CMLL Lucha Libre results
Dave Fields
Arena Mexico, Mexico City, D.F.
Popularity Ratings: This has become an occasional feature only, and so
atomized as to be nearly pointless. Only the top two wrestlers in a
category are now recognized, and they've expanded to include women,
midgets, and 6-man tag teams. Current ratings are:
Faces Heels Women 6-Man Team
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1 - Octagon Cien Caras Lady Apache Los Brazos
2 - Vampiro Canadiense Pierroth Martha Villalobos Los Infernales
Midgets New Star
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1 - Octagoncito La Sirenita (woman wrestler)
2 - Mascarita Sagrada
Move of the Week
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Octagon's bump while trying to do a plancha onto El Satanico. Octagon
overshot the plancha and landed on his head. Satanico sold the move
anyway, and Octagon was able to recover enough to throw his arm over
Satanico to get the pin, but he was clearly in pretty bad shape.
Nonetheless, after an OK from the commission doctor, Octagon was able
to continue with the third fall of the match.
First Match: Masakre (Mexico), Jaque Mate (Mexico - masked), and
Pierroth (Mexico - masked) (heels) vs. Los Brazos (Mexico) (faces).
Roberto Rangel and Gato Montini (referees); faces win 2/3 falls.
This was the first official recognition of Los Brazos as faces.
First Fall: Pierroth pins Brazo after a Pearl Harbor job and many
3-on-1 beatings of the faces by the heels.
Second Fall: Los Brazos trash the heels. Brazo de Plata, El Super
Porky, pins Jaque Mate with a splash.
Third Fall: Brazo de Plata splashes Pierroth from the top turnbuckle
for the pin.
Second Match: Blue Panther (Mexico - masked) (heel) vs. El Ultimo
Dragon (Japan - masked) (face). Pancho Ramirez (referee); Ultimo Dragon
wins 2/3 falls.
Blue Panther is accompanied by the legendary Charro and another babe.
Asai is also accompanied by a couple of babes.
First Fall: Several wild flying kicks and suicide planchas from Asai.
He wins with a Gotch suplex after a second rope back flip plancha.
Second Fall: Blue Panther pins Dragon when Asai is caught and power
bombed during a Frankensteiner attempt gone awry.
Third Fall: Dragon pins Blue Panther with "una rana con puente" (a frog
with a bridge) after the two traded Gotch suplexes.
Third Match: Los Hermanos Dinamitas (Cien Caras (Mexico), Universo 2000
(Mexico - masked), Mascara An~o 2000 (Mexico - masked) (heels) vs.
Atlantis (Mexico - masked), El Rayo de Jalisco, Jr. (Mexico - masked),
Solomon Grundy (USA) (faces)
Cien Caras, as always, was accompanied by Charro, who was wearing a
tiny little white 2-piece bathing suit (Charro, remember, is the
Mexican version of Lady Blossom).
The announcers said there would be a surprise for this match. When
Grundy began to make his way to the ring, they said that he was it.
Solomon (sometimes Jed) Grundy is a huge, latter day Haystacks Calhoun
who's wrestled in Texas and Tennessee most of his career. In his last
stint in Mexico, he was immensely popular, and the crowd popped pretty
good for him here. But that wasn't the end of the surprises.
First Fall: Solomon Grundy pins Universo 2000 with a big splash.
Second Fall: Universo 2000 and Mascara An~o 2000 pin Grundy.
Third Fall: Cien Caras kicks Grundy in the balls, and the big man rolls
out of the ring. Just as he rolls out, into the ring rolls none other
than Makhan Singh/Norman to do the run-in save, wearing the same kind
of denim overalls worn by Grundy. He splashes all 3 rudos for the pin,
then quickly rolls out of the ring and takes a seat at ringside. The
referees don't see this because they're too busy raising the hands of
Atlantis and El Rayo. When they turn around, there stands Grundy again
(I guess all those fat, bearded norteamericano boys all look alike).
Anyway, Makhan Singh/Norman is said by the announcers to be Solomon
Grundy's little brother Aaron (? - it sounded like they were saying
Aaron, but I'm not sure).
Fourth Match: Octagon (Mexico - masked) 87 kg. (seconded by Conan - USA
and Cuba) (face) vs. Fuerza Guerrera (Mexico - masked) 82 kg. (seconded
by Cien Caras - Mexico) f(heel) or the CMLL Mexican National
middleweight championship.
This promised to be an excellent match, given the last encounter
between these two early last November. It turned out to be only a so-so
match with a screw job ending. The announcers said that Fuerza was
wrestling for the middleweight belt because he was no longer able to
make the welterweight limit.
A minor point: Given that Conan was back in Mexico, it looks like he
didn't pass his try out with the WWF. Hard to believe. I guess he
wasn't lumbering enough :-) Let me describe Conan like this: Think of
Brian Pillman. Now imagine him weighing about 20 pounds more, but
retaining all his agility and acrobatic abilities. Got the picture?
That's Conan.
First Fall: Fuerza submits to a pretzel following a super kick and
tilt-a-whirl backbreaker.
Second Fall: Octagon submits to a different kind of pretzel hold.
Third Fall: Toward the end of this fall, Octagon executed one of the
more amazing suicide planchas I've ever seen. He had thrown Fuerza
Guerrera out of the ring, and as the little heel stood with his back to
the ring, arguing with some fans, Octagon ran full speed across the
ring, dived head first through the ropes, and bull dogged Fuerza into
the first row seats.
As both men staggered around on the floor, dazed by the bumps they had
taken, Cien Caras came over to Octagon and kicked him in the balls.
Seeing this, Conan grabs Mr. Reyes and both begin to do battle in
mid-ring. Meanwhile, referee Roberto Rangel is trying to keep a count
on Octagon and Fuerza Guerrera and simultaneously trying to get Cien
Caras and Conan out of the ring.
As it turned out, he was unsuccessful and, since he was unable to
either stop the heavyweights or re-engage the middleweights, he stopped
the match and called it a draw.
As usual, the post-match interviews were filled with cries for a mask
vs. mask match, but I'm dubious. I've heard this many times before from
these two, and it never seems to happen.
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