What up DOI fans (and you haters) and welcome to the CMLL McTV review. Last week, there was no CMLL/AAA on for some reason, hence the missing report. This will be a fast report, since time is an issue, so let me get right into it.

Show opens up with highlights and clips of the 70th Anniversary of CMLL. They show some shit dating back to 1933, when it all began, making CMLL the longest running wrestling company today. The old music, the old posters, and the black and white presentation of the past really came out good. Good shit that makes you appreciate the past, as well as wanting to know more about Lucha Libre's past.

We open up with the announcers, who always seem to change from week to week. They run down past events and upcoming shows. It's funny that they are plugging shows for September 2003. Lucha Libre is 3 months behind, due to a network struggle with Galavision and Deportes, but you think they'd edit out the plugs for upcoming shows.

Volador/Ricky Marvin/Virus d. The Habana Brothers (Puma Kid, Ricky Romero and Rocco)
LOL, The Habana Brothers uses Tazz's theme song. Copyright infringement lol. Still that Tazz music was hot before they changed it to the Cypress Hill shit. Ricky Marvin won the Japan/Mexican Lightweight Title last time CMLL aired, but he didn't have it with him today.
PRIMERO CAIDA: Match is very fast paced. About 3 minutes in, Romero puts Virus in an armbar submission which gets Virus to tap.
Cut to commercials and we hear about NISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSAN SENTRRRRRRRRRRRRA. Word.
Come back for some dancing from the Lucha Libre Lesbinanas!
We cut back to the match.
SEGUNDA CAIDA: WOW! Lots of high flying action by both guys. We also see big ass powerslams and submissions. Marvin hits a sick corkscrew plancha in this one. After a double superplex by Marvin and Volador, Romero gets pinned, tying the match.
TERZA CAIDA: We go back to more flying action, including a tope by Volador. The technicos hit double suicide dives, presumably after watching Papadon matches for inspiration. Lots of double teaming and triple teaming in this fall. Finish sees Romero tap out to the sharpshooter that is applied by Virus, giving the rudos the win.
Overall a good match, but pretty short. Ricky Marvin can get major shit done if he wrestled in the U.S.

We come back showing highlights of what is going on. Then we get show moves. Kind of like showing the damage any move can do. They show a plancha with some fat guy, whose name I don't know. Then, in a Papadonesque moment, they show suicide dives, and how to do them right. They then show the suicide dive with the clip, that Homicide has perfected. After these highlights/move demonstrations, we go back to more commercialas.

Up Next was the major match that has been hyped up on TV for the last 3 months - Violencia vs Pierroth MASK vs HAIR match. The build up to this was fantastic.

Pierroths Hair vs Violencia's Mask
Pierroth d. Violencia forcing Violencia to show his mug
PRIMERO CAIDA: The way these two guys put emotion and ferociousness in this match is amazing. Pierroth gets the first fall in 30 seconds! Pretty anticlimatic, but I guess that's one of the downsides of the three fall system. He gets the win when his fake Chyna body guard pulls Violencia's leg, and Pierroth then pins him and hooks his hand, and pulls his wrist. That pin was really fucking cool, as I never saw someone get pinned like that, but it would've meant more in the third fall, then right away in the first first fall.

SEGUNDA CAIDA
Violencia is pissed and whipps Pierroth all over the ring and follows up with some clotheslines. Violencia then hits a humongous flipping suicide dive, and only catches Pierroths body guard with his legs, landing flat on his back on the cold floor. Wow, call the chiropracter, that was fucking rough. Pierroth capitalizes and pounds on Violencia in the ring. As Pierroth goes to bring Violencia to his feet, Violencia small packages him and ties up the match 1-1!
After pinning Pierroth, Pierroth's fake Chyna is stretchered out to the back.
TERZA CAIDA: Pierroth is fucking pissed, and he starts whipping the shit out of Violencia with his belt, on Violencia's already damaged back. Violencia eventually gets out of it and gets the belt and uses it on Pierroth. Violencia then goes on the strong offensive and nearly has the match won multiple times. Pierroth is like Hulk Hogan and is kicking out of everything. Pierroth hits the baldo bomb for another 2. The only thing that would make this better, would be if the fat ref could get down fast, because Violencia would've had 3 about 10 times if the ref wasn't so slow and if his belly didn't get in the way of his arm as he was counting. All of a sudden Unvierso 2000 runs down and beats the crap out of Pierroth, but Violencia can only get 2. I thought Violencia was the technicos. What the fuck is going on? Violencia goes to the top rope and planchas Pierroth, but Pierroth won't look at the lights for more than 2 seconds. Violencia goes for a swanton bomb and completely misses. Pierroth lifts him up and gives him a wicked powerbomb pin combo, giving Pierroth the win.

POSTMATCH: Pierroths army comes out to celebrate. Pierroth cuts a promo, that I really can't undertsand, but all I got is that he wants to challenge Universo 2000.
In a what the ... moment, as the camera pans the crowd, after the rudos victory, I see Slash from LXW/XPW drunk as hell, doing a thumbs down. Fucking hilarious. Glad I had it on tape, to confirm that it was him. I thought it was, because he was the only white guy in the crowd lol. Anyway, Pierroth continues to talk. Violencia unmasks and leaves the ring. They say that Violencia is Columbia. I don't know if that's his country or his last name, but that's what they said. Pierroth calls out the announcer for some reason, and chases the announcer. Um right.
Overall good match, but like most lucha libre matches, should've been longer.
Come back after commercials for some last words to close the show.

Final McWord
This is probably one tape I won't tape over, due to the Pierroth/Violencia match. The first match was pretty good too. This was a great CMLL show, and focuses on good wrestling, as opposed to AAA's 30 minutes of dialouge a show lol.

AAA Review/Results coming soon.

Sean "The MiC" McCaffrey