DEATH VALLEY DRIVER #117! |
@#@#@#@ EMLL ON FOX SPORTS (PANAMA)-11/15/99
(DEAN RASMUSSEN)
The big irritating story of 2000 is that EMLL
has become the WORST POSSIBLE NEW JAPAN TV and decided to only show their
shittiest wrestlers in full matches- as in New Japan cutting Ohtani vs
Lyger to 3 minutes, while showing every motherfucking second of Goto and
Ohara against Kengo Kimura and Manabu Nakanishi. MEANWHILE in Mexico,
Galavision is cutting the cool ass undercard to flinders while showing
the Headhunters and Giant Silva vs Gran Markus and Hermanos Dinamitas in
all of its super-shitty glory. With New Japan, the slogan of resignation
to Suck is "You're gonna wanna wait until the Samurai TV version is out
or wait for the commercial tape", with EMLL the catchy NEW slogan is "You
may want to find someone who trades with Luke de Sade and get the Panamanian
Fox Sports Network version of it" because it's uncut and kicks your hinder
totally like the good Lucha Libre SHOULD.
Mr. Hoy/Olimpus/ Solar I vs. Dr.
O'Borman/ Virus/ Rencor Latino:
This is the reg'lar Gashouse Gang of high-flying/innovative
young punks- especially with the superfantastic Rencor Latino- who has
developed into the killing machine that I never figured he would develop
into. I remember first seeing him on EMLL undercard matches with
Astro Rey Jr and Solar 2 and the ilk and being quite adept at hanging on
the mat with the best of the EMLL undercard. I figured he would be
a constant of the undercard like that whole crew of the aforementioned,
Arkangel, Ultraman Junior, and cadaver de Ultratumbas of the world.
On the way to midcard solid obscurity, Rencor Latina started hanging out
with Ultimo Guererro and started watching tapes from Japan and the next
thing you know we have a budding Dr Wagner/ El Felino on our hands- as
Rencor is using the NASTIEST Japanese finisher he can think of in the context
of the most traditional Lucha Libre setting and BOY! does THAT pop out
atcha. Mr Hoy is another up-and-comer with good size, a good
tope and all around niftiness. he's got Antifaz del Norte's cool
ass color scheme with the sky blue and yellow and also has Antifaz's bigger
man highspots that could propel him to Antifaz's domain of aspirant to
the Ciclon Ramirez/Volador Throne of Bigger Luchadore with a consequently
more dangerous set of highspots. Virus is the former Damiancito and
is the eternal Oriental foil, being the rudo version of the Moreno youngster-
being that he is as freaked-out and fudged-up in his high-flying but en
lieu of Oriental's state-of-the-art Culturally steeped and heisted mask,
Virus sports the most Dominant Mullet in Lucha Libre- leaving Zumbido's
magnificent Ode To Bow Wow Wow/ tribal/ Native American coiffe laying in
the dust- as Virus rocks a mullet like as unselfconsciously and non-referentially
as Randy Johnson or that guy who greases the engine of your fishing boat.
Dr O'Borman is another in the line of beloved evil doctors with the classic
white mask. He's got the AMA snakes embossed on his mask and is quite
the decent rudo. Olympus is not to be confused with the more popular
Olympico. I like Olympus because he will almost always land wrong
on his shoulder for you- as opposed to doing something really compelling
on the mat or carry a match or anything cooler like that. Olympus
is Onryo or your local indie highspot guy, dying for your pleasure.
And confusing perfectly fine Solar 2 with his infinitely better brother
is like confusing the career of Eddy Payton with his brother, Walter. Meanwhile,
the match itself: Dr. O'Borman comes out in a werewolf mask and I vaguely
remember the reason for this- something about a legend that was in an El
Santo movie or something. I could just be really high or something.
The first Caida is lowgrade but definately rude enough as O'Borman goes
Old School with the Elbow Drop but goes out of the New School Catapult
Over The Top. Rencor Latino is DYNAMIC in his evil- kicking motherfuckers
in the face and being a real weenis all around. After a Hurty as
all Hell Toprope Splash by O'Borman leads to comically preposterous
rudo submissions doled out all about the ring. The Second Caida has
Solar 2 being all Quebradoratastic. Mr Hoy- who is growing on me
expotentially ever time I see him- hits the FAT mfn ASS double Tope Suicida
with Olympico, which is set up by the toprope Double Dropkick by a Lesser
Sun. The Sun that also Rises procures the crucifix and this ain't
very much of an actual match yet and I ain't digging it. The third
Caida sees young Virus assuming the role of a younger, shorter Fuerza Guerrera
in Sting make-up, offering up his hand in friendship. "We are Sangre"
he says as he brings the rudo eye rake. Kindness and gentle, loving
violence are the irony of the Lucha Libre. Meanwhile, Rencor Latino-
who I love the fudge out of- and Olypus do adequately elaborate armdrags,
setting up Rencor feigning a foule by randomly pointing to his lil AAA
Super Rencorcito Junior and rolling on the ground. It was at this
point that I realized that we weren't gonna voyage to the mat for an extended
period of time or set-up some kind of compelling inter-match conflict pairing
off into something or anything transcendent or anything. From this
point it kind of crumbles into a Half-Ass Rudo Caida with Virus, Rencor
and O'Booreman recycling Crazy Max recycling the big KDX as we make it
to the hideously elaborate submission spot. This was less than what
the true talent in the ring should have delivered. Oh yeah.
Brazo de Oro/Ringo Mendoza/Tigre
Blanco vs. Violencia/Mr. Mexico/Arkangel de la Muerte: Questions....Yes,
questions.... Can Arkangel and Violencia wrestle for six? Can Mr
Mexico justify his own suckassness and giant push all based on a feud that
started over him being the recipient of a stolen Mr Niebla gimmick?
My pre-match guess- no and no. 1st Caida: A very short, very crappy
rudo fall. they kick Tigre Blanco quite a bit. Oh yeah.
this is looking to be as useless in real life as it looked on paper.
2nd caida: This is an extension of the ass-sucking first caida. Since
all your technicos are either a.) washed up like brazo De Oro and the oldest
fart in any ring- Ringo Mendoza or b.) Tigre Blanco who wants to be like
his namesake and blend into the scenery- this being the technico scenery
of Total Suck-ass. With nothing to actually rudo with, your two super
rudos just kick and kick until a shitty technico decides to sneak in a
pin and get us closer to getting out of this shitty match. 3rd Caida:
Ringo gets outworked by Mr Mexico- which is akin to being outworked by
Brian Knobbs. Tigre Blanco finally sez," It's all I can stands! I can't
stands no more!" and tries to instill some of his good mid-level high-flying
into the fray and make an attempt to save this craptacular mid stream.
He tries to work up a head of steam but blows the run up the ropes spot
and saves his bacom completely by hitting the superswanky Shiryu Tope a
little later. Ringo Mendoza- the oldest, most dessicated corpse in
allllllllllllll Mexico- crawls off his ventilator to get the shitty
pin in this really really shitty wrestling match you just watched.
Brazo de Plata/Lizmark/Emilio Charles,
Jr. vs. Cien Caras/Mascara Año 2000/Universo 2000:
Jesus Christ, Hermanos Dinamitas? I just ate.
In case you are new to the lucha scene, Cien Caras, universo Dos Mil and
Mascara Ano Dos Mil are the Hermanos Dinamitas (Brothers made of Dynamite!
UNBELIEVABLE!) and Boy oh Boy! do they suck dick. They do for
Lucha Libre what John Tenta and Fred Ottman did for late 80s US wrestling.
The Brazos were good enough workers in the late 80's- early 90's but who
are now fat hogs in the ring, so they are pretty useless unless waiting
for the morbidly obese to collapse in the ring is your thing, which- if
it is- please don't ever talk to me or anything. Emilio Charles has
been pretty inconsistent the last coupla years but is pretty fired up in
this affair. Lizmark is one luchadore that has aged gracefully-
as he takes the first caida with a nifty roll-up after Charles clears the
way with an Old School dropkick where you land on your back as opposed
to your side. Plata was all about comedy spots- what with his heart
about to explode and all... Charles rocks the second caida, getting
Cien Caras to bump for him. Lizmark and Universo pair up and make
me remember that Universo is SOOOOO not as useless as his brothers from
a workrate standpoint. Platta makes with fat jokes that are every
bit as bad as Louie anderson's but in the Lucha context- as we descend
into TRUE ass-sucking horror. Platta fakes a foule and we can add
this match to the Giant Bag Of Lucha Feces Highlight reel that people in
the ninth level of hell have to watch for eternity in the Rayo De Jalisco
Room. Say your prayers, folks.
Tony Rivera/ Super Astro/ Antifaz
del Norte vs. Black Warrior/ Ultimo Guerrero/ Zumbido:
Well, I'm guessing THIS will rock. Don't
ever let me underestimate the power of Zumbido's Mullet as it is a Mighty
Mighty Hairstyle Statement- a coiffe that goes out and fights crime while
Zumbido sleeps at night. Antifaz Del Norte- who motherfucking rules
the motherfucking world- forgoes the Sky Blue and goes for the Yellow outfit.
Super Astro- who makes a fat ass sub according to last FROM PARTS UNKNOWN
I bought- was still wearing a mask and was REALLY feeling it in this
match. All six of these guys are God-like- with Super Astro being less
than he was- but HELL! who isn't. Zumbidio dies early and often, as is
his wont- doing every above toprope death landing you can think of, but
all in the context of the match and what have you. As Zumbido clears,
Astro shows you just how much he is really feeling it as he hangs with
Black Warrior- the fastest, most athletic rudo around- and then Astro fucking
CRUSHES Black Warrior with the greatest Can Of Ham Shot Out Of A Cannon
Tope you will ever see- all right after Rivera hits the reverse rana off
the apron right to Black Warrior landing right on his lumbar region to
set up said flying star-bedecked pork product crushing him like a bug.
BW will go the extra mile to show you who REALLY rules the rudo roost.
The fab highspots add up to the Technico pin for the First Caida Duke.
HURRAH! The Second caida is the world's best Caida as the whole story
of the match really develops as Black Warrior and Super Astro are such
implacatable Dicks to each other- with the added attraction of Antifaz
fearlessly befriending his astronomical bounding ball of fellow technico
by punching Black Warrior in the face a couple times for good measure.
Ultimo Guerrero- who may well be the best young wrestler to come out of
Mexico in a while- is quite unmikd and belligerent to the Yakushiji-esque
Tony Rivera- as in Yakushiji is to Rey Misterio Jr as Tony Rivera is to
Mr Niebla. Zumbido's Spinning, Twirling Elbow is his most spectacular
spot- as all the fringe and mullet TRANSFORM into this Swirling, swarming
mass of violence and hatred that focuses into this hellish rudo elbow drop.
I weep for the life of Antifaz. I weep at the beauty of the fringe
and mullet. I weep at the innate beauty of it all... Ultimo
Guerrerro hits his BIG LEAGUE Gnarley as All Fuck Toprope Reverse Superplex
as Zumbido hits a fucking FABULOUSly graceful Moonsault as they make with
the synchronized submissions on the burned and charred remains of the crushed
and destroyed technicos. The 3rd Caida, Ultimo Gee beats the living
pus out Rivera, then Black Warrior beats the poo out of Rivera. Rivera
crawls to the corner- pus-less and poo-less. Super Astro is still
royally pissed at the heavy Rudo tactics of Black Warrior so the rudos
BEAT SUPER ASTRO TO DEATH. It's fun! After beating the living
hell out of the portly fireplug we call Super Astro, Zumbido and Ultimo
GEE do a really extended Endzone dance and Antifaz CRUSHES them with a
toprope dropkick to break up thisunsightly ICKY SHUFFLE DOS MIL- and this
sets up the Rivera and Antifaz Double Tope Suicida with Antifaz ruling
the goddam fucking world with MAD PHAT AIR and the barrel roll, as Antifaz's
big fat ass crushes Zumbido and the totally smoked Rivera crushes Ultimo.
Back in the ring, the story continues as Super Astro gets a measure of
revenge on the rat bastard called Black Warrior with Astro hitting the
Quebrada Tope (headbutt) but misses on the second attempt. Black
Warrior gets in a body slam and then whips out the Savage Elbow Drop for
the big win. Super Astro is unconscious and Black Warrior is a big
dick gloating over him and kicking him out of the ring. The technicos
are incensed and hatred reigns supreme and my faith in CMLL is fully restored
by the depth of the story told and completely contained in the confines
of the three caidas. I'm equally as impressed by the fact that all
three of these rudos are just motherfucking spectacular and just absolutely
state-of-the-art in every single way. To judge the three, I'd say
that Black Warrior is the best at telling a story and getting the story
of the match over with the fans. Ultimo Guerrerro is the fucking
Ted DiBiase of Modern Lucha Rudos because his style commands respect and
his rudo psychology to the match is based on being a neck-breaking, ass-beating
motherfucker, as opposed to being a sneaky bastard and a cheater.
Like DiBiase in his prime, Ultimo gets the match across in the subtle nuances
of the match itself- especially through his Nouvelle Rudo Purolucha Offense.
He is like DiBiase in that neither rely on Rudo histronics but can use
them if they choose. there's a depth to Ultimo guerrerro's work that
will mke him one of the all-time greats at this rate. Zumbido is
the flashiest and the most athletic and is as rock solid in his understanding
of getting the story of the match over with the rubes, but he doesn't have
the intangibles yet that Black Warrior and Ultimo guerrerro have.
I hope these three continue to try to top each other because in the end
there will be no losers, just millions of awestruck wrestling fans.
And did I say that Antifaz is motherfucking great? He is.
Dr. Wagner Jr/ Fuerza Guerrera/
Blue Panther vs. Felino/ Tarzan Boy/ Negro Casas:
The key to Lucha is that the best has a solid
story that is based on actual movement. It's like dance in that the
story told is best if it isn't dependent overtly on outside frame of reference
but is self-contained and dictated by the action in the piece. In
other words, instead of this being based on Wagner hater the owner of CMLL's
daughter and son and the CMLL Corporation, the story of this match is that
Doctor Wagner is using the Michinoku Driver and- being that Mexico is superior
to ANY OTHER PLACE in terms of establishing finishers and keeping them
over- it is sold as a de facto piledriver- or to put it in nonLucha terms-
it's sold as vehicular manslaughter. The whole match is Dr Wagner
trying to weaken Negro Casas neck with neckbreakers, drops across the rails-
all of which is getting BIG heat because his finisher is Lucha Murder That's
Getting Off On A Technicality- so you know the danger as each move progresses
to the next hold. if Wagner hits it after all that Wagner has already
done to Casas's neck, it's over forever for Casas. It's brilliant
psychology and really flies in the face to the Japanese ten thousand finishers
in one match idea of wrestling. The other subtext of the match is
that Casas, Wagner, Felino, Blue Panther and Bestia Salvaje have been whittling
away at the rampant looseness that has always permeated Lucha and Wagner
keeps raising the stiffness in this as he punches Casas right in the face
like Ishikawa punching Ikeda right in the face and it was fucking beautiful.
In the middle of all the back story, Blue Panther hits a picture perfect
Fisherman suplex and the first caida in a very short period of time establishes
the blood hatred between Wagner and Casas- painting Casas as mere naked
prey to the relentless, unmerciful carnivore that is the evil and hated
Doctor Wagner. In other news in the match, two other guys who are
wrestling- Fuerza Guerrera who is RESURGING like a motherfucker- and Felino-
rip it up like bastards. I heard that Felino had fallen off
quite a bit from his peak form in 97 and 98 but he definately had enough
left in the tank to make the armdrag sequence rock the motherfucking house-
as Felino hits every tricked-out armdrag he can think as Fuerza rudos along
faster than the speed of light. Fuerza hits the AWA Elbow drops to
seal his fate as Rudo that refuses to be washed-up. as if Fuerza
had anything else to prove, he then rudos and sets up the offense of Tarzan
Boy like a KING- working it from the the rudo corner across the ring to
the perfect set-up of Tarzan Boy's big Plancha to the floor. felino and
Blue Panther then fucking rip it up to get Felino to the highspot to the
floor. Here they show the super Lucha 87 step (almost) perfect finish-
as TB kills Fuerza on the floor and Felino rocks the motherfucking house
to kill BLue Panther on the floor- thus setting up Doctor Wagner to finish
off Casas with the Michinoku Driver in the middle of the ring. AH!
But it gets all meta here as Casas fights out of the Finisher and instead
Wagner attempts to POWERBOMB CASAS TO THE FLOOR because Wagner has become
psychotic! Casas hooks Wagner's underarms and instead drags both
of them to the floor. The NEW finish was supposed to be Fuerza foule-ing
Tarzan Boy as TB tries a toprope dropkick, but TB FUBARs the dropkick
so Fuerza does the old school foule and gets the pin and the rudos take
it in straight sets. Great motherfucking match.
Pierroth Jr/ Shocker/ Villano III
vs. Rayo de Jalisco Jr/ Atlantis/ Mr. Niebla:
This is quite the feud of the Millenium- blowing
past the Lions vs the Christians and Hatfields vs the McCoys. They fight
all the way from the back to the ring- getting all punchy and kicky through
the abbreviated Caida- a caida which is still plenty long enough for Jalisco
to look like total dogshit by taking a DDT like a total pussy. After
semi-spirited rudo brawling, Villano III slugs a ref after Pierroth gets
DQed for strangling Atlantis to death. The second Caida, we
get the cool as hell evil Shocker and super great Mr Niebla beating each
other to a pulp in a far more Puro than Lucha manner- with the suplexes
and lariats and bulldogs. Atlantis and Villano go Old School in this
Caida- and by Old School I mean Old School Memphis as they punch each other
continuously with the transition being that I AM NOW PUNCHING YOU.
It was fab. Pierroth and Jalisco stink it up with Jalisco hitting
his sub-Hellwig shitty offense. At same time in another part
of the match, Shocker bumps like a total freak for Niebla. At same
time in another part of the match, Villano 3 bumps like a total freak for
Atlantis. Shocker and Niebla go back to their foray into nonlucha
offense with Niebla selling a Shocker Puroresu ass-whipping as Shocker
sets up and hits a fucking BEAUTIFUL SHOCKER TOPE DELUXE. Jalisco
hits a nice Plancha- but, y'know Hugh Morris hits a nice Moonsault and
that doesn't make him suck any less. Ditto here. Villano 3
and Atlantis decide to channel Jackie Fargo and Austin idol directly and
go totally Memphis as the ref is distracted and Fuerza comes out of the
audience to hand a set of brass knuckles to Villano 3- missing the Total
Memphis Ending by one chain. After blasting Atlantis with the Brass
Knuckle, V3 gets the pin, but the Brass Knuckles are laying on the mat
while the rudo are celebrating. The ref then DQs the rudos and YES!
we have striaght caidas with two straight DQs. Okay, the match wasn't
long enough. It relied WAAAY too much on cheap storyline devices
like foreign objects. Sure the rudos look really evil but it doesn't
make your match GOOD or anything. Shocker vs Niebla did rule it as
hard you figured it would the moments they were in against each other.
One of the lesser matches from this feud that is Good Match Creating Machine-
more next week....
Either way, you're gonna wanna see all these Fox Sport CMLLs at some point.
~+~
$%$%$%$%$%$%$% EMLL Television 1984
(PHIL SCHNEIDER)
Atlantis/El
Hijo Del Santo vs. Fuerza Guerrera/El Lobo Rubio:
Well, three out of four ain’t bad. Atlantis,
Santo and Fuerza are all first ballot lucha hall of famers, while Lobo
is a mediocre rudo who stands out mainly because of his ridiculous Mr.
T-style mohawk. This match was all you could want from old school lucha
libre as it was mat wrestlingarific. Santo was already awesome, even though
this was only his second year in the sport. He was a lot thinner and not
nearly as stocky and powerful looking as he would get. The match started
with Santo and Rubio, and Santo doing a bunch of really cool slow motion
headscissors takeovers and mat work, with Rubio hanging pretty good.
Atlantis and Fuerza came in and did quicker armdrags and counters, including
the duel headstand Indian deathlock- slap -each other -spot which Juventud
and Rey stole (of course, Atlantis and and Fuerza GLOMMED~! It off a 6
year old Super Nova who use to do the move with his Big Bird doll on his
grandmas home movies). Santo and Fuerza rip it up too including the super
choice blind armdrags by the son of the saint. The second caida kind of
dragged with Rubio getting lost at times, but the end was pretty great
as Santo hits a fat ass plancha and Atlantis hits a great tope, with the
impact causing the rudos to get counted out. Really fun match, with a whole
batch of fast intricate mat work. Fuerza was quick as shit when he was
younger, and Atlantis was really great too. Santo had the look of someone
who was going to be one of the best, and Lobo had some funny
hair.
El Egipico/Maskare vs. Rayo De
Jalisco Jr./Hombre Bala:
There was a whole bunch of mask ripping and bad
punches and kicks, there may have been a dropkick, possibly not.
Espectro Jr. vs. Atlantis:
Weird match. Espectro jumps Atlantis before the
bell and beats him up a little on the outside. He tosses him back into
the ring, and starts Irish whipping him into the corners, with Atlantis
taking dramatic, elaborate bumps each time he hit the turnbuckle.
Espectro then just cradles him for the fall. The second fall ends quick
as Espectro rips off Atlantis’s mask for the DQ. The third fall start out
rocking with a bunch of super fast roll ups and counter roll ups, Espectro
takes a big bump and Atlantis hits a great tope, and then wins by countout
(which was quite the lucha-screw job dejour). The total third fall time
was two minutes. The good stuff was really good, but way too short. I would
like to see the rematch.
El Egipico vs. Rayo De Jalisco,
Jr. – Mask v. Mask:
Both guys stepped it up big, as this match almost
had it all. Both tried really hard, with double blade jobs, an Egipico
tope and a Rayo tope and plancha. The psychology in this match was really
well done as well, with Egipico winning the first fall with a sitting abdominal
stretch and Rayo winning the final fall by countering that move into a
standard abdominal stretch for the submission win. They also had a bunch
of near falls by Egipico in the third fall, which got the crowd popping,
because they didn’t want Rayo to lose his hood. In fact you could stick
almost any other two guys in this match, and it would be ****+ , but the
execution was so terrible in this match, that I can’t recommend it. Egipico’s
tope was tentative and horrible, the roll up and reversal section was sloppy
and paled to a similar sequence in the Atlantis v. Espectro match, they
were fucking up backdrops with Rayo sliding off the side instead of going
up and over, at one point Egipico was supposed to miss a senton but landed
on his feet before taking the back bump. This was like a Bizzaro world
Indy match, you had workers blowing simple spots in a brillantly layed
out match, as opposed to green workers doing perfect Asai moonsaults in
the midst of a directionless spotfest. This was the best-intentioned bad
match I have ever seen.
Mocha Cota/Sangre Chicana/La Fiera
vs. Rayo De Jalisco Jr./Cien Caras/Mascara Ano 2000:
Sort of diffident little match, with the same
sucksters (sans La Fiera) who are currently stinking up the top of the
Lucha cards today. All punchy and kicky, with it ending on the cheap mask
ripping DQ. Fiera was the lone highlight as he was all young, skinny and
spunky.
Shiro Koshinaka vs. El Satanico
– Hair v. Hair:
This was the big reason I picked up this tape.
Both of these guys are still viable, quality workers in the 00 (although
Koshinaka has been slowed by injury) and this was a classic bloody match.
Satanico looks exactly like ex-Lions coach Wayne Fontes. This match was
sort of Puerto Rican style as it built slowly, with realistic brawling
and an occasional big move, and buckets of blood. Koshinaka starts out
by jumping Satanico and it appears he is working heel, which would make
Satanico the face, which is really weird, with Satan being the personification
of evil and all. Koshinaka supplies most of the big offense in this, as
he hits a top rope kneedrop, butterfly suplex and a cool old school piledriver.
Both guys bleed big, with Satanico pulling the puddlin blade job. Good
match although it did have the cheap ending with Satanico getting DQ’ed
for a foul, and then getting shaved. I am in total shock that Satanico
actually won a hair v. hair match, as he gets an in-ring trim every six
months or so.
Altantis vs. Emilo Charles Jr.:
Good back and forth mat wrestling match, lots
of cool matwork from both guys, with both slow lucha work and quicker kip
ups and such. I would have liked to see a longer match as this gets cut
kind of short. Charles is a much better rudo then a techinco as his lack
of offense doesn’t really come into play here. Atlantis is the real eye
opener on this tape, as he is clearly the best worker in EMLL in this time
period. I knew he was good, but I didn’t know he was this good.
Blackman / Kung Fu / Kato Kung
Lee vs. Talisman / El Infermo Jr. / Jerry Estrada:
I was pretty excited for this match, when I saw
it on the list. Blackman (who has the super offensive white eyes and red
lips Sambo mask) became Kendo and was always very athletic, Kato Kung Lee
inspired Great Sasuke and looked really good in the early 90’s UWF stuff,
and Jerry Estrada was one of the best workers in the world in the early
90’s. This match sucked a dick though, uninspired lucha brawling, some
listless comedy, one Kung Fu tope which was EMLL’ed by the camera men (AAA
must have stolen their production crew) and a single Estrada bump (Jerry
looked off, he must have gotten a bammer bunch of pre-match white horse).
This was the tapes big letdown.
Sangre Chicana/Mocha Cota/La Fiera
vs. Mascara Ano 2000/Mano Negra/Ringo Mendoza:
Decent little trios tag, which starts slow, but
picks up in the third fall. Mano Negra is a old school rudo now, but he
was quite the peppy techinco back in the day. Fiera rocks the house in
the midst of suck, old school tope and all, which seems to be his role
(a role filled by Mr. Niebla in Y2K EMLL). Ringo Mendoza looked 235 years
old in 1984, the fact that he is still wrestling 16 years later is pretty
ridiculous.
Sangre Chicana vs. Villano III:
Probably my favorite match on this tape, although
it wasn’t empirically the best. Villano just destroys Chicana posting him
really hard, and Sangre Chicana sprays Chicano Blood all over the
floor and ring. Villano punches the crap out of him and DDT’s him on the
floor. He tosses the bloody corpse of Chicana in the ring and flattens
him with a Togoesque senton bomb. He pummels him more, and rips at the
wound. Chicana reverse a whip tosses Villano out of the ring and flattens
him with a motherfucking beautiful tope. He posts Villano and Villano turns
the pink mask red. Chicana is just paints the mat with his forehead. Ends
in a mask rip DQ which is quite the cheap ass lucha finish. Pretty short,
but intense as all hell.
Chamaco Velaguew/Javier Cruz /Rokambole
vs. Pirata Morgan/Jerry Estrada/ Hombre Bala:
Goofy little, jumpin around match. No huge bumps
by Pirata and Jerry which is a letdown, the end was some big run in, which
I didn’t understand.
Atlantis vs. El Satanico:
These guys are two of the greatest mat wrestlers
in history and I was looking forward to some quality matty goodness. Of
course these are also two of the biggest blade freaks in the history of
lucha, and on this day they exercised the darker less majestic sides of
their wrestling persona. They feigned an interest in the mat for a couple
of minutes, but then took it outside and begat the blood. Atlantis had
the full on red mask (I swear when he loses that mask his forehead is going
to look like Dusty Colon) and Satanico had the dripping bangs. This ended
in an inconclusive way, but it was quite an experiment in the crueler side
of the art that is lucha libre.
~!~
!@!@!@!@!@! UWA TV 7-4, 7-11-92
(POGO PETE STEIN)
We go digging WAY into the back of the shelf
for this, the forgotten promotion of Mexico, which is a bit of a shame
considering that they were Mexico's top group for quite a while in the
70s and 80s. Now it's 1992 and they're already feeling the effects
of that new-fangled AAA. Of course, you have to love a show where
the *commentators* wear masks (Principe Valiente and Alcatraz, sporting
the tres cool mask with prison bars over the eyes and mouth)... and of
course, you forgive their faults (the ABYSMAL production values).
CAN-AM EXPRESS I/II vs. SILVER
KING/TEXANO:
Oh man... you haven't lived until you've seen
Kroffat and Furnas wearing true INDY SCUM masks with the stars & stripes/maple
leaf ensemble. Rudo caida to start as Kroffat nuts Texano and does
the "That's right, we's bad" strut. Silver soon eats a Sky-High Lariat
for one pin and Kroffat tiger drivers Texano for the fall. Second
caids is interesting as they work American-style, with Silver getting worked
over for most of the way before making a hot tag to Texano (bleeding for
some reason... maybe stuff missed by the cameras should be UWA'd?).
Rock N Roll Cowboys even things up as Texano hits a missile dropkick on
Furnas and Silver gives Kroffat an NLS. Third caida has them go full
circle as they work a Japanese-style fall with lots of tags. Cowboys
dominate, but Texano gets caught by the Can-Ams going for a pescado and
gets posted. Cowboys try to come back with a dpuble victory roll,
but the Can-Ams both roll through and get the clean pins. Fun match.
BABY FACE/DR. WAGNER JR./BULL PAIN
CON SAMANTHA vs. VILLANOS I/IV/V:
The "Random Gringo Generator" stops this week
on Ian Rotten mainstay Bull Pain and his squeeze from the Winn-Dixie night
shift. What, Killer Tim Brooks miss his flight or something?
Shiny happy Villanos in straight falls after Wagner gets unmasked and nuts
V-5.
HIJO DEL DIABLO/LOBO RUBIO/MR.
CONDOR/ZEUS vs. LOS TORTUGUILLOS KARATEKAS:
Ninja Turtles! WOO-HOO~! This is
about as wacky and fun as you might expect once they get through the opening
matwork since the toitles are all about the zany acrobats and Diablo and
Condor were already pretty good workers (though Condor did well to get
rid of the blue bodysuit). Turtles with a triple-pin after one sunset-flips
out of Condor's Gory Especial and two others pin Diablo and Zeus.
KAHOS/ENGENDRO/ZANDOKAN vs. VILLANO
I & V/JACK VICTORY:
Technically, I guess this would be "Jacko Victory"
since he's wearing his New Zealand Militia togs. Officially, he sucks
at lucha. The first find on this tape is Engendro, who takes
a HUGE Jerry Bump and hits a sweet tope atomico on V-1 to win the second
fall. Tecnicos win after a hot brawl all over the arena when Zandokan
nuts V-1 while he's going bodyslam crazy on the rudos. OK stuff thanks
to the niftyness of Engendro and the V's.
CAN-AM EXPRESS/THE KILLER CON ANDY
BARROW vs. ENRIQUE VERA/VILLANO III/BLACK SCORPIO:
2 Cold Scorpio facing Furnas and Kroffat... it's
All Japan vs. the New Japan Dojo! Only in Mexico, folks.
Furnas proves his status as a physical freak by catching 2CS in mid-air
and just MUSCLING him up into a press-slam after 2CS gets caught out of
position. 2CS comes back with a bodypress off the top, but just like
before he lands out of position, Furnas again powers him up and Kroffat
comes off the top with the Sky-High Lariat as Furnas then jackknifes 2CS
for the pin. Second fall has the tecs win in a quickie as Killer
accidentally wipes out Andy Barrow EXACTLY like he would go on to do with
Miss Janet. V-3 ranas(!) Killer for one pin while 2CS hits a front
victory roll on Furnas. Third fall gets bogged down with mask-unlacings
but picks up as V-3 ejects Killer and follows with a Plancha Suicida '53
onto Killer and Barrow. 2CS slams Furnas and follows with the 450,
but Killer rips his mask off and tosses it into the crowd. V-3 retaliates
by unmasking Furnas and giving it to 2CS, but El Fresero (Naucalpan old-guy
ref) catches this and DQ's the tecnicos. Fun stuff, and definitely
neat seeing these guys work total lucha-style.
Overall, pretty OK stuff. Nothing that you couldn't live your life without seeing, but the cast of characters here makes for quite the eclectic little group. Sadly, neither hide nor hair of the promised Can-Ams/Cowboys blowoff for mascara contra caballera...
~+~
@#@#@#@#@#@# WORLD WRESTLING COUNCIL
TV -PUERTO RICO- 1/15/2000
(DEAN RASMUSSEN)
Puerto Rican Lucha Libre is a far different animal
than Mexican Lucha Libre on the surface and the differences reach pretty
deep. The similarities is the rigid tradition of the style and deep
psychological basis for matches- though PR style is lot more basic and
straight forward- being a lot more similar to Memphis than Tijuana stylistically,
but closer to it's Mexican Brethren in terms of propensity for blood-letting
and astounding amounts of heat. PR leans more towards violent than
graceful and therein lies it's beauty- the lack of artifice and the embrace
of hardline wrestling violence will always find a way to my heart and that's
why I love Puerto Rican wrestling more than most fellow gringos would.
Jungle Jim Steele vs Invader 1:
Invader i killed Bruiser Brodie in 1987, went
to trial and was acquitted by a jury of his peers in a Commonweath of the
United States. While there was HORRENDOUS amounts of corruption and
litigious ineptitude that surrounded his acquittal- I, as an American,
am supposed to accept his acquittal as a fair verdict produced by our judicial
system and I, as your reviewer of Professional Wrestling, have a obligation
to be fair in my assessment of his performance as a wrestler, THUS, I want
you to know that I say with NO bias or preconcieved hatred for Invader
I when I say- JEsus Christ!- does this guy suck in the ring. Jungle
jim Steele is WAAAY in the middle of wrestling and is a decent worker with
solid and extensive experience wrestling in All Japan the last couple of
years. He also seems to have figured out a way place an entire garden
hose into his ass and use a Wagner Power Sprayer to pump steroids into
his body because he is two pillows short of being classified as a mattress.
Either way, he fricking TOWERS over the inept Invader 1 but this does not
deter Invader I from bringing the total stink by making Steele sell his
astoundingly shitty business-exposing punches, chops and kicks. I
mean SHIT, Steele wrestles in All Japan, if you punch him in the face he
won't start crying or anything so punch him, you useless sack of shit.
Steele gets rolled-up, slaps on a post-pin bearhug, flees the run-in
and contemplates the horror of his checkered career.
El Exotico vs El Rockera (?):
I'm not sure if the man wrestling El Exotico
is El Rockero but let's assume he is. Either way, El Exotico is quite
the budding Puerto Rican equivalent of the great great Escarlotta Pimpernella-
in that he is quite an accomplished wrestler already once he gets his execution
down, gets mountians of wrongheaded heat, and is quite possibly an actual
card-carrying homosexual- YES! I THINK THIS IS A SHOOT! BROTHER!
He plays it too subtly to be faking it. This is for the WWC Light
Heavyweight title and it's a lot like Tim Horner vs Tim Horner in a Tim
Horner must leave Town Match- which means it's pretty great- with cool
stuff on the mat and it all being broken up with fast roll-ups for two
counts. They smack each other a lot, Rockero comes out on top after
a backdrop and Exotico begs off into the corner. It's as Mid-Atlantic
as Baron Von Raschke's wig. Transitions are cut and dried, as Exotico
hits some of the worst clotheslines you'll ever see. It builds up
to Rockera hitting higher grade flying spots and el Exotico doing bigger
power moves and bigger kicks, moving it quite nicely into an extented roll-up
section. Ex misses an Avalanche to allow Rockero to hit the big toprope
Old School Dropkick and they then collide into each other running the ropes
to allow for the screwjob- a classic two parter with anonymous friend
of El Ex distracting the ref while El Ex is rolled and then El Ex distracting
the ref while Ex's friend DDT's Rockero for the actual screwjob.
The best Smokey Mountain match of the New Millenium. El Exotico is
fun fun fun.
Ray Gonzalez vs Carly Colon:
The youngster to watch other than El Exotico
is this Ray Gonzalez guy. If I see another example of him carrying
someone as green as the son of Carlos Colon to match as good as THIS, I
will dub Ray Gonzalez the real McCoy- because this is a carrying masterpiece.
Carly is young and likable in the ring- playing the built-in face role
as well as Kerry Von Erich ever did in a simialr situation. Gonzalez
must have studied every Ric Flair match he could find because Puerto Rican
style wrestling is based on the same principles as what produced Flairs
psychology. Gonzalez stalls to show his fear of Carly, struts and
preens when he gets the advantage to start the slow-building frenzy of
hate for Gonzalez that Gonzalez molds into an eruption of love for Carly
at the end. Gonzalez does the super Flair thing of controlling the
time in the ring- it goes like this, Gonzalez knows that Carly has a limited
amount of spots that he can hit with certainty, Gonzalez takes up the time
building heel heat to set-up little spurts of offense by Carly- THUS, every
time the attention is ever focused on Carly, Carly is hitting a dynamic
offensive move on Gonzalez. Gonzalez sells the offense like a king
and draws the attention off the green Carly until Carly's next flurry.
It gets SUPER Mid-Atlantic as they work out of a headlock with Gonzalez
even getting the pinning predicament by rolling up Carly by grabbing the
back of his pants. Out of this, Gonzalez sets up Carly's Standing
rana into a dropkick and the cycle repeats as Gonzalez hits the floor to
sell the flurry. Gonzalez takes the crowds focus while all Carly
has to do is pace in the ring. Gonzalez does the Flair trifecta of
knife-edge chops out of collar-and-elbow lock-up into luring Carly into
the corner to get the double leg takedown into the rope-assisted nearfall
into a Carly Schoolboy while Gonzalez is arguing with the ref for two with
Gonzalez then begging off in the corner as the crowd pops like monkeys
for the nearfall. This sequence I've seen two thousand times watching
Flair over the last 25 years. After more begging off, the cycle starts
back with Gonzalez selling a Flying Headscissors and then reversing Carly's
second standing Rana attempt into a Powerbomb. From there it builds
up to again, each time going to a Flair homage- down to the ref kicking
the ropes so Gonzalez will go over into the roll-up. It starts from
a chinlock on the ground and works to a VERTICAL BASE into running the
ropes into a transition. This shit is classic. The beginning
of the finish is Gonzalez not being able to get off a toprope move and
Carly launching him off the toprope to the mat- it reminds me of someone....
They switch it up as Carly gets to use the Figure Four because his dad
is Carlos Colon. After all the refs become involved as Gonzalez slugs
the first ref,, Carly uses a shovel and powder to get the pin and the crowd
goes motherfucking apeshit. He even gets Dustyed out of the title
by the ref that Gonzalez knocked out. This was SOOOOO the best Flair
by Numbers I've ever seen by anyone who wasn't actually Ric Flair.
The fact that NOONE tries to be Ric Flair anymore makes this an amazingly
effective- and actually ORIGINAL- match. I'm keeping my eye on this
Gonzalez guy. he fucking rules.
Carlos Colon vs One Man Gang:
Yep, OMG is in Puerto Rico. He's brawling
with the decrepit Colon- and the novelty of staring at Colon's scar tissue
wears off pretty quickly so we can all now avert our eyes and get back
to living our private lives...
GET ALL THIS.
~!~
#$#$#$#$#$#$# Hamada's UWF Handhelds
6/1990.
(REV RAY DUFFY)
Hey, it's Japanese Indies : Before they
were starts! As we go to Korakuen
Hall for the fun :
6/4/90 :
MASA Michinoku vs. Monkey Magic
Wakita :
MASA Michinoku is a pre-bemasked and multiple
head fracture recipient the Great Sasuke. Wakita is pre-bemasked
Super Delfin. Yes, this fued has gone on forever. Michinoku
is pretty popular with the crowd. His outfit is similiar to the one
TAKA wore at the Super J Cup in '94, minus the sword. This gets pretty
much earthquake-visioned during some of the mat segments. Wakita
seems to have the edge when taking it to the mat and throwing suplexes
and the lot, MASA controls when he's standing up and doing flying moves
or strikes. This is a fair match, granted they're probably both rookies.
Wakita wins with a cool slingshot german suplex.
Coolie SZ vs. Bulldog KT :
Can you recognize these indy scum stars?
Why it's Jado doing his Bret Hart homage and Gedo looking sort of portly
without his usual jersey/baggy outfit. Coolie controls early with
slaps at first and then some bodyslams. Ever yearn to see Gedo and
Jado before they got all that veteran polish? I didn't think so.
Bulldog does a spot where he flips over the ropes following a chop and
while suspended on the arpon tied in the ropes, Coolie drop kicks him to
the floor. This match is 75% Coolie. He does bust out a nice powerslam
off the ropes and does a top rope drop kick... Manami Toyota level it ain't.
Finish comes when Coolie does the old Bret-sternum first into the buckles
bump. Bulldog hits the gordbuster and goes up top and stumbles off,
sort of hitting Coolie on one bounce and drawing a laugh from the fans.
Bulldog redoes the spot, hitting it on the second.
Jungle Jack (Aja Kong/Bison Kimura)/Grizzly
Iwamoto vs. Manami Toyota/Honey Wings (Kaoru Maeda/Mika Takahashi) :
PUNKS RULE! I credit Miko for telling me
who Grizzly was. The Korakuen fans dig the shit out of Aja doing
the "oooooooooooAJA!" before every move she hits. Grizzly does the
hair flip chop. Kaoru would go on to be KAORU. Honey Wings
are all high flying and whip out the various ranas and corbatas and stuff,
so they fit well in the lucha environment that is this show. Bison
and Grizzly do a double team where Bison lifts Toyota up to Grizzly on
the buckles to do a second rope Powerslam. Honey Wings are
hampered by the fact that 10 years ago, Women's wrestlers didn't get really
cool outfits so they're more or less wearing one piece outfits over black
spandex. Aja busts out some real hurty looking piledriver, including
a double leg hook one on Takahashi. Takahashi actually does more
screaming than Toyota. The Technicas pull out sort of a bounce off
the second rope leg drop type move that looks pretty horrible on Aja.
Kaoru gets in a plancha on Aja on the floor, but Toyota goes for one and
Aja catches her and tosses her back in the ring. Kaoru gets Grizzly
in a boston crab, when the Jack come in for the save, Kaoru's partners
put them in the crabs as well. Then... there was a terrible earthquake
and when it was over, Manami slaps on the world's shittiest rolling cradle.
She must have just started doing the move because it seems like she was
trying to roll Grizzly head over heels rather than going sideways.
Toyota gets a near fall on Aja following a german suplex. She picks
up Aja up, she goes for a dragon suplex, but Aja breaks the grip and drops
her with an uraken and gets the pin with an uraken. Entertaining
match. WTF... Jungle Jack using Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation...
where's the Maiden?
Nego Casas/ Fuerza Guerrera/ Blue
Panther vs. Kendo/ El Hijo Del Santo/ Super Astro :
They throw me as the techincos come out to the
music that I'm used to Asai/Dragon using. Hey, this has a chance
to fucking rock. So much so that the camera is all over the place.
Santo and Negro open with an exchange that was pretty great on the mat,
including Santo's head scissors where he spins on his head to flip the
guy over to counter a pin attempt. Kendo then pairs off with Panther.
Kendo is really over with the crowd and it doesn't take much of the Kendo
chants to start. Astro faces off with Fuerza. Astro, for those who
haven't seen him, is quite portly, but rules. I'm sure the young Dick Togo-
who was around at this time probably setting up chairs prior to the show-
decided that he too would eat some sandwiches and rule it as a portly japanese
luchador. They do a dive sequence with Santo and Astro and Kendo
gets the first fall on Blue with a sunset flip. When the mat continues,
Astro mixes it up with Negro and does a neat head scissor counter
to a back drop while he's in mid air. Santo and Blue with it up with
Santo busting out some super elaborate armdrags. Kendo does a segment
where he does a lot of playing to the fans and bouncing around but only
does like one armdrag before Astro comes in and does a segment where he
bests all 3 of the rudos, making Feurza drop kick Panther off the apron
and then catapulting Negro out near them. Kendo then does a similar
segment where the rudos try not to accidentally hit each other, but they're
stopping results in Kendo hitting them and them taking each other
out anyway. The rudos start working together and start triple teaming
the technicos. The rudos take the second fall on Astro when Negro
hops up on Panther's shoulders as if for a victory roll and Panther spikes
him down onto Astro into a splash. The rudos continue to go nuts
on the technicos as Fuerza and Blue pick up Santo on the floor and run
him area first into the ring post. MASA Michinoku gets a crowd chant
as he tries to break up the rudos actions between the falls. The
third fall opens with the rudos beating on Astro again. Blue gently
powerbombs Negro onto Astro. Santo gets beat up by all 3 rudos, but
fights his way out, leading him to do the kick their legs so they flip
and bounce off the ropes spot on Negro into the El Caballo, with Panther
making the save. We get the trainwreck spot into the star with Santo
putting Negro in La Tapatia in the middle. After Santo, Panther,
Fuerza and Kendo end up on the floor, Negro avoids Astro's back jumping
headbutt and is able to catch him in a boston crab for the win. Post
match, Negro puts the boots to Astro. MASA tries to hold back the
rudos and gets UN FOULED! by Blue as a result. First fall was
good as the opening of the 3rd fall seems to fall apart a little, as did
the camera work.
The Dark Missionaries vs. Kato
Kung Lee/Perro Aguayo/Gran Hamada :
I'm not sure who the Missionaries are except
one is El Texano and Pete tells me the others are El Signo and Negro Navarro.
They do wear hoods, so they originally look like the Mexican Klan.
The Rudos attack at the bell, using a chair and roughing up Kato, then
start triple teaming Hamada. The first fall is 99% the Missionaries
triple teaming the techinicos and ends with Kato being pinned following
a Texano lariat after he was whipped into the corner by one of his partners.
Second fall opens with more beating of Kato before he tags out to Hamada
who beats on Negro. Kato comes in and does some not so stiff stuff
and some running up the ropes in the corner before tagging to Hamada who
does a good segment where he fights off all 3 of the rudos. Kato
gets in a springboard plancha onto Texano. Perro teases a plancha,
but when Navarro moves out of the way, he stops and in turn back drops
Hamada over the top onto him. Perro catches Signo and makes him tap
in an octopus hold following a piledriver, which Signo sold like it was
nothing. The camera work falls apart as Perro who had teased doing
a tope about 4 times in the match finally hits one as the camera points
directly at the ground. When it comes back up, it catches Hamada
gets the rana on Navarro to get the win. Eh.
Yoshihirio Asai vs. ? :
All the AJW girls seem to be up in the balcony
watching this match. I don't know who Asai's facing, but the guy
has a belt and appears to be dressed like a native american with a long
wig and a green mask. Asai opens up early with a drop kick and a
handspring elbow setting the champ off balance and having them scramble
to the floor. During a mat segment, Asai whips the giant wig off
the champions mask. The champ doesn't seem to do anything really
impressive. Asai does a pescado to a no where as the champ steps
away and follows it up with a slam on the floor. Asai gets his revenge
later, hitting a dive off the post that sends him more than half way the
length of the ring. Asai gets the pin following an in ring quebrada
followed up with a rana for the win. No great shakes, but the guy
in the mask didn't look to good. Post match, Asai rips the guys mask
off. Afterward, Negro comes in the ring to start some shit with Asai.
6/7/90 :
The tape opens with Hamada and Perro sitting
on a bench in the ring being interviewed. I leaned on the Duggan
button.
MASA Michinoku/Coolie SZ vs. Monkey
Magic Wakita/Bulldog KT :
MASA tries to whip off his cape, but the cape
no sells on him and just falls to the mat. MASA asks to start for his team,
but one Wakita drop kick has him tagging out to Coolie. They do some
mat segments fighting over a cross arm breaker. After some back and
forth stuff, the tags are made. MASA gets monster heat from the the
fans. MASA does some flying, but after missing a leg drop, Bulldog
pummels him with punches. MASA plays face in peril as the rudos work
on his arm. Bulldog headbutts MASA a bunch. The rudos take
turns slingshotting the other in ring into a splash on MASA. Wakita
shows off his cool drop kick several times in the match as MASA continues
to be the whipping boy. The rudos take turns leap frogging their
partner as they hold MASA in an armbar so they land on his arm. MASA
eventually hits two cross body attacks and makes the tag to Coolie.
Coolie hits a powerslam on Bulldog as well as a top rope drop kick.
MASA tags in and drops Bulldog with some kicks. MASA puts a headscissor
move on KT. While on the mat, Bulldog trips the referee, who may
or may not be Wally Yamaguchi, and MASA and he give him the steamroller
while on the mat. MASA hits the run up the ropes kick on Bulldog
and Coolie drops bulldog with a clothesline. Coolie works over Bulldog's
legs with an indian death lock and then kicks and stomps. Bulldog
gets beat up until Coolie misses a corner charge and gets the hot tag to
wakita who beats up both Coolie and MASA. Wakita gets in his slingshot
german, but Coolie saves the pin. Bulldog gets in the diving headbutt
as Wakita distracts Coolie and score the pin. Post match, Bulldog
and Coolie have a pull apart with someone who maybe a young and svelt Dick
Togo tries to seperate the two.
Jungle Jack/Grizzly Iwamoto vs.
Madusa Mecelli/Honey Wings :
Aja calls out Madusa to start it off. Madusa
is a bit taller than Aja, she ducks the opening uraken, but Aja gets the
advantage on her early. Bison tags in and throws Madusa around by
her hair. Grizzly hits her hair flip double chop. Aja tags
in and hits a flurry of kicks to Madusa's ass resulting in quick fire "Aja!Aja!Aja!Aja!"
chants from the fans. Bison does some face slams on Takahashi onto
Bison's own foot and then on her partner's feet. Aja absorbs the
attacks of Takahashi and Kaoru, but gets dropped when they triple team
her a bit. Bison has some back and forth atacktion with her originally
dominating the faces, but then getting the advantage taken on her.
We get a repeat of the previous night's spot with Madusa using a figure
four and Honey Wings capturing the other Jungle Jack members in boston
crab. Aja tags in after a bit and beat on Kaoru, including teasing
a plancha. She counters a vertical splash body press by Kaoru into
a powerbomb for one near fall and then hits the super nasty double leg
cradle piledriver before using her catapult move into a backbreaker hold.
Jungle Jack blow a triple team setting up a dive sequence which gets AAA'ed
by the handheld. Kaoru fights for and hits an underhook suplex on
Aja. Madusa tries for some sort of weird handstand into a sunset
flip type move which results in Bison countering it and shooting Madusa
to the floor and hitting a dive. Back in the ring, Bison counters
a Madusa lariat into a backslide. The Jungle Jack attempt and mess
up another double team which results in them hitting Grizzly. Madusa
ends up getting the pin on Bison by whipping her into Aja and then catching
her in a roll up. Madusa wasn't any great shakes here, but she's
light years better than she is today. Post match, Aja cans the faces,
including the referee.
Blue Panther/Asai's opponent from
the first show vs. Super Astro/Kato Kung Lee :
Mystery Guy does better in the opening segment
with Astro where they exchange some mat holds. Kato and Panther mix
it up where they both exchange positions, trips and armdrags with each
other. There's a big jump in the tape there a bunch of an Astro/Mystery
guy segment is cut, when we come back, it's Kato mixing it up with Blue,
including Kato hitting Astro's back jump head butt. Blue and Astro
mix it up with Astro hitting some neat head scissor variation before the
camera shot gets all jumpy. Blue and Astro do a segment where Astro
gets in a run up the ropes into a back flip where he lands on his feet,
he fights off the rudos, does his jig and and then drop kicks the both
of them out to the floor. The rudos have enough of this fun and take
over with some brawling. Blue hits Astro with a huge back body drop.
The rudos try to corner Kato, but he does his running the ropes in the
corner trick a few times and then drops the mystery man with a back fist.
Astro gets Panther in a near fall with a run up the ropes into a top rope
sunset flip. Blue drops him and misses a very Bam Bam Bigelow-esque
moonsault for another near fall. Astro takes Panther to the outside,
does the rope fakey into the drop kick into the somersault senton to the
floor. Kato drops the mystery man with a flying kick and a jacknife
hold for the win.
Fuerza Guerrera vs. Hijo Del Santo
:
Both guys come to the ring with a belt, but this
appears to be for Santo's belt. The open segment of this rocks because
there's a lot of little neat things that each guy does to counter another
guy's moves- little things like trips to take downs, or working a wristlock
and one guy bridging to avoid a pin and the other kicking out his leg so
he falls back to the mat. The scientific stuff gets broken
up when Fuerza runs Santo- groin-first- into the post. Fuerza busts
out a blockbuster suplex for a near fall and something that was close to
a lucha ganso bomb. It's sort of neat to see Fuerza doing a bunch
of suplexes that I'd see his son use against Rey Jr. back in '96 in ECW.
Fuerza hits Santo out to the floor and hits him with a somersault dive
off the post. Santo does the kick the back of the leg on Fuerza sending
him out to the floor setting up a Santo plancha off the post. Santo
gets a 2 following a flying headbutt off the top and following it with
a la tapatia. Fuerza hits a real crappy powerbomb before using a
Gorry Special into a pin, which Santo fights a few times before escaping
the hold with a sunset flip. Fuerza runs up the ropes to try something,
but Santo sneaks up behind him and gives him an electric chair suplex off
the second rope to set up el cabello for the win. A real cool match.
Dark Missionaries vs. Gran Hamada/Perro
Aguayo/Kendo :
Rudos attack at the bell to gain the advantage.
They don't really cheat and double team as much as they did in the first
match, but do a lot of brawling to keep the technicos off balance.
Technicos finally get a break when Texano accidentally back elbows Signo
off the top as he was holding Kendo.They do a spot where Hamada keeps countering
the big Missionaries charges, arm dragging him towards Texano and Signo
who go flying as they try to avoid their large oncoming partner.
This leads to Hamada pinning Texano, moving out of the way of a Signo elbow,
pinning both guys and then getting out of the way of a splash. They
do another spot where Texano gets beat up by all 3 of the rudos followed
up by Kendo's jig spot. They get in the star spot with Hamada ranaing
Navarro into the middle. Perro gets the first fall on Navarro after
je missed a falling elbow drop in the corner and Perro lands a top rope
senton. Second fall starts out with Hamada fighting off all 3 of
the rudos. They do a spot where Navarro complains out the Kendo chants,
which results in the fans doing the chant for him where he does a little
bit of a dance for them. Of course, the fans pick up on this and
as a result chant his name everytime he hits a move, which results in him
doing a gleeful strut later in the match. Texano gets the second
fall following a whip assisted lariat and a tilt-a-whirl backbreaker on
Kendo. Texano and Hamada beat each other up a bit at the start of
the 3rd fall, slapping each other around a bit and hitting one another
with enzugiri's. They do a segment where both sides go back and forth.
Texano scores a near fall following another tilt-a-whirl backbreaker, but
he ends up getting caught in a Hamada rana, giving the technicos the win.
The segments with Hamada and Texano was good and it was goofy fun for the
fans getting behind Navarro, which he seemed to be digging. Post
match, Texano challenges Hamada to a hair v. hair match, which seems to
be escalated into a challenge for more people's hair and masks, but I'm
not certain.
Yoshihiro Asai vs. Negro Casas:
Asai is real quick at the start dominating with
some drop kicks, but Negro slows him down and takes him to the mat, working
some submission holds. After a few minutes, Asai counteres Negros
moves and starts working on his knees with some spinning toe holds and
a figure four. After making it to the ropes, Negro and Asai get in
a slap fight, which ends with Asai hititng him with a spinning kick and
going back to work on the leg. After fighting his way off the mat,
Negro gets the advantage and starts working on Asai's arms. This
had a lot of back and forth action in it, but it seemed like the camera
cut out a hunk of the match and then it got into shakey vision ones there
was a dive spot. Negro caught Asai up top and hits him with a belly
to back superplex for a near fall. Negro avoids an in ring Quebrada
and goes to work on Asai. Asai eventual gets the win with a Quebrada
followed by a a german suplex. The last seemed to have been hampered
by the camera work.
Overall, so fun stuff. Best match of the lot was Santo v. Fuerza.
$%$%$%$%$#$#$# EMLL on Galavision
(Taped 3/20/98, Aired 4/11/98)
(PHIL RIPPA)
I found this amongst the Lynch tapes I hadn't
watched yet. I had reviewed the first week but not the rest. Most
of this show comprises the Champions of Champions Cup aka the Lutteroth
Memorial Tournament.
Rayo de Jalisico Jr./Tigre Blanca/Brazo
de Plata vs. Cien Caras/Mascara Ano 2000/Gran Markus:
We're off to an inauspicious start. I like Brazo
de Plata but he wasn't saving this matches bacon. (Insert Gran Markus eating
bacon joke here.) This really isn't very good. Lots of mask ripping and
lucha brawling which is what you usually get when guys are either too old
or too lazy to work. The rudos go over in two straight falls as the technicos
spend most of the match a man down as Rayo loses his mask and has to flee
to the locker room as to prevent the world from seeing his hideous face.
I think the entire match can be summed up with the fact that the closest
thing to a wrestling move was the jiggling splashes that Gran Markus did.
Man, Gran Markus is quite the man ready to sue the Pizza Hut because they
couldn't supply enough food at the all you can eat pizza bar.
The rest of the show is the Champions of Champions
Cup which is a series of single elimination, one fall matches. In between
each match is a nice shot of the trophy and the Corona Trophy Girls. MMM......
Corona Trophy Girls. I should also mention that there are little vingettes
with all the tournament wrestlers saying Hi to their mom's (or something
to that effect). They also fill time with these weird Satanico and Emilio
Charles workout videos (they could have been motivational speeches, I'm
not sure.)
First Round
Black Warrior vs. Felino:
I immediately get hipped to the fact that all
these matches are going to be really short for some reason. Black Warrior
wins as he counters Splash Mountain with a hurricanrana and then slaps
on the standing figure four. Warrior doesn't come close to killing himself
which leads me to wonder if he is saving it up for the finals.
Ultimo Dragon vs. Karloff Lagrade
Jr.:
There is nothing worse that the masking ripping
DQ finish. Well, that's what we the fine viewers are treated to. At least,
it is the creative unmasking as Dragon tries to escape a full nelson by
dropping straight down. In the process, Lagrade's fingers get locked in
the mask and suddenly Dragon's maskless and advancing on in the tournament.
Mr. Niebla vs. Universo 2000:
I was already to rip Universo a new one and then
he goes and actually tries in this match. Granted he blew a bunch of things
but he did take a big Jerry bump and he did a "Hey, I'm not really sure
what I'm doing but here goes" top rope plancha. Of course, Mr. Niebla makes
sure that the one thing everyone will remember is his move. That would
be when HE DOES A TOPE TO THE FLOOR. How Niebla's neck is not broken is
beyond me but he came at a nice 45 degree angle and hit nothing but floor.
Oh, Universo tried to catch him but Mr. Niebla wasn't going to be denied
sweet, hot death. Fortunately for all involved, Niebla isn't dead and he
did indeed advance as he made Universo tap his own scrotum.
SHOCKER vs. Atlantis:
Kinda the disappointing affair due to the time
constraints as they work the mat for a bit but they jettison the entire
middle of the match and go straight for the finish. SHOCKER hits
almost everything possible on a out of control tope. (the middel rope,
the top rope, the front row). Atlantis moves on with something resembling
an Octopus Hold but this is lucha so who knows what it was supposed to
be. I think the four first round matches lasted a grand total of 10 minutes.
Semifinals
Black Warrior vs. Ultimo Dragon:
Same problem as the last match as they was no
real psychology or transitions. It was a couple of nice armdrags and then
on to the "I'm going to do this highspot now". Match seemed like it was
straight out of Nitro as it was three minutes long and Dragon was hitting
his trademark spots before either had broken a sweat. I will say one thing,
they had a nice idea for the finish as Dragon blocks a plancha with a dropkick
but in the process hurts his knee. This allows Warrior to capitalize and
move on to the finals.
Atlantis vs. Mr. Niebla:
If you blinked you missed it. Still way to short
but it was all sorts of fun. Both guys arm drag the hell out of each other.
Mr. Niebla advances as a cocky Atlantis celebrates too early and gets rolled
up.
Finals
Black Warrior vs. Mr. Niebla:
Galavision pisses me off by clipping this match
as it starts with Niebla and Warrior crashing through the front row. Hey,
old lady saved her life by mere inches. I wonder if she will send her story
into Reader's Digest. What was shown was really good. Black Warrior does
the Psychosis bump (or is it Psychosis does the Black Warrior bump) where
his legs get kicked out from underneath him and he lands on his head against
the ring ropes. Niebla does a great head scissors off the ring apron that
looked like it sucked for both guys. Mr. Niebla takes the whole ball of
wax as Black Warrior succumbs to the urge to tap his own ass. I have no
idea how long the actual match was but about two minutes were shown.
There is a big award ceremony will all the participants of the tournament which goes off uneventfully until Universo 2000 starts jakking people left and right. This brings Rayo de Jalisico, Jr. from the back. This in turn, brings out Steele, Cien Caras and Mascara Ano 2000. They all gang up on Rayo, take his mask again, hang it on the ring post and set it on fire. THE MASK! THE MASK! THE MASK IS ON FIRE! Well, now that was cool. Overall, there is nothing noteworthy about the show except for Mr. Niebla's skull hitting the floor and the mask burning. It is really depressing considering some of the talent that was in this tournament.
~+~
%^%^%^%^%^ PROMO AZTECA 2/28, 4/4/98
(TV AZTECA)
(POGO PETE STEIN)
This would be the other lost promotion of the
90s, which is a real shame given the amazing amount of talent they had
during their short existence. This would be the (increasingly sporadic)
TV that took place during their swan song, leading up to what turned
out to be their final high-profile match.
2/28
PANTERITA vs. JERRITO ESTRADA:
JIP and clipped to basically the finish as Panterita
tosses Jerrito to the floor, heads up top and hits a twisting senton, then
rolls back inside to beat the count in this one-fall match. Should
be noted that almost all Promo matches are JIP in progress... also the
Tulancingo arena they're in looks like the wrestling equivalent of a minor-league
baseball stadium, as all four walls are *covered* in ads.
JUAN BARRIO/PEPE PUEBLO vs. COLT/MOTOCROSS:
Again, basically the final third of the match.
Juan and Pepe are Los Ninos De La Calle ("street children"), a gimmick
that was apparently such a turn-on for Antonio Pena that he immediately
set someone in AAA up with that name. Colt is a guy I wish I could've
seen more of, as he seemed like a pretty solid rudo on the TV I've seen
of him. Ninos get the duke after Juan tosses Colt outside and hits
a tope atomico while Pepe beats Motocross in-ring with a Romero Special.
SUPER MUNECO/VENUM BLACK/SUPER
CALO/ELEKTRA vs. SUPER CRAZZY/MOSCO DE
LA MERCED/PANTERA DEL RING/TEXANO:
Now THESE are the matches you get Promo for...
atomicos with non-stop action where all you need is for the turds like
Muneco to stay the fuck out of the way. ;) Venum jumps Crazy
while "Roadhouse Blues" is still playing and destroys him on the floor;
Crazy soon escapes and gets onto the apron, but this allows Venum to hit
this insane springboard rana that sends Crazy onto the floor *back-first.*
First fall goes to the tecs as Venum hits a MAJESTIC Toyota moonsault onto
Crazy (which looks scary since PDR gets whipped to the ropes by Muneco
just as Venum makes the jump) while Muneco beats PDR with a medio cangrejero.
Second fall starts with Venum and Elektra pulling the craziest aerobiatics
(tm Ed Whalen) you've ever seen. Then Muneco tags in... "Look,
he's got Bam-Bam and Pebbles on his pants! How cute! !!!~KILL
HIM~!!!" Rudo caida ensues as Texano Liger bombs Elektra, PDR beats
Calo with an Octagon Special and Crazy cashiers Venum with a Caverneria.
Crazy juices Venum early in the fall before the tecs make their comeback
and the eliminations start. Crazy and Venum are naturally the final
two, and they trade falls while Venum's mask keeps falling off (crowd gives
him hell for that). Venum finally misses a twisting moonsault which
allows Crazy to NUKE Venum with a Steiner Square Driver for the pin.
Middle third dragged a bit but overall this was pretty great. BTW,
Elektra got his name from the Mexican appliance store chain of the same
name... could you imagine a masked American competing as "Best Buy?"
EL BRAZO/BRAZO CIBERNETICO/BRAZO
DE PLATINO/DANDY vs. SUPER PARKA/ SALSERO/SUPER ASTRO/TORERO:
When the "turd" count reaches 3 (Brazo, Salsero,
Torero), I lose interest. =P
At Home with Tinieblas Jr. "Honey, put the
mask on... you don't want to scare the kids again!"
KONNAN/VAMPIRO/TINIEBLAS JR vs.
BLACK MAGIC/SILVER KING/JERRY ESTRADA:
Black Magic jumps Vamp on the floor and it's
3-on-2 as the fans chant madly for Konnan to make the save... to no avail.
This is the match that Konnan apparently no-showed rather than work with
Vamp, so the big main event turns into an extended beatdown on the tecnicos.
Vamp finally gets the upperhand and tries to give Silver a Frankenstein
off the top, but Silver nuts him in mid-air and Magic pins him while the
announcers lamely speculate that Konnan has car troubles. Did anyone
at TV Azteca get suspicious when Konnan called the day of the show and
said he was going to have car troubles that night?
4/4
HIJO DEL VOLADOR/CENTELLA VERDE
vs. FANTASMA DE LA QUEBRADA/INDIO NAKOMA:
Hijo looks to be all of 12 and tries to do WAAAAAY
too many things, blowing just about all of them. Match... isn't...
good...
MR. AGUILA/ORO JR/SHIRYU vs. MOSCO
DE LA MERCED/HIJO DEL DIABLO/ JURASICO:
MAJOR disappointment. This could've been
an off-the-charts match... instead we get Jurasico and Oro juicing each
other while Mosco and Aguila brawl into the balcony and Diablo works over
Shiryu with the help of his saucy valet, Lady Victoria. Shiryu eventually
hits his dive on Diablo (wiping out several rows of people in the process),
leaving Oro and Jurasico to slap away at each other until Jurasico nuts
Oro, who nuts Jurasico right back on the way down. Refs each raise
the other guy's hand... to quote Bryan Alvarez paraphrasing Howard Finkel,
"This feud MUST CONTINUE!"
ZORRO/TINIEBLAS JR/TORERO vs. TEXANO/PANTERA
DEL RING/ULTIMO REBELDE:
Lucha-by-numbers match, and kind of sad when
you look at Rebelde, the older brother of Ultimo Guerrero. In late
'97 the two brothers, Los Hooligans, were set to drop their masks to Salsero
and Torero when Guerrero chose to bail out and jump to EMLL. Now
Guerrero's getting the push of his young life with the Nuevo Infernales...
OTOH Rebelde stayed in Promo, dropped his hood to the worthless Torero,
and seems to have dropped off the face of the earth since. Anyhoo,
Silver King runs in for the DQ and Texano steals Zorro's mask for himself,
so we get this hysterical image of Zorro trying desperately to cover his
face as if he normally wears a Muta-esque head covering as opposed to a
tiny, Lone Ranger-style eye mask.
VAMPIRO/LIZMARK SR/MASCARA SAGRADA
vs. BLACK MAGIC/PIERROTH JR/PIRATA MORGAN:
Quite the Murderer's Row of rudos we have here.
Pierroth is still cool at this point, as he didn't really start to tank
it until he lost the mask to La Parka later that summer (Robert, you give
the Playaz a shout-out when you get that bad boy =). That said, we
get more lucha-by-numbers until Lizmark beats Pierroth with La Suastica
and pins Morgan with the hopping Frankenstein.
MASCARA CONTRA CABALLERA:
VENUM BLACK vs. SUPER CRAZY:
One fall? JIP? WTF??? Venum
has Konnan in his corner while Crazy has Pierroth, Silver King *and* Mosco
as back-up, so you can see where this one's gonna go. Crazy controls
from the start of video until Venum tosses him onto the apron, hits another
springboard rana to the floor and then hits an Orihara moonsault, but this
allows the rudo seconds to gang up on him. Both guys head back inside
where Venum powrbombs Crazy and follows with an Arabian Moonsault for 2,
but the rudos pull him out and beat on him some more. Venum goes
back on the attack and uses all of his knowledge of Spot-Fu on Crazy, who
keeps kicking out at the last second. The rudo seconds finally jump
Konnan and work him over while the match is going on, but it doesn't really
have any bearing on the match itself. Finally Crazy gives Venum a
lariat in the corner, climbs up top, pulls Venum up and gives him a THUNDEROUS
Liger Bomb off the middle ropes for the shockingly clean (and also shockingly
anticlimactic) pin to take Venum's mask. Venum is WAY too happy to
be losing his mask, all smiles and jumping around. Rip-off...
I dunno. For the most part you really can't go wrong with Promo, and this was no exception, but outside of the first atomicos match nothing really stood out here. I'd probably recommend the stuff from 1997 when the WCW crew was still in on a regular basis...
~!~
~+~
PANAMANIAN LUCHA LIBRE- FURIA DE
TITANES
Once upon a time I got this tape of Fillipino
wrestling from Jeff Lynch. I asked him to stick it on the end of
a tape and he was King-sized and he did. This Panamanian Lucha Libre
is quite the same thing- I don't know when it is from or if these guys
are Panamanian or really obscure Mexican Luchadores- ah WHO CARES?
It's FUCKING PANAMANIAN- it's from a country that created by the Marines
to house a canal, it's cultural legacy is more fractured and unstable than
Mexico's- THUS, the WRESTLING ALREADY MOTHERFUCKING RULES.
Guapo Siniestro/ Idolo Jr vs. Marabunta/
Gemelo Infernal II:
Marabunta is wearing a mask everthough he lost
it a few six years ago. Maybe this the Panamanian strain of Fireant.
If not, that's ungood of Marabunta- a legendary mid-card rudo- to scoff
at tradition like that. At least he got a better shirt out of the
deal. Either way, I've watched this match FOUR times now and Guapo
Siniestro and Idolo Jr are really tall and really green. Idolo does
really horrible variations of every WWF finisher he saw last week.
This Marabunta is SOO not the great famous Marabunta, so I rest easy.
They have all the mechanics of a lucha match- highspots, running the ropes,
some stuff- but it is all too clunky and crappy to work effectively. Everybody
is really green and not very good, but you have to start somewhere.
Try not to start when the cameras are rolling.
Azor/ The Beastman vs. Sergio Galvez/
Joe Panther:
This was uh... hmmm....uh..... spirited.
Beastman isn't quite ready for the Panamanian big time shows. Beastman
flopped around a lot. He did miss a spin kick by the greatest distance
ever to still make it on a televised wrestling program, so I have that
to cherish forever. A weird thing is that there was five face-busters
in the first two matches. It must be like the DDT is to bad Japanese
garbage matches. Joe Panther and Sergio Galvez wear fatigues
and seem like kind elderly gentlemen. They tried to bump I guess.
As a whole, I'd say this match had certain flaws that they couldn't overcome.
Idolo Jr and Guapo Siniestro run in at the end for whatever reason.
This wasn't...uh.... good.
Blue Demon Jr/ Red Master/ Idolo
II vs. Psicosis/ Black Killer/ Africano:
HEY! It's fake Psicosis. My thing is that
real Psicosis is- incomparison to Fake Psicosis- your cheerleader Girlfriend
from high school that you were in love with and who you always have a place
in your heart for. Fake Psicosis is just another hooker in a cheerleader
outfit. This is a giant step up in the wrestling department.
hey, this Africano guy can actually go as he and Idolo 2 have a really
fast batch of armdrags betwixt themselves and it's fun! It becomes
quite the extended crappy rudo caida soon enough and the match comes to
a grinding halt while they kick the technicos for a while until they have
a bunch Big Two level HARDCORE garbage wrestling which kinda drifts into
some randomly enacted stuff into a kind of makeshift rudo ref quickcount
pinfall for Black Killer on Blue Demon. We're almost to the
watchable stuff as this is getting progressively more PROFESSIONAL-Looking
in it's shittiness.
OH SHIT! That's the end of the first show! Uh-oh....
~!~
Tatmachy/ Flamarion
vs. Gemelos Infernales I + II:
HEY! Tatmachy and Flamarion are all peppy and
jumpy and stuff. this goes on for many minutes as actual fun-filled
wrestling- as the Infernales have quite the heat segment going for
themselves there. Tatmachy is a Zumbido-like Aboriginal gimmick and he
and Flamarion do lots of neato synchronized roll-ups and the Infernales
seem like Panamanian rudos you can hitch your wagon to. It only fell
apart a couple of places and I dug the spirit of both teams- as they hit
more than they missed which is good enough for the Nitro-like time given
to all these matches.
Idolo/Manuel Guerra vs. Cirujano
de la Muerte/Cronox II (Veteran's Match):
When it said veteran's match I thought maybe
it involved wrestles who helped ouste Noriega or something. Luckly
it meant it involved really old guys who were veteran wrestlers from Panama
so it was actually coherent and really fun because these guys were SUPER
Old School- whipping out heel tactics and mannerisms when applying pressure
holds that I hadn't seen since the last Johnny Valentine vs George Two-Ton
Harris match I saw in 1973. This had quite the beautiful heat segment as
Cronox and Cirujano are quite the fabulously skilled codger purveyors of
evil. Just when you thought you were having a good time- Joe Panther
and Africano run in and suddenly the fun is Heymanized out of the proceedings
as a two unidentified technico decide to have a whole angle while I was
trying to watch the wrestling they have there..
Hulk Hogan CUTS A PROMO! -from somewhere- on Joe
Panther and suddenly this whole thing becomes really disorienting and fucked
up. My mind said to me,"WHAT?! Wh....WHAT?!"
Idolo II/The Beastman/Azor vs.
Psicosis/Condor/Esbirro:
This is weird because it seems to be totally
edited wrong- in that it only catches three highspots correctly on tape-
including completely AAA a very elaborately set up double Asai moonsault
spot. It did get the Condor Plancha and the PseudoPsicosis toprope
tope. Fake Psicosis crushes Condors skull by botching a toprope guillotine.
HULK HOGAN AGAIN?! What the fudge?
Black Killer vs. Blue Demon Jr (UWA Complete
Jr Title):
Hey Panama vs Mexico and they play the Panamanian
national anthem and everything. Blue demon takes Killer to the early and
keeps it there, so this was pretty watchable early as they pretty much
stay on the mat the whole time. They both owrk on the leg and both
sell it really well. It speeds up and kinda goes 3/4 speed through
big sections of running the ropes and low-grade highposts as Killer blows
up early and often. Black Killer is no great shake in the ring and
Blue demon Jr isn't his father so this isn't good- even it does get past
competent. Black Killer cheats to win.
Thus ends the second show...
~!~
La Divina/ Black
Warrior vs. Tatmachy, Impacto:
Ah cool! Black Warrior continues his weird ass
year of the MP Mask Tourney and THIS as he takes on the fun guy from the
first show-- HEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY! That's not THE Black
Warrior, that's a black Warrior. Let's call it a review and head
on home folks....
~+~
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NEXT WEEK: GAEA! NAIMARK! MORE
LUCHA! DDT! A FABULOUS COVER! STUFF AND THINGS! WOO-HOO!
*****************************************************
THE DEATH VALLEY PLAYBOYS.
six fists in the face of wrestling
*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^
That's all it took
To make me know that I still care
It seems my heart just can't give
up
The dreams we used to share.
I tell my friends I'm happy,
But they read me like a book
And when today I heard them say
Your name that's all it took.
-GRAM PARSONS
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