CMLL on Galavision Workrate Report, 10/8/11

1. Euforia/Misterioso Jr. vs. Dragon Lee/Stuka Jr.

Crowd is insanely hot for this from the very beginning, for reasons I don't totally know. The whole first fall they are just going nuts for everything. Misterioso is wearing an awesome watermelon colored outfit that's tassled to the nines. If you don't go tassled out for the anniversary show, then when else would you? Euforia owns the first fall by taking some big headscissors from Lee and Stuka and really whipping around for all of Lee's offense. Stuka's no-look reverse tope over the turnbuckle is just a nutso spot. Que Monito adds the splash off the apron for added humiliation.

2nd fall is absolutely insane and totally awesome. Euforia is going bonkers bumping in this, and the tecnicos are passing out ranas for free. Lee hits a crazy running springboard one into the ring, the runs and does one to the rampway. Then Stuka leaps from the top rope to the rampway with another rana. Tecnicos off the entrance way with stereo moonsaults...but it all leads to the rudos getting the fall back in the ring. Fun fall while it lasted, and again, the crowd is going nuts during all this.

3rd fall is hot again and they all try and out crazy each other. Misterioso takes the massive Cassandro ringpost bump to the floor, and then Lee monkeyflips his own partner Stuka off the rampway and into Misterioso. Lee stands up, runs down the rampway and somersaults over the top rope into a ring, doing a dragon rana to Euforia in the process. Euforia rolls to the floor, then Stuka gets used as a standing boost so Lee can do a massive moonsault to the floor onto Euforia. From the Misteriodo bump to the big moonsault, just a crazy awesome sequence. Pinfalls start coming next, end comes when Misterioso boots Monito
and goes up top to hit a giant version of his sitout guillotine driver thing.

Super fun match with tons of giant spots that looked great. Crowd was molten throughout the whole thing which really made everything feel more exciting. Highly recommended to people who love some big spots with their wrestling.

2. Torneo Cibernetico: Rey Buccanero vs. Felino vs. Blue Panther vs. Negro Casas vs. Rush vs. Terrible vs. Maximo vs. Texano Jr.:

This is kinda odd, as it's a cibernetico from two weeks before the Anniversary show cibernetico, that never aired when they aired the rest of the stuff from that card. This started fairly late, 45 minutes into the one hour block (and by the way, I'm not loving that Galavision is only giving one hour to lucha now. Is this a permanent thing? Getting two matches a week is not nearly as good as getting 4 matches.), and might have been clipped as it seemed a lot shorter than most ciberneticos they do (only 13 minutes or so), but then again it also has way less participants than ciberneticos usually have...sooo...

Blue Panther was really awesome in this, and he's pretty much the best worker in the world in 2011. His segment near the beginning against Negro was really fun with them slapping each other around like old grizzled vets. The crowd sounded notably amped when they got in against each other, kinda making a loud "Ohhhhhh no they didn't" noise in unison when they started to square off. Panther's segment against Felino may have been ever better as Felino kicks the pace up to 11 and starts working really fast. Rush hits his nice swanton to the floor (I love how much the crowd just hates Rush, as I agree with them fully. He's a guy I just want to see beaten. I want him to lose a hair match sooooo badly), Maximo gets a nice run of crying while getting his titties chopped, then hits a GIANT tope headbutt on Rush that sends Rush crashing throw the first row of chairs, and leaves fans laughing at Rush's pain. The eliminations come pretty fast and loose at this point, with people getting pinned by things they normally wouldn't. Not bad, but pretty short.

Fun show that flew by (there ARE always a lot of commercials on Gala, though, so with a DVR you can blow through this stuff pretty quick), and that opening tag was more than worth the price of admission.