Charlie M. Posted April 21, 2017 Share Posted April 21, 2017 Did people just find out they could book CMLL guys for super cheap? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted April 21, 2017 Share Posted April 21, 2017 From the outside, it just feels like people have seen recent success of Penta and Fenix in higher profile indys and followed suits. Also seems like more guys actually getting visas and what not and that prob helps. Seems like you have always had guys working in socal or texas forever and the guys who used to do chikara when skayde was the trainer 10 years ago or so. But i would defer to rob or kris or fredo who prob have better knowledge on facts than supposition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted April 28, 2017 Share Posted April 28, 2017 Word is out that Brazo de Oro passed away from a heart attack. QEPD Jesus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted April 28, 2017 Share Posted April 28, 2017 He was my 98 on my GWE list last year. Everyone should see his match with Santo. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted April 28, 2017 Share Posted April 28, 2017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted April 29, 2017 Share Posted April 29, 2017 Looks like la mascara is still working tonight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maciej Posted April 29, 2017 Share Posted April 29, 2017 So this is on YouTube: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted April 29, 2017 Share Posted April 29, 2017 12 minutes ago, maciej said: So this is on YouTube: Went up tonight. Folks can still hear the luucha memes promoter previewing it on the pod we did a few weeks ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted April 30, 2017 Share Posted April 30, 2017 The mascot match was all we could have hope for. Starts at around 1:15:00 mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GojiColin Posted May 4, 2017 Share Posted May 4, 2017 So I watched the Mas Lucha version of Zack Sabre Jr vs Negro Navarro and that might be my favorite ZSJ match I've ever seen (admittedly I don't really seek out his stuff). ZSJ works as a guy mugging to the crowd because he thinks he's awesome, then resorting to short cuts when he find himself even matched in both the submission and striking segments before losing to a suitably nasty looking submission. I mean it's not rocket science, but it was really well done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Posted May 4, 2017 Author Share Posted May 4, 2017 The Kids Day micros (not mascots!) match might have been more entertaining in the sense it was the first match so everything was new but I thought the Guadalajara match last night was even better! They cleaned some stuff up and did a couple new things. Micro Man is incredible. Don't sleep on these matches thinking they are just 1980's comedy spots, these guys deserve credit! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Faulconer Posted May 7, 2017 Share Posted May 7, 2017 Edit: I didn't see the above post. He was one of my favourite wrestlers to watch against just about anyone or anything AAA put against him. He was the best male wrestler to work with the female wrestlers whenever the intergender matches happened. He could team with his daughters against male or female wrestler teams and everything looked legitimately matched up. the WON site says that Gran Apache just passed away - he was 58 years young. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted May 7, 2017 Share Posted May 7, 2017 RIP Gran Apache. i loved the apache/fabi/baby marvin stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubbymark Posted May 8, 2017 Share Posted May 8, 2017 I am so bummed to hear about Gran Apache's passing. He was a big part of AAA's undercard being as good as it was, which for years was better than CMLL's. It may still be in some instances when Canelo Casas, Arkangel De la Muerte, or Starman are wrestling. QEPD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted May 10, 2017 Share Posted May 10, 2017 Video with Fabi and not so baby Marvin http://www.reforma.com/libre/players/mmplayer.aspx?idm=74748&te=100&ap=1&tv=1&tvm=1&pid=6332dfdb5210462786c6336aae6222ae&an=2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted May 16, 2017 Share Posted May 16, 2017 I enjoyed Casas vs Mephisto for what it was. It's always great to get a new, long Casas title match. I do think he's slowed down just a little bit relative to a couple of years ago but he's got so many little tricks and so much charisma it hardly matters. Here he was able to pretty much work babyface too, which is what the crowd always wants him to be anyway, with some stuff that you don't usually see out of him (which in itself is a bit of a lie because he, more than any wrestler I've ever seen, does something different in every match he has: here it was a babyface rana, the DDT/Reverse DDT combo, and a shinbreaker to set up the low dropkick for the Casita). The primera matwork had a few fun touches and escalted well into Mephisto's tie-up finish. I liked the armwork in the segunda, with Casas selling setting up cut offs and keeping the selling going as Tirantes tried to raise his hand. They dropped that selling in the tercera (but to be fair, Mephisto just didn't work on it and he suffered for his lack of focus). They were going at about 80% speed for a lot of the tercera but I'd take 80% speed Casas over 120% speed mostly anyone else. You never know how many Casas title matches we're going to have left so it's good to find the joy in every new one that comes along. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted May 19, 2017 Share Posted May 19, 2017 Hechicero vs Jeff Cobb off. now, hechicero vs satanico Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted May 20, 2017 Share Posted May 20, 2017 Very weird story today about members of Alvarado family (Brazos, ...) demolishing Ultimo Guerrero's car in the Arena Mexico parking lot and Maximo, La Mascara and others watching it happen. Cubsfan has synopsis of what is and isn't known so far. http://www.thecubsfan.com/cmll/2017/05/19/video-captures-alvardo-family-members-destroying-ultimo-guerreros-car/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted May 20, 2017 Share Posted May 20, 2017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted May 21, 2017 Share Posted May 21, 2017 Here's the video. Gotta love the fact that even when legit destruction of property is involved, wrestlers will use chops and metal folding chairs. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NikoBaltimore Posted May 22, 2017 Share Posted May 22, 2017 Here's more on the story from Wrestling Observer. http://www.f4wonline.com/mexico/cmll-reportedly-fires-maximo-sexy-and-la-mascara-235936 CMLL firing them is justified and good on Ultimo for pressing charges (as he should) But I'm curious what the security camera shows as that 90 second clip doesn't paint the full picture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted May 22, 2017 Share Posted May 22, 2017 Officially, Maximo, la mascara and Bobby Z fired. Robin not fired. Tournaments at some point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maciej Posted May 23, 2017 Share Posted May 23, 2017 I thought the Taya vs. Ayako Hamada street fight title match was buckets of fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sabremike Posted May 24, 2017 Share Posted May 24, 2017 On Monday, May 22, 2017 at 10:46 AM, NikoBaltimore said: Here's more on the story from Wrestling Observer. http://www.f4wonline.com/mexico/cmll-reportedly-fires-maximo-sexy-and-la-mascara-235936 CMLL firing them is justified and good on Ultimo for pressing charges (as he should) But I'm curious what the security camera shows as that 90 second clip doesn't paint the full picture. I don't know why they didn't just pull an Al Bundy and pour sugar in the gas tank. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted May 25, 2017 Share Posted May 25, 2017 On the new episode of the pod, Rob and I talk CMLL craziness, micros, other lucha, and hockey talk. tinyurl.com/winter62 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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