Chico Che loses his hair to Tony Rivera (& Black Terry), Atlantis defeats UG (4-0)

IWRG (SUN) 02/05/2012 Arena Naucalpan [Estrellas del Ring]
***Gurrea de Sexos***
1) Astro de Plata, Astro Rey Jr., Tritón b Gemelo Fantastico I, Gemelo Fantastico II, Pacto Negro
2) Carta Brava Jr. & Imposible DQ Alan Extreme & Black Terry
Said to be best match of the night. Chico Che attacked Black Terry for the DQ. Carta Brava challenged Black Terry to a match after.
3) Eterno b Centvrión
Both bled. Eterno took straight falls, stealing the second by pulling Centviron’s mask.
4) Texano Jr. & Toscano b Cien Caras Jr. & Máscara Año 2000 Jr.
El Consejo members on opposite sides here. IWRG’s not really concerned with AAA stories.
5) Chico Che L Angelico, X-Fly, Miss Gaviota, Chucky, Sexy Lady, Veneno, Súper Nova, Tony Rivera, Bracito de Oro, Ludark Shaitan, Oficial AK47 [cage]
masks and hair on the line. They were not allowed to leave for 10 minutes. Veneno, X-Fly, Chico Che, and Tony Rivera were the last four. Chico Che bled. Black Terry climbed in the cage with a chair, attacking Veneno, Chico Che, and Tony Rivera. X-Fly got out, followed by Veneno, and Terry. That left Tony Rivera and Chico Che. Tony tried to leave, Chico tried to stop him, and Terry interfered one more time to knock Chico away and give Tony the win.

In post match interviews, Tony did not think the match ended well, but it still counts to his hair match win total. Chico Che says everyone saw that he actually won and he’ll end Black Terry. Black Terry declared he didn’t need an invitation to join the fight and revenge is dish best served cold.

CMLL (SUN) 02/05/2012 Arena Coliseo Guadalajara [El Occidental, Fuego en el Ring]
1) Metalik b El Alteño
2) Brillante b Acertijo
3) Demonio Maya & Infierno b Esfinge & Halcon de Plata
4) Brazo de Oro, Gallo, Stuka Jr. b Arkángel de la Muerte, El Bárbaro, Ráfaga
Despite the surprise return of Brazo de Oro, it’s Stuka/Gallo and Barbaro/Rafaga who seem to be feuding. Lots of mask ripping to set up a match next week.
5) Atlantis b Último Guerrero
UG jumped Atlantis, but Atlantis still got him with a rana. Atlantis missed a top rope plancha and UG pinned hiim to take the second. UG won via Atlanitda in the long the third fall. Referee Loco Estrada appeared to be siding with UG, the fans were on him and Atlantis pushed out of the ring after the match.

Villano III won the main event of the show to honor him. Full results later.

Promoters in Mazatlan have announced an international wrestling festival for March 30th and 31st. They’re calling it international because it includes Marco Corleone (from Italy!), Heddi Karaoui and Zumbi. They say it’ll be covered by AYM Sports and TVC Deportes.

Rob has put up two Aerostar videos. Aerostar is a guy who used to wrestle in AAA a long time ago before vanishing in the Bermuda Triangle. It’s a sad tale. Also: highlights of 01/10/12 CMLL.

Links

Lineups

CMLL (SUN) 02/12/2012 Arena Coliseo Guadalajara
1) Gran Kenut vs Templario
2) Javier Cruz Jr. vs Virgo
3) Esfinge & Metatrón vs Demonio Maya & Exterminador
4) Gallo, Sagrado, Stuka Jr. vs El Bárbaro, Mr. Trueno, Ráfaga
5) La Máscara & La Sombra vs Felino & Mr. Niebla

Not quite the rematch after all.

Trio Sensacion get a win, Dos Leyendas

(photo by CMLL)

CMLL (SUN) 02/05/2012 Arena Coliseo [CMLL]
1) Camaleón & Höruz b Apocalipsis & Inquisidor
2) Hooligan, Nitro, Skándalo b Hombre Bala Jr., Starman, Super Halcon Jr.
Rudos took 1/3, clean.
3) Misterioso Jr., Namajague, Shigeo Okumura b Black Warrior, Sagrado, Sangre Azteca
Namajague’s debut. Black Warrior is said to be returning from an (unspecified, previously unmentioned) injury. Namajague pinned Sangre to get the win.
4) Blue Panther, Hijo del Fantasma, La Máscara b Felino, Terrible, Volador Jr.
Volador was dressed like Super Maquina. Or maybe Quarterback.
5) Marco Corleone, Máximo, Rush b Averno, Ephesto, Mephisto
Maximo’s trio won and became the latest group to challenge Averno for a title shot. Averno continues to refuse.

CMLL announced Dos Leyendas will take place on 03/02. That’s three weeks earlier than normal. I am not sure why. It does mean CMLL’s got to be announcing a main event in the next two weeks. Matches specifically hyped in the last few weeks

  • Blue Panther vs Negro Casas
  • Atlantis vs Ultimo Guerrero (or, Atlantis/Delta vs Ultimo Guerrero/Dragon Rojo)
  • Estrellita vs Amapola
That doesn’t include the long running feuds with nothing particularly going on (Averno vs La Mascara), the people who seem to partly exist only to lose their mask (Psicosis!) and whatever they feel like making up at a moment’s notice (see: Doble T vs Porky/Maximo last year.) And a cage match, a cage match is always possible.
Somehow, Black Terry beat Chico Che tonight in IWRG’s Guerra de Sexos. Black Terry wasn’t even in the match, which normally makes it tough to defeat someone. I hate cage matches.
El Hijo del Santo held his annual tribute to to El Santo at the Santo statue. CMLL referee Babe Richard and retired luchador Rudy Reyna were noted as present. Also there was Hijo del Santo’s son, who’s now noticeable taller than his father. Cronicas Y Leyendas posts the Box Y Lucha cover from Santo’s death.

Rob has highlights of mid November 96 AAA.

SuperLuchas #448 has X-Project and Konnan complaining about Psicosis using that name.

A column on the Gladiatores complains about how the Tijuana commission is blocking a long running promoter from running the Auditorio.

Lineups

IWRG (THU) 02/09/2012 Arena Naucalpan
1) Sky Ángel vs Halcón 2000
2) Eragón & Tritón vs Comando Negro & Pacto Negro
3) Oficial Factor, Oficial Rayan, Oficial Spartan vs Alan Extreme, Kortiz, Polifacético
4) Centvrión, Freyser, Saruman vs Apolo Estrada Jr., Canis Lupus, Chico Che
5) Angelico, Toscano, Veneno vs Eterno, Hijo de Pirata Morgan, Pirata Morgan

First time the three Oficial Elites ave teamed up in trios. Canis Lupus had disappeared from here for a while. The Piratas, the current tag team champs, have been busy elsewhere.

PROLLM (SUN) 02/12/2012 Coliseo Coacalco
1) Morbius, Rey Justicia, Ukkonen vs Abaris, Escorpión Blanco, Gato Montés
2) Albatros & Rey Dinámico vs Agora & Rey Infierno
3) Ares, Chicago Rush, Epidemia vs Boyka, Nekir, Pandemia
4) Aramís & Justiciero vs Cyborg & Kalibus
5) Diamante (CMLL), Jeque, Valiente vs Magnifico, Trauma I, Trauma II

Traumas vs Valiente sounds interesting. Or the Traumas may just eat Diamante alive.

IWRG (SUN) 02/12/2012 Arena Naucalpan
1) Astro de Plata & Astro Rey Jr. vs Matrix Jr. & Pacto Negro
2) Alan Extreme & Black Terry vs Carta Brava Jr. & Chico Che
3) Eterno vs Centvrión
4) Súper Nova, Trauma II, Tritón vs Oficial 911, Oficial AK47, Oficial Fierro
5) Toscano, Trauma I, Veneno vs Cien Caras Jr., Hijo de Máscara Año 2000, Máscara Año 2000 Jr.

Black Terry and Chico Che keep feuding, but in the segunda

02/10 AAA TV Lineup (Zumpango)

AAA TV (FRI) 02/10/2012 Gimnasio Municipal de Zumpango, Estado de México
1) Argenis, Atomic Boy, Relampago vs Ángel Mortal, Gallego, Gran Apache
2) ?, Mascarita Dorada, Octagoncito vs Mini Chessman, Mini Histeria, Mini Psicosis
3) El Elegido & Fenix vs Alan Stone & Dark Dragon
4) Cibernético, Daga, Electroshock vs Chessman, La Parka, Último Gladiador
5) Dr. Wagner Jr. & El Mesías vs Halloween & Héctor Garza

Air Date: 02/19?

First time AAA’s taped a show in Zumpango. EAW ran this building back in 2010.

There still seems to be no in-ring issue. Wagner may actually be taking on El Consejo back, while Mesias has Jeff Jarrett. Neither of them around, but Garza & Halloween are.

They’re not screwing around with Daga. (Ultimo Gladiador likely appreciates this.) Daga Dynamic Dojo may not be long for this world if he’s got big AAA matches to be concerned with. If Cibernetico & La Parka stay out of it (and they usually do!), that should be a really fun match.

Elegido reappears, so Alan Stone gets to exist.

No idea on the mystery mini tecnico.

Diabolicos return! There’s been hints they’ve been wrestling off TV a bit, and Gran Apache did turn up on a AAA Regional match a couple weeks, but this is a full fledged appearance making high flyers look good. Same as the last two decades.

02/04 GALLI in Addision

(Shorter? Hopefully.)

I made it to the building around 7:20 for a 6:45 start. No good reason, just screwing around and not staying on schedule. Didn’t matter – the 6:45 start (presumably) was just the start of a meet and great for Jorge “Maromero” Paez. He was still signing autographs at a side table when I showed up, and the actual show didn’t start until he was done. It looked like he was heading out after, but did came back (so maybe he got dinner? maybe I just lost track of him?)

Attendance looked down from last week, but tickets were double the price so maybe that part worked out. No Apocatlyptco tonight.

Around 7:30 or so…

0): (rudo) El Traidor b (tecnico) Golden Dragon

Golden badly needs to work on his basics (taking a clothesline, doing a leapfrog) before he does another rope walk. He must’ve had a bad day, because he did not look even close to ready to being in a match before the crowd; there’s no way you put someone out there who’s this neon green normally. I didn’t get a read on Traidor because his opponent overshadowed him, but the right guy won with a back suplex (or something) in about 4 minutes.

1) (rudo) Valentino DQ (tecnico) Jarod Priest

Jarod Priest is a large man (horizontally, not particularly vertically), but there’s a lot of people here who fit that descrpiton.  Priest, Michaels, Fuenbre, Alfa,

This would be a demonstrative loud large man, who talks to the crowd a lot and tries to get them to react, which gets them talking back. Valentino was amusing. This one started out pretty strong then kind of lost me late – there was a clip spot to set up some leg work here, and maybe it was the kicks that bugged me – but it was fine enough for the opener. Valiento tried to use a chair a couple times without being successful, then used a ref distraction to toss a chair to Priest and simulate a chair shot. Ref turned around to see Priest with the chair and called the DQ. Valentino did a fine job of holding his head as if he suffered a grievous wound, while letting the crowd know he was okay. Priest chased both the ref (two of them this week!) and Valentino to the back.

2) (rudos) GPA & Rob Michaels b (tecnicos) Furia Roja, Dark Scorpion

Dark Scorpion was the only one I hadn’t seen last week. He was eh. (I think he messed up a dive in this match; I know there was an additional one on this show I’m forgetting, besides the one I’ve mentioned later.) Fine enough match with the rudos looking better than the tecnicos. Both tecnicos pounded the rudos in the corners with punches, GPA slipped in a low blow on Roja, hit Scorpion with his book, Michaels powerbombed him, and GPA pulled Roja out of the ropes with a sweet backcracker for the stereo pin. Good thing they made up last week, they’re succesful team.

3) (rudos) Destructor Alfa & Funebre (w/Kid Funebre) b (tecnicos) Pentagono & Flash Metal

Pentagono was returning. He had a neat mask. Rudos destroyed it. They pretty much destroyed him the entire way. They beat up Flash Metal too, but Flash Metal also got in some offense and had a big dive at the end. The rudos beat Pentagono like he owed them money, especially Alfa. There was a brief comeback, and then he was pinned clean with a powerbomb. Just kind of odd.

4) (rudo) Ripper DCOR (tecnico) Bandolero

Ripper had his title belt with him, but this was non-title. These two hit each other loud and hard from the start. This match really didn’t make a lot of sense at time, with the barest psychology, but it was a lot of Ripper in control, Bandolero getting in a few shots, hard chop fights, and occasionally crazy spots. The craziest was maybe two-fifths of the way thru, when Bandolero decided to jump off the ropes for a spinning headscissors to the floor, and Ripper just powerbombed him on the way down onto the hard basketball floor. I’ve seen this plenty where guys have missed and powerbombed themselves onto the floor, but this looked to be a planned spot and a brutal one. Bandolero took it on his back and one shoulder, but not his head (that would’ve been the end of Bandolero), but was down and not moving for about forty seconds. Given where they were going, that should’ve been saved for the finish. Instead, twenty seconds after he pulled himself up, Bandolero did a moonsault off the stairs. The two made it back to the ring to fight for a while. Bandolero has definitely figured out that you can stomp the mat to get people to clap for you, but hasn’t figured out that you should probably get in some offense after you’ve got people clapping for you. You don’t want the clapping to fail, that’s the magic.

Finish had Bandolero getting sent out of the ring, Ripper attempting to follow with a tope, Ripper hitting the ropes on the way thru and Ripper coming up way short. Bandolero helpfully sold it anyway, but Ripper got up and hit the tecnico hard, and threw him into chairs harder. No one hits harder than a luchador angry about blowing a spot. Bandolero came back enough to keep the fight going for the twenty count. And they kept brawling. And they kept brawling more, so most everyone from the opening matches ran out to separate them. They did a spectacularly poor job of it, so these two kept fighting for a while until Bandolero dove onto all the rudos to end it. Post match brawl was really good, and this seemed to me to be the best match of the night. Effort was definitely there, and it’s the one I wish I had video of by the end of the night.

Intermission!

5) (tecnicos) Noriega, Acid Jazz, Jake Shining b (rudos) Mason Conrad, Joshua Cristian, Ovirload

Rudos had Conrad’s belt and manager James Russo (thanks Kevin!) with them. Standard trios action – every tecnico gets a turn against a rudo, a tecnico gets trapped for a while, hot tag (that doesn’t get much of a reaction), craziness and finish. Straight forward and well done. First two were Jazz/Ovirload and Noriega/Cristian, leaving the very indy-Zack Ryder looking Jack with Conrad. Mason’s champion without a current challenger, so it would’ve made sense for Jake to pin him to set something up – and that’s actually what happened, Jake pinning Conrad after a rocker dropper-ish move the 10-12 minute range. The tag champs, Cristian and Ovirload, looked better than last week. Cristian seemed the better of the two here. Ovirload looked good with Jazz in their opening sequence and less so laster on. Jazz took out Cristian and Russo with a plancha right before the finish, with Ovirload and Noriega out elsewhere (though he was still able to flash a smile at the front row despite his crippling pain.) No particular challenge post match.

6) (rudos) Gigolo Americano (w/girl & Kid Funebre), Skayde, Emperador Azteca (?) b Discovery, Rey Fuego, Atomico

Only three fall match of the night – rudos took 1/3. This was disappointing, probably for them too. The Emperador Azteca spot was a mystery man spot, which was supposed to be someone of note. Their plane did not arrive in time. Emperador Azteca (this is who CPW has listed) was just out there as a replacement – they didn’t try to make it as if he was the surprise, he was just the guy. First fall turned in to a very long beatdown, and was fine for that. Second and third fall…yea, no. No. Just a ton of unscheduled miscommunication spots – people staring at each other, people tremendously off in moves, people taking bumps from moves they were a foot away from. A large amount of this centered around Azteca, who maybe didn’t know he was wrestling and wasn’t ready, but he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time a lot. It’s not just him, everyone involved has to take some of the blame. Including the referee, who was in the way on spots and quite not in the way on the scheduled ref bump. It took Skayde and Discovery three tries to make contact with him (Skayde hilariously veering off course to clothesline him) and that set up the finish.

First, Skayde got Discovery in a campana, but no ref. Skayde let go, and Discovery eventually lifted him in a over the shoudler submission. (This took a couple tries, which was one of a couple depressing moments in the match.) Gigolo foul uppercutted Discovery, which caused him to let go of the hold, but not fall down or really sell the foul in any other way. Skayde knocked him down, sentoned him, and the ref returned to count the three.

Fuenbre walked to ringside for no real reason after the match. Paez – the boxer from the beginning – got in the ring to avenge the tencicos. He argued with Azteca briefly before getting into it with Gigolo. Gigolo tried a punch, Paez blocked it and gave him a right and a left. At least that was the idea; it must be hard for people who throw real punches for a living to try and fake them, because they know they can actually hurt people with them, and they’ve never tried to throw a real looking fake one. These looked less like KO punches and more like The Mummy slaps to the side of the head. (though there was one later to a kneeling Gigolo that was great.) Paez taunted Kid Fuenbre (!) and left the ring, but someone must’ve decided it didn’t look good enough and sent him back. Paez grabbed a chair (holding it the wrong way) and stepped back in against the rudos. He thankfully never got to make contact with the chair, but the punch spot with Gigolo (with Gigolo telling him to do it while we all waited for Paez to catch up) was only marginally better. These was a mic bit setting up something with Paez and Gigolo later – maybe Sunday?

Match just fell apart. You laugh and move on.

Let me try to find some positives here: Discovery has lost a lot of weight and is much better shape than the last time I saw him (prior to last week.) Rey Fuego was better than last week. The fans like Atomico’s act. It doesn’t work for me, but maybe he just needs a funnier look to match the gimmick. Paez seemed to enjoy himself. I was entertained in a way I was not expecting.

Bandolero/Ripper was memorably good and there was some servicable stuff on this show.

GALLI’s next show is Sunday afternoon. It’s a brave promotion that expects to get a paying crowd to an indy show opposite the Super Bowl. I wish them well. I’ll be back at some point.

02/03 AAA TV Results (Cozumel)

AAA TV (FRI) 02/03/2012 Arena Miguel Canto Solis, Cozumel, Quinta Roo [AAA]
1) Mini Histeria & Sexy Star b Fabi Apache & Mascarita Dorada
2) Cibernético, Daga, Fenix b Dark Dragon, Dizzy, La Parka
Holy smokes, it’s Dizzy! Five years between TV appearances for that man (at least under that name.) Daga got the win, starting off well. Rudos attacked the tecnicos after the match. Escoria made the save (so he got to Couzmel after all.)
3) Extreme Tiger & Jack Evans b el Hijo del Perro Aguayo & Halloween
Perro said he was done with these matches, and he wasn’t facing Jack again unless Jack beat him. Perro was overconfident, and beat. Perro was ticked at the referee.
4) El Mesías & Zorro b Héctor Garza & LA Park
Park hit one of the cameraman during the match. Joaquin walked out, added that Park’s fine total, and demanded Konnan start paying right now. Konnan told Park to calm down. Park was upset at Konnan for telling him what to do. Zorro rolled up Park in all of this for the pin.

This should air in Mexico next weekend.

Next taping is next Friday in Zumpango. And that lineup will be up in a moment

Carta Brava keeps title & advances to TxT, Arena Mexico preview

(photo by Black Terry Jr.)

Full Arena Naucalpan results have never turned up, but let’s see if embedding a Tweet works:

(Eh, kind of.)

Tonight’s Arena Mexico show has a couple of big matches. The annual Reyes del Aire is tonight, with Mascara Dorada the favorite. The actual main event is another Ultimo Guerrero vs Atlantis to tease a mask match, which may be a new annual tradition.

CMLL says Ayumi will return in March.

PWInsider (no link) posted a story yesterday that WWE had been talking to various independent wrestlers about a cruiserweight-only show for their new WWE network. That network has been ever changing in form and debut date (which is now undetermined), so nothing is definite including this show. If it did exist, it would be a landing spot for the luchadors WWE’s previously looked at. It’s months off from happening, if it happens, but it likely means WWE is contacting some of them.

Luchas 2000 #605 reveals the “new promises” taking on Dandy, Scorpio and Fuerza on the next Todo x el Todo show are Angelico, Carta Brava Jr., and Saruman, all from IWRG. Dinamic Black is also interviews as participating, but I’m sure how.

LuchaWorld has KrisZ’s news update.

Rob has highlights of 06/14/11 CMLL.

Links

  • Villano III talks about his career to promote his 40th anniversary show.
  • Titan is surprised he’s in the Reyes del Aire
  • Stuka visited a elementary school to speak out against bullying.
  • El Consejo says they’re going to destroy everyone from Atomic Boy to Cibernetico
  • Angelica talks about her upcoming Juarez Women’s Championship challenge.
  • Estrellita will be on the Valiente’s Day Lucha Va Voom show.
  • El Diario de Coahuila interviews local rudo Tempestad.

Lineups

indy (SUN) 02/19/2012 Arena Coliseo Monterrey
1) Demonio del Caribe vs Black Poison
2) Lady Puma & Rey Apostol vs La Bandida & Mr. Vega
3) Gardenia Azteca, Rosa Salvaje, Sexy Maciel vs Androide, Genocida, Hijo Del Mongol Chino
4) Angel Dorado Jr., Dralion, Sky vs Gemelo Muerte I, Gemelo Muerte II, Misionero
5) Big Neurosis, Golden Boy, Tun Tun vs Mado Miadow, Rico Rodriguez, Simbolo

Miadow is a magician, maybe? This is another match set up on Noches de Futbol.