Guest Joe_G Report post Posted September 17, 2002 This is late because I was having satellite problems on Saturday. A friend across town taped the show for me, but Sunday was dominated by the NFL and HBO. So here we are. WHAT WORKED Virus actually goes to work out at the tecnico gym. He gets greeted by Tigre Blanco, Olimpico, and some others, but isn’t ready to pal around just yet. This works because the concept of Tecnico and Rudo Gyms is soooo great. We join the Virus/Fuerza match in progress, which kinda stinks, but we still saw 7 minutes or so. This was cool because we had Virus the spunky youngster against eternal rudo Fuerza. The deal being that Virus is game but Fuerza would capitalize on the youngster’s mistakes (Virus takes too long going up top allowing Fuerza to hit Black Tiger’s facebuster move, Virus tries to unmask Fuerza on the top rope but gets powerslammed) but he’s unable to put him away, so we get lots of credible nearfalls. Fuerza takes a nasty back bump diving to the floor and it looks like Virus will get the win with Konnan’s old Tequila Sunrise finisher. But Baby Richards breaks up the hold for whatever reason, allowing Fuerza the falta and the pin. I can dig the booking, since Fuerza had to cheat like crazy to win and it’ll make the inevitable Virus win all the better. Full Worldwide point. Stellar Moments sees Ultimo Dragoncito nearly kill himself yet again. Violencia and Zumbido do some dives. Rammstein hits a nice dropkick. Neutron does that corner post moonsault to the floor. Watch out, Volador! Another completely insane skit with the GdI. There is the same spot as last week and everything’s red for some reason. They’re wearing the same clothes from the contract signing. Rey hears another creak and thinks it’s a cat. His teammates sulk off as Rey finds a toy truck or something. Who thinks these things up? Rey Buccanero and Tarzan Boy team up with Doc Wagner and that’s cool with me. I’m just glad Wagner’s not in another Silva match. They take on Atlantis, Casas, and Niebla, and damn that’s a lot of talent in the ring. Rudos attack (guess the tecs shouldn’t have come out separately) and beat the crap out of the tecnicos. The focus in on Casas/Tarzan, who have that big match coming up, so TB gets a lot of shots in. Wagner and Atlantis renew their rivalry for kicks. The beating goes on for a while (Casas gets dragged to the announce table twice). The tecnicos surprisingly make a comeback and the crowd goes batshit. Things settle down and we see a quick but good Casas/Tarzan segment and soon Atlantis gets Wagner with the Atlantida and Niebla hits a huge backwards headbutt on Buccanero and hooks in the Nelbina for the win. Segunda caida has a good helping of action between Niebla and Buccanero, the only two without an issue. Rey mockingly gyrates like Niebla and it’s the GREATEST THING EVER. Seriously, it deserves a vote in the RSPW awards. More Casas/Tarzan and it’s freaking great as they beat the crap out of each other. Then its more Niebla/Bucky and Rey takes his second moonshot bump to the floor. That boy ain’t right. Atlantis hiptosses Wagner to the floor and hits a plancha, leaving us with Casas and Tarzan. Negro punts TB right in the face and hits the Casas Special for the clean win. I was up for a tercera caida but this still got a lot of time and was smartly booked, has great wrestling and heat, and is a textbook example of how to build to a match without sacrificing action. I’d be amped for Tarzan/Casas if we were actually seeing it. Boy do we need a Niebla/Buccanero feud yesterday… WHAT DIDN'T WORK Mascara Ano Dos Mil, Gran Markus, and Poder Mexica talk about stuff. I guess Markus is unhappy with working with Los Capos. I’m not happy because this means a Markus match is coming. Hey, it’s another Commandos vs. Markus & friends (Poder Mexica and Mascara Ano Dos Mil). Commandos have dropped their army theme music. Officials don’t want Pierroth to wrestle because of injuries, so he grabs a board from under the ring and gets DQ’d about 0:01 into the match. Segunda caida sees Markus and friends triple-team Pierroth (who juices), then triple-team Killer, then triple-team Violencia, then triple-team Pierroth again. Markus gets the submission with a Liontamer-esque move. And that’s it. Much Yelling Into The Mic™ afterwards. Mascara challenges Pierroth to a hair vs. hair match, but I don’t think Pierroth accepts. This was a kick and punch squash basically, and sets up a match I don’t want to see. Anything else? Oh, Markus wore some hideous tights. We see the contract signingSfor for the big 9/13 show (done in a press conference, not in the ring). Pierroth stirs up shit. I wasn’t really feeling the main event. The story here is that Ultimo Guerrero has gotten some cheap wins over Vamp in trios matches, so a Vamp/Shocker vs. Ultimo/Bucky title match was signed. So we get a singles match between UG and Vamp. First few minutes are pretty slow as Ultimo methodically beats down Vamp and halts any comebacks, before Vamp hits a hyuge belly-to-belly off the top rope. He tries to follow up with a twisting somersault senton, but the pool’s empty. Vamp tries a top rope ‘rana that goes awry. There’s a few nearfalls and Vamp escapes some submission before hooking in a in inverted Crippler Crossface with a hammerlock for the submission. Shocker and Rey go at it and the end result is Shocker getting falta’d and Vamp eating a Superbomb. The match itself was pretty slow and the ending came out of nowhere. There were some good nearfalls and the uranage counter that Ultimo used needs to show up whenever the Rock comes back. Still building to the big show but a lot of good wrestling here. A nice rebound from last week. THERE YOU HAVE IT Joe Lucha EZboard of DOOM Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
