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

Shitty Lucha

DTU 2014/12/20

DTU Extreme Championship: Ciclope vs. Violento Jack ©

DTU is basically a CZW/BJW inspired lucha promotion, but from what I have witnessed, not as nearly as good. This match sucked, it lasted a very long 27 minutes and while they didn’t go all out in doing stupid shit, it was still bad. I appreciated the relatively good pace they worked, as it gave us time to absorb the violent spots easier, but they were kind of dull, they seemed to have struggles whether they want to be an authentic ultraviolent lucha or Big Japan/Combat Zone tribute act. Whatever it is, it sure as hell didn’t work here. These two guys are just not very good at pro-wrestling, at least judging from this match. I love no sell sequences when done right, but these two sucked at it, especially the challenger, they came across as two total wannabes. Bad match.

bad