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Joe’s Lucha Libre Weekly: News & Analysis (3/31/19)

Get caught up on your Lucha Libre from this week!

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4 years ago

March 31, 2019

Joseph Dinan

Joe takes a look back at the week that was in the crazy world of Lucha Libre!

CMLL

Well CMLL certainly doesn’t have any fun or interesting news like AAA but they’re rolling along basically. It doesn’t seem like CMLL is sending a lot of people to wrestlemania weekend. They’re hardly even promoting Dragon Lee as being apart of the New Japan G1 Super Card. Naito will be at Arena Mexico this Friday.

CMLL Last Friday/Next Friday

Caristico, Volador, and Diamante Azul took on Los Guerrero’s in the main event of this show. It was a standard Friday main event which saw Caristico submitting Ultimo Guerrero with a Fujiwara arm bar. The co-main event is just the rematch of the Dos Leyenda match. Oro and Roja had Titan on their team as they took on Terrible and Bestia with Mr. Niebla. The latter team won this time around. Forastero defeated Cavernario in a lightning match. Which brings us to this Friday. Forastero will challenge Cavernario for his light weight championship. Caristico, Volador, and Valiente will take on Rush, Naito, and El Terrible in the main event. It’s probably a Los Ingobernables showcase.

Arena Puebla

So obviously we had our rematch with the Park family and Los Guerrero’s. Los Guerrero’s won by DQ but the matches that came out of this was setting up Gran Guerrero vs Volador. However, what really happened is the fans wanted to see LA Park and Ultimo Guerrero. They had a chop exchange on the apron that last almost two minutes and the crowd was into each one. We’ll see what CMLL does. They’re very stale as far as taking risks goes.

Arena Mexico Tuesday

This was a fun show according to lucha critics and the significance behind it is the Tuesday show is very dead and lazy. The main event of this show was Volador, Angel de Oro, and Niebla Roja facing Sanson, Cuatrero, and Euforia. This was a really fun match which saw Volador winning with a top rope hurricanrana. The co main event was Atlantis, Soberano, and Stuka facing Mephisto, Ephesto, and Hechicero. Atlantis won the match by hitting a hurricanrana on Mephisto. There was a lightning match between Titan and Flyer. It was a really fun match which saw Titan winning with a pinning combo.

AAA

So the big news out of AAA since there was no show last week is that former UFC Heavyweight Champion Cain Valesquez will be wrestling at Triple Mania. We do not know who but it seems like it’s down to Pentagon Jr, Texano, and Psycho Clown. I hope for Psycho Clown because I want to see the MMA community have to cover that. It also tells you that maybe the Bucks and Lucha Bros won’t wrestle at Triple Mania. Which would be fine. Fenix can defend his Mega Championship and maybe the Bucks and…Jericho? Can wrestle those young trios champs, Vikingo, Laredo Kid, and Myzteziz. Okay that’s fantasy booking.

To add on to the big news, AAA has a press conference set for Thursday April 4th at MSG, announcing that they’re going to run MSG in September likely. We have to assume AEW will be apart of this because if they’re looking to draw a big crowd they’ll need some help. New York is obviously a hot bed for their potential target audience being immigrants from Mexico or other Latin American countries. Seeing as I live in New York I should try to go to this press conference but it really depends what time it’ll be. At the risk of sounding unprofessional, I can’t really do anything before noon.

LA Park looks like he’s starting to work AAA house shows again according to this poster I saw online which Park retweeted, so hopefully he will be back soon. They’ll probably need him for AAA. Well, maybe. They have a show on April 5th, which sees, Psycho Clown and Dr. Wagner Jr facing Blue Demon and Rey Escorpion. Pagano and Joe Lider face Texano and Mascara. It’s not a major show.

Here & There

In MLW LA Park will take on Pentagon on Thursday and I might be there. On Friday Park will take on Jimmy Havoc which is an interesting match up. There are other lucha folks appearing in the battle riot but I’m not sure when they’ll all be announced. Rush is going to face Dalton Castle at the MSG show and Dragon Lee and Bandido will take on Taiji Ishimori as well. I might be at the Wrestle Con show on Thursday too. I’ll be at Stardom and MLW Friday, and New Japan Saturday. Unsure if i’ll go to a show earlier that day. But if there’s anything relating to Lucha i’ll have it. I might potentially be late on CMLL and AAA next week. If time is restricted I don’t know if I’ll have a weekly out.

Let us know what you think on social media @ChairshotMedia and always remember to use the hashtag #UseYourHead!

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King’s WrestleMania Rewind: Stone Cold VS. Scott Hall (WrestleMania X8)

Chris King is back with another WrestleMania Rewind, looking at the NWO’s Scott Hall battling Stone Cold Steve Austin at WWE WrestleMania X8 from Toronto!

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Chris King is back with another WrestleMania Rewind, looking at the NWO’s Scott Hall battling Stone Cold Steve Austin at WWE WrestleMania X8 from Toronto!

Chris King is back this week with another edition of WrestleMania Rewind, where he is rewatching all the past Mania matches and feuds. This week you’re in for a treat as we look back at ‘Stone Cold’ Steve Austin vs. Scott Hall at WrestleMania X8.

In late 2001, Vince McMahon bought out his competition WCW and acquired the rights to a plethora of talent including Booker T, Eddie Guerrero, Chris Benoit, and the iconic trio known as NWO. Hulk Hogan; Kevin Nash, and Scott Hall were hell raisers, and what better way to make a name for yourself than take out the two top superstars in the WWE The Rock, and Stone Cold?

The NWO cost Austin his chance at becoming the Undisputed Champion at No Way Out during his match with Chris Jericho. Adding insult to injury, the NWO spray-painted ‘The Texas Rattlesnake’ with their brand logo just like they did in WCW. As you can imagine, Austin was pissed and out for revenge against the group and primarily Scott Hall.

Hall would challenge Stone Cold to a match at WrestleMania 18. Both superstars beat the living hell out of each other leading up to this highly-anticipated match for who runs the WWE.

The glass broke and Stone Cold made his iconic entrance, and black and white NWO covered Halls’ entrance alongside Kevin Nash. With the odds stacked against ‘The Toughest S.O.B’ could Austin or NWO prove their dominance? Sadly the NWO broke up that very night when Hulk Hogan came to the aid of his adversary The Rock after their ‘iconic’ dream match. Stone Cold would ensure the victory with the Stunner. Hall would perform an Oscar-worthy sell over the finisher.

What a time to be a wrestling fan in the 2000s when nothing was impossible for WWE. Who would’ve thought WCW would go out of business and Hogan would make his long-awaited return to WWE?

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King’s WrestleMania Rewind: Seth Rollins vs. Kevin Owens (WWE WrestleMania 36)

Chris King takes a look at the most underrated WWE WrestleMania matches, and starts off with Seth Rollins battling Kevin Owens at WrestleMania 36!

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WWE WrestleMania 36 Kevin Owens Seth Rollins

Chris King takes a look at the most underrated WWE WrestleMania matches, and starts off with Seth Rollins battling Kevin Owens in the WWE Performance Center at WrestleMania 36!

Chris King is starting a new series heading into WrestleMania season dubbed WrestleMania Rewind. Each week he’ll be going back and sharing his insight over underrated matches at the Show of Shows. First up, is Kevin Owens vs. “The Monday Night Messiah” Seth Rollins at WrestleMania 36.

At the 2019 edition of Survivor Series, Rollins sacrificed himself during the men’s traditional match allowing SmackDown to ultimately gain the victory. The following night the self-proclaimed Messiah, berated the whole roster but KO was not having any part of it. Owens quickly became a huge barrier in Rollins’ cause for the greater good. The Authors of Pain attacked Owens with Rollins’ character in question.

Owens finally had enough of his rival’s mind games and torment and challenged Rollins to a match on the Grandest Stage Of Them All. Rollins mockingly accepted his challenge and the match was made official for night one of WrestleMania. Owens came out of the gate beating the holy hell out of the Monday Night Messiah trying to achieve his long-awaited moment at Mania but, Rollins tried to steal a disqualification victory by using the ring bell.

Owens hellbent on revenge provoked Rollins into turning their encounter into a no-disqualification contest where the fight could be taken all over the empty arena. The highlight of the match, was when KO used the WrestleMania sign to deliver a thunderous senton bomb through the announce table. Owens would secure the victory with a Stunner in an incredible match. Despite having no crowd during the pandemic era, both KO and Rollins put on an intense performance under the brightest lights.

In my personal opinion, this was a great feud that helped both superstars in their transformation as compelling characters for years to come.