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This opens with what appears to be home video footage of someone's Quincenera, but turns out to be an awards ceremony of some kind. Pretty much every major name of the period is present, but otherwise, it's not that exciting.

 

Perro Aguayo vs. Gran Hamada

 

Only a very brief clip.

 

El Canek vs. Andre the Giant

 

Only clips, sadly, but they include Andre generally being awesome, taking armdrag bumps, bloodying up Canek, and of course, Canek slamming him twice, which I think makes it an extra on general principle.

 

Dos Caras, El Solitario, & Enrique Vera vs. Abdullah the Butcher, Abdullah Tamba, & Dr. Wagner

 

Clips. Not bad, not great.

 

Los Cadetes del Espacio vs. Los Exoticos

 

Finally, a match mostly in full. Unfortunately, it's one I've seen before, but at least it's an awesome one I've seen before. It's really too bad about the cuts, but there's no way this doesn't make the set. Easy nomination.

 

Enrique Vera vs. Dos Caras

 

There's some clipping, but not much, and it doesn't seem to cut out much. Dos' reputation from this period is as one of the all-time great workers. Given how good he was later in his career, I've always been inclined to believe that that's true, but this is the first match I've seen that really backs up that claim. It also makes a hell of a case for Enrique Vera, who I don't think I've even seen a full match of before, but who looked awesome here. This is a lucha title match, and consequently is very matwork heavy. It's very good matwork, too. Not the flashiest you'll see in lucha, but there is more of a struggle to it, and more guys cranking things in than you usually get in your Solar/Navarro "gentlemen's game"-type matches. They kick up the pace later in the match and throw in some nice, higher impact stuff for good measure, including some swank dropkicks and a crossbody off of the apron by Vera, and a nasty piledriver from Dos. I really got a kick out of this. It seems like an 80's Lucha set wouldn't be complete without at least one really good Dos Caras match. I think this fits the bill. Easy nomination.

 

Robin Hood, Tawa Vera, & Tigre de Bengala vs. Rocky Santana, Romano Garcia, & Perro Sosa

 

More clipped than the last two matches, less clipped than Canek/Andre. I think we got most of this, but it probably would fall short of a nomination either way, though what's shown is pretty fun.

 

Brazo de Oro, Brazo de Plata, & Super Astro vs. Satanico, Espectro Jr., Enfermo

 

What's shown is awesome, but definitely too clipped up to nominate.

  • 4 months later...
comment_5540620

We gotta include this awards ceremony in the extras file because this is great to see all these lucha guys in tuxedos was awesome.

 

Then we get clips of Perro/Hamada and the epic Canek/Andre match that is a slam dunk extra.

 

Next we get clips of Dos/Solitario/Vera vs. Abdullah the Butcher/Abdullah Tamba/Dr. Wagner. Always fun seeing the Abbys together.

 

Los Cadetes del Espacio (Solar I/Super Astro/Ultraman) vs. Los Exoticos (El Bello Greco/Rudy Reyna/Sergio el Hermoso) (2/26/84)

 

This even with the clips is a legendary match at least among the lucha internet fans because these teams were so damn awesome at everything they did. I can only imagine the classics these teams regularly had in this era that aren't on film. Slam dunk nomination.

 

UWA World Heavyweight Title: Enrique Vera © vs. Dos Caras (2/26/84)

 

Again we get clipping but man this was a really great match. They worked this in the title style so you get plenty of awesome matwork with both guys being great especially Vera who really impressed me here as Dos was one of the best guys in the world at this time and Vera was hanging with him move for move. They would pick up the pace towards the end and it was very solid especially the piledriver by Dos which was awesome. The stretch run was really good too and this is a very easy nomination.

 

The rest is clipped.

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