04/12: Neza, Tijuana, Acapulco

CMLL

CMLL (THU) 04/05 Arena Neza [rudosneza @ thegladiatores]
1) Dark Debil, Piel Roja, Red Bull b Asesino del Futuro, Black Danger, Boazz
2) Mohicano & Mohicano I b Rayo Tapatío I & Rayo Tapatío II [IC TAG]
3) Máximo & Mictlán b Emilio Charles Jr. & Misterioso II
4) Alex Koslov, Marco Corelone, Shocker b Eclipse, Tarzan Boy, Universo 2000
5) Ramstein b Chac-Mol [mask]

The King Lives! Long Live The King! Chac-Mol is Arturo Varela from of Neza, 33 with 15 years spent as a wrestler. They did a rudo fan hair vs tecnico fan hair with the segunda, and the tecnico fan lived up to the stip when his team went down.

AAA (MON) 04/16 Gimnasio Municipal Irapuato [El Sol de Irapuato]
1) El Payaso & Motoraton vs Perro Callejero II & Rocoman
2) Alan, Billy Boy, Decnnis vs Bobby Lee Jr., Krimen, Prisonero 13
3) Cinthia Moreno & Oriental vs Apache & Rossy Moreno [AAA MIXED TAG]
4) Brazo de Plata Jr., El Brazo, Super Porky vs Drake Morgan, Pirata Morgan, Pirata Morgan Jr.
5) El Elegido, La Parka Jr., Zorro vs Abismo Negro, Antifaz, Mr. Niebla

MORA (THU) 04/05 Auditorio de Tijuana [KrisZ, The Gladiatores]
1) Thunder Boy, Thunder Mask, Thunderbird b Mandigo, Mazambula, Mozambique
2) Kimura, Ninja, Silver Star b Enfermero Jr., Pandillero I, Pandillero II
3) Depredador, Fobia, Inferno b Black Panther II, Black Spider, Hijo de Rey Misterio, Rey Misterio
4) El Hijo Del Santo & Latin Lover b Blue Demon Jr. & Nicho el Millionario

CMLL (WED) 04/11 Arena Coliseo de Acapulco [KrisZ]
1) Black Silver Jr., El Cholo de Tijuana, Hijo del Black Silver vs El Cholo, Hooligan, La Morgue
2) Sangre Azteca vs Maximo [MEX WELTER]
3) Alex Koslov, Marco Corleone, Shocker vs Misterioso II, Pierroth, Universo 2000
4) Dr. Wagner Jr., Mistico, Rey Bucanero vs Averno, Mephisto, Ultimo Guerrero
5) Hijo del Lizmark vs Mascara Ano 2000 [mask, hair]

Gotta figure Lizmark Jr. won that. He’s not losing his mask and Mascara Ano 2000 exists just to lose his hair at this point.

CMLL (MON) 04/16 Arena Puebla [hugo999]
1) Ares & Murcielago vs King Jaguar & Super Star
2) Espiritu Maligno, Karisma, Toro Bill Jr. vs Centella de Oro, the Tiger, Zigma
3) Dr. X, Skandalo, Toro Bill Sr. vs Astro Boy, Leono, Stuka Jr.
4) Atlantis, Olimpico, Tarzan Boy vs La Mascara, Maximo, Negro Casas
5) Damain 666, Halloween, Hector Garza vs Alex Koslov, Hijo de Lizmark, Rey Bucanero

The Observer says Ricky Banderas is headed into TNA once his contract with WSX ends. There’s also a story about TripleMania being perhaps moved to a new date/time.

There’s plenty of bloody Mistico pictures in the Box Y Lucha thread about his title win. Vampiro appeared at this show, and it sounds like he’s returning to this arena on 05/01.

Box Lucha 2813 has Solitario, LA Park and Dr. Wagner on the cover.

LA Park wants to win the masks of Villano III, Dr. Wagner, and El Hijo del Santo before he retires. Not only does that mean he’s never retiring, he’s going to be heartbroken when he finds out Villano III’s been unmasked for seven years. Park is talking about promoting in his hometown of Monclova.

An article in El Nuevo Diario says Jack Veneno is bringing a Mexican lucha libre show to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic in July. Santo, Mil, and the Wagner brothers are among those listed.

ESTO has a Wagner/Chivas article here.

03/18 AAA TV Results (Rey de Reyes)

previous: 02/23, 03/03, 03/10

AAA TV (SUN) 03/18 El Toreo De Naucalpan [ovaciones, KrisZ]
1) Mascarita Divina, Mascarita Sagrada, Octagoncito b Mini Abismo Negro, Mini Charly Manson, Mini Chessman
2) Cuervo & Ozz b Crazy Boy & Joe Lider and Pegasso & Super Fly and Alan Stone & Zumbido [AAA TAG]
3) Gran Apache b Billy Boy [hair]
4) Alberije, Super Porky, Taiji Ishimori, Zorro b Antifaz del Norte, Histeria, Kaoma Jr., Mr. Niebla
5) La Parka Jr. b Abismo Negro, Latin Lover, Rhyno, Octagón, Fuerza Guerrera [Rey de Reyes]
6) Charly Manson, Chessman, Cibernetico b Kenzo Suzuki, Mesias, Scott Steiner

Air Date (projected)
Mexico: 03/25
US: 04/14

Mesias (Messiah in English) is Ricky Banderas; we’ll see if that sticks around longer than Asesor Cibernetica. KrisZ says Cibernetico was put thru a flaming table, returned, and won the match when Mesias and Scott Steiner screwed up.

AAA announced a Hall of Fame, and immediately inducted Antonio Pena and Rey Misterio Jr. (who was there). They’ll be running a show in Japan this September as an anniversary special – KrisZ has this as on 9/3.

Upcoming:
* 03/19 (tonight! – here’s a article about it)
* 03/25

AAA 01/06/07

GdT show, taped 12/08. I watched this over two weeks, so I don’t quite have the best memory of it the whole show now. The main event was quite not good – the week before was better. Cibernetico needs to figure out something to do when he’s in control as a tecnico, because he had nothing here. Not that the crowd cared at all.

The four way wasn’t as bad as I thought it’d be. The Dark Family/Mexican Powers match was going along as well as it possible could, but then things brought down when the Mexican Powers got to do wacky double teams. Which is what you expect. I dunno that the Muerte run in that match accomplished anything, but I can’t be too concerned about Crazy Boy’s wellbeing.

The goal this week is to at least cut my lag to one episode, and to fly thru the recap episodes to accomplish it. If I ever did catch up, I have plans to take advantage of it, but it’s gotta happen first.

Recent (and not so Recent) Box Y Lucha Articles

Box Y Lucha posted many magazine’s worth of articles at the end of last week. Let me try to link to everything for no good reason:

CMLL Owner Slightly Upset

Francisco Alonso is a somewhat angry man. Apparently, after the CMLL vs AAA match on the telethon, someone on air suggested they do a show together – the CMLL owner says no way, and the last time they did, AAA ended up hiding in it’s locker room at the end of the show, and he doesn’t want to deal with that again. He’s also very unhappy with Arturo Rivera coming to CMLL for a few weeks and Alfonso Morales going to AAA for a few weeks. He notes that was out of his control, but states that they have at least 50 new faces they want to get over (QUE?) and has no time for helping out other companies.

In a completely random and seemingly unrelated note, Alonso sounds very enthused about how the CMLL Bodybuilding event and hopes it becomes an annual event. I would be worried about such a statement, but if it’s anyone added more muscle, it’s Olimpico, and he’s got absolutely no push out of it. This fits with the general belief Alonso is divorced from the day to day decision making.

Year End Voting

– Rudo of the Year: Black Warrior (CMLL) and Chessman. Both have new legions of fans – Warrior’s surprised, but Chessman figures people just started using common sense.
– Mistico’s listed as wrestler of a year on the cover, but that article wasn’t posted. If they’re doing split ones there, I’d assume Cibernetico would be the other one.
– Four Man Team Of The Year: Los Mexican Powers. They do have the belts. Juvi says all of us who thought they were an imitation of the Mexicools were wrong. I’m going to hang my head in shame.

Inexplicable
Mil Mascaras bio, which is explicable. The crazy section is where they discuss the idea of a Mil Mascaras Jr., Mil’s all “no one else could live up to me” as you’d expect Mil to be, and then mentions a conversation with Rey Misterio Jr. the other day, where Rey explained to Mil that there’s another international guy who’s a copy of him – Tiger Mask.

(what?)

Mil also gives a thumbs down to Nacho Libre, in case you were waiting to find out.

Feud Hype

– Before their match at Guerra de Titanes (that’s how old some of these are), Muerte Cibernetica and Cibernetico cut promos on each other. Muerte thanks his fans, who obviously recognize him as he truly is: the messiah. Cibernetico is nicknamed “The King Of Pumping Iron”. That’s an opening for like 500 jokes and I’m not going to make any of them for some odd reason.

– Mistico wants to fight Averno for masks because it’s a match the fans want to see, and Averno doesn’t want to wait to the anniversary show to do it. They’re very much pushing that the match is agreed to, just not the date.

AAA pretty boys angry, still pretty

Remember how Latin Lover claimed AAA wrestlers were ripping him off and wouldn’t go back unless they were ditched? Yea, well, Intocable and Elegido took that one as well as you might think.

Intocable says Latin Lover has hated him from day one and Super Calo and Winners were the true innovates of dancing. Unlike Latin Lover, Intocable notes he didn’t abandon his wrestling fans one he found a little bit of mainstream popularity. Intocable would actually NOT like to face Latin Lover in a match – they’re both tecnicos and the fans wouldn’t want to see them fight, but he’s defintely not scared of Latin Lover. Intocable notes Latin Lover isn’t coming back to AAA any time soon, so he must be totally scared.

Elegido also goes with the “Latin’s abandoned his fans” idea. Elegido states that he’s not imitating or stealing from anyone, he’s got his own unique style. Elegido notes that he came to AAA to take Latin Lover’s place, which kinda makes Latin Lover right, but I shouldn’t be arguing with a professional stripper who just wants to share his talents with the public, as he proclaims. (I imagine Elegido bellowing all these quotes for some reason.) Elegido, AAA historian, says Latin Lover didn’t know how to dance and didn’t have a good body until Antonio Pena made him into the man he is today – Elegido knew all that stuff before he started wrestling, so he couldn’t be ripping anyone off. It took Latin Lover 14 years to get the fans Elegido’s gotten in 7 months, which proves something. Elegido ends by thanking Latin Lover for leaving AAA.

Bios/Intervews
= Blue Demon Jr. talks about wrestling in Arena Mexico for the Teleton show and whatever, but the real thing I took out of this one was the 11/20 Teleton show was supposed to be CMLL vs UWA! Maybe I’m just dumb for taking two months to understand this, but I think that’s topped by CMLL doing an interpromtoional rivalry angle like 13 years after the other promotion died. If AAA dies this year, we can look forward to a big AAA vs CMLL show in 2020. Anyway, Demon does say some noteworthy stuff – he was 70% sure he’d be wrestling in Arena Mexico to start ’07 (not yet) so he can prop up attendance, he’s hoping the CMLL vs indy show becomes an annual event, and he’s thinking he’s not still a member of the Perros.
Konnan states it was never even a consideration that he would run AAA, but he’s just there to help – like by bringing people with actual talent fron TNA. (LANCE HOYT!)
– Coloso Colosetti, who debuted in 1963 and claims still to be wrestling occasionally, had testicular surgery on 12/20. He says he’ll recover in three months, and then go on a farewell tour.
Alex Koslov! talks about wrestling in Mexico. He’s learned more in the time in Mexico than the 4 years prior; he chalks that up partially to wrestling guys with a lot more experience, rather than the young men of similar age you’ll find on the US indy scene. Alex loves Mexican women and is looking into making one his fiancee. Also, Alex’s lost his hair while in Mexico – but not in a match, he just had a barber who had no idea what he was doing.
Octagoncito talks about the death of his father last November and his goals for 2007.
Mano Negra talks about winning the mask. When the referee raised Atlantis hand, Mano Negra was not sad. He knew, inside, he was a winner who just lost a battle, but not the way. (How’s that war going against Atlantis now?) He’s been wrestling for 36 years now.
Brazo de Plata Jr. talks about joining AAA. His mother was a little bothered by him changing his name to Kronos, so he’s happy to be back to Plata. He sidesteps any real talk about why he changed names in the first place.
Flash which is basically the same one elsewhere I posted a week ago.
Sergio Iván Angulo, Arena Coliseo Ring Announcer? I mean, they say he is, but I don’t remember ever seeing him. I’ll look closer.
Wolf Ruvinsky
Bio of Dr. Gama

Obits
Merced Gómez
Tigre Canadiense
Blue Demon
Love Machine
Eddie Guerrero

Random

thoughts on recent Tijuana news
Bio of Golden Boy, who’s real name is Alfonso Morales but isn’t that Alfonso Morales. Unless this is an elaborate prank.
– Various wrestlers share stories of Dia de Reyes when they were children. For Nemesis and Super Fly, this may have been last year. They ask Alex Koslov about Dia de Reyes in Russian, and he’s like “we never had it – must’ve been too cold!”

12/22: Negro, Perro, Warrior suspended in Tijuana

Muerte Cibernetica
back when he wasn’t lost at sea

Negro Casas, Perro Aguayo Jr., and Black Warrior have been suspended from wrestling in Tijuana for a year. The Box Y Lucha commission is suspending them for actions on a show last Friday:

– Black Warrior attacked a fan who either attacked him or threw something at him.
– Perro Aguayo Jr. had his trunks pulled down by Santo
– Negro Casas mooned the crowd.

El Sol de Tijuana has the commission’s side. They’ve suspended Latin Lover in the past for similiar incidents, so they’re being consistent. By suspending Warrior, they want to make it clear that they’re not allowing the fans to do stuff to the wrestlers, they’re going to be insisting on better work by the security companies (or changing them altogether) and they’d like the police to be at some of these shows to help throw out unruly fans when necessary.

Twelve months is an awful long time to suspend these guys. I don’t have a big problem with it Black Warrior’s case, but a year’s suspension for pulling the trunks down seems high, because that’s a spot done with no (public?) penalties elsewhere in Mexico. It’s also been pointed out (rafasilva) that Santo is mysterious escaping prosecution here, despite being the one who pulled down Perro’s trunks.

I didn’t hear anything about any of this until people started talking about it on message boards yesterday. If what happened was this offensive, you’d think someone would’ve said something about it much sooner. Maybe I missed it?

Suspensions took effect on Wednesday and run till 12/20/07. All the local promoters and CMLL have been informed they can not use these three guys in Tijuana until the suspension is up.

CMLL (TUE) 12/19 Arena Coliseo Guadalajara Results
1) Milenio b Thunder Boy
2) Fraile de la Muerte b Estrella de Jalisco
3) Asesino Negro b Lider
4) Azazel b Guero Loco
5) Fabian el Gitano, Gallo, Metro II b Hombre Sin Nombre, Mascara Magica, Toxico
6) Cien Caras Jr., Mascara Ano 2000 b Leon Blanco, Rayman
7) Mistico b Ultimo Guerrero

Rayman was going for a top rope springboard when the top rope, and he fell hard. Last I heard is he’s alright. The CMLL report was all “when you’re doing athletic things, sometimes bad things can happen”.

AAA (MON) 12/18 Gimnasio Municipal Irapuato Results [El Sol de Irapuato]
1) Chiva Rayada I, Chiva Rayada II b Muerto Viviente I, Muerto Viviente II
2) La Parkita, Mascarita Divina, Mascarita Sagrada b Mini Abismo Negro, Mini Charly Manson, Mini Chessman
3) Brazo de Plata Jr., El Brazo, Oriental b Chris Stone, Pirata Morgan, Pirata Morgan Jr.
4) Charly Manson, Chessman, Cibernetico b Cuervo, Espiritu, Ozz, Scoria

Zorro’s out due to injury, so Oriental replaced him in the tercera. Muerte Cibernetica was supposed to be part of the main event, but he’s still trapped in that coffin.

AAA posted a lot of pictures from the Toluca taping on their website.

ESTO has quick bios of Volador Jr. and Averno, leading into their title match today. (They kinda give away that El Hijo del Cien Caras is not related to Cien Caras.)