Friday, January 1, 2016

Have a Lucha New Year!

CaraLucha 2015/09/16

Centvrion & Latigo vs. Fly Warrior & Mr. Leo

Sooo, thecubsfan uploaded this match today for free because he watched it live and loved it, but the match is simply not good, IMHO. It’s a generic athletic indie match, no different than what you see in USA, but here it just happens that participants wear cool masks and the crowd chants “esto es lucha” instead of “this is wrestling”. The best parts of the match were the opening five minutes of cool matwork and maybe two really awesome fancy moves/dives, but that’s about it, because everything else was just – average. Technically, they did everything mostly right, but the match lacked flow and there was no emotional depth. Basically – a match. Some cool and visually attractive shit happened, that’s for sure, but it wasn’t enough to make this match good.

Apparently a turn and stable formation happened after the end, and I always take that stuff into account (rating), but it’s not shown in this video, therefore I don’t know whether it added or took away from the overall story.

**3/4


DTU 2015/11/26

Rocky Lobo vs. Dragon Rojo Jr.

Killer lucha sprint, very intense and on-the-nose, there were no slow or methodical moments, everything was about hitting each other hard and doing crazy dives. Rojo had very underrated 2015. Damn good match here! Haven’t seen much of Rocky Lobo, but he’s always seemed a good, capable luchador, he did well here.

***3/4


DTU 2015/11/26

Draztick Boy vs. Titan

This was even shorter than Lobo/Rojo, but it was just as awesome. They filled their 7 minutes with nonstop crazy shit, felt like a Match Relampago devoid of any matwork, because these two were throwing blasts at each other right from the beginning. Imagine a match where someone outdoes Titan in crazy shit department, lol, because that’s exactly what happened here. I was little afraid when they started doing puroresu tribute sequences, but it came off as lovable instead of obnoxious, tbf. Awesome little match!

***3/4

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