[1989-08-19-EMLL] El Faraon & Super Astro & Atlantis vs Fuerza Guerrera & Emilio Charles Jr & Blue Panther

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The lineup for this looks amazing on paper. Smooth opening from Blue Panther and Super Astro. Atlantis comes in and demands Charles but gets Fuerza instead.  Emilio gets in, he has lost his hair recently and takes time to taunt Atlantis. Subtle chicken shit interference from Blue Panther leads to a stand off and Faron gets a shine on all the rudos, so does Atlantis. Primera ends on a hurricanrana and The Atlantida. 

Segunda starts off with a Super Astro shine and the rudos tease leaving for the locker room. Blue Panther makes everyone he touches look a million bucks, but what else is new?. Heat starts when Panther and Fuerza save their partner and start to double team every técnico that gets in the ring. After submitting the técnicos for the segunda the rudos keep the beatdown going into the start of the tercera.  

Gran Davis keeps the heat going by interfering in Super Astros comebacks, until Atlantis breaks trough and the técnico beatdown starts. Atlantis hip tosses Charles out of the ring for a fantastic bump followed by a tope suicida. Astro follows it by hitting a springboard version of his reverse tope to the outside on Panther, leaving Faraon tu submit Fuerza for the W. Impossible not the be at least good with so much talent in the ring. ****

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The correct date should be 8/18.

This was a good and fun match. The first 2/3 minutes between Astro and Panther were top notch, then a lot of focus was put on Charles avoiding any contact with Atlantis, which disrupted the pace of the bout but generated good heat. Decent rudos control later on, despite the lack of major heat segments on any of the tecnicos, but this was very crisp when Atlantis was in or when Charles was grappling with Faraon. Good finish by Faraon, this looked like a match that was hyping some future matches, but was a good contest as well.
***1/2