Uprising: Lucha Libre Workrate Report 8/2/14

Another match from the 5/18/14 show in Morgan Hill. Still accepting bets on whether or not they'll ever show the Liger match from this card.

1. Pequeno Halloween vs. Octagoncito

Well, this was a let down. I'm not sure what happened, but it sure seemed like Octagoncito blew up real early, and because of that needed tons of downtime in between his spots. So there was a lot of lying around, and then an ungodly amount of time spent on getting into position for his spots. Even Rachel walked into the room at one point and said "wow that is one gassed mini". It threw Peq. Halloween off his game as he kind of had to overcompensate for Octagoncito's poor execution, and this caused both to look pretty bad at times. I'm not sure when it actually happened in the match, as things started out nicely with several minutes of fun matwork. But once it evolves out of that into bigger spots, things just fall apart. Octagoncito is heaving like he just did a triathlon. At one point they set up a rana off the top, and both men were on the top for well over 30 seconds. Halloween just sitting there while Octagoncito stood on the top rope next to him, each man punching the other, then just sitting there, resting. So much resting throughout this. I've never seen anything like it. To his credit, Octagoncito does pull off a real nice tope at one point. Later Halloween does the cool sliding splash to the floor and Octagoncito moves. But any time something remotely cool happens we get more lying around. No clue what happened here.

Also, since of course they only show one match per show, and rarely have a  match long enough to fill the allotted time, they showed some absurd "Revolution Replays" after each commercial break. But they weren't so much replays, as they were the previous two minutes of match that happened right before the commercial break, unedited. So you'd watch minutes 1-6 of a match, then commercial, then the replay back from break would just show minutes 5-6 again before rejoining the match. Hilariously bad. I mean, if you want to be a real lucha show you have to have horrendous editing, so they've already figured that out. Reminded me of the AULL/IWRG that was showing on LATV some years back, that would randomly just repeat an entire fall of a match in the middle of a match. They essentially did that here with the "Revolution Replays", so it really did feel like an authentic bad lucha TV broadcast.