Tag: CMLL GDL recap

Arena Coliseo Guadalajara, 10/12/2010

Women’s split the difference of the other two this weekend. Tiffany was better here, and she’s got a lot more personality than most of the women. There’s a role for her here, and this was a better performance.

It’s always the Panther matches (and usually the Averno ones) where the usual beatdown->comeback formula get thrown out to do something slightly different. It may be because he’s the only left who remembers lucha before that formula and cares enough to try something different. Not a lot of Dorada but he looked good in what he did.

Arena Coliseo Guadalajara, 10/05/2010

Fabian/Metro/Rush vs Okumura/Vangelis/Yoshihashi was not memorable bad, just normally so. The main event is the same match they’ve been running since 2004, though I don’t think Porky was that light in 2004.

taped Arena Coliseo Guadalajara, 09/28/2010

This show! This was a show.

I’ve been bored by this program recently, and the matches have generally been inoffensively bland. This one sure broke the mold. You can tell there’s no effort at all put into picking the matches to air on this show, because there’s no way this opener should’ve made TV. At least it was short, and the main got plenty of time.

Sombra/Aguila was a slow starter that got fun by the end. Aguila acted like a man who had actually seen a CMLL singles match before, knew the spots the tecnico did in every single match, and was going to do his best to put a stop to it. Plus, he was dressed like a punk stegosaurus, and you can’t go wrong with that. This was not a MOTYC, but if CMLL could promise me one of these matches every month somewhere along the CMLL TV network, I would be a lot more satisfied with CMLL.

Sombra didn’t start using the Brillante Driver until after he got back from Japan, right? Can we send everyone, one by one, over to Japan so they all get set finishers too?

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Arena Coliseo Guadalajara, 09/21/2010

The GDL vs Poder Mexico matches seem like they were setting up a third match where someone on the GDL team finally got a pin. Instead, it just ends with no resolution. Kind off odd. I do appreciate Poder Mexica doing approximently a dozen different low blow dropkick spots so I miss them a little less. Quasi-foul spots are being way over done in CMLL, but this was ridicolous.

Main was also a match that felt like it existed only to set up something, but at least we’re getting Aguila/Sombra next week. (If we can find the show.) It was decent to set up the reason, but didn’t get me particularlly excited for the match. Still have hope that next week’s Aguila/Sombra match.

Arena Coliseo Guadalajara, 09/14/2010

To show you how things are intricately planned together, this show featured Poder Mexica pretty much coming close to squashing a team of locals. Oops. Actually couldn’t figure out how they were getting a rematch out of there, because the story of the match was the national trio was so much better, but the rudos beat up the tecnicos after the match and that usually does it.

In even a shorter term display of lack of planning, Sombra and Mr. Aguila are facing off here in two weeks, so the logical finish is – uh, Strong Man chokeslamming Aguila. The opener was a strong man match, at least.