AAA Lucha Libre
Dave Fields
permits. I found out about Conan from yesterday's show. Perro Aguayo
was screaming about how he wanted Conan to help him right all the
injustices done him by Fishman (see below), so I figured he'd be
showing up sooner or later.
Hey, Dave: What does AAA stand for? Nobody's said yet.
BTW, the lucha movie this week was "Santo Contra Las Lobas" (Santo vs.
the She Wolves). I've seen this one before. It doesn't improve with age
:-) Lots of really fake blood, lots of really bad costuming (lamest
wolf women you'll ever see), etc., etc. Ah yes, yet another classic of
Mexican cinema. The late Spanish director Luis Bun~uel, who was the
first great filmmaker in Mexico, has nothing to worry about.
Results of matches from an unspecified arena in Monterrey, Nueva Leon,
broadcast over Galavision on Sunday, July 5, 1992 (except where
noted):
This was not the best produced lucha show I've ever seen. They either
omitted or flubbed most of the intros, and since much of the talent is
new to me, I've had to guess at their names... so don't hold my feet to
the fire on them, please :-)
First Match:
Maremoto (masked - Mexico), Maligno (masked - Mexico, but first
announced as somebody else), Terremoto (masked - Mexico) (heels) vs.
Galactico (masked - Mexico), Winners (masked - Mexico), Super Calo
(masked - Mexico) (faces); Pepe Casas and "el otro referee" :-)
(referees - he wasn't announced, and that's how the announcers referred
to him).
First Fall: There was a strang edit at the end of this fall, and I
didn't follow exactly how it ended, but the rudos won when Maligno put
a Boston crab on Galactico.
Second Fall: Galactico was apparently legitimately injured somehow
between falls, and another masked face (Catombe? It sounded like that)
came down to take his place. Galactico was attended to by the ring
doctor and was carefully carried off while the action continued up in
the ring. Anyway, Super Calo got Terremoto to submit to an airplane
spin-like move. Appropriately enough for we Southern Californians, the
name "Terremoto" means earthquake (rumble, rumble).
Third Fall: Catombe pins Maligno after a running back moonsault from
the second rope. Really a spectacular move.
Second Match:
Cien Caras (Mexico), Universo 2000 (masked - Mexico), Blue Panther
(masked - Mexico) (heels) vs. Hijo Del Santo (masked - Mexico), Super
Mun~eco (masked - Mexico), Fantasma (masked - Mexico) (faces); El
Tirante and Pepe Casas (referees).
This was my first exposure to Fantasma, who is a pretty big name in
Mexico. I wasn't impressed by his work in this match. Of course, I've
said that before about guys like Octagon and Hijo Del Santo and lived
to regret having made those comments, so let's just say I'm reserving
judgment on him for now.
First Fall: Santo pins Universo 2000.
Second Fall: Cien Caras pins Fantasma in a rudo rout. The bad guys
cleaned the faces' clocks right from the get-go.
Third Fall: As Hijo Del Santo is (illegally, by the way) ripping off
his mask, Blue Panther slugs him in the balls right in front of both
referees. Considering that Santo had Panther's mask off before Panther
slugged him, the DQ should have gone the other way, but I guess they
just didn't time it right. Anyway, the faces win the fall and the
match.
Third Match:
This one was from Arena Leon in Leon, Mexico. I guess they didn't have
enough material from Monterrey to fill up the whole 2 hour show.
Anyway, they really blew the TV intros on this one, so I'm *really*
guessing these names where I wasn't familiar with the luchadores.
Pila (masked - Mexico), Atila (masked - Mexico), Bleda (masked -
Mexico) (heels) vs. Super Raton (masked - Mexico), Super Calo (masked -
Guatemala), Super Pinocho (or Pilocho?) (masked - Mexico) (faces); I
didn't recognize the referees.
Super Raton (Super Mouse) and Super Pinocho (or whatever it is) must
come from the same lame promotion that spawned Super Mun~eco. Super
Raton wears a mask that makes him look like Mighty Mouse. The other guy
also looks like some kind of cartoon character. Impossibly lame. I'd
seen Super Raton before briefly in the CMLL.
First Fall: The good guys win.
Second Fall: All 3 rudos pin Super Raton.
Third Fall: Super Raton pins Pila (another name I'm *really* uncertain
about - they were also calling him something that sounded like
"Bagnate" - anybody have a clue?)
Fourth Match:
Back to Monterrey for the big main event - what was supposed to be a
hair vs. mask match.
Fishman (masked - Mexico) (heel) vs. Perro Aguayo (Mexico); El Tirante
(referee).
First Fall: Perro pins Fishman after zinging him with a flying
clothesline from the top rope.
Second Fall: Fishman pins Perro after Perro had put Fishman into
multiple pinning situations that were thwarted by the incredibly slow
counts of El Tirante (he was taking about 15 seconds to make 2 1/2
counts).
Third Fall: Cien Caras, wearing jeans, does a run in to help Fishman
trash his old enemy Perro Aguayo. Tirante allows both men to gang up on
Don Perro for a time, then surprisingly DQs Fishman. By this time,
Perro is juicing heavily. Fishman just leaves the ring with Don Carmelo
(Cien Caras) instead of removing his mask per the prematch agreement.
Gosh darn thos despicable villains! :-)
Anyway, after the match Perro is interviewed over the house mic, and
spends several minutes screaming about how he wants his friend Conan to
help him out in his battle with Fishman. According to Dave Scherer,
Conan is definitely a AAA participant, so look for his arrival on next
week's card.
Adios, amigos.
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John Price
>Hey, Dave: What does AAA stand for? Nobody's said yet.
"American Automobile Association".
I'm surprised you haven't figured that one out yourself yet. Although, I
have to admit that I have no idea why they're getting involved in Mexican
wrestling.
Just another "gotcha" from the Johnster. I don't usually catch
Fields on this sort of thing...
John Price * * * * pr...@uclapp.physics.ucla.edu
Where there is no solution, there is no problem.
Herb Kunze
> In article <920706231...@teradata.com>, d...@teradata.com (Dave Fields) writes:
> >Hey, Dave: What does AAA stand for? Nobody's said yet.
>
> "American Automobile Association".
John, John, John. I think Dave wanted the meaning of the acronym in
it's wrestling context. It's clearly the tights and boot monogram for
Adorable Adrian Adonis, although I'm not really sure why Dave is living
in the past (particularly this past).
Herb...
Dave Fields
Why do I catch this kind of heat?
I always try to be nice to people... :-)
Dave Fields
> In article <920706231...@teradata.com>, d...@teradata.com (Dave
Fields) writes:
> >Hey, Dave: What does AAA stand for? Nobody's said yet.
>
> "American Automobile Association".
>
> I'm surprised you haven't figured that one out yourself yet.
Although, I
> have to admit that I have no idea why they're getting involved in
Mexican
> wrestling.
>
> Just another "gotcha" from the Johnster. I don't usually catch
> Fields on this sort of thing...
You didn't catch me this time, either. It's Automobile Association of
America, you dunderhead! :-)