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DTU BOOM (SAT) 04/18/2015 Arena Lopez Mateos [Estrellas del Ring, Tercera Caida]
1) Halcón 2000 b Gato Negro, Kronico
2) Chica Ye-Ye, Jimmy, Kevin, Tony b Fantasma De La Opera II, Kid Jaguar, Ojo De Halcón, Shadow
Fantasma de la Opera suffered a triple fracture of his femur during this match. At the end of the match, Shadow’s La Resitancia partners Kilvan, Rey Lobo Jr. and Yoruba (wearing CaraLucha shirts) helped him out but not enough to win. They appeared ot be anti-DTU/Boom.
3) Pesadilla b Golden Magic and Belial and Drastik Boy and Dinamic Black and Arez
Pesadilla beat Dinamic Black. Money thrown in.
4) Freleance & Suicida b Cíclope & Miedo Extremo [tlc]
Los Masizos wanted a rematch under extreme rules
5) Black Terry b Onita Santana, Paranoiko, X-Fly, Makabre, Tony Rivera
Terry beat X-Fly to win in an extreme match
6) Crazy Boy, Pantera I, Super Mega b Carta Brava Jr. I, Cerebro Negro, Fantasma de la Ópera
Crazy Boy was supposed to team with Psicosis & a mystery wrestler, ended up with Pantera I and Super Mega.
7) Damián 666 & Halloween b Ángel o Demonio & Ovett and Aero Boy & Violento Jack
Crowd was happy to see Familia de Tijuana and threw money in.
8) Pagano b Nicho el Millionario [bull terrier]
Pagano beat Nicho again, again demanded a hair match.

Building looked packed for this show. Angel o Demonio suffered a horrible cut in his match thanks to some light tubes; Black Terry Jr. has video of the horrible cut being sowed up if you are into horrible cuts or sowing.

CMLL (SAT) 04/18/2015 Arena Coliseo [CMLL]
1) Mercurio b Fantasy
package piledriver for the win.
2) El Rebelde b Sensei
Rebelde won via armbar
3) Silueta b Narumiya
Silueta won via moonsault
4) Virus b Hombre Bala Jr.
double armbar, money thrown in
5) Boby Zavala b Starman
Zavala won via powerbomb
6) Kamaitachi, Rey Bucanero, Terrible b Blue Panther, Dragon Lee, Valiente
Blue Panther Jr. replaced Titan. Rudos took 2/3, the last by using the ropes.
7) Shocker & Último Guerrero DQ Máximo & Volador Jr.
Shocker faked a foul from Maximo.

A show! Silueta beating Narumiya again suggest they’re heading to the match. Pretty weird when the programs booked in service of the tiny Japanese promotion are more coherent than their own.

CMLL (SUN) 04/19/2015 Arena México [CMLL]
1) Bengala & Leono b Artillero & Súper Comando
2) Nitro, Sangre Azteca, Virus b Hombre Bala Jr., Súper Halcón Jr., Tritón
3) Fuego, Super Porky, Valiente b Kráneo, Pólvora, Vangellys
4) Ephesto, Luciferno, Mephisto b Blue Panther, Blue Panther Jr., The Panther [MEX TRIOS, #1 Contenders, semifinal]
There may have been a battle royal to determine seeding.
6) Atlantis, Delta, Guerrero Maya Jr. b Euforia, Gran Guerrero, Niebla Roja [MEX TRIOS, #1 Contenders, semifinal]
7) Atlantis, Delta, Guerrero Maya Jr. b Ephesto, Luciferno, Mephisto [MEX TRIOS, #1 Contenders, final]
Reyes del Atlantida earn a shot at Peste Negra for the belts next week.
8) Marco Corleone, Máximo, Volador Jr. b Rey Bucanero, Shocker, Terrible

Reyes del Atlantida were the favorites to win the title shot, and are even bigger favorites next week. No one knows what the future holds for Mr. Niebla, but you probably don’t want him to be champion just in case. There’d have to be a specific bigger plan in mind for Peste Negra to keep the titles; there’s a story that needs to be told either way. Guerrero Maya Jr. falling into another title reign is not a bad outcome.

Volador being here meant he couldn’t be in Guadalajara for the All Elite show. Zumbi took his place. So bizarre CMLL would’ve booked him in two places (and that no one noticed all week.)

X-Fly shockingly took Eterno’s hair in Arena Naucalpan.

Joe Lider said on a radio interview (via SuperLuchas) no one from AAA’s office has yet told them what will happen to the Perros del Mal group. Lider notes the name is not owned by AAA; the trademark was specifically signed to Perro Aguayo Jr. Right now, he would prefer himself, Pentagon, Daga and Taya keep using the name to keep it alive.

AdWeek has a Mark Burnett interview about having so many shows on the air (15). Lucha Underground is only name checked as one of those shows, but Burnett’s overall point is shows can keep going on indefinitely as long as there’s the advertising dollars there to support them.

Thunder has another interview up where he mentions he enjoys fighting Rush, but wants to destroy Marco Corleone. Thunder says he was a rugby player who stopped due to injuries.

LuchaWorld has KrisZ’s news update.

Segunda Caida’s Eric R reviews some late 2014 CMLL and he and Phil talk about Virus vs Dragon Lee.

RobViper has a music video of the end of December 2014 CMLL C3

LV reviews of this past week’s CMLL on Fox, CMLL on Claro for the 04/05 matches, and the one match of IWRG I was able to get. Sadly, the rest of the show aired later in the week!

SuperLuchas looks back at the Arena Mexico Anniversary show of 1997, where Felino overcame a 1 on 4 disadvantage to win a cibernetico.

Monterey’s Epydemius has a video promo hyping his Chilanga Mask match with Super Mega. I know Epydemius won the white belt on a real show that lots of people actually attended, and is making the point that he’s a legitimately successful guy his home area, but showing off multiple title belts feel actually feels like a bad move in 2015 for an indy guy. There’s too many goodfballs who have three titles from small promotions that don’t mean anything that it feels like a warning sign of a guy with misplaced priorities in wrestling. It should feel like a guy that a lot of promoters think is great (and a lot of people think Epydemius is great), it just doesn’t seem like it’s done that way.

On this digression: it’s probably very much worth nothing that neither Chilanga Mask or Cara Lucha has created their own titles or really focused on title matches at all. They might someday and I’m sure they’ll make creative use of them, but their artistic success without championship belts is proof you don’t really need them to produce interesting shows. You just produce interesting shows and include a title if it makes sense.

Tercera Caida mentions LuchaRama is coming back in September 2015. When our group went to Mexico last year, at least one promoter we talked to discussed the idea of running shows around the CMLL Anniversary show to appeal to draw fans who are already in town for the bigger show, in the same style as done with WrestleMania. (TripleMania would probably work for this too, but it’s tough to plan shows around TripleMania when even AAA doesn’t seem to know what date it is. CMLL’s predictability can be immensely frustrating, but at least we know their big show is either 09/18 or 09/25.) Anyway, I’m thinking that might be what’s going on with the LuchaRama show, timed to be around the Anniversary show. It was a marathon 20 match show last year.

Celestial, Cosmico, and Talisman Jr. did an interview promoting a show they’re on in May. Those are the minis who left CMLL to join the Perros del Mal promotion. (Talisman Jr. didn’t appear in CMLL, but says he was training in Arena Mexico.) They are on Perro del Mal TV all the time until there was no Perros del Mal TV, and then they disappeared off the face of the earth. They’re hoping to get brought back to Arena Mexico.

More on Vanely’s trip to France and Spain next month.

A small story about an Abismo Negro fan in Chetumal.

Lineup

No Sabado Retros show next week. Boxrec says Televisa has a card there. Weird that they’re booking it out as boxing venue, and weirder still that they’ve had more boxing events there since Sabado Retros started (3) then in the prior three years (0). I can see a Televisa broadcast boxing event doing better at the box office than a Sabado Retros, but someone has to be going on and getting those boxing events to use their venue and it didn’t seem like they were doing that before.

Soberano Jr. replaces Star Jr. on Tuesday in Guadalajara. Star Jr. missed his match last Tuesday in CMLL (which I missed too), so maybe it’s an injury issue. He’s only been working about a match a week of late.

CMLL (SUN) 04/26/2015 Arena México
Arena Mexico 59th Anniversary
1) Molotov & Sensei vs Apocalipsis & Cholo
2) Acero, Fantasy, Shockercito vs Mercurio, Pequeño Universo 2000, Pequeño Violencia
Pequeno Violencia’s return from a knee injury (the third time it’s been advertised)
3) Pegasso, Stigma, Stuka Jr. vs Arkángel de la Muerte, Nitro, Virus
4) Felino, Mr. Niebla, Negro Casas © vs Atlantis, Delta, Guerrero Maya Jr. [MEX TRIOS]
Peste Negra’s fourth defense.
5) La Sombra vs Mr. Águila, Marco Corleone, Bárbaro Cavernario, Dragon Lee, Kamaitachi, La Máscara, Ripper, Titán, Morphosis [cibernetico]

Star Jr.’s not the MIA guy people are wondering about. Rush did work the main event of the All Elite show, but isn’t booked for this CMLL show. It’d be make sense for him to be teamed up with the rest of the Ingobernables, especially for a big show.  He’ll be off shows for fifteen days by this point. Maybe he’s on vacation and that photo Sombra posted with him was just an old one.

Anyway, there’s three different champions in the main and some obvious challengers, so perhaps an insta-title match is coming. I keep thinking those are going to happen and they’re really not this year, but maybe this’ll be the time.

CMLL announced they’ll have a special Turiluchas bus on next Sunday for the Arena Mexico Anniversary show. They’ve been running on Tuesday and Fridays of late.

CMLL (SUN) 04/26/2015 Arena Coliseo Guadalajara
1) Meteoro & Star Black vs El Piraña & Guerrero De La Muerte
2) Capitan Cobra & Mr. Apolo vs Mercenario & Mr. Brisa
3) El Alteño, El Divino, Linterna Verde Jr. vs Évola, Gitano, Thunder Boy
4) Forastero, Hijo del Calavera, Magnum vs El Cuatrero, Joker, Sansón [OCCIDENTE TRIOS, tournament]
5) Flash I, Flash II, Frezzer vs Furia Roja, Mr. Trueno, Rey Trueno [OCCIDENTE TRIOS, tournament]

Sunday it is – that’s the end of Friday shows for now. Those matches 2/3 in this trios tournament, which is spanning both shows. At least five new names on this show, including a whole outside segunda with four guys from Club Olimpio Arena in Tonala. (Conversely, former featured regulars Smaker & Sky Kid are now working Arena Jalisco & Arena Roberto Paz shows.) Not sure if the Guerrero de la Muerte is the local Toxico under his previous name or a new guy. There’s a Star Black in Yucatan, but this figures to be a new guy.

Cara Lucha (SAT) 05/02/2015 Arena San Juan Pantitlan, Ciudad de México, Distrito Federal
1) Magnifico II vs Tribal, Templario, Arceus
2) Bárbaro Cavernario vs Toscano vs Herodes Jr.
3) Teelo vs Leo vs Rafy vs Mike
4) La Resistencia vs Kriminal Boys, Neza Kings, Sky Star
faction match
5) Atlantis & Último Guerrero vs Fuerza Guerrera & Rey Hechicero

Everything but the opener had been mentioned earlier. Ninja Turtle match is going to be a thing.

CMLL (FRI) 04/17/2015 Arena México [CMLL, MT]
1) Flyer & Molotov b Akuma & Espiritu Negro
2) Oro Jr., Pegasso, Tritón b Canelo Casas, Disturbio, Okumura
Tecnicos took 2/3
3) Amapola, Dalys, Narumiya b Marcela, Princesa Sugehit, Silueta
Rudas took 2/3. Narumiya beat Marcela by using the ropes.
4) Titán b Pólvora [lightning]
Titan won with a moonsault.
5) La Sombra, Marco Corleone, Máximo b Rey Escorpión, Thunder, Último Guerrero
straight falls. Escorpion and UG had problems.
6) Mistico, Valiente, Volador Jr. b Bárbaro Cavernario, Mr. Niebla, Negro Casas
Sky Team took 2/3. Mistico had a couple of small problems.

So much for Sky Team title match. I’d really expected more of those by now.

Escorpion’s teamed up with Ultimo Guerrero a couple times with no obvious problems since his return, including last week. Feels like some plans are changing and they needed an insta-feud.

Silueta was wearing her REINA International Junior championship, which hasn’t been seen here in a while. Narumiya has the other REINA title. Maybe they’ll be just one title soon.

There’s a game of indy lucha libre TV musical chairs going on

• FULL is scheduled to start their TV show tomorrow at noon on Mexiquense, but also announced they’d also be airing on Ultra Television at 8pm.
• AULL announced last night that their Zona de Combate show would return, starting next Sunday on Efekto TV, also at noon on Sundays.
• That time slot used to be the Leyendas Inmortales spot, which may explain why they were suddenly back on Teleformula, and why +LuchaTV was suddenly not anywhere.

SuperLuchas notes a recent radio appearance with Faby Apache, who says she founded a group to get better pay for luchadoras, and feels she’s been punished with a lesser role in AAA as a result. AAA’s definitely downplayed the role of women in their promotion this year, though that’s something there had always been rumors of them wanting to do.

SuperLuchas also mentions the Wrestling Observer Newsletter story about AAA contacting TNA and GFW about sending teams for their international trios tournament. AAA appears to be contacting everyone at this point. And since there are a lot of unofficial stories about AAA contacting groups and no official word from AAA about anyone who’s actually participating outside of their own guys, it appears like AAA (& Victoria, and maybe mostly Victoria) announced an international tournament before they had actually gotten international people onboard. Way to go for high level of difficulty.

Octagon told +LuchaTV that the worst mistake he ever made was leaving CMLL to go to AAA. Octagon would be foolish if he actually believed this – he would’ve been kicked out CMLL (and ended up in AAA and then in the indies) far earlier if he had stayed – but he’s trying to find a way into CMLL and so that’s his line. Octagon claimed that CMLL is concerned about trademark problems if they used Octagon, but he’s got paperwork that’ll show he owns the name and it’ll all be fine once he shows it to Paco Alonso.

Perros del Mal and the Crash will be holding another mass for Perro Aguayo Jr., this time in Tjuana, on 04/21.

DTU & Lucha Boom have a show tonight in Arena Lopez Mateos.

An article on the cultural trip to Arena Mexico being promoted for next Sunday. This was announced months ago, but totally slipped my mind until it was brought up by Cadena3 this past week. People on the tour will get to go behind the scenes before the show, and then they’ll be giving headsets during the show to hear the call of the action live.

LuchaWorld had KrisZ’s new update.

Black Terry Jr. has highlights of the Dragon Celestial, Emeprador Azteca, Yakuza vs Imposible, Dowki and Electro Boy from Wednesday’s IWRG show. He also has photos from last night’s Leyendas Inmortales at Arena Neza show, which reads like a normal LI show (semimain with maestros who wrestle elsewhere was good, main event with guys who mostly wrestle for LI was not.)

+LuchaTV also has Avisman vs Virus highlights, which is said to be great, Negro Navarro vs Dragon Lee and Aero Boy vs Soberano Jr. vs Alas de Acero. Also, plus post match interviews with Virus, Avisman, Dragon Lee, Negro Navarro, Aero Boy, Alas de Acero and Soberano Jr.

Cara Lucha announced Atlantis & Ultimo Guerrero vs Hechicero & Fuerza Guerrera for their 05/02 show.

Chilanga Mask announced Keira versus Silueta for their 05/17 Coliseo Coacalco show. Keira, a few days ago, said she wouldn’t be able to face CMLL luchadoras after debuting in AAA on 05/02, but they announced this match after that so maybe something’s changed..

SuperLuchas looks back at a mask tournament from 1977

Arez believes this is the best ever moment for indy lucha libre.

El Pancracio believes the only way lucha libre oversight will be fixed is if the people in charge were suddenly a lot loss corrupt.

Lineups

CMLL (FRI) 04/24/2015 Arena México
1) Bengala & Robin vs Artillero & Súper Comando
2) Astral, Eléctrico, Stukita vs Demus 3:16, Pequeño Olímpico, Pierrothito
3) La Vaquerita, Marcela, Silueta vs Dalys, Narumiya, Tiffany
4) Stuka Jr. vs Felino [lightning]
5) La Sombra, Niebla Roja, Último Guerrero vs Dragón Rojo Jr., Rey Escorpión, Thunder [Relevos Increíbles]
6) Mistico, Valiente, Volador Jr. vs Ephesto, Luciferno, Mephisto

I guess you don’t need Sky Team title matches to just put them on top every week.

Dragon Rojo returns – maybe. Will they remember Dragon Rojo doesn’t like any of these people? I dunno.

Vaquerita actually makes the show, and does the video prview.

CMLL (TUE) 04/14/2015 Arena Coliseo Guadalajara [Fuego en el Ring]
1) Mr. Trueno & Rey Trueno b El Divino & Virgo
Rudos took 1/3.
2) Inquisidor, Metálico, Ráfaga b Pepe Aguayo, Starman, Stigma
Pepe Aguayo replaced Leo, Rafaga replaced Malefico. Rudos took 2/3.
3) Goya Kong, Marcela, Silueta b La Comandante, La Seductora, Tiffany
Tecnicas took 2/3
4) Ángel de Oro, Stuka Jr., Super Porky b Hechicero, Shocker, Vangellys
Tecnicos took 1/3.
5) Euforia, Gran Guerrero, Último Guerrero b Mistico, Valiente, Volador Jr.
Guerreros took 1/3. Third fall finish saw the rudos pull some tricks involving Ultimo and Gran Guerrero swapping masks and sneaking in a foul on Mistico.

Mistico is in the center of every finish, so it’s hard to figure if they plan on doing a singles match or a trios title match.

IWRG (THU) 04/16/2015 Arena Naucalpan [Black Terry Jr. (flickr), Estrellas del Ring]
1) Electro Boy b Araña de Plata, Hip Hop Man, Alas de Acero, Aeroman
Electro Boy replaced usual partner Atomic Star.
2) Dowki, Electro Boy, Imposible b Dragón Celestial, Emperador Azteca, Yakuza
Electro Boy worked twice, won twice. Emperador Azteca replaced Metaleon.
3) Apolo Estrada, Avisman, El Hijo del Diablo © b Canis Lupus, Eterno, X-Fly [EdM Trios]
Gringos 7th defense. Gringos won when X-Fly meant to splash Eterno but got X-Fly instead. Eterno & Canis were highly annoyed with X-Fly for costing them the match.
4) Faby Apache, Lady Maravilla, Veneno b Oficial AK47, Sexy Lady, Taya Valkyrie
Lady Maravilla’s debut here in a win.
5) Hijo De Dos Caras, Myzteziz, Ricky Cruz b Cibernético, Electroshock, Hijo de Máscara Año 2000
Tecnicos took 2/3. Electroshock beat Dos in the first and had him beat in the third, but got caught with La Mistica. Electroshock felt that was good enough to get him a title match, and Dos accepted.

Electroshock versus Hijo de Dos is not a match that thrills me. There are not a lot of promising heavyweight matches. Lady Maravilla, a Monterrey regular, is probably not in the Mexico City metro area just to work indy shows.

Black Terry Jr. also has highlights of the opener.

Today’s CMLL show also has a Sky Team main event, this time against the Peste Negra trio of Niebla, Casas and Cavernario. This is Niebla’s first Friday appearance since his latest return. It appears CMLL is planning a bigger week of shows starting with the Sunday April 26th shows, taking advantage of the Kid’s Day boost and the Arena Mexico anniversary show. A Sky Team trios defense on one of the shows that week would make sense, and this is the only show they’re being set up with one.

Semimain has Sombra, Marco, Maximo vs Rey Escorpion, Thunder and Ultimo Guerrero, where we find out if Thunder still has a feud. Titan and Polvora match once again in a singles match. Narumiya (who visited from REINA back in October) returns for a couple weeks of shows. Narumiya did interviews yesterday reintroducing herself. She’s now the CMLL-REINA International champion, having beat Amapola in Japan. Narumiya says she’ll have no problem teaming with her tonight.

SuperLuchas has nine reasons why the proposed lucha libre commission would be a poor idea. There’s a lot here, but one of the important points is the whoever is regulating things needs to regulate lucha libre like a business (not an art) and the promotions need to be as well regulated or better than the wrestlers. None of the stated goals address the promotions, and it was the promotion’s readiness which looked to be the initial problem with Perro Aguayo Jr.’s death.

Meanwhile, the Torreon lucha libre commission had a meeting to make their own new rules: luchadors will have their fitness tested more but won’t be allowed to work two shows in a night.

More pictures of Drago & Pentagon Jr. playing Mortal Kombat X.

RobViper has a music video of the second half of December 2014.

Segunda Caida highly recommends Invasors vs Blue Panther, Fuego and Super Porky from 01/11.

SuperLuchas notes yesterday is the anniversary of Villano II & Ray Mendoza’s passing.

LV reviews this week’s CMLL C3 and Lucha Underground.

+LuchaTV has Paranoiko and Pagano promos for tomorrow’s DTU show.

Luciferno talks about his new trio.

Leyendas Inmortales has a 04/28 Queretaro main event of Canek, Octaogn, Heavy Metal vs Fuerza Guerrera, Psicosis II and Hechicero. Hechicero??? Also, Mr. Jack is losing his title in the semimain.

WWL is back because “the fans demanded it”. No actual show is announced.