Paid Members Big Benny HG Posted May 30, 2015 Paid Members Share Posted May 30, 2015 The 'match of the week' is always put on El Rey Network's official YouTube page. There's a big playlist there which would be a good guide. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reychampion Posted May 30, 2015 Share Posted May 30, 2015 There was a fantastic 10 man one fall match back when they were nearing deciding their first champion, the recent trio's title match crowning the first champion or way back at the beginning, Prince Puma V Johnny Mundo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members PunkStep Posted May 31, 2015 Paid Members Share Posted May 31, 2015 Puma VS Johnny Mundo right at the beginning is brilliant, I'd also recommend the King Cueno/Drago series. Plus the awesome ladder match, I forget who was in it now. I think it was to crown the first champion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Linus Posted May 31, 2015 Paid Members Share Posted May 31, 2015 The first champion was crowned in a singles match after Aztec Warfare. Ben's suggestion of using the Match Of The Week isn't bad. In fact, you can pretty much catch up using those and the highlights on YouTube but you'll be robbing yourself of so much fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members PunkStep Posted May 31, 2015 Paid Members Share Posted May 31, 2015 Course it was. What was the ladder match I'm thinking of, the one that had the comedy falling ladder onto Puma or Fenix moment? That was ace. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Linus Posted May 31, 2015 Paid Members Share Posted May 31, 2015 That was Big Ryck versus Prince Puma versus Johnny Mundo for the $200,000. And, yes, it was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members IANdrewDiceClay Posted June 1, 2015 Paid Members Share Posted June 1, 2015 I hope there is a real monster. I'd be gutted if it was just Big Ryk in a different gimmick. I want the Polymorph off Red Dwarf to show up. Lucha Underground is ridiculous in a 360 kind of way. Its so mental that the logic actually starts making sense again once you've strapped yourself into believe anything can happen on it. Death, monsters, Chavo being interesting, it can all happen on this fucking thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Linus Posted June 9, 2015 Paid Members Share Posted June 9, 2015 I wrote this about the Lucha Future show at the Albert Hall... - - - - - - - - - - - - - - With the homogenised WWE-style spreading across the world, turning shows from Birmingham, Alabama, to Birmingham, England, and Frankfort, Kentucky, to Frankfurt, Germany, all but identical, it's heartening that some corners of the globe still retain their traditional styles. While Japan has its own strong style of wrestling, and pockets of the World Of Sport style cling on in the UK, one definitely unique form is the lucha libre of Mexico, still the predominant discipline in that country. Lucha libre, which translates as “free fight” but don't get too hung up on that, developed in the mid-nineteenth century but exploded in the early-twentieth, when Salvador Lutteroth, a former wrestler from Ciudad Juarez who had served in the Mexican revolution against the forces of Pancho Villa, established the first nationwide promotion, Empressa Mexicana de Lucha Libre (EMLL). Lutteroth's EMLL dominated the Mexican wrestling scene, which nevertheless continued to thrive in small towns and big cities across the nation, and its stars were the foremost proponents of the lucha libre style, and commanded big appearance fees (a cut of which, even from the independent promoters, went to Lutteroth and his office). There were attempts to challenge EMLL (which latterly adopted the moniker CMLL, or Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre), most chiefly from the Universal Wrestling Association (UWA), but the Empressa, as it was known, reigned supreme until the 1990s. Then, under the auspices of former CMLL booker Antonio Peña, Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) was formed, with some of CMLL's top talent, and the two have been in a war ever since. It's a fight that AAA have gotten the upper hand in of late, presenting fan-friendly, American-influenced booking, leading to the five or six pay-per-view-style shows they run every year. What's more, when American fans (and, by extension, those of us on these shores that follow the American scene) think of luchadores, they're probably thinking of fighters who debuted or made their name in AAA. When Rey Mysterio Jr, Psicosis, Juventud Guerrera, and La Parka made a huge splash on WCW TV in the late 1990s, they were AAA guys. The first lucha libre PPV transmitted to US homes, 1993's When Worlds Collide, was promoted by a US-affiliate of AAA. And the stars of the critically-acclaimed Lucha Underground show on Robert Rodriguez's El Rey network? Yep, AAA. And, at London's Albert Hall on Saturday July 11th, the stars of AAA (& Lucha Underground) are coming to the UK. Some of them have appeared here before, and there have been entire lucha libre shows promoted in the UK (some by the promoters of the July show, ¡COMO NO!, but more of that later), but this marks the first time that, while not branded as such, a pure AAA show has made the transatlantic transfer. With former AAA Megacampeon Texano Jr, AAA Cruiserweight title holder el Hijo del Fantasma, and members of the tag-team (parejas) and six-man (trios) championship teams making the trip, it's a stacked line-up, and even includes the mini wrestlers and two of the luchadoras, women wrestlers who mix it up with the men when they have to. ¡COMO NO! first promoted their Lucha Future brand in 2011,with a trio of shows at the Roundhouse, in London, and have since presented shows from Gateshead to Brighton. ¡COMO NO! Began in 1986, bringing Latin American culture to the UK, and have promoted the La Linea festival since 2001. Lucha libre was a natural expansion of their remit, and they've brought over some of the biggest names in lucha libre in that time. For the Albert Hall show, they've promised living legend Blue Demon Jr, whose father was a movie star in the unrivalled heyday of lucha libre in the 1950s and 1960s and has since carved out a legend of his own, alongside Villano IV, another second-generation stand-out. Also along for the ride are AAA main eventers Texano Jr, Psycho Clown and La Parka, as well as stars of Lucha Underground such as Fénix, Drago, Sexy Star, el Hijo del Fantasma (who works there as King Cuerno), and the breakout star of 2015, Pentagón Jr. Although Lucha Underground is not available on UK TV, you can find it in the darker reaches of the internet if you look hard enough, and the El Rey network are kind enough to upload generous highlights, including a full match every week, to their YouTube channel. AAA's Sin Límite, a weekly TV show roughly equivalent to WWE's Raw, is uploaded to their YouTube channel in its entirety every week, and is eighty minutes of compelling entertainment, even if your Spanish is as limited as mine. Lucha Libre is not everyone's cup of tea. It requires a suspension of disbelief above and beyond even that necessary for everyday professional wrestling. But that's given back in spades – the investment you make in swallowing your adult cynicism is repaid a hundredfold in sheer delight at the colourful spectacle that develops before your eyes. With 2015 named as the Year Of Mexico in the UK, what better time to find your lucha love, and I can't think of a better place to do it than at the Albert Hall. The only thing you have to decide is, are you rudo or técnico...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Linus Posted June 18, 2015 Paid Members Share Posted June 18, 2015 Lucha Britannia are streaming their sold out show tomorrow on Meerkat from 9pm. Details on their Twitter - @LuchaBritannia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snitsky's back acne Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 AAA's recent 'World Cup' show https://youtu.be/h3e-0m1J6Nc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Linus Posted June 18, 2015 Paid Members Share Posted June 18, 2015 The Lucha Libre World Cup is an exhausting but rewarding watch. AAA is so hot right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBullensUltra Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 Watched it a week or two ago, rewarding and exhausting is a great way to explain it. Vampiro & Striker had me in stitches quite a few times during that card though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Linus Posted June 19, 2015 Paid Members Share Posted June 19, 2015 Just watched the One Match, One Show match from this week's Lucha Underground. Holy fuck, what a match. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reychampion Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 Loved, loved, loved that match. Very clever how it started in the ring, then they told us how it was no count out, followed by no DQ. It just worked for me. Definitely marked out a few times. Puma just has 'it' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra1000 Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 Yup, incredible stuff. I love how original it is. The concept of a one match show just works. Mundo as a heel is also far better. Still would love them to end up with a more 'traditional' style of booking where they use it to build up to a big show but thats a minor complaint. I fucking love Drago also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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