Video link to the match over at Youtube : https://youtu.be/qQCxipFajHs



Cagematch page for this match/event.

Who’s Who?

Blue Panther



Blue Panther made his debut in 1978, but wouldn’t get to a bigger company until the 1980′s where he would be called in by UWA and start working there where he got his start. Winning both the UWA World Welterweight Champion and UWA World Junior Light Heavyweight Champion in the mid to late 80′s before coming to CMLL more full time in the early 90′s where he won the CMLL World Middleweight Champion from Satanico.

Blue Panther is on the short list of greatest modern luchadores. His feud with Atlantis the year prior established him as a top rudo from UWA.

As mentioned yesterday Panther made his way to AAA like many talents did in the early 1990′s. Including Octagon who was carrying the Mexican National Middleweight Championship when he jumped ship. Since the Mexican National Titles aren’t owned by CMLL, instead being owned and operated by The Boxing & Lucha Commission this wasn’t a problem. I doubt CMLL was happy about it, as far as I know this is the only Mexican National title AAA got this way. In total they had 5 Mexican National Titles : Middleweight, Tag, Cruiserweight, Mini-Estrellas and Atómicos Championship. In 2008 AAA decided to rework championships in their company and abandoned all of these belts.

Most of them weren’t a huge loss as they were mostly more recent additions. However, the Middleweight belt was a belt with a storied history going back to the 30′s. Octagon left CMLL with the belt and in AAA, Blue Panther who also made the jump won it off him in earlier months. Blue Panther would carry the belt for most of the early 90′s in AAA being a standard bearer for the brand. Holding it for over 1200 days over 2 reigns.

Super Astro

Super Astro isn’t the huge name that Blue Panther is, but is still fairly well known. Back in the day he was in a very popular team Los Cadetes del Espacio(The Space Cadets) with Solar and Ultraman in the 1980′s. Super Astro has worked many places making his debut in 1974 when he would have only been 12! Or 12 and a half, regardless he got started pretty young. So at the time of this match he would have been around 30.

I’m not going to go into Super Astros Luchas de Apuestas record, because I don’t really have complete information or he didn’t have many. I’m guessing it’s the former and his wins in the 1970′s and 1980′s aren’t as recorded… because they may not have been major. He could have won some in indie feds and the records just aren’t well known. He was at either 2-0-0 or 3-0-0 depending on the date in 1984 this happened. On July 8th 1984 Space Cadets would win a Masks vs Hairs match over Black Terry, Jose Luis Feliciano & Lobo Rubio.

Super Astro was a middle weight and carried the UWA World Middleweight title which he won for the first time in 1984. Super Astro may have won more belts, but he is only credited 3 on cagematch. He was a fan favorite and the trios Space Cadets would be in the cover of magazines and publications.

Super Astro would start in UWA, work CMLL/AAA/Promo Azteca in the 1990′s before his post 2000′s career consisted mostly of many indie dates all around Mexico and outside of it as well. CMLL have brought him back since 2016 normally in a legend capcity where he wrestlers other older talents… normally tag teaming with Solar as the two were a tag team of some note back in the day.

How is the match?



Great, I really like the contrast this match has to the match we looked at yesterday. While Art Barr played a villian, this match is much more 2 great talents putting on a great contest with no villain. Current day CMLL will have lots of tecnico/tecnico and rudo/rudo matches. Many fans think that a match without a clear good and evil doesn’t work. I have to disagree as it works just fine here.

Both men looked impressive and this match has the technical prowess fans of Blue Panther will expect watching any of his old matches. Blue Panther was on fire in the early 1990′s with classics basically once a month if not more often. It’s easy to see why he held this Middleweight title for over 1200 days. Both men looked impressive with this spot by Super Astro, just being one of the favorite things I’ve seen in a wrestling match. They allowed Super Astro look strong even in defeat. He escaped the same hold that had put out American Love Machine months earlier in Arena Mexico.

Definitely worth checking out, two greats doing the thing that got them their high reputation. It’s a shame this belt stopped existing after the long legacy it build from the 1930′s to 2008 when it was retired. It’s last holder being Octagon, who has since left the company. One day, maybe the lucha/boxing commission will bring it back. Which isn’t off the table, since they have brought back the Mexican National Heavyweight Title which was retired briefly after it’s holder Hector Garza passed away in 2013. It was resurrected in October of last year when Terrible was crowned the new Heavyweight Champion of Mexico.