CMLL FSE GdR - 10/21/07 (#60)
Recapped: 10/27/07
Intro: India Sioux hangs out with the announcers and gives us a thumbs down when the rudas are mentioned. Sangre Azteca explain the Guerreros are the Kings. Rey says his team is going to do it for the ladies.
Outside the Ring: Sangre Azteca
Match 1: Amapola (c), La Nazi, Mima Shimoda vs India
Sioux, Lady Apache (c), Sahori
Arena Coliseo, 09/23/07
Winner: tecnicas (2-1)
Match Time: 6:42
Approx Rating: Bad.
Other Match Notes: Intros were doing the show opening credit. This is La
Nazi's return to the ring after at least a month off, and India's been off for a
while coming into this match. Promos set up a tag feud between Amapola/La Nazi
vs India Sioux/Lady Apache, of all things.
1: Fall either is joined in progress, or Amapola opens the match by spearing the ring post on a failed charge. That would suck. She spins all the way down to the floor and India poses, so I guess we missed that whole exchange. Nazi comes in to face Sahori and boots here in the head before throwing her around by the hair. Corner whip, running hipblock. Nazi picks up Sahori, whips her in the corner head, and slowly walks in - so it's no surprise Sahori gets in a headscissors. Sahori off the ropes, plancha is caught and dropped. Nazi off the ropes, splash but Sahori rolls to safety just in time. Sahori off the ropes, dropkick to Nazi's back as she sits there. Sahori off the ropes again, but Amapola comes in as Nazi slides out, cutting off the tecnica. Amapola grabs Sahori's arm, kicks her in the midsection, and does a spinning leg DDT. That spot just as contrived in Mexico as it does in the US, Canada and Japan - maybe Uganda? Sahori and Amapola take a while to get the timing right to make it worse, and the crowd does let them know. Amapola stomps Sahori, then pulls her up by her hair. Whip, Sahori comes back with a spinning armdrag except nothing happens (so it's just her spinning for no reason), bodyscissors into an armdrag sends Amapola across the ring. Sahori open hand slaps Amapola, which Amapola sells while walking across the ring to set up a corner whip. Nazi's slipped back in the ring, and she boosts her partner to the apron as she comes in, while kicking Sahori down. Amapola goes up as Apache comes in and cross ring. Amapola slips on the top rope going for a plancha, but they do a fantastic job of turning it an armdrags. It was as naturally a save as you'll see, but this fall is going quite bad. Apache ends up out of the ring, Amapola tries to make up for everything with one big thru the ropes tope con giro. It was quite good. The other four all hit the ring, with Mima (who's in this match!) going all Blue Panther on Sahori while Nazi finishes India with La Rosa.
2: Clipped, very obviously so, to the comeback spot. Apache and Sahori are whipped, and the rudas pick up Nazi for a double big boot. Sahori and Apache grab her legs, and shove down the whole pile. India in so all the tecnicos can dropkick all the rudas out. Triple dive...tease. Aw. Rudas were moving out of the way, so you kinda figured. Rudas regroup on the outside before the fall gets going. Nazi and Sahori again, with Nazi dominated. Sahori sidesteps a corner charge and tries to German suplex La Nazi but that ain't happening. Nazi back elbows out and gets her own waistlock, but Lady Apache gets involved with a top rope sunset flip on both. La Nazi turns it back over to be on top, Apache re-reverses it, in plenty of time for Sahori to accidentally boot her. Sahori tries to whip Nazi into an India missile dropkick, but that had zero chance of working. India hits her own partner on the reversed whip. Nazi grabs India and whips her towards the ruda corner, but India turns it around (!) and Amapola ends up dropkicking her own partner. Apache comes in, and we've got the four 'feuding' wrestlers involved. Tecnicas immediately get finishes, with Sahori pinning Mima for good measure.
El Arte del Catch: La Rana. Unless I've blown this, a "rana" is pretty much any sort of cradle. I use 'rana for huracarranas, because it's a lot easier to spell.
3: Mima and Sahori start the match. The ring girl is out after the fall starts, and we look at her rather than whatever the people in the ring are doing. Sahori does an apron dive, but it's totally not shown due to the ring girl and fall graphics. This is not the best of shows. Amapola goes to add her own dive, but India cuts her off with a plancha. Amapola turns the table after after a corner whip, and gets a sunset flip on India near the corner. Something seems off about that, because Lady apache got to the rope for some move, and was a little surprised at what she saw. She ended up doing a senton con giro on Amapola, who didn't sell it because she had to get up for her next spot. Everyone seemed lost, and the next big spot was an India rebound headscissors spot on La Nazi where India didn't get close to hooking India's head. The match completely went bad from there - people running the ropes while getting in each other's ways, Mima feeding her head for an India headscissors when India wasn't ready for one, Apache running to the ropes and dropping to the mat so someone could do a dive behind her except no was. As bad as they've been since I can remember. Sahori and India did dives, Amapola and Apache were left in the ring and did a perfectly fine ending sequence (so a notable step up) to wrap it up, with Amapola powerbombing Apache and putting her feet on the ropes for the win. The second ref, who's usually looking outside of the ring towards those who just dived in this sequence, instead saw the pin from a clear angle to see Amapola's feet on the ropes, and immediately overturned the finish. So glad for it being over.
Lots of replays and plenty of time looking at an empty ring, which you'd think they wouldn't have if they had to cut out parts of two falls. I guess this is not really the match to complain about that (this is the match to complain "hey, you know that sucked, why not just air something else?"). Everyone leaves thru a side exit instead of the normal way. If someone behind the main exit was going to tell them what they thought of that match, I'd use a side path too.
El Diseno: Nosferatu
Match 2: Eclipse, Sangre Azteca, Toscano (c) vs Alex
Koslov, Marco Corelone (c), Rey Bucanero
Arena Coliseo, 09/23/07
Winner: Tecnicos
Match Time: 13:32
Approx Rating: Entertaining in moments.
Other Match Notes: Dubbed entrance. Sangre has his belt. Do you think
Toscano wants to win a title so he can make a spinny version of it?
1: We pick up in mid Alex/Sangre mat sequence, with Alex working over Sangre's left leg. They transition to zero leg trips, though Sangre limps his way thru. Look at the crowd and the announcers before Toscano vs Bucanero. Tarzan's not happy with the chants, but what are you go to do. Toscano's immediately complaining about hair pulls too. Chain wrestling here too, which Tarzan controlling 90% but Rey getting in the final armdrag in the sequence. Tags out - Corelone vs Eclipse! Pose off. They should just do that, and tag back out. Oh, they can do the leaping contest too. Corelone can't leap! He went to jump, and then he could only jump like an inch. And again! We skip these antics to see his wacky posing antics. Back live, Rey checks out Corelone's boots. Let's try this again - no, Corelone still has no hopes. Corelone leaves the ring to consult with the doctor, but he's no help. Corelone still can't leap on the outside. This is the longest skit ever and killing so much time. Fans chant Corelone to help him leap. Eclipse tells him to dig deep inside and find the power to jump high. Corelone digs, leaps, and dropkicks Eclipse out of the ring! You know, that was far better than those two wrestling for three minutes would've been. Toscano and Sangre jump Corelone while the refs keep the tecnicos out. Corner whip, charge in, Corelone kips out, leapfrogs over them, springboard clothesline is looking a bit weak but it hits. Alex and Rey dropkick the rudos out, Rey goes out with a slingshot top con giro, Alex with his usual springboard plancha. Eclipse back in and missing a dropkick. Whip, reversed, Corelone hits the springboard clothesline one more time, one two three.
I'm normally a three fall person, but I'd be okay with this being one fall. It can only go down from this fall.
Q: [Toscano] Antes de ser luchador que deporte practicaba?
A: Bicilceta extrema
2: Rey and Eclipse to start. Eclipse lands a clothesline and celebrates that great triumphant. Snap mare, armbar, Rey throw in, Rey uses the ropes to sing back in. Eclipse charge for a clothesline, gets armdrags. Eclipse slides himself to the apron and stays there for some reason - oh, so Rey can dropkick him out. Sangre in, Rey ducks the clothesline, Sangre tries a bodyscissors and gets powerbomb. Toscano gets tripped into a senton on his own partner. Replay of that dropkick on Eclipse, who hit the mat hard. 'Live', Rey's cleared the ring. Tag to Alex, who milks the cheers he's getting from the ladies. Alex off the ropes, cartwheel over, Eclipse, back but back elbowed. Eclipse works over Alex in the corner. Eclipse has to raise his arms every shot. Eclipse backs up, charges, and misses. Alex works him over with chops. Whip, reversed, and Alex gives Eclipse a faceslam. Sangre and Toscano come in as a pair again, and fail as a pair again. Alex ends up armdragging them both, headscissors Sangre out, and giving Toscano the jumping enziguri. Tag to Corelone, who once again faces Sangre. Sangre's grown no taller since they had their last head to head matchup, so Sangre compares bicep size. Toscano wants a turn, and stands on the bottom rope to meet Corelone. Corelone can jump that high, so Toscano goes one rope higher. Corelone can get his elbow as high as Toscano can hold up his arm, so Toscano heads to the top rope. Corelone can jump high than that even - so Toscano jumps on him with a missile dropkick. Rudo beatdown, and it's about time. Bucanero gets posted, Sangre stomps Corelone out of the ring with such enthusiasm, he almost falls thru the rope reaching for Corelone. Toscano back elbows Alex out of the ring, and we end up with all the rudos in and no tecnicos. That's a problem if you want to win the fall. Alex jumps in to take a corner clothesline and Sangre's low blow dropkick. That's it for him. Marco gets a double suplex and a Toscano strutting legdrop, just to make it silly. Toscano really should've done a fist drop there, what was he thinking. Fight continues between falls.
El Arte del Catch: El Ciber Castigo - this is that backslide nudo thing.
3: Rudos still firmly in control. Toscano has gotten himself a baseball cap and is wearing it sideways to complete the look. Corelone gets dumped in the front row and gets all sorts of affection from a women in the front row. Bucanero gets boots in the face in the ring, not as fun. Alex gets dropped in the middle of the ring, and the Guerrero get completely lost as to what triple team they're supposed to be doing. No one's quite sure, so it works that it goes wrong, except it doesn't actually go wrong right - Sangre gets held by Bucanero on one side of the ring while Alex gets held by the other rudos on the opposite side of the ring, and nothing happens. Sangre realizes this is messed up and breaks free, while Toscano slams Alex and tries to be very clear on instructions to Eclipse. Double elbow drop to Alex, and Toscano gestures to Eclipse that they're going to do it again, but this time Alex is going to move. Actually, Alex moves before they even go for it, but that's the spot. That was so bad. Sangre gets pushed out of the way by Rey, who's picked up by Corelone and powerbombed onto the other two rudos. That looked quite painful for Eclipse, who took the worse of it. Sangre takes Alex's springboard forearm, moving away on impact. The rudos are put on the ropes for Rey's big sit, except Corelone puts Toscano on the wrong set of ropes. What's going on today? Alex fixes that, and Rey gets his big sit in. End the fall! Lots of talking here, but it's because they agree with me and are trying to do it - Corelone up top, rudos lined up, big plancha on all the rudos only hits two of them, but Toscano takes a charity bump as well. That's it, a few moments too late.
Replays show Toscano just gets hit by Corelone's legs, though just barely. We join a Corelone promo in progress, and it's as it always is. Sangre does the rebuttal and the nose area of his mask is red - did Alex's forearm bust something? That would make sense. Sangre makes a completely random challenge for Rey's title, which seems about right.
That's it!