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Yes, for whatever reason Blue Panther not only seems to get a pass for not being well rounded but gets people saying that he actually is. When I see his name in a six-man my thinking is "If I get Panther showing off his holds, great, and if not... ?" In a lot of contexts I don't have a good idea of what he brings to the table above and beyond any other capable rudo. To me he ranks with someone like Jerry Estrada, another wrestler with spectacular skills and big holes in his game. Panther's skills are more impressive and harder to hone, Estrada's are more practical. It about evens out.

I find him extremely boring. There's nothing he does wrong, really (I hate the Atlantida but that's a personal gripe) but he does nothing that ever engages me. Didn't like his mask matches with Ultimo and La Sombra. He's there. I feel like you could plug in tons of other people and they'd be better in his role than he is. That wasn't true of him in his younger days. People keep saying he has no standout attribute but until the minis became regulars he was probably the best flyer in the EMLL (maybe there were better guys on untaped undercards or smaller shows, I don't know). To me that's an elite quality. I don't know how innovative he was, but I can't think of anyone else at the time doing moonsaults to the outside or the twisty cross body block or that tope where he hits his opponent at like a 25 degree angle. On the occasions he'd stoop to performing a straight tope through the ropes he'd execute that beautifully too. There might have been better tecnicos but I can't think of anyone who'd have been as good in the same role. Oro was a phenomenon when he showed up a few years later and I don't think he was as good a flyer as late '80s Atlantis.

Does anyone know where he was in 1989-90?