Match 1: Ángel Azteca Jr., Ángel de Plata ©, Hombre Bala Jr. vs Bobby Zavala, Puma King, Tiger
Arena Mexico, 07/19/2011
rudos
Winner: técnicos (2-1)
Match Time: 12:18
Rating: okay
Notes: Referee is Bestia Negra, and the clips are going from the start.
1: Basic opening pairs are Tiger/Azteca, Puma/Plata, Zavala/Bala. Last one is the least, should not to be last. To prove the point, they botch a counter dropkick spot. Angels team up to take Zavala out, and Bala lands the springboard inverted tope to the floor. Cats isolated Plata in for the overly complicated frontcracker, hand off, backcracker, powerbomb spot. It is enough for the pin, and we are alerted that Plata is captain.
2: Local break takes out the start of the fall. Rudos are in control when the action picks up. Azteca lifted up for the required low blow dropkick. Técnico fans really need a chant or a song. Azteca also nicely starts the comeback by turning a backdrop into a sunset flip on Puma. Rudos go to kick, both kick Puma. Bala planchas both, waits, ducks a double clothesline, and boosts Plat into a dropkick that doesn’t quite get there but Everyone falls down anyway. Plata run up the corner plancha on Puma, and the other two wrap up in the ring.
3: Once everyone is ready to start, Zavala gets annoyed at Bala chopping him, invites him outside, and kicks and posts him out there. Back in, Bala immediately armdrags him out and that's that. Announcers are unsure which cat has one name and which has two. Puma's sequence with Plata ends with Puma taking a big monkey flip on the ramp. Arena Mexico crowd loves Puma. Angel Azteca rolls to quick on Tiger, and the dropkick to the back side ends up being a dropkick to the chest. He and Azteca aren't on the same page for a few other spots, but work thru it okay. Rope flip armdrag ends that. Zavala catches Aztec with a dropkick as he does his rope fake out, but Zavala misses a corner charge, takes the UG knee bump out, and is dropped by Azteca's tope con giro. This kicks off dives – Tiger with a slingshot corner tope con giro, Bala with a top rope tornillo. Plata and Puma finish it in the ring, or around the ring – Puma step to the stage to superkicks Angel from there, then sneak in a heel kick on a corner charge. Puma run up and around the ropes into a frontcracker is blocked, and Angel de Plata is putting on something as the local break clicks in.
Replay shows Plata putting on the inverted campana right after to finish. Missed about 3 seconds.
Match 2: Pegasso, Rey Cometa, Starman vs Euforia, Raziel, Virus
Arena Mexico, 07/19/2011
rudos
Winner: rudos (2-1)
Match Time: 10:53
Rating: OK
Notes: Ref is Tigre Hispano.
1: Virus/Starman start, while announcers entertain themselves over dramatic announcements of Starman's name. “STAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARMAN!” Announcers then disappear for a while, which is actually much better than clipping out every time they stay something LATV doesn't want to hear. Euforia and Pegasso are next, Pegasso getting in early jumping snap mare but more often held down by the bigger man. Pegasso looks pretty slick with his headscissors from the mat to end it. Rey Cometa flips in the ring to face Raziel. Raziel complains! I think he wanted a DQ for flipping there, which would be great news to all rudos. These two pick up the speed, with Cometa again doing the backflip into a spinning headscissors, getting far more speed than Palacio ever did. Raziel goes out, Virus trips up Rey Cometa, and Euforia takes him out with a dropkick to the face. Euforia knocks Starman off the apron, and Pegasso's attack leaves him laying for a Euforia elbow drop, and a spinning plancha from Raziel. That was nice. Everyone takes turns kicking Starman, and then everyone puts on a hold for the fall.
2: Beatdown on still. Dead bit of audio, again. That's fine, we can still hear the action. Rudos are well organized. This is really the best possible Cancerbero unit, no disrespect to Cancerbero. Pegasso tosses Raziel into the corner to start the comeback, then leads Virus into a Starman headscissors. Euforia kicks Starman down, but boots Cometa in a dropkick on Raziel, and Pegasso dropkicks Euforia. Dives by the ex-AAA duo, Cometa's dive good but not as catchy as usual. Virus fights Starman off and head up top, but Starman gives him an armdrag off the top rope, one two three. “STAAAAAAAaaaaAAAAARMAN!”
3: Cometa dropkicks Raziel until he gives, and then Pegasso/Virus is cut. Crowd is very anti-tecnico. Starman hiptoss Euforia around, and ends him out with the rope flip armdrag, but catches his feet on the ropes on a pescado and falls badly. Crowd hoots and hollers. Técnicos try to save, but rudos run them off and crotch Starman on the post. Beatdown in. Triple press slam on Cometa, and three man tapatía to end it right away.
Match 3: Fuego vs Dr. X in a lightning match
Arena Mexico, 07/19/2011
Winner: Fuego (DQ)
Match Time: 5:40
Rating: not enough to tell
Notes: Joined with Dr. X, still in his entrance gear, attacking Fuego on the way to the ring. Ref is Pompin. Going to use the official clock, though we already seem to have a clip.
Dr. X brings Fuego in, stomping and clotheslining. Corner whip, corner clothesline. And local break.
Back, and Dr. X is covering for two. Fuego still seems in trouble. Dr. X suplex is escaped, Fuego shoves him in the ropes, Fuego top rope quebrada (!) one two NO. Fuego fireman's carry drop, second rope quebrada eats knees. Dr. X kicks Fuego, snap mares him over, and goes for the mask. Ripped up good. Four minutes in. Dr. X in no hurry. Very mild Fuego chant. Announcers have gone quiet again. Double jab. Off the ropes, dropkick to the head. Slap to the chest. Whip, reversed, Fuego flips Dr. X onto this back., and puts on the arm scissors. Dr. X in trouble here, but help is coming. Arkangel, in workout clothes, jogs to the ring, steps in the ropes, and walks over to stomp the pin up. Slaps and kicks to Fuego. Pompin hasn't called the match, but is trying to get in the middle. He's really no help. Arkangel holds Fuego for Dr. X to hit for a while. Fuego whipped into Arkangel corner kicks, and Arkangel adds the middle rope elbow drop. Pompin finally raises Fuego's arm for the DQ. (Clock doesn't actually stop.)
Tuareg continues to beat up on Fuego, though Arkangel backs off so Dr. X can untie his mask himself. Pompin tries to get involved, is pretty ineffective. Fuego has black hair, and Dr. X has a Fuego shirt. Where does one get an Arkangel logoed shirt? Dr. X start to talk on the mic, then gives up to stomp Fuego some more. Dr. X tell us the Tuareg is the best.
Match 4: Blue Panther, Sangre Azteca, Valiente vs Misterioso Jr., Pólvora, Shigeo Okumura
Arena Mexico, 07/19/2011
técnicos
Winner: técnicos (2-1)
Match Time: 10:48
Rating: bleh
Notes: Ref is Bestia Negra.
1: Announcers bring up Sangre Azteca winning a title in France. Usual Panther start – getting holds on Okumura, Misterioso hyper to get in his two cents. This does not turn into a beatdown, and moves on to Sangre and Misterioso and exchanging shoves and slaps; they remember they still have an issue, even if they people in charge seem to have moved on. Misterioso gets Sangre with an enziguri, but misses a kick off a sunset flip reversal, and Valiente jumps in with a plancha. Valiente gets in a 'rana which looks like it might be three, but Pólvora breaks that up an stomps down his rival. Pólvora is all over Valiente until Valiente escapes a snap mare. Dropkick to the knee, quebradora, quebradora try again, Pólvora lands on his feet, Valiente ducks the clotheslines and lands the springboard tope. Valiente holds the legs apart for Sangre to hit the top rope low blow dropkick, and the rest of the técnicos keep the rest of the rudos at bay. Pólvora is the captain, I guess.
2: Rudos quickly trip up Panther from the outside and dropkick him in the face, so the beatdown is on. Valiente does manage to keep it even with Pólvora, but Misterioso holds Panther for the Okumura missile dropkick, and Misterioso finishes off Sangre.
3: All the técnicos get held and hit. Valiente sidesteps Pólvora's charge the second time, and Pólvora spears the post out. Misterioso take the monkey flip, and Valiente Special lands well on Valiente. Panther sets up up Sangre for his one move, and then finishes Okumura himself. He needs no help
Match 5: Ángel de Oro, La Sombra, Máscara Dorada vs El Alebrije, Mr. Águila, Psicosis
Arena Mexico, 07/19/2011
técnicos
Winner: rudos (2-1)
Match Time: 15:15
Rating: good
Notes: Only match with entrances. Why is Mr. Aguila using “I Gotta Feeling”? Rudo move there. It is still weird that Alebrije is a main event rudo in CMLL. Well, rudo in the main event, let's not overstate this. Ref is Tigre Hispano.
1: Sombra and Aguila battle evenly to start. Plata and Alebrije are in next, and the crowd is actually excited to see Oro, annoying Alebrije. Oro has to run and hit at first, but battles evenly on the ground. Dorada/Psicosis Is the last pair. Dorada's mask is extra sparkly tonight. Flipping run leads to a headscissors. Dorada gets flipped to the apron and almost takes out a cameraman, but springboard back in for an armdrags that sends Psicosis out. Dorada charges and lands the top con giro, landing on his feet. Aguila in, but Oro out him off with a plancha. Invasors stop Oro and Sombra with a kicks, but técnicos rally back. Oro kicks down Aguila and lands the outside in moonsault on him, while Sombra almost runs out of ring (and hits his feet on the ropes) on the backflip into a moonsault.
2: Dorada walks the top rope for fun between falls, then backflips off. Crowd chants for Sombra as he waits for the rudos to get started. Angel de Oro ends up tagging instead, and runs right into a backdrop. Announcers are quiet again. Oro rallies, headscissors Psicosis out and doing a fake dive pose. Alebrije bum rushes him out, then eats a springboard plancha. Alebrije clotheslines him down and throws Dorada to the ramp, but Dorada rolls thru, slaps Alebrije, backs up, charges and lands the floating headscissors back in. Aguila in and missing on his spin kick, but his springboard armdrag sends Dorada out. Sombra in. Posing. Sombra rips off his shirt. Sombra clothesline misses, Aguila shoulderblocks him down, Aguila clothesline misses, dueling flipping runs, Aguila headscissors. Sombra springboard headscissors. Psicosis in, Sombra evades, tosses him back in the ropes, evades more, Psicosis kicks him int eh ropes, Psicosis lifts him up, and Psicosis eventually headscissors him. Psicosis tope takes out Sombra. Aguila and Oro in, making it thru their spots despite a near collision, and Aguila land the jumping heel kick and the standing moonsault for a pin. Alebrije kills Dorada with a brainbuster, then tosses Cuije on top for the pin. Rudo fans make themselves heard.
3: Action picks up with a Cuije low blow headbutt on Sombra. Psicosis slams Angel de Oro on the ramp, walks up the ropes, poses, and dives off with a senton. That was a fine idea! Psicosis very proud of himself. Cuije gets a low blow dropkick on Dorada, making him the equal of Sangre Azteca. Corner charges on Dorada, a big spinebuster, and Alebrije sideslams his little friend on top for a legdrop. Local break.
Just back in time to see a replay of triple topes by the técnicos. Sombra and Psicosis back in, Sombra springboard plancha for two. Crowd behind Sombra. Sombra off the ropes, Psicosis drops him with a torture rack slam, one two NO. Everyone else on the apron watching. Psicosis charges Sombra, and takes a monkey flip tot he floor. Sombra follows – Asai moonsault looks good. Alebrije and Oro in, Alebrije spinning the técnico via shoulderblock. Corner charge sets up Alebrije being flipped to the apron and superkicked out. Angle de Oro hits his usual dive well, and the announcers go crazy. Aguila sets up, runs and crushes Oro with tope con giro. Dorada in, running to the corner, Running up, and step on the corner tope for a moonsault onto everyone. Sombra and Psicosis in, Sombra quickly dropping Psicosis with a fireman's slam. Sombra heads up, but Psicosis is up right behind him – low blow uppercut. Ref was too busy looking at the guys on the floor. One two three, Psicosis wins!
Replays and everyone wraps up. That's it.