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  1. On topic but not lucha related; athorities here in Mexico are expecting COVID-19 to reach community transmission stage between the 20th and 30th of March (That's when events suspentions start to take place)
  2. LOL, as a kid I used to refer to him as "Mascara SANGRADA" (Bloody Mask), because he bleed so often that I tought it was part of the gimmick
  3. And Samoa Joe got a similar deal, but was promtly signed full time after the reactions he got/good sales for his merchandise
  4. Gedo's booking definitely creates a wide array of (at least) credible title contenders. But in hindsight Okada's dominance has created a backlog of people deserving the IWGP title. The time for a Goto reign has passed IMHO, I'd love a short feelgood one for Ishii at the very least and it's baffling that Naito has just gotten a short two month one. With the emergence of ZSJ, Ibushi, Sanada, EVIL & Jay White as upper midcard options, Tanahashi in the Fujinami role proving he can still go, Kenny's run with the title and Okada improving (feels weird typing this) it's safe to say not every favorite of this board it's gonna get a run. Question for everyone reading: If you had to choose between Goto, Naito or Ishii getting a title run, who would it be and why?
  5. Weird, I did catch up the TDN broadcast of the match and the announcer made explicit mention of the feud and the Aniversario. Confusing sings, but maybe is just due to the usual CMLL hands-off approach
  6. This "No Sleep Till' Brooklyn" rip-off always makes me smile
  7. Actually, the AJPW resurgence (along with Stardom) has gotten me back into non-NJPW puro. It's a good starting point for anyone looking to get back into it.
  8. I was gonna make the point that the Chile shows were intended for "hardcore fans" but realized they drew 7,000 people with a mix of ex-WWE guys and indie All-Stars. The same formula failed in Mexico a few years before (including a canceled show in my city). And yeah, Archibald makes a good point on how there's a certain "AAA crowd", "CMLL crowd" and so forth, pretty much like Japan, were people identify themselves with the companies as a whole.
  9. I second that. Not exactly sure where it places at the moment but definitely worth checking-out. Aichner & Barthel are just on fire right now.
  10. What would you consider muste see non-NJPW matches from 2018? I'm a little out of the loop on puro and looking to get back on track in 2019
  11. And actually had Greg Norton as his mouthpiece ..
  12. And just as The Wall came close he was met with an eye poke, following by a Flair strut ....
  13. 11 out of 12 if you count in Austin and Easy E
  14. This. Austin comes off as such a sweet and inteligent guy everytime I listen; he really enjoys wrestling in every possible way and always has a compliment for whoever of his peers is being discussed. I gotta say that attitude it's really refreshing when it comes to the wrestling business.
  15. That would've been a sweet alternate reality. The business probably never takes off as it did in the late 90s but WCW might still be around if they had cultivated their niche as a Southern promotion and never tried to directly compete with Vince. I wouldn't go as far as to say the whole Atttitude Era boom would've never happened, but probably everything would've been delayed. WWE with aging talent would've downscaled a little bit, and WCW with young guys would've grown steadily until you got two national promotions of about the same size willing to compete with each other over ratings and live gates.
  16. The biggest thing that comes to mind is "WCW saw nothing in Steve Austin"; granted, he was misused towards the end of his run, but in the four previous years with the promotion he held the U.S., T.V. and Tag Titles, had feuds with Ricky Steamboat, Barry Windham, Dustin Rhodes and Brian Pillman, and was part of The Dangerous Alliance and The Studd Stable while being really fun to watch the whole time. That's as solid as "upper mid-card" gets.
  17. I was born in 1987, in Mexico. My first recollection of wrestling was watching EMLL on Saturday nights at my grandparents house who lived next door; the whole early 90s crew of Cien Caras, Konnan, Perro Aguayo, Los Infernales, Rayo, Los Intocables, Atlantis, Emilo Charles, Norman Smiley. I have two older brothers, the oldest was super into Pierroth and the next one really liked Mascara Sagrada; I got really into Vampiro based on his rockstar looks and the beatings he would take. We used to buy lots of really cool lucha magazines around that time. Then along came the Blue Panther-Love Machine feud and it was the hottest thing we've ever seen; Around this time we went to our first show, in the few months after the mask vs. mask match. The show featured an unmasked Art Barr along with Pirata Morgan, Masakre, Norman Smiley and a few fading stars of the time like El Faraon and Supremo mixed with some locals. It was a blast and I bought my first mask, a pink and golden Dos Caras one that I regret not hanging on to to this day, would've made an awesome add to the collection I have today. The subsequent years with the rise of AAA were amazing, Top to bottom everyone was a really hard worker, from the young stars to the main eventers to the crafty opening match veterans. I got really into Psicosis around this time, he was just a pinball bumping from bell to bell. Los Gringos Locos were a heat machine, I couldn't believe how such a nice guy like Eddy (thats how it was spelled at the time) became such a dick influenced by that damn Love Machine, who we used to cheer for. We used to get UWA on Saturday at noon, but I couldn't wrap my head around the fact it looked "dirty" and "cheap" meaning the lower production values; for some reason I despised Gran Hamada because he seemed so vanilla. On the other hand, the Villanos, Dr Wagner Jr. and Dos Caras made it worth, with the monster heels like The Headhunters, Bam Bam Bigelow and Kokina being just perfect. On the american side of things we used to get All-American Wrestling and Superstars on Sunday mornings. I was really into the character of The Undertaker, my brothers liked The Ultimate Warrior, The Rockers, High Energy and Bret Hart. When Shawn Michaels turned heel he became my new favorite, I went trough saving a few allowances from mowning the lawn to buy his Hasbro figure. As the 90's progressed I sort of drifted away from lucha to just american wrestling; a kid in the neighborhood had one of those illegal cable hook ups, so we spent the mid 90s watching PPV at his house. I was aware of WCW trough the Apter mags, but just started watching PPVs after the nWo thing kicked, around early 97. I remember my brother cried after the Montreal Screwjob, Bret was his favorite and he swore to become a WCW only fan after he saw him write the letters in the air, of course he didn't kept that promise. The rise of Steve Austin and the Monday Night Wars were great, watching every PPV at the neighbours house, marking out for Wrestlemania XIV and then, by November 1998 we stopped getting the USA Network, so that meant no more Raw. The late 90's were a rough time for lucha with cable only time slots and all of them late at night. This is when I started using the internet for wrestling news and stuff, watching a little ECW when avalible. In the early 2000 we got back Raw and Jakked trough a Mexican cable network, concidentially, the Radicalz jumping was the first episode we got. By the time Invasion and the roster split began I was the only one of my brothers and of the kids from the block who kept watching. The internet made me expand my tastes with Puro and Indy around that time. I remember reading a news item on the first ROH show, saying the backers hope it would fill the void ECW left and stuff of that nature. For the next 6-7 years I invested most of my wrestling time in Puro and Indy, digging out the whole 90s in puro and becoming amazed. It's really amazing how ring quiality in WWE has been so constant, I can say, without a doubt, that it is the style I can always get in without getting bored. Times became better for lucha around 2002 with better timeslots and newer stars. The rise of Ultimo Guerrero and Rey Bucanero as top players was super fun to watch, to this day they are my favorite tag team. The CMLL roster at the time was so so deep, Hijo Del Santo, L.A. Park, Shocker, Dr. Wagner, Negro Casas, Hijo del Perro Aguayo, Black Warrior and the rise of Mistico, Averno and a whole new crew; from that time on I've been religiously following. The Wrestlemania XX ending was great, because I emotionally invested in those guys for the past decade or so; I dind't it was something that could be repeated, and along came Daniel Bryan and Wrestlemania XXX, awesome moment. The Benoit situation was a low point, and it made me drift away from american wrestling for about a year, surely and slowly I got into it again but I just recently, in the last year of so, made myself go trough matches involving him again. Sometimes is like nothing happened but sometimes an expression or something the announcers say about his intensity/agression makes me cringe. In 2011 I watched a WWE live show for the first time, and even if it starts some controersy, I must say that C.M. Punk is the best wrestler I've seen live since Art Barr; everything he did, even at a house show, seemed to be perfectly timed and with the proupopse of engaging the crowd into the match. I watched New Japan go trough the hardest times of the company, and seeing it healthy and being critycally aclaimed makes me feel realy satisified as a fan. I've never felt like I've seen the end of an era as much as I did the night Kenta Kobashi retired, I shed a tear of joy at the end of the match beacuse it made me realize that after being a fan for so long I am really grateful for all the people that have entertained me over the years. As someone mentioned above, besides the four neccesities, the thing that has been a constant in my life is wrestling, and that makes me say that for me wrestling is the most important of the unimportant things. Recently, speaking with my older brother, who now lives across the country we made a mental list of all the people we've seen live: Art Barr, Atlantis, Los Intocables, Los Brazos, Villano III (who signed a suede vintge 80's style mask for me, my personal favorite of the whole collection), Benoit, Jericho, Eddie, Dos Caras, Alberto del Rio, Blue Panther, C.M. Punk, Canek, Dolph Ziggler, Rey Jr., Psicosis, Jack Evans, Hijo Del Santo, Ultimo Dragon, Super Crazy, Tajiri, Dr. Wagner Jr., Mistico, Ultimo Guerrero, Averno, Satanico, El Dandy, Daniel Bryan, Abismo Negro, RVD, amongst others I'd say it has been a pretty good run. Just in closing, I want to say this is and exciting time to be a wrestling fan, after a little over 20 years following it, WWE and Lucha are still my favorites, with Puro and Indy stuff taking a little bit of a backseat to them, but still check them out from time to time. As long as acts like The Shield, Titan, Kazuchika Okada, The Wyatts, etc, keep surfacing this amazingly fun form of entertainment is gonna have a whole lot of healthy years ahead. Thanks to everyone who took the time to read.
  18. "El Pocho Maldito" (the Damn Pocho) is Chicana's nickname in reference of him using an anglo surname; I might be mistaken but I belive when unmasked he gave out his wife's surname insted of his own (In mexican customs, women retain their surnames after marriage and inherit them to their children, hence the double surnames thing on hispanic countries, where the first surname is the same as the father and the second one comes from the mother). The "tuzadoel" thing is a typo on DJ Spectro's part, in the context of the writing was ment to be "tuzado el": "tuzar" means "to cut" and can be used in slang when someone gets a bad haircut. Thanks OJ, I've been enjoying this troughly and always learning something new. Keep up the great work.
  19. Wasn't it a trend of Vince K. to have minority babyfaces? (Bruno, and later on Ivan Putski, Tito, Tony Atlas). Anyway, still pretty amazing and upon watching footage of Pedro Morales in the ring you realize he was beloved in a Sammartino like level.
  20. This. I've also wondered what would be like if Cena had been in Bret Hart's place around 1992, about to be elevated to main event status. He would have pulled it off and surely people would have taken him as the 90's Hogan.
  21. Damn it! The whole Owen-DX feud was grossly bad booked; not the slightest payoff after months of a scrappy face defying the odds stacked against him. An Euro title lost at Wrestlemania XIV wouldn't had hurt new leading man, somehow on the verge of breaking-out Hunter one bit,
  22. This doesn't get the love it deserves; some might say it's a bit formulaic, but it's good formulaic http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5m50q_rey-mysterio-kidman-vs-world-s-grea_sport
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