I am fascinated by foreign wrestling, and here in the Big City, Luche Libre is readily available on TV. I decided to check it out this week and try to figure out whats going on...
In the Yucatan! AAA kicks of the show with a recap...apparently there is a lot of woman's and intergender tag matches. Hernandez from TNA was on last weeks show...and signs for Arriba Los Perros (Let's go, Dogs, I think) are everywhere.
First match is a classic technicos vs rudos match, with masked wrestlers Superfly and The Laredo Kids taking on The Commendantes (?). Great action here, lotta suicide diving . The ring floor looks like its thin carpet over concrete. Ouch. "Billy Boy" of the Commendantes beats Superfly with a vertabreaker. After the match there is a promo with both of the masked wrestlers presided over by a kind of Latino Mean Gene inside a plush home, perhaps the residence of one of the wrestlers. He does a lot of talking over video clips of Superfly and the Laredo Kid botching moves and pushing each other in the ring. Clearly, all is not well between the two technicos. Laredo Kid offers his hand in friendship...Superfly very reluctantly shakes hands and walks away.
Back in the ring, it's a six person inter-gender tag match...five chicks and one guy (actually, I think the guy is Alex Koslov, who I've seen in ROH). Pre-match promo has Koslov really slapping around one of the girls...wait...I think it's a guy! A tranny!! He tries to kiss Koslov and the match is on! I can tell that Kozlov's partners are "Jennifer Blade and Christine"...didn't catch tranny or his partners. There is some serious drama in this one, in-fighting on trannies team...maybe one of them were once allies with Blade and Christine....wait, the team has been called "Los Gringas Locos". Crazy white chicks...how original.
Anyway, incredible woman's wrestling here, a lot of high spots and the degree of difficulty puts woman's wrestling in the states to shame. Match ends after tranny finally gives Koslov a kiss and gets a superkick for his troubles. Post match, Koslov beats up the other woman pretty badly...I guess this kind of thing is OK south of the border. Crazy silver luchadore makes the save.
After a commercial featuring Carlos Mencia for "The Belly Burner"...
Backstage, Chessman is being looked over by a doctor. Konnan walks in and wants to know what's going on. The doctor says that Chessman will be unable to compete tonight. Konnan is pissed! Some things are just so obvious you don't need words...
Big pop...out comes Super Crazy(who put on a ton of weight), Damien 666, and Halloween. They are Los Perros Mal!! It's the DX of AAA. Their opponent, Hernandad 187, featuring Psicosis (I think), some random dude and....oh my King, It's Dr. Wagner Jr.!! Huge pop for the masked luchadore, who comes out with two belts and Bon Jovi's "Bad Medicine" as his entrance music. He is clearly a major player here in AAA. He also cuts a promo in ring and sounds like the Lord Humongous...this guy might be in my top 20 right now. Promo has something to do with it being his house (thanks 10th grade spanish!).
Hardcore match has a ton of action, though not much in the way of blood. Neither side can gain the upper hand until Konnan comes down to the ring and seems to tell Dr. Wagner he has no problem with him and turns on the rest of Hernandad 187. He begs their forgiveness a la Eddie Guerrero, and that allows the Perros to attack from behind. Konnan with a chairshot on the outside and a musclebuster from Damien seal the deal for the Bad Dogs.
After the break, it's a recap of a feud from good and bad La Parkas! It seems to be a major angle as these two La Parkas have quite the highlight reel. Evil La Parka (known apparently as "La Park") comes to the ring with Super Crazy from The Bad Dogs...you can tell he's evil from the monster eyes on his skeleton costume and his skull shoulder pads...anyway, he has "original" written in english down one side of his boots, which Super Crazy is quick to point out to the cameras. Next it's the good La Parka, who dances his way to the ring to the tune of Micheal Jackson's "Thriller". In the ring he pushes La Park out of the way and does his crazy dance (a few weeks ago I saw these two engage in a dance off in the ring). For all the pomp and circumstance, the match is a pretty by-the-numbers: punching and kicking, La Park pulling out every heel move in the book (low blow, outside interference, holding the ropes during a pinfall, et al), and alot of taunts to the crowd. This should come as no real surprise seeing that, essentially, it's two fat guys running around in full skeleton body suits.
Things begin to get really strange when Konnan comes out yet again and he brings with him his own referee. This heel ref storms the ring, beats up the other ref, and takes over officiating the match. How this is legal is beyond me. The crowd is INCENSED. Trash rains down on the ring. The new ref basically trips la Parka or holds his arms when he tries to throw a punch...it's a handicap match, for all intents and purposes. This, by the way, is an angle worth looking at in the States...I don't think I've ever seen a heel stable with their own referee...and it drives the crowd crazy.
After several near falls in which heel ref has a slow count or comes up lame when he's about to count "3", LA Park gains the upper hand with a vicious low blow. Victory is assured but LA Park is indicating to heel ref that instead of covering his opponent, he wants to do some dancing! His teammates plead with him to cover the writhing La Parka, but he insists on doing some weird dance in the corner. When he finally makes the cover, original ref charges the ring and puts a beatdown on heel ref. La Parka with the small package and it's "1,2,3"!!
The Bad Dogs storm into the ring and lay out the referee and put a boot party to La Parka...then it's Dr. Wagner Jr. and Hernandad 187 in to make the save! Oh, now it's more members of Perros de Mal from the back!! It's pandemonium, King!! But wait...space music? Out from the back is an old man and a bunch of masked luchadores and the transvestite from the match before. They must be a force to be reckoned with, as everyone in the ring exits in fear. The old man has some words of warning for Los Perros del Mal...
But I can't understand them.
In the Yucatan! AAA kicks of the show with a recap...apparently there is a lot of woman's and intergender tag matches. Hernandez from TNA was on last weeks show...and signs for Arriba Los Perros (Let's go, Dogs, I think) are everywhere.
First match is a classic technicos vs rudos match, with masked wrestlers Superfly and The Laredo Kids taking on The Commendantes (?). Great action here, lotta suicide diving . The ring floor looks like its thin carpet over concrete. Ouch. "Billy Boy" of the Commendantes beats Superfly with a vertabreaker. After the match there is a promo with both of the masked wrestlers presided over by a kind of Latino Mean Gene inside a plush home, perhaps the residence of one of the wrestlers. He does a lot of talking over video clips of Superfly and the Laredo Kid botching moves and pushing each other in the ring. Clearly, all is not well between the two technicos. Laredo Kid offers his hand in friendship...Superfly very reluctantly shakes hands and walks away.
Back in the ring, it's a six person inter-gender tag match...five chicks and one guy (actually, I think the guy is Alex Koslov, who I've seen in ROH). Pre-match promo has Koslov really slapping around one of the girls...wait...I think it's a guy! A tranny!! He tries to kiss Koslov and the match is on! I can tell that Kozlov's partners are "Jennifer Blade and Christine"...didn't catch tranny or his partners. There is some serious drama in this one, in-fighting on trannies team...maybe one of them were once allies with Blade and Christine....wait, the team has been called "Los Gringas Locos". Crazy white chicks...how original.
Anyway, incredible woman's wrestling here, a lot of high spots and the degree of difficulty puts woman's wrestling in the states to shame. Match ends after tranny finally gives Koslov a kiss and gets a superkick for his troubles. Post match, Koslov beats up the other woman pretty badly...I guess this kind of thing is OK south of the border. Crazy silver luchadore makes the save.
After a commercial featuring Carlos Mencia for "The Belly Burner"...
Backstage, Chessman is being looked over by a doctor. Konnan walks in and wants to know what's going on. The doctor says that Chessman will be unable to compete tonight. Konnan is pissed! Some things are just so obvious you don't need words...
Big pop...out comes Super Crazy(who put on a ton of weight), Damien 666, and Halloween. They are Los Perros Mal!! It's the DX of AAA. Their opponent, Hernandad 187, featuring Psicosis (I think), some random dude and....oh my King, It's Dr. Wagner Jr.!! Huge pop for the masked luchadore, who comes out with two belts and Bon Jovi's "Bad Medicine" as his entrance music. He is clearly a major player here in AAA. He also cuts a promo in ring and sounds like the Lord Humongous...this guy might be in my top 20 right now. Promo has something to do with it being his house (thanks 10th grade spanish!).
Hardcore match has a ton of action, though not much in the way of blood. Neither side can gain the upper hand until Konnan comes down to the ring and seems to tell Dr. Wagner he has no problem with him and turns on the rest of Hernandad 187. He begs their forgiveness a la Eddie Guerrero, and that allows the Perros to attack from behind. Konnan with a chairshot on the outside and a musclebuster from Damien seal the deal for the Bad Dogs.
After the break, it's a recap of a feud from good and bad La Parkas! It seems to be a major angle as these two La Parkas have quite the highlight reel. Evil La Parka (known apparently as "La Park") comes to the ring with Super Crazy from The Bad Dogs...you can tell he's evil from the monster eyes on his skeleton costume and his skull shoulder pads...anyway, he has "original" written in english down one side of his boots, which Super Crazy is quick to point out to the cameras. Next it's the good La Parka, who dances his way to the ring to the tune of Micheal Jackson's "Thriller". In the ring he pushes La Park out of the way and does his crazy dance (a few weeks ago I saw these two engage in a dance off in the ring). For all the pomp and circumstance, the match is a pretty by-the-numbers: punching and kicking, La Park pulling out every heel move in the book (low blow, outside interference, holding the ropes during a pinfall, et al), and alot of taunts to the crowd. This should come as no real surprise seeing that, essentially, it's two fat guys running around in full skeleton body suits.
Things begin to get really strange when Konnan comes out yet again and he brings with him his own referee. This heel ref storms the ring, beats up the other ref, and takes over officiating the match. How this is legal is beyond me. The crowd is INCENSED. Trash rains down on the ring. The new ref basically trips la Parka or holds his arms when he tries to throw a punch...it's a handicap match, for all intents and purposes. This, by the way, is an angle worth looking at in the States...I don't think I've ever seen a heel stable with their own referee...and it drives the crowd crazy.
After several near falls in which heel ref has a slow count or comes up lame when he's about to count "3", LA Park gains the upper hand with a vicious low blow. Victory is assured but LA Park is indicating to heel ref that instead of covering his opponent, he wants to do some dancing! His teammates plead with him to cover the writhing La Parka, but he insists on doing some weird dance in the corner. When he finally makes the cover, original ref charges the ring and puts a beatdown on heel ref. La Parka with the small package and it's "1,2,3"!!
The Bad Dogs storm into the ring and lay out the referee and put a boot party to La Parka...then it's Dr. Wagner Jr. and Hernandad 187 in to make the save! Oh, now it's more members of Perros de Mal from the back!! It's pandemonium, King!! But wait...space music? Out from the back is an old man and a bunch of masked luchadores and the transvestite from the match before. They must be a force to be reckoned with, as everyone in the ring exits in fear. The old man has some words of warning for Los Perros del Mal...
But I can't understand them.
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