Video link to the match over at Youtube : https://youtu.be/UuYCtg-J540



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Who’s Who?

Villano III

Making his debut in 1970, Villano would mostly work in UWA, but that company didn’t exist until 1975 so he got his start out of that promotion. We touched upon Villanos a few days ago when we talked about that Los Brazos match. Villano’s I, IV & V unmasked the 3 Los Brazos brothers in 1986.

While Villano III was really the break out singles star of the 5 Villano brothers. Being a poster boy for UWA, which of course was co-founded by Villanos family patriarchy Ray Mendoza. Who too was a wrestler back in his day for EMLL before the 1975 founding of UWA.

Villano III at this point had captured the UWA World Light Heavyweight Championship twice, WWF Light Heavyweight Championship 5 times, WWA World Trios Championship with brothers IV & V, Mexican National Trios Championship with Dos Caras and V and UWA World Welterweight Championship. UWA would shutter it’s doors in 1995 and after that Villano like many people at the time made his way to AAA.



This being a Luchas de Apuestas match we have to go over his record. Which was a solid 29(More?)-0-0, with some of those names being heavy hitters like Perro Aguayo, Rambo, El Texano, El Signo, Babe Face, Ray Acosta and plenty more. Many of those guys were hair, but a bet is still a bet as is a win.

Pegasus Kid(Chris Benoit)

Pegasus Kid made his debut in 1985 in Canadian promotion Stampede Wrestling as his given name Chris Benoit. When Stampede closed its doors in 1989 Chris Benoit went to work in NJPW where he became Pegasus Kid. There he captured his first none Stampede Gold when he won the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship during his feud with Liger. In that same feud he would lose his mask in July before this. I suppose the logic at the time was UWA Mexican fans probably didn’t watch NJPW, which you’d assume is true.

So, Benoit’s record for betting matches from what I can tell was 0-1-0. So the winner of this match is pretty telegraphed if you look at the tale of the tape. I won’t go too much further on about Benoit. His reputation is famous, or infamous and many people won’t watch any of his work. If you are one of those people, I completely understand. I just thought this match was a good inclusion for showing off Villano III, not Chris Benoit.

How is the match?



Pretty good, It’s probably the least satisfying of the mask vs mask matches we have looked at thus far. Yesterday had a more interesting format, one was a EMLL Anniversary and the other was a much better mask match from UWA with the original Wagner. This one isn’t bad, but it doesn’t feel as urgent or as important. Pegasus comes off as fairly generic as a foil for Villano.

I was glad to not see any flying headbutts here. It was a little bizarre to see Chris Benoit doing elbow drops and splashes instead of headbutts. Because, he still went to the top rope quite a few times in this match. This match was a little too one sided for me with it basically being all Pegasus Kid until the times Villano III finally starts competing again to get th falls. I went with this instead of Blue Blazer getting unmasked around this same time in Mexico, because between them I found this to be the better match. Both in the ring, but also with the quality of the video. 1 of the 3 falls in the Blue Blazer match that I found was missing. Not the best match we have covered in these 13 days, but not the worst either.