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I always liked him. Something about a dude who did fun high flying stuff while also boxing was neat. But yeah, way too many headlocks.

I'm having so much fun watching this. It's funny, people always talk about how high risk lucha is - and it is - but there's WAY less bumping due to the 2 fall structure I think. Pretty much every big, flat bump is a fall. No wonder lucha guys last so far into old age. I don't get the deal with Tirantes or whoever as ref. He seems to count kind of slow and have a bit of a character? Like, their red shoes or hebner or whatever? Can someone fill me in? And I am shallow enough to admit I dig the ring card and entrance ladies.

Anyone know if there's an e-book out there of it?

Hello folks, Recently got into CMLL due to some promoting of it by fans both here and on Reddit. Really starting to dig it, and I want some reading material for the bus to learn about lucha. Just some E-Books to throw on my tablet. Any recommendations?

I don't know much about lucha, but man, that was amazing. Loved that full on tope to the head. Loved the dueling disqualification falls or whatever.

I thought the premiere was ROUGH. Show looks way worse, and the pacing is all kinds of off. Building to a three way grave consequences match in the third episode of the damn show seems like a mistake. They're just throwing too much out at once.

DrAckerman: https://rutube.ru/video/8ae615842ae605b9d04bd96a1f6db67c/

Awesome! Throw me something to review, PWO folks

I think Mistico's an obvious shout. He was the biggest thing in the world in his - admittedly brief - prime. But others had a comparably short prime and made the Hall. I'd have him in.

Nakamura's always been a better heel to me, just because for as interesting as he is a TV character he'd be such a weird, annoying asshole in the real world.

Can anyone participate in this? I'm a new poster, but I would love to share some reviews.

Pretty sure I was looking for Llave. Thanks!

There's a term for the ground based chain wrestling lucha libre style that I can't remember. I saw it once in a review of ZSJ vs Negro Navarro and not being able to remember it is driving me nuts. Help?

I know I'm a bit late on this. The biggest, damning thing about the match is over the past year they had two central pillars the match easily should have been built on: The vicious elbows to Orton and the F5 kickout. The F5 has been built fantastically all year, putting absolutely everyone down - Including Reigns in the buildup! - with one shot. The Orton elbows were a big, talked about moment that could have served as a fantastic story beat in this match. They killed themselves by going to the F5 too early. A half dead, bloody Roman eating that move and then kicking out of one F5 only to spend the rest of the match desperately avoiding getting hit with another could have been a lot of fun.

What's some good Atlantis stuff to get started with? I've heard the Villaino match is fantastic, obviously.

I really, really liked this but it does lose a little to me based on them forcing this "This is my moment!" thing into the match repeatedly despite it having absolutely nothing to do with the match. This wasn't a match about a "moment". It's a match about personal disgust and betrayal, your best friend turning on you. That's not a time for clever phrases. That's a time to stay quiet and kick ass. Other than that, good stuff. Really dug it. Would have liked to see them go back into the ring between the outside stuff a few more times just to make the stuff out at ringside breath a little more but that may have made the time a little too long.

The issue with Zack for me isn't just the moves he does. It's that the way he does them requires his opponent just sit there and not fight back at all to make them work. There's so many cute arm and finger manipulations where I'm just sitting there going "...Just punch him. Punch him with your other arm." His opponent just sits there wincing but not otherwise reacting. Thatcher I always find a bit overwrought in his presentation. Guy just seems really strangely over the top, particularly in his physical posture. I know that's nitpicking but just the way he stands is weird.