Lucha Azteca Workrate Report 1/18/14

These were matches from the 1/3 Arena Mexico show.

Phil and I already reviewed this first match as part of our ongoing 2014 MOTY list. Read about it and watch it here:

1. Negro Casas vs. Titan

2. Averno, Ultimo Guerrero & Mephisto vs. Mascara Dorada, Volador Jr. & Valiente

This match had not yet popped up on youtube so it's nice to see it here (although I just noticed Cubs has an Arkangel match from the same card so...yeah, might have to watch that). Giant rudo beatdown to start with Dorada trying to outbump Volador (Dorada gets crazy height on a flapjack, Volador flies recklessly ass over elbow into the front row). The beatings continue into the segunda with Valiente getting baseball slide dropkicked and splatting from apron to floor, and then Dorada getting yanked out of the ring, then pulled and flung by his legs into the ring barrier. Good lord. Tecnico comeback is fast and spectacular with Volador planting Ultimo with a tope (UG flings himself into the barrier and then recoils with a back bump) and Dorada runs down the ramp and no-hands vaults WAY over the ropes into the ring with a sweet rana. Both falls have been short but the action has been money so far. 3rd caida and Valiente starts tearing it up with Averno hitting a big Asai moonsault armdrag and following it up with a beautiful springboard rana. Of course then Dorada comes in and hits a succession of three beautiful ranas while also booting Averno off the rampway and okay this is killer. We go through a series of finishers leading to broken up pins, including Dorada going for a tope en reversa only to catch a dropkick to the back from Mephisto. We hit a couple different dive trains that peaks with Valiente hitting his mammoth springboard moonsault to the floor and then Dorada immediately one-upping him by vaulting off the middle rope and getting insane air to the floor. We do get into overkill here, with Volador getting his head bounced off the mat by a nasty powerbomb, and then immediately reverses a second attempt. But the end run is so fucking balls to the wall with incredible spots that I couldn't help but leave impressed. Great showing by all the guys here.