http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a9oZeWkm70

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vT4hNhD-K08

 

This is the first Blue Demon match I've ever seen. He is pretty much at the end of the road here, but like Black Terry and Negro Navarro today, age seems to be no hindrance to him, as he is balls to the wall fantastic here. His opening mat exchange with Emilio is just stellar, and it would still be considered state of the art if it happened today. Emilio kinda looks like he's being taken for a ride by the old man, but he keeps up pretty well, and his spill out of the ring at the end of it all was neat. Blue Demon Jr. comes in and tries to match his dad's mad skills in an exchange with Pirata. He can't but it's still pretty good, and overall, Junior gives a much better performance than usual. Ringo and Satanico forgo the mat stuff and just have a great, high-energy exchange where Ringo cracks Satanico with headbutts and the sends him out of the ring with a swank flying armdrag. The technicos press the advantage to score the first fall, but the second fall goes the rudos' way, as they isolate Mendoza and really beat the shit out of him. The Demons manage to break it up eventually, but it's for naught, as Ringo and Blue Demon Sr. get crushed by top rope splashes from Emilio and Pirata respectively, even things up. Third fall, the rudos try to mob old man Demon, but the technicos rally in style - including Ringo dealing two hard straight rights to Pirata's face in succession, which was awesome - and pick up the win. We need to rip this. Between Blue Demon is as good as legend says he is, filling the match with tricked-out matwork and drawing some great reactions from the fans. His kid and Ringo bring plenty of energy, and the rudos eat everything and bump around really well, and get to dish out some serious punishment, too, in the second fall. I absolutely loved this, and it feels like a slam dunk nomination.

Big thumbs up to this match, pretty cool that it surfaced. Blue Demon was old as fuck at this point, but still really great, and we have just a murderers row of awesome rudos. Satanico is so much fun to watch.

Looks like this vanished which is a bummer, we have to better about ripping stuff when it shows up

It appears this match is on a tape called Blue Demon 'El Campeon'.

 

http://www.slambamjam.com/?p=559

 

That site also apparently has a tape with highlights of El Santo's retirement tour in 82.

 

http://www.slambamjam.com/dvdcatalog/027.htm

Awesome great catch. We need this disc.

Blue Demon/Blue Demon Jr./Ringo Mendoza vs. Emilio Charles Jr./Pirata Morgan/Satanico (11/25/88)

 

This is Demon Sr.'s retirement match and he has a dream team of rudos working against him. Demon Sr. reminds me of watching guys like Terry & Navarro today as they are old soldiers that continue to work hard even though they could coast like some of their brethren and he was worlds better than his son then and even now. The one thing this has is some funky edits and slow-mo replays which hurts the flow of the action. The rudos here of course are great and Ringo is a good hand so that part of the match adds an extra element to this. This is the Demon Sr. show though and that's what we want as he goes out with a bang and this is a slam dunk nomination no doubt.