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Perro Aguayo Jr. has a new column on MedioTiempo. He doesn’t care about the results in his feud with AAA and he doesn’t understand why Parka, Mesias and Cibernetico get along since they’ve feuded. Perro talks about some unnamed person who criticizes the Perros style, saying all styles are (equally) valid, but he’s a legit enough wrestler to have gone to the Pan American Games multiple times except his father wouldn’t let him. (????) Anyway, this guy – Perro’s refuses to name names, which is a weak way to go for a rebel – is old and can’t move so and Perro wouldn’t want to do his current style.

Alebrije says his weight and size will be a big advantage in the cage. He doesn’t want to go to the end, but if he does, he’d like to face Ultimo Guerrero or one of the Hijos de Averno.

Rayo de Jalisco talks about his feud with Atlantis (he says they went 40 minutes in their singles match, which probably converts to 15) to Fuego en el Ring. He’s headed to Japan soon, so he might be done for now after Sunday’s show in Guadalajara. His father has undergone surgery on his feet and knees in recent days.

ESTO looks back at past CMLL anniversary shows. probably a few  more of these to come tomorrow. SuperLuchas looks back at the last Anniversary show to have a cage match main event, in 2007.

BlogCritics has some thoughts on Heroes del Ring after trying it out at Konami’s Gamers’ Day.

Via Lucha2000, CMLL says social media/twitter accounts of Mistico & Volador are fake, though Sombra’s Facebook account is legit (though not linked.) It’s a pain, but they really need to put a list of confirmed real accounts.

Colt Cabana has an interview with Rocky Romero, who might have some lucha stories to talk about. Audio autoplays at the link.

LuchaWorld has KrisZ’s news update and the August edition of Lucha World magazine.

CMLL put up the lineup for the 09/07 Guadalajara card. It’s the same exact lineup as the 09/05 card. That’s probably not right.

CMLL (MON) 08/30 Arena Puebla [Fuego en el Ring]
1) Fuerza Chicana & Sauron b King Jaguar & Stigma
2) Durango Kid, Puma King, Raziel, Scorpion b Asturiano, Black Tiger, Centella de Oro, Lestat [cibernetico]
3) Delta, Diamante, Rush b Dr. X, Hooligan, Nitro
4) Blue Panther, Máscara Dorada, Místico b Héctor Garza, Mr. Águila, Psicosis
5) Volador Jr. b La Sombra [MEX LH]

Volador pulled Sombra’s mask and rolled him up to retain the title. Pictures make this look like the standard CMLL singles match. No details on the cibernetico.

CMLL (TUE) 08/31 Arena Coliseo Guadalajara [Fuego en el Ring]
1) Javier Cruz Jr. b Quca
2) Idolo & Samurai b Acertijo & León Blanco
3) Leo b Rey Trueno
4) Gallo, Metal Blanco, Palacio Negro DQ Ephesto, Euforia, Vangelis
5) Hijo del Fantasma, Rayo de Jalisco Jr., Valiente b Atlantis, Averno, Dragón Rojo Jr.

Tecnicos took the main event clean.

Semimain came down to Gallo and Ephesto in the ring, and Ephesto just fouled Gallo for the DQ.

CMLL (TUE) 08/31 Arena Mexico [Fuego en el Ring, @cmllmagazine]
1) Camorra & Inquisidor b Camaleón & Robin
2) Pequeno Maximo, Shockercito, Último Dragoncito b Pequeño Universo 2000, Pequeño Violencia, Pequeño Warrior
3) Fuego, Leono, Metro DQ Cancerbero, Nosferatu, Virus
4) Shigeo Okumura, Terrible, Texano b Ángel de Oro, Sagrado, Toscano
5) La Máscara, Máscara Dorada, Místico b Felino, Negro Casas, Rey Bucanero

Mascara Dorada pinned Negro Casas with his own cradle to take the win. Dorada and Negro have been feuding, and this win led to Dorada challenging Negro for the CMLL Weltwerweight championship. Negro accepted, and Dorada will challenge for a four simultaneous championship next Tuesday. (This takes Negro out of the rudos cibernetico next week. Probably stands a better chance in the title match.)

Steve Ship of Lucha Libre USA told PWInsider (note: link goes elsewhere) that they always planned to run seasons, that they contract they signed was for 52 weeks but they never said it was for 52 consecutive weeks and they’re sure they will return. The plan may have been to runs seasons all along, but even a dense person can see the plan wasn’t to schedule two more TV tapings after they’ve stopped taping for the season. The article again mentions the plan to put video of the Charlotte show (still no results) and the upcoming Corpus Christi show on the website. The season has been done since Saturday, and they haven’t even mentioned that on their Twitter accounts, so I wouldn’t hold my breath for video.

Though video of the Season Final is up. Also, this week’s Ras de Lona.

Ratings

• CMLL 3.3 (down 0.8)
• AAA 4.3 (down 0.5)
• Masked Warriors: 0.05 (45,000 viewers) – on one hand, that’s nearly what they were doing on Saturday. On the other, it’s got to be close to the baseline people who would have MTV2 on if was just airing a test pattern (or a music video)

AAA’s added a taping on 09/14 in Mexico State. They were running a week short of TV on their old schedule (09/05 and 09/19), and probably have only one more taping to announced before Heroes Inmortales.

SuperLuchas says Alex Koslov will be starting with FCW in October, not the next year as Dorian Roldan had said.

Today in people who don’t want to lose their mask: Histeria. Interestingly, he suggest he’ll retire if he loses his mask in the cage match (which makes me reduce his chances.)

In half forgotten storylines, Tiger Kid and Puma King explain to Fuego en el Ring that their dad made them continue to team with each other after Tiger turned on Puma back on Infierno en el Ring. Puma is still not happy with Tiger.

Estrellas del Ring has an interview with Campesino del Valle and to Dick Angelo about his promotion.

The original Black Metal is wrestling in Mexicali this Sunday.

A new promoter is taking over running Arena Coliseo Monterrey, and bringing in the WWE fakes from the area. From when we’ve seen them before, I believe Tim identified fake Big Show as Neurosis and fake Rey Misterio as Quinto Misterio, but we haven’t seen the fake Jeff Hardy and John Cena yet.

There’s a weekly Santo film festival in Minneapolis, starting this Saturday and running thru the first weekend of October.

Heroes del Ring bio: Laredo Kid.

Lineups

CMLL (MON) 09/06 Arena Puebla
1) Blue Center & Tigre Rojo vs Akron & Siki Osama
2) Astral, Eléctrico, Fantasy vs Pequeño Nitro, Pequeño Olímpico, Pequeño Violencia
3) Delta, Fabián el Gitano, Leono vs Arkángel de la Muerte, Nitro, Nosferatu
4) Blue Panther, Sagrado, Toscano vs Ephesto, Mephisto, Misterioso II
5) Máscara Dorada, Místico, Shocker vs Héctor Garza, Jushin Lyger, Mr. Águila

Thought the Anniversary show might be the end of Lyger for now, since NJPW is starting another tour this week, but he’s still around another week. Pequeno Olimpico on the rudo side? Hmmmm.

CMLL (TUE) 09/07 Arena Mexico
1) Rayo Tapatío II & Robin vs Disturbio & Zayco
2) Goya Kong, Luna Mágica, Marcela vs Amapola, Mima Shimoda, Seuxis
3) Felino vs Rey Bucanero, Terrible, Texano, Héctor Garza, Mr. Águila, Último Guerrero, Atlantis, Shigeo Okumura, Jushin Lyger, Averno, Mephisto, Sangre Azteca, Dragón Rojo Jr., Volador Jr., Mr. Niebla [Copa Bicentenario]
4) Máscara Dorada vs Negro Casas [CMLL WELTER]

16 man cibernetico. That’ll be interesting. All of the guys suspected of losing their mask in the cage match are not in this cibernetico, except Mr. Niebla.

Of course. Chat starts at 8:15pm central, CMLL Anniversary show starts at 8:30, cage match starts sometime after 10.

I’ll have the relevant results on here and on twitter, but come join the chat on Friday. We’ll be talking about the CMLL results, puzzling together the card for the next AAA show, arguing about whatever Konnan just said to send the internet into a fury, and maybe discuss the end of seasons. I may bake some cookies. It’ll be the usual.

I have the strong suspicion September is going to be a very interesting month. This’ll be a fun way to start it.

IWRG (SUN) 08/29 Arena Naucalpan [Estrellas del Ring, Black Terry Jr. (flickr), The Gladiatores]
1) Guerrero 2000 b Pikachu
2) Jack & Super Halcon Jr. b Comando Negro & Epidemia
3) Magia Negra & Mr. Power b El Simbolo & Miss Gaviota
4) Black Terry & Cerebro Negro b Avisman & El Hijo del Diablo and Oficial AK47 & Oficial Fierro and Chico Che & Suicida
5) Dr. Cerebro, Freelance, Hijo de Pirata Morgan, Oficial 911, Veneno b Chris Stone, Decnnis, El Brazo, Ozz, Último Gladiador [cibernetico]

Team IWRG won in what’s said to be the least of the recent IWRG/AAA cibernetico matches they’ve done lately. Before the match, Decnnis invited El Brazo to be in the Militia again. El Brazo, showing he’s learned absolutely nothing from being beat up in this very arena 10 days ago, said no again. This time, everyone on team AAA just got along anyway. Eliminations went Freelance, Decnnis (who complained about an IWRG unfair count), 911, Ozz, Brazo, Veneno, and Hijo de Pirata Morgan. With Chris Stone and Cerebro left, AAA tried to win the match by convincing Dr. Cerbero to join their side. This also worked as a distraction, but Dr. Cerbero caught Chris Stone in a submission (and held on to it, despite Decnnis running back in to attack.)

After the match, Team AAA invited Dr. Cerebro to leave IWRG and join them in AAA. Dr. Cerbero said no, but left the possibility open later. Uh oh.

Four way tag match came down to Terry & Cerbero defeating the Oficials, which starts that feud again. There are only three possible trios feuds in IWRG at any time – Oficials vs Terry/Cerberos, Oficials vs Gringos, and Gringos vs Terry/Cerberos – and we’re back to plan A. Chico Che was hurt during the match and replaced by Angel.

“El Simbolo” appears to be a guy with no shirt and wrestling in jeans and sneakers. I think we’ll see him again right after we see Mini Skandalo.

Pikachi = Guizmo with new pants. These are the updates this this website exists to provide.

On Sunday in Arena Solidaridad, Pantro lost his hair to Tigre Universitario, and Orquidea Negra lost his hair to Chica de Arabia.

In Arena Neza on Sunday, Psicosis beat Averno by a sneaky foul in the main event trios. The semimain built a Ramstein/Fantastik feud. The attendance was typically horrible for that building; the only group who’ve drawn there is AAA.  The Gladiatores has a video interview with the Invasors on that show.

El Siglo de Torreon has a detailed article about the lucha libre business in La Laguna. Attendance has fallen 50% over the last three years, with the bad economy and the lack of security. Jose Acero, promoter at Deportivo Lee Roy, actually lists his budget:

(in pesos)
550 to the Department of Events & Alcohol
50 to the Civil Protection department
200 to the Box Y Lucha commission
unlisted costs for flyers and other advertising
1000 for rent
3200 ($243US) for a the entire lineup of 22 wrestlers, if they’re all local (50 for those in the opener, 80 for the 2nd, 100, 150, and 200 for main eventers); the luchadors know the pay are low, but know it’s because the economy
between 15,000 and 35,000 for national wrestlers, plus travel expenses (so no national wrestlers)

Attendance is between 80 -100, with about 40 people getting in free by being invited by a luchador. Javier Dipp, promoter at Arena Olimpico Laguna, says that lucha promoters survive “by a miracle”, because they’re not drawing enough now. (Both Deportivo La Rosita Vicente Guerrero and Plaza de Toros Torreon no longer host shows; no miracle for them.) They’d like those governmental fees lowered. The commission would like to see the shows end earlier, so people would be less fearful of going out into a late dark night.

El Siglo de Torreon also has an Espanto II obit. Their listing for Thursday’s show at AOL has Super Punk in the main event, so either Ultimo Rebelde II has changed his name or Hooligan has two sons wrestling here now. I didn’t know, or I forgot, that they have a website too.

Judging from these posts – Angel o Demonio on LuchaMania, a follow up on LMdLL – no one working Sunday’s Arena Coliseo Monterrey show got paid. The promoter took the money and disappeared.

Silver King & Mesias will be on Motel Diablito on Wednesday, and Mesias will be on Glam Show on Friday. Kind of surprising, since those are shows on 52MX, which has all that CMLL programming. You’d think CMLL would get their own guys on other shows, or at least prevent AAA guys from being on them.

Headline: “Olimpico hopes to save his mask in the cage match.” No way!

There’s talk of creating a female version of 100% Lucha. I believe that’s GLOW. Or WOW.

Cronicas Y Leyendas has video of Alushe vs the Giant Rudos, from 1992. He’s been doing this for a long time.

Hablando de Catch returns to talk about Payasos in lucha libre.

Fuego en el Ring speaks to a Huracan Ramriez, a music teacher in his other job.

Hereos del Ring bio of the day: Aerostar. They mention the Dormilona, so I’d guess that’s in the game. Also, the Super Fly bio mentions his repeated destruction at the hands of Electroshock, so that’s great. There’s a video of a three way match over at GameTrailers, and the flow of the game looks a smoother to me than the videos they’ve been posting on their official site; maybe it’s having two CPU players instead of one (or none?) The game designer explains it’s the part of the rudo campaign mode – 22 stages! – and we learn Scoria and Brazo are all the way at the bottom of the ladder (and Brazo looks surprisingly fun to play as.) There’s another video interview about the game on the site.

LuchaWorld has KrisZ’s news update.