Lucha Underground Episode 37: PenUltimaLucha Review

ER: You'd think Ryck would want to rip Dario's arms off at this point, but I still loved their segment and I wish they almost threw even more eye puns into the mix. "Well Ryck you know I'm the type of man who always crosses his t's and dots his....well you know what I mean."

1. Johnny Mundo vs. Texano

ER: Hey look at that, take Texano away from Daivari and suddenly you have a very watchable Texano again. This was a fun hot six minute match, bunch of cool looking spots and sore slappy thighs. I dug Texano's backwards bump into the guardrail, with Mundo then kicking him into the rail again. Mundo's springboard roundhouse looked good, Texano's big kick to the chest looked good, and this was the right match to work knowing it would end in a run in. Patron looks insanely fired up right now and this is energy I've never seen from him. Love it. He's an easy guy to root for right now. And yes, Vampiro did say that Mundo was 6'3" 260 lb.

PAS: Yeah this was a very fun TV match, maybe the best Texano has looked in this fed. I really liked Mundo working over the head and that crazy bump he took on the sunset flip. There was some serious leg slapping, and maybe even some sound sweetening, but otherwise this was boss. I liked the face off between Texano and Patron, in a enemy of my enemy kind of way.

2. The Mack vs. Cage

ER: Oh man what a freaking disappointment. These guys have been lacing into each other in multimans and then a sloppy little sunset flip ends it after nothing. Maybe there was more filmed? Doesn't seem like it. Postmatch scrum was nice though, with security flying everywhere, fans scrambling out of the way, but hopefully the match this sets up ends up delivering.

PAS: Post match brawl was fun, but they should have just gone to a double count out or something because that match was a turd.

ER: "I like to promote my championship matches", yes apparently Dario only announces his mask matches and loser leaves town matches immediately beforehand, but NOT his championship matches. And now we get the luchadors getting their medals presented. The first member of the team has TWO minutes to make it through the temple to find the Helmet of Gengis Khan. If they find one of the temple guards they MUST give their medallion before being allowed to continue.

ER: I'm not totally sure why Fenix had to relinquish his temple medallion, as Dario says Muertes destroyed him but he seemed fine to me. But I guess he just wanted to take it away? I dunno, Dario's logic can be a little hard to follow sometimes.

PAS: Yeah it makes sense to strip him of the medallion if he was hurt, but have him stripped, then come out and win a jobber battle royal to get it back is dumb

3. Battle Royal for Final Medallion

ER: Weird little jobber battle royal, could have probably used more Nasty Ned or State Patrol. Not sure what the point was, but it was fun while it lasted. Vinny took a nasty neck snap over the rope on his elimination, Daivari went over at high speed, but this was kind of weird that this was a thing.

PAS: The Famous B push was a little odd, having a jobber do the pedigree is a weird shot, I imagine the fired Tough Enough producer has some scores to settle.

ER: This was kind of a spinning wheels show, as I'm excited for UltimaLucha but really the two minute video package was more effective at building excitement than anything that happened in the rest of the episode.

PAS: Yeah this was a waste of time, they are building to Ultima Lucha OK, but at least have a good match or something


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