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  1. Edwin
    This entire rivalry has been money. This was no different. This match is fire. This entire feud is more of a WWC Puerto Rico-style feud than a CMLL feud. Even the pre-match videos ahead of the matches are filmed like they were for WWC. The endless arena brawling feels WWCish. This rivalry was also built on Pierroth returning to Mexico from a lengthy tour of Puerto Rico and he betrayed Mexico and claimed he was Puerto Rican now. That should give an indication that Pierroth had a hand in booking this. The entire match itself keeps up with the theme of the feud with everyone just going nuts fighting all over the arena while the crowd is going crazy. Even Alushe runs down the ramp at one point and attacks El Boricua from behind with a baseball bat. Villano III getting his leg stuck in a ringside seat and Universo 2000 blasting him with kicks gave me flashbacks of when Fuerza Guerrera tied Octagón's mask to the bottom rope. Villano III picking up a pack of 3 chairs and just whacking Pierroth with it was great. What a spectacle. What a brawl. What a feud. Love it.
  2. Edwin
    I've watched a lot of lucha recently and CMLL is far from what it once was. Despite the praise some of the matches have gotten, they don't hit imo. However, I would be lying if I said I didn't enjoy this. It's a torneo cibernetico between Brillante Jr. (Andrade's cousin), Capitán Suicida, Dragón Legendario, Fugaz, Futuro, Hombre Bala Jr., Max Star, Pantera Jr., Rey Pegasus and Valiente Jr. for the Daniel García cup (Huracán Ramírez, not the other one from AEW). All 10 men are looking to breakthrough and they go balls to the walls from the start. There's really no downtime, but everything looks clean and fluid. Not an all-time classic, not a MOTYC and probably won't make a top 10 list for the year, but it's one of the matches I've enjoyed the most from what I've watched from CMLL this year.
  3. Edwin
    Not sure how many folks here speak Spanish, but I just recently began binge listening to Latin Lover's podcast Luchando Por Un Sueño on Youtube and I highly recommend it. There isn't AI English translations, but there is English auto translation subtitles. It's an older channel so there's a lot of content on the channel and Latin is a great interviewer. I've listened to a few of them, namely L.A. Park, Pirata Morgan, Cibernénito, Konnan, Ricky Banderas/El Mesías/Judas Mesias/Mil Muertes and Dr. Wagner Jr. Park, Pirata, Ricky and Wagner are the standouts of the ones I've listened to. Wagner is soft spoken and he spoke about several backstage scuffles he got into with the Villanos, los Brazos, Lizmark and Koji Kanemoto. The best scuffle story was about los Brazos. He claims los Brazos confronted Silver King backstage after a match and he stood up for his brother and it got heated and he got into a scuffle with Brazo de Plata. He said Porky gassed in the scuffle and he comedically asked Wagner to give him a breather and that they could resume scuffling after he caught his breath.
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    More of an angle more so than a match. One of the most sadistic and wildest angles I've ever seen. No hyperbole. Sullivan attacks Kanemura before the bell and Kanemura bleeds buckets. It looked like a scene from a horror movie.
  6. Edwin
    The Roman entrance was epic and you gotta love Punk's pre walkout video with AFI and with him wearing his old ROH black jacket. I've seen a lot of folks call this one of the best WM matches of all-time and I thought it was good, but not quite that good. There was plenty to dig like Punk getting juice off the big stair shot while int he tree of woe, Punk's exhausting selling where he was tumbling near the end, Punk tossing the tape at the ref. and hitting Reigns with the low blow before hitting the GTS, etc. This was quite long brawl, but that was to be expected and this never dragged as something key was always happening. I think a re-watch on this will be due at some point as I think I'll like it better without having watched as much wrestling beforehand. Regardless, this was still great.
  7. Edwin
    You know this was going to brought up. This was brief and exactly what it needed to be. Two giants throwing bombs and bumping big. Closer to Brock's second WM match with Goldberg than his other WM matches in length and style. Although it wasn't quite at that level. Career making performance and passing of the torch.
  8. Edwin
    This was awesome. The double press slam from LOD on Hogan and Tenryu is one of the most surreal spots you'll see. Hogan and Hawk are bleeding, hitting each other with chair shots and flinging tables at each other. Meanwhile Tenryu is getting tossed into the crowd and bumping for Animal. Words can't do this justice as to how entertaining this is.
  9. Edwin
    I liked this a lot, but there's two knocks on this. One has been said which was Goto popping up fairly quickly from the piledriver through the table. The other was Goto clearly blading during the initial headbutt exchange. You can see him quickly digging the blade into his forehead after every headbutt. I would say I'm one of the biggest Onita fans on here and am probably the biggest Goto fan on here and will say this was good, maybe even very good, but not great and not a MOTYC or anything imo.
  10. Edwin
    Mr. Pogo's manager was Victor Quiñones. Quiñones worked in the Puerto Rico office with Carlos Colón and Victor Jovica. Pogo was touring Puerto Rico at the time so I'm sure that's where they met. Quiñones was also the founder of IWA JAPAN and IWA Puerto Rico and he was one of the key figures behind WWE Super Astros.
  11. Edwin
    Phenomenal match. Even before it starts, the crowd is hot for it. More so a WWE style match than a Dome style match, but it's still phenomenal as Macho Man and Sherri do a fantastic job heeling it up. Not much else I can add that hasn't already been said.
  12. Edwin
    This ruled. Kurisu is a fella who's stood out in FMW as he's more featured there as a main event player against Onita than he was in New Japan where I mostly saw him eating pins in multi man matches. This isn't as wild as the street fight with Dragon Master and Tarzan Goto, but this is a nice Korakuen Hall brawl along that line. Kurisu isn't afraid of laying in his offense and Onita is a madman and isn't afraid of getting all recked in barbed wire. They do an an excellent job building around the gimmick and this isn't an over the top FMW bloodbath, but Onita gets his back sliced up with the barbed wire.
  13. Edwin
    Not much else I can add here. This was really good. Love the intense exchanges between Tenryu and Choshu like everyone else seemed to have. Even though it wasn't a traditional tie up, it was still super tense between and the crowd ate it up. Gotta say I dig Takano much more as himself at heavyweight than as the Cobra at Jr. heavyweight. At heavyweight he looks more comfortable and is much more toned down than at Jr. heavyweight where he looked like he was trying to run through everything and even popped immediately from tombstone piledrivers at times.
  14. Edwin
    This was an absolute blast. I don't think it's too distracting, but I'll say contrary to everyone else that Perfect's bumping is a bit too over the top and nearly cartoonish. Dug him getting arrogant and letting Hogan go at the 2 count because the Genius wanted to get the pin and it backfired. Also dug Hogan tagging himself back in and trying to the glory from Warrior leading up to their Mania match.
  15. Edwin
    Yeah, this was really good. Not much I can really add, but I'll reinforce what was said about Buzz Sawyer. I wasn't a big fan, but between this and his matches in Mid South, I was blown away by his performances.
  16. Edwin
    It's cool seeing Taker referred to as Kane the Undertaker. It makes It's gotta be Kane reveal at Hell in the Cell a cool callback. The match itself is a brief typical jobber TV squash match with the featured wrestler hitting all of his signature spots and finisher. The finish looked brutal as you can see Mancini clearly landing on his head. A neat historical bit.
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