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coconono
Aug 11, 2004

KISS ME KRIS

looks like WWE's social media guy deleted Gran Metalik's tweet. Bastardo

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Pinche Rudo
Feb 8, 2005

Lucha Libre is the highest form of performance art

https://twitter.com/Toffile/status/1076329167615070208

El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010
Can you guys recommend any good books about lucha history?

Also I wish someone would write about the Guerrero family (going back to Gory).

KungFu Grip
Jun 18, 2008

El Gallinero Gros posted:

Can you guys recommend any good books about lucha history?

Also I wish someone would write about the Guerrero family (going back to Gory).

do you have a twitter? luchablog on there will probably have better answers than us

Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

Did that book Dr Lucha was writing ever come out?

El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010

KungFu Grip posted:

do you have a twitter? luchablog on there will probably have better answers than us

I don't.

MassRafTer
May 26, 2001

BAEST MODE!!!

sportsgenius86 posted:

Did that book Dr Lucha was writing ever come out?

He's still working on it to the best of my knowledge.

Pinche Rudo
Feb 8, 2005

Felíz Navidad amigos

https://twitter.com/mromg323/status/1077650827463086081?s=19

remusclaw
Dec 8, 2009

Curious. Was LA Park a big star before his run in WCW, or did he really take off later?

vvvvv I'm sorry, I should have been more specific. I know he was a known quantity and all, but was he a big name guy before hand? Did his big star run start after his WCW run or was it another case of WCW wasting a known draw? vvvvv

remusclaw fucked around with this message at 03:02 on Dec 26, 2018

Smoking Crow
Feb 14, 2012

*laughs at u*

remusclaw posted:

Curious. Was LA Park a big star before his run in WCW, or did he really take off later?

He was a star in AAA before

OJ MIST 2 THE DICK
Sep 11, 2008

Anytime I need to see your face I just close my eyes
And I am taken to a place
Where your crystal minds and magenta feelings
Take up shelter in the base of my spine
Sweet like a chica cherry cola

-Cheap Trick

Nap Ghost

remusclaw posted:

Curious. Was LA Park a big star before his run in WCW, or did he really take off later?

vvvvv I'm sorry, I should have been more specific. I know he was a known quantity and all, but was he a big name guy before hand? Did his big star run start after his WCW run or was it another case of WCW wasting a known draw? vvvvv

WCW wasted all of their luchadors.

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


No 2019 MOTY/HMOTY/WMOTY thread up yet so I'll just say here for the time being that the CMLL trios match tonight with Fenix, Pentagon and Dragon Lee against Cuatrero, Forastero and Templario was pretty good

https://twitter.com/LuchaGifs/status/1080268080305950720
https://twitter.com/LuchaGifs/status/1080268689163735041

EugeneJ
Feb 5, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
I just realized that AAA now has a free channel on Pluto!

http://pluto.tv/guide/lucha-libre-aaa

They're replaying TripleMania 2004 now

Boco_T
Mar 12, 2003

la calaca tilica y flaca
Here's a match that I liked, probably not good enough for an honorable mention but good enough to post:

Angelikal, Hijo Del Vikingo, Niņo Hamburguesa vs La Chiva, Tiger Boy, Villano III Jr. (1/6, AAA/Sanchez) - Good
Especially good third fall. Niņo does a brutal powerbomb. Vikingo is amazing, Angelikal and Villano are good too. Solid house show match.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PynuS94xpCQ

MassRafTer
May 26, 2001

BAEST MODE!!!
CMLL just did Reyes del Aire on the Sunday show, keep your eyes open in a few weeks for that one to pop up online, it is always great.

Also the Sin Piedad show had a nearly full house so remember that come Hall of Fame season to tell anti Caristico people they are dumb as heck.

Mob
May 7, 2002

Me reading your posts

Caristico can get in the HOF but his music has to wait in the parking lot

Pinche Rudo
Feb 8, 2005

Liger speaks for us all

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmVLI6cDN3Y&t=131s

Low Desert Punk
Jul 4, 2012

i have absolutely no fucking money
the AAA channel on Pluto owns. I've never really kept up with lucha but I'll probably start. I've just had it running on my TV for a couple days and you'll see some wild poo poo

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


First time I'm finding out about their Pluto channel, this rules

Boco_T
Mar 12, 2003

la calaca tilica y flaca
Is Pluto something you can run through your Roku or whatever? When you linked that thing earlier I saw that it seems to be the same content they have been running on their Twitch for over a year at this point, which is to say "2003-2005 and 2011-2012." Wish they would load the early years 90s stuff but I wonder how accessible those tapes are, even for them.

Low Desert Punk
Jul 4, 2012

i have absolutely no fucking money
Yeah, pluto has a roku app, that's how I've been watching

coconono
Aug 11, 2004

KISS ME KRIS

AAA really needs to figure out how to book technicos getting blindsided better.

I watched Friday and Konnan was doing the whole cowering in the corner thing while Psycho Clown just kinda stares at him. Clown then gets wiped out by all the dudes he completely forgot about.

The worst was Lady Shani getting the poo poo kicked out of her, then getting up, cutting a fairly calm promo right in the face of the people who were kicking her poo poo in only to get beat up again. derp.

Smoking Crow
Feb 14, 2012

*laughs at u*

Dave said that the Ultimo Guerrero/Gran Guerrero/Namajague vs Dragon Lee/Mistico/Soberano Jr match from Fantasticamania 1/21 was the epitome of great lucha libre but gave it 4.5 stars

Pinche Rudo
Feb 8, 2005

Look who's back!

https://twitter.com/zuppasi_5884/status/1088311006877474817

Smoking Crow
Feb 14, 2012

*laughs at u*

YES

coconono
Aug 11, 2004

KISS ME KRIS


now I gotta figure out how to watch the Sunday show

GEORGE W BUSHI
Jul 1, 2012

NJPW sometimes upload the Sunday shows.

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


https://twitter.com/luchablog/status/1092259163999272960

Pinche Rudo
Feb 8, 2005

Sigh

https://twitter.com/laparktapia/status/1092516385022832641?s=19

KungFu Grip
Jun 18, 2008

can't believe LA Park is dead and has been CGI the whole time

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


https://twitter.com/luchablog/status/1093577943379595264

Chris James 2 fucked around with this message at 00:40 on Feb 8, 2019

flashy_mcflash
Feb 7, 2011

Holy poo poo Psycho Clown is a guest judge on the second episode of Nailed It Mexico.

Boco_T
Mar 12, 2003

la calaca tilica y flaca
AAA main event of La Parka and Psycho Clown vs. Killer Kross and Rey Escorpion ends when Killer Kross pins El Hijo del Vikingo.

RealFoxy
May 11, 2011

I'm not making a fucking QCS thread for this but seriously can we take a harder stance on Kiwifarms freaks like this guy, Jesus Christ seriously, you used to be better at knocking these creeps down. I guess ADTRW mods aren't responsible like GBS mods are.

Boco_T posted:

AAA main event of La Parka and Psycho Clown vs. Killer Kross and Rey Escorpion ends when Killer Kross pins El Hijo del Vikingo.
I'm not a huge fan of Psycho Clown but what did he do to deserve a match against Escorpion

Boco_T
Mar 12, 2003

la calaca tilica y flaca

RealFoxy posted:

I'm not a huge fan of Psycho Clown but what did he do to deserve a match against Escorpion
Not sure what you're getting at here. Rey Escorpion owns tremendously, he's one of the best guys in AAA. Psycho Clown vs Rey Escorpion dog collar match last year ruled.

RealFoxy
May 11, 2011

I'm not making a fucking QCS thread for this but seriously can we take a harder stance on Kiwifarms freaks like this guy, Jesus Christ seriously, you used to be better at knocking these creeps down. I guess ADTRW mods aren't responsible like GBS mods are.

Boco_T posted:

Not sure what you're getting at here. Rey Escorpion owns tremendously, he's one of the best guys in AAA. Psycho Clown vs Rey Escorpion dog collar match last year ruled.
Are we talking about the same goober who was awful in CHIKARA

I Before E
Jul 2, 2012

RealFoxy posted:

Are we talking about the same goober who was awful in CHIKARA

Seems not, at least according to Wikipedia

RealFoxy
May 11, 2011

I'm not making a fucking QCS thread for this but seriously can we take a harder stance on Kiwifarms freaks like this guy, Jesus Christ seriously, you used to be better at knocking these creeps down. I guess ADTRW mods aren't responsible like GBS mods are.

I Before E posted:

Seems not, at least according to Wikipedia
According to Cagematch it's the same guy so congrats to the guy finally having a good match 20 years into his career.

rare Magic card l00k
Jan 3, 2011


There are multiple Rey Escorpions, possibly also multiple in AAA.

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Germansimp
May 28, 2013



RealFoxy posted:

Are we talking about the same goober who was awful in CHIKARA

Different one. Escorpion Egipcio is a US-born wrestler who was in CHIKARA and is now in AAA as Rey Escorpion alongside the dog collar Rey Escorpion, who used to be Escorpion Negro and is Mexican-born.

They both wrestle under the same name now, because why bother, if CMLL can have have multilple Misticos, Caristicos and Myzzetzzizzezz or whatever, surely AAA can also have a confusing roster with limited names.

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