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By El Cultico
It’s Eastern weekend, a weekend that sees plenty of Easter eggs, chocolate, homemade mac and cheese, fillet mignon dinners, and ABC airing the Charlton Heston comedy The Ten Commandments for five hours on either Saturday or Sunday. Why do that when Nicolas Ray’s The King of Kings, which actually features Jesus rising from the dead, is right there? Beats me; perhaps it’s because Orson Welles used the hard T when saying apostles in his narration, or perhaps it’s because that film inspired Wim Wenders’ Until The End of the World, the only film longer than the Charlton Heston comedy The Ten Commandments! But enough about biblical epics; the point is it may be Easter, but IWRG’s Sunday show waits for no holliday. HIT THE DBZ MUSIC!
Last time, ON IWRG Z, Hell Boy overcame a spirited effort from Pro Wrestling NOAH’s Jack Morris to defend his IWRG Mexico Championship for the eighteenth time. Meanwhile, the IWRG Tryout competition came to an explosive end, with Falcon Fire winning enough of the judges over to defeat Aztec Fly and Madness, securing 50,000 pesos, and a full-time spot in IWRG. Now, the two worlds will collide this week, as Falcon teams with IWRG stalwart Jessy Ventura and AAA World Cruiserweight Champion Laredo Kid to take on Hell Boy, Multifacetico Jr., and Rey Leon. Will Falcon prove himself against IWRG and AAA’s best? Will more members of Hell Boy and Chessman’s masked men faction become known? Will there be more references to The Ten Commandments and The King of Kings in this review? Find out, TODAY!
The show began with tumbling drills featuring some IWRG talents, like the Revolution Crew and Big Mike, trainees, and some children. It was basically like the drills CMLL runs with their students before the Bodybuilding Contest every year. I was happy to see this, a) because I always enjoy these drills and b) because it allowed me to eat my Easter dinner (the aforementioned fillet’s and mac and cheese) without worrying I would be missing too much. Just like Sam Adams, tumbling drills are always a good decision. Actually, i can’t speak to that regarding Sam Adams, as I don’t drink beer. If you need a soda recommendation though, I’m your dude. Anyway, these drills continued for a bit, and even led to the trainees (not the children) practicing dives and catching dives. This was fun. CMLL should definitely incorporate it into the bodybuilding contest come next year.
Black Ninja, Eligor, and Indra defeated Lobo de Oro, Shura King, and Titanium after Eligor pinned Shura King with a Springboard Crucifix Destroyer. To use an often quoted phrase when one is asked “what’s up?”, this match was not much. Honestly, the most eventful things to come out of it were Indra and Titanium trying to do spots like main eventers, only they’re opening match guys who are greener than a Minnesota Wild jersey, and Shura King kicking out just a smidge late (by design) at the end of the match. Everything else beyond that was mundane. Even the dive sequences towards the end were unremarkable. This match was like watching six poor man’s Esfinge’s wrestle each other, and that may be the most insulting thing I’ve ever said about Esfinge. He may not be great, but this match make me appreciate him and his ilk (good, but uninteresting and not great) a lot more. * ¾
Angel Kid & King Cobra defeated Eddy Maceria & Pit Bull after Angel Kid pinned Maceria with a Super Rana. This match was better than the opener, although that’s like saying The King of Kings was better than The Greatest Story Ever Told; duh! The only thing The Greatest Story Ever Told has going for it is John Wayne portraying the Roman soldier who says “truly, he was the son of god” as if he just walked off the set of Stagecoach.
“Pilgrim, I think I’m cast in the wrong movie.”
As I was saying before I got sidetracked, this was better than the opener, although it was still no great shakes. Pit Bull, no relation to the rapper of the same name, was all over the place in this one; he completely whiffed catching King Cobra on an early flip dive, but then caught Cobra’s tope suicida almost too well. I guess it is easier to catch them when they’re diving right onto you instead of twisting and turning. Everyone else was solid; Cobra worked hard, Angel Kid (who looks to be one of those 5’5, 100 lb wrestlers that keeps Pat McAfee up at night) showed some nice spunk, and Eddy Maceria has an outstanding tilt-a-whirl backbreaker. He also based pretty well, which is pretty funny given he’s not that big, and Pit Bull, who looked to be nearly 6’0 and over 200 lbs, couldn’t catch a simple flip dive. Such is life in lucha! ** ½
Jasper Faster, Nicolas Richard, and Tempo defeated Black Dragon Jr., Black Dragon NG, and Comando Negro Jr. after pinning Black Dragon NG with what was supposed to be a Canadian Destroyer but looked more like a Sunset Flip Powerbomb. This would be the funniest thing Jasper did in this match if he hadn’t decided to start going by Jasper Faster while working like someone who’s driving and doing their best to not go above the speed limit. Like the last match, this had moments, but also just didn’t really didn’t click for me. It almost did at the end, as the two Black Dragon’s got off some dives, followed by Comando Negro Jr., who is not a small individual, doing a high cross into the stands! That was a super cool moment. Unfortunately, the rest of the match was the basic feeling out stretch to start, and then a LONG rudo segment where nothing of consequence happened. I’ve seen Japser enough now that I can safely say he does next to nothing for me, and Nicolas Richard didn’t do much more. In his defense, Tempo did, but even then it was only towards the end, making me wonder what would happen if he was put in there with better partners. Once again, this was a match I must describe as “not much.” ** ½
Falcon Fire, Jessy Ventura, and Laredo Kid defeated Hell Boy, Multifacetico Jr., and Rey Leon after Falcon pinned both Multifacetico and Rey Leon after hitting them with a Moonsault while Multifacetico and Leon were stacked on top of each other. There were fireworks before the match, with Hell Boy insulting both Falcon and Laredo and Laredo even responding, leading me to believe that there might be some post-match activity to set up a match. Alas, there were no challenges, meaning there will be no Hell Boy vs. Laredo match, no chance of an IWRG guy pinning a guy who technically works for WWE, leaving me almost as sad as I was when Lucifer ended.
This was definitely the best match on the show to this point, though it honestly got by more on star power than anything. If you’ve seen an AAA or IWRG trios main event, than you’ve seen this one; the rudos dominate for a long stretch of time, the tecnicos regain control, there’s a lot of brawling, and then some actual wrestling before the finish. It doesn’t make for the most exciting match, but there’s a reason everyone keeps doing it, and this was at least a passable version of the match. What did help it was that it had Laredo, one of the best luchadors in the world, and even at half speed he’s still really good, and it had Falcon Fire being thrown to the wolves by putting him with a lot of good luchadors. I thought he acquitted himself quite well; he didn’t get to do anything too spectacular, but he sold well, his offense towards the end looked really good, and he never looked out of place when working with Hell Boy, a good sign for his future. From that standpoint, the match was a triumph. From other standpoints, it was just good. *** ¼
Speaking of Falcon Fire, IWRG decided to show highlights of his road to winning the IWRG Tryouts, from him being selected for Diosa Quetzal’s team to winning the whole thing last week. Nice primer for those who missed the whole deal I suppose. Also nice for me, cause it meant I got to see Diosa Quetzal. What can I say, the heart wants what the heart wants!
IWRG Tryouts (Carinoso Jr., Dezzendiente, El Actor, Gasparin Jr., Madness, Psicodelia, and Voltrex) defeated Gym Fill (Fly, Kenji, Mascara de Hierro, Principe Centauro, Sol, Super Boy, and X-Devil) to win the Torneo Fill Cibernetico. Madness was the sole survivor, pinning Super Boy with a roll up after Psicodelia pulled Super Boy’s mask off while Madness distracted the referee. What a total rudo move from Madness; I’m so proud of him. So proud in fact that I’m going to steal an old gimmick I used to do for CMLL luchador Magnus and apply it to him, with a slight modification.
This was the match this show was sorely needing. I’m pretty sure this was my first Torneo Fill (it’s a match I’ve heard of but haven’t ever actually seen), and I left more than satisfied. Cibernetico matches are generally always delightful due to its uniqueness and the amounts of high flying they usually contain, but there’s something about the match being held in the crammed together confines of Arena Naucalpan that really bring out the craziness. And this match had craziness; big dives, crowd dives, Doomsday Destroyers, incredible pacing, and, shockingly, really smooth wrestling. Oh, and it also had a post-match brawl because, well, the FILL guys didn’t take too kindly to the Tryout boys screwing them over. Can’t say I blame them, and can’t say I wasn’t cheering them on given this means we likely get another match of this kind soon! But yes, two thumbs up here. Everyone was good (though Gasparin, Madness, Sol, and Super Boy seemed to be a small cut above the rest), the pacing was great, the hatred between the sides came across, and the Tryout guys once again stepped up big in a big spot. You really can’t ask for much more than what we got here. **** ¼
And so the Easter IWRG show has ended. To borrow a phrase I used a ton during this show, it was not much at all for the first several matches, which ranged from forgettable to outright bad. The semi-main provided some decency, however, and the main event was a terrific match that made this show worthwhile. All things considered, I’m happy I spent some of my Easter Sunday watching this show. Let’s do it again on Thursday, shall we?
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