Tag: AAA

Perro Aguayo Jr. and AAA, together again (maybe, maybe not)

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Hey, don’t blame me, I’m just reading the WON…

Perro Aguayo Jr. is going to return at TripleMania in some sort of an angle, unless it falls through at the last minute. There have been previous negotiations to bring him back and do an interpromotional angle with him leading the Perros Del Mal group that have fallen through, and last year the return of El Hijo del Santo, originally thought to be full-time, ended up being him put over saving the promotion from the evil hands of Konnan, and after being put over as the savior, he left the promotion.

Now, the last information I was told is Perro was to appear at Monday’s taping in Leon, to tease a greater Perros del Mal run in on TripleMania. Perro did not appear in Leon, so the assumption is this whole thing is off, in a repeat of what happened in February.

However, today is Wednesday, TripleMania is Sunday, so they can change their minds again. and again. and again. This does not even seem worth discussing again, but it is also hard to completely ignore.

I still believe Perro needs to make a deal with someone, because what leverage he currently has is slipping away. The thing is, I’ve believed the same thing for a long time and they’ve clearly believed different.

Histeria & Alebrije are fighting AAA for their names

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When a company and a luchador part on ill terms, there’s always talk about one side or another taking the matter to court. Usually, that’s the last anyone hears about it. Some of those who left AAA last year are taking real action.

The story was covered slightly differently from a lot of sources: the Gladiatores, Notimex, R de Rudo, Record, Fuego en el Ring. Note the pictures are credited to Perros del Mal, with Histeria & Alebrije wearing their masks to this meeting. Cuije and Psicosis (II) were also there, and so were many cameras.

Wednesday, Alebrije, Cuije and Histeria met with AAA and  representatives from at Mexico City’s Board of Concilation and Arbitration. The luchadors want to take their issues of identity ownership and unfair termination to court, but this is a step to see if it can be worked out before a trial. We’ve heard a lot about the identity issue, though I’m not totally sure what the luchadors are claiming – most quote Alebrije talking about building up the name over 13 years, but the Gladiatores says the luchadors actually have the copyrights for their characters in their own name. The unfair termination claim is kind of new; I wonder if it’s the old complaint about their places being taken by Americans?

AAA’s side refused comment. The two sides will meet again Friday to figure out if they can come to some to an agreement. The luchadors said others – Cuije, Psicosis, Charly Manson, Tirantes, and possibly Latin Lover – plan on following on following similar lawsuits, building of the result of this case.

There’s so much I don’t know here (including “the entirety of the Mexican legal system”) that I’d be wasting your time by guessing at how this is going to turn out. We know that LA Park lost a similar case, and Mascara Sagrada won his case, but the circumstances of the two were different from each other and most likely different for this case.

Who knows if it’s related, but all of the new clones – the new Vipers & the new Alebrije – have either been taken off TV or have never appeared on TV.

In retrospect, in makes more sense that the Perros del Mal never ended up running in AAA. They would’ve had a huge chunk of their roster suing their new partner! Perros seems to have gone the opposite route to support the ex-AAAers against AAA.

09/03 AAA in Tokyo Lineup and a note about Vamp

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AAA NOAH (MON) 09/03 Tokyo Differ Ariake [superluchas]
1) Mascarita Divina & Octagoncito vs Mini Abismo Negro & Mini Histeria
2) Chikayo Nagashima, Oriental, Pimpinela Escarlata vs Casandro, Fabi Apache, Takashi Sugiura
3) Laredo Kid & Super Fly vs Atsushi Aoki & Ippei Ota
4) Antifaz, Fuerza Guerrera, Histeria vs Crazy Boy, Joe Lider, Juventued Guerrera and Elegido, Kenta, Taiji Ishimori
5) Charly Manson, Chessman, Cibernetico vs Mushiking Terry, Naomichi Marafuji, Ricky Marvin

That semimain is a triangle trios match. Elegido, Kenta, and Taiji Ishimori is some kind of team.

in case it comes up later: A US Indy which sends me spam – advertisements for US Indies in NJ do me so much good – open it’s email with

Due to his commitments with AAA in Mexico, Vampiro will not be appearing at Blitzkrieg.

Either they’ve just broken major news by accident, or someone along the information line is full of crap (or has no idea what they’re talking about.) I presume Vamp just told them he had a conflict in Mexico and they assumed AAA.

This one of those things I think has 0 news value, but feel obligated to post just to contradict it. I’m not sure if that’s the best way to go.

Update: It’s the promoter’s lame attempt at a cover story. Ignore it.

AAA #614

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aired 03/03, taped 02/05

Unimportant Secret: I’ve been done with all the recaps I’ve done since Monday – I just wanted to space it out over the week. I was thinking I’d be less annoying to just post one a day.

I figure, give me a breather, a few weeks of only 4 (or maybe 3 or maybe 5 – hopefully I’ve called my cable company by the time you read this) hours of lucha TV to refresh mentally, and then I’ll start digging into the assorted stuff I’ve got around here, assuming anyone wants to read it.

The show! The show I don’t remember well because I watched it last on Monday and I’m actually writing this late Wednesday night and that’s how fast AAA goes thru my mind.

I think this was the best cage match I’ve seen in lucha in some time – it was laid out well from start to finish, and they built up to the big spot at the end. Black Family got another big win, the Hell Brothers still couldn’t beat them and Chessman got taken out, the La Parka Jr. bit was played out well – it’s all working out quite nicely. They figured out the opposition problem for the Hell Brothers – just have people keep beating them.

I still think they overdo chair spots to the point where no one cares about them, but that’s not going to change. We had two screwjob finishes by referees, and one partner turning on partner and the show’s not going to work with me, but that may not be changing either.

These eh ten minute tags could probably all be good six minute tags.

AAA #613

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taped 01/25, aired in the US on 02/24

I dunno if I was just bored in general watching this show, or if I was bored specifically here. My compulsion to catch up was only slightly greater than my boredom.

Reason I hate AAA #342: 22 minute matches with absolutely no meaning, because everyone in the building knows they’re just setting up a ref/wrestler angle.

Tag team matches are too long, especially since they’re the same formula and it’s worse when it’s two tecnico teams and they work the same formula because – that’s all they can do? That’s all they think the crowd will dig?

The main event matches aren’t all that great, but at least it feels like we’re going somewhere with them – not only the La Parka Jr. mystery, but the Sect keeps winning, which helps fix the credibility problems. And it’s a lot more entertaining than slow count/fast count, which seems to occur 3 times on an average show. (This was below average, yay.)

AAA #613

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taped 01/20, aired in the US on 02/17. We’re going back to phony episode numbers because they amuse me.

So the big thing about the Scoria/Espiritu vs Pegasso/Super Fly match was I had the result wrong for a month. The lesser thing is the Hell Brothers apparently meant to light a table on fire before Cibernetico chokeslammed Espiritu thru it, only they couldn’t get it to light. I bet Espiritu was not disappointed.

That was the only non screw job finish of the night.

I can’t believe the first spot AAA aired of Mr. Niebla was him blowing a spot. That’s so perfectly triple a, it has to be fake.

I didn’t get into this show much at all and was glad for it to be over. The best thing on the show might have been Apache being pelted with fruits and vegetables.

Eagle eye posters will note that I’m now onto the current AAA show. If I recap it this week, I’ll be caught up for the firs time since I started to do AAA recaps. I dunno if I will.