Posted May 29, 201015 yr comment_5451407 Atenas/Lola Gonzalez/Selene vs La Monster/La Salvaje/Martha Villalobos The ruda team are some big nasty bitches who are fucking people up, and I am digging them. Martha isn't afraid to land awkwardly with her fat thighs on other women's faces. With a better finish, I could see this making a set. It didn't have a good finish though. Americo Rocca/Blue Demon Jr./Javier Cruz vs Bestia Salvaje/El Supremo I/Pierroth Jr. Some fun performances, especially by Bestia who takes a big bump to the floor. Still there was a part of the match where they blew about five spots in a row, and Demon and Supremo aren't very good. Atlantis/Ringo Mendoza/Steve Nelson vs Satanico/MS-1/Masakre Always fun to see the Infernales and I liked Nelson, but nothing about this match really stood out. I did love Satanico working with Ringo but no dice. El Dandy vs Emilio Charles Jr. - Hair vs Hair As good as you would hope this would be. Violence, blood, insane dives, punches to the face, blood, blood. Dandy hits maybe the greatest tope I have ever seen, and they just murder each other. This is as good as the best Mid-South brawls, and it isn't even the best lucha brawl on this set. Slam Dunk
May 6, 201114 yr comment_5470837 Atenas/Lola Gonzalez/Selene vs La Monster/La Salvaje/Martha Villalobos The rudas laid it in, but the tecnicas didn't look so great. A lot of stuff just looked off, and La Salvaje looked kinda awkward here aside from a few stiff shots. Not a nomination. Americo Rocca/Blue Demon Jr./Javier Cruz vs Bestia Salvaje/El Supremo I/Pierroth Jr. This match has some guys I like, some guys I don't, and in the end, it just didn't move me. Atlantis/Ringo Mendoza/Steve Nelson vs Satanico/MS-1/Masakre I liked this a lot more than Phil. Satanico instigates a shoving match with Nelson at the beginning, and the whole thing immediately breaks down, and it's awesome. Ringo didn't look too good in this, but everyone else delivered, especially Nelson - who makes a great fish out of water - and Satanico - who was just beating the shit out of dudes and was a total cock with his facial expressions the whole match. Basically, you have to work hard to get me to turn against a match built around the Infernales mugging dudes. They appear to break up after they lose, but it's lucha, so I'm guessing they broke up, like, 80 times before they actually broke up. Nomination. El Dandy vs Emilio Charles Jr. - Hair vs Hair I thought the first fall was a touch dry for these guys, but the segunda caida kicked in, and Dandy started bleeding, and this match became what you want from a Dandy/Emilio hair match. Easy nomination.
July 22, 201213 yr comment_5510867 Atenas/Lola Gonzalez/Selene vs. La Monster/La Salvaje/Martha Villalobos (7/28/89) Fun rudas stuff but the tecnicas were pretty crappy here. Blue Demon Jr./Javier "El Monarca" Cruz/Americo Rocca vs. Bestia Salvaje/Pierroth/Supremo Jr. (7/28/89) Great seeing Bestia here but this match was underwhelming and didn't really do anything for me. Atlantis/Ringo Mendoza/Steve Nelson vs. Los Infernales (Masakre/MS-1/Satanico) (7/28/89) Nelson going toe to toe with Satanico was pretty great to start the match and kickstarted a great Infernales beatdown. Infernales' facials were great with Satanico being such an angry prick and Masakre talking shit like a motherfucker. The tecnicos would come back led by Atlantis who was really solid here but his partners were getting mugged by the rudos. Ringo would stand up to them here but Nelson really got his ass kicked which was interesting because Nelson had been so good before. The tecs would win straight falls in spite of being dominated for most of the match and the big story was afterwards when Satanico had big time issues with his partners. I thought this was a really fun showing for the Infernales with some nice tecnico exchanges to boot. I'll push this forward as a low-end pick. Caballera contra Caballera: El Dandy vs. Emilio Charles Jr. (7/28/89) What can you say about this one other than this is greatness. Dandy is wearing white here which is great for a bloody hair match. This is just a battle of two of the best in the world at that time going to absolute war on each other with their big hair on the line and doing whatever it took to keep their locks. Crazy bumping, crazy diving, hard hitting action, great crowd, this is what you wanted here and got it in spades. This is a slam dunk nomination and I think easily a Top 10 pick.
