Perro Versus Two Dickbags

AAA Triplemania I

 (1993/04/30)

Cabellera vs. Mascara: Perro Aguayo vs. Mascara Ano 2000

Semi-main of the first Triplemania ever, the big culmination of the heated rivalry, epic clash in front of 48,000 Perro marks, fucking great apuesta encounter. Perro loses primera via controversial foul, Dos Mil loses segunda via obvious foul (brassknuckles) and tercera was your good old lucha restart with big moves, bigger drama in front of electrifying fans. They created such grand high-end match by using nothing but the most basic moves and sequences, and the match was totally 50-50 because you don’t often see the hair losing to the mask, plus Dos Mil’s second, Universo 2000, is basically like the biggest piece of shit you’ll ever see and is fucking GREAT at cheating. Obviously Perro bled, but it wasn’t your usual Perro-as-a-slaughtered-animal bladejob. Mascara Ano’s mask was also red, but I couldn’t tell whether it was a bladejob or Perro’s blood. The only thing I’d change about the match is the ending. While the low-blow finish from Perro felt sooo fucking good to the fans due to Dos Mil finally tasting his own medicine and looking like a dork in the biggest match of his career, I’d still have preferred an additional blast or two. But nevermind, because this match is still a goddamn groovefest!

****3/4

Catching Up With the Summer Time CMLL, Vol. 1

I barely watched any CMLL during this last summer due to many reasons, the main being the exhausting G1 Climax, so now I cherry-picked the matches that sound really fucking good on paper, and man, some true gems right there, here's my Vol. 1:

CMLL 2014/6/30

Mascara vs. Cabellera: Asturiano vs. Pequeno Warrior

Two small prelim guys tore Arena Puebla down in this fantastic apuesta match. It had a raw, gritty feeling, it didn’t even feel like a CMLL match, but rather like a fierce indie slugfest. I don’t know anything about this feud nor I watched any of the matches that built to this one, but fuck me, they were so good it didn’t even matter. Pequeno is the mini version of Psicosis, I guess, and his amazing performance here secured him a worldwide nomination for the Biggest Prick, the shit he did was so old school, he was a relentless, merciless son of a bitch who abused both Asturiano and his second. Pequeno’s second was also a marvelous douchebag here, they were taking constant shortcuts, cheap shots and ambushes, I’m not going into details, just sit down and enjoy this tremendous lucha de apuesta. Shame about CMLL’s no blood policy, because that was the only thing missing here.

****1/2

CMLL 2014/9/16

Negro Casas, Cavernario, Hechicero vs. Sombra, Diamante Azul, Dragon Lee

The rudo trio is basically a dream team, so much swag there, their teamwork is impeccable, and the best thing is, they’re willing to throw a nasty punch or two to make things go their way. La Sombra was actually the “weakest” in terms of displayed quality here, as Dragon Lee got another chance to shine, and he took it, while Diamante Azul busted out the best performance since I’m watching CMLL on a regular basis. To sum up, this was a killer trio.

****

CMLL 2014/6/24

Ultimo Guerrero & Gran Guerrero vs. Atlantis & Titan

Less than seven minutes long, but borderline great, there was no feeling out process, everything was about hit & run, the whole match pure intensity and hatred.

***3/4

CMLL 2014/6/27

5-on-5 TORNEO CIBERNETICO: Escuela Negro Casas (Negro Casas, Cavernario, Dragon Lee, Cachorro, Soberano Jr.) vs. Escuela Virus (Virus, Hechicero, Guerrero Negro Jr., Super Halcon Jr., Star Jr.)

Long and ridiculously fun cibernetico with no slow moments, there was a constant movement, usually involving heavy hitting or high flying. Some spots were blown early in the match, but here – it was the part of the charm and kind of added to the story, because there were many young and inexperienced fellas, and the older dudes made sure the mistakes were being acknowledged, sold and punished. The combos that rocked were endless here: Casas/Hechicero, Virus/DL, Virus/Cavernario, Virus/Cachorro, Hechicero/Cavernario, Hechicero/Cachorro… and – Casas/Virus at last. To my knowledge they never met mano a mano, hopefully that changes sometime in the future.

****1/4

CMLL 2014/6/24

Ultimo Guerrero & Gran Guerrero vs. Blue Panther & Cachorro

Five minutes of surly awesomeness.

***3/4

CMLL 2014/6/24

Virus, Morphosis, Olimpico vs. Triton, Fuego, Stigma

Virus vs. everyone else carried this match to greatness. Holy shit, Virus is truly incredible, honestly I can’t stress it enough, his mat stuff with Fuego was smashing, and the hate displayed to Stigma, brrr, mouthwatering.

****

CMLL 2014/7/8

Atlantis, Valiente, Rey Cometa vs. Euforia, Dragon Rojo Jr., Polvora

Great match where Cometa displayed the whole luxury of his talent, he really might be the best flyer in the world today.

****

CMLL 2014/7/4

Atlantis, Valiente, Titan vs. Guerreros Laguneros (Ultimo Guerrero, Niebla Roja, Gran Guerrero)

Very nice Atlantis/UG prelude trio with a particularly smart and funny finish.

***3/4

Chico/Terry: YES YOU ARE FUCKED, SHIT OUT OF LUCK, NOW I'M COMPLETE AND MY COCK YOU WILL SUCK!

IWRG 2012/1/22

Chico Che vs. Black Terry

Complete, total bloodbath, good old vicious lucha brawl with tons and tons of pure hate and throwing kitchen sinks at each other. One of the best matches of this decade, an organic and minimalistic five star masterpiece that will blow your mind, it begins with Chico ambushing Terry during his entrance and what we got afterwards is just a total annihilation of the 60 year old Terry, basically a prolonged squash, cat-and-mouse style, Chico was mauling him right, left and centre with chairs, buckets, ringposts and Mike Tyson punches. Terry got to hit his first hope spot about 8 minutes in, and then it was his turn to dish out some barbaric punishment on CC, he gave him a proper taste of his own medicine, amazing shit. The match is 16 minutes long and has a clean finish, just about everything was picture perfect here. Considering the clean finish here, it’s unclear why it led to the hair match for next week, because the aftermatch stuff is missing here. One more thing, this is a handheld video, it made an experience so gritty and rough looking, you could feel raw intensity and emotion in every strike, every sell possible.

*****

IWRG 2012/1/29

Cabellera vs. Cabellera: Chico Che vs. Black Terry

So, exactly a week after the one fall cult classic here we go with a hair match, and again, Terry is ambushed before even entering the ring, this time with a barbaric headshot chairshot, this time Chico’s perishing control session was even longer than the one from the previous week, here it took 10 minutes for Terry to hit a meaningful comeback move as he was on the verge of losing (Chico has already won the primera in five minutes), he somehow managed to win the segunda and gained some advantage for the tercera where he was a dominant force in the opening stages, it was a 13 min long fall where we saw another great round of gritty, raw manliness and heavy smacking across the body. However, considering this is a hair match, the ref bump and interferences were inevitable and ultimately cost this havoc from reaching the five star territory, but that’s no big deal, because that bar was raised too high, the relative overbooking is just a minor setback in what is really a fanFUCKINGtastic apuesta slugfest. Fucking hell, this was glorious.

****3/4