[2003-09-12-CMLL] Rocky Romero vs Volador Jr

[ohtani's jacket]

This was a decision match for the World Super Lightweight title, a title which hadn't been used since CMLL Japan stopped promoting shows. It was reinstated to take advantage of the success of the Southern California workers' matches against Ricky Marvin, Virus and Volador Jr. CMLL ran a torneo cibernetico to determine the participants for the decision match and gave them a decent amount of time for the final. Romero wasn't a true luchador, but he was a pretty good worker and held up his end of the match. The Super Lightweight division showed a ton of promise. Generally speaking, CMLL's at its best when there's exciting shit happening up and down the card. One of the reasons why 1997 CMLL was so good was because of the minis, and going further back, there was a  far greater emphasis on the different weight classes. Sadly, the So Cal guys didn't stick around for much longer and the division fell apart, but it did give us VIrus' tremendous title run a decade later, so all was not lost.