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This is why you watch the Spanish feed, even if you don't speak it.

Eye of the Tiger has been Konnan's theme in AAA forever. It doesn't really fit for the main heel group but it's like their equivalent to old man HBK still coming out to Sexy Boy at this point.

The show's started if anyone was waiting to jump in (being nearly 45 minutes late to start was very On Brand for AAA).

They are doing a lead up show around 6-6:30 EST, the pre show starts around 8 EST, main card at 9 EST, and the main event mask match will start at midnight EST no matter what since it is airing on TV in Mexico at that time. Keep in mind AAA is notorious for not starting on time, so those times are more of a general guideline than anything else.

Main card: Psycho Clown vs Hijo del Fantasma vs Pentagon Jr vs LA Park (cage match, last two left have a one on one mask vs mask match) Lady Shani vs Faby Apache (mask vs hair) Jeff Jarrett vs Brian Cage vs Rich Swann vs Fenix (AAA Mega Heavyweight title) La Mascara, Rey Escorpion, Texano Jr vs Joe Lider, Murder Clown, Pagano (street fight) Jack Evans, Juventud Guerrera, Teddy Hart vs Averno, Chessman, Super Fly (lumberjack match) Mamba, Maximo, Pimpinela Escarlata vs Carta Brava Jr, Mocho Cota Jr, Tito Santana (not that one) vs Hijo de LA Park, Puma King, Taurus Aerostar & Drago vs Golden Magic & Laredo Kid vs Bandido & Flamita vs Andrew Everett & DJZ (ladder match for the AAA tag titles) Big Mami & Nino Hamburguesa vs Hijo del Vikino & Vanilla vs Dinastia & Lady Maravilla vs Angelikal & La Hiedra (AAA mixed tag titles) Pre show: Australian Suicide defending the AAA cruiserweight title against mystery opponents not officially named but known to be ACH, Shane Strickland, and Sammy Guevara. Llave a La Gloria match which is where they put the most promising rookies in a spotlight match AAA HOF with Dr. Alfonso Morales and El Apache getting inducted. AAA is showing it live on their Twitch channels, they have separate Spanish and English feeds but you're better off with the Spanish feed unless listening to Vampiro and Matt Striker trying to pop each other all night is your bag.

Kinda shocked they didn't just claim his contract was on ice for him not showing up to work. Especially with the UK scene growing like it is. I guess there's limits on WWE's pettiness after all.

I've softened my stance on that era, I used to hate it immensely. I've grown to appricate it for what it is over time, but on the Network we now have Mid South, WCCW, Mid Atlantic, and WWF all from around the same time in 1982 and the differences are stark.

For a while it seemed like he had one design that came in every color imaginable. And he's my six year old's favorite wrestler just because of all the colors he wears.

I wonder if Braun will follow the Shield's lead and get his old band back together. After all, Bray and Harper both are without partners now.

This could either go here, the NXT thread, or the New Japan one, but Matt Riddle's wife confirmed that his NXT offer came pretty much the way everyone thought it did. He got an offer from New Japan, and let Gabe know because he was working for WWN. Gabe told Hunter about it, and all of a sudden Matt gets a phone call with an NXT offer.

I mean, it's totally going to end up being Gargano as the attacker right? It just seems to line up with the story they are telling.

I mean, that was kind of always how it was judged. In WWE at least. There was tons of Hulkamania/DX/Austin/nWo merch around back in the day.

WWF All Star Wrestling from 1981 are starting to trickle in, so that looks like the classic content dump for the month.

It's weird that they can't seem to work out a deal with Bret to get the Stampede stuff back on the network. Also, how did he end up with exclusive rights on just his matches even after the archive was sold to WWE? (For those who are new and/or forgot, Stampede stuff had a section in the vault for a couple days before being pulled due to Bret having the rights to any footage he was in somehow)

It would be a shock if he hasn't passed him by now. Cena's barely around and Roman appears to have new merch out every week. He'll truly be the Big Dog when he pulls Hogan moves like having all the Shield merch ring up as Roman merch though.

The weirdest part of that photo to me was seeing Cena with that much hair. He looks like a younger, jacked up JBL.

After all the fighting AAA did over the Parka gimmick, I thought it was odd they would be okay with him dropping the mask at a CMLL show (although there's a school of thought that if he did finally drop the mask he wouldn't be going around rubbing it in their faces that he's the original guy). What's scummy is it appears AAA said this in June and CMLL still went on promoting as if the match was happening until about a week or so ago. People on Twitter pretty much did the "hand on chin thinking emoji" when the ticket prices were announced and they clearly weren't scaled to a Rush vs Park level, but the company continued to run matches to make the fans think it was still happening.

So the next Hidden Gem is Wrestling Star Wars 1981 from WCCW back when it was still NWA Big Time Wrestling. It's not really much of a card but it was something I think was considered lost so it's nice to have it back in whatever form they have.

Rowan tore his bicep.

I stand corrected, the most Vintage CMLL thing ever was all the stuff above, then announce Rush and Park in separate matches on the Anniversary card because.... *shrug emoji*

They are doing a two day taping in Mexico City, and day two is the same day as the CMLL Anniversary show. Pentagon and Fenix are scheduled to be on that show and one would expect them also to be involved in whatever Impact is doing. Normally one would think that "well just tape everything you need from them on day one", but remember they are partnered with AAA so never discount the opportunity for some interpromotional fuckery to take place.

Bryan's a smart guy, when he made those comments where he basically laughed at the idea of WWE being able to build a Miz program to Mania part of me wondered if he did it on purpose to needle Vince into proving him wrong. Because it seems the best way to ensure Vince tries do to something is to tell him he can't.

They wanted Charlotte to be a babyface, but still do her father's mannerisms....who was one of the best heels of all time. So you end up making her come across as cocky and unlikeable while all the announcers fawn over THA KWEEN.

There really wasn't any doubt, really. I don't really think he would want to uproot his family to go back to living the life of an indy darling, and he'd have to work more dates when reportedly part of his negotiations were to get a reduced schedule with WWE.

He hadn't been in good health for a while, and he had a match at Triplemania in 2015 that was Heroes of Wrestling territory bad due to the state of everyone involved. cubsfan made a good point in his bio that guys from his era that did his style on the infamously concrete-esque lucha rings of the 70s/80s ended up in pretty bad shape.