AAA Recap: 7/4/93
John W. Jermanis
still learning how to do this, so if it seems a little long, I know
and I understand. It's not to hard to summarize the cool thing(s) that
happen at a 2 1/2 hour WWF card. It's another thing altogether when
talking about AAA!
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jjer...@bonnie.ics.uci.edu.
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Triple A Lucha Libre --- 7/04/93
What better way to celebrate the independence of our nation than by
watching Mexico's finest? ;)
Today's show was great. Borderline purely awesome. One shoe-in for
any best-of collection, and 2 bucking for strong consideration (wink,
wink ;) Let's cut to the chase...
First Match -- Faces in three falls
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Rudos: La Briosa, Neftaly, and Monsther.
Technicas: Shitara (masked), Lola Gonzales, and Martha Villalobos.
Jesus, I don't think we've seen this match too many times over the past
few weeks. I'd say they were setting up a Monsther-Villalobos match, if
any of the matches _didn't_ have a decisive finish.
1st caida: As soon as Villalobos checks in for action, the rudos triple
team her mercilessly. They do the bit where Rudo A holds
face. Rudo B moves to hit face, face moves, Rudo B hits
Rudo A. This is a recuring theme. A _big_ recurring theme.
Lots of sloppy moves, followed by the faces winning with
"the rowboat submission" where two faces basically make a
wish with two rudos legs.
2nd caida: Fall starts with some more foiled double teaming by the rudos.
Highlight of this is Villalobos jumping 8 inches off the
mat to get a double plancha on Briosa and Neftaly. Soon
afterward, rudos control ring, with Monsther just going
ape with planchas and leg drops. Technicas pinned after
failed reversal attempts.
3rd caida: At one point, all six ladies are bouncing off the ropes in the
ring. Sounds cool, but they paused alot to keep from running
each other over. Shortly thereafter, Gonzales and Shitara
catch Briosa and Neftaly in second rope sunset flips, while
Villalobos applies Boston crab to Monsther.
** 1/4 (Best match I've seen from these guys recently,
but that doesn't mean too much)
Second Match -- Faces in two falls
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Rudos: Fuerza Guerrera (masked), Satanico, and Mascara Ano 2000
Technicos: Hijo del Santo (masked), Octagon (masked), and Perro Aguayo.
Maybe I'm a tad generous, but I really liked this match, as the high rating
would indicate. The ending was a little weak, but the heat was intense.
The people in this match looked way fired up about beating somebody up.
Of course, what do you expect from a match with five good workers and
Perro Aguayo? :)
1st caida: Satanico goes _right_ after Octagon, while other rudos just
tear into the faces. Octagon gets his headband tied to top
rope again. Octagon bails out after mask in unlaced by
Satanico and Ano 2000. Meanwhile the rudos hold down
Perro Aguayo so Mascara Ano 2000 can beat the tar out of him.
Aguayo, the selling fool that he is, kick at 2000, keeping him
at bay. The faces get pounded on for the first 8 minutes of
this match. In a cool move, Satanico tucks Octagons hand
behind his back into his own belt. Octagon wrestles one handed
for a few minutes, taking some chicken wing bumps along the way.
Some fan hands Mascara Ano 2000 a chair from the ringside.
Generously, Ano obliges, whacking Aguayo in the noggin a few
times. Finally faces come back in a fury of tilt-a-whirls,
chair shots, and whips to the ring post. Satanico takes a
_mean_ shot to the post. The camera men can't keep up with the
carnage. 12 minutes into the match, we finally get a one-one-one
between 2000 and Aguayo, where they slug each other around.
They make their way outside the ring, where Aguayo holds Ano
in position for a tope. Octagon dives. Oopsy! Mascara bails
out and Octagon just demolishes Aguayo. Three rudos press slam
Hijo del Santo to arena floor, resulting in an automatic DQ.
Grrrrrrrr...
2nd caida: Cool move to start fall. Octagon monkey flips Fuerza Guerrera
through ropes to arena floor. Meanwhile back at the ranch,
Satanico and Mascara Ano 2000 attempt to double team Aguayo with
poor results. Satanico and Ano 2000 shove outside ring.
Guerrera comes to break it up. Satanico and Mascara Ano start
shoving _him_ around! Three way shout/shove match ensues before
Guerrera jumps in ring before count out. After a few more
minutes, faces win when Octagon gets Satanico to submit in
armbar (not the Kunze armbar though) and Hijo del Santo gets
Fuerza Guerrera in camel clutch.
As rudos, leave ring, fireworks drop around ringside area,
showering rudos and front row fans with glowing embers. Parts
of ringside catch on fire. Small fires though. Fans blow them
out like candles. Pretty trippy sight though.
**** 1/4
SPOILER WARNING!
If you get tapes to these matches and like to be surprised by what happens,
you probably don't want to read the following match summary. Nothing too
outrageous happens. It's just a singles match, and those are _always_ a
big deal in Lucha Libre.
I'll throw a form feed here, tell you what match it was, throw another
form feed in, and then get down to buisness. I might seem a little
paranoid, but I _really_ hate to ruin the excitement this match might
hold for some (as if this post hadn't put you to sleep already :)
I am pretty damn sure this match was for...
The Comision de Box y Lucha Libre Mexico D.F. Light Heavyweight National
Championship. (To the uninitiated: all this crap basically means this
is for AAA's light heavyweight title. Unlike other wrestling federations
around the world, Lucha Libre generally contains nearly as many weight
classes as boxing. In AAA, Light Heavyweight is just above average weight.)
Rudo: Jerry Estrada
Technico: Lizmark (masked) (and I _think_ he was the defending champion)
Sorry for that mess again. At any rate, out service missed most of the
introduction, so I didn't see who was champ. Last I saw it was Lizmark, so
we'll go with that.
This was a damn good match. Anyways...
1st caida: Guys shake hands before match. First 6 minutes of match are
standard opening wrestling: arm drags, leg locks, and other
forms of mat wrestling. I'm not a big fan of mat wrestling,
but even I was entertained during this part of the match.
Lizmark gains the advantage and goes on the offensive with
2 tilt-a-whirls and a drop kick before getting Estrada to
submit to a move that looked like a torture rack back breaker
executed from Razor's Edge set up position.
2nd caida: The intensity in the eyes of the two grapplers is just great.
The tension was palpable as the fall started. Quick paced
fall with Lizmark constantly avoiding the on rushing Estrada.
Lizmark gets caught though and submits quickly to Estrada's
custom submission (standing position, Estrada forces Lizmark's
head down with leg, whilst appling upward pressure on arm)
3rd caida: As Vince would say: "Oh my". Estrada jumps Lizmark before bell.
Estrada gets side walk slam and rude awakening on Lizmark.
Lizmark takes breather outside ring. Estrada rushes and hits
Lizmark with a brutal tope to the arena floor. Once back
inside the ring, Estrada comes close to appling his submission
holds several times, but Lizmark manages to push Estrada
out of the ring. Lizmark climbs to the tope and connects with
a beautiful plancha to Estrada on the floor. Seconds throw
the two back in the ring. Lizmark covers. 1.. 2.. Foot on
rope. Lizmark hooks the leg. 1.. 2.. Hand grabs rope.
Lizmark attacks with brutal powerslam. 2 count. Northern
Lights suplex. 2 count. Lizmark to the top. Goes for
plancha... Estrada rolls out of way. Estrada tries to slap
a number of submission holds on Lizmark, but Lizmark slips
out of all of them. Whip to the rope, reversal, Lizmark
catches Estrada in chicken wing Boston crab. Submission!
After the match, Lizmark goes into the crowd to kiss two ladies
holding a big Lizmark banner. Estrada and Lizmark shake hands
and Estrada raises Lizmark's hand in victory.
**** 1/2
Fourth match -- Faces in three falls
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Rudos: Los Exoticos. Ruddy Renya, My Flower, The Ros (masked)
Technicos: Salsero, Super Calo, Winners (all masked)
Wow. Y'all thought Adrain Adonis was a bad gimmick. Evidently the "drag
queen" gimmick is used fairly often in Lucha Libre. I'm amazed anybody
would get in the ring and act like they do. I guess it's just a different
culture...
Of the three, My Flower is the only one who seems to have much talent. He
can sell like a mad man.
1st caida: The end of this fall had a wild set of dives. Calo with
sommersault tope on Rose. Reyna with plancha off apron on both
of them. Salsero with plancha over the top rope on all three
of them. On the other side of the ring, My Flower performs a
tope on the ring post. Winners follows with a top rope plancha.
After this, Los Exoticos are counted out.
2nd caida: Ruddy smoochs Winners. Oh boy. Rudos win with tilt-a-whirl and
two planchas.
3rd caida: My Flower pinned after being superplexed by Calo and Salsero.
Calo jumps outside and throws Reyna into ring. They get him
in a double arm bar submission. After this, the two losers
jump The Rose, for a) not getting pinned and b) hitting his
partners on accident throughout the match.
*** 1/2
Fifth match -- Faces in two falls
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Rudos: Fishman, La Parka, Blue Panther (all masked)
Technicos: Villano III (masked), Latin Lover, Love Machine ("Art Art" ;)
The heat for this match was really high. The fans went wild for our man
Art. Guess there were quite a few 15 year olds in the crowd that night :)
1st caida: Mat wrestling twixt Villano and Panther. After that, the match
is brawl city. The heat between Machine and Panther is _way_
high. Biggest pop when Love Machine has Panther set up in
tombstone position (the pile driver is illegal in Mexico).
Love Machine misses splash in corner and blades himself in
front of the camera. Heat between Parka and Latin Lover was high
too. La Parka would mimmick Latin Lover, after which they would
go to town on each other. Rudos DQ'ed for removing Villano III's
mask.
2nd caida: By the time we get back, the rudos masks are in bad shape. Faces
are beating daylights out of rudos at this point. Cool move:
Latin Lover arm drags La Parka from apron, then performs a
top rope plancha from about 15 feet away. What a leap! Barr
pins Panther with Northern Lights suplex, then removes his mask
to cheers of crowd.
*** 1/2
Charles Anderson
|
| 2 tilt-a-whirls and a drop kick before getting Estrada to
| submit to a move that looked like a torture rack back breaker
| executed from Razor's Edge set up position.
Sounds like a reverse body vise. Jesse Ventura's favorite submissions hold.
-Charlie
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