- MassRafTer
- May 26, 2001
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BAEST MODE!!!
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Tonight CMLL presents its 81st Anniversary show, their biggest show of the year featuring one of the biggest matches in the history of lucha libre. It's expected to break the company's all time gate record and we can watch it for free online!
Here's the card breakdown from Cubsfan
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1) Blue Panther, Cachorro, Dragon Lee vs Felino, Puma, Tiger
The match which most transparently exists just to get people on the card. CMLL even changed it around for that purpose, adding Blue Panther and Felino to that match after just announcing the other four. The original match would have been a crazy spot fest, and the dads may slow it down while adding more sense to it. Puma and Tiger are very good but never get past a certain level. This is probably about getting young promises Dragon Lee and Cachorro up to that level.
2) Goya Kong vs Estrellita, Marcela, Princesa Sugehit, Amapola, Zeuxis, Tiffany, Dallys la Caribeña [Copa 81 Aniversario]
CMLL women do not often make the Anniversary show, which usually results in complaints from the luchadoras and their supporters. This match – for a trophy which will never be mentioned again in two weeks – is a correction for that this year, at least. It’s a normal elimination cibernetico, maybe lasting long enough to give everyone a moment and then eliminate them. All the tecnicas (Marcela, Estrellita, Sugehit and Goya Kong) either have titles or recently won big matches, which means it’s probably a ruda winning this match. Amapola hasn’t won many big matches of late and would seem like a good bet in usual CMLL terms in spreading the wins around. She would also be a great winner for ensuring a good match. There are combinations of women here who could make for a very good match and for a very trying one.
3) Máscara Dorada, Valiente, Volador Jr. vs Euforia, Mr. Niebla, Thunder
There are a lot of fun luchadors in this match, but this one seems about the decidedly unfun Thunder. After a unsucessful and error filled run as a tecnico, Thunder pulled a more than welcome disappearing act this year. It was hoped he had returned to Australia for good, but he apparently was training as a rudo under Satanico for a big return. It is always nice to see a promotion give a new guy a big chance, you just wish it was not someone who had already wasted his first chance. (Usual bit of a tall guy with muscles getting many shots.) This is his first match back. CMLL lined up three of their most popular tecnicos as a tackling dummiesand has had successes turning unpopular faces into strong rudos. Thunder will be the star of this match by design and will likely win, but it is more about he impressive he looks. This is happening even if Thunder trips over his own two feet, but it would more palletable if he did not.
4) Rey Cometa vs Cavernario [hair]
There are a few unsolved mysteries with this card. Sombra, a face of the company, being left off the show is one. Cavernario and Rey Cometa as the second apuesta match is another. At times, CMLL has hinted at a similar match with much bigger names. Even when CMLL finally settled on this match, they promoted it in such fashion that few even knew it was happening. (Maybe even the people producing the TV?) It’s a shame, because this match deserved weeks and months of hot trios to build it up and instead is going to sneak up on people as one of the best matches of the year. Rey Cometa is a spectacular high foyer and Cavernario is capable of doing anything at any time. The weekly criowd has adopted Cavernario as their own new star, and the match should be great enough to pull in those just showing up for the bigger match. Neither apuesta outcome is really in doubt and this match, like the Thunder one, is about showcasing a potential new drawing card. Cavernario is still years away, but that’s obviously the plan and why he will win.
5) La Máscara & Rush vs Negro Casas & Shocker © [CMLL TAG]
Rush has headlined the two biggest Arena Mexico houses of the year. He will semimain this one in a tag title match with La Mascara against Negro Casas and Shocker. Rush beat those two men in rough hard hitting hair matches. The much older Rush victims did win these tag titles in between, but have been otherwise trounced in this feud. There is no real next challengers for Shocker and Casas with a win, unless Sombra is swapped in, but the way thus was added suggest something is up. My wild guess is a Shocker/Casas breakup, but this us the hardest important match to pick by a wide margin.
6) Atlantis vs Último Guerrero [mask]
The saga of Atlantis and Ultimo Guerrero started ten anniversary shows ago, when a wildly pro Dr Wagner crowd rebelled and CMLL felt forced to eventually turn Atlantis rudo in response. (Same as Sombra last year.) Atlantis lied with Guerrero, then they broke up and became mal amigos. The only problem is Ultimo Guerrero stopped having new matches ten years ago, running out the same singles match every tine since. This match is where the casual fan has the advantage. Coming in fresh and not knowing which move is kicked out of everytime will only help your appreciation. Those of us who have bought a ticket are paying for the moment where Guerrero tries for his invincible Guerrero Special inverted superplex, and we find out what happens next.
and here's Dr. Lucha's preview of the main event:
quote:Atlantis
Date of birth: 09-28-1962 (52 years old)
Date of devut: 06/12/1983 (31 years, 3 months ago)
Height: 5’8”
Weight: 202 pounds
Championships and major tournaments won (includes duplicates title reigns): 33
Masks won: 13 (including Villano III, Mano Negra, Kung Fu, Talisman, Hombre Bala, Tierra-Viento-Fuego, Animals I&II)
Hairs won: 3 (MS1, Fidel Sierra, and Gran Markus Jr.)
Ultimo Guerrero
Date of birth: 03-01-1972 (42 years old)
Date of debut: September 1990 (24 years ago)
Height: 5’8”
Weight: 210 pounds
Championships and major tournaments won (includes duplicates title reigns): 24
Masks won: 4 (Villano V, Mr. Aguila, Guerrero Zulu, and Difunto II)
Hairs won: 4 (Cuchillo, Stuka, Super Parka, and Scorpio junior)
The longest-awaited, most-anticipated, and biggest-drawing match in recent CMLL history takes place in a few hours at Arena Mexico. Should the show sell out, due to the large ticket prices, it would be the first million-dollar-gate (US$) in CMLL’s 81 years.
The match, generally under consideration for the Anniversary show main event for the past 3-4 years, was decided upon almost as soon as last year’s Anniversary show ended (Indeed, Atlantis was quoted in the press 3 days after the show was over saying he believed the match was coming this year). Last year, the two were put in the main event with masks at stake and then used to try to give the rub to two younger stars, La Sombra and Volador Jr., though that largely backfired as, rightly or wrongly, the huge preponderance of fans who attended last year’s show felt baited-and-switched.
This year’s match has been clearly promoted as a singles. Both men (Atlantis in particular) have done a TON of press in mainstream media (particularly media aimed at older men, the ones who used to go to Arena Mexico every Friday night for years but left when the old main-eventers faded away and the style became all video-game offense).
Tonight is not just the end of the masked phase of one man’s career. It’s the final 1980s-style wrestling match in professional wrestling. It’s truly the end of an era, once and for all. Atlantis was one of the last people Diablo Velasco trained in the old school “NWA World Championship” style of match that was the end-all and be-all in the 1980s It was the basic framework of the Atlantis-Villano III match and will be the basic framework for tonight’s match. In modern terms, the match may or may not be good, the two men average 46 years old between them, but it is pretty likely to be a classic of the sort and style that won’t be seen again. Whether that draw a pissed-off fan with no further interest in the product to return just one last time, we’ll see; I suspect most will, but perhaps too many old hard cores have put lucha libre behind them to sell out tonight.
Ultimo Guerrero has been on such a winning streak, one no wrestler in their employ this century save 2004-2008 Mistico has duplicated, that it would seem that CMLL is telegraphing the result for tonight, but it really won’t surprise anyone if either man were to lose. There’s enough uncertainty that it will add to the drama – neither man’s winning would be nearly so big a surprise as it was when Villano V beat Blue Panther.
This match was supposed to happen at the 80th Anniversary show but CMLL owner Paco Alonso changed plans. Atlantis vs Ultimo Guerrero became Atlantis and Ultimo Guerrero vs La Sombra and Volador Jr, with the winning team getting a mask match in the main event. Sombra and Volador won and the crowd chanted "fraud." I barely watch CMLL and I am psyched for this, you should be too.
How to watch
The show starts at 9:30 but I can't post a link to the show until then because one doesn't exist. There will be a link at that point but if you won't be on the forums here are instructions on how to watch: http://www.thecubsfan.com/cmll/?p=31732
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rootin for the ultimate warrior
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- oatgan
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rootin for Shocker's music. I loved Ultimo Guerrero for a long long time but coming back as a totally casual fan I have to cheer for Atlantis this go around. Good guys are cool.
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- KungFu Grip
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I'll maybe watch this???
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- MassRafTer
- May 26, 2001
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You should watch it.
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