AAA 10/17

Heroes Inmortales IX (Part 2)

Heroes Inmortales IX (Part 1)

AAA 09/20

AAA 09/13

Verano de Escandalo '15

AAA Verano de Escandalo 2015

(2015/06/14)

AAA 09/10

AAA 08/31 (Part 2)

AAA 2015/08/31

Super Fly, Carta Brava Jr., Machine Rocker vs. Australian Suicide, Venum, Super Nova

Fuuuuck, this was even slightly better than the previous week’s (but same show actually) trio match. Fantastic shit right there, from Super Fly being a surly aggressor, Machine Rocker being the best possible Psicosis, to the tecnicos doing some truly buggy flying things. It’s official now – Australian Suicide is awesome. Incredibly retarded ring name, though. Venum looks like someone who could repeat Aerostar’s success in Lucha Underground. Machine Rocker also belongs there, great and underrated guy. This is a must-see sprint.

****1/2

TripleMania

AAA TripleMania XXIII

(2015/08/09)

AAA 06/28

AAA 2015/06/28

Campeonato Mundial Mini de AAA: Mini Psycho Clown vs. Dinastia ©

Great 10 minute match, as clean as title matches in AAA can get, with only two rudo interferences by the second (Super Fly) and one tecnico second (Aerostar) save. This was the tale of two halves and both were nifty, first we got a lot of nice chain and hold-for-hold llaves with beautifully executed armdrags and shit, then the other half evolved into big moves and counters. Beautiful little match with both minis looking awesome, loved it.

****

Classic AAA

AAA 1996/10/6

LUCHA EN JAULA: Pierroth Jr., Killer, Halcon Dorado Jr. vs. Mascara Sagrada Jr., Blue Demon Jr., La Parka

Fun cage match brawl, basically as good as it could get with the “escape” stipulation and some of the names involved. But hey, it was entertaining enough and kept short, with a minimalistic structure and layout. Parka was brutal in his comeback punishment, he went full throttle on the rudos with chairshots and caneshots. Totally watchable tussle.

***

AAA Rey de Reyes

AAA Rey de Reyes 2015

(2015/3/18)

Campeonato Mundial Crucero de AAA: Fenix vs. Hijo del Fantasma ©

Good spotfest, but kind of soulless all around, visually it was spectacular but in the end pro-wrestling is way more than just “my turn-your turn” big move exchanging. However, Fantasma super fast and killer tope deserves two stars alone.

***1/4

AAA Rey de Reyes 2015

(2015/3/18)

Villano IV vs. Blue Demon Jr.

Epic throwback smackfest, this was a three act play and they did one helluva job in recreating the old school lucha. The opening stage was a long hold-for-hold matwork session, it wasn’t anything particularly scientific or fancy in Virus style, it was just two veterans struggling and fighting on the mat, using simple and traditional moves. After a stalemate on the mat, they suddenly switched to nasty blood brawling, both guys cut themselves and bled hard, it definitely added to the drama. Naturally, V4 was godlike in punching, there was a moment with him and Demon going back-and-forth Rocky Marciano on each other and the crowd went apeshit for it. Third act saw things going back to normal, they exchanged some big moves before the awesome finish. Match was very similar to the last year's masterpiece, which was one of my favorites in 2014. These two fucks are slow and not very athletic, but wrestling is the game of minds, not the game of jumping around. After the match, Villano IV asked for one more match down the road, Demon accepted but he wants it to be mascara contra mascara. FUCK! YEAH!

****3/4

AAA Rey de Reyes 2015

(2015/3/18)

Rey de Reyes 2014: Aerostar vs. Mesias vs. Texano Jr. vs. Psycho Clown

Another excellent match, probably the best 4-way in over a decade (?), this was a helluva slugfest, Aerostar did another big ass dive from the lightning structure and his three minutes of fame before he got eliminated were amazing. Mesias is a freshly turned rudo so he teamed with Texano a lot here. Psycho Clown and Texano had a relatively long mini-match as the last men standing, and they made sure to recreate their TripleMania magic, they worked such a surly brawl, both guys bled like pigs and fought outside the ring a lot. Epic match. The only slight negative is ref Maya shenanigans.

****1/2

AAA Rey de Reyes 2015

(2015/3/18)

Hijo del Perro Aguayo & Pentagon Jr. vs. Rey Mysterio Jr. & Myzteziz

Damn good match, but very hard to watch because this was Perro’s last match for AAA. L Both Perro and Pentagon did their usual best here – they made the high flying tecnicos look like solid gold. Rey-Rey looked great in his AAA return.

***3/4