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Guerrero Maya/Guerrero del Futuro/Damian El Guerrero v. Los Metalicos (Oro/Plata/Bronce) CMLL 4/9/92-GREAT

Match started off solid with some good basic lucha exchanges between Futuro and Oro and just kept building from there. By the third fall we were really cooking with a great bumping clinic by the Guerreros, who were all over the ring with great pace on everything they did. Metalicos were flashy guys, but this was a rudo performance really putting them through the paces. Finish was really nuts with Plata holding Maya and Oro going for a tope, Maya moves and Oro overshoots his brother and goes face first into the armrest of a chair. He was pouring blood from his mask and may have broken his nose or really cut up his mouth. Unfortunate accident although in many ways it made for an exciting capper to the match.

Guerrero Maya/Guerrero del Futuro/Damian el Guerrero vs. Solar I/Aguila Solitaria/El Tigre Universitario CMLL 5/10/92-GREAT

Very entertaining classic lucha libre trios match. All of the traditional tropes. Long grappling section to open the first fall. Everyone looked good here, but Futuro and Solar were especially impressive. Solar would be in every argument for the greatest mat wrestler of all time, and Futuro is a perfectly serviceable opponent. I was hoping for a little more Solar v. Terry stuff, but what we got was fun. One of the things I especially enjoyed in this match is how it built in the traditional structure, but would revisit the grappling. They would move into armdrags or throws, and then they would hit the mat for a bit. Soliraria and Universitario were the kind of well trained journeyman luchadroes CMLL has always been loaded with. You can plug guys like that into any match and they will acquit themselves admirably. I was on the fence for much of this match, as it kind of felt like it was building into an EPIC level, but it never cranked into a final gear. Still any lucha fan could spend a very enjoyable 30 minutes watching this match.

Guerrero Maya/Guerrero del Futuro/Yone Genjin v. Fantastik/Ultimatum/Hijo del Solitario CMLL 8/9/96-FUN

We have another Guerreros trios, with long time MPRO comedy caveman Yone Genjin replacing Damian el Guerrero. Pretty strange to see Genjin work a basically straight match, hitting the mat with Ultimatum and bumping for armdrags. Fantastik is really athletic impressive hair chested luchador who seemed to show up almost exclusively in undercards of Japanese garbage feds. I can't actually remember seeing him work in Mexico before, he is always good for some cool spots, although he didn't break out his crazy Super Astro style tope atomico. Maya worked a bunch with Solitario, including a fun spot where Solitario lifts him up in a headlock which Del Rio should steal next time he works Rey.

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