We opened with a recap of The Rise and Fall of Chavo Jr. Konnan is talking about how he is bringing in some of the best from Mexico but had some issues at the border. Dario Cueto says he want to take the three best Konnan (and Mexico) has to offer and put them in a match against each other. Sure, sure, I can understand that. Konnan agrees because all of the best trios debuted in a singles match against each other.
On a side note, I actually read something last week (I don't remember why) about Lucha Underground on another site and came to find that the general consesus is that Matt Striker is awful on commentary. I'm going to be listening for that a little bit more tonight, but I feel as if the days of great commentators are gone anyway so I just kind of tune him out. (NXT has taught me well because I tune out Renee Young like a cancer)
Matt Striker and Vampiro check in on commentary. They say Blue Demon Jr. is in stable condition after last week's attack by Chavo Guerrero Jr. They send it to the ring and here comes Dario Cueto. He cuts a promo saying that too many people were complaining that there wasn't enough lucha in Lucha Underground and he gives the people what they want so he's bringing in more lucha. He then introduces us to El Mariachi Loco, which I believe loosely translates to "The Crazy Musician". According to Cueto, he plays a mean trumpet and can wrestle as well. Cueto says he discovered him in a Mexican restaurant and I'm not sure what Mexican restaurant has lucha libre performed live in it but I want to go to there. Cueto says that after a match maybe he'll play you a nice little song and the crowd started chanting "Play a song", which got Cueto caught up for a minute there. Cueto says there is no challenge to big for El Mariachi Loco and thus we bring out the mini wrestler Mascarita Sagrada for our opening contest.
I didn't notice anything too terrible in Striker's commentary though he didn't say much. He did ask where the rest of the band was when Cueto introduced El Mariachi Loco, but as a former English teacher Striker should no better than to think that name implies plural. In any case, I feel like Cueto is mocking the viewers by saying we asked for more lucha and so he gives us a character that could- quite possibly- be out of a cartoon show such as "Mucha Lucha". Has everyone been asking for more lucha? Because from what I read most people just hate Matt Striker while I wish Sexy Star would just go away. As an interesting side note to all of this, WWE's current El Torito once was Mascarita Dorada as well as Mascarita Sagrada 2000 in Mexico so take that for what it's worth.
Match 1: El Mariachi Loco vs. Mascarita Sagrada
Interestingly enough, Matt Striker noted that we live in a society that is "way too uptight" and we should just call this fun. Funny from a company that had a woman take a chair shot to the head from a man to close last week's episode. Whatever. The commentators hyping that this is the only place you'll find action like this is offensive to me and not just because I watch AAA and CMLL. You can't pull wrestlers from other promotions and not really have any of your own stars established yet (It is only the third week still) and then state that this is the only place to see lucha libre. After some high flying action, Mascarita Sagrada scored the win with a sort of choke hold the announcers said wore El Mariachi Loco down. Post match Chavo Jr. came down and beat up Mascarita Sagrada, presumeably because Chavo once had a program with Hornswoggle in WWE.
It was an all right match, but it was not a successful debut for the Crazy Musician. if this promotion was created just so Chavo Guerrero Jr. could come out and attack everyone post match though I guess that means be okay with watching it week in and week out. Why not? Chavo Jr. should get to kick some people in the head.
Back from the break Matt Striker recaps what we just saw. This goes to a sit down interview between Vampiro and Chavo Guerrero Jr. Chavo Jr. says he's mad that Blue Demon Jr. is living off of his daddy's name (whoa, pot-kettle) and Vampiro said that Chavo could have killed Blue Demon Jr. (WHAT?) Chavo Jr. puts himself over big with words and realistically, this promo could have been so much better if Chavo Jr. just beat down Vampiro and never said a single word.
Chavo Jr. and Konnan run into each other somewhere with poor lighting and Konnan tells Chavo everyone in Mexico knows what he did to Blue Demon Jr. so he better watch his back because they're coming for him. He actually told Chavo Jr. as well to make like a ghost and disappear. As Konnan walks away, Chavo Jr. goes face to face with Mil Muertes. Catrina says some stuff and then licks Chavo's face. Catrina really needs to stop licking everybody.
Match 2: Ricky Mandel vs. Mil Muertes with Catrina
Ricky Mandel didn't get a televised entrance so you know this will most likely be a squash. A video is shown for Mil Muertes, narrated by Catrina, about something to do with him being like The Undertaker and then something about an earthquake... blah blah blah. Ricky Mandel tried to use his speed to his advantage but was quickly overpowered and just plain beat down by Mil Muertes who showed this was a squash.
Johnny Mundo was shown walking down the hall. He beat up Big Ryck's goons to get into Cueto's office. He said he wanted a match with Big Ryck and Cueto granted it for him for next week. Mundo said that when he was done with Big Ryck Cueto would be next.
After a commercial break, Cueto was shown handing money to Big Ryck and said he would pay him whatever it takes to send Johnny Mundo to the hospital next week. The way things have been playing out since last week though, maybe Cueto could have just had Chavo Jr. do it for free.
Matt Striker and Vampiro check in at ringside and a video is shown that Striker calls "An intimate look at Prince Puma".
Match 3: Drago vs. Pentagon Jr. vs. Fenix
So Drago is from AAA, Pentagon Jr. spent time in AAA so can you guess where Fenix is from? Good back and forth, fast paced and high flying action from all three men. Fenix took a huge leap that looked pretty cool. Ultimatley, Fenix took the pinfall but this was a really well constructed match that you should go out of your way to see.
My biggest problem right now with Lucha Underground is that it seems like we're being introduced to new people every week with very little of the storylines carrying over. They should have debuted these new guys before the main event so that some form of continuation could have had the last spot, but perhaps that is what's planned for next week so we'll just have to wait and see.
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