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07/02: Quereatro, Solidaridad, AULL, Coliseo, Nicho

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CMLL (THU) 06/28 Arena Quereatro [Knotty @ elmartinete]
1) Rey Aztlan & Sindrome b Alasthor & Aviado
2) Drabek I & Drabek II b Fuego Latino & Ozuno
3) Principe Valiente Jr. & Ursus b Dr. X & Nitro
4) Averno, Mephsito, Tozcano b La Mascara, Maximo, Sagrado
5) Sangre Azteca b Alex Koslov [MEX WELTER]

CMLL (SAT) 06/30 Arena Solidaridad [RFC]
1) Pequeno Olimpico & Ultimo Dragoncito b Pequeno Damian 666 & Pequeno Halloween
2) Stuka Jr. & Valiente b Loco Max & Virus
3) Damain 666 & Hector Garza b Alex Koslov & Silver King
4) Dr. Wagner Jr. b Dos Caras Jr., Maximo, Mephisto, Rey Bucanero, Ephesto, Mr. Aguila, Ultimo Guerrero, Volador Jr. [gran prix]
5) Mistico b Averno [NWA MIDDLE]

RFC says the building was 75% full, and the gran prix was quite good.

Viva La Lucha (SAT) 06/30 Southwestern College Gym, Chula Vista, CA [So Cal Uncensored]
1) Black Machine & Shamu b Huracan Negro & X-Torm
2) Aquiles & El Galeno b El Faraon & Wama
3) Brent Albright b Fred Sampson [NWA HEAVY, torneo, 1st]
4) Candice LeRae & Furball b Espantito & Nikki
5) Cobra II & Karl Anderson b Misterioso Sr. & Scream
6) Cassandro & Rubi Gardenia b Magno & Rey Escorpion
7) Hijo de Rey Misterio & Rey Misterio Sr. b Nicho & TJ Boy

AULL (SUN) 07/01 Arena Lopez Mateos [observador @ box y lucha]
1) Brazo de Platino & Texano Jr. b Rocky Santana & Solar I
2) Villano III & Villano IV b Negro Navarro & Rambo
3) Villano III & Villano IV b Brazo de Platino & Texano Jr.
4) Maximo & Sagrado DQ Mascara Ano 2000 & Universo 2000
5) Dos Caras Jr., Marco Corelone, Rey Bucanero b Atlantis, Olimpico, Ultimo Guerrero

This is the Signo tribute show, and pretty well shuffled from what was originally announced. There were matches before these, but no results and they didn’t match original listings. Later in the thread, someone mentions India Sioux appeared but didn’t wrestle due to a (broken?) nose operation.

CMLL (SUN) 07/01 Arena Coliseo [ova]
1) Astro Boy & Trueno b Carrona & Zayco
2) Euforia, Nosferatu, Satanico b Felino, La Mascara, Valiente
3) Bam Bam, Shockercito, Fantasy b Mr. Aguilita, Pequeno Damian, Pequeno Halloween
4) Alex Koslov, Heavy Metal, Volador Jr. b Atlantis, Olimpico, Sangre Azteca
5) Dos Caras Jr., Marco Corelone, Rey Bucanero b Toscano, Ultimo Guerrero, Universo 2000

Dos pinned Universo clean in the main event, which does set up a title match next week. I’m far less believing of a title change than Bihari. I can’t believe Universo will actually lose this title til five minutes after it happens. (I can’t believe Universo still has the phyiscal belt either, so maybe I’m just a skeptic. Or maybe there will be panicked cleaning at the ranch this week.)

Fantasy replaced Shockercito in the minis match, which was bumped up to tercera.

Tracking the minis…
06/24 SUN Coliseo: 2) Mr. Aguilita, Peque�o Damian 666, Peque�o Halloween b Bam Bam, Peque�o Ol�mpico, �ltimo Dragoncito
07/01 SUN Coliseo: 3) Bam Bam, Shockercito, Fantasy b Mr. Aguilita, Peque�o Damian 666, Pequeno Halloween
07/08 SUN Coliseo: 2) Ultimo Dragoncito, Pequeno Olimpico, Bam Bam vs Pequeno Halloween, Pequeno Damian 666, Mr. Aguilita

Bam Bam is the only constant on the tecnico side, though Olimpico and Dragoncito are showing up twice.

About five months late, CMLL tickets are on TicketMaster. (Assist to Wagner_Driver @ box y lucha.) Only for this Friday’s show. It looks like they’re not offering all the seats – the cheapest seats don’t appear to be listed.

AAA’s upcoming cards list Abismo Negro on a 07/28 show. Typo?

Zocalo.com.mx has a really good interview with Nicho, about his life in wrestling. He talks about WWE a bit, but also about the start of his career – Pena gave him the Psicosis name, but the gear actually came from a friend who didn’t get picked up by AAA and so couldn’t use it, and it just happened to work out beautifully.

Both Box Y Lucha 2825 and Super Luchas 219 have Chris Benoit on the cover. ByL teases Big Show in Mexico, which I would presume to be the TripleMania rumor.

Sicodelico Jr. moved onto the second round in the NWA World Heavyweight Championship tournament, beating Roughneck Ryan. He moves onto the quarterfinals to face Claudio Castignoli. Logically enough, that match will take place at a CHIKARA show on 07/21 in Wallingford, CT.

Before that match, Sicodelico Jr. will team with Incognito in a triangle match for the NWA World Tag Team Titles. The other two teams are Billy Kidman & X-Pac and Joey Ryan & Karl Anderson (who would seem to be the safe bet.)

Noticas-Oax.com.mx writes about lucha libre stars making the jump to other TV work (mentioning Mistico, Latin, Demon and Intocable.)

SLP indy wrestler El Divino suffered a bad leg fracture, and will be out around six months. BTW, here’s your daily SLP AAA article, this time about Gronda.

Another El Sol de Tampico article about the Atlantis vs Wagner vs Park show there tomorrow.

Auburn Journal talks to Shane Hanson, who claims to have been wrestling as El Gran Fangoria for 15 years. (Thanks to mikeinformer)

Lineups below

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04/26: AAA TV scheduled, Ticketmaster, Queretaro,

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AAA’s announced it’s May TV tapings in Ovaciones.
– 05/06 Oaxaca
– 05/12 Apizaco, Tlaxcala
– 05/20 Morelia
– 05/26 Minatitlan, Veracruz
– 05/30 San Luis Potosi

What’s great is El Sol de San Luis Potosi writes a lucha libre article about every day and quite of the same exact article (I swear there’s been ten weekdays straight of hype for the Mistico show on 05/02), so we’ll know how the month ends well before the middle cards are announced. Ovaciones says AAA is not sure when they’ll run TripleMania yet and may do it in May, which would be a surprise to me.

Ovaciones also says CMLL is talking about starting selling tickers on Ticketmaster again, starting on 05/19.

Luchas 200 #365 teases the return of Perro Aguayo Sr.

CMLL (TUE) 04/24 Arena Queretaro Lineup [Knotty @ El Martinete]
1) Espiritu Negro b Alasthor
2) Drabek I & Drabek II vs Fuego Latino & Ozuno
3) El Corsario & Perro del Ring b Toro & Ursus
4) Arkangel & Dr. X ?? Leono & Sagrado
5) La Mascara, Mistico, Volador Jr. b Averno, Mephisto, Sangre Azteca

AAA (TUE) 04/24 Foro Tecate de Culiacan [KrisZ,
rodi-619 @ el martinete]
1) Doberman & El Anesteciador b Astro Boy & Frank el Payaso
2) El Delfin & Orion b ? & El Halcon
3) La Parkita & Mini Path Finder b Mini Charly Manson & Mini Chessman
4) Crazy Boy, Joe Lider, Juventud Guerrera b Cuervo, Espiritu, Ozz
5) Octagon b Fuerza Guerrera [MEX MIDDLE]

Top 3 matches were all people sneaking in fouls for wins. YAY lameness.

03/28: Coliseo, Tijuana, Monterrey, Ticketmaster

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CMLL (TUE) 03/27 Arena Coliseo Results [ovaciones]
1) Angel Azteca Jr., Explosivo b Carrona, Zayco
2) Mini Damian 666, Mini Halloween, Mini Mr. Aguila b Tzuki, Shockercito, Electrico
3) Hirooki Goto, Okumura, Ohara b La Mascara, Virus, Texano Jr.
4) Lady Apache b Amapola [CMLL WOMEN]
5) Atlantis, Ultimo Guerrero, Misterioso Jr. b Shocker, Rey Bucanero, Heavy Metal
6) Dr. Wagner Jr. b Averno

The big news is Shocker actually wrestled a scheduled match. The rumors of him going to WWE popped back up over the weekend, but I’ve not heard them come from WWE’s direction.

Ovaciones says just over 2,000 people showed up for this card. I don’t know what they’ve been drawing lately on Tuesdays (just generically “bad”), but it doesn’t seem like this card was as interesting to the people who were buying tickets as it was to me. I guess, not knowing what they’ve drawn previously, this could even be a bump up, but it’s still a low amount. On this night, Wagner wasn’t a draw and the women’s title wasn’t a draw.

Ovaciones was sounded very down on Amapola/Lady Apache (which was three falls) and doesn’t have much to say about Averno/Dr. Wagner. “Dr. Wagner put Averno in his place”, indeed.

VIVA LA LUCHA (FRI) 03/30 Palenque el Parque Morelos, Tijuana Lineup
1) Disco Machine, Karl Anderson, Joey Ryan vs Human Tornado, Lil Cholo, Silver Tiger
2) Pancho Cachondo, Animaniac, Shamu vs Viernes 13, Tazmania, Scream
3) Super Astro, Venum Black vs Angel Mensajero, Psico
4) Genio del Aire, Iron Boy, Luminoso vs Phoenix Star, Zokre, Cobra II
5) La Parkita, Octagoncito vs Piratita Morgan, Espectrito
6) Los Ice Creams vs Jigsaw, Lince Dorado
7) Xtreme Tigre vs Mortiz
8) Nicho, Juventud Guerrera vs Rey Misterio, LA Park

This is a co-promoted show with TJ’s lucha commission, a free show, and a pilot TV taping. ‘ccording to El Sol de Tijuana, it’s for a Yet To Exist US Combat Sports network, which, well – it’d be nice if it happened, let’s say it like that. PWI says it’ll be G4, so I may have to get over hating that network if this makes air. Since this is just a pilot, it’s far from sure it’ll ever be air anywhere.

I’m guessing this is two (or more) shows combined into one taping. Whoever’s doing this seems to have a clue, because they’re making the local stars the headliners instead of the random US/Canada indy guys, which seemed like an issue with the US-ish run RLLX in Guadalajara (though I guess we should remember that it probably didn’t matter who was on top given the billon other things that seemed to go wrong for that group.)

I wish I loved Xtreme Tiger as much as everyone who books him. I presume PWG is providing the film crew and that’s why their guys are working the opener. Sixth match is from CHIKARA; whoever did the poster I’m looking at had it listed as “Los Helado Atomico”, and it wasn’t untll I looked at the PWI article that I realized someone had translated “Ice Cream”. PWI also says Cobra II is TJ Perkins in one of his dozen masked gimmick – he wrestled under that name once in Arena Coliseo.

Do you think LA Park is going to be BANNED FOREVER from Arena Mexico for working a show with AAA worker Juvi (and Nicho, maybe)? I’m thinking no.

indy (TUE) 03/27 Arena Coliseo Monterrey [rfc]
1) Rey Morgan ?? Jimmy Navarro
2) Erin Snake b Angel Negro
3) Ejecutor b Ultraman Jr.
4) Konnan King b Huracan Ramriez Jr.
5) Silver Star b Silver Cat
6) Pancho Tequila b Golden Boy

They failed to deliver Nygma vs Silver Cat! What a fraud.

Ovaciones confirms Friday’s show will be on PPV, and mentions that tickets will be on sale today at Arena Mexico. That ticket mention is a twisted way of saying* the Ticketmaster deal is off, I believe. There’s still no ticket listing at the site. This week’s Figure Four Weekly has a story on the situation. Ticketmaster typically adds a flat processing on every ticket, as do most similar ticket services. That fee would be a big increase to the cheaper tickets, so CMLL would rather Ticketmaster just take a percentage of the ticket cost. Neither side has budged – Ticketmaster doesn’t need CMLL, and CMLL rather do things their own way. Ovaciones mentioning that you can buy tickets at Arena Mexico and not even addressing the ticketmaster situation is the usual (highly annoying) way of addressing the issue by not addressing it all.

There ARE Ticketmaster alternatives – MLB owned Tickets.com, for one, so maybe they’ll look around for a better deal.

Ovaciones also has stories on Niebla, Oriental, and Super AAA visiting a home from special needs children, and La Parka Jr. perhaps going rudo.

El Halcon #89 is up. They’ve got an interview with La Mascara (who credits Skayde and Negro Navarro for helping him with classic lucha elements), second part of the Cibernetico interview and a Vaquero Q&A (he says he’s once won the world Minis title – ?), as well as features on the original Ray de Jalisco and the fourth part of it’s look back at the original El Halcon.

02/23: Notes

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Ovaciones mentions CMLL will try selling tickets via TicketMaster for the 03/09 and 03/16 Arena Mexico shows. It sounds like it’s a trial situation, especially since they’re not committing doing it for to the big show.

There’s like a 90% chance I’m going to try to buy a ticket to Arena Mexico for one of those shows, even though I won’t be within 4000 miles of Mexico City. Won’t be the biggest waste of ticket money I’ve made, I can tell you today.

There’s also an interview with Pirata Morgan, pointing out Consgrados doesn’t mean old, it means accomplished.

AAA’s posted a bunch of lineups. Sexy Star is the mystery women in the second match of the 03/03 taping – the Linda Star idea makes as much sense as any. They’ve got to run an angle to introduce her tonight, right?

La Presna has a generic preview of tonight’s Arena Mexico show. So does Notimex. So does ESTO. Does CMLL send out releases with this info? (It’s basically the three version of the same story.) What are the odds of me getting on that list? (not so good.)

CMLL

Esto also talks to Alex Koslov about his start in Mexico and his tecnico turn. You know, I actually tried to tried to get Alex Koslov for an interview on Joe Versus The World, but he hasn’t gotten back to me on e-mails – you don’t want me to try and book guests for your show, is all I’m saying. I think I need to be a newspaper? I think I need to talk to someone better at this.

Meanwhile, Maximo would like a shot at Averno’s title, and Ultimo’s mask. Usually, I’d say something like “It’s good to have dreams”, but Maximo really doesn’t have much to lose if he puts his hair up for his mask, and everything to gain.

You know how the Torreon Box Y Lucha comission expected about 140 people to get their lucha libre licenses? Only 4 have. The deadline is March 1st, and the comission is very unhappy. Spokesperson for them threatens to ban non-licensed promoters, but I guess most wrestlers must not be taking it seriously.

A year after being announced, the Monclova Box Y Lucha commission was finally made official by the Mayor. They’re going to work to have a doctor at every show, make sure every wrestler has a physical, and improve the security at events. Meanwhile, the local wrestlers and referees union has postponed a strike, scheduled to take start today. They’re pushing it back to 03/18. The union is looking for some sort of social security; currently, if you’re hurt wrestling, the most you’ll get from a promoter tin can to go beg fans for money. That’s pretty harsh.

There’s a post on Box Y Lucha claiming to be the Box Y Lucha forum claiming to be the Rey de Reyes site, but I there’s not enough there to believe. They’ve got Scott Steiner working the main event, which I’m not sure is likely, and they’ve don’t cite seeing it on a poster or reading it on a newspaper or tapping Konnan’s phone or anything to cite where it came from. It’s possible, but I’m going to wait for it to turn up from another source.