BRM Reviews the 1/28/2015 Lucha Underground
Posted: Jan 29th, '15, 13:47
DARIO CUETO TELLS CAGE HE’LL HAVE HIS TITLE MATCH TONIGHT- Cueto was great, but Cage’s “because I’m a machine” catchphrase is quickly turning comical.
FENIX vs. MIL MUERTES (w/Catrina)- 4/10
Despite having absolutely nothing that even resembles evidence, Vamprio insists that Catrina is controlling Mil Muertes.
He also informed us that Lucha Underground was changing the sport “not only on this planet, but in the universe.” As if some alien booker picked up the broadcast, then ran to the promoter’s office and said “Holy blorx, Morgon! This Lucha Underground style is exactly what we need to turn Gorblax Championship Wrestling around!
Yeah… Vampiro has already annoyed me to the point where I can’t help but be an ass to the announcers for the rest of the show, so take some of what I say with a grain of salt.
Like, for example, Striker’s claim that being in Lucha Underground, AAA, and NOAH means Fenix is on top of the wrestling world… and yet I have to point out that not one of those companies is the biggest promotion even in their own country right now, and AAA is the only one that is even second place.
Anyway, they had a great match, with Muertes just looking like the world’s biggest badass… until the finish, which is one of my least favorite in all of wrestling (where the guy who takes a superplex quickly gets a small package out of it), handing Muertes his first one-on-one loss. Some other roll-up I would have been fine with, but this was not the right way to beat Muertes. I’m also a bit surprised that they did this considering that the Aztec Warfare match seemed to be setting up Muertes vs. Johnny Mundo.
CAGE VIDEO PACKAGE- I thought the no-selling of the weapons (after the first beer bottle) got excessive to the point of silliness. Him blocking that last beer bottle shot only to crush the bottle in his hands came off to me like that goofy bit that often happened in the 1950’s Superman TV show where the villain would fire his gun at Superman and the bullet would bounce harmlessly off of his chest because he is impervious to bullets… but then, when the gun was empty, the villain would throw the gun at Superman… and Superman would have to duck.
ARGENIS, AEROSTAR, & SUPER FLY vs. THE CREW (Bael, Mr. Cisqo, Cortez Castro)- 6.75/10
Striker tries to build up six man tag matches as a Lucha Libre tradition, claiming that he and Vampiro have talked about it before. Well maybe they did amongst themselves, but they’ve never mentioned it on the air once! And of course this six man tag team match was so traditional to Lucha Libre that it used American rules and not Lucha rules. It was also so traditional to Lucha Libre that Striker suggested that perhaps there was a language barrier between the Mexicans and the referee, resulting in the Mexicans not understanding the rules.
Rick Knox completely gave up on trying to enforce the “one guy in the ring at a time” rule. Too much PWG will do that to you. Seeing as how this rule so basic to tag team wrestling, Matt Striker informed us that he liked the fact that Knox was ignoring it, because in Matt Striker’s book, it’s okay to break the rules whenever you feel like it.
I really liked The Crew getting the win here, and the match was a lot of fun. I really hope someone in WWE sees this match and realizes how much better it would make Raw to make sure to book at least six or eight man tag team match on the show every week.
VAMPIRO INTERVIEWS KONNAN & PRINCE PUMA- okay.
In building this up, Vampiro told us that “you could have cut the knife with the intensity.” Can we please edit obvious misstatements like this out? It makes me not want to see the interview if I’m doubting the interviewer’s ability to ask questions coherently.
Prince Puma’s graphic introduced him simply as a “luchador” rather than as the champion, and he didn’t have the belt with him. That’s not how you build up a title match.
Konnan did a great job being guy who seems like he is a heel, but is managing a babyface. The tension with him and Vamprio, while probably very real, felt too manufactured, and it hurt the “Konnan always speaking for Puma” idea that they pushed. I think it would have been better to not have Vampiro mention it at all during his build-up of the segment. The way that things ended, along with Konnan and Vampiro both being described as legends in their graphic makes me think they’re going to do that feud (again).
LUCHA UNDERGROUND TITLE MATCH: Prince Puma(c) (w/Konnan) vs. Cage- 7.25/10
I was surprised that Melissa Santos didn’t introduce Cage by saying “he’s not a man, he’s a machine.”
This was a great “big man vs. little man” match until the stupid DQ finish. Oh… and about that DQ: The DQ was for a low blow, but Matt Striker decided to tell us that it is okay to attack a referee (rather try to pass off the DQ as a result of both evens in succession, which would make perfect sense because the way Cage pushed the referee, he could have easily claimed it was an accident and while we’d all know that wasn’t true, the ref would have no evidence to the contrary).
Cage kept attacking Puma after the DQ. Konnan tried to make the save by hitting Cage with his cane, but Cage just shrugged it off and laid Konnan out with the title belt. Konnan seemed to bleed a lot, but I think a lot of that was him doing a great job of spreading the blood all over his head and face.
Cage then ripped the title belt in half (yes, ripped it in half) and through it down. Why did he do any of this? Hasn’t he been saying that he wants to win the title? So why get yourself intentionally DQed in a title match, and then rip the belt in half?
A great show from Lucha Underground, but with a baffling ending.
FENIX vs. MIL MUERTES (w/Catrina)- 4/10
Despite having absolutely nothing that even resembles evidence, Vamprio insists that Catrina is controlling Mil Muertes.
He also informed us that Lucha Underground was changing the sport “not only on this planet, but in the universe.” As if some alien booker picked up the broadcast, then ran to the promoter’s office and said “Holy blorx, Morgon! This Lucha Underground style is exactly what we need to turn Gorblax Championship Wrestling around!
Yeah… Vampiro has already annoyed me to the point where I can’t help but be an ass to the announcers for the rest of the show, so take some of what I say with a grain of salt.
Like, for example, Striker’s claim that being in Lucha Underground, AAA, and NOAH means Fenix is on top of the wrestling world… and yet I have to point out that not one of those companies is the biggest promotion even in their own country right now, and AAA is the only one that is even second place.
Anyway, they had a great match, with Muertes just looking like the world’s biggest badass… until the finish, which is one of my least favorite in all of wrestling (where the guy who takes a superplex quickly gets a small package out of it), handing Muertes his first one-on-one loss. Some other roll-up I would have been fine with, but this was not the right way to beat Muertes. I’m also a bit surprised that they did this considering that the Aztec Warfare match seemed to be setting up Muertes vs. Johnny Mundo.
CAGE VIDEO PACKAGE- I thought the no-selling of the weapons (after the first beer bottle) got excessive to the point of silliness. Him blocking that last beer bottle shot only to crush the bottle in his hands came off to me like that goofy bit that often happened in the 1950’s Superman TV show where the villain would fire his gun at Superman and the bullet would bounce harmlessly off of his chest because he is impervious to bullets… but then, when the gun was empty, the villain would throw the gun at Superman… and Superman would have to duck.
ARGENIS, AEROSTAR, & SUPER FLY vs. THE CREW (Bael, Mr. Cisqo, Cortez Castro)- 6.75/10
Striker tries to build up six man tag matches as a Lucha Libre tradition, claiming that he and Vampiro have talked about it before. Well maybe they did amongst themselves, but they’ve never mentioned it on the air once! And of course this six man tag team match was so traditional to Lucha Libre that it used American rules and not Lucha rules. It was also so traditional to Lucha Libre that Striker suggested that perhaps there was a language barrier between the Mexicans and the referee, resulting in the Mexicans not understanding the rules.
Rick Knox completely gave up on trying to enforce the “one guy in the ring at a time” rule. Too much PWG will do that to you. Seeing as how this rule so basic to tag team wrestling, Matt Striker informed us that he liked the fact that Knox was ignoring it, because in Matt Striker’s book, it’s okay to break the rules whenever you feel like it.
I really liked The Crew getting the win here, and the match was a lot of fun. I really hope someone in WWE sees this match and realizes how much better it would make Raw to make sure to book at least six or eight man tag team match on the show every week.
VAMPIRO INTERVIEWS KONNAN & PRINCE PUMA- okay.
In building this up, Vampiro told us that “you could have cut the knife with the intensity.” Can we please edit obvious misstatements like this out? It makes me not want to see the interview if I’m doubting the interviewer’s ability to ask questions coherently.
Prince Puma’s graphic introduced him simply as a “luchador” rather than as the champion, and he didn’t have the belt with him. That’s not how you build up a title match.
Konnan did a great job being guy who seems like he is a heel, but is managing a babyface. The tension with him and Vamprio, while probably very real, felt too manufactured, and it hurt the “Konnan always speaking for Puma” idea that they pushed. I think it would have been better to not have Vampiro mention it at all during his build-up of the segment. The way that things ended, along with Konnan and Vampiro both being described as legends in their graphic makes me think they’re going to do that feud (again).
LUCHA UNDERGROUND TITLE MATCH: Prince Puma(c) (w/Konnan) vs. Cage- 7.25/10
I was surprised that Melissa Santos didn’t introduce Cage by saying “he’s not a man, he’s a machine.”
This was a great “big man vs. little man” match until the stupid DQ finish. Oh… and about that DQ: The DQ was for a low blow, but Matt Striker decided to tell us that it is okay to attack a referee (rather try to pass off the DQ as a result of both evens in succession, which would make perfect sense because the way Cage pushed the referee, he could have easily claimed it was an accident and while we’d all know that wasn’t true, the ref would have no evidence to the contrary).
Cage kept attacking Puma after the DQ. Konnan tried to make the save by hitting Cage with his cane, but Cage just shrugged it off and laid Konnan out with the title belt. Konnan seemed to bleed a lot, but I think a lot of that was him doing a great job of spreading the blood all over his head and face.
Cage then ripped the title belt in half (yes, ripped it in half) and through it down. Why did he do any of this? Hasn’t he been saying that he wants to win the title? So why get yourself intentionally DQed in a title match, and then rip the belt in half?
A great show from Lucha Underground, but with a baffling ending.