask,. The refs are no help. Tecnicos go after rudos masks. No one’s quite in a hurry to finish. The tecnicos get it together for 3 on 1s against the rudos, and this fall seems crammed in with everything for no particular reason. All the Villanos are dumped out – TRIPLE TOPE. Panther comes up holding his left knee. I think he hit on a chair on the way down. Tecnicos all come back in to beat the 20 count, with one of the Villanos ending up just short.
Q: [Villano III] Que le falta por ganar?
I’m going to guess Miss Mexico.
A: National Champion.
So I guess the time he won it with Dos Caras and V5 doesn’t count?
2: Park batters IV with chops and dances. IV attacks him, but we’re looking at the fans instead. He gets his run the Villanos with lots of chopping. V3 convinces Park to take it outside and then back inside. Park tells V3 to take it back outside again, and then stays in the ring to dance. Panther gets a run against the Villanos, leading to a Parka backdrop into a pescado on V5. V3 back in, and Parka melodramatically sells a DDT for a near fall. Lots of walking to set up spot and not much intensity in them. Park puts V3 on the ropes and pulls him off into a backcracker for a near fall. V4 gives Parka a Diamond Cutter, and the crowd is angry about something o other other. V4 helps Dos lift him i9nto a spinning backbreaker. Dos gets a corner sunset flip for a near fall, but V5 breaks it up. 5 and Panther back in, and I hope we’re close. V5 gets a corner sunset flip, Panther slowly reverses it and gets the ropes, one two three. Everyone things the match is over, because that should be the finish, but of course V3 is the captain for no good reason and so the match reluctantly goes on. Panther get tossed out, Parka gets whipped into a clothesline V3, V4 knocked down Park, Dos slams V4. Dos tells Parka to go up for a top rope move, why? V3 kicks Dos into the ropes, which crotches Park. Dos superkicks V3 while V4 climbs the ropes to face Park. Dos stops him, and lifts V4 onto his shoulders. This seems like a bad idea, but they skip out on the Doomsday device. Dos drops V4 forward and covers, while Park gets V3 with a top rope plancha. One two no. Everyone was okay with that being the finish, but on we go. V4 accidentally chops his partner, Parka barley gets Dos up for the boosted dropkick on both, both tecnicos cover but the Villanos are well into the ropes. Dos is angry with the refs even though it’s own fault, and almost gets DQed for messing with a ref’s hair. Now what? Dos and Parka setup the Villanos for a stereo top rope splashes, and take forever to go up. One two NO!?!? They must have quite the finish to be stringing this out for so long. Park and Dos off the ropes, but V5 trips them up. Refs should clearly see it (they turned too late) and that’s a DQ, but of course that’s not the finish either so on we go. V4 and V3 dropkick the tecnicos out and go to dive, but Panther trips them up. That’s legal. Panther ducks V3’s clothesline, clotheslines V4, clotheslines V3, and gets decked from behind by V5 for the actual DQ. Yea, not worth it at all.
Villanos destroy Panther, ripping off his mask and stomping him into the mat. I don’t know why Dos and Park aren’t making the save, because they were only tripped, they weren’t killed.