CMLL Lunes Clásico de Arena Puebla 9/23/2019

CMLL Lunes Clásico de Arena Puebla 9/23/2019

ÚLTIMO DRAGONCITO, ASTRO Y DARK SOUL VS ASTRUIANO, ESPÍRITU MALIGNO Y JOKER

Dark Soul

Astro

Ultimo Dragoncito

Espiritu Maligno

Asturiano

Joker

 

Astro comes out to the Star Wars theme and only has one eyehole in his mask. Ultimo does kickouts with the girl dancers. Joker is as creepy as it gets and Asturiano has a nice shiny cape. Soul and Maligno do some nice matwork at the start and really look like they should be partners. You have 3 evil goth looking dudes and 3 normal masked dudes and they are all spread about. I just don't get it. Soul knocked down a dude selling concessions on his way out of the ring LOL There are really not a lot of people here. UDC got stuck under the top rope when running the top rope and Maligno grabbed the second fall on Soul where he put him in a camel clutch but stretched his arms and legs at the same time. Joker accidentally threw Soul over top when he backdropped him near the ropes and did a great cheer after Joker and Soul lariated the heck out of each other then Cito and Asturiano randomly went to the finish. Cito pinned Asturiano with a hurracanrana. Really fun match with lots of good action. Joker may be my new favorite luchador and is truly awesome. I enjoyed this a ton.

SANELY, LLUVIA Y SKADY VS AMAPOLA, TIFFANY Y METÁLICA

Sanely

Lluvia

Metalica

Metalica

Tiffany

Skady

Skady backwards tope's Tiffany

Sanely

Women wrestlers in masks just rarely works for me. They just look odd in them. Lluvia pulls it off okay though. Sanely has one of the worst masks I've ever seen. Looks like half-Atlantis, half-Mano Negra(NOTE - Turns out she is Mano's Daughter. There you go!). Tiffany kicks Sanely down low and then Metalica does too. Techs win the 1st. Skady did a backwards tope on Tiffany and it was like watching someone get hit with a refrigerator. Sanely did backwards roll through into a dragon sleeper and won the match with it on Metallica. Her and Metallica then fought a little after. This wasn't bad at all. Tiffany was great and Sanely was fine.

BLUE PANTHER JR, REY COMETA Y BLACK PANTHER VS OKUMURA, PÓLVORA Y EL MALAYO

El Explosivo - POLVORA

Black Panther does an awesome headstand out of Okumura's headscissors on him early. The Panther's take the first with dual hanging nudo submissions. If that sounds odd, it's because there was little to the fall. Cometa mocks Okumura's "Suck It" pose. Polv and Blue Jr. have a little posedown. Blue Jr. double suplexes Oku and Polv. Malayo tries to back up to the 2nd rope and slips and the crowd laughs. He just throws his hands up at them. Blue Jr. is screwing around on the ramp and Rey tries a springboard turnaround crossbody but is dropkicked by Polv and loses. Polv and Oku tease the faces by dragging Black over for a tag when the ref isn't looking. Black even gets one but the ref doesn't count it for some reason.  Blue Jr. clears out the heels with tilt-a-whirl backbreakers and they all roll-up the heels for 2, then do stereo superkicks. They all try to dive but get caught by the heels. Malayo hits a cool tilt-a-whirl sideslam. they do a big tower of doom spot for 2. There's a double pin at the 3rd with each side losing a man. Black does a big tope onto Okumura on the outside, then Polva and Rey get into it. Polvora argues with the ref and Rey rolls him up as the ref fast counts him. Total bs. This was a little random at times but had good action.

VOLADOR JR, ÚLTIMO GUERRERO Y MÍSTICO VS BIG DADDY, HECHICERO Y DARK MAGIC

We pretty much go right into the brawling in-ring here. The foreigners had some awful offense early. Big Daddy whipped Volador who did not look happy at all and Hechi did a swinging hammerlock on Mistico to win the fall. Big Daddy openly called a spot and it looked awful, then him and Magic tried to do one together and Hechi had to rush them along. UG won with a grounded stretch muffler submission out of nowhere in a bad fall. Ultimo and Mistico working together just makes no sense to me in an already bad match. UG did a hard baseball slide on Big Daddy to make him fly off the apron. In the 3rd, Mistico and UG turned on each other and started slapping each other, then were rolled up for the double pin. The three then argued. This wasn't any good.

CARÍSTICO VS NEGRO CASAS

Negro cheapshots Caris with a dropkick to start. They do a nice little roll through exchange and Caris topes him outside. Mistico crossbodies him from a springboard then rolls him up for a quick pin. They trade some shots and Negro dropkicks his knee, which doesn't hit, and he pins him. Zacaraias topes Mistico but gets caught and Negro hits La Silla on him. Then Zac 619's him. Mistico misses a swanton and Zac tries to pin him but the ref kicks him off. They trade some decent shots and Mistico spinkicks him in the shin, which he sells through his stomach. Mistico goes for a moonsault from the top and Negro catches him with boots. Negro goes for La Magistral, Mistico reverses it and pins him. This was pretty straight and to the point. They didn't do anything too big and they didn't really build to a big finish. The strikes were pretty bad here as they really missed. That brought the match down a ton for me.You have to give Negro credit though. He's almost 60 and looks great out there, moving better than people half his age do.

Overall thoughts: I liked 3 of the 5 matches. Joker was awesome and I really liked the mini's match. The semi-main stunk as expected and the main had some really badly missed strikes that brought it down.