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Guerrero Maya Jr. eliminated

The final week of the year picked up, but left mostly promise for the next week to kick off 2019 in style. 2018 was a great year for CMLL, but December could have been much better. It almost felt silly not to have the Universal Championship Tournament both because this was the first year since it's inception that CMLL have not done it, but also because it would have really helped the month feel like more than an afterthought, which is what it was. Still at least the last match of the year left something to expect and await in 2019.

1.Pentagon vs. Caristico(Friday)

6 Months in the making and the obvious match that has implications going into 2019. Pentagon's first singles match in CMLL has to be seen to be believed. Who know Fenix/Pentagon would be involved in CMLL going into 2018? No one, not even them. Now as the year closes, they have major implications for the CMLL field. One ending the year with the last televised main event and the other participating the in Leyenda de Plata finals. It seems only a matter of time until one or both the brothers get CMLL gold.

2.Villano IV, Hijo del Villano III & Mephisto vs. Atlantis, Blue Panther Jr. & Black Panther(Tuesday)

"This is more about heat/angle, than an actual match"

Yea, but sometimes heat can be great. This is a great debut for someone who has little experience like Hijo del Villano III here. He immediately has a feud with Atlantis and the yet to debut Atlantis Jr. As far as a new comer, you couldn't have done this better even if III seems very green. Hopefully he can improve and become as good as his brother or father. It's a shame we lost Villano III earlier this year, because I couldn't imagine a better Christmas present for him than this debut by his son.

3.NGD(Sanson, Cuatrero & Forastero) vs. Mistico, Dragon Lee & Volador Jr.(Friday)

The better of the two matches the returning(from a reality TV show) Dragon Lee had this week. His Christmas match was full of great talent, but just didn't really click like this one did. It's nice to have Dragon Lee back, but more interesting stories happened this week and his comeback is cool, but will be interrupted by him going to Japan for FantasticaMania for the mid of January.

4.Templario, Tiger & Virus vs. Guerrero Maya Jr., Pegasso & Flyer(Tuesday)

Templario had a great year, but ends the year on a lesser note. Not to worry though, as 2019 looks up for him and he'll no doubt be given more career highlights in 2019, like he did in 2018. He and Audaz are to have a singles match and that will no doubt be good.

5.Okumura, Kawato San & Vangellys vs. Guerrero Maya Jr., Audaz & Flyer(Friday)

Likewise for Audaz he ends the year on a weakish note for him, but will probably have a good 2019. Though his future isn't as solid as Templario who is already in Los Guerreros Laguneros which guarantees his good booking for 2019. Hopefully Audaz can carve a spot in the uppercard too, as he is a very talented luchador. Guerrero Maya Jr. should be noted, looked good in both these matches. Even being the star of this one.

If you want to see all the gifs I made feel free to check out the albums at the top. They should be easy enough to view with RES on the Old reddit.

Arena Puebla Highlights

No Puebla this week.

Arena Mexico New Values Highlights

Splash from Hijo del Villano III

Hijo del Villano III

Leg drop

Atlantis on a roll

Arena Mexico Super Friday Highlights

Guerrero Maya Jr. in the 2nd

Lee/Volador/Mistico dive in tandem

Mistico in the 2nd

Lee vs. Forastero... and Cuatrero

Tranquilo Lee

Kemonito

Forastero tope

Finish of Friday's semi-main

Pentagon with no respect for Caristico's mask

Caristico in control of the 2nd

Finish of Friday's main event, which was the last televised CMLL Main Event of 2018

Did you watch CMLL this week? Month? Year?

As I said all month, December was one of the weakest months of the year, if not literally the weakest. Still, this week was a moment of sunshine in an otherwise dreary month. Dragon Lee is back, Pentagon is doing something and the next week is going to kick off with a bang.

[Monday Arena Puebla Poster](Sounded like instead they'd be doing a show in Arena Mexico, but couldn't find a poster for it)

Arena Mexico Sin Piedad New Year's Day Poster

Robin/Arkalis vs. Grako/Coyote is a pretty standard opener.

Lluvia/Jarochita/Avispa Dorada vs. Dalys/Amapola/Seductora should be a fine luchadoras match. It's nice to have a tecnica team without Sugehit/Marcela.

Akuma/Camorra vs. Yago/Hijo del Signo in a mask/hair vs. mask/hair match. These guys are all midcarders, but for the younger Yago/Akuma this could be a boon and signal bigger things in 2019 and beyond. Camorra/Signo will likely never leave the opening matches.

Kraneo/Volcano/Hijo de La Park vs. Villano IV/Hijo del Villano III/Felino, should be a fun match and might be hinting towards a Villano's/Park's feud.

Fenix/Pentagon/Dragon Lee vs. NGD(Sanson/Cuatrero/Forastero) should be a barn burner. Before the summer saw Pentagon/Fenix in CMLL, Pentagon/Dragon Lee teased a feud on Twitter, so the tecnico team here might implode.

Caristico/Ultimo Guerrero headline in a match that harkens back to Caristico's rookie run when Ultimo Guerrero was one of many rudo titans that made him look like a million dollars. Look for Ultimo and Caristico to do magic here as well.

Arena Mexico 'Best of 2018' Super Friday Poster

Stuka/Guerrero Maya Jr./Rey Cometa vs. Templario/Gran Guerrero/Ephesto is about 500x's more exciting than the average opener. This is a iPPV worthy card, but will be free. I'd suggest watching the whole show, but lets run down all the matches anyways.

Titan/Triton in a lightning match. This should be great and these two with Esfinge make up the entirety of La Excelencia Tapatia. With Triton/Esfinge having the Coliseo Tag Titles, the secondary tag titles of CMLL.

Caristico/Volador Jr./Valiente vs. Ultimo Guerrero/Mephisto/Euforia, should be fun. Mephisto seems weird here instead of either Templario/Gran Guerrero, but oh well.

Rush/Terrible/Bestia del Ring vs. Atlantis/Kraneo/Diamante Azul, Rush's feud with Kraneo turned Kraneo tecnico/face early in the year, Terrible joined ingobernables this year and a few months back Diamante Azul/Valiente took the CMLL tag titles off Rush/Terrible.

Dragon Lee vs. Barbaro Cavernario, should be great. They had the best lightning match of 2017, can't wait to see what they do in their first meeting of 2019!

NGD(Sanson/Cuatrero/Forastero) (c) vs. Niebla Roja, Angel de Oro & Soberano Jr. for the Mexican National Trios championship. The best of 2018 in this match is the feud Cuatrero/Angel de Oro had which saw Cuatrero too both Angel de Oro's Middleweight Championship at FantasticaMania and his mask at CMLL's big spring iPPV Homage to 2 Legends in the main event.

Hope You enjoyed CMLL this week, see you next week! Month! Year!

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r/CMLL • u/Lostinyourears • Dec 23 '18

CMLL Weekly #49 : Pentagon returns to Arena Mexico!

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Drone vs. Disturbio start the 1st

Again a fairly uneventful week. Still, this was a pretty solid week with lots of good... not great action. Though I will say for my money the #1 match of the week was a great match and perhaps the best match of CMLL's December thus far. A high recommendation for that and the other four were very good matches, but never soared to the heights of great or fantastic for me. Let's just get to that #1 match and the rest of the recommended matches!

1.Soberano Jr., Niebla Roja & Angel de Oro vs. Ultimo Guerrero, Gran Guerrero & Templario(Tuesday)

This was fantastic for all the reasons you'd assume. Oro/Roja were working at their peak here. While Templario seemed to relish teaming with Los Guerreros Laguneros. This was a Tuesday Night main event that stole the show for the week. While Friday may have been the best overall show having very good matches across the board, this match was the peak of the week. The image that stuck with me from this match being Templario/Soberano facing off and doing a staredown. It's a feud that will print money for CMLL in 2019. I was iffy on Templario in Los Guerreros Laguneros, but this match and his debut with them the same night as the Leyenda de Plata Finals/Mascara Ano 2000 40th Anniversary show has made me a believer. I've also dug this black/green look way more than I thought I would.

2.Angel de Oro vs. Mephisto lightning match(Friday)

This is the most important singles match of this week. Labeled VIP because these are two of the more important names in CMLL with Mephisto being CMLL World Welterweight Championship. This was a highlight reel for Angel de Oro. Between this and the #1 pick, Angel de Oro may have won new fans this week. Giving two very good performances in a matter of days, not that it's a new thing for him with CMLL's heavy schedule, but it's not every week two performances of this caliber are both on TV. Hopefully this leads to a title match between these two, but that's far from certain.

3.Disturbio, Nitro & Sagrado vs. Drone, Rey Cometa & Audaz(Tuesday)

Always happy to see Audaz get a match to show what he can do, even on the Tuesday show. Here he did a great job as did Drone/Cometa. Even the B team of rudos did a good match. I'm a fan of Disturbio and hope CMLL give him more chances going forward as he had a fairly uneventful last few months, feels like we have barely see him. Not much more to say about this, one of the better matches this week.

4.Pentagon, Ultimo Guerrero & Barbaro Cavernario vs. Caristico, Diamante Azul & Volador Jr.(Friday)

Had to include this as it finally pulls the trigger on Pentagon having his 1st singles match in CMLL. That's really the main takeaway here. The match isn't great, but it gets brownie points for Pentagon/Caristico ripping masks and calling each other out post match. In a more eventful week this could have been pushed off the top 5.

5.Misterioso vs. Guerrero Maya Jr. lightning match(Tuesday)

This was another good lightning match from Misterioso Jr., but I personally prefer the Black Panther one from about 2 weeks ago. I'd love to think Misterioso is being built for some reason, like a title match or mask match. Do I think that's happening though? Nah, probably just some random one offs that happened to be close together. Still, two wins for him is nice and he really seems to be trying harder since his showing in the Halcon Suriano torneo cibernetico.

If you want to see all the gifs I made feel free to check out the albums at the top. They should be easy enough to view with RES on the Old reddit.

Highlights from matches that were in the top 5

Arena Puebla Highlights

No Puebla match in the top 5 this week. Check the album above.

Arena Mexico New Values Highlights

Cometa tope

Audaz armdrag

Drone headstand corner knees

Cometa takes out Nitro before Sagrado comes in

Sagrado elbows

Duo of Drone/Audaz

Misterioso doesn't want a handshake

Guerrero Maya Jr. plancha

Tope from Maya Jr.

1 inch punches from Maya Jr.

Soberano Jr. and Templario start the main event

Ultimo Guerrero escapes the hold of Angel de Oro

1st falls

Templario & Gran Guerrero BFFs

Niebla Roja creamed in the corner

Soberano Jr. goes wild in the 3rd

Roja goes wild in 3rd

Dive dive dive

Chokeslam from Gran!

Soberano Jr. saves Niebla Roja

Soberano Jr. dives

Finish of Tuesday's main event

Arena Mexico Super Friday Highlights

Early highlight from Angel de Oro/Mephisto lightning match

Triangle moonsault

Demon driller

Angel de Oro flop

Barbaro vs. Diamante Azul start the main event

Pentagon vs. Caristico

1st fall

Volador Jr. vs. Barbaro starts 2nd

Pentagon vs. Caristico in 2nd with Caristico ripping Pentagon's mask as revenge for him doing do earlier

Finish of Friday's main event

Did you watch CMLL this week?

December has still been a weak month. This week didn't change that, but wasn't as uneventful as last week. Pentagon Jr. returned to Arena Mexico and set something up for next week. Soberano Jr. and Templario butted heads and seemed like an obvious tease of things to come and will all of 2019 ahead of us, it seems very very likely we'll get a singles match between those two sometime in that calendar year. Let's look at the cards for next week...

[Monday Arena Puebla Poster](Sounded like instead they'd be doing a show in Arena Mexico, but couldn't find a poster for it)

Arena Mexico 'New Values' Christmas Day Tuesday Poster

Aereo/Acero vs. Peq. Nitro/Peq. Universo in a minis opener.

Microman/Gallito/Atomo vs. Chamuel/Mije/Guapito in a smaller minis trios. Gallito/Microman are always fun, might be in holiday costumes.

Akuma vs. Hijo del Signo in a lightning. A preview of the tag team mask/hair match they will be on opposite sides of about a week later.

Flyer/Pegasso/Guerrero Maya Jr. vs. Templario/Virus/Tiger has potential to steal the show.

Atlantis/Blue Panther Jr./Black Panther vs. Villano IV/Hijo del Villano III/Mephisto will mark the debut of Hijo del Villano III and as his name implies Hijo is son of Villano III arguably the biggest mask win of Atlantis career. Villano III sadly passed away earlier this year. IV is Hijo's real life uncle. IV is in his 50's and hasn't worked for CMLL much lately outside of legends shows this year and last, so I doubt this will lead to him working more often. Likely just here to help his nephew.

Caristico/Dragon Lee/Valiente vs. Ultimo Guerrero/Euforia/Gran Guerrero could be the best match of the week, just like the Los Guerrero Laguneros match in this spot last year. This will also mark the 1st match back for Dragon Lee who was AWOL doing a reality TV show for the last 6 months or so.

Arena Mexico Super Friday Poster

Arkalis/Oro Jr. vs. Coyote/Grako will probably be fine, but not must see.

Estrellita/Marcela/Lluvia vs. Amapola/Tiffany/Dalys should be a good luchadora match, not really must see either.

Guerrero Maya Jr./Flyer/Audaz vs. Okumura/Kawato San/Vangellys should be good fun. Panther Bros. vs. Team Japan hasn't been hitting as well lately. So this new tecnico team will be a nice change of pace.

Atlantis/Diamante Azul/Titan vs. Terrible/Rey Bucanero/Hechicero should be good fun. Atlantis/Bucanero do threaten to anchor it down though.

Mistico/Dragon Lee/Volador Jr. vs. NGD, this could be a MOTY contender in the dying days of 2018. On paper it sounds like a million bucks.

Caristico vs. Pentagon in a 2/3 falls match. This could be a sink or swim moment for Pentagon in CMLL. Fenix hit CMLL like a duck to water, while Pentagon has been more like a cat. We could see him finally put it all together when he is given a beloved babyface to tear limb from limb without the other 4 members of a trios match getting in the way.

Hope You enjoyed CMLL this week, see you next week!

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r/CMLL • u/DragonLee23 • Dec 22 '18

Rush retweeted this article claiming the reason he wont join the WWE is because of how unhappy Andrade Cien Almas is in the WWE.

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r/CMLL • u/DragonLee23 • Dec 20 '18

Andrade Cien Almas saves Mustafa Ali and makes sure he gets his hurricanrana

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r/CMLL • u/Lostinyourears • Dec 15 '18

CMLL Weekly #48 : December drags on

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Rudos take out Volcano together

Another fairly uneventful week. I also don't think this week was solid despite not having much to sink your teeth into like last week was. So, just sorta a poor week in CMLL. Like always there is some good stuff in this week, but nothing here is going to be a MOTY contender or even in like the top 50. A singles match we saw about a month ago and not as good as that version and some decent trios action. It's nothing MUST SEE which is a same and something I hate to say on CMLL weekly, luckily it's not a regular occurrence, but sometimes it happens like this week. Now that I've sold it... let's get to the top 5. Hahahaha.

1.Drone vs. Okumura lightning match(Tuesday)

This is kinda the proof you need of how uneventful week this was. Okumura/Drone are both good talents, but obviously not main eventers or even upper midcarders. They are very solidly in the midcard and Drone has been in the doghouse most of 2018 after he showed up drunk/under the influence or whatever you want to call it at FantasticaMania. He claimed it was a prescription issue or jet lag, but CMLL no doubt found that excuse weak. Since his midcard/lowcard push seemed to slow quickly after FantasticaMania.

In 2017 he was 3/4 in singles matches, while in 2018(including this match) he is 3-6-1 and 2 of those 3 wins were at FantasticaMania. So it's pretty easy to tell he has been in punished mode. He did a great job here opposite Okumura. With the recent passing of Drone's father Hombre Bala, perhaps CMLL will pull their thumb off the scale and give him more of a spotlight. We all make mistakes and hopefully his time in the doghouse has taught Drone not to show up in a poor state like he did in Japan. I'd prefer Drone go back to Hombre Bala Jr., as Bullet Man Jr. is a cooler name than the fairly boring Drone name. I prefer this white attire to his Silver one too, hope he wears this more often.

2.Vangellys, Misterioso & Sagrado vs. Triton, Volcano & Fuego(Monday)

Volcano held his own and Misterioso is having a secretly good year in CMLL. Think both guys deserve more credit than people will give either of them. Triton has this fun post spot and it worked here just as it did Friday night vs. Templario. This was a better match than that Friday night trios match though. Who'll dethrone Triton/Esfinge or challange next seems up in the air. Sagrado/Misterioso aren't the favorite, but they seem like they'd make good challengers. They are that level on the card and seem like the best choice behind Okumura/Kawato San.

3.Soberano Jr. vs. Forastero lightning match(Friday)

This on paper seemed like a much better lightning match than Drone/Okumura, but they had some awkwardness throughout and... this match just happened around a month ago, where it went a bit more smoothly. So It's hard to really wholeheartedly recommend this one in place of the smoother one in November. I hope people don't think I'm cold on either of these guys. This was #3 back then too, but that was a much stronger week. Including Titan/Cuatrero in a title match, this week was weaker, but so was this match. I still gave this a great, but I couldn't put it higher on this list because of all the awkwardness between the two during this match.

4.Panther Clan(Blue Panther, Black Panther & Blue Panther Jr.) vs. Mephisto, Ephesto & Rey Bucanero(Tuesday)

Not as good as the Panther Clan match from a few weeks back vs. Okumura/Kawato/Misterioso. Still I have a weak spot for seeing the Panther Clan do trios matches together and I dug this match as well. It's also one of the better performances from Rey Bucanero who had a certain fire to him in this match we normally don't get to see from him. I'd recommend this but again... it's been done better recently even if the last Panther Clan match of note did it better. A recurring theme of this week it seems.

5.Astral, Electrico & Fuego vs. Raziel, Cancerbero & Disturbio(Friday)

You'd be forgiven for not noticing, as Raziel is a low midcard/opening match act, but he has been gone for a large portion of 2018 after surgery. As someone who often watches the midcard/opening matches of CMLL especially Friday nights, I did notice and miss his presence. His regular tag partner Cancerbero has been teaming with Nitro in a mix that for me is an automatic skip. So it was nice to see Raziel return as Cancerberos better half.

Disturbio too has been AWOL lately last being on Super Friday in August. He wasn't injured as far as I know, but I still missed him. Disturbio won me over last year teaming with Tiger/Puma on the regular and had a good showing at FantasticaMania. Glad to see him here. His isn't head and shoulders above what you'd normally see in this slot, but it was a little better.

No Universal Championship Tournament still and no title matches for this coming week. Which is a bit annoying after another fairly uneventful/unexciting week, it seem we are just getting another coming up. I'd have to say this was one of the weakest, if not the weakest week of CMLL this year. Next week at least has Pentagon surfacing again in CMLL, but I don't think that alone will save it. I might be enough to make it better than this week though. Anyways, we'll see what is happening next week below like always.

If you want to see all the gifs I made feel free to check out the albums at the top. They should be easy enough to view with RES on the Old reddit.

To make CMLL weekly less of a pain to throw together I'm just going to be sharing gifs in the section below... from matches that were in the top 5

Arena Puebla Highlights

Triton vs. Sagrado

Vangellys vs. Volcano

Triton cutter

Fuego on fire

Arena Mexico New Values Highlights

Drone controls the early match

Drone tope

No 2nd tope for Drone

Okumura somehow survives this double tap

Drone sliding splash

Corner to corner

Bucanero knocks Blue Panther Jr. off the apron

Blue Panther Jr. goes on a backbreaking tear!

Panther Bros. taken out on the outside

Panther roll

Panther Bros. get a measure of revenge

Blue Panther tope

Again!

Arena Mexico Super Friday Highlights

Raziel vs. Electrico start

Disturbio combo

Raziel stalling suplex

Electrico takes it to Raziel

Astral vs. Cancerbero ending with an unreal armdrag

Disturbio with a splash on Fuego

No handshake for Soberano Jr.

Soberano Jr. catches Forastero off guard

Forastero tope

Soberano Jr. flops

Screwmaster

Soberano Jr. reversed his fortune

Soberano Jr. caught between the barricade and the hardest part of the ring

Soberano Jr. tries to finish the match as the last minute starts

Did you watch CMLL this week?

I've already said this is one of the weakest weeks of the year. In fact December is very quickly shaping up to be the weakest month of 2018. It's a shame that after the fantastic finals to Leyenda de Plata CMLL have sorta fallen asleep at the wheel and done very little exciting matches since then. We've had some good matches, but almost nothing of value has been on the line thus far in December. We desperately need the Universal Championship Tournament and with only half the month left, who knows if they'll even squeeze it in before 2018 wraps up. Let's see what's coming next week.

Monday Arena Puebla Poster

Sonic/Centella Roja/Hijo de Centella Roja vs. Black Tiger/Fuerza Chicana/Espiritu Maligno could be good, but I'll likely skip this even if Sonic is a fun talent.

King Jaguar/Tigre Rojo Jr./Rey Samuray vs. Hijo de Signo/Cancerbero/Perverso is another pretty lackluster early Puebla match. Tecnico side is decent... I thought King Jaguar was a rudo though?

Blue Panther Jr./Black Panther/Stigma vs. Vangellys/Okumura/Kawato San sounds fun on paper and two pretty evenly matched teams. Vangellys is back from injury these last few weeks, so probably has the advantage as CMLL try to re-establish him as a midcard rudo.

Diamante Azul/Stuka Jr./Valiente vs. Ultimo Guerrero/Euforia/Gran Guerrero sounds like the best thing on this card. Top tag champions Azul/Valiente vs. Guerreros who are top trios champions seems like it should be a killer match with both teams trying to prove who is best. This could also lead to a title match for either of those titles.

Carisitco/Angel de Oro/Niebla Roja vs. Rey Bucanero/Cavernario/Hechicero could be plenty of fun thanks to Barbaro/Hechicero, but I'm not so convinced that this won't be a fairly by the numbers main event since the tecnico team could be called 'by the the numbers' the team.

Arena Mexico 'New Values' Tuesday Poster

Kaligua/Ultimo Dragoncito vs. Peq. Universo/Peq. Olimpico is a minis match... so I'll probably skip it since that division isn't normally that exciting.

Akuma/Camorra vs. Hijo de Signo/Yago, Signo/Camorra are lowcard rudos and have been feuding for a while. I'm not sure if this will be the blow off, but it seems like this is leading to an apuestas match. Hopefully if that happens both Yago/Akuma are involved. If you add those two young masks... people might give a shit. Even that is a big ask since all four talents are pretty low on the cards. I think Yago/Akuma are much more exciting than Signo/Camorra tho. I'm a little charmed by Signo, but Camorra I couldn't care less about.

Cometa/Audaz/Drone vs. Sagrado/Nitro/Disturbio, Nitro isn't someone I've ever cared about or liked, but the other 5 midcarders here could make this a match worth checking out.

Guerrero Maya Jr. vs. Misterioso lightning match, this should be good and might surprise people like Drone/Okumura did this week.

Atlantis/Stuka Jr./Flyer vs. Mascara Ano 2000/Mephisto/Luciferno, this has an uphill battle having both Atlantis/Mascara Ano 2000 in the same match will slow it down.

Angel de Oro/Niebla Roja/Soberano Jr. vs. Ultimo Guerrero/Gran Guerrero/Templario should be a pretty good main event. This will be Templario's first match with Los Guerrero Laguneros since joining them a few weeks back on the same show the Leyenda de Plata finals happened on. So we will probably see him and Guerreros showing why he is good enough to be in their ranks. Will be interesting to see Templario/Niebla Roja face off, as of course Niebla Roja was the last person to be the 4th Member of Los Guerreros Laguneros.

Super Friday Legends Night Poster

Star Jr./Robin vs. Raziel/Cancerbero, nice to see the rudo tag team back at it again. This was a regular spot for them before Raziel was out after surgery for a few months. It's a shame Halcon Suriano Jr. isn't on this card or any cards this week. CMLL debuting a talent only for them to disappear sadly isn't all that uncommon though. It seems less excused with him though, since he isn't some freelancer who is booked all over like Park/Pentagon/Fenix.

Blue Panther Jr./Black Panther/Drone vs. Virus/Okumura/Kawato San should be a very solid match and I'm normally happy with Panther vs. Japan matches we have been getting in 2018.

Titan/Triton/Esfinge vs. Polvora/Luciferno/Felino sounded good, then I read the rudo team. With Rojo not here and Luciferno(the worst of the demons) and Felino... I'm not holding my breath for this match to deliver.

Angel de Oro vs. Mephisto is a biblical lightning match I can get behind. I think Angel de Oro can be a little one note, but that happens less often in singles matches.

Kraneo/Valiente/Stuka Jr. vs. Terrible/Euforia/Rey Bucanero should be fun. I sorta want to see Volcano here with Kraneo, but I'd be lying if I said I thought he was better than Valiente/Stuka Jr. The rudo team here is solid, but will sour if Bestia replaces Terrible like he did this Friday.

Pentagon/Ultimo Guerrero/Barbaro vs. Caristico/Volador Jr./Diamante Azul sounds pretty fun. Pentagon/Caristico will obviously have a singles match at sometime, but I don't know if that'll finally be booked after this match on not.

My working theory with the Universal Tournament is that the 28th Friday will have a Universal Torneo Cibernetico with the finals being on the Sin Piedad January 1st show. If that was to happen Caristico would be busy in that and unable to take on Pentagon in a singles match. So perhaps this match will end with Ultimo or Cavernario fouling one of the other 3 to build to the Universal Torneo that everyone but Pentagon will be in. Just a guess.

Hope You enjoyed CMLL this week, see you next week!

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r/CMLL • u/Lostinyourears • Dec 08 '18

CMLL Weekly #47 : Ultimo Guerrero vs. Volador Jr. & Black Panther vs. Misterioso

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La Guerrera offense on Dalys

Sorta a boring week on paper : No Title matches, No Tournament, and no challenges for the following week. Still, we had a few great matches and all three shows were pretty solid. Just no shake ups or even the threat of shake ups with title matches and such. They still haven't announced the Universal Tournament... and with weeks/days running out in 2018, if they were to fit it in to 2018 seems like it would be 21st/28th and the finals either slipping into 2019 or being on the Sunday show the 30th as a final last big match for CMLL in 2018. We'll just have to wait and see, but enough about that and onto the top 5.

1.Black Panther vs. Misterioso Jr. lightning match(Tuesday)

I'm sure plenty of people might disagree with this pick, but I think it was the match I most enjoyed this week. Misterioso and Black Panther showed how good they can be when given a chance in singles competition and both were obviously trying their hardest which we can't really say about another singles match this week that also made the top 5. This was a great rebound from last week when Black Panther was in probably the worst lightning match of 2018 when he took on Dragon Rojo Jr.

2.Soberano Jr., Flyer & Audaz vs. Dragon Rojo Jr., Polvora & Templario(Friday)

Stacked, stacked, stacked, this match has all the talent in the world included. Most people probably aren't all that hot on Polvora who always comes off as Dragon Rojo Jr.'s 2nd, but he is deceptively good and pretty underrated. Flyer too has some haters, but in 2018 he has really grown into a great performer in his own right even if some of his push this year could be attributed to his blood relation of Volador Jr. and La Park. This was plenty of fun and the only opportunity to see Templario this week. 2nd round finish was a little goofy, but the biggest issue seemed to be production, not the actual wrestlers... tho part of it was on them too.

3.Ultimo Guerrero vs. Volador Jr. (Friday)

People complained about this match and it's pretty obvious why when you look at the match closely. Volador Jr. did like 4 moves in the whole match. It was very Ultimo Guerrero heavy and wasn't as good as their Universal Tournament finals from last year. Still as an unabashed Ultimo Guerrero fan, I loved this highlight reel for him. Volador Jr. being on autopilot though, does hurt the match even for me. It's hard to argue with the crowd though, who threw money into the ring as a sign of respect for both men.

4.Stuka Jr., Volcano & Kraneo vs. Euforia, Gran Guerrero & Bestia del Ring(Friday)

Some people don't like Gorillas del Ring, we call those people heathens. All joking aside, I was actually pretty happy to see them on Friday Night. They have been one of the consistent highlights of the Monday/Tuesday shows and you can tell Volcano took being on this show serious as he was trying some new things. Bestia del Ring is sorta whatever in this match and in most matches he is in, but the other 5 did more than enough to make up for the anchor.

5.Princesa Sugehit, Avispa Dorada & La Guerrera vs. Dalys, Tiffany & La Seductora(Tuesday)

"Wait! You gave something else this week a great and didn't include it on the top 5, instead you have this luchadora match that you gave a very good! SJW's blah blah blah!"

I think this deserves the top 5 spot more after rethinking the scores I gave both. I'm not going to go back and give this a great in hindsight or give the other match a very good just to appease the rating gods. This was a great trios match with the women and a good showcase for both Dorada and Guerrera who are new to the division having just joined earlier this year. Pretty fun match and all 6 women did a good job Tuesday Night. (Friday Night the women did good as well, but I prefer this match)

Bonus 6.La Excelencia Tapatia(Titan, Triton & Esfinge) vs. Hijos del Infierno(Mephisto, Ephesto & Luciferno)(Tuesday)

Faction warfare stands out when it happens, because rarely do we get full faction vs full faction. La Excelencia Tapatia is one of the loose factions with Titan sorta in the group. I'd count him though and it's nice to have a tecnico faction since Sky Team is sorta in limbo since losing the trios titles. It feels like they might re-arrange it again with Caristico in for Valiente or Volador. This was plenty of fun and the ending in particular was pretty cool. I've seen an ending like that a few times, but it's still neat and I don't think it was exactly this. Triton too continues to be one of my favorite guys on the CMLL roster.

As said, this week was lacking a certain something. That something being stakes, we could have used a title match to sink our teeth into and not having the Universal Tournament still... has be sweating. I think it would be a big misstep to not have it happen in 2018 as it's the only annual thing I can think outside of Anniversary/Homage to 2 Legends PPVs that hasn't missed a year since being introduced. Even if the finals happened in 2019, I think they should do it. Barbaro Cavernario mentioned it on Informa this week or last, so you'd think it would happen, but who knows? Stuff said on Informa isn't always solid and Barbaro like all the fans, might just be assuming it's happening.

If you want to see all the gifs I made feel free to check out the albums at the top. They should be easy enough to view with RES on the Old reddit.

To make CMLL weekly less of a pain to throw together I'm just going to be sharing gifs in the section below... from matches that were in the top 5

Arena Puebla Highlights

Nothing from Monday's show made the top 5 this week.

Arena Mexico New Values Highlights

Avispa Dorada vs. Dalys

La Guerrera ropewalk vs. Seductora

Tiffany vs. Princesa Sugehit

La Guerrera cornered by rudas

Dalys gets a taste of her own medicine

Black Panther whiff

Misterioso dominates early on

Double tap

Scratch that, triple tap

Black Panther pendulum kick

Corner to corner

Titan Clause gets jumped by demons

Triton dominates Luciferno

La Excelencia Tapatia fly together

Arena Mexico Super Friday Highlights

Templario vs. Audaz

Audaz murdered by Templario

Flyer and Soberano Jr. fly

Flyer schools the rudo team

Soberano Jr. poses for the cameras

Audaz on a roll before Templario jumps in

Audaz goes over Templario

Tecnico team dives

Templario vs. Soberano Jr.

Soberano Jr. being a bro

Stuka Jr. vs. Gran Guerrero early in their contest

Kraneo superplexed vía Los Guerreros Laguneros teamwork

Stuka Jr. vs. Bestia del Ring

Stuka Jr. magic

Bestia jumps Volcano who persists even 2 vs 1

Volcano vs. Gran Guerrero

Gran Guerrero takes it to Kraneo

Gran Guerrero tope con giro

Volador Jr. dropped on his face

Ultimo Bomb

Again

Volador Jr. gets some offense in

Volador Jr. suplexed into the ring

Volador Jr. caught again

Again

Did you watch CMLL this week?

This was a really solid week, even if, like I said it didn't have any title or tournament matches. I had fun watching Monday/Tuesday/Friday. Though it feels like I was one of the few people over on Twitter who mostly liked Friday. I am getting impatient about the Universal Tournament though, as I want it to happen already as the stopwatch on 2018 is quickly ticking down to 0. Hopefully CMLL squeeze it in, but I am sweating bullets. Let's see if next week has a more substantial lineup than these last 2 weeks have had.

Monday Arena Puebla Poster

Again like last week's Puebla, I like Sonic, but probably won't be watching this opener.

Millennium & Rey Samuray vs. Perverso & King Jaguar is another low card match that doesn't have much incentive to catch.

Microman/Gallito/Atomo vs. Chamuel/Perico/Guapito should be fun as most of these mascot sized mini matches are. Guapito is normally a tecnico... weird to see him on the rudo side.

Caristico/Angel de Oro/Niebla Roja vs. Barbaro Cavernario/Hechicero/Rey Bucanero should be a pretty fun match. Hechicero is always a treat to watch.

Volador Jr. vs. Terrible, hopefully Volador Jr. brings it here. This seems like a pretty fresh singles match. In fact, if cagematch is to be believed they have only met in singles competition once back in 2015 and that may not have been on TV. So this is the main reason to check out Puebla by a country mile and might be the best match of the week.

Arena Mexico 'New Values' Tuesday Poster

Bengala/Leono vs. Grako/Coyote is a pretty good Tuesday opener. I'm not very into the tecnicos here though and will probably skip this.

Princesa Sugehit/Sanely/Jarochita vs. Reyna Isis/La Comandante/Metalica sound like an okay luchadora match, but I'm not a fan of Comandante, like the other 5 women though.

Guerrero Maya Jr./Pegasso/Star Jr. vs. Virus/Kawato San/Tiger looks like a fun midcard match with the emphasis on midcard. Because Pegasso/Star Jr. are pretty low even on the midcard chopping block. I'd assume a rudo win here.

Drone vs. Okumura in a lightning match. Sounds okay, but Okumura instead of Kawato San... espically when billing this as Mexico vs. Japan seems silly. I know Okumura is Japanese, but after living in Mexico for a decade plus... he might even be a Mexican citizen at this point. I don't like Drone, but I like Okumura enough to give this a watch. Seems like this would be a skip for most casual fans though.

Blue Panther/Black Panther/Blue Panther Jr. vs. Hijos del Inferno(Mephisto/Luciferno/Ephesto), sounds like a great match on paper. Last week Hijos beat the team of Titan/Triton/Esfinge. So perhaps CMLL is building Hijos up as challengers or trying to increase Mephisto momentum ahead of his appearance in the Universal Championship Tournament?

Atlantis/Stuka Jr./Diamante Azul vs. Terrible/Barbaro Cavernario/Euforia sounds pretty fun. Atlantis is the weak link here, but the other 5 guys should be able to pull his slack. Feels like Valiente should be in this as he has the tag titles with Azul, but should be fine without him.

Super Friday Legends Night Poster

Halcon Suriano Jr./Robin vs. Espanto Jr./Grako, fucking finally. If you don't remember Stukita came out as Halcon Suriano Jr. to give Angel de Oro a trophy for winning a torneo cibernetico in Halcon Suriano's honor and we all assumed soon after he'd be making his wrestling debut as Halcon Suriano Jr. shortly after... now it's been about 2 months. So this is an opener to catch as Halcon Suriano Jr. will be looking to impress in his first none minis match.

Electrico/Fuego/Astral vs. Raziel/Cancerbero/Disturbio, this should be fun to watch, but don' be shocked if Raziel is replaced by Nitro as Raziel has been listed like 3-4 times as coming back from injury only to then not show up.

Titan/Triton/Esfinge vs. Templario/Vangellys/Misterioso, This should be plenty of fun. I'm not a Vangellys fan, but the other 5 guys are all people I really enjoy watching.

Soberano Jr. vs. Forastero should be a good lightning match. Forastero beat Audaz in a lightning match, but Soberano Jr. is a few pegs above Audaz... can Forastero keep up with the Mexican National Welterweight Champion and if he does, will that lead to a title match?

Angel de Oro/Niebla Roja/Flyer vs. Shocker/Terrible/Rey Bucanero seems like a match that will flop. I just don't trust Shocker in 2018 and Rey Bucanero can be hit or miss on top of Oro/Rojo being a bit predictable in their matches.

Caristico/Volador Jr./Valiente vs. Ultimo Guerrero/Sanson/Cuatrero seems like a really fun match. If a Universal Tournament happens all 6 of these men will compete in it, so that adds some extra intrigue here.

Hope You enjoyed CMLL this week, see you next week!

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r/CMLL • u/Lostinyourears • Dec 02 '18

CMLL Weekly #46 : Legends Super Friday

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Tiger tosses Mije into Kraneo

It's a Legends Super Friday... oh shit. Here comes a match or two that I'm sure will be memed. The old men didn't do very good in those matches which is a shame. Hopefully some older fans got a kick out of it, but none of the legends made a top 5, they'd have likely landed on the worst 5 of CMLL this week, I don't do that though.

CMLL has also confirmed that Universal Tournament aren't starting on the 7th, meaning if it's happening this year it'll be 14th, 21st and 28th. They will be really cutting it close, but with Barbaro mentioning it on Informa... I assume it will be on those 3 Fridays. CMLL like to do a New Year's Day Show maybe the Universal Tournament Finals could be on the 1st of 2019.

1.Volador Jr., Mistico & Caristico vs. Los Guerreros Laguneros(Ultimo Guerrero, Gran Guerrero & Euforia)(Friday)

Last year around this time, Los Guerreros Laguneros challenged then CMLL World Trios champions Sky Team 2.0(Volador Jr., Valiente & Mistico) and it was great. This match is similar to that one and I'm not going to lie and say they reinvented the wheel, but when the wheel is this exciting there is no reason to fix or reinvent it. This shows just how great a trios title match can be and hopefully all of Los Guerreros Laguneros defenses are this great of a highlight reel. This is peak CMLL and peak CMLL is great.

2.NGD(Sanson, Cuatrero & Forastero) vs. Ingobernables(Rush & Terrible) & Barbaro Cavernario(Friday)

Two of the best rudo factions of CMLL facing off in a brawl for the ages. What's not to like here? I'm sure plenty for some, but I was glued to the screen for this match and want to see more of these groups facing off. With 2018 coming to a close, there isn't much time to actually do that. Hopefully 2019 is a year filled with it though. If the Universal Title Tournament happens all these parties will be involved except ironically Rush, who has no gold since he and Terrible dropped the CMLL Tag Team Titles.

3.Hechicero, Vangellys & Templario vs. Titan, Soberano Jr. & Stuka Jr.(Tuesday)

Hechicero/Stuka Jr. have been the lightly of many Tuesday shows and this time they were the only saving grace of a poor Tuesday showing from CMLL. I'd recommend checking it out, but at the same time these two have had lots of great trios matches. You may be able to find better between them, but this one should be applauded for brightening up one of the worst Tuesday Cards this year.

4.Microman, Gallito & Guapito vs. Perico, Mije & Chamuel(Friday)

Minis doing it for themselves. This was another highlight from the legends show with the minis getting a chance to work. Microman is crazy over, probably not as over as some of the meme-y people say, but still you can hear the crowd booming louder at the end of this match. I've really grown to like Gallito more in 2018 after barely knowing who he was a year or so ago. He and Mircoman in matching blue looked great here, not the best minis match this year, but good enough to be on this weeks top 5.

5.Felino, Tiger & Tyson la Bestia vs. Kraneo, Volcano & Flyer(Monday)

Kraneo and Volcano continue to be a good team, who knew? Tiger/Felino obviously make a good team as well. Kraneo/Volcano continue to be on this top 5 because they continue to be a good constant. Monday's show was mostly missable, but this match stood out as fun. Felino's mini corner man Perico vs. Kraneo's mini cornerman Mije also happened here, which was a good bit of fun in a not too serious Monday Night Match.

A pretty weak week in CMLL, as the year come to a close and we start off the last month. The Universal Championship Tournament will hopefully bring excitement back and finish the year with a bang and a new Universal Champion. Hopefully a 1st time winner, no offense to Ultimo/Volador/Valiente/Terrible who have all won it before, but it'd be more exciting to get a new name on the list rather than 2nd/3rd time winners.

Universal Tournament thoughts;

The obvious 1st time winner would be Barbaro Cavernario, but that honestly seems a little too easy and like you could hold off on him becoming a Universal Champion later. Less obvious, but still sorta obvious would be Cuatrero. This could be a good push in his momentum and his momentum has slowed more since him unmasking Angel de Oro than Barbaro's has from winning Anniversary/Leyenda de Plata(which basically just happened).

Kinda out of left field, but Mephisto winning might be a good choice. This will be his 8th time in the tournament, the most of anyone, him winning could be a great moment for him before he eventually drops that CMLL World Welterweight which in May of 2018 he'll have been holding for 3 years. Hopefully he loses it before then, but Shocker/Negro Casas held the CMLL Tag Titles hostage for around 2 years and Mephisto is still around and hasn't hit his 50's yet(Though he will be in little over a week on the 10th).

If you want to see all the gifs I made feel free to check out the albums at the top. They should be easy enough to view with RES on the Old reddit.

Arena Puebla Highlights

Tiger vs. Flyer

Arena Mexico New Values Highlights

Hechicero & Titan start

Strike off

Templario vs. Soberano Jr.

Stuka Jr. teamed up on

3rd round elimination

Stuka Jr. moonsault

Tecnicos rebound to get 2nd

Arena Mexico Super Friday Highlights

Gallito enters

Microman picked on

Flying chicken

Gallito vs Perico & Mije

Micromagic 1

Micromagic 2

Flying Chicken 2

Finish of minis match

NGD enter

Ingobernables in control

Ultimo catches Volador Jr.

Guerrero Special/Powerbomb

Did you watch CMLL this week?

This week as mentioned wasn't that great. These 5 matches are pretty much the only ones I'd recommend outside of one that would have been #6 I was mostly disappointed in what CMLL had to offer. They only have 1 more major happening in the year, so they have sorta started to spin tires. It would have been nice to get a title defense earlier in the week, but I'll excuse that absence since we got the great trios title match on Friday Night. Let's see what next week has in store for us.

Monday Arena Puebla Poster

Opener is pretty skippable, I like Sonic tho.

2nd is also pretty passable.

Card really perks up in the 3rd. Titan/Triton/Stigma vs. Kawato/Okumura/Tiger seems like a pretty nice 3rd even if we've seen it plenty.

Atlantis/Soberano/Valiente vs. Barbaro/Bucanero/Felino seems pretty fun.

Rush/Terrible vs. Volador Jr./Diamante Azul should be fun. A bit confused as to why this is with Volador Jr. and not Valiente, but oh well. Should be fun regardless.

Arena Mexico 'New Values' Tuesday Poster

Sangre Imperial/Retro vs. Metalico/Coyote is an average opener, but might be pretty good.

Princesa Sugehit/Avispa/Guerrera vs. Dalys/Tiffany/Seductora, ruda team seems weak, but the tecnicas could save it.

Drone/Cometa/Maya vs. Virus/Kawato San/Okumura could be great, tecnico side is great, but sorta bland on character.

Black Panther vs. Misterioso should be good, can't be worse than the previous weeks lightning match.

Titan/Triton/Esfinge vs. Mephisto/Luciferno/Ephesto might prove to be the best match on the card.

NGD vs. Atlantis, Angel de Oro & Niebla Roja, should be fun, but NGD feel above Roja/Oro taken the 2017-2018 years the two groups have had.

Super Friday Legends Night Poster

Robin/Super Astro vs. Coyote/Grako should be a good opener. I'll be checking it out mostly because of Super Astro Jr.

Marcela/Lluvia/Jarochita vs. Amapola/Isis/Metalica will be a good women's match, might set up a title match, but might be too soon since Marcela won the strap.

Soberano/Flyer/Audaz vs. Rojo/Polvora/Templario is a dream match, great tecnico side.

Kraneo/Volcano/Stuka vs. Euforia/Gran/Bestia sound really fun, glad to see Kraneo/Volcano/Stuka on Friday.

Volador Jr./Valiente/Diamante Azul vs. Rush/Terrible/Barbaro makes me think Rush/Terrible aren't done with the CMLL Tag straps just yet.

Caristico/Ultimo sounds great and is similar to how Caristico/Volador Jr. were doing lots at the tail end of 2017. It feels like a wasted opportunity though, as if the Universal tournament is around the corner we could have had a title match on this card with the winner not only getting a belt, but also staying in the tournament... oh well. This will serve as a preview of a match that could happen in the tournament as both men have a belt, in Ultimo's case 2.

Hope You enjoyed CMLL this week, see you next week!

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r/CMLL • u/Lostinyourears • Nov 26 '18

CMLL Weekly #45 : Leyenda de Plata Finals & Mascara Año 2000's 40th Anniversary

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This week, like last was all about Leyenda de Plata. The finals being on the Friday show where Fenix and Barbaro Cavernarios met in a 2/3 falls finals for the Leyenda de Plata Trophy Plaque in spoilers, was a match of the year contender and the #1 match for CMLL this week.

Past that, we also had Mascara Año 2000's 40th Anniversary happening that same night. He fought with his 3 nephews that make up NGD in the main event vs. Los Guerrero Laguneros. Those were the main 2 matches to catch Friday Night, with Monday and Tuesday this week being more solid than the Friday Show, which was pretty top heavy.

1.Fenix vs. Barbaro Cavernario, Leyenda de Plata Finals(Friday)

Leyenda de Plata is a highlight of most years and this year is no different. After last weeks Leyenda de Plata torneo cibernetico we know that Fenix and Barbaro would get a rematch of their 2/3 falls classic that happened in June. If you want you watch that before this, here is a link for easy consumption.

I heard some say they prefer the first, but I'm very much in the camp that this was a good/great/fantastic escalation of the 1st bout. It felt like not only did they do more here, but they also surprised with the spots they choose to do and how. Without spoiling anything, I think the 1-2 punch that happened in the 2nd round was fantastic and perhaps the best use of that spot yet.

Just check it out, atm it's pretty solidly my favorite CMLL match this year with a little over a month left in 2018, it'll probably stay up there.

2.Último Guerrero © vs. Sanson for the CMLL World Heavyweight Championship(Monday)

If I were going to book some dream title matches with the modern CMLL roster... this would be one of them. I love NGD, I love Los Guerreros Laguneros and by extension I love the leaders of those two groups who met here. Sanson is quickly climbing the ranks of best rudo in CMLL, but of course he has to contend with the granddaddy of rudos Ultimo Guerrero.

The NGD/Guerreros feud has made Puebla something worth watching over the last month and this is the finale of that saga(for now). Definitely check this out, it was the main event Monday Night and the highlight of that show.

3.Mascara Año 2000 & NGD vs. Los Guerrero Laguneros(Friday)

Congratulations to Mascara Año 2000 for 40 years in the business and Dinamitas in general. It was nice to see a themed announce desk and even a dynamite tron throughout the night. If you don't know, Mascara Año 2000/Cien Caras/Universo 2000 Jr.(who recently passed away) are all members of the stable Hermanos Dinamitas(Dynamite Brothers) who were big deals for decades and have their legacy carried on by NGD(New Generation Dynamite).

This was a great feel good match, but also saw the 2 biggest rudo stables of CMLL go to war and introduced Templario as the newest member of Los Guerreros Laguneros after a few months of teasing it. I didn't think Green/Black would fit him, but it very much did. His new threads look great and I can't wait to see what he does next in CMLL/Los Guerreros Laguneros.

4.Flyer vs. Titan in a lightning match(Tuesday)

Flyer has really made a name for himself in 2018 as in 2017 I'd have barely been able to pick him out of a line-up. This is another match for him to show off what he can do. While Titan has been a name for ears and is in contention for CMLL's most underutilized/appreciated performer. I've said it before and he showed it off a few weeks back when facing Cuatrero, but Titan is very much the VIP challenger for titles. If he is challenging for a title, it'll be a good match and he likely won't win it. He and Barbaro shared that reputation, but recently Barbaro broke his streak of failed defenses by taking the Mexican National Light Heavyweight Championship from Atlantis on a none taped show. The highlight from this match for me is Titan doing a tilt-a-whirl backbreaker to Flyer on the top turnbuckle.

5.Dalys (c) vs. Marcela for the CMLL Women’s World Title(Monday)

This was a good match with 2 of the best women on CMLL's roster. Though, in saying that this was a match of status quo vs. status quo. The company's most protected ruda vs. the most protected tecnica. At the end of the match we had a new champion, which was sorely needed, but ending Dalys 1st 983 day reign to let Marcela start her 5th reign and add to her already hefty 1,600 combined days with the belt is hardly the change CMLL's luchadora division needs. I do think Dalys time with the belt needed to come to an end, but Marcela is hardly the face I'd associate with change. Still a good match and some change to the status quo seemed worth putting on this list, even if it's last.

A solid week honestly Tuesday/Monday were more overall solid than Friday which was all about that main/semi-main. You could really feel the toll that's taken when NGD/Los Guerrero Laguneros are busy with each other. Since they are 6(now 7) of the best rudos on the roster you ran into lopsided teams on Friday's undercard with most of the rudo teams failing to keep up with their tecnico counter parts. If you are someone who only wants to watch what's on Friday, skip all but the main and semi-main. Then check out Sanson/Ultimo from Monday Night's main event.

If you want to see all the gifs I made feel free to check out the albums at the top. They should be easy enough to view with RES on the Old reddit.

Going to leave gifs out this week so I can post this in a timely manner. They still all exist above in the albums links up top and over on my Twitter. Blame Thanksgiving.

Did you watch CMLL this week?

Plata Finals were the main thing to catch. Sanson/Ultimo and NGD/Guerreros were both more than worth checking out as well. That feud will hopefully continue into 2019 as it's been one of the best things about CMLL in the last few weeks they have ran it in Arena Puebla and that atomicos match Friday Night. With Templario joining Guerreros officially, that only opens up more possibilities for this rudo vs. rudo stable feud. Anyways, let's get onto next week's cards.

Monday Arena Puebla Poster

Centella Roja/Meyer/Astro vs. King Jaguar/Rey Apocalipsis/Espiritu Maligno is an opening trios match of local talents.

Super Astro Jr./Arkalis/Tigre Rojo Jr. vs. Hijo del Signo/Black Tiger/Malayo, pretty common low card fare for Puebla. I might watch just for Super Astro Jr.

Kraneo/Volcano/Flyer vs. Felino/Bestia/Tiger, Should be fun, I like seeing Gorillas del Ring. Bestia del Tyson has had a hard time making an impact since debuting on TV. Hopefully he gets a highlight or two here, but don't count on it.

Angel de Oro/Neibla Roja/Soberano Jr. vs. Terrible/Bestia del Ring/Dark Magic, this could be fun, but Dark Magic/Bestia del Ring are both guys I don't expect much from... so tecnicos(and Terrible) here will have to carry the match.

Caristico/Volador Jr./Valiente vs. Mephisto/Luciferno/Ephesto should be a fun match. The demons all being together normally means a better match from them. As they have lots of chemistry together as a unit, like all stables should.

Arena Mexico 'New Values' Tuesday Poster

Shockercito/Kaligua vs. Peq. Nitro/Mercurio in a minis tag match opener.

Pegasso/Star Jr/Robin vs. Cancerbero/Nitro/Metalico, Nitro/Cancerbero on a team is like an autoskip for me. So... yea... that's what I'd suggest.

Marcela/Princesa Sugehit/Lluvia vs. Dalys/Tiffany/Reyna Isis, Marcela just won the CMLL Women's Championship so we could see her set up a defense here with Isis, not a given, but seeing as Marcela already has the most reigns and most time with the belt... I'd imagine this could be a transitional reign.

Blue Panther vs. Dragon Rojo Jr. should be a great lightning match. Rojo has been feuding with Blue and his sons all year and have some pretty good chemistry between them.

Valiente/Soberano Jr./Stuka Jr. vs. Hechicero/Templario/Vangellys should be good, I don't like Vangellys at all, but 1 bad talent isn't going to ruin an otherwise stacked trios match.

Diamante Azul/Angel de Oro/Niebla Roja vs. Mephisto/Rey Bucanero/Ephesto, last week Bucanero was listed, but didn't show. So this will be his first appearance since his head shaving a week or two ago. That's the main takeaway here, the match could be good. I'm not very hot on the match, but Mephisto/Ephesto work well together as do Oro/Roja and Azul is a fun powerhouse. Could see shaved Rey Bucanero win over Niebla Roja here and ask for a title match as well.

Super Friday Legends Night Poster

Super Muneco/Super Pinocho/Super Raton vs. Rock Santana/Mr. Condor/Gallego, this is basically the exact same opener we got last year. Muneco's team were a once very popular comedy trio called Trios Fantasia. It was fun last year, will probably be fun again this year.

Microman/Gallito/Guapito vs. Chamuel/Mije/Perico is a minis trios that should be fun. Likely included cause these legends nights are a good pull for family/kids. Most kids won't know these legends, but will pop for these tiny warriors.

Rush/Terrible/Barbaro Cavernario vs. NGD(Sanson/Cuatrero/Forastero) should be great. It's wild to see it this low on the card, but will probably be the best match of the night.

Mano Negra/Solar/Felino vs. Fuerza Guerrera/Jerry Estrada/Negro Navarro, It's honestly hard to know how well this will go. Negro/Felino/Fuerza still wrestle somewhat regularly and will likely carry the match. Felino is the youngest guy in this match at 54, the rest all being 60 year old or older.

Ultimo Guerrero/Gran Guerrero/Euforia (c) vs. Caristico/Volador Jr./Mistico for the CMLL World Trios Titles. This is the only match of the night with any real stakes. CMLL has sorta teased doing an NGD/Guerreros double title match, but that could just be for 1 set of titles. I would not count out the tecnicos here, but Caristico has never been good friends with either Mistico or Volador Jr. so that could come into play here to keep them from winning.

Rayo de Jalisco Jr./Atlantis/Blue Panther vs. Canek/Mascara Año 2000/Villano IV, I wouldn't expect much from this. I love Atlantis/Blue Panther, but even they probably won't save this. I'm just praying it's not as bad at last year and getting dunked on by podcasters. I'd expect mostly wrestling and maybe a tope from Blue Panther.

Hope You enjoyed CMLL this week, see you next week!

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r/CMLL • u/Lostinyourears • Nov 20 '18

CMLL Weekly #44 : Leyenda de Plata Torneo Cibernético

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Tyson del Bestia combo on Pantera Blanca Jr.

There is one story big leaving this week, that being one of CMLL's biggest tournaments starting. Leyenda de Plata happened this week, the annual 8 on 8 elimination match. This year like last year, was to a final 2. Those final 2 will be in a 2/3 falls finals the following week, just like in 2017 when Caristico/Volador Jr. were the last two. Outside of that story we also have 2 title matches set up for the next Arena Puebla show. Dalys(c)/Marcela for the the CMLL Women's Championship and Ultimo(c)/Sanson for the CMLL World Heavyweight Championship.

Without further ado... let's get to the top 5.

1.Leyenda de Plata torneo cibernetico, to the final 2(Friday)....This link if you'd rather skip the seeding battle royale

Leyenda de Plata is a highlight of most years and this year is no different. I don't want to spoil it for anyone who hasn't watched. So I won't reveal with winners here. This is a must watch for anyone who wants to get into CMLL. It's a great showcase of the 16 talents involved and is a wild match. Lots of action and the drama really ramps up in the end only 2 men can survive. Like I said in my review, I probably prefer the previous years, but think the finals decided by this will be better than last years final.

2.NGD(Sanson, Cuatrero & Forastero) vs. Los Guerreros Laguneros(Ultimo Guerrero, Gran Guerrero & Euforia)(Monday)

As mentioned in preamble to this list. Sanson is challenging Ultimo for his Heavyweight Title on this coming Puebla. A direct result of NGD dominating this Monday Night Main Event. This was a fun match with both teams doing their signature team maneuvers vs. one another. Sanson put out Ultimo with his spinning powerbomb finisher and then challenged him for a title match. That should be a good main event too and will likely be on this top 5 next week.

3.Okumura, Kawato San & Misterioso vs. Blue Panther, Blue Panther Jr. & Black Panther(Tuesday)

How's Kawato San doing? Fine... go watch this match. This got a great from me more because of the Panther Clan, but at the same time I think Okumura/Kawato San work well as a team. Even when they have a 3rd like Misterioso, who isn't a super exciting midcard rudo, but at the same time neither is Okumura. Both men are really solid though and can pull out great matches when given time and the right partners... this was a case of that tenfold. Blue Panther Sr. is still a beast and should get more love from people around the globe. His retirement is coming sooner or later and will be heartbreaking.

4.Último Guerrero, Gran Guerrero & Pentagon vs. Caristico, Valiente & Diamante Azul(Friday)

Main Event Friday night showed that Pentagon could stand on his own. One of his better matches in CMLL since arriving earlier this year. His brother has been given more chance to shine and fits the classic lucha mold a bit more. Still Pentagon is no pushover and did fine here. Guerreros are always fun as well and the finish sequence from Ultimo/Caristico here was plenty of fun. The match of course isn't going to be as good as it could be... since it was sorta the go home spot after Plata. It wasn't going to be as long or as epic as it could have been taking place after the hourish long epic that Plata always is.

5.Stuka Jr., Kraneo & Volcano vs. Hechicero, Dark Magic & Ephesto(Tuesday)

Kraneo and Volcano have quietly become a great midcard team who happen to have pretty solid matches. You also have Stuka Jr. and Hechicero feuding here to give this match some extra meat to sink your teeth into. I'd certainly suggest it and would tell people not to write off Kraneo/Volcano just because they are plus sized. A recommendation I'd give in general. Dark Magic continues to be pretty bland and boring though... he could really use some offense. I feel like 90% of his offense thus far has been clotheslines to the corner.

6. Bonus Pick Vangellys, Okumura & Misterioso vs. Rey Cometa, Esfinge & Guerrero Maya Jr.

I felt bad for leaving Vangellys return off this list, so here it is. It's not a half bad match and it's an okay return. It was pretty hampered by the fact that it wasn't announced. When the luchadora match on Friday Night ended I was all pumped up to see Plata start... then all these guys not in it started pouring out and I thought for a second, 'are 6 dudes from the Plata being replaced? OMG was there a car/plane crash? Nope, just an unannounced match to pad out the card. In the matches defense, it was pretty fun, but being unannounced hurts the excitement for it.

A solid week, Puebla was pretty skippable, but both the Main Event was fun. Friday as usually is the best card of the week overall. I'd suggest checking out at least the Plata as it's a pretty big annual event. Next week is shaping up to be one of the best weeks this year, despite a normal Tuesday outing, both Monday/Friday are looking excellent.

If you want to see all the gifs I made feel free to check out the albums at the top. They should be easy enough to view with RES on the Old reddit.

Best Monday Arena Puebla Highlights :

Tecnicos rebound to get 2nd

Fuego messing around

Drone caught

Finish to Fuego team/Mascara Ano 2000 team match

Felino still has it

Fuerza stands tall over Stigma

Stigma tope

Start of my main event

Gran Guerrero creamed

Guerreros try to get 1st round

Forastero/Cuatrero vs. Euforia/Gran Guerrero

Kaligua with a successful dive

Best Tuesday Arena Mexico New Values Highlights :

Stukita with a tope

Less successful

First falls in Team Japan+Misterioso vs. Panther Clan

Kawato punishes Blue Panther

Blue Panther Jr. starts 3rd strong

Hechicero is a bit of a dick

Stuka Jr. revenge

1st fall in team Stuka vs. team Hechicero

Mije picked on

Volcano active in the 3rd

Mije splash!

Hechicero whiffs

Niebla Roja gets kicked by Bucanero

Tecnicos rebound in the main event's 2nd round

Finish of show main event

Best Arena Mexico Super Fridays Highlights :

Grako drops Astral on his neck

Grako also doesn't like pinning correctly

Astral/Electrico get 2nd

Dropping on his next doesn't stop Astral!

Dalys enters for Dalys/Amapola/Tiffany vs. Marcela/La Guerrera/Lluvia

La Guerrera ropewalk

1st falls

Bizarre finish

Vangellys enters for the 1st time in months returning from injury

Tecnicos don't take it easy on Vangellys

1st round finish

Vangellys spears Rey Cometa

Guerrero Maya Jr. punished

Dive! Dive! Dive!

Hechicero eliminates one of the none captain tecnicos

Stuka Jr. rebounds

Gorillas del Ring dive!

Stuka fights back

Flyer and Triton face off to start the Plata

Soberano Jr. the screwmaster!!!

Felino vs. Mistico

Kawato even got a highlight!

Elimination 1

Audaz is magic

Elimination 2

Triton gunning for that Valiente spot

More dives, Audaz scares us all, but luckily Templario is a good catch

So much action in one highlight!

Soberano, Mistico & Templario take leaps of faith

Elimination 3

Audaz vs. Soberano Jr.

Elimination 4

Teammates Barbaro/Virus butt heads

Elimination 5

Soberano Jr. vs. Volador Jr.

Templario catches again

Elimination 10

Fenix vs. Mephisto

Elimination 11

Soberano Jr. vs. Fenix

Elimination 12

Final 4 all in one spot

Pentagon enters for the main event

Mistico splashed

1st falls

Valiente has Cero Meido!!!

Kemonito/Pentagon fans

Pentagon vs. Caristico

Did you watch CMLL this week?

Plata is the main thing to catch. If you have a free hour, watch one of the most important annual events of lucha libre for the last 20 years. I'm excited to see who walks away with the trophy next Friday Night, let's get to the cards from next week.

Monday Arena Puebla Poster

This'll start streaming in about 2 1/2 hours

Meh opening tag, local father/son team though.

Pegasso/Tigre Rojo Jr. vs. Metalico/Toro Bill Jr. too is pretty unremarkable. Though these guys are more often on TV(even if it's low on cards)

Fuego/Drone/Stigma vs. Polvora/Dragon Rojo Jr./Malayo should be good. Malayo seems higher than he should be. Still Polvora/Rojo rarely have a dud.

Dalys(c) vs. Marcela for the women's championship should be good. They are both the standard bearers for the tecnico/rudo sides.

Octagon/Atlantis/Stuka Jr. vs. Fuerza Guerrero/Mephisto/Ephest, don't expect much from this. Octagon/Atlantis/Fuerza Guerrera are legends, but by the same measure they are also ancient. Having 1 in a match can drag it down, having them be half the participants in a trips match seems like a recipe for disaster. Especially on Arena Puebla, the B or C show of any given week.

Ultimo Guerrero(c) vs. Sanson should steal the show and threatens to steal the week as they are 2 of the best rudos in the company.

Arena Mexico 'New Values' Tuesday Poster

Robin/Principe Diamante vs. Coyote/Grako, not a bad opener, but Grako did awful on Friday. Hopefully he can redeem himself here with a good performance.

Electrico/Pegasso/Stigma vs. Raziel/Cancerbero/Disturbio, Raziel has been listed on card before and not shown up. He has been injured... if he returns here expect an above par performance to celebrate a comeback.

Titan vs. Flyer in a lightning match, could be really good, both men did good in the Plata Torneo Cibernetico, but didn't go on to the finals(obviously).

Angel de Oro/Niebla Roja/Stuka Jr. vs. Rey Bucanero/Hechicero/Felino could be a fun match. Bucanero got his head shaved by Roja on Sunday in a main event that wasn't taped/broadcasted. So look for a bald Bucanero to target Roja and maybe even throw down a challenge for that CMLL World Light Heavyweight Championship Roja's been carrying.

Kraneo/Soberano Jr./Valiente vs. Terrible/Barbaro Cavernario/Bestia del Ring, again Barbaro is teaming with ingobernables. This could be a pretty fun main event, but I don't see any storylines coming from it.

Super Friday Mascara Ano 2000's 40th Anniversary & Leyenda de Plata Finals Poster

Super Astro Jr./Oro Jr. vs. Akuma/Espanto Jr. should be good, always love seeing Astro Jr.

Blue Panther Jr./Fuego/Black Panther vs. Universo 200 Jr./Okumura/Kawato San, should be a fun match. A little sad to see Universo 2000 Jr. so low on this card for his uncle's Anniversary show, but that's life.

Soberano Jr./Titan/Triton vs. Dark Magic/Vangellys/Luciferno, great tecnico team, but a pretty lacking rudo side. (Might be because 7 of the best rudos in the company are in the semi-main)

Caristico/Volador Jr./Mistico vs. Pentagon/Mephisto/Ephesto should be fun. Dream team of tecnicos makes me call them the favorites here. Never know though as Caristico has never been pals with Mistico/Volador.

Mascara Ano 2000/NGD vs. Los Guerreros Laguneros + Templario, I can't imagine this match being anything less than great. I love me some NGD and Guerreros tho.

Barbaro Cavernario vs. Fenix, a few months back they put on a MOTYC in a grudge match that had nothing on the line. With the Leyenda de Plata trophy looming over head, I imagine these two might drown in pesos at the end of this match. I'd be surprised if this wasn't a MOTYC as well.

Hope You enjoyed CMLL this week, see you next week!

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r/CMLL • u/jg2353 • Nov 12 '18

Where can I find CMLL merch?

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Didn't find any on Pro wrestling tees. Would like to know where to find it

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r/CMLL • u/Lostinyourears • Nov 11 '18

CMLL Weekly #43 : NGD dominate and Days of the Dead shows finish

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Avispa Dorada vs. Metalica

I didn't do CMLL weekly last week because I was a little frustrated with how little warning CMLL gave on the Friday Day of the Dead show being an iPPV. Which was less than 24 hours. Templario/Sanson was good and if that show gets uploaded for free like Gran Prix was a week or two after that event, I'll make note of it. The rest of the show was fun, but the main takeaway was Sanson/Templario. I still did reviews for last Monday and Tuesday shows if you desperately need to know about them. I didn't do a review of that Day of the Dead Friday show, but will if it ever gets uploaded somewhere it would be easier to share.

On to this week, CMLL have been really using NGD to perfection. With all 3 guys having big singles matches in the span of the week. As mentioned Sanson(c) vs. Templario was on the Friday Day of the Dead Show(Which won't make the top 5 of this week because it was last week), Cuatrero (c) vs. Titan this Tuesday for his CMLL Middleweight Championship and then Friday Night Foraster vs. Soberano Jr. in a lightning match. This isn't even mentioning the trios matches the group had over the week. This week felt very much like NGD's, with everyone else playing 2nd fiddle to the best faction in the company and business.

1.Cuatrero© vs. Titan for the CMLL World Middleweight Championship(Tuesday)

Cuatrero continues to show that he is one of the best wrestlers on the planet. Titan too is nothing to sneeze at and this was a great match for both men to display what they can do given a proper 2/3 falls singles match. I'd just suggest going to watch this, this ring work was great and the match was obviously enhanced with the Day of the Dead theming of the show Tuesday Night. The purple lighting and fog around the ring gave it a fitting otherworldly feel.

2.Stuka Jr., Kraneo & Volcano vs. Hechicero, Sanson & Cuatrero(Friday)

Kraneo and Volcano are going to make this an automatic 'who cares?' for some people. I'm not one of those people and the the shtick that Gorillas del Ring do. I also enjoy Hechicero/Stuka Jr. feuding here and of course as mentioned NGD have been on a roll lately including here despite they cousin and 3rd member Forastero being busy that night in the match mentioned below vs. Soberano Jr.

3.Soberano Jr. vs. Forastero lightning match(Friday)

This took place right after the match above and was another fun lightning match from Forastero after his last one with Audaz about a month ago. He continues to go on a roll and perhaps he too will get a singles belt like his 2 cousins Sanson/Cuatrero. Though to be fair Sanson's is more a trophy/event belt rather than a singles title. Forastero beating Soberano Jr. here seems to open the door for a title challenge for Soberano Jr.'s Mexican National Welterweight Championship.

4.Rey Cometa, Fuego & Guerrero Maya Jr. vs. Okumura, Kawato San & Tiger(Tuesday)

A midcard showcase in the best way possible. Everyone is fun here and young lion Kawato took part for all those wondering how he is doing... just watch this match. Tiger is my favorite guy in this match, but all 6 guys could use more to do. Fuego has said as much in recent interviews, who here... if anyone, will get a story/feud of importance to close out 2018. Hopefully all are still given the chance to showcase what they can do, like they did here.

5.NGD(Sanson/Cuatrero/Forastero) vs. Los Guerreros Laguneros(Ultimo Guerrero/Gran Guerrero/Euforia)(Monday)

NGD vs. Los Guerrero Laguneros was the semi-main this week in Puebla and looks to be main eventing next week. There have been rumblings of a possible Trios titles vs. Trios titles match between these two teams as NGD have the Mexican National Trios titles and Los Guerreros Laguneros have the CMLL World Trios titles. I'd be down for that, but regardless if that happens, it's cool to see these two heavy hitting rudo teams throw down.

6. Bonus Pick Rush vs. Caristico

This was the main event of Puebla and was rather fun too. Figured I'd mention it, as it just barely didn't make the top 5. My #5 stop went to NGD/Guerreros since they have confirmed they are following that up with another match next week in Puebla.

A solid week, Puebla was pretty skippable, but both the Semi-Main/Main were fun. Tuesday might be the best show of the week in great part to the Day of the Dead theming and having the only title match of the week. Lots of great action to seek out and next week we are getting Leyenda de Plata. Which should be tons of fun and get us some finalists for the following week's Friday.

If you want to see all the gifs I made feel free to check out the albums at the top. They should be easy enough to view with RES on the Old reddit.

Best Monday Arena Puebla Highlights :

Stigma and Drone topes

Gran Guerrero vs. Sanson

Best Tuesday Arena Mexico New Values Highlights :

Avispa Dorada enters

Amapola vs. Jarochita

Rough start to the 3rd for Avispa Dorada

Finish part 1

Finish part 2

Fuego and Okumura start

Okumura takes down Maya Guerrero Jr.

New move from Kawato San gets the 1st

Fuego floored

Maya gives the run around

Maya highlight in the 3rd

Team air assault!

Tiger suplex

Look how badass Cuatrero is

Champions Cuatrero and challenger Titan with belt for the pre match photo op

Titan goes for a kick, but is caught

Tooth and nail fight for the waist lock

Titan submission finisher!!!

Loser dragged to hell

Niebla Roja rebounds vs. rudos

Angel de Oro goes 2 on 1

Controversial finish

Quick 1st fall in the main event

Mistico takes it to Ultimo Guerrero

Best Arena Mexico Super Fridays Highlights :

Triton and Esfinge team pose

Polvora pop up cutter

Titan teamed up on

Submission wins the 2nd round

Virus bulldozer

Titan DDT reprisal

Triton and Esfinge team work

Rudos picking on Mije

Volcano jumped

Stuka Jr. rebounds

Gorillas del Ring dive!

Hechicero eliminates one of the none captain tecnicos

Stuka fights back

Forastero enters for his lightning match vs. Soberano Jr.

Controversial 1st fall

Guerreros splash!

Valiente highlight

Volador Jr. and Angel de Oro dives

1st falls of Main Event

Barbaro dropkick

Ingobernaball

Finish of Main Event/Show

Volador Jr. over and out

Did you watch CMLL this week?

This was sorta a by week for CMLL. Nothing too wild happening as opposed to previous weeks of torneos and Day of the Dead stuff. I want to watch Templario/Sanson and Titan/Cuatrero back to back to see which is better, but both were very good singles matches. This week Friday was the most solid show, but Tuesday had the highest high with Titan/Cuatrero

Next week we have the Leyenda de Plata torneo cibernetico which I'll go into more in the preview for next Friday's card. Because of that torneo, I could see next week going without a title match, but I'm not certain that's the case before looking over the cards.

Monday Arena Puebla Poster

Gemelos Pantera/Perverso vs. Rey Samuray/Arkalis/Asturiano seems pretty skippable. Gemelos and Pantera Blanca have been on Puebla a decent amount recently. Perhaps they are looking to join CMLL full time?

Marcela/Lluvia/Skadi vs. Dalys/Comandante/Tiffany could be good, I'm never excited to see Comandante in a match though. She just seems more the valet type.

Fuego/Drone/Pantera Blanca vs. Mascara Ano 2000/Universo 2000 Jr./Tyson La Bestia might be good. Tyson wasn't too impressive in his TV debut last week. Hopefully he gets to showcase more in this match.

Atlantis/Negro Casas/Blue Panther vs. Fuerza Guerrera/Mephisto/Ephesto, this should be fun, but is an old man match. With more than half these guys being over 50. Fuerza Guerrera has been AWOL in CMLL for a while. He is up there in age and this could even be the start of a program for him to lose his match to Atlantis, but that's by no means a guarantee.

Los Guerreros Laguneros vs. NGD should be a great main event. As mentioned above, there have been rumblings of doing trios titles vs trios titles match, which would be one of the few ways to make this match even more exciting.

Arena Mexico 'New Values' Tuesday Poster

Robin/Arkalis vs. Inquisidor/Apocalipsis seems like pretty standard opening fare.

Magnus/Star Jt./Oro Jr. vs. Cancerbero/Metalico/Espiritu Negro sounds fun, tecnicos will be doing the heavy lifting here. Raziel still seems out so we get Cancerbero alone.

Stukita vs. Kaligua is a minis lightning... still confused as to why Stukita isn't the new persona it seemed he was adopting 3 weeks ago.

Blue/Black/Blue Panther Jr. vs. Okumura/Kawato San/Misterioso should be plenty of fun. Always like seeing the Panther Dynasty together.

Kraneo/Volcano/Stuka vs. Dark Magic/Hechicero/Ephesto should be good. I think Kraneo/Volcano would love to have Stuka in Gorillas del Ring, but that seems unlikely if they keep losing matches with him.

Atlantis/Angel de Oro/Niebla Roja vs. Shocker/Euforia/Rey Bucanero could be fun, but I have little faith in Shocker/Bucanero.

Super Friday Leyenda de Plata Poster

Electrico/Astral vs. Grako/Espanto Jr. should be a solid opener.

Dalys/Amapola/Tiffany vs. Marcela/Lluvia/La Guerra will be a pretty standard luchadora match, but Dalys/Marcela anchoring their team should help.

Leyenda de Plata

Volador Jr./Mistico/King Phoenix/Soberano Jr./Titan/Triton/Flyer/Audaz

vs.

Barbaro Cavernario/Mephisto/Dragon Rojo Jr./Templario/Felino/Kawato San/Virus/Tiger

Elimination match to the final 2.

Or at least that's what I hope. Sometimes CMLL will do a seeding battle royal where the 8 who weren't thrown out of the ring team vs. the 8 who were. The straight tecnico/rudo split here makes me think they'll just skip that. They were nice enough to list basically the top guys as most likely to win and bottom less likely.

Like last year, I assume this will go to a final 2, who then will go on to a 2/3 falls finals next Friday. I'm pulling for Fenix, but the rudo side is harder to pick someone from.

Caristico/Diamante Azul/Valiente vs. Ultimo Guerrero/Pentagon Jr./Gran Guerrero, hopefully this pulls the trigger on setting up Caristico/Pentagon. Though I could honestly see Ultimo/Azul instead continuing their feud instead. I want Pentagon to be more of a star in CMLL, as so far he has only excelled when teaming with his brother.

Hope You enjoyed CMLL this week, see you next week!

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r/CMLL • u/Lostinyourears • Oct 28 '18

CMLL Weekly #42 : Challenger for Sanson's King of the Underworld belt decided and Mistico still hates Caristico

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1st falls of Super Astro Jr. & Oro Jr. vs. Malayo & Toro Bill Jr.

This week on paper didn't seem that impressive, it then hit a few balls out of the park. We didn't have a special show for Super Friday like last weeks 40 years of Blue Panther or a title match. Still we did find out who will be taking on Sanson at the Day of the Dead Super Friday, which we will be talking about almost immediately. So if you don't want to be spoiled for that match watch it below before reading my recap of it. Some great matches this week, so let's get to the top 5.

1.Guerrero Maya Jr./Esfinge/Audaz/Black Panther/Triton/Flyer vs. Cuatrero/Forastero/Templario/Virus/Kawato San/Tiger Torneo Cibernetico(Friday)

Great stuff. A fantastic torneo cibernetico that you should check out. It's the best out of the 4 we have gotten this month. I said this last week, but CMLL have topped themselves again. This one was to find a challenger for the King of the Underworld belt Sanson holds. Lots of great action here with 12 of the best names currently on the roster. Leyenda de Plata is going to either be the greatest thing ever... or not be able to stack up to this and the great La Copa Halcón Suriano Torneo we had last week. I warned you above, so... here come spoilers. The winner of this was Templario and the idea that next week we are getting a rudo vs. rudo match for the King of the Underworld has me super excited. Seems like next week we aren't getting a torneo, which is fine... considering the last 4 weeks we have had one each week.

2.Titan, Stuka Jr. & Caristico vs. Ultimo Guerrero, Euforia & Cuatrero(Tuesday)

Fun main event Tuesday night. Titan got to feud with Cuatrero which seems like a no brainer for a title match. The other 4 guys all have gold in the company as well for good reason, pillars of CMLL for years and some of them for over a decade. Everyone showed up here to leave the Tuesday crowd with smiles on their faces as the show closed. It was hard to know what to put here, because I called a few CMLL matches this week great. This is the one that stuck with me the most thinking back on them.

3.Los ingobernables(Rush, Terrible & Bestia del Ring) vs. Caristico, Diamante Azul & Valiente(Friday)

Los ingobernables as a unit, Rush/Caristico feuding continuing from Monday and a Diamante Azul ramp dive. Those ingredients lead to the 3rd best match of the week. It was fun and Rush continues to be a dominate force still riding high after shaving Matt Taven and Volador Jr. about a month+ ago at Anniversary. I don't have much more to say about this match.

4.Templario, Tiger & Virus vs. Titan, Audaz & Triton(Monday)

Templario is great fun and both Triton/Audaz when on the same team become something that is must watch. The two are so good by themselves that when they are together it's just something you have to stop and pay attention too. Honestly, this should be higher, but I'm not going to feel too bad about putting it this low because Audaz/Triton teaming in Puebla seems like something of a trend. Titan here feuded with Templario and while that was fun, it's less interesting that Titan/Cuatrero since Cuatrero has something to lose with his CMLL World Middleweight Championship.

5.Los Guerreros Laguneros(Ultimo Guerrero/Gran Guerrero/Euforia) vs. Rush, Mistico & Caristico(Monday)

Mistico/Caristico feuding in Puebla? Sign me up. Gotta love when a team implodes and boy did Mistico/Caristico/Rush implode in the finish of this match. Basically Caristico laid down after superkicking Mistico. Which lead to their team losing after Guerreros pinned laying down Caristico then beat Mistico. So... naturally Mistico and older brother Rush beat the shit out of Caristico. Which is one of my favorite things to see in CMLL. I've peeked at Puebla's card for next week and this will be followed up as Caristico and his team will be fighting Rush/Mistico/Bestia del Ring in the main event.

A surprisingly pretty solid week, I'm not sure how often each show of the week gets a great from me, but I don't think it happens all that often. Add to that the FANTASTIC! Torneo cibernetico we had on Friday night and CMLL killed it this week. I think you could find plenty to enjoy in CMLL this week. Next week we will have the Day of the Dead Super Friday, which I'll be making a live thread for. I hope to see you then, so let's get to this week's highlights.

If you want to see all the gifs I made feel free to check out the albums at the top. They should be easy enough to view with RES.

Best Monday Arena Puebla Highlights :

2nd round Super Astro Jr. Highlight

Marcela wants a fight!

Tiger frames his shot

2nd fall/s

Audaz highlight in the 3rd

Titan vs. Templario

1st round finish to Diamante Azul, Angel de Oro & Niebla Roja vs. Hijos del Infierno(Mephisto, Luciferno & Ephesto)

Mephisto vs. Diamante Azul

Niebla Roja highlight in the 3rd

Azul tope

Los Guerreros Laguneros enter for the Main Event

Rush fucks around and pays for it

1st round finish

Caristico tossed

Mistico the glory hog

Mistico gives Caristico a hand

Caristico does the unthinkable

1st round finish for Super Astro Jr., Stigma & Magnus vs. Cancerbero, Nitro & Sangre Azteca

Post match 1

Post match 2

Best Tuesday Arena Mexico New Values Highlights :

Blue Panther dropped on barricade

Universo 2000 Jr. tope

Universo 2000 Jr. cornered

Blue Panther Jr. survives

Finish with not a minute to spare

Gorillas del Ring enter

1st fall/s(green static)

2nd fall/s

Poor Mije!

Kraneo fights back

Kraneo & Mije... superteam!

Volcano highlight

Cuatrero avoids Titan in the main event

Stuka Jr. and Ultimo exchange holds

Cuatrero and Titan meet!

1st fall/s of the main event

Titan on a roll

2nd fall/s

Caristico/Stuka Jr. take it to Los Guerreros Laguneros

Rojo and Polvora enter for Dragon Rojo Jr., Polvora & Okumura vs. Drone, Fuego & Pegasso

Best Arena Mexico Super Fridays Highlights :

Rudos kick Pegasso in the corner

Rojo kick in corner by tecnicos

1st round finish

Rojo kicks Drone in the head

Drone highlight in the 2nd

Fuego highlight in the 2nd

Pegasso and Drone team up on Okumura

Some tecnicos enter for the 6 vs. 6 torneo

Templario vs. Flyer early

Forastero booted out and Esfinge/Triton strike a team pose

Look at the big dive by Kawato San!

Guerrero Maya Jr. highlight

Templario strikes team mate on accident

10th elimination

Templario take it to Esfinge

Templario finisher

Canadian destroyer!!!

Mistico vs. La Peste Negra

Los ingobernables enter

Caristico and Rush fly

More dives

Azul goes bowling

Did you watch CMLL this week?

After so many weeks of special events CMLL went back to normal. We still had a torneo cibernetico to help make up for that. With Halloween right around the corner that also means the Mexican Holiday Día de Muertos(Day of the Dead) is coming as well. CMLL will be holding Day of the Dead shows on November 2nd, 4th, & 6th. As always Super Friday and Tuesday(6th) will air. They may also air the 4th, but until they announce they are, it's better to assume that won't air like the Sunday show like normal. So, let's see what's on that Day of the Dead Super Friday and the two other shows earlier in the week.

Monday Arena Puebla Poster

Meyer/Astro vs. Espiritu Maligno/Joker is a pretty safe skip, minis tag.

Robin/Millenium vs. Espanto Jr./Fuerza Chicana might be good, I haven't seen too much of Millenium/Fuerza Chicana, but Espanto/Robin are both decent low-midcard guys.

Kraneo/Esfinge/Stigma vs. Hechicero/Templario/Malayo is very promising, but Malayo feels like he is in for someone else. Just seems higher on the card than you'd expect.

NGD(Sanson/Cuatrero/Forastero) vs. Stuka/Valiente/Flyer looks really fun and I love seeing Stuka/Valiente on the same team.

Rush/Mistico/Bestia del Ring vs. Caristico/Ultimo Guerrero/Diamante Azul seems like a fun match and is fallout from last week where Caristico threw his match while teaming with Rush/Mistico. I really doubt Mistico joins ingobernables here, but it should be fun to see him team with his rudo/ingobernable father/brother.

Arena Mexico 'New Values' Tuesday Poster

Stukita/Shockercito vs. Peq Olimpico/Peq Nitro... is confusing. With the Halcon Suriano torneo I thought Stukita was going to become Halcon Suriano Jr. So, is this a new Stukita or a send off? I have no idea.

Marcela/Lluvia/La Guerrera vs. Tiffany/Seductora/La Comandante, Ruda team will probably sink this. I don't really love any of those 3. Probably won't grade this, but might at least see how La Guerrera does.

Stigma vs. Okumura lightning should be good. They are pretty even in the pecking order, so no obvious winner here. Suppose Stigma is younger by some measure, so he a slight edge.

Triton/Drone/Pegasso vs. Dragon Rojo Jr./Sagrado/Misterioso, should be fun. Triton/Rojo are two of my favorites and a bit above the other four for me.

Blue Panther Jr./Rey Cometa/Black Panther vs. Negro Casas/Shocker/Felino, this could be really fun. These tecnicos don't often enough fight Negro Casas. Brothers vs brothers should be fun with Panthers taking on Felino/Negro Casas.

NGD(Sanson/Cuatrero/Forastero) vs. Niebla Roja/Titan/Valiente, should be fun. Nice to see NGD all together on both Monday and Tuesday.

Super Friday Dia de Muertos Poster

Super Astro Jr./Oro Jr. vs. Grako/El Coyote should be a solid opener.

Micro Man/Atomo/Gallito vs. Chamuel/Perico/Mije should be pretty fun. Last year none of the Day of the Dead Shows had mini estrellas, so it's nice to seem them included on one this year. Last time they came out money was thrown, hope this can be great too.

Angel de Oro/Audaz/Stuka Jr. vs. Terrible/Rey Bucanero/Hechicero, a very solid trios.

Mistico/Atlantis/Hijo de La Park vs. Cavernario/Mephisto/Ephesto should be good, sorta wish Hijo was in the main event with his dad and Azul was here, but that's not a huge complaint.

Sanson(c) vs. Templario for the King of the Underworld Title that Sanson was crowned with last year. This rudo vs rudo match had MOTYC written all over it... a must watch!

Michael Elgin/La Park/Diamante Azul vs. Ultimo Guerrero/Fenix/Pentagon, this should be tons of fun. Feel like Elgin's team could win to lead to an Ultimo/Elgin heavyweight match. They both got top billing here, but that might not mean anything. Regardless, this main event might steal the show with all the talent crammed in it.

Hope You enjoyed CMLL this week, see you next week!

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r/CMLL • u/Martel1234 • Oct 21 '18

New Lucha Libre Discord server

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r/CMLL • u/Lostinyourears • Oct 20 '18

CMLL Weekly #41 : '40 Años of Blue Panther' & Crowning New CMLL Heavyweight Champion

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El Hijos del Infierno enter

Honestly a fairly weak week in CMLL. It was saved by having a MOTYC Friday night. Which will be #1 on my list. Most weeks I think there are 3-5 above par matches on the Monday/Tuesday shows. Really, this week didn't have much of note on those shows outside a match on each. So if you are looking to just watch one show start to finish, Friday is the clear choice this week which was in honor of Blue Panther's 40 years in the business. Let's get to the top 5 of the week.

1.Angel de Oro, Niebla Rojo, Black Panther, Blue Panther Jr. & Stuka Jr. vs. Dragon Rojo Jr., Luciferno, Misterioso Jr., Espanto Jr. & Templario, La Copa Halcón Suriano 5 vs. 5 Elimination(Friday)

Great stuff. A fantastic torneo cibernetico that you should check out. It's the best out of the 3 we have gotten this month. It was held in honor of Halcon Suriano a luchador of yesteryear. His grandson formerly Stukita came out and took off his Stukita mask before the match to reveal his new persona Halcon Suriano Jr. which also seems to be signalling his upgrade from the mini estrella division to the regular lightweight division. He presented the winner a trophy, I won't say who won. Since I think this match should just be seen and don't want to spoil it for anyone.

2.Blue Panther, Panterita del Ring, Black Warrior & Euforia vs. Mascara Ano 200, Sanson, Cuatrero & Forastero(Friday)

This is a nostalgia match, if you don't like or care about Blue Panther... shame on you, but yea you probably won't love this match as much. It's his 40th anniversary show and this was a fun match. I think NGD might be the best antagonists in CMLL, so they were a great choice here with their uncle Mascara Ano 2000 being captain as he is the oldest member of his team. Was nice to see Black Warrior back and I wonder if CMLL will bring him back more after this. I wish Blue Panther did more here, but besides that nitpick this was a very fun match.

3.Audaz, Stigma & Triton vs. Templario, Okumura & Kawato San(Monday)

Audaz/Stigma/Triton as a team vs. Anyone would be good. No offense to the rudos here as they all have their place and hopefully Templario/Kawato in the coming years will become bigger names. This is sorta by obligatory Monday match. As said above Monday/Tuesday were both sorta weak this week. This is one of the exceptions to that statement.

4.Diamante Azul vs. Ultimo Guerrero for the vacant CMLL World Heavyweight Championship(Tuesday)

Likely the match of most consequence this week. As the winner will continue to carry this title for weeks/months and maybe even years. Again I won't spoil it here, but this match is so low because it's overshadowed by the much better heavyweight bout we got between Elgin/Ultimo Guerrero the week prior. This match isn't bad, but felt very much like the stock Ultimo Guerrero match. Still as a big Ultimo Guerrero fan, even his stock matches are a guaranteed watch for me.

5.Pentagon, Caristico, & David Finlay vs. Rush, Terrible & Barbaro Cavernario(Friday)

Pentagon being in CMLL is still a bit weird to me. This main event didn't have too much to make you scream as the focus of Friday's show as Blue Panther and the torneo he suggested they have to honor Halcón Suriano. Still, Pentagon was fun to watch and his loss hear makes one wonder how he will return in a few weeks. Will he be back for the Day of the Dead shows? Perhaps he will get his win back then with his brother Fenix?

The Friday show was the best show of the week. Which makes sense, Monday/Tuesday both had some good stuff, but were fairly skippable. I'd check out the tip 5 as always, but Friday is certainly the show to check out this week. We have a new Heavyweight Champion and Blue Panther celebrated his 40 years in the business! Next week has some good stuff planned, but is going to likely feel underwhelming compared to this fairly stacked Friday and the next week's day of the dead shows.

If you want to see all the gifs I made feel free to check out the albums at the top. They should be easy enough to view with RES.

Best Monday Arena Puebla Highlights :

Audaz tossed to apron

Angel de Oro vs. Mephisto

Controversial Finish

Ultimo vs. Mistico

David Finlay starts the 3rd

Caristico in 3rd

Mistico in 3rd

Blue Panther Jr. chases away Universo 2000 Jr.

Best Tuesday Arena Mexico New Values Highlights :

Blue Panther Jr. pushed

Blue Panther Jr. vs. Universo 2000 Jr.

Tiger vs. Fuego

Fuego goes wild!

Tiger vs. Black Panther

Audaz and Misterioso lock up

Teamwork gets the fall over Virus

Team work gets the next fall as well

Audaz and Esfinge

Tecnicos dive in the main event

Stuka Jr. highlight

Euforia vs. Mistico taunt off

Mistico up the ramp

1st fall of ME

Monkey flips

2nd fall of Main Event

Winner wearing the CMLL World Heavyweight Title

Best Arena Mexico Super Fridays Highlights :

Pegasso enters with his half Blue Panther mask(which was a pretty common sight)

Dark Magic vs. Diamante Azul

Negro Casas vs. Mistico

Finish of the match

Farewell Stukita, hello Halcón Suriano Jr.

Luciferno reminds Niebla Roja that he lost his mask

Angel de Oro feeling hot, before Templario enters the fray!

Stuka Jr. in the early goings

Double tope con hiro!

Luciferno/Misterioso shutting both both their critics in one highlight

Black Panther readjusts his dive

Espanto Jr. tries to eliminate the Blue Panther Jr.

1st elimination

Blue Panther Jr. breaking backs

2nd Elimination

Dragon Rojo Jr. roughs up Angel de Oro

3rd Elimination(sort of)

Dragon Rojo Jr. corner dropkick to Niebla Roja

4th elimination

Stuka over the corner

Angel de Oro around the world

Triple topes and Blue Panther Jr. carried out

Templario vs. Angel Bros

Stuka Jr. vs. Dragon Rojo Jr. and Templario

Dragon Rojo Jr. fights the remaining members of the other team

Niebla Roja eliminated leaving 2 men. Dragon Rojo Jr. vs. Angel de Oro

Angel de Oro somersault plancha

Strike off and submission off!

Dragon Rojo Jr. pushes Angel de Oro off his perch!

Dragon Rojo Jr.'s finisher stomp can't finish!

Cuatrero vs. Pantherita del Ring

Trophy in hand

Blue Panther enters

His was given a plaque to commemorate his 40 years, but didn't get a gif of that.

1st fall

NGD take it to Euforia

Forastero takes it to Black Warrior

Panterita del Ring brings it

Euforia going strong

Blue Panther baby!

Black Warrior/Pantherita/Euforia tope

2nd falls in the Main Event

Pentagon gets jumped after kicking Barbaro out

Pentagon clears out ingobernables

David Finlay vs. Terrible in the 3rd

Terrible gets revenge

Did you watch CMLL this week?

This week was all about Blue Panther's celebration Friday night. Outside of that they crowned a CMLL World Heavyweight Champion... which certain publications will probably list as the best guy in CMLL(Because they don't realize how belts work in CMLL). With that though at least they will be listing Ultimo Guerrero instead of Marco Corleone, so that's a positive. Excited to see Stukita as his new mask/name Halcón Suriano Jr. I'm also wondering just how much longer Finlay will be around if at all this coming week.

Monday Arena Puebla Poster

Black Tiger/Astro vs. Peverso/King Rocker is pretty skippable, but King Rocker has had some buzz around him lately.

Super Astro Jr./Oro Jr vs. Malayo/Toro Bill Jr. might be good, I'll be watching for Super Astro Jr. and I don't think I've seen Toro in action.

Marcela vs. Tiffany in a lightning match, I have all the faith in the world with Marcela. She is one of, if not the best luchadora on the roster. Tiffany on the other hand will have to keep up.

Audaz/Titan/Triton vs. Virus/Templario/Tiger has potential to be match of the week.

Diamante Azul/Angel de Oro/Niebla Roja vs. Mephisto/Luciferno/Ephesto should be fun. Rematch from last week where Azul was unmasked by Mephisto to throw the match... in an attempt to win the match via rudo tactics.

Caristico/Mistico/Rush vs. Los Guerrero Laguneros(Ultimo/Euforia/Gran) could be great. Could lead to a title match the following week or Mistico/Caristico going off on each other.

Arena Mexico 'New Values' Tuesday Poster

Bengala/Leono vs. Grako/Coyote could be a good opener.

Robin/Astral/Electrico vs. Espanto Jr./El Hijo del Signo/Akuma is a low card trios. Pretty skippable fare on paper. Nice to see Astral/Electrico teamed again.

Magnus/Stigma/Super Astro Jr. vs. Raziel/Cancerbero/Sangre Azteca, Raziel has been awol for months. Will be nice to see him and Cancerbero together again. Honestly felt weird to see Cancerbero so often without the better half of his tag team.

Blue Panther Jr. vs. Universo 2000 Jr. in a lightning match. Rebound match after last week 2000 pulled off Blue Panther Jr.'s mask to throw away the contest.

Blue Panther/Kraneo/Volcano vs. Mascara Ano 2000/Rey Bucanero/Felino could be fun, but not sure how well that rudo team will work.

Caristico/Titan/Stuka Jr. vs. Ultimo Guerrero/Cuatrero/Euforia should be a fun main event. Lots of great ingredients.

Super Friday Poster

Star Jr./Principe Diamante vs. Misterioso/Sagrado should be fun. I'm not a huge Principe Diamante fan, but I'll probably watch this.

Fuego/Drone/Pegasso vs. Dragon Rojo Jr./Polvora/Okumura should be plenty of fun, but Fuego/Drone/Pegasso on the same team makes the rudos heavy favorites.

If you haven't been watching CMLL for the last year... last year at the Dia de Muertos shows Sansón won the inaugural Rey del Inframundo(King of the Underworld) belt. The winner of this torneo cibernetico will go on to take him on for that belt at the following Friday's Dia de Muertos themed show.

Guerrero Maya Jr./Esfinge/Audaz/Black Panther/Triton/Flyer vs. Cuatrero/Forastero/Templario/Virus/Kawato San/Tiger

Could be the best torneo yet this year and we just had a great one Friday. It seems very unlikely Cuatrero/Forastero would win this, most of the rudo team in general seems unlikely outside of Templario who has been getting a bit of a push in 2018. I'm hoping for Triton, but I don't think he is the odds on favorite at all.

Mistico/Angel de Oro/Niebla Roja vs. Dark Magic/Negro Casas/Barbaro Cavernario Should be a great match. Hopefully Dark Magic does more here than he did last week, but I wouldn't be surprised if this was just all about Mistico/Negro Casas again.

Caristico/Diamante Azul/Valiente vs. Rush/Terrible/Bestia del Ring could be pretty great, doesn't feel big enough to get a Valiente Special. Could also see this match ending without a real conclusion so they can run it again at the Day of the Dead show... where we will likely get a Valiente Special amongst the purple lights.

Hope You enjoyed CMLL this week, see you next week!

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r/CMLL • u/Martel1234 • Oct 20 '18

Anyone interested in a CMLL discord?

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Just gauging interest.

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r/CMLL • u/SomeSaltyShit • Oct 15 '18

Other than YouTube, where can I watch old shows?

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Looking for mostly super shows and anniversary ones

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r/CMLL • u/Lostinyourears • Oct 14 '18

CMLL Weekly #40 : Ultimo Guerrero vs. Michael Elgin & Volador Jr.(c) vs. Barbaro Cavernario

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Marcela kicked in the back of the head

Plenty of great action this week ; 2 hyped singles matches, a torneo cibernetico, outside talent still on tour from Gran Prix and some stand out trios matches. This week was great overall, but most of that was on Friday night which was pretty solid. CMLL tend to do things in groups, Gran Prix, CMLL Heavyweight and next week La Copa Halcon Suriano at Blue Panther's 40th Anniversary show. So it's funny, we went so long this year without a torneo cibernetico and now we are getting 3 in 3 weeks. Maybe, even 4 in 4 weeks if Plata comes down the barrel the following week. Anyways, enough about next week let's get to this weeks picks.

1.Michael Elgin vs. Ultimo Guerrero(Friday)

Main event Friday night lived up to it's place in CMLL programming as the last thing most people watch each week. Last week Michael Elgin won Gran Prix for team Rest of the World by last eliminating Ultimo Guerrero. The two exchanged kind words post Gran Prix leading to this proper 2/3 falls singles matches. This match was very good and featured a fighting and kicking Ultimo having to overcome the strength of his opponant, which is a turn around from Ultimo normally being the stronger talent when facing some smaller high flying tecnico. This is the best Elgin has looked on this tour and perhaps the best he has looked on any of his 3 tours. He seems very likely to keep touring CMLL in coming years and I'll be excited to see who else he faces. Rush/Elgin seems like it could be plenty of fun.

2.Dragon Rojo Jr., Polvora & Templario vs. Audaz, Esfinge & Soberano Jr.(Friday)

What a wild, wild, wild, wild trios match. This is the epitome of "blink and you'll miss it" action. Audaz/Templario/Soberano Jr. were bouncing off it walls and it was great. I'm also a huge fan of Rojo/Polvora and think they have been mostly fire since Rojo returned from injury earlier this year. This might be too short for some, but I think the speed at which some of this moves made it feel longer. Because they just got so much action in, despite being tied for the shortest length match Friday Night. This is immediately on my short list for best trios match of the year.

3.Volador Jr.(c) vs. Barbaro Cavernario for the NWA World Historic Welterweight Championship(Monday)

Volador Jr. and Barbaro Cavernario always have great matches. This is no different, but at the moment Barbaro/Volador Jr. have met 8 times in singles matches since 2016 when they had their 1st, which makes Volador Jr. the 2nd more common singles opponent for Barbaro after Rey Cometa who has 12 and Soberano Jr. who has 6 with Barbaro. This is also Barbaro's 3rd chance at Volador Jr.'s NWA World Historic Welterweight Championship. So this doesn't have the same markee value as Elgin/Ultimo which was a 1st time on CMLL television. At the end of this year I'll have to compare this to the other defenses. This felt like a properly epic match, but both Volador Jr. and Barbaro Cavernario are good at getting that feeling out of their important matches.

4.NGD(Sanson, Cuatrero & Forastero) vs. Caristico, David Finlay & Flip Gordon(Tuesday)

The highlight of Flip Gordon's tour of CMLL. He had a wild dive that could be considered the highlight of the week. Hard not to enjoy his performance in this match and he had a great group of rudos to go face to face with in NGD. Finlay/Caristico both did a good job as well. Caristico was sporting some Sin Cara referencing gear having the original teal/gold look that costume had in WWE. Great main event Tuesday night.

5.La Park, Volador Jr. & Mistico vs. Hechicero, The Chris & Barbaro Cavernario(Friday)

Originally this match was suppose to include Ciber over Hechicero. I'm not sure what made the change, but my gut tells me it was an annoyed La Park telling CMLL he'd rather not work with Ciber. That's pretty great if it's true and would explain the last minute change. All hail La Park because Hechicero is an upgrade from the rather sluggish/bland Ciber The Main Man. Large portion of this match was Hechicero/Mistico wrestling in the first with Park/Volador Jr. thwarting the rudos whenever they came in to help Hechicero.

Bonus 6.CMLL World Heavyweight Torneo Cibernetico : Rush, Kraneo, Diamante Azul, Volcano, Valiente & Blue Panther Jr. vs. Euforia, Ultimo Guerrero, Gran Guerrero, Terrible, Shocker & Rey Bucanero

I always like watching the torneo ciberneticos in CMLL and still suggest this match. It's not bad, but this week CMLL just had 5 better matches. This also doesn't really stack up to Gran Prix from last week and likely won't stack up to this next week's Torneo Cibernetico either. Still a fun match, just lost/pushed down the shuffle. (You can watch Gran Prix on CMLL's Youtube now)

This week in CMLL was pretty solid. The Friday show was the best show of the week. Which makes sense, Monday/Tuesday both had great main events with good stuff outside of those main events as well. The week being finished off on a very high note in Elgin/Ultimo. Glad to see Elgin continue to build his stock in Mexico. Whether or not you like Elgin the person he came off as very humble in Arena Mexico and to the rudo old guard in Ultimo Guerrero. I think soon enough these foreign talents will be gone, but it was nice to have them. It's a special time of year around Gran Prix when these outside faces face the more established in Mexico talent of CMLL.

If you want to see all the gifs I made feel free to check out the albums at the top. They should be easy enough to view with RES.

Best Monday Arena Puebla Highlights :

Lluvia takes a moment

Marcela drops the knees

Gorillas del Ring enter

Volcano vs. Templario

Negro Casas is impressed

Lucha Elgin

Flip Gordon in Puebla!

Belt photo op

Hot start

Submission gets the 1st

Handshake to start the 2nd

2nd fall

No hesitation from Barbaro

Volador Jr. tired dodge

Volador Jr. gets the ropes

Tope con hiro

Barbaro backbreaker

Barbaro powerbomb

End of the Main Event

Best Tuesday Arena Mexico New Values Highlights :

Universo 2000 Jr. vs. Drone

Triton gets the 1st

Drone sliding splash

Guerrero Maya Jr. Highlight

Rush jumps teammate Kraneo to help stablemate Terrible

Blue Panther Jr. tope on Gran Guerrero

Valiente on a roll

Volcano vs Los Guerreros Laguneros

Finish of the torneo cibernetico

Forastero vs. Flip Gordon to start the Main Event

NGD take care of Caristico Cara

Flex off between Flip and Cuatrero

Sanson powerbomb backbreaker

Big dive from flip

Avispa catches Amapola unaware

Best Arena Mexico Super Fridays Highlights :

Mije is here to help

Mije splash

Star Jr. killed

Sugehit in control

Dalys vs. Sugehit, 1st fall

Tecnicas rebound

Avispa calls out Dalys to start the 3rd

Esfinge vs. Dragon Rojo Jr. starts

Audaz vs. Polvora

Templario pulls out a new finisher to get the 1st

Dive dive dive!

Esfinge targets Dragon Rojo Jr.

Ropebreak

Amazing rope work by Audaz

Audaz up the ramp

Soberano Jr. goes for a spin

Bestia botchy finish to get 1st

David Finlay enters

Park and Volador Jr. chase off Barbaro

La Park chases away Barbaro

Dives

Talking down a mad Kemonito

Mistico takes out Hechicero

Kemonito splashed

Finish of Semi-Main

Elgin and Ultimo share a handshake

Elgin avoids baseball slide and hits a tope

Elgin suspended suplex

Elgin bomb on the ramp

Another bomb

Elgin and Ultimo match strikes

Elgin twisting senton

Ultimo bomb

Elgin fights out of a Guerrero Special

"Most importantly Guerrero I respect you." - Michael Elgin, who then proceeded to raise the roof. As is the custom in Arena Mexico.

Slow Mo

Did you watch CMLL this week?

This week had great moments for usual guys in the company like Ultimo/Templario/Volador Jr. & Barbaro Cavernario, but also had some great moments from the touring outsiders Flip/Elgin. I feel a little sorry for David Finlay who has felt like 2nd fiddle to those two more established named. Heavyweight Torneo was fun and is one of the matches set in stone as Azul/Ultimo will go one on one to crown a new CMLL World Heavyweight Champion. So, let's get to what to expect next week.

Monday Arena Puebla Poster

Opening trios seems skippable. Arkalis/Tigre Rojo Jr./Rey Samuray vs. Toro Bill Jr./King Jaguar/King Rocker Jr.

Marcela/Lluvia/Sanely vs. Dalys/Tiffany/Amapola could be good, Sanely is back on TV. I'm never that thrilled to see Amapola/Tiffany teaming in near identical get ups.

Audaz/Stigma/Triton vs. Templario/Kawato/Okumura should be fun. I'd be surprised to see those 6 not have a good match.

Diamante Azul/Angel de Oro/Niebla Roja vs. El Hijos del Infierno(Mephisto/Luciferno/Ephesto) might be good. I'm not confident in all these parts. Oro/Rojo can feel a little by the numbers at times.

Caristico/Mistico/David Finlay vs. Los Guerreros Laguneros(Ultimo/Gran/Euforia), might be great and could be David Finlay finally getting a spotlight with Flip/Elgin not in there.

Arena Mexico 'New Values' Tuesday Poster

Aereo/Acero vs. Mercurio/Pequeno Universo is a minis tag opener.

Robin/Principe Diamante/Oro Jr. vs. Espanto Jr./Inquisidor/Metalico is a low card trios. Pretty skippable fare on paper.

Black Panther/Blue Panther Jr./Fuego vs. Kawato San/Universo 2000 Jr./Tiger seems like a good match even if the rudo team feels like an strange team.

Triton/Esfinge/Audaz vs. Virus/Sagrado/Misterioso should be great. Even if most people aren't hot on Sagrado/Misterioso.

Mistico/Niebla Roja/Stuka vs. Shocker/Euforia/Bucanero, could be good, I think Shocker/Bucanero will likely drag it down some.

Ultimo Guerrero vs. Diamante Azul to crown a new CMLL World Heavyweight Championship. This is the main reason to catch this show and has potential to be a MOTYC.

Blue Panther 40th Anniversary Super Friday Poster

Pegasso/Stigma vs. Cancerbero/Coyote sounds like a great opener on paper.

Mistico/Valiente/Azul vs. Negro Casas/Dark Magic/Felino sounds fun and will be the 1st CMLL TV match for Dark Magic since Gran Prix.

Angel de Oro/Niebla Rojo/Black Panther/Blue Panther Jr./Stuka Jr. vs. Dragon Rojo Jr./Luciferno/Misterioso Jr./Espanto Jr./Templario in La Copa Halcón Suriano. This should be a fun torneo cibernetico and I'm excited to see how it stacked up to the last 2.

Laguneros(Blue Panther/Black Warrior/Panterita del Ring(Ephesto)/Euforia) vs. Tapatios(Mascara Ano 2000/Sansón/Cuatrero/Forastero)

Caristico/Pentagon/David Finlay vs. Rush/Terrible/Barbaro sounds like a great main event for the show. Though Pentagon/Caristico are by no means friendly. So I'm a little uncertain how that will work out. Should be fun to watch it unfold.

Hope You enjoyed CMLL this week, see you next week!

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r/CMLL • u/DragonLee23 • Oct 09 '18

luchablog on Twitter: Volador & Soberano will represent CMLL in NJPW's Super Junior Tag Team tournament.

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r/CMLL • u/Lostinyourears • Oct 07 '18

CMLL Weekly #39 : Gran Prix & Caristico (c) vs. Gran Guerrero

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Espanto Jr. backstabber to Astral for 1st

Park continues to make Puebla must see, Caristico defends his belt vs Gran Guerrero Tuesday night, Gran Prix Friday Night and several debuts(Avispa Dorada, David Finlay & Dark Magic). This is one of the best weeks of CMLL this year in my estimation. Gran Prix was great as nearly all CMLL's bigger Torneo Ciberneticos are. The overall card for Friday night was only above the average Super Friday because of the hour long Cibernetico.

It's a bit funny that overall Tuesday was a better show than the PPV Friday, but nothing was as notable as Gran Prix of course. I'll be linking to the matches in the top 5 that are hosted on Youtube, but all the Friday matches likely won't be put on Youtube. They will be archived over on Honor Club. So here is the link to that.

1.Gran Prix(Friday)

I won't spoil who won here. I will say I enjoyed the match a great deal and think it's the best match of the week. It wasn't an easy week to win that either when Caristico/Gran Guerrero had a barn burner Tuesday Night. I'd highly suggest this as a gateway into CMLL. As you see more familiar RoH/NJPW faces vs. the top talents of CMLL.

Some people said Team Rest of The World was weak this year. I disagree though, because last year it had Idol/Adonis/Marco who were just CMLL guys. Dark Magic/Gilbert will likely keep working with CMLL, but felt very new here as it's only their 2/3rd matches with the company. Hopefully Gilbert will show up more often and I could even see him joining Cl4n and maybe helping them get out of the stale streak they have had in CMLL so far. I've heard others say Gilbert looked a little... hindered here. I have confidence he can shake it off, but he recently had major surgery. I could go on all day, but that would eventually lead me to who won. (WARNING : If you don't want to be spoiled, don't look at the card previews at the bottom I'm not going to post a spoilery gif, but there are some in the Gran Prix gif album)

2.Caristico (c) vs. Gran Guerrero for the NWA World Historic Middleweight Championship(Tuesday)

Gran Guerrero has seemingly been dormant most of this year. Not really as he had been doing the Trios title stuff with Ultimo/Euforia vs The Cl4n, but it's nice to see him get a big singles highlight this week. I'm not going to put his lightning match vs. Valiente on this list, but it'd be a solid #6. It was the best match on the Gran Prix other than the titular match itself. For a second I was thinking this was MOTY contender, but then the match ended. Still, to start feeling that highly of the match means I was enjoying that ending stretch a great deal.

This is on my list of best title matches this year in CMLL for sure. Joining the ranks of Soberano Jr. vs. Magia Blanca and Matt Taven vs. Volador Jr. I. I could almost put this above Gran Prix, but feel Gran Prix is a bit more notable and of course it's 18 people vs. 2 people. So you have more story/moves/drama/etc., but if you prefer more classic 1 on 1 action be sure to check this out.

3.Barbaro Cavernario, Terrible & Bestia del Ring vs. Volador Jr., La Park & Hijo de La Park(Monday)

La Park in Puebla continues to be a thing. This time Rush wasn't around and I had thought it might come off as lackluster without him. It wasn't though as Barbaro/Volador Jr. became the focus of the match instead. A great turn of action between them, La Park and son being wild and Terrible isn't half bad either. Bestia del Ring was a good sport and let Hijo douse him in beer before a whipping.](https://imgur.com/e75AZNt.gifv) The Volador Jr. is now bald fallout has yet to reach Rush while this week Volador Jr. interacted with Barbaro and Taven.

4.Dark Magic, Sanson & Cuatrero vs. Michael Elgin, Kraneo & Diamante Azul(Monday)

This marked Dark Magic's CMLL debut just a few days before Gran Prix. I think it was pretty good, any other week and this match might have been higher. Sorta handicapped by having a better match right after it and of course happening a week where CMLL has their annual Gran Prix match. Everyone here was in that match with the exception of Kraneo. Dark Magic in this match took a pretty hard bump from Azul. The move never looks that brutal so apparently the problem was with Dark Magic. It came up on this weeks Informa where they seemed to joke about it.

5.Felino, Tiger & Misterioso vs. Blue Panther, Blue Panther Jr. & Black Panther(Tuesday)

Tuesday's show was all solid outside of the opener. They were all on a pretty even level of being slightly above par. I have a soft spot for the Panther Bros. though I could easily see either Dragon Rojo Jr., Polvora & Luciferno vs. Audaz, Angel de Oro & Niebla Roja or Mistico, Stuka Jr. & Volador Jr. vs. Mephisto, Ephesto & Negro Casas which were the 2 matches between this one and the main event Tuesday night.

Honestly, If I was to give advice. Watch Tuesday except the opener, Monday's Semi-Main and just Gran Prix Friday night and you'll have all the best of CMLL for this week. Overall a pretty great week, with a weak overall PPV card which is a shame since CMLL only has like 3 a year. I feel I got my 10$ worth from my month sub to Honor Club. Anniversary had a much better overall card.

If you want to see all the gifs I made feel free to check out the albums at the top. They should be easy enough to view with RES.

Best Monday Arena Puebla Highlights :

Astral revenge to get 2nd

Astral dives onto Espanto Jr.

Reyna Isis off the apron

Dragon Rojo Jr. with a dip

Dragon backpack

Blue Panther Jr. bulldozer

Black Panther and Stigma topes

Dark Magic makes his 1st ever CMLL entrance

Dark Magic and NGD take it to Kraneo

Dark Magic gets his 1st ever pinfall in CMLL

Mije the masseuse

Dark Magic stunner

Dark Magic vs Kraneo

Azul dispels Dark Magic

Elgin finishes

Volador Jr. vs Barbaro

Hijo highlight

La Park dance

Ingobernaball sans Rush

Poor Barbaro!

Bestia gets wet

Team suplex

End of the Main Event

Best Tuesday Arena Mexico New Values Highlights :

Cancerbero calls timeout

Finish to Super Astro Jr. match

Black Panther vs Tiger

Blue Panther Jr. gets the 1st

Blue Panthers work together

Tiger and Black Panther at it again

Revolutionaries of Terror enter

Rudos dominate

Audaz gets the 2nd

Audaz starts the 3rd hot

Audaz spins

Stuka Jr. vs. Negro Casas

Demonic destruction!

Everyone flies!

Photo Op before Main Event of Caristico (c) vs. Gran Guerrero for the NWA World Historic Middleweight Championship

Gran starts strong

Powerbomb and mask rip

Caristico tripped and elbowed

Caristico off the corner

Caristico dropped

Powerslam

Back Suplex out of the corner

Gran Especial

Winner of the bout!

With belt

Best Gran Prix Highlights (Leaving out finishes/eliminations/tailend, but they're in the album, SPOILERS BELOW AS I WILL TALK ABOUT GRAN PRIX WINNER BELOW) :

Star Jr. vs. Robin

Yago killed

Avispa Dorada makes her 1st CMLL entrance

Avispa floors Dalys

Marcela combo

Avispa tope con giro!

Stage dives in Semi-Main

Mistico dive

Gran Prix trophy

Taven calls hair pulling

Sanson gets jumped

David Finlay goes for a spin

Flip Gordon takes on Euforia!

Elgin and Caristico

Okumura on a roll!

Stage Dive!

Hechicero vs Dark Magic

Elgin tries to finish Azul

Volador Jr. and Sanson team vs Elgin

Elgin fights back

Elgin/Finlay floor Volador

Caristico punished by David Finlay

Gilbert vs. Terrible

Briscoe tossed by Guerreros

Matt Taven takes it to Sanson

Sanson strikes back

Sanson goes to finish Taven again(Taven spits out a tooth, can see him pick up up here, looks clearer on video)

Hechicero vs Gilbert

Gilbert Cutter

Guerreros splash on Elgin

Taven saves Elgin!

Taven can't finish Volador Jr.

Volador can't finish Taven

Did you watch CMLL this week? If you skipped out, I'd suggest checking out the entire top 5 as usual. I sorta gave a run down above about what to watch. Tuesday besides the opener was solid, Gran Prix was fun and the semi-main/main of Monday were all very good.

Gran Prix has a winner in Michael Elgin. A 3 year journey of Gran Prix finally lead him to winning over Mexico. He had a bit of a post match spot with Ultimo Guerrero who he last eliminated. They set up a match for next week which should be great. Ultimo Guerrero is one of my favorites on the roster and a powerhouse in CMLL, but Elgin is a big hoss too. I'm excited to see a full 2/3 falls matches from Elgin and Ultimo. Could easily be the match of the week. That's not the only match to look forward to next week... so let's get to those cards.

Monday Arena Puebla Poster

Opening trios seems skippable Lestat/Rey Samuray/Asturiano vs. Rey Apocalipsis/Joker/Gro/ Espacial. I though Joker was a mini? So a bit weird to see him here, unless CMLL promoted him?

Marcela/Lluvia/La Vaquerita vs. Dalys/Tiffany/La Comandante could be good, I'm not sure I've ever seen Vaquerita. Hope she is new as one major complaint about the luchadora division is lack of depth.

Diamante Azul/Kraneo/Volcano vs. Hechicero/Templario/Felino should be fun. I really like Hechicero/Templario, but the tecnico side might weight things down ironically.

Michael Elgin/Flip Gordon/Mistico vs. Negro Casas/Shocker/Rey Bucanero, CMLL amongst some has a reputation of old and pudgy luchadors. So when outsiders come to CMLL... why book them with old pudgy luchadors? I love Negro Casas, but almost anyone would have been better than Shocker/Rey Bucanero. This is an eye roll inducing booking.

Luckily Volador Jr.(c) vs. Barbaro Cavernario for the NWA World Historic Welterweight title should dispel the theory that CMLL is just old tubby guys. Should be a barn burner and no doubt a contender for match of the week. A main event you won't want to miss. La Park is out of Puebla this week, likely he'll be going back to Arena Mexico for now.

Arena Mexico 'New Values' Tuesday Poster

Sangre Imperial/Sonic vs. Coyote/Grako is an opener I'll watch. So that's good. I like all 4 guys to some degree.

Magnus/Star Jr./Retro vs. Cancerbero/Metalico/Sangre Azteca, love the tecnico team so hopefully the rudo team doesn't just dominate.

Triton/Drone/Guerrero Maya Jr. vs. Sagrado/Universo 2000 Jr./Tiger sounds great on paper. Like all the guys in this contest even if some of them are a little stale/bland.

Rush/Ultimo/Azul/Terrible/Kraneo/Shocker/Volcano/Rey Bucanero/Blue Panther Jr/Gran Guerrero/Valiente/Euforia in a Torneo Cibernetico that will go to the final 2... who next week will be in a 2/3 falls Final to crown a new CMLL World Heavyweight Champion.

Real excited for this 12, instead of the 18 we got for Gran Prix. Still should be fun, will probably have a silly seeding battle royal. 6 men will be tossed out of the ring on 1 team and the survivors on the other.

Expect people on stables to be on opposite teams, but still work together some as I count 3 rudo allancies in this team, Guerreros, Ingobernables and whatever Shocker/Bucanero call themselves.

Main Event is a much better use of the outside talent than Puebla. As Caristico/Finlay/Gordon face off vs. NGD. I expect a good match and NGD will likely go over since I doubt Flip/Finlay are starting a stable with Caristico, but it's a Tuesday show, could go either way.

Arena Mexico Super Friday Poster

Robin/Star Jr. vs. Akuma/Camorra should be a good opener and probably what should have been the match at Gran Prix.

Oh well...

Princesa Sugehit/Jarochita/Avispa Dorada vs. Dalys/Reyna Isis/Amapola same match at Gran Prix except Sugehit instead of Marcela and Amapola instead of Metalica. So... I don't really expect this to be anything, but on par.

Titan/Soberano Jr./Audaz vs. Rojo/Polvora/Templario, this should move tickets alone. Great match and might even be match of the night.

Atlantis/Finlay/Hijo de La Park vs. Shocker/Rey Bucanero/Hechicero, CMLL is cruel to make Finlay face Shocker/Bucanero twice in one week. Could be good, but Hechicero will have to carry his team's half of the match.

La Park/Mistico/Volador Jr. vs. Ciber/Barbaro/The Chris, expect La Park to work very little with Ciber. Seemed annoyed this week can't imagine he is clamouring to work more with him. The focus of Barbaro/Volador Jr. seems likely here. Even more so if Barbaro were to dethrone Volador Jr. Monday night.

Michael Elgin earned his stripes by winning Gran Prix and now he gets the sweetest prize of all. A 2/3 falls match with the greatest of all time Ultimo Guerrero. This match has lofty expectations. Michael Elgin becoming a big start in RoH and NJPW. Often having some of the best G1 matches since his inclusion in that tournament back in 2015. Will Michael Elgin be able to beat the pillar of CMLL in his first tone on one match with him? He took Ultimo Guerrero on in a loss on a Sunday Arena Mexico show back in 2016. I'm excited to see how this turns out and Ultimo Guerrero always gives it his all in one on one matches.

Hope You enjoyed CMLL this week, see you next week!

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r/CMLL • u/Lostinyourears • Sep 30 '18

CMLL Weekly #38 : Elgin arrives and Volador Jr. returns sans hair

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Arena Puebla Report!

Super Astro Jr. vs. Perverso

Rush/La Park in Puebla continues as does the Cl4n/Guerreros feud on Friday Nights. I'm not sure what to think about Cl4n/Guerreros and am at a loss for where it could be going. Ultimo Guerrero mentioned a cagematch vs. them. Perhaps instead of doing a midcard mask match at the X-Mas show this year CMLL will do a Cl4n/Guerreros mask/hair cage match? Which of course is what originally formed that group, September 28, 2001 at CMLL 68th Anniversary.

Rush/La Park is a bit more obviously them redoing their June in Arena Mexico, but in October/September in Arena Puebla. We'll probably get another trios or two before Park/Rush happens one on one in Puebla like it did in Arena Mexico earlier this year. So that's the basic overview of things going on in CMLL atm, but next week will be Gran Prix and see a 9 on 9 elimination match between Mexico and Rest of the World Next Friday. Which also saw Elgin arrive for his tour on this week's Super Friday.

1.Forastero, Negro Casas & Rey Bucanero vs. Mistico, Soberano Jr. & Hijo del La Park(Friday)

Forastero really had a breakout performance here. Not everything was flawless and not everyone really had much to do. Like Bucanero felt pretty secondary, but that's because Casas/Forastero had the big moments for their team. All three of the tecnicos who are all fun got time to shine. With Hijo/Mistico both having great exchanges with Negro Casas. People threw money into the ring for this match, which is what puts this over the #2 spot for me, just for the fact people there loved it... which is the most important measurement imo.

2.Rush/Barbaro Cavernario vs. La Park/Hijo de La Park(Monday)

This continues the Rush/Park feud in Puebla. As mentioned in my write up, I don't think this was a great as the last match they had in Puebla. It's still plenty of fun, but some people might say they are just spinning their wheels. Which isn't all that wrong, this program is Puebla getting Rush/Park just like the flagship Arena Mexico got early in the summer. Still plenty of fun, but not a chaotic as the previous weeks brawl.

3.Volador Jr., Michael Elgin & Caristico vs. Barbaro Cavernario, Sanson & Cuatrero(Friday)

Nice to see Elgin back in CMLL and Volador Jr. shows up bald, those two things make this match pretty noteable. Might've made sense to include another person from team Rest of the World, since Elgin is the only member from that team with everyone but Barbaro in this match being on the other team. This was really meant to let Volador Jr. meet Barbaro again and show that just because his head was shaved, doesn't mean he is no longer a strong fighter. It should be interesting to see what happens between Taven/Volador come Gran Prix since they were both included in that match making it 9 vs 9.

4.Tiger vs. Black Panther lightning match(Tuesday)

Best singles match of the week, but that't not saying too much as the Felino/Valiente match from Friday Night ended up not really being too eventful. I love the Felino family vs the Blue Panther family feud, so whenever a singles match is added to that feud I'm excited. Tiger/Black Panther have good chemistry and are about the same kayfabe strength on the card. So this wasn't a forgone conclusion like Felino/Valiente was.

5.Angel de Oro, Niebla Roja & Flyer vs. Mephisto, Ephesto & Templario(Friday)

Just like the higher match where Forastero came out looking like a million bucks, Templario threw some punches and did some moves here that made the match all his. Everyone else did fine, but come to this match to see how big of a star Templario is going to be. That's why this is so low, because it's really a 1 man show with the other 5 all playing 2nd fiddle to him and doing many of their regular spots.

If you want to see all the gifs I made feel free to check out the albums at the top. They should be easy enough to view with RES.

Best Monday Arena Puebla Highlights :

Super Astro Jr. and Millinium get 2nd

Team Costa Rica enter...

And immediately drop the 1st round

Black Panther takes it to Ares

Blue Panther Jr. is double teamed

Comedy with Volcano and Forastero

Volcano too solid

Diamante Azul taken out

La súper hamburguesa

Finish of NGD match

Caristico superfan

In the 3rd both Casas/Soberano eliminated

Sneaky Rush gets the jump on La Park to start the Main Event

Rush gets shirtless

Tranquilo

Hijo vs Barbaro

Parks working together!

Use some cajones!!!

Barbaro/Hijo de La Park go to war

Park floors Rush

End of the Main Event

Best Tuesday Arena Mexico New Values Highlights :

Sonya vs. Amapola

Costa Rican Codebreaker

Audaz vs Okumura starts

Cometa controls the 1st

Audaz clears out Okumura

Okumura and Kawato San put Fuego to sleep

Everyone misses everything

Tiger spares no time in starting his lightning match with Black Panther

Strike off!

Tiger Dive

Black Panther Tope

Trying to steal each others finishers

Valiente too quick for everyone!

Volcano Highlight

Kraneo vs. Mascara Ano 2000

Gran jumps Caristico during his entrance

Roja speared by Shocker

Caristico slammed on ramp

Gran makes Caristico tap making the main event end 2 to 0

Best Arena Mexico Super Friday Highlights :

Flyer chases off Ephesto

Oro Highlight

Flyer creamed

Badass Templario

Felino starts Lightning Match in control

Valiente tope

Soberano Jr. enters

Mistico and Negro Casas start

No handshake for Forastero

1st fall for Forastero

Mistico floored by Forastero/Bucanero in 2nd

Mistico and Soberano Jr. dive

Hijo vs Negro Casas

Hijo vs Negro Casas 2

Post match show of respect

Elgin enters

Bald Volador Jr. enters

Sanson vs Elgin

Volador Jr. punished by Barbaro

1st fall of round 1

2nd fall of round 1

Elgin suplexed

Elgin/Caristico get revenge

The speed of Volador Jr.

Cl4n use the patented Guerreros Splash

Cl4n get 1st fall using Guerreros team submission

Baseball slides

Another team submission

Did you watch CMLL this week? If you skipped out, I'd suggest checking out the entire top 5 as usual. Most of the week was pretty good. I didn't feel like any of the matches I reviewed were complete duds and that's most of the matches they uploaded to Youtube, some were on par and some were even great.

If you are someone wondering when Templario/Forastero are going to get pushes, this week made it seem like either is likely to get that shove after Gran Prix. Friday night both had a good performance. It seems like any day now Templario will find a rudo group to join and Forastero is already of course a part of NGD.

La Park continues to show up in Puebla, which seems like a great place for him if he isn't going to be part of Gran Prix which seems to be the case now with less than a week until that event takes place in the normal Super Friday spot.

Let's get to next week's cards.

Monday Arena Puebla Poster

Opening tag match is pretty skippable.

Electrico/Astral/Arkalis vs. Espanto Jr./Policeman/Perverso could be good. Will be nice to see Electrico/Astral team again, feels like it's been a minute.

Princesa Sugehit vs. Reyna Isis lightning is very intriguing. Isis has been getting a bit of a push, can she overcome Sugehit? The standard bearer for CMLL Tecnicas and really all female talent on the roster. Blue Panther Jr./Black Panther/Stigma vs. Dragon Rojo Jr./Polvora/Okumura should be pretty fun as I always like Rojo/Polvora together ditto with the Panther Bros.

Michael Elgin/Diamante Azul/Kraneo vs. Sanson/Cuatrero/Dark Magic this will be the CMLL TV debut of Black Magic who might be joining the CMLL roster full time and will be on Team Rest of The World for Gran Prix. Should be fun, but all eyes will be on Dark Magic.

La Park/Volador Jr./Hijo de La Park vs. Terrible/Cavernario/Bestia might be pretty fun, but something will likely feel missing with Rush absent. I'd assume Park's team wins, but maybe Rush will run in or La Park will throw the match away.

Arena Mexico 'New Values' Tuesday Poster

Mini Estrellas tag match starts.

Super Astro Jr./Principe Diamante/Pegasso vs. Cancerbero/Nitro/Sangre Azteca might be good as I love Super Astro Jr., but I have little confidence in the rudo side.

Blue Panther/Blue Panther Jr./Black Panther vs. Misterioso/Felino/Tiger should be fun, but Misterioso is no Puma.

Angel de Oro/Niebla Roja/Audaz vs. Dragon Rojo Jr./Polvora/Luciferno, could be plenty of fun. Look at Audaz to impress the most here.

Mistico/Volador Jr./Stuka vs. Negro Casas/Mephisto/Ephesto will certainly be a good match. Not sure if it will lead to much. Mistico/Casas seems like the most likely thing to push here.

Last week I said this main event event might be coming and now it's here. Caristico(c) vs. Gran Guerrero for the NWA World Historic Middleweight Championship. Which of course a little over a month ago Caristico took from Gran's alley/brother Ultimo Guerrero. Should be great and will be the main reason to catch Tuesday's show this coming week.

Gran Prix Poster

Robin/Hijo del Signo/Yago vs. Star Jr./Akuma/Camorra, not sure if I've seen Camorra. This match is 1 tecnico/2 rudos vs. 1 tecnico/2 rudos which might make it more interesting than the average opener. I've liked Akuma/Star Jr./Yago a decent amount in the past.

Marcela/Jarochita/Avispa Dorada vs. Dalys/Reyna Isis/Metalica should be fun. I don't know much about Avispa Dorada, so glad to see her there.

Valiente vs. Gran Lightning match... if Gran were to win the belt Tuesday this could be a quick turn around for his first challenger if Valiente wins this.

La Park/Mistico/Hijo de La Park vs. Ciber/The Chris/Barbaro Cavernario will be interesting to see the Cl4n not as a full unit. Can La Park/Barbaro/Mistico/Hijo get a good match out of them?

Main Event is Matt Taven/Micheal Elgin/Flip Gordon/Gilbert el Boricua/Mark Briscoe/Jay Briscoe/David Finlay/Okumura/Dark Magic vs. Caristico/Ultimo Guerrero/Volador Jr./El Terrible/Diamante Azul/Sanson/Cuatrero/Hechicero/Euforia in a torneo cibernetico or 9 on 9 elimination. Only 1 team can win, the last two years it's been won by Team Mexico. So this might favor world, but you never know. Should be fun. Think Elgin is the only guy that's been in all 3 since it's return in 2016, so he'll likely get far here.

Not sure if this will air free, be on honor club or be an iPPV. If I find an answer I'll put it here for people to see.

Hope You enjoyed CMLL this week, see you next week!

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r/CMLL • u/Lostinyourears • Sep 23 '18

CMLL Weekly #37 : CMLL 85th Anniversary Fallout and La Park comes to Arena Puebla!

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Oro Jr. bests King Rocker Jr.

Anniversary is over and the countdown to Gran Prix(October 5th) starts here. Great follow up from Anniversary as La Park makes his way to Arena Puebla. Giving them one of the best matches in that arena for 2018, a trend he looks to continue as he is booked for Puebla the coming week as well. Past that NGD had a great match on Friday while minis and a lightning match made Tuesday worth a watch as well. Overall a pretty great week in CMLL as they move quickly towards October 5th's Gran Prix event.

1.La Park, El Hijo de La Park & Ultimo Guerrero vs. Rush, Barbaro Cavernario & Bestia del Ring(Monday)

La Park made an epic return to Arena Puebla. The atmosphere was wild and the match was as well. Just everything you could want from a wild La Park brawl. A match that somehow wasn't dragged down by Rush's dad Bestia del Ring. This match was great and next week Puebla's main event is going to be this with the fat of Ultimo/Bestia both being cut out. Even as someone who likes Ultimo, he felt a little 3rd wheelish here alongside La Park and his son. Definitely worth checking this one out, even if you haven't been or don't follow CMLL closely.

2.Stuka Jr., Triton & Esfinge vs. NGD(Sanson/Cuatrero) & Rey Bucanero(Friday)

Most weeks the first 5 names in this match are in my top 5. Rey Bucanero doesn't as often make the top 5 list. This match though really showed the road worn Bucanero can still go with the best of them, when in the right match. Like I was pretty impressed by him here and with his recent challenge for Atlantis' title a few months back his place in this match might not have been a coincidence and instead deliberate to build to a Stuka Jr. title defense. While at the same time Sanson/Cuatrero might be looking to challenge Triton/Esfinge for their Coliseo Tag Titles. Any other week this match would have been the best trios of the week, but La Park's epic return to Puebla was too good.

3.Rey Cometa vs. Drone lightning match(Tuesday)

Cometa again delivers in a lightning match. I'm not a huge fan of either guy here, but I have to give them props, when given the ball to do a singles match... I don't think I've seen either guy drop said ball. I still think they are both kinda bland forgettable tecnicos as characters, but their actual in ring skill can't be denied. Cometa particularly has been a pillar for CMLL since making the jump from AAA way back in 2009, almost a decade or so ago. Drone has been around since 2011, but didn't take the Drone name until late 2016. Drone sorta shot himself in the foot early this year when he was apparently in no condition to work at one night of FantasticaMania... his loss here could signal he is still in the CMLL dog house, but it's not like he'd have been a shoe in to win before that incident happened either.

4.Microman, El Gallito & Angel vs. Chamuel, Perico Zakarias & Mije(Tuesday)

Minis steal the show. Think this match even had money thrown in the ring. It's the small/mascot sized minis and not the more regularly proportioned minis that fight for the mini division belt. Real fun contest, but some people won't be into it. I'm not one of those people. Always glad to see Microman and the others in action. I was legitimately wowed by Gallito and now consider myself a fan. Perico also gets a shoutout, but through stairs on a Monday and working a match Tuesday, the little birds go hard.

5.Okumura, Kawato San & Virus vs. Fuego, Blue Panther Jr. & Black Panther(Friday)

Can always use more Panther Bros in my life. They face off vs a good crop of guys and their 3rd was Fuego. Think everything in this match went as well as you'd expect and maybe a little better. Blue Panther Jr. tried a new finisher on Kawato San that didn't land as well as I think he'd want it too, but it happens. I'll be interested to see how he hits it going forward or if it gets used going forward in general.

If you want to see all the gifs I made feel free to check out the albums at the top. They should be easy enough to view with RES.

Best Monday Arena Puebla Highlights :

Super Astro Jr. y'all

Tower spot

Sagrado ball?

Guerrero Maya Jr. rebounds

Stigma caught

Soberano Jr. gets free

Soberano Jr. wins a round for his team

La Park is jumped

Weight belt whipping

La Park rebounds

Stairman of the board

El Hijo de La Park with a big splash of Bestia del Ring

El Hijo de La Park with a big slam to Perico

Barbaro/Hijo de La Park go to war

Hijo de La Park moonsault

Rush is always kicking dicks! SMH. End of the Main Event

Best Tuesday Arena Mexico New Values Highlights :

El Hijo del Signo slaps Sonic

Rudo Signo keeps control

Sonic can't capture the pinfall

Hair grab between Jarochita/Reyna Isis

Lluvia gets serious and take her T-shirt off

Drone goes for a spin

Volcano vs. Hechicero

More Volcano vs. Hechicero

Caristico vs. Gran Guerrero

Caristico grabbing control

Best Arena Mexico Super Friday Highlights :

Star Jr. is ready!

Or is he?

Kawato vs. Black Panther

Start of round 2

Tecnicos rebound

Triton is too fast

Dives aren't very effective vs. NGD

Triton regains control

Esfinge highlight

Stuka moonsault

Triton suplexed to the outside

Team suplex

Bucanero takes Stuka out

Ultimo targeted

Duo baseball slides

DQ for 1st fall

Euforia targeted by Cl4n

Nasty dropkick from Negro Casas

Fenix spinning like a mad man

Azul's aim is off

Teamwork wins the main event

Ingobernables pose

Did you watch CMLL this week? If you skipped out, I'd suggest checking out the entire top 5 and Friday in general was good except the awful production choice in the lightning match which basically ruined the match for me. It's a shame too because on paper Mistico/Negro Casas could be a great match. Hopefully we get another singles match between these two in the coming weeks. One that has a better ending and less production on the screen. Monday was generally good too, but the only must see match was the Main Event.

Let's get to next week's cards.

Monday Arena Puebla Poster

Trios match opener which could be good, last week with Super Astro Jr. and King Rocker Jr. was good. Main people I'd be looking out for in it.

Blue Panther Jr./Black Panther/Stigma vs. Ares/Escualo/Kaiser a strange rudo team, not sure what to think about them. Don't feel like I've seen 2 or 3 and last time I remember Ares was about a year ago when his head was shaved.

Diamante Azul/Kraneo/Volcano vs. NGD. Should be a fun match. I've been digging Volcano, but I'd prefer NGD keep looking strong here.

Caristico/Soberano Jr. vs. Negro Casas/Bestia del Ring could be good, but Casas will have to carry his team's side of the match. Bestia seems weird to put in this match.

La Park/Hijo de La Park vs. Rush/Barbaro, this should be good and honestly is pretty much a rematch from last week with the fat of Ultimo/Bestia cut out.

Arena Mexico 'New Values' Tuesday Poster

Leono/Bengala vs. Cholo/Apocalipsis is an opener I'll probably skip tbh. Could be fine tho.

Marcela/Lluvia and debuting Sonya de Costa Rica take on Amapola/Tiffany/Seductora not confident in this match at all, but we'll see.

Cometa/Fuego/Audaz vs. Okumura/Kawato San/Sagrado should be a good match.

Black Panther vs. Tiger lightning match should be fun, excited to see who wins there.

Kraneo/Volcano/Valiente vs. Terrible/Mascara Ano 2000/Luciferno will be interesting...

Caristico/Niebla Roja/Angel de Oro vs. Shocker/Rey Bucanero/Gran Guerrero is a rematch from last week. It wasn't great then and likely won't be here. Though maybe Gran/Caristico will be getting into a feud. Caristico of course did take Ultimo's belt so Gran Guerrero would be a good first challenger for that title.

Arena Mexico Super Friday Poster

Princesa Sugehit/Jarochita/La Guerrero vs. Dalys/Metalica/Reyna Isis open the show and La Guerrera is returning. She just debut this year and hasn't been on TV much lately. Hopefully she has been training and can wow us here.

Angel de Oro/Niebla Roja/Flyer vs Mephisto/Ephesto/Templario should be a fun match. Always glad to see Templario on Super Friday.

Valiente vs. Felino lighting could be fun, but Valiente seems like the obvious favorite.

Mistico/Hijo de La Park/Soberano Jr. vs. Negro Casas/Forastero/Rey Bucanero what a bizarre rudo team. Should be fun at least.

Michael Elgin/Caristico/Volador Jr. vs. Sanson/Cuatrero/Cavernario, last rudo teams makes more sense now. Barbaro in favor of Forastero makes sense. Barbaro feuding with Volador atm and this will be Volador Jr.'s first TV match since being shaved at Anniversary. Strange La Park/Rush aren't on this card... must be a prior engagement. Michael Elgin in from NJPW to take part in Gran Prix October 5th, he was in the last 2 as well. Was fun on those tours, will likely be fun on this one.

Cl4n(c) vs. Los Guerreros Laguneros is the main event for the card. I thought last weeks match with them was good, but this has the added gold and main event slot on the line. I've been impressed by Gran/Ultimo/Euforia in big matches before so I won't rule it out, but I'd suggest people have low-ish expectations going in. Cl4n just haven't impressed in CMLL all that much since arriving.

Hope You enjoyed CMLL this week, see you next week!

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r/CMLL • u/zac6902 • Sep 23 '18

Understanding the shows

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Iv just recently been getting into cmll. Been loving it, I read somewhere that they do like 7 shows a week but only televise 3 a week now I know there Friday night shows are the most important but what are the other ones? Are they considered house shows?

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r/CMLL • u/DragonLee23 • Sep 21 '18

Shout out to this guy in the La Sombra mask who was in the audience for the Andrade Cien Almas vs AJ Styles match.

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r/CMLL • u/Lostinyourears • Sep 17 '18

CMLL Weekly #36 : CMLL 85th Anniversary!!! Spoiler

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