CMLL Lucha Libre, Part 1
Dave Fields
Results from matches held at Arena Coliseo, Mexico City, D.F. and
broadcast Sunday, April 19, 1992 over Galavision.
News:
Satanico captured the world's light heavyweight title from Lizmark.
They showed clips of the match, in which Satanico won 2 out of 3
falls.
Volador and Misterioso captured the world's tag team title from Vulcano
and Tony Arce recently as well, though there were no clips of this
match shown.
Lots of new talent this week: two masked Japanese calling themselves
Koga and Iga and the first televised performance of the new team
calling itself Los Guerreros (The Warriors).
Popularity Ratings:
Faces Heels Women Midgets 6-Man
Tag
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1 - Octagon Blue Panther Lola Gonzalez Mascarita Sagrada
Intocables
2 - Atlantis La Fiera Xochitl Hamada Octagoncito Brazos
First Match:
Los Metalicos: Bronce (masked - Mexico), Oro (masked - Mexico), Plata
(masked - Mexico) (faces) vs. Los Guerreros: Guerrero del Futuro
(masked - Mexico), Guerrero Maya (masked - Mexico), Damian el Guerrero
(Mexico) (heels). Gato Montini and Pepe Casas (referees). Heels win 2/3
falls.
Translation refresher: Los Metalicos means "The Metalic Ones." They are
Bronze, Gold, and Silver. Los Guerreros means "The Warriors." They are
Warrior From the Future, Mayan Warrior, and Damien the Warrior.
Guerrero del Futuro has a mask that makes Ponzon~a's look conservative
in comparison (more outlandish than Jushin Liger's, for example).
First Fall: Guerrero Maya pins Plata.
Second Fall: This fall featured a whole series of wild plancha dives.
Bronce did a head first, front flip dive over the top rope onto
Guerrero del Futuro on the arena floor followed immediately by Oro's
back flip plancha from the top rope to the floor onto Damian. Plata
pins Guerrero Maya.
Third Fall: This fall was highlighted by something you hate to see - a
real injury. Metalico Oro missed a suicide plancha attempt and landed
directly on his mouth on the hardwood floor. He was bleeding quite
heavily and looked like he was having difficulty breathing. His
partners quit wrestling and came over to assist him, asking a spectator
to vacate his seat so Oro could sit down. The commission doctor came
over to take care of him and the match continued.
A netter asked me off line whether I thought Oro still had any teeth.
Well, it looked like he didn't lose any, but they didn't exactly wade
in for close-up camera shots, either. Truly unfortunate.
Anyway, all 3 Warriors pin Plata for the victory.
Second Match:
Los Destructores: Tony Arce (Mexico), Vulcano (Mexico), Roco Valente
(Mexico) (heels) vs. Filoso (masked - Mexico), Koga (masked - Japan),
and Iga (masked - Japan) (faces). Roberto Rangel and Pepe Casas
(referees). Heels win 2/3 falls.
Does anybody know who Koga and Iga are? They appear to have legitimate
martial arts skills, and are moderately acrobatic (though they won't
make anybody forget Asai or Liger).
Translation refresher: Los Destructores are "The Destroyers." Vulcano
is "Volcanic" or "The Volcanic One." Filoso is "Sharp" or "Keen."
First Fall: Iga pins Valente with a Gotch suplex.
Second Fall: Valente pins Iga.
Third Fall: Iga submits to all 3 Destructores.
Third Match:
Jerry Estrada (Mexico), Fuerza Guerrera (masked - Mexico), Emilio
Charles, Jr. (Mexico) (heels) vs. Mano Negra (masked - Mexico), Mascara
Sagrada (masked - Mexico), Atlantis (masked - Mexico) (faces). Gato
Montini and Roberto Rangel (referees). Faces win 2/3 falls.
Translation refresher: Fuerza Guerrera is "Warrior Force." Mano Negra
is "Black Hand." Mascara Sagrada is "Sacred Mask." Atlantis is a sunken
city in the Mediterranean Sea :-) pronounced At-LAN-tees. Emilio
Charles' last name is pronounced CHAR-less.
First Fall: Estrada pins Atlantis after delivering a reverse atomic
drop. Note that this move is illegal in Mexico as is any other move
that results in contact "below the belt." It wasn't seen by the
referees. The TV announcers were all yelling "Un foul! Un foul!" :-)
Second Fall: Mascara Sagrada pins Estrada after nailing him with a drop
kick from the top turnbuckle.
Third Fall: Atlantis gets Charles to submit to a torture rack
backbreaker.
Fourth Match:
Satanico (Mexico), La Fiera (Mexico), and El Espectro de Ultratumba
(masked - Mexico) (heels) vs. Love Machine (Oregon, USA), Black Magic
(UK), and Ultimo Dragon (masked - Japan).
Translation refresher: Satanico (Daniel Lopez) is "The Satanic One." La
Fiera (Arturo Castro) is "The Fierce One." El Espectro de Ultratumba is
"The Spectre (or Phantom) From Beyond the Grave." Love Machine (Art
Barr) is pronounced Luv Ma-CHEEN :-) or Art Barrrrrr. Black Magic
(Black MA-jeek) is Norman Smiley, a black man who was Chris Adams'
partner in the British team in the WCW Pat O'Connor tag team tournament
a couple of years ago. Ultimo Dragon is "The Ultimate (or Last) Dragon.
Under the mask, he is Japanese star Yoshihiro Asai.
This was Art Barr's first appearance without the mask. The announcers
finally got his name right (last week they thought it was "Art Art").
Blue Panther came to the ring with the heel team wearing a neck brace -
he said he was under doctor's orders not to wrestle. They're really
playing this angle to the hilt. They even interviewed Roberto Rangel
and a CMLL commissioner about the reasons the piledriver is illegal,
etc., etc. Anyway, Art attacked Blue Panther and beat the living shit
out of him until Blue Panther ran off. The fans still don't know quite
what to make of this.
First Fall: Fiera pins Magic after fouling him with a reverse atomic
drop.
Second Fall: Ultimo Dragon hoists El Espectro de Ultratumba onto his
shoulders and Art Barr nails him with a clothesline off the top rope
(shades of the Road Warriors). At this, Magic pins La Fiera with a
Gotch suplex.
Third Fall: Dragon executes an incredible suicide plancha clothesline
on El Espectro, but La Fiera fouls Black Magic (by knocking him off the
top turnbuckle to do one of those top rope crotch rides Ric Flair is so
famous for), then pins him.
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