Who’s who?

Polvora is in a darker attire with an explosion like mask design. Rojo is in more red and has dragon written on the back of his briefs. While their 3rd is Vangellys in a black bodysuit with no mask.

Soberano Jr. is in blue/silver mask and pants, Drone is in mostly white with some blue/red detailing, their 3rd Angel de Oro is in black with gold wings on his mask and pant.

How’s the match?

Good, not anything spectacular. Pretty much everyone had a good moment even Vangellys. Who was barely in the match, but got to do his fisherman suplex which looked nice here. All the tecnicos here do good, though I find Angel de Oro a little bland his ring work is always pretty solid. Polvora was good here too, but showed better in his lightning match last week… which I’d suggest over this.

Who’s who?

Sam Adonis is in some nice American pants, Mr. Niebla is the only masked rudo and is wearing an afro wig, while their 3rd is wearing a loincloth to live up to his caveman name.

Blue Panther is wearing blue, Johnny Idol in Purple has long hair, while Valiente is the only masked man wearing Mexico colored garb.

For added context about a month or two ago Adonis won a hair vs hair match vs Blue Panther.

How’s the match?

Good, better than expected. The teams are pretty polar opposite. You have the heavy character work of the rudos vs the more… technical side. Normally that spells for a pretty boring match. Because really only Barbaro on the rudo side is known for good match work.

No offense to Adonis or Mr. Niebla who are good hands, but are more known for being exaggerated characters more than great workers. Mr. Neibla has a 25+ year career, so he has slowed down the last few. It looked like he hurt his shoulder on the finish of this match, hopefully it’s nothing too serious.

Big highlight of the match and perhaps of the night was Barbaro’s big dropkick onto idol. It’s a great set up with Pretty sure they hit it on the Gran Prix PPV too, though not on Idol who was in that Gran Prix match.

Who’s who?

Octagon makes his return to CMLL after leaving about 23 years ago to help in the birth of AAA back in 1993. He is wearing the black bodysuit, Mistico is in a white mask while Volador Jr. is maskless. Important note : Mistico and Volador Jr. are also 2/3rds of the trios champions with Valiente being the other third.

Kojima is in orange and black while Gran has a mask and is green and black with his maskless brother Ultimo.

How’s the match?

It was good, not great. Which sums up this episode of CMLL television. To be fair the last aired event was Gran Prix… which was an iPPV. So… this just felt like more standard lucha. Kojima is a nice change of pace. I liked that Los Guerreros let Kojima kick Mistico. It was really welcoming to their NJPW visitor.

On a more serious note, it looked like Gran Guerrero landed on Kojima’s head… hope it wasn’t serious. Mistico also tripped up on a springboard, which is unlike him.



Still Mistico vs Ultimo shows promise and had fun exchanges. Octagon is the big take away and I think his performance was good. Wasn’t mindblowing, but the main time he had in the ring was very fun.

A good episode of Puebla, but not as exciting as last weeks 6 on 6 main event. The best match was probably the first, but Octagon’s return was fun… if not a revelation. He’s back and cool… nice seeing Kojima again hope he and Niebla are okay after painful looking finishes.

Edit : Sorry this was late. I had family labor day stuff on Monday and while there hurt two of my fingers. So they may be slightly late for the next few days.