Category: news

CMLL continues the Universal tournament tonight, with eight luchadors meeting in unsatisfying matches to determine who gets to face Ultimo Guerrero next week. Valiente & Ephesto have no shot. There are interesting stories to be told if Mephsito, Maximo or Mistico make the final, but all are unlikely. The second finalists is one of Atlantis, Volador or Negro Casas, in order of likelihood, though circumstances suggest Atlantis is the heavy favorite.

CMLL’s preview says the Shockercito/Demus hair match will take place next week, along with the Universal final. (Maybe they mentioned this on Informa?) This happens to be a day before WWE comes to town, which might also be the explanation of why they held this tournament off so long. Atlantis is CMLL’s go to guy to draw a big crowd, so he’s likely facing Ultimo Guerrero next week. This week, Shockercito teams with Stukita against Pequeno Nitro & Demus. Other matches on the show include the Ingoberanbles facing the strange team of Super Parka, Angel de Oro and Brazo de Plata and Heddi Karaoui making his debut in the tercera.

CMLL will continue to air on clarorsports.com, but they’re saying it will only be viewable in Mexico; everyone else will be blocked like last week. We’ve had some success with the HolaVPN app to get around that block in past times. It did not work last week, but there are other apps and other ways of doing it. (I know people had success with Tunnelbear last week, but the free version didn’t include a Mexico option when I tried it last Friday. You may want to try something else.)

All Elite announced their 10/25 Arena Mexico show will include Damian 666, Bestia 666 and Halloween. They also say they’ll have a big announcement on a ex-WWE luchador appearing on the show which will be made immediately after CMLL’s show ends tonight. That sort of implies someone new is showing up, but it may also just be a counter-WWE thing.

AAA is also busy tonight, running their annual taping at the fair in Tlahuelilpan, Hidalgo. Taping is listed as starting at 9. The main event is Alberto, Fenix, Psycho Clown versus Mesias, Pentagon Jr. and Texano Junior. Alberto isn’t on the next couple of tapings, so maybe they’ll set up a Guerra de Titanes direction while they have him, or maybe he’ll just be a bit in the background. There’s more interviews talking up Fenix versus Mesias; it does seem like a match they might do on Guerra de Titanes. It doesn’t seem like they’d be going in this direction if not for Lucha Underground.

This show continues the run of shows with a lot of mystery people. The mystery people in the opener are probably Lady Shani (teaming with Argos & Mamba) versus Maravilla (teaming with Pimpinela and Hamburguesa.) The mystery man in the semimain – teaming with Lider & Fantasma against Angelico, Jack & Drago – is not totally certain. It’s likely Taurus, but it wasn’t completely clear if Taurus was meant to be a tecnico or a rudo. He was just a victorious bull guy. I’ve got a pretty good guess about who Taurus’ might have been in a previous life; he stayed away from doing any trademark spots in the battle royal, but he’ll probably reveal himself a little more in this match if he’s the one in it.

AAA’s Twitter announced a list of upcoming tapings earlier this week. It didn’t include Nuevo Laredo on the 19th. It turns out it didn’t include Nuevo Laredo because the taping has been moved to 11/02. Why AAA didn’t just say that remains a mystery. The local Cantu promotion had stopped pushed the tickets the last week, so this may have been something in the works for a little while. Nuevo Laredo was the third day of a three show tour; rescheduling it makes the show more costly to run, so there must’ve been something significant going on to change it. The card is still listed as the same, but moving a card back two weeks usually messes with the availability for someone. It’ll still air in the same order on TV; they were going to be way far ahead and now will be less so.

The Ciudad Juarez promoter says the AAA TV taping on 11/15 will have Alberto & Misterio versus Myzteziz & Averno in the main event. That seems like a big match to randomly have on a TV taping, though a good one to test to see if fans will cross the border in large numbers to see an AAA show. It also seems like one that can only happen if Alberto and Myzteziz have worked out whatever it was that ticked off Alberto a few weeks back. There’s been no public sign that they have (and that’s one where making a show of getting along would be a great way to get people to stop talking about it.) We’ll see.

The other big issue with that as a main event is Lucha Underground is supposed to start taping that weekend and at least some of those guys would be expected to be in Los Angeles. It could be that they’ll juggle around the matches to get what they need on Saturday. It could be there just won’t be matches or any open taping to the public. On his podcast Wednesday, Court Bauer said the November shows were pre-production work (not live events). Season 1 Lucha Underground seemed to take care off all the backstage & vignettes in the couple of days prior to the tapings or during that weekend if needed, but never brought in people for a weekend without running shows. Still, if there’s no ticket announcement for November, that’s what is going on. It also kind of sounded like there was only going to be that one trip to LA in November, so the first new episodes in front of a live crowd might not be until December. Bauer also said he heard the plan was for less episodes this year (39 last), with a big picture idea of having a shorter break between ‘seasons’.

ChilangaMask announced Toscano & Decnnis (w/Guapito) versus Arez & Impulso for the 10/25 ChilangaMask show in Coacalco. This might be Arez’ best chance at getting thru a mask without his knee taking him out.

El Pancracio has many interviews from the Todo x el Todo show, including Heavy Metal saying he’s been waiting for a match with Hijo del Santo for 20 years and Cielito explains he was named after the song.

Police have decided Guerrero Negro Jr. was shot because he owed the wrong person money on a gambling debt.

Yo Deportes interviews Chicago luchadors Astro Sound and Vengador del Futuro.

Lucha Libre in Japan

Silueta & Syuri won the REINA tag team titles on their show earlier today.

Lineups

TXT (SAT) 10/17/2015 Gimnasio Miguel Hidalgo, Puebla, Puebla
1) Limbo & Templario vs Coloso & Principe Christian
2) Rossy Moreno vs Lady Apache
3) Cien Caras Jr. & Rayman vs Cielito & Huracan Ramirez
4) Angel Blanco Jr. & Dr. Wagner Jr. vs El Hijo Del Santo & LA Park

Listed as a TV taping, no idea where. Santo and Blanco are going to have one match while the other chaos goes on. Only four matches, and 600 pesos for ringside.

CMLL (TUE) 10/06/2015 Arena Coliseo Guadalajara[CMLL]
1) Furia Roja & Ráfaga b León Blanco & Neutrón
2) Lluvia, Marcela, Skadi b Dalys, La Comandante, La Seductora
3) Blue Panther Jr., Pegasso, The Panther b Cancerbero, Raziel, Virus
Pegasso replaced Fuego
4) Kráneo, Olímpico, Ripper b Ángel de Oro, Magnum, Stuka Jr.
Magnum replaced Super Porky.
5) La Máscara, Marco Corleone, Volador Jr. b Mr. Niebla, Negro Casas, Shocker
Tecnicos took 2/3. Volador & La Mascara defeated Negro Casas & Shocker to set up a tag title match next week.

There’s no particular explanation of why Volador & La Mascara are friends now.

IWRG (WED) 10/07/2015 Arena Naucalpan [Black Terry Jr. (Flickr), Estrellas del Ring, The Gladiatores]
1) Guerrero 2000 & Vampiro Metálico b Blue Metal & Chicanito
2) Blue Monsther, Enigma, Shadow Boy b Galaxy, Matrix Jr., Power Bull
3) Alas de Acero b Aramis, Vardeus, Adrenalina, Atomic Star
Adrenalina was hurt in the match
4) Acero, Demetrio El Gladiador, Hip Hop Man b Aeroman, Freyser, Kanon
5) Mega, Omega (2002), Super Mega, Ultra Mega DQ Comando Delta, Comando Gama, Comando Stone, Rayan
Comando Delta got away with a martinete on Delta, but Stone got caught fouled Mega. Each team challenged each other for Castillo del Terror.

A lot of mask match challenges on these shows between the stars and it’s the Comandos and the Megas in the match instead. That’ll probably be fun (though less so if Rayan loses.) These Wednesday shows are probably hidden FILL shows with the retro feud being the draw instead of a Copa Higher Power but close enough for me.

TuriLuchas bus service to Arena Coliseo will begin this Saturday. That joins the Friday and Tuesday trips. The press release mentions future plans to expand to Arena Puebla as well.

AAA has photos from their Antonio Pena memorial service.

Guerrero Negro Jr. has recovered enough to talk to police. That seems good. The police says Guerrero Negro kept changing the story of why he got shot. That seems not good. They explained this as Guerrero Negro Jr. being still hurt (mentally and physically) enough not to remember what happened right, though obviously there could be other reasons. Guerrero Negro Jr. said he did not know who shot him, but the second link says three witnesses identified him as Javier “el Mecanico”. Never a good thing to be a shot, probably worse to be shot by a guy who has a public nickname.

LuchaWorld has KrisZ’s news update.

Highlights of the RIOT debut show.

+LuchaTV has highlights of Cielito versus Angel Blanco. Cielito’s mask is a slightly modified Magnifico one.

Apolo Valdes talks about the positive experience of going to an indy show.

Hechicero talks about his career with ESTO. He says that when he gets burned when practices the fire trick at home but it always goes fine when he does it at the arenas.

Disturbio versus Hijo del Diablo has been added to the 10/25 Chilanga Mask show in Coacalco.

El Marquez lost his mask to Apolo Estrada Jr. in Chilpancingo. That was the show which listed Black Warrior in his first match in quite a while; Black Terry moved up from the undercard to replace him.

Brujo Maya took Picudo‘s hair on the Leyendas show in Queretaro. Fantasma crashed and burned on a dive in his title defense against Mr. Jack. He continued to a double pin draw.

There’s a Caifan & Charles Lucero vs Dr. Cerbero & Guerrero Maya match in Monterrey this Sunday.

Lineup

IWRG (SUN) 10/11/2015 Arena Naucalpan
1) Hip Hop Man © vs Tortuga Leo [AIWA ARGENTINA CRUISER]
second defense
2) Imposible © vs Hijo del Pantera [IWRG IC Light]
Imposible 10th defense
3) Apolo Estrada Jr. & El Hijo del Diablo © vs Canis Lupus & Trauma I [IWRG IC TAG]
first defense
4) Golden Magic © vs Trauma II [IWRG JUNIORS]
first defense
5) Hijo De Dos Caras © vs Máscara Año 2000 Jr. [IWRG IC HEAVY]
sixth defense

Annual champions carnival deal. A lot of people making challenges in IWRG, but only the main event seems to be built up at all. (And even then, as I’ll continue to note, they just had X-Fly win a giant battle royal to earn that shot for himself.) I think the main event is a title match at least; the poster doesn’t really list as one.