Phil Schneider Posted November 7, 2013 Report Share Posted November 7, 2013 My personal revelation from the 1980s lucha set. I had seen the MS1 match before, but when you add all of the other awesome performances in that set, I think he might go down as the greatest brawler in wrestling history. Insane bumper and bleeder, great left hook and just impeccable timing on his comebacks and attacks. I figured this would be a good place for folks to put some of their 80's Chicana reviews and to search out other performances. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Schneider Posted November 7, 2013 Author Report Share Posted November 7, 2013 Cien Caras/Máscara Año 2000/Sangre Chicana vs Konnan/Perro Aguayo/El Rayo de Jalisco Jr CMLL 3/1/92 Man is this a total blast. Just a wild crazy brawl between six really over charismatic crazy guys. Aguyao v. Chicana is like the Lawler v. Dundee of lucha, you always want to see those guys tear after each other, Chicana had this wild half concussed selling where he took these cool lose his balance bumps, including a neat one off the apron. This was also by far the best Konan performance I have seen. He actually looked like a competent professional wrestling, brawling looked good, bumped well, hit all of his stuff. This isn't the kind of thing which people might seek out on paper, especially back in the early days of internet fandom, when all of these guys were shit on by Meltzer and Bob Barnett, but this was awesome and right up there with the better trios brawls on the 80s set. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted November 7, 2013 Report Share Posted November 7, 2013 Late match selling. I can't get over how great he is at wearing the weight of a brutal match upon his shoulders. He may have the best "body language" I've ever seen. It's not something we often think about, or at least that we often talk about, but holy crap is his great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Schneider Posted November 7, 2013 Author Report Share Posted November 7, 2013 Cien Caras/Máscara Año 2000/Sangre Chicana vs Konnan/Perro Aguayo/El Rayo de Jalisco Jr CMLL 3/1/92 Man is this a total blast. Just a wild crazy brawl between six really over charismatic crazy guys. Aguyao v. Chicana is like the Lawler v. Dundee of lucha, you always want to see those guys tear after each other, Chicana had this wild half concussed selling where he took these cool lose his balance bumps, including a neat one off the apron. This was also by far the best Konan performance I have seen. He actually looked like a competent professional wrestling, brawling looked good, bumped well, hit all of his stuff. This isn't the kind of thing which people might seek out on paper, especially back in the early days of internet fandom, when all of these guys were shit on by Meltzer and Bob Barnett, but this was awesome and right up there with the better trios brawls on the 80s set. I didn't check first but apparently this match was on the 1992 yearbook and folks loved it. http://prowrestlingonly.com/index.php?showtopic=13494 Cool I am glad to see this isn't as hidden a gem as I thought Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goodhelmet Posted November 7, 2013 Report Share Posted November 7, 2013 I am in the middle of the 4th disc and he is in 2 of my top 3 singles matches so far. The MS1 match is a clear #1 but I have the Villano III match as my current working #3. The guy is like the Dick Murdoch of Mexico and I mean that as the highest possible compliment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ohtani's jacket Posted November 7, 2013 Report Share Posted November 7, 2013 Chicana vs. Aguayo from '92 is shitloads of fun -- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Schneider Posted November 7, 2013 Author Report Share Posted November 7, 2013 I'll watch it tonight. I demand a long great lucha blog post about it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ohtani's jacket Posted November 8, 2013 Report Share Posted November 8, 2013 This was from back in 2009. The best Perro match I've seen doesn't apply anymore. Perro Aguayo vs. Sangre Chicana, 3/20/92 Ha, this was awesome! Easily the best Perro Aguayo match I've seen and probably the best thing Konnan's ever been involved in. There was so much bullshit going on in this match and it all worked beautifully. They couldn't have booked or executed it any better. It started off on the perfect note with Chicana beating Aguayo over the head with the charro hat he wore to the ring, and was filled with hokey shit from La Fiera, Konnan and the heel ref Gato Montini. Perro Aguayo has some of the deepest blade lines of any wrestler you'll ever see and it doesn't take much for him to bleed, but once it started flowing Chicana went into overdrive. He cleared some front row seats, stood up on them and dared the crowd to do something about it. They say Jake Roberts is a master of psychology, but I've got this little theory that Sangre Chicana is more Jake Roberts than Jake Roberts. Just fantastic shit. At one point, he was jawing with a technico fan and he was OUT OF HIS GODDAMN MIND. Konnan and Aguayo did this mindblowingly awesome spot where Konnan was willing Aguayo on, telling him to get up and jog it off, which he did. That was borderline Apollo Creed/Rocky Balboa stuff. Konnan ended up being escorted to the back for some reason and then Pena came out and personally removed Montini. He signaled a timeout and brought out this wiry old ref who was either badass or a cunt. Some fan tried to embrace him on his way to the ring and he gave him the big fuck off. The final flurry saw some awesome topes, with Chicana crumpled under the chairs and an awesome shot of La Fiera's smooth ass wrestling boots under his awesome civvies. The finish was glorious, as the old man came charging off the ropes and caught Chicana in a signature cradle. Aguayo ran around in a half circle and jumped up and down. Then he went and pat the head of the world's oldest living lucha libre fan, who was a little concerned when her program fell out of her lap. God bless you, honey. Just a marvelous piece of bullshit. Chicana is the king of doing nothing and getting heat for it. I'd put this in my top 10 for 1992, it was that entertaining. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Schneider Posted November 8, 2013 Author Report Share Posted November 8, 2013 OK do a Great Lucha write up of that six man Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Schneider Posted November 8, 2013 Author Report Share Posted November 8, 2013 Perro Aguayo vs. Sangre Chicana, 3/20/92 I normally hate heel ref lucha matches, but this was too much fun to ignore. Any time Chicana and Perro locked up it was brawly awesomeness, but the bullshit was great too. Konan was losing his shit at ringside and was a great second and Chicana and Fiera were marvelous bastards. When they were smashing Perro's head into the turnbuckle it looked like they were trying to extract coconut water. Probably the best heel ref focused lucha match I have ever seen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tim Posted November 8, 2013 Report Share Posted November 8, 2013 I think he might go down as the greatest brawler in wrestling history. After watching the Satanico match on the lucha set I think he's got a heck of a claim to this title. Those were some ungodly punch combos he was throwing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Schneider Posted November 9, 2013 Author Report Share Posted November 9, 2013 That match is so fucking good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ohtani's jacket Posted November 24, 2013 Report Share Posted November 24, 2013 I didn't have a hell of a lot to add to what had already been covered in the yearbook thread, but here you go: Cien Caras, Máscara Año 2000 & Sangre Chicana vs. Konnan el Barbaro, Perro Aguayo & El Rayo de Jalisco Jr, CMLL 03/01/92 This was an excellent trios. It was actually uploaded for my benefit, but I slept on it the first time presumably because I wasn't in the mood for a brawling trios. It was more of a ringside brawl than a proper match, and it was really these guys plying their stock and trade, but the lengthy heat segment was extremely well done. The main narrative thrust was Konnan vs. Caras, but the star of the show was Sangre Chicana. It was one of those matches where you've got a guy who's charisma is so palpable it's like the glue holding everything together. Here it shone through when he tried to hold onto the leg of a guy in the crowd or when he accidentally slipped from the apron and drew laughs from the crowd. There was a tremendous range in what he was capable of, as he'd do these comedy spots where he looked like some half drunk vagabond and then jaw with the crowd and raise their ire. If you want to see a guy who is to lucha what Jake the Snake is supposed to be to US psychology then Chicana is the guy, especially this older version. Everybody else was solid and what you'd expect from this crew. Konnan had a few weak moments, but this made me want to go through his main events and see if any of them are worth a damn. That may be a dangerous proposition, but it speaks highly to how good this was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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