Invasors vs Bufete, Cometa/Namajague, new champ in Guadalajara

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KrisZ has a great bio of Emilio Charles Jr.

photo by CMLL

CMLL (FRI) 12/28/2012 Arena Mexico [CMLL, Yahoo! Deportes]
1) Molotov & Stigma b Akuma & Inquisidor
2) Dalis la Caribeña, Estrellita, Luna Mágica b Amapola, La Comandante, Princesa Sugheit
Amapola surprised Estrellita with a cruz nipona in the first, Estrallita surprised Amapola with a roll up in the second, and they were both out of the ring (after an Estrellita silla) when Luna & Dalis beat Comandnate and Sugheit.
3) Fuego, Rey Cometa, Tritón DQ Namajague, Shigeo Okumura, Vangelis
Rey Cometa brought to the ring a photo of his grandfather, who passed away recently. Tencicos took 1/3, Namajague fouling Cometa in the last. Cometa challenged the Japanese demon to a match.
4) Mr. Águila b Valiente [lightning]
Mr. Aguila snuck in a foul to beat Valiente.
5) Averno, Felino, Mephisto b Atlantis, Delta, Guerrero Maya Jr.
Wrestlers, staff, and programming officials all came to the ring before the match for a moment of applause and a chant for Emilio Charles Jr. Those in the this match just stayed there for this match. Rudos took 2/3, Mephisto & Felino beating Delta & Maya in a match that had a lot of Averno and Atlantis interaction.
6) Kráneo, Psicosis, Volador Jr. b La Máscara, Marco Corleone, Máximo
Rudos won cleanly. Volador demanded an Invasors shot at the CMLL World trios titles.I’m off at least one week on my Amapola/Estrellita guess.

Rey Cometa has new music, which is good because his old music didn’t really fit him and was already being used by El Elegido. Rey Cometa’s new music is “Come With Me”, which is not good because it’s been all over AAA TV for the last year as El Consejo’s music and makes CMLL look second rate. (It’s also a rudo song.) There are plenty of other songs in the world, they should go with one of them.

CMLL (FRI) 12/28/2012 Arena Coliseo Guadalajara [@acogdl]
1) Acertijo & Thunder Boy b Brillante & Índigo
Rudos gain 1/3.
2) El Divino, Esfinge, Sky Kid b Évola, In Memoriam, Sádico
Tecnicos took 1/3.
3) Silueta b Zeuxis [REINA IJ]
Silueta kept her championship.
4) Javier Cruz, Javier Cruz Jr., Smaker b Espectrum, Magnum, Maléfico
Tecnicos took 1/3.
5) Ráfaga b Sagrado [OCCIDENTE LH]
Sagrado came in as the champion looking for first defense, but Rafaga took falls 1/3 to win the title.
6) Blue Panther & Máscara Dorada b Mr. Niebla & Negro Casas

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Rafaga beating Sagrado is a surprise. The Occidente championships make more sense being on guys who would be here regularly but that only matters if they have plans to do things with them. They have used the middleweight title a bit this year.

AAA announced they’ll be airing the traditional 3 weeks of Best of Material starting this afternoon. The Acapulco taping will air on 01/19 and probably 01/26, then the Toluca taping starts on 02/02. NFL season winds down during that period, so they’ll probably be moving back to Sunday (and 2 hours?) somewhere in that stretch, but the bigger point is not much new material for a while and probably only the 1 main TV taping next month.

Informador talks to Barbaro Cavernario, Mistico, and Rush about where they are in lucha libre right now. Mistico says he must do more difficult moves than the original to get him over, and the fans are starting to call him El Kamikaze de Lucha Libre. You know, it didn’t end well for the kamikazes. Also, which fans are saying that?

Rob has highlights of 12/04/12 CMLL.

Eita is listed as possibly appearing on the 01/27 Dragon Gate show.

Lineups

CMLL (FRI) 01/04/2013 Arena Mexico
1) Camaleón & Oro Jr. vs Herodes Jr. & Inquisidor
2) Dalis la Caribeña, Estrellita, Goya Kong vs Amapola, La Comandante, La Seductora
3) Ángel de Oro, Diamante, Stuka Jr. vs Shigeo Okumura, Vangelis, Virus
4) Rey Cometa vs Namajague [lightning]
5) Diamante Azul, La Sombra, Titán vs Euforia, Niebla Roja, Último Guerrero
6) Marco Corleone, Máximo, Rush vs Mr. Águila, Psicosis, Volador Jr.

Guerreros and Rush are back. Main event is not  a title match, yet.

Rey Cometa vs Namajague follows up on their interaction in a midcard match. Followup is just plani weird.

Amapola and Estrellita keep facing off in the segunda.

Emilio Charles, CMLL shows tonight, hair match signing, Rey Celestial

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Emilio Charles Jr. links

MedioTiempo mentions the cause of death as kidney problems.

Luchaworld has an obit for Emilio Charles Jr.

R de Rudo has video of Emilio explaining how he got the Rey del Beautiful name.

CMLL has some photos of Emilio Charles from around the time of his hair match with Maximo hair match.

Other News

Today’s CMLL show does not have a lot going on in terms of the storyline. The Amapola/Estrellita feud continues in the segunda, and probably should lead to a title match next Friday. Otherwise, the CMLL preview pushes the main event as (2/3rds of the) CMLL Trios champs vs (2/3rds of the) National champs. The matches, including a Valiente vs Mr. Aguila lightning match, look good.

CMLL also has a show tonight in Arena Coliseo Guadalajara with two title matches. Sagrado defends the Occidente Light Heavyweight championship for the first time versus local rudo Rafaga, while Siluta defends REINA’s International Junior Championship versus rival Zeuxis.

CMLL held a contract signing on Thursday for the Disturbio & Bobby Zavala vs Leono & Tigre Blanco double hair match. At least, they tried to – Leono didn’t show. CMLL acknowledged Leono’s non-appearance with a quote from Disturbio claiming Leono was just scared. There’s no suggestion Leono will miss the actual match.  They’ll probably air this as part of the Televisa show this week. There’s also a commercial for the match on CMLL’s YouTube channel.

Estrellas del Ring has an interview with QPPLC minis winner Rey Celestial. He says he started training under Bisonte and Cobra Dorada, but now is training with Pegasso and Loco Max. Rey Celestial is 17, and says he’s been working for this moment for 8 years (though I don’t know that means he started real matches at age 9.)

Another interview with Rey Celestial gives his age as 16. This article is much more about praising the local Puebla Box Y Lucha commission for their help.

Informador has an article about young luchadors in Guadalajara. They mention there are seven smaller lucha venues in the arena in addition to Coliseo: Arena Proyeccion 2000, Arena Olimpica, Arena Jalisco, Club Gorilla, Arena Capataz, Punto Beer and Arena Roberto Paz. I’ve heard and seen lineups for Proyeccion, Olimpico, Jalisco and Roberto Paz, but not the other ones. And those don’t seem to include Dantes shows at Bar F-Bolko.

LuchaWorld has Alfredo with a much better recap of the TerceraCaida show, KrisZ’s news update and the latest Slammin’ Stan.

Rob has highlights of CMLL February 2002

Bill has highlights of 09/08/2011 IWRG.

AAA has the first part of their interview with Taya Valkyrie.

Report from the Christmas IWL show.

R de Rudo Pirata Podcast #3 is up, as well as a column about names based on misfortunes.

Lineups

CMLL (TUE) 01/01/2013 Arena Puebla
1) Dinámikoo & Tigre Rojo Jr. vs King Jaguar & Saurón
2) Bengala, Black Tiger, Metálico vs Akuma, Inquisidor, Siki Ozama Jr.
3) Ángel Azteca Jr., Magnus, Pegasso vs Guerrero Negro Jr., Hijo del Signo, Nitro
4) Starman vs Namajague [lightning]
5) Diamante, Rey Cometa, Sagrado vs Black Warrior, Puma, Sangre Azteca
6) Diamante Azul, Máscara Dorada, Super Porky vs Mr. Águila, Terrible, Volador Jr.

A show! A “we’re strapped for people on because people are still on vacation” show by the looks of the second and third match.

Emilio Charles Jr. (1957-2012)

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Emilio Charles Jr., a CMLL star of the 80s, 90s and early 2000s, passed away Thursday. His son posted about his father’s passing on his Facebook account.

Emilio, a second generation wrestler, was an underrated rudo in the mid 80s thru the mid 90s. He was not treated as a top guy, but an underrated well working rudo who could mesh well with young promising tecnicos. He faced Octagon and Atlantis in title matches many times as both guys were taking off in the early 90s. Atlantis was Emilio’s biggest rival for years, and the rivalry was remembered as long were both in CMLL. Emilio’s matches with Atlantis helped establish him as a career.

Emilio may have not gotten to defeat the top tecnicos often, but he did well in apuesta matches. Emilio, a rough looking rudo with long hair, lost a few times early in his career, but was protected as the 90s started and won 8 straight hair matches in Arena Mexico and Arena Coliseo, including a major win over Silver King at the 1996 Anniversary show.

Emilio took on the ironic role of El Rey del Beautiful near the end of the run, in what was build up to a big hair match with 1000% Guapo Shocker. Shocker won, ending Emilio’s long streak and making Shocker a star. Like Atlantis, Shocker brought his own abilities to the feud, but two of the biggest CMLL stars of the last couple decades would not have done as well without facing off with Emilio Charles Jr.

Emilio’s early 2000s are well remembered for his trio with Bestia Salvaje and Scorpio Jr. Bestia & Scorpio were responsible for remaking the barbarian Emilio over into El Rey del Beautiful as part of a new Los Guapos trio (the other two having split with Shocker to set up the feud.) Later, after 09/11, the trio went into another direction as Los Talibanes. It was played totally as absurd comedy, as all three luchadors were being moved down the card for younger wrestlers. Emilio was still well respected after his peak, getting hair wins over Satanico and Asesino Negro after the Shocker loss because he was still considered that big of a star.

Emilio stuck around CMLL as his partners left and new luchadors came in. Emilio was winding down just as Terrible was starting his CMLL career, and the two had a joke of Terrible actually being Emilio’s son because of their similar look. Emilio’s last few years were really the same as his peak, giving young wrestlers big wins. His last two CMLL singles matches – his last two singles match of any kind I can find – was a 2006 hair match loss to Maximo, and a 2007 hair match loss to Mascara Purpura. The last one saw the crowd fiercly boo Purpura and cheer for Charles even after the match, upset their old favorite had been beaten again. Emilio still had the respect of the people.

Emilio was done in CMLL after that match. He worked a little bit more in Guadalajara, and a little bit in IWRG. He last worked there in 2009 and sparsely appeared on indy shows after. There were stories in 2010 about a lucha libre school and a class he was teaching there, but little mention of that since. He was hospitalized in poor shape in 2011 after a spider bite, and left the hospital looking unnaturally thin for Emilio, but recovered. El Hijo del Santo interviews as part of his short lived webshow earlier this year (part 1, part 2). There had been no mention of Emilio being in poor health until the report of his passing.

I’ll have more notes and links later today.

Edit: The birth year has been corrected.

12/27-28 lucha times

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== AAA ==

AAA-Televisa: The next taping being pushed back to 01/18 means they have 4 more weeks before taping new TV. 2 of those are the Acapulco weeks, 2 of those have to be made up somehow. My guess is they’ll air the GdT matches which haven’t aired nationally yet – the ladder match and the opener, but they could do two weeks of Best of. If you’ve watched Fusion as well as this show, there’s probably not going to be any new material here.

AAA-Fusion: Was supposed to air part 2 of GdT, but it never went up on YouTube. That would leave part 3 here as well, and no idea for next week.

== CMLL ==

Galavision/Televisa: Estrellita/Amapola feud is set on this show. Probably also the Averno/Valiente lightning match and the main event.

FOX: Panther/Sombra/Titan vs Casas/Terrible/Tiger

52MX: The Arena Coliseo Tag Title match, plus maybe Blanca/Marcela

C3: Negro Casas vs Guerrero Maya, final build up to the tag hair match

GDL: Averno/Mephisto/Niebla vs Marco/Dorada/Maximo

TVC Deportes (Puebla): they’re 4 weeks behind, leaving this week as Atlantis/Marco/Maximo vs Niebla/Casas/UG. Euforia/Roja/Tiger vs Angel de Oro/Delta/Maya sounds like a good main event

En Busca de un Idolo: Euforia vs Diamante and Dragon Lee vs Titan, which might be my favorite Dragon Lee match of the year.

Terra: Atlantis/Azul/Shocker vs Niebla/Terrible/Tiger. Triton vs Virus in the lightning match.

== Other ==

IWRG-TVC Deportes: still not on the air.

IWRG-AYM Sports: Golden Magic/Trauma I/Trauma II vs Eterno/Head Hunter/Super Nova

ACM: Parks vs Wagner?