Lucha TV Report for May 1, 2001

EMLL

Tony Rivera and Brazo de Oro play tennis in the park until the ball gets stuck in Tony’s racket.

(Arena Coliseo) Valentine Mayo, Arkangel, Mr. Mexico vs. Tony Rivera, Brazo de Oro, Mascara Magica-

Primera Caida- Brazo de Oro and Tony Rivera get most of the offense in here. Mr. Mexico ends up on the floor where Mascara Magica uses a nice tope on him. Rivera uses a springboard frankensteiner while Arkangel is on the top rope, then Brazo splashes him for the pin. Rivera then gets Mayo in a Gory Special to end the fall.

Segunda Caida- Rivera continues to shine here, taking Arkangel out with an incredible spring onto the top rope huracanrana, then Valentine over the ropes with a monkey flip and salida de bandera. Mascara Magica finally tags in and hits a series of gorgeous armdrags including a “pinwheel” version on Arkangel. Then he tags in Brazo de Oro who puts on a headscissors on the rudo, but Mr. Mexico enters and starts a 3 on 1 situation for el bando de los rudos. Brazo de Oro submits to a Mr Mexico scorpion deathlock, while Arkangel takes out Magica with a tope suicida.

Tercera Caida- Arkangel continues beating on Magica, hitting a gutwrench powerbomb, and it is then that Rivera and Brazo hit the ring and even the score. Now Rivera and Arkangel trade a few moves and then Arkangel takes him out with a pescado. Valentine and Mexico end up on the floor, so Magica does a pescado of his own to them, but gets caught and held. Brazo de Oro then knocks everyone down with a massive tope! Rivera and Arkangel are to finish the match. Rivera avoids a somersault senton and then climbs up top and uses a flying huracanrana to get the three!

[full point] Recently Rivera has been lazy and I was never a big fan of Valentine Mayo, Brazo de Oro, or Mr Mexico, but this was really solid. Rivera looked really good for the first time since he beat Mr. Mexico in a hair match. Arkangel is the man.

(Arena Coliseo) Gigante Silva, La Fiera, Mr Niebla vs Universo 2000, Cien Caras, Mascara Ano 2000, Apollo Dantes- Oh, yipee, it’s that time again. This was boring like usual. Silva did all three of his spots and then the rudos ganged up on him later in the match and used a pile on for the win.

All throughout the show, EMLL hyped some new wrestler, who is rumored to be Rayman, the son of Rayo de Jalisco Jr.

Momentos

Alan Stone uses a ‘rueca’(spot where you basically do a victory roll, except grab their ankles and then roll in the sunset flip like manner until either someone gets pinned or tossed out of the ring) into a pin while his brother does a reverse powerbomb.

Tigre Blanco flattens Karloff LeGarde with a tope con giro

Fugaz with a missile dropkick right in the face of Volador Jr.

Fugaz with a brutal looking dropkick on a hung upside down Sombre de Plata, then later, Volador Jr. tries a moonsault and both Fugaz and Sangre Azteca sidestep and dropkick him in the ribs on the way down.

Villano III, who has split into three, discusses the Villanos.

(Arena Mexico)Signo, Fuerza Guerrera, Blue Panther vs Villano III, Villano IV, Atlantis-

Primera Caida- Both teams take it to the mat here, as you would expect from six veterans such as these. After the first round of mat wrestling the pace picks up and they start working switches. Blue takes Villano IV out of the ring, and tries to dive, but Atlantis steps in the way and scoops him into La Atlantida to end the first fall.

Segunda Caida- The match remains clean until Blue simply takes Villano IV down by one leg and twists it over his head. The rudos then decide to clean house. Blue gets Atlantis to submit to ‘la suastica’.

Tercera Caida- The tecnicos comeback quickly… and they clip the match. Shit. Villano IV hits Blue with a powerslam, but Signo breaks up the pin and tosses him out. Blue Panther then dives onto Villano IV with a good tope. Villano III and Signo are left, and after a few kickouts, Signo uses a clothesline and then applies Nudo Lagunero (elevated figure four leglock) to win the match!

[full point] What aired was excellent, but I heard this was a **** match from someone who was there live. Let’s all thank Galavision or Televisa, whichever of the shit sisters, for not showing us the entire match so that we can speculate whether it was that good or not rather than knowing! Yes, that was sarcastic. This is the first time I got pissed watching EMLL since… hmm… maybe August when they idiotically clipped Infernales vs Antifaz/Safari/Felino to a matter of minutes even though it looked like the best trio match that year.

(Arena Mexico)Ultimo Guerrero, Emilio Charles Jr., Bestia Salvaje vs Lizmark Jr, Rayo de Jalisco, Negro Casas-

Primera Caida- Universo taunts Rayo via video tape before he enters the ring. First fall is heated rudo brawling, nothing special. Charles pins Lizmark with a frog splash and then Guerrero pins Rayo with some help.

Segunda Caida- Rayo gets back at Guerrero with some comedy and stiff chops. The tecnicos basically get all the offense here. Casas makes Bestia submit to a scorpion while Lizmark press slams Charles.

Tercera Caida- Rayo and Guerrero continue their mini feud here. The problem is Rayo is a real asshole and refuses to sell for Guerrero or take any of his moves, not even a mere judo toss. They go back and forth a bit, then while everyone else is on the outside from dives, Ultimo gets Rayo to submit to an abdominal stretch that Rayo wouldn’t even let him fully lock on. After the match Guerrero gives an interview and says the win was very big for him, and this is just a taste of what he is going to do to Satanico. Rayo then says he thinks Guerrero is a good luchador and got him this time but he was lucky and next time it’ll be different.

[half point] Sure, Guerrero got the huge win, but Rayo made it almost meaningless as the rudo just looked lucky because Rayo wouldn’t do anything with him, unless he was on offense.

AAA(From Jalapa)

I have a new policy regarding AAA. From now on, unless it is minis or while taping it I notice the match was really good, I will just be reporting the finishes and angles going on in the match. The reason for this is I find sitting through AAA without fast-forward hard to do the first time let alone a second. To be fair I will not assign ratings to AAA matches though. I will give you pictures if I have them…

Martha Villalobos, La Demaladora, Tiffany vs. Cinthia Moreno, Alda Moreno, & Lady Apache- The Womanhunters miss time a splash and splatter Tirantes, getting themselves DQed. I didn’t even bother taping this one.

Mascara Maligna, Eslabo Perdido, Cibernetico vs La Parka Jr., Mascara Segrada, Sangre Chicana- Eslabo Perdido’s name means Missing Link. He is a weird looking dude in a funky cape with sticks on the shoulders, though he claims to be from Jalapa(In other words he’s basically a local Peña actually tried to make seem important). Rudos and tecnicos split the first two falls. Parka Jr. is feuding with Cibernetico because he won’t give Parka the Reyes de Reyes crown he is owed. Chicana ends the third fall for the tecnicos with a Richardson punch to Maligna. Parka took back his crown after the match.

Overall: 2 ½ out of 4 for EMLL - EMLL should have been an excellent show. I wish that they had clipped the Silva match instead of the Villanos match from Arena Mexico. The main event could have been much better but Asshole de Jalisco decided that if he can’t beat Ultimo Guerrero, then he won’t sell for him either, so the match suffered big time. At least Guerrero is a main eventer now, basically.