CMLL
2014/7/1
Mascara,
Blue Panther, Solar vs. Shocker, Gran Guerrero, Negro Navarro
Looking
at the names involved one would thing this could rock, but nah, it was
horrible. The Mascara/Shocker parts were intense and hart hitting, but not
enough to polish the turd Navarro and Solar dumped using their awful and super
slow over-exhibitiony maestro lucha that leads nowhere. Hell, even Blue Panther
fell for it, such a shame.
DUD
CMLL
2014/7/11
Sombra
vs. Shocker
A
rematch from the fantastic 6/9 match, this was another stiff, hard hitting
affair with both dudes looking great, very intense stuff. I don’t know much
about Shocker and how/where he earned his bad rep, but he’s been mostly great
this year.
****1/4
CMLL
2014/7/15
Mascara
vs. Shocker
Falls
1 & 2 were good, but the tercera was not.
**3/4
CMLL
2014/7/18
Campeonato Mundial de Parejas CMLL:
Rush & Sombra vs. Negro Casas & Shocker ©
Fucking
excellent tag full of manliness with four dudes going HAM at each other, the
last major Rush/Casas prelude to the hair match two weeks later. Almost a total
brawl with only a few (relatively) calm parts in the tercera, these guys beat
the living shit out of each other. The tecnico comeback in the segunda might
just as well be the greatest comeback of the year, that was just a sheer thrill
of energy and high tension. There was a Rush/Casas sequence at the beginning of
the tercera that tore the house down, I don’t think it’s possible to be better
at wrestling than what those two displayed right there, pure magical
brilliance.
****3/4
CMLL
2014/7/14
Campeonato Mundial de Peso Ligero del CMLL:
Stigma vs. Virus ©
This
match aired during the G1 Climax madness and when I checked it I didn’t think
it was all that great, but now few months later? Forget about it, the match is
incredibly good, your typical Virus title match loaded with nifty lucha, the
throwback to some other eras. Stigma is the local Arena Puebla fan favorite and
everyone’s rooting for him here, it really made for a great feeling and
atmosphere. I don’t know, at this point I even feel a little bit ridiculous for
throwing all these big amounts of stars on Virus’ matches, but he’s just SO
FUCKING AWESOOOME, I can’t help it. Just because it doesn’t feel normal doesn’t
mean he doesn’t deserve it, let’s face it, dude’s one of the very best
wrestlers on this planet. Good thing he only wrestled four title matches this
year (Titan, Fuego, this one, Dragon Lee), otherwise you’d all think I’m fucked
in the head for praising his body of work on a very regular basis, just imagine
8 or 10 Virus title matches in a single year, we’d lose our shit. You don’t
trust me, check around with other people around the corner, you’ll see everyone
loving Virus, that savvy maestro with many, many tricks. Frankly, I wouldn’t be
surprised if I rewatched this match sometime next year only to find out the sole
reason I’m not giving it five stars right now is because I almost feel
embarrassed and pretentious for all this praise directed towards Virus, I mean
for fuck’s sake, I rated his Dragon Lee match five stars just few days ago,
amirite?
****3/4
Enter the lazy ass part, yaaay:
CMLL
2014/7/1
Atlantis
vs. Ultimo Guerrero
***1/2
CMLL
2014/7/8
Blue
Panther, Titan, Cachorro vs. Mr. Niebla, Felino, Cavernario
Despite
having a decent primera, this was shit, because Niebla was so fucking terrible
he nixed everyone and everything else, even the swell Cachorro/Cavernario
sessions. Bad lucha is truly bad, this was very close to the DUD territory.
bad
CMLL
2014/6/30
Blue
Panther, Angel de Oro, Stigma vs. Dragon Rojo Jr., Polvora, Virus
***3/4
CMLL
2014/6/30
Rush
vs. Shocker
***
CMLL
2014/7/4
Ingobernables
(Rush, Mascara, Sombra) vs. Negro Casas, Mr. Niebla, Shocker
bad
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