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It's taken around three years since it was announced but the movie about Puerto Rico wrestling looks to finally be releasing later this summer. Here's the teaser trailer for La Super Estrellas de la Lucha Lubre.

It's part of the lazy booking they do. Everything in service of going overlong just to hype that it's overlong.

We're almost to thd end of 1989 in our journey through Puerto Rico wrestling over at Segunda Caida. Hopefully you've been enjoying El Deporte de las Mil Emociones, and if you havent been folliwing along ots a good time to catch up since we're almost at 1990. For those reading, let us know if you have any questions about what we've covered so far. https://segundacaida.blogspot.com/search/label/El Deporte de las Mil Emociones

For anyone interested, over at Segunda Caida I've been working with Matt D on a weekly (or so) column taking a look at Puerto Rican wrestling starting around late summer of 1989. It's called El Deporte de las Mil Emociones. https://segundacaida.blogspot.com/search/label/El Deporte de las Mil Emociones

If any wrestler could be described as timeless it's Terry Funk. Could be put in any era, any place and just be the best. To me, the absolute greatest of all time.

It's Heyman, so it's self serving 'put my genius over' bs in terms of the 3rd inning wait til you see what happens next stuff.

It peaked a few months ago, late spring and summer should have been the ending coda.

For anyone that may be interested, the WWC Aniversario 50 show is this Saturday June 24 and will be available live on http://Fite.tv in both Spanish and English commentary. The event is dedicated to the founders and pillars of the company and to the Puerto Rican fans. Also, WWC was celebrated and honored by the Puerto Rico House of Representatives for the company's 50 year anniversary. A big congratulations to everyone at WWC, especially Victor Jovica and Carlos Colon.

Yeah, it was all up from the opener which was fine if underwhelming. Looking forward to tomorrow.

That was an underwhelming opener. Theory winning got a meh reaction from the crowd.

Yeah, Izzy herself said it was unplanned and Sasha apologized to her after the event ended, Sasha ended up giving Izzy flowers. Although as you mention, Izzy was tangentially involved in the narrative of Bayley's story and a known entity / not just randomly selected. In the case of MJF throwing the drink, the incident should be taken as a warning to be a bit more careful on doing things so off the cuff with people who aren't in on it. You never know when you will inadvertently end up picking on the wrong person to do that to. Just minimizes the possibility of things out of your control happening if these intentional things are done with people who are in on it.

The only thing I'll say about the throwing drink thing is that, after seeing the takes out there on how "that's just for heel heat / that's old school heat getting", I'm just wondering when in the history of pro wrestling has heel work involved intentionally getting into a physical altercation with a kid where it hadn't been cleared beforehand.

The one thing that's not grabbing me about the Sami and KO thing is that Owens has usually been a garbage friend to Sami, so I'm not really on his side in feeling aggrieved here. Owens was nowhere to be seen as a friend for Sami last year, which is why Sami latched on to the Bloodline. Now Owens shows up out of the blue as the fifth guy on the Wargames team and immediately starts with the "they'll turn on you because that's what I'd do stuff" because Sami's on the opposing team. There's a bit of an opportunistic manipulation undertone to Owens since his concern for Sami in the Bloodline only started when Owens had something to gain.

Actually, if Parek was there, it may be a case that she was already on her way to see Punk because of what happened at the scrum, she saw the mob heading that way and tried to control the situation , or she showed up when it became apparent a fracas was going down. Whatever the reason, if legal was on site and witnessed to some degree what went down, the fact that we're still not sure what will end up happening with Punk and that Steele is not fired makes me think that what was seen by Parek may actually bode more ill for the Elite squad than Punk's side (although everyone involved should and will face consequences for their part) when compared to how initial 'leaks' painted the picture of what happened.

I've seen some tweets from him about fake people where I think he's alluding to this indirectly.

Interesting how every single person outside of Steele and Punk is an EVP or Elite ally. Setting aside the appropriateness (or lack thereof) of Punk's outburst, the optics look like a posse or lynch mob that included executives was rounded up and went to Punk's locker room. Absolutely not a great look.

Still enjoying this series, have two comments about this episode. The reason the Austin elimination comes off as so weird in 96 is that Austin wasn't supposed to be eliminated then. He was supposed to do one of those apron saves but his grip on the ropes slipped and out he went. He apparently was supposed to be one of the final four. In 93, Colon basically ignores the Samoans hard heads because he's also an islander. It's not just Samoans, it's the different island guys that have the hard head narrative. So Colon's hard head cancels out Fatu's

Had fun talking with an old friend and some new ones as well.

Still enjoying these Rumble participant shows. Since you are almost done with 1992, that would mean five Rumble matches completed for you guys. Have you thought about making a master list of how the Rumbles rank by total participant score (meaning which Rumbles had the best performances in total). That would be just a sum of the score for all participants in a specific Rumble (with the caveat that 88 has only 20 participants).

Have been enjoying these episodes. Regarding the conversation about face police gimmicks, there's 90s Puerto Rico wrestler La Ley. He basically wrestled in a police uniform and was initially masked because his legit shoot job was as an active policeman. He was a tecnico throughout his run.

El Profe, he managed all three members of the Ninja Express.

Wow, congratulations Phil. Much success for you and Chris Bryan with this.

One thing I wanted to highlight with the watch party playlist is that there actually is a bit more to Carlos Colon as a wrestler besides the brawls and blood feuds. While footage of Carlos in his 20s is scarce, you can tell from watching the footage that is out there that a younger Carlos had a different style to his wrestling than you would see later. He also wrestled more outside of Puerto Rico than people realize (in Japan, other U.S. territories, appearances in the Dominican Republic and Mexico, tours of Africa, etc.), so there is a bit more versatility there as well.. Still have five years to go before a list needs to be submitted, but I hope that those not that familiar with Carlos Colon or other Puerto Rican wrestlers had their interest piqued.

I don't see him in the list of nominees, so if you want to nominate him go right ahead.

Did she have anything notable during her TNA run? I know she's been wrestling more in Mexico these past few years.