Paid Members JNLister Posted March 20, 2015 Paid Members Share Posted March 20, 2015 Dara O'Brien and Ed Byrne have a series starting next week where they drive the Americas and have wacky cultural adventures. Episode one covers Mexico so, as is TV law, they go to the lucha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Linus Posted March 20, 2015 Paid Members Share Posted March 20, 2015 Hey, it's Lucha Underground! It's that show that's almost always awesome!  The show opened with a re-cap of the storylines featuring Big Ryck & The Crew, Drago & Aero Star, and Mil Muertes & Fénix. That's your line-up for tonight, then!  Matt Striker and Vampiro introduced the show. Amandititita was the band once more.  Hey, it's Melissa Santos! She introduced the luchadores for the first match - Aero Star and Drago!  These two are in a best-of-five series that Dario Cueto demanded after they'd already won one match each. He promised one of his "unique opportunities" to the first man to win three matches...  So they had a hell of a match. Their previous encounters have been a mixed bag, with some stuff in the last match being really poor, but this was just great. Eight minutes of flips, dives, kicks, and head-dropping. Aero Star won with a springboard splash, and you should really see this.  After the match, Aero Star celebrated and Drago shook his hand. Honour!  They showed a Konnan video. He was alternately playing chess and hurting goons with the steel cane he forged last week. At the end, it was revealed he was playing chess with Prince Puma. Chess is war, basically, and revenge is coming.  Hey, it's Melissa! She introduced The Crew - Mister Cisco, Cortez Castro, and Bael - who were already in the ring for their three-on-one elimination match with Big Ryck.  This was set up last week when Big Ryck beat Sexy Star for the right to face the three men who stabbed him in the back and burned his eye with a cigar...  The Crew got on top early doors, but Big Ryck came back, using Bael's chair against him, and Castro's Singapore cane against him. Ryck chokeslammed Bael for the first elimination.  Castro and Cisco tried to double-team Ryck with a suplex but he reversed it and suplexed them. He clotheslined Castro for the second elimination.  Cisco, the man who burned Ryck's eye, decided he'd had enough and tried to run away, but Sexy Star - out for revenge of her own after The Crew beat up her pals - fought him back to the ring, where Ryck punched him in the eye and slammed him through a chair for the win.  Striker told us that, on next week's show, Alberto el Patron will face el Texano Jr for the AAA MegaCampeón title, and Prince Puma will fight Cage for the Lucha Underground championship!  Hey, it's Melissa! She introduced tonight's main event - a Grave Consequences casket match, with Mil Muertes out for revenge against Fénix for stealing his woman.  A bunch of DÃa de los Muertos dudes brought a custom coffin to ringside, before Mil Muertes made his way to the ring, the fans split on whether to cheer or boo him.  Fénix was out next and Muertes hit a dive right from the off, before kicking and clubbing him back in the ring. Fénix went for a dropkick but Muertes moved, and ducked to the outside.  Fénix hit a flip plancha onto Muertes, and then they did some coffin spots, ending with Fénix hitting a topé suicida into the coffin when Muertes used it as a shield.  Muertes tore at Fénix's mask, almost revealing his face to the world, and then unscrewed a turnbuckle and beat Fénix around the head with it. Colour!  Fénix bled a LOT, and Muertes dragged him up the steps to the top of the Temple and threw him into stuff. On top of Cueto's office, they teased a suplex/suplex reversal spot, but Muertes instead threw Fénix down the bleachers, and then powerbombed him onto the announcers' table.  Muertes brought the coffin into the ring and then belly-to-belly suplexed Fénix into it. That looked BRUTAL. Fénix fought back but Muertes shrugged it off and they went out into the crowd again, where Muertes threw chairs at Fénix. The crowd were LOVING this.  Fénix fought back again and knocked Muertes over a ledge, and then hit a flip senton, but Muertes got back up and threw Fénix into the barrier. Fénix found some FIRE! and hit a moonsault off the barrier to the floor.  They went back and forth, still on the outside, and Muertes went to hit a lariat on Fénix, who moved, and he hit Catrina instead. He showed some concern for her, but Fénix resumed the fight and they went back into the ring.  Fénix knocked Muertes onto the apron and Catrina opened the coffin. Muertes was knocked inside and Catrina licked his magical rock and threw it inside and then shut the lid to give Fénix the win.  This was a WAR. Some people have already called it a Match of the Year candidate, which is just silly, but it was very, very good, and really ended (this chapter of?) the feud in a great way. Both men worked SUPER hard. Professional wrestling at its best.  This was a Great Show. It delivered on in-ring action, with even the three-on-one being engaging and well-booked. The opener and main event were top class stuff. And next week we get two title matches! It's like Dario Cueto is the Ambassador, because he really is spoiling us! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awards Moderator Onyx2 Posted March 20, 2015 Awards Moderator Share Posted March 20, 2015 I think you have to know the back story. I watched it cold and found it a perfectly enjoyable match, nothing special. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members IANdrewDiceClay Posted March 20, 2015 Paid Members Share Posted March 20, 2015 I followed the story and it was a very good match. Definitely not a MOTY or anything, though. No where near Brock vs Cena vs Rollins. Different kind of match to what you see on TV these days, which is what made me like it so much. More like really enjoyable than a masterpiece. Mil Muertes is always hit and miss with me anyway. Â These self contained episodes are really a disservice to them. There's no big show to end the feuds. Its just happens on a random episode of Lucha Underground. For me, you need a big show to work towards. Like NXT has with their network specials or how RAW is built around with the PPVs at the end of the month. Even TNA has a different name for their big TV shows. Lucha Underground needs something like this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pgi86 Posted March 21, 2015 Share Posted March 21, 2015 Hijo del Perro Aguayo has passed away. Apparently, he got hurt/knocked out while wrestling in Tijuana, was taken to the hospital and then passed away there. The official cause of death appears to be cervical spine trauma (whiplash to the neck). He was only 35. Â Absolutely shocking news. Perro was one of my all-time favorite performers. Such a fun, charismatic performer. I rarely get affected by wrestling deaths anymore, but this one hits hard. Rest in peace, Perrito. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Linus Posted March 21, 2015 Paid Members Share Posted March 21, 2015 WTF?!? Man, that's shocking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daily Buzzard Posted March 21, 2015 Share Posted March 21, 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHld-xmHcG8&feature=youtu.be  Footage of the end of the match. Not very nice at all. Just seems to be a tragic accident. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Benno Posted March 21, 2015 Paid Members Share Posted March 21, 2015 This is terrible - there's another fan shot video out there that shows him unconscious leaning on the middle rope before Rey misses the 619. Sounds like whatever happened was in the setup for the move. Just awful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PBWFan Posted March 21, 2015 Share Posted March 21, 2015 Konnan wasn't to know obviously, but he fair rattled the guy for a few seconds at the end there.If the guy had spine trauma then got shook, probably didn't give the lad much of a chance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Gallybagger Posted March 21, 2015 Paid Members Share Posted March 21, 2015 Silly question but when did Rey start working Mexico again? Is he done with wwe? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vamp Posted March 21, 2015 Author Share Posted March 21, 2015 I'm pretty shocked by the Perro news. He was having a bit of a resurgence lately, he seemed motivated again and his recent efforts with Mistico were good (if very disgusting) fun. He must have been heading to another Triplemania main event too, whether to face Mistico or Alberto. Â He might have played the sick rudo well, literally tasting the blood of his opponents, but he was hugely popular with lucha crowds. Even when he didn't seem so motivated he still got his character across wonderfully. Â Somehow everything seems to be falling apart for AAA at a time when everything looked so promising. Rey de Reyes postponed twice and then half a crowd showing up, the traffic accident for the staff bus which saw ananother tragic death and injuries and now this. It seemed like terrible news for them when their big show was postponed at what was a pivotal moment for the company but after the staff accident and this news it just seems like a trifle. Â Obviously thoughts go to the family and the people in the match. I can't imagine what that must feel like to go through. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FUM Posted March 21, 2015 Share Posted March 21, 2015 I don't have any medical knowledge on what killed him but if he had got help just that minute or two sooner, I wonder if anything could have been done. Seems mental that they just kind of held him out the way rather than seeking medical attention for him. They could still have carried on the match while he was attended to surely? Or would he have died either way? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Linus Posted March 21, 2015 Paid Members Share Posted March 21, 2015 They're saying that he was probably dead from the moment he hit the ropes. But we won't know for a while. Manik seems to have some worries but probably thought it was a great sell job. So sad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ars Posted March 21, 2015 Share Posted March 21, 2015 From the look of the video (and I know you can't tell much from a video) but surely they should, or the ref at least, would have seen that he was non responsive, even Rey could tell something was wrong, and thus call for immediate help. Sad and tragic news nonetheless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pgi86 Posted March 21, 2015 Share Posted March 21, 2015 The full match. The incident is from 6:10 onwards: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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