[2000-03-14-CMLL] Blue Panther & Black Warrior & Mr Mexico vs Tony Rivera & Ringo Mendoza & Emilio Charles Jr

[soup23]

Damn, did this build up a great feud out of nowhere between Rivera and Mr. Mexico of all people. It starts with a fun vignette and Mr. Mexico being in a disguise and the match is a war. Mexico blades, everyone else plays a good complimentary role. The finish was awesome with old ass Emilio Charles and Ringo doing topes to compliment an awesome one by Black Warrior and Mexico fouls Rivera with the ref occupied. The ref turns around right when Rivera low blows Mexico giving the rudos the win. Mexico has a revenge promo to close things out. ***3/4

[Loss]

This was awesome! Tony Rivera and Mr. Mexico suddenly have a hot feud, adding to the long list of big CMLL feuds, and preparing us for a post-3/17 landscape already. Black Warrior was amazing in this, and was probably the standout worker outside of the budding Rivera-Mexico rivalry. I liked the chicanery behind the low blow finish as well. Blood and hot action -- great stuff! ****

[ohtani's jacket]

CMLL is new school and old school at the same time. The vignette with Rivera judo throwing everyone in the gym and Mr. Mexico disguising himself as the ref was straight out of a WWF quarter hour but an apuesta match every other week is straight up old school booking. This match demonstrated the power of a gripe in lucha. Give two workers a reason to dislike each other and lucha is every bit as easy to follow as Puerto Rico or a Southern territory. Rivera was a bigger version of Tarzan Boy and Mr. Mexico far down the list of marquee lucha heels but it didn't matter. A bladejob from Mexico and some frantic action was enough to carry this to a satisfying conclusion. The best dive train of the year was followed by some classic foul shenanigans and a bout you could have easily cut when scanning match lists turned out to be a bonafide piece of fun. CMLL has been nonstop feuds thus far.

[Tim Evans]

A rare appearance from IWRG Mr. Niebla and the early days of Hijo de Fantasma. For a lower card feud, this was pretty heated. Lots of blood and dives with little downtime. Mr. Mexico and especially Emilio Charles were vicious. Ringo Mendoza almost kills himself with a dive at the end. Good stuff here after some so-so couple weeks in CMLL.

[Moonsault Marvin]

Everybody was fired up in this one. A feud between Mr. Mexico and Tony Rivera commenced, and I thought this was the most enthusiastic performance from Emilio Charles so far. I really liked the effort put into the dives in the third fall. Very good match.

[cramerjason87]

Absolutely outstanding. The fueds in CMLL are so intense. Rivera and Mr. Mexico spent every second of this match attacking each other. Everything they did looked crisp and violent. The other 4'guys did a very good job of staying out of the way and providing interesting sequences between the brawling. The third fall dive sequence was great.

 

Best low blow I've ever seen by Mr. Mexico at the finish. Loved this match.

[Chess Knight]

Can’t believe how on-fire CMLL were with these awesome trio sprints in early 2000. I’m losing count of the amount of blood feuds CMLL seem to want around this time but I’m of no complaints – to me the further lucha strays away from this kind of pure anger, the worse were are for it. I don’t know shit all about Mr. Mexico but I found him really impressive; a guy who can capture the eyes of a crowd easily and mix badass confrontation with sprinting cowardice in a way that can easily come off terrible for most. Tony Rivera has never been an exciting worker to me but he has a human forehead that bleeds when you cut it, so he’s got all the tools necessary to be the tecnico starting the rivalry in this or any other trio. I’m not used to Charles as a tecnico but he ruled just as much as he does as a rudo, absolutely loved him unloading on Black Warrior to open the second fall. Speaking of Black Warrior he had an absolutely OUSTANDING plancha in the dive train. Hell all of the dives in succession felt chaotic in a way that most wrestlers would only dream of puling off without actual injury. The frantic low blow endings in lucha have my heart at the moment after watching a lot of the 1990 Satanico/Dandy feud again. I fucking loved this.