This is late and slight. I used all the extra time to do nothing in particular. Infierno en el Ring counts as next week. AAA was Star Battle, already recapped once but the grades will turn up again.
rating
matches
TV Show
taped
good
Angélico & Hijo del Fantasma vs Ikuto Hidaka & Masato Tanaka
AAA on Televisa: 2016-12-17
2016-10-26
good
Drago vs Aerostar, Taiji Ishimori
AAA on Televisa: 2016-12-17
2016-10-26
good
Psycho Clown vs Pagano
AAA on Televisa: 2016-12-17
2016-10-26
good
Blue Panther Jr., Stigma, The Panther vs Hechicero, Puma, Tiger
CMLL YouTube: 2016-12-19
2016-12-19
good
Ángel de Oro, Marco Corleone, Volador Jr. vs Cavernario, Felino, Negro Casas
Last week with five shows for a while. This week, I remember I’ve been meaning to put the good stuff above the cut line, since there’s no great stuff. The Battle of the Bulls matches were the best of the week even if I didn’t have them high enough. It’s possible (likely!) December just makes me miserable. I can’t imagine watching the Ultimo Guerrero/Valiente match from CMLL Retro and I believe you all would be disappointed in me if I did watch it.
actual good matches
rating
matches
TV Show
taped
good
Blue Panther Jr., Pegasso, The Panther vs El Cuatrero, Forastero, Sansón
CMLL Internet Exclusives: 2016-12-13
2016-12-13
good
Jeremiah Crane vs Killshot, Dante Fox, Mariposa [Battle of the Bulls] and in a tournament semifinal match
Lucha Underground: 2016-12-14
2016-04-10
good
PJ Black vs Jack Evans, Son of Havoc, Angélico [Battle of the Bulls] and in a tournament semifinal match
Lucha Underground: 2016-12-14
2016-04-10
good
Flyer, Soberano Jr., Star Jr. vs Misterioso Jr., Okumura, Sagrado
CMLL on ClaroSports.com: 2016-12-16
2016-12-16
good
Carístico, Valiente, Volador Jr. vs Euforia, Gran Guerrero, Último Guerrero
I got nothing to talk about. Let’s talking about something else. This LU show completed the April 9th taping. All of this stuff is buried in the database after it airs, but I want to bring it out here. (Instead of match numbers, those are the episode numbers of when it aired.)
That’s a full episodes in the main event, a full episode in the opening matches, part of an episode from months earlier, a match for a fourth different episode which ended up being retaped, and a tryout match. This is not an exception: the Sunday show is 2 2/3rds shows taped. You can definitely see why they’d felt they were going too long and burning the crowd out.
(for nerd credit: the Sexy Star/PJ Black match was the first match this season where I didn’t already have it in my notes, but the Jason mask made it easy to figure out where I had goofed up.)
anyway, the all important match rating grades, of me liking one match and disregarding the rest. I’ve made a commitment to watch the dreadful match from Retro, I may or may not live up to that commitment.
recommended matches
rating
matches
TV Show
taped
great
Blue Panther Jr., Drone, The Panther vs El Cuatrero, Forastero, Sansón
I didn’t write a recap of the Crash but I watched enough of it live to throw those ratings in as well.
Didn’t like a whole much this week. The one match that didn’t make the Great list but might still be worth watching was the Hitokiri vs Pentagon Dark match from Lucha Underground. Everyone else seems to have heavily disliked the concept or totally loved the match, there’s not a lot in the middle. I feel like recommending that match anyone who might be interested, but I can’t imagine there’s anyone who might be interested enough in that match to have missed it so far; it feels like one you’ve either decided wasn’t for you or watched ASAP. (Or maybe you couldn’t find a link to it, so there you go.)
This is getting lighter (though writing about 9h30m of TV a week is “lighter”.) The plan at the moment is to continue to wait a day or so to watch the Monday/Tuesday shows with a fast forward button and use that time to work thru the watch later pile and other projects. If I’m doing it right, I’ll still get to this post on Mondays.
Lucha Underground had the most disliked match that everyone agreed was also pretty good. Wrestling is weird! (Also, they never put up clips of it; that’s title win you probably wanted out there.)
