Lucha TV Report: 10/17/2000- In this report: Casas v. Santo for La Leyenda de Plata, Abismo Negro turns face

*Note: There were no reports for the last two weeks due to Galavision not recieving a tape of the shows from Televisa, who opted to air Olympic soccer two weeks late or some crap. It's great because the last two weeks had a torneo cibernetico and Dr. Wagner Jr. v. Negro Casas. Televisa and Galavision are like the dumb and dumber of wrestling programming.

EMLL:

Momentos Estarles:

Painful- Tony Rivera with a stiff dropkick to the face!

Spectacular- Ricky Marvin with an incredible double jump springboard tornillo! (I tried to get a good capture, I have made a video of this, not sure where I will put it though...)

Festive- Super Porky with a fat plancha off the apron

Painful(again?)- Infernales spike Villano III with a press chokeslam HARD.

 

Hijo del Santo v. Negro Casas (for La Leyenda de Plata Trophy)- This is Santo's first match in EMLL in about 8 months, as he has returned permanently, giving their roster of tecnicos an ever larger boost of talent. La Leyenda de Plata is a trophy with El Santo(the most famous wrestler in Lucha history)'s mask on it, and it is defended like any other title, once a year in the fall. In order to challenge for the trophy, you have to win a Torneo Cibernetico. Thus this is one of the most prestegious things you can win in EMLL.

Even before the match begins, we are greated by a speech by Ultimo Guerrero, berating both Santo and Casas for "losing the belts" to them. Ultimo basically boasts that they are now the champs, and Casas and Santo are afraid to challenge for them.

 

Our match starts with a handshake, as both combatnats circle each other. Santo is worried because his second is Tarzan Boy, who had recently shaken hands with Shocker, leader of Los Guapos. His partners in crime Bestia and Scorpio are hated rivals of both tecnicos, and in fact they had a combined mask/hair match about 2 years ago.   After a minute of circling and taking in cheers from the crowd, they finally lock up, as Casas takes Santo down in an armbar. This move is reversed into a kneelock by Santo, but is turned into a cross armbar  by Casas, forcing Santo to reach for the ropes. Both men are back on their feet now, as Santo hits a few of his signature headscissor takedowns, angering Casas very much. Santo will have none of it, as he dropkicks him right in the face, then dives onto him with a near-corner post tope. Tarzan Boy helps a dazed Negro 4:40 back into the ring, and then pulls him out for no apparent reason, except to anger the fans. He gets pelted with some trash and reacts quite suprised. When he finally turns all the way, watch the show for beer bottles projected at him. Shocker has enough of the crowd booing his new "friend", and proceeds to walk him out.  With that disturbance out of the way, the match can finally continue. Casas hits a cross body, and then a tilt a whirl slam. You can see how much the fans love Santo's son as even a few stomps from Casas draw a round of boos. Santo comes back with some high knees and a dropkick, then dives out, but instead connects with a spectating Scorpio Jr. as Casas moves out of the way! Blue Panther looks on concerned. Santo sells the dive like a miss, and barely makes it back in at twenty. Negro tries to capitalize with a superplex, but gets thrown off.  He is prone from 'la de caballo, so Santo tries to lock it on, but the referee makes him break the hold for hair pulling. Santo now is pressured to win the match, so he uses a series of rollups into pinfalls- a sunset flip, reverse cradle, and huracanrana, but none of these moves gets the three! Santo goes up top for one of his setup moves, the flying headbutt(to a standing opponent), but eats foot on the way down. Negro Casas then uses La Casita, and gets the... three??!?! Very questionable booking there. In even more confusion, Scorpio Jr. attacked Santo after the match, which wouldn't be odd(Hijo del Santo is credited with taking his mask, after all), except that he waited until after a clean pinfall to do it. Negro Casas made the save for his former tag partner, and was in turn assaulted by Blue Panther, his second during this match... making even less sense! Overall the match was short, and while a lot went on, I wanted to see more of a clean bout between the two former tag champs. If Casas becomes a rudo once again, it will be a real goofy move on EMLL's part, as 1) the last thing EMLL needs is more rudos and 2) he has no real reason to trust the Guapos(yet). We will have to watch this angle close to see how it pans out.

AAA

Abismo Negro, Cibernetico, Electro Shock, Charly Manson v. La Parka Jr., Mascara Segrada, Heavy Metal, Sangre Chicana- This first fall begins with a lengthy exchange between Charly Manson and Heavy Metal. Manson looked angry at Abismo Negro for not covering for him enough, and a fight almost broke out between the two. Charly was able to get his shit together and hit a great plancha, beginning a flurry of offense for the rudos. Pinfalls on Parka Jr. and Mascara Segrada soon followed. The second fall was quite the opposite story, as it was over just as fast as fall one. Abismo Negro started the fall with Parka Jr., who quickly pulled an impressive backflip twisting armdrag out of nowhere, lighting a fire under the tecnicos. Add this to the fact that Abismo's teamates would not help him, and soon the king of the piledriver, and Cibernetico found themselves pinned. By now the collective fingers of the rudo team were being pointed at Abismo. The third fall had some back and forth action, but the real story was Charly Manson's brooding hate for Abismo, as both men exchanged cheapshots. Eventually Abismo would have enough and stepped in the way of a running Manson and nailed a quebradora. As a result, his team turned on him. Cibernetico didn't hit him, but you see, Absimo wouldn't break a hold for him the whole match, so Ciber did very little to help him. Abismo escaped up to the balcony, where he cut a promo, and while I couldn't hear a word he said, I would think he basically denounced LLL, aligned himself with Pena, and called hismself a tecnico. Well this was enough for Cibernetico, as he called for the entire Vipers group to attack Abismo. Pena came to the rescue though, sending tecnicos such as Parka Jr. and Mascara Segrada to come to Abismo's aid.

Overall the face turn itself was done well, but I have to question the logic behind it. Abismo Negro was one of the best rudos in Mexico. Him as a goodie-two shoes doesn't seem right... I mean, he is the Black Abyss, King of the Night, and now he will be hanging out with Latin Lover, and Canek? Plus he might not be very good at wrestling the tecnico style, he is afterall, fairly tall and lanky. The face turn of Abismo will be an interesting watch, to see if it becomes more than one of Penas typical angles- big start, little progression, everything back to normal in two months.

Results:

EMLL-

Olimpico, Lizmark Jr., and Mr. Niebla defeated Fuerza Guerrera, Violencia, and Gran Markus. This was a long, but fairly vanilla match. Fuerza and Violencia didn't feel like doing much of anything and so the match suffered big time. Tecnicos took the fall with two huracanranas on both Fuerza and Markus.

Black Warrior, Dr. Wagner Jr., and Blue Panther beat Tarzan Boy, Atlantis, and Rayo de Jalisco Jr.  The big story here was Tarzan Boy showing huge signs of doing a rudo turn. In the third fall, Atlantis accidently bumped him off the apron recieving an irish whip. Tarzan must have been annoyed, because as Atlantis climbed the buckles Blue Panther with a plancha or something, Tarzan Boy elbowed him in the face, and then walked off with the applauding Los Guapos, who were at ringside. A pin soon followed for Los Rudos. Were Tarzan Boy to join Los Guapos, considering how much heat he has *now* as a face, imagine him aligned with Shocker, Scorpio Jr., and Bestia Salvaje, some of the most hated men in the rings of Mexico. The match itself was pretty long and quite decent. Black Warrior took a nasty bump on the ramp with a monkey flip from Atlantis, and later was supposed to hit Tarzan with an insane tope suicida, but the retards at Televisa cut that move out of the match completely. Wagner had an upgrade of prematch attire, sporting Muta-like robe and mask.

Negro Casas d. Hijo del Santo to win the Leyenda de Plata Tropy. Full details above.

AAA

Pirata Morgan & Texano d. Hector Garza & Hijo del Perro to win the AAA Tag Team Titles. Match went as normal until Heavy Metal attacked Hector Garza outside the ring. A two-on-one beating ensued and the champs were counted out. Lots of uncooperation between the two feuding former champs in the match, as shown above.

Super Crazy, Espiritu, Nygma, and Picudo drew Psicosis, Mosco del Merced, Histeria, and Maniaco. This was billed as an extreme wrestling match. The first fall went to the Vipers because the Vatos Locos were DQed for excessivo de rudeza, for stomping down Histeria. The second fall went to the Vatos after Vipers used chairs too many times in the ring. The third fall had some back and forth chair-swinging, a few dives including a nice super quebrada by Super Crazy, and a senton bomb from the upperlevel to a table on the floor on Psicosis. I think the ref counted both guys out. So in a hardcore match, all three falls ended in DQ.

Heavy Metal, Parka Jr., Mascara Segrada, and Sangre Chicana d. Abismo Negro, Cibernetico, Electro Shock, and Charly Manson. More above!

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