Video link to the event over at Youtube : https://youtu.be/x0FpAQdzrIQ



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Who’s Who?

Rey Fenix

Making his debut in 2005 as Máscara Oriental he would make his way to AAA in 2010 changing to the Fenix name and his first rivalry being with his real like brother Dark Dragon, who would go on to become Pentagon Jr.

In 2014 Lucha Underground would start where Fenix/Pentagon would both build their brands on a new wrestling alternative. The first season of which introduced an American audience to AAA characters playing in a Lucha Underground Universe which also included indie/AAA talents under alternate identities.

Ricochet>Prince Puma

El Hijo del Fantasma>King Cuerno

Ricky Banderas>Mil Muertes

He would be pretty well used by AAA in his time there. Given title shots, but not given a title until they gave him the inaugural AAA Fusión Championship, which he’d be the only champion to hold this before it was merged back into the cruiserweight title. So, the thing they gave him only existed basically to give to him. I guess that’s a compliment? I’m surprised he didn’t have more titles.

Alongside his Lucha Underground run he started working in The Crash the year prior. Where he won the inaugural The Crash Cruiserweight Championship which he would hold for over 200 days. So he was having success in both LU holding gold and The Crash after for the most part feeling forgotten in AAA. So when he left AAA on September 24, 2016 it wasn’t too surprising.

The next spring his brother who left shortly after him won the PWG Tag Team Titles, together working a number of shows with PWG, Wrestlecircus, Pro Wrestling Revolver, AAW and most extensively the Crash over 2017. I’d say Fenix/Pentagon became the face of The Crash. Basically taking on an and all challengers solo and sometimes as a team.

Fenix has a luchas de apuestas record of 4-0-0 interestingly enough 1 in his pre AAA indie days, 1 in AAA, 1 in Lucha Underground and 1 in AAW. That is one of the most diverse records I have seen. Though of course someone like Super Muneco who does mostly indie mask matches, he may have lots of different promotions too. Fenix coming to CMLL means if he won one here it would be 5 different promotions!



He was also the first person to be a Triple Crown Champion in Lucha Underground which is Trios, LU Champion and Gift of the Gods Champion. The only other LU Triple Crown Champion is Johnny Mundo. This both happened in 2016, so sorry, but not big spoilers. With the 4th season of Lucha Underground about to start in June and Fenix announcing he will be working CMLL soon. This summer promises to be a strong summer… a surgical summer?

La Park

La Park made his debut in 1982 a decade before AAA would be founded. He would hold no titles in that time. Before the La Parka(The reaper) gimmick Parka was most notably Principe Island a mask he lost in 1987 to El Hijo del Santo. ending his 5-0-0 streak. I’m sure he had his fans, but he wasn’t super well known at all as those gimmicks his first decade in the business.

1992 came around and the AAA walkout happened. Antonio Pena, the leader and head booker of AAA who use to be a CMLL booker came to La Parka with the idea for the gimmick. The skeleton based loosely on the Day of the Dead tradition Mexico practices each year. The character was a hit out of the gate and the first major match was vs Lizmark at the first ever Triplemania for Lizmark’s Mexican National Light Heavyweight Championship. Not covering that match because I talked about it last year when highlighting Lizmark.

That belt would be around Park’s waist before too long. That and the WWA World Light Heavyweight Champion were the only 2 belts Parka had held at this point in 2001. He held the Mexican National Light Heavyweight Championships 3 times and the WWA title 2 times.

1992 to 1996 he worked with AAA until 1997 came around and the peso crashed. Like many people he left the company at that time following many other luchadors to bolster WCW. Where despite becoming a household name and one of the most memorable guys on the roster… he never really won any accolades. After his run in WCW he would return to Mexico working indie and CMLL dates from 2000-2008.

So Park had done his CMLL run and would come back to AAA for a few years teaming with the rudo stable Perros del Mal which was lead by Perro Aguayo Jr. who Fenix too had worked with. Perros del Mal had a whole organization. I didn’t mention it earlier, but Fenix held the Perros del Mal Light Heavyweight Championship at one point. The organization pretty muched ceased once Perro Aguayo Jr. passed away or shortly there after. Of course La Park and his son El Hijo de La Park were members of Perros del Mal, who celebrated with him after his Triplemania XVIII Main Event win over La Parka(II).

La Park would leave AAA earlier than Fenix/Pentagon Jr. having his last AAA match in April of 2013. He would work the indies and of course The Crash in 2017 and 2018. His last CMLL run in 2015 only lasted 2 matches before he was fired for unprofessional conduct. Shortly after Dr. Wagner Jr. left not happy with La Park being fired which made lots of people think Dr. Wagner Jr. and La Park some day would have a mask vs mask match, but of course that went out the window when Dr. Wagner Jr. was unmasked by Psycho Clown at Triplemania 25, in August of 2017.

How is the match?

Fantastic, this is another classic brawl from La Park. This time with someone who was a bit more his junior Fenix being a next generation talent while La Parka was the same age as La Park, Ultimo is 7 years younger, El Hijo del Santo is 2 years older and Fenix finally is 25 years younger. If you cut the age difference between the two men out this could be a triple threat and the guy would only be two years younger than Fenix. It’s quiet the gap and you wouldn’t know it from watching the match. Fenix might be a bit more agile than the 52 year old La Park, but Park is built like a tank. This match just happened a little over a month ago. Which makes one wonder if these two were aware that in the coming months they’d be CMLL bound.

I wouldn’t be surprised if they didn’t know, because this match is so good it might have been the spark that made CMLL call. I don’t know about that, but this match is excellent and more proof as to why The Crash needs to film. If this had been on TV or a subscription service I think more people would be talking about it. To be fair the fan cam is great and I have to thank the channel VL3000 who have put up a few fan cams to their Youtube. The fancams are why I haven’t gotten too into The Crash, but this one was pretty nice. It was like a single cam NJPW show, but they would follow the action. It was a pretty good quality.

The action was fun throughout and might be the best Park match of this series. The El Hijo del Santo match is great too and would have to be near this one, but that one does have a bit of a silly finish which we never got to really resolve with another match. This match has no silly finish, though there is liberal use of weapons and La Park even uses the tombstone like he did in his La Parka Triplemania match we covered yesterday.

This match is a pretty reason to be excited for a CMLL environment that involves both La Park and Fenix. Who knows if they will cross paths or be in a singles match in CMLL, but now is the closest we have ever been to that. With both getting check from CMLL to make appearances. Even if we only got a lighting match, that would be a hell of a lightning match. How Fenix will play to Ingobernables vs La Park Dynasty or if he will at all is an interesting question.

Not sure how to end this last one, hope you enjoyed the series.