Guest announcer is Dragon Rojo, though he's not much of a guest when he's on every single week.
Match 1: Diamante Azul, La Máscara, Marco Corleone © vs Rey Bucanero, Último Guerrero ©, Volador Jr.
Arena Mexico, 03/02/2012
técnicos
Winner: técnicos (2-0)
Match Time: 9:53
Rating: ok
Notes: Diamante Azul has a video already, because of course. Also, angry German music. Volador has his belt. Referees are Babe Richard and Tiger Hispano
1: Ultimo Guerrero vs Diamante Azul is Diamante Azul showing off tricky chain stuff he can do, including something not far off from Alberto Del Rio's finish. Announcers discuss Diamante Negro's name change, and Dragon Rojo's previous identity. Azul armdrags UG out, then chases him out there. They have a long staredown there, everyone else just kind of waiting. Babe Richard encourages one of the técnicos to come in, while Volador springboards in. One of these men is the hero of the people on this night; unfortunately for CMLL, it's the rudo. Volador gets on one knee and offer a hand. La Mascara tentatively accepts it. Brief hug, hand raise – and Volador slaps. Slap fight back and forth is pretty hard. They go outside it for another fight. Volador takes it inside, but kicks Mascara as he comes in. Volador charges, Mascara swing kicks him and flying headscissors him out. Mascara chases, and quebradoras him on the floor. Marco and Bucanero in. Rey's clotheslines aren't working, so Marco helps out by taking a big bump for him. Plancha is caught, dropped, and stone punched. Marco backs all the way up the ramp – but UG runs up and clothesline him! Other rudos clothesline Azul out to the ramp, and Máscara off the apron. Volador goes after Diamante's mask – it's a rarity! (Or not.) Marco's tide the ropes, Diamante is tied to him, Volador holds them both up – Guerreros flying sit on both! JCR's talking about Rey & UG's many tag title defenses, which may be annoying current UG partner’s Dragon Rojo. Rudos back slide, Mascara ducks a double clothesline and Voaldor boots him into a dropkick on the other two. Rolling dropkick sends Volador out, and Diamante Azul crushes him with the apron tope con giro. Bucanero misses a corner charge, Mascara superkicks UG, then casadora cradles Bucanero as Marco finish UG. Fall turned quick.
2: Bucanero spears Mascara as they pick up this match. Bucanero misses a clothesline, and Mascara drops him with three straight quebradoras. Ultimo Guerrero & Diamante Azul in again, both teasing it like it's a big thing. Guerrero knocks down Azul with a clothesline. Whip, clothesline miss, Diamante clothesline blocked, Ultimo flips Diamante but hands lands on his feet and steps up into a headscissors. No particular reason for him. Bucanero in, into the giant armdrag. Diamante backs up to the corner, Volador charges, Diamante moves, Volador hits the corner, and Azul monkey flips him all the way out. Giant monkey flip to the other area. Chop fake uppercut sends Volador to the floor. Rey walks in the ring backwards, and backs into a posing Marco. Rey tease test of strength, but shoots in a shot to the gut. Whip, Bucanero chops, Marco swings Rey ducks, repeat until Marco fakes the punch, waits for Bucanero to duck, back up and hits him there. Whip, reversed quick reverse, again into Marco’s Russian legsweep. That's new. UG chops Marco hard in the corner, corner whip, reverse, Marco flips him to the apron and knocks hi, off. Marco pulls UG back up the apron by his mask and tosses him in. Marco hip swivel. Bucanero attacks Marco again. Not giving up. Whip, double clothesline misses, double shoulderblock sends Marco out. UG drops down, and monkey flips his partner into a straight slingshot plancha onto Marco. Máscara misses a dropkick on UG, corner whip, Mascara steps out of the way, UG takes the knee bump out. Marco runs – tope into the UG into the barricade. Not much room to back up there. Volador and Diamante Azul left in. Volador off the ropes, waved by, flipping run, double rotation by Volador but he just drop off without finish a move. Springboard, Diamante catches Volador in a waistlock, tosses Volador, Volador lands on his hands and knees and pulls off Diamante’s mask. Backcracker! I don't think the pin is gong to work, but Volador gives it a try just to see. Referees both saw it, so they pull him off and point to Azul. Volador shows off his new mask.
Match 2: Blue Panther vs Negro Casas in a hair vs hair match
Arena Mexico, 03/02/2012
Blue Panther fujiwara (2:16)
Winner: no one
Match Time: 21:28
Rating: good
Notes: Blue Panther's preceded by dancing cowgirls. Negro Casas has his own dancers. Negro and Panther start fighting as soon as Negro gets in arms reach. Panther yanks him thru the ropes to start grabbing. Referee is Terror Chino.
1: Negro backs up panther with a headbutt, then gets thru the ropes. Clothesline, caught and easily turns into a short clothesline. Panther kicks Negro in the back while he's down, then spins around and kicks him again. Panther goes for a third, Negro misses,. Negro up, clothesline caught again, but Negro slaps Panther in the face. Beating him with kicks to the chest. Panther flinches too soon on one, so Negro kicks him in the jaw instead. Negro walks around, but grabs his own face. Panther up and slap to the face fight tends with a Panther forearm. Sleeper? Negro gets free, corner whip, reversed, and Negro kicks Panther down in the corner. Tons of kicks, stopping Panther down and making him eat his boot. Slaps to the chest, kick to the midsection. Negro back all the way up, charge, and eats a clothesline. One two NO, foot on the rope. Panther stands up Negro and mask him in the buckle, but misses the charge. Negro slaps Panther down and kicks him around. Kicks to the face, dropkick to the face. Negro backs all the way up, waits, runs, and goes for the big dropkick to the face. Panther tried to duck it and took it on the side of the head. Replays. Negro picks up Panther – Panther Fujiwara! That's it. Panther lets go without much fuss, but has a perturbed look on his face.
Negro goes to the barricade, and the Doctor looks at his arm from the other side. I think he'll live.
2: Negro stalls outside. Crowd behind Panther. Panther kicks Negro as he comes in. Arm wringer. Attacking the left arm with kicks. Another arm wringer, this time Negro rolling out. Panther out after, chopping Negro and Running the back arm into the post. Negro uses the Barricade for his arm wringers. This is definitely a part where they'd be out into the crowd, and they can not do it with the current setup. Panther rolls negro in., but Negro kicks Panther as he steps thru the ropes. Panther's trapped over the bottom rope while Negro beats him with his feet for a while. Whip, reversed, Panther armdrag, around into an armscissors. Panther rocks back and forth, but Negro uses into turn it into a sort of stretch muffler. Panther is balanced on his head, but won't give. Negro lets go to get back to his kicks. Loud NEGRO chants. Negro covers for a two count. Kneebreaker, dropkick to the knee, casita, one two three.
3: Negro has been going at Panther during the break, cranking his left leg around the barrier on the ramp. No sign of a whistle. Negro smacks Panther's leg into the side of the ramp, then puts his arm over the referee's shoulders as he orders them both back to the ring. Panther rolls in, while Negro calmly steps back in. Panther can't get to his feet. Negro kicks around Panther, then just sits on the ropes and laughs. He's very much enjoying himself. Negro just looks at the crowd for a bit. Panther struggles to walk, Negro struts around the ring, and keeps moving away from Panther, so panther has to keep limping farther. Dropkick to the knee – misses! Panther elbow drop misses too, though, and Negro just covers for a two count. Negro kneebreaker. Panther tripped up, side knee breaker. Referee checks on Panther to see if he wants to go on. He will. Another kneebreaker. Panther ties up the legs and pulls back. One more kneebreaker, but Panther turns this into a small package, one two NO. Both up, panther ducks behind Negro, inside cradle, Negro rolls thru for a armbar/armscissors. Panther won't give, so Nero switches to a crossface. Still no. Both up, Panther gets behind Negro – Inverted Gori stretch! Panther urns around the ring (guess the knees is better) but Negro stands up and turns it into a forward roll. Sit down – and Panther rolls on top one two NO. Chants are loud again. Negro sunset flip, around into a double armscissors with a facelock. Panther trapped in almost the dead center of the ring, but seems more trapped than pained. Panther fights to slap thru the submission, then puts on a cruz nipona variant. Negro is trapped on one knee, so he tries to bite Panther's forearm to get free. Negro flips thru the middle of the hold, heel kicks Panther's shin, breaks one armlock, and puts on a standing Octopus. That's not getting it done, but the announcers to get to bring up Enrique Llanes and Vilalno III. Tirabuzón now, but Panther still will not go. Crowd into it, even though this is a slower paced battle than what they're used to doing. Panther gets free to put on - something. Crowd boos this, maybe because it's not clear, maybe because there's many Negro fans. Negro tries to chop free, Panther rolls it forward into like an inverted double armbar, though Negro battles to keep it from being applied. Negro is trapped, but Panther can't hold it. Negro gets free, then grabs the ropes. Both slow up. Chop fight, Negro shoves Panther back, they both charge with clotheslines, neither goes down. Panther clothesline misses, and Negro heel kicks him. Negro kneelift misses, Panther uses the ropes to push him away, Negro comes back and jumps on Panther's shoulders, Panther trips him forward. Panther with a bit of a pause before going for it. Tapatía is slowly applied, Negro battling the arm locks the whole way, Panther jabbing him in the side many times to get it applied. Tapatía applied! Negro battling free with one arm, then turning out of it. He puts on his own STF, though he doesn't have much of the facelock, and Panther breaks free. Negro casita, one two NO. Panther backs Negro in the corner and slaps him in the chest a few times. Negro bites the hand to stop him, but Panther gets free and sets him on the top rope. Slaps again, but Negro blocks one try, grabs the arm, and falls backwards. He's probably wanting to hanging with the arm for a bit, but loses, it and, actually falls head and shoulders first on the apron from a short distance. Negro smiles like he meant to do the world's most dangerous armwringer on purpose. Panther grabs his arm and goes down. Break.
Negro back in and covering one two NO. Knee to arm, cross armbreaker, but Panther rolling on to his knee to stop Negro from fully extending the arm. I guess it's more of a triangle from this position, but Negro isn't really doing much with it with Panther in the position he's at. Negro keeps waving off the referee, he's not going to give. Can Panther pick him up? That's what he's thinking here, clearly. Panther stands Negro up – light powerbomb into the corner. Panther collapses himself. Both roll to the apron, and Negro works over Panther with kicks. Negro goes back in, and grabs Panther – sleeper around the ropes. That's more a straight choke now. Negro lets go, but Panther collapses off the apron to the floor. Negro backs off and looks at the crowd while Panther slow gets up. Negro kicks at Panther thru the ropes to keep him out. It does rest the count. Both guys could use the time to recover. Negro goes out to the apron, and Panther immediately trips him up. Negro falls to a sitting position, and Panther chops him from the floor. Negro blocks the chop, but Panther rolls him off the apron into a fujiwara. That won't work too much on the ground, which Panther realizes and gives up on immediately. Panther slowly back in. Panther off the ropes, running – tope hits Negro, but goes thru him and Panther hits the barricade. There's a noticeable “thwack” sound when Panther hits the barricade shoulder first. Think we're going to need to get use to that noise. Referee checks on Panther first, and it does look like he got the worst of it. Negro's down too, but not as hurt. Both slow up, but Panther closer to the ring. Both roll back in. Negro up first. casita one, two, NO. Dramatic slow count time. Both up, Panther takedown, setup for the nudo, but Negro pokes him in the eye to stop that. Negro up and stomping his feet. Licking his own bicep? Clothesline misses, Panther takedown, leglock, on, sort of, except panther keeps leaning forward instead of sitting down, just so he can slap Negro. Negro grabs his arm, rolls Panther forward, both pinned, one two three.
Panther is sure he won and celebrates. Terror Chino explains otherwise. Announcers explains there is no tie – they both lose their hair. Meanwhile, both luchadors are trying to get the crowd and the officials to let them keep going. Both Panico and Commissioner Gustavo come to the ring, talk, and then pass it out to the ring announcers, who announces both men will be losing their hair. They fight a bit, then panther gets down to get his hair cut. Negro kicks Panther and goes to take off. Panico tries to stop him, but That doesn’t work. Terror Chino tries to stop him, and at least gets him to calm down.
Replays.
Back live, Panther has most of his hair off. Negro starts to get his hair cut as Panther declares this is just the start of the war. Negro gets microphone to say the same, and goes after Panther. Panther does chop him away a bit easily.