[1997-06-13-CMLL] El Hijo del Santo & Scorpio Jr & Dr Wagner Jr vs Negro Casas & El Fiero & Ultimo Dragon

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

Another excellent TV match in this series, and Bestia Salvaje and Felino at ringside in street clothes working an angle adds so much to the atmosphere. Has a real chaotic feel and is chock full of action. Wagner doing the top rope superplex on Casas shocked me. This sort of felt like the World's Longest Nitro Match. Salvaje attacks Casas and Ultimo confronts him, but is distracted long enough for Casas to eat a pin from Wagner.

[Kevin Ridge]

Santo ambushes Casas right away and with the rudo beat down going on it looks like it will be a quick first fall. But we end up having angle on the outside complete with Felino cutting a television interview while match goes on. Ultimo is too timid in bringing the aggression to the needed level for these matches.

[soup23]

I think I slightly enjoyed the first match but this was really good too and had the added wrinkle of the outside shenanigans. I liked the callback to the powerbomb spot and that the rudos were able to obtain the victory here to give the feud a lot of legs.

[PeteF3]

I had trouble getting into this and the distractions (including that ENDLESS Felino promo) served more to distract than add to the experience of the first two falls. The third fall is much better, featuring a spirited technico comeback and some vicious bombs dished out, as well as a crazy decrepit Fiera dive. The third fall would put this at Match of the Month levels, at least, but as I said the first two falls were the kinds which had been done better in lucha in general and this feud specifically.