A well rounded trios. Lord knows all is right in the world when everybody just gets down and does their thing in a trios. Even with not many stars in the lineup, everyone here is at minimum a good wrestler, and everybody had a cool moment. You get a long first fall that really allows you to the get into the match up, a quick and mean asskicking from the rudos, and a well executed finish that felt unpredictable. The star of the match was Emilio Charles Jr., he went from having some fun mat exchanges with Ringo Mendoza to absolutely beating the dogshit out of Kung Fu. His knee strikes and punches looked like something out of PRIDE and made me wonder if this would kick off a blood feud between him and that goofy martial artist. Kung Fu was in the spotlight a lot, meaning that the rudos stooged a lot for his stuff. While he is sort of goofy, him crane kicking people in the face and throwing fast punch combos is something different. I also like Ringo Mendoza, he is not super spectacular, but every promotion needs a stumpy legged unassuming old man technician who can grapple and bust out a neat move here and there. Hijo de Gladiador had some mean punches to the midsection and Egipcio did good stooging and at one point bitchslapped a Mendoza off his feet. Sometimes that’s all you need to do. They did not go all out because lord this card also has a hair match and a title match, but for undercard action this stuff well and truly serves its purpose.
For a hair match this was lacking a bit
in intensity. They got the formula right, but didn't really deliver the
asskicking to kick it up to the next level. Comando Ruso kind of looked
like he was about to check his watch in between hitting Remo. The first
two falls were well done but rather short and without surprises. The
last fall was much bigger with Banda bumping really big and some huge
dives. The best part when both guys started fighting over a superplex
and traded punches. They really needed to trade more punches like that.
Comando started Remo when he was down and ended up disqualified, which
has to be one of the lamest ways to lose your hair. Not horrible but not
really worth going out of your way to see, proving that listless big
matches with quick opening falls have been a thing in lucha libre for a
long time.
Brazos vs. Ulises/Pierroth Jr/Gran Markus Jr.
A
title match that delivers. All the falls were pretty short but they
went hard delivering everything you want. Matwork, fast exchanges and
Brazo de Plata bringing that extra WHOMP that he is so good at. For a
bunch of tubby dudes with short legs the Brazos are really damn good
wrestlers, really fast moving through intricate exchanges, really good
snap on their armdrags and bumps that puts many skinnier wrestlers to
shame. The rudo team played fair and they were allowed to look good
showcasing their wrestling ability. Brazo de Plata was the man who got
the match to the next level, as he really punctuated every fast, slick
exchange with his behemoth wrestling style. There is such a real edge to
what he does, like he will go for an amateur ride and just flatten his
opponent with his sheer size, at one point he grabbed the almost equally
massive Markus Jr. and throw him effortlessly with a belly to belly
suplex that was awe inspiring. His kip ups and cartwheels were on point
and bumped and flew with abandon. It was probably his physical prime and
he went hard. There's dive train here that's absolutely spectacular,
and I always love the star. I was expecting more intensity considering
these teams had some quite heated face offs previously, but what we got
was a really cool slice of unique wrestling.
