After a shot of the band, we see Vampiro in some Konnan-like clothes and we are joined by Mr. Cisco, Cortez Castro and Bael in the ring. Cisco made sure the ring announcer knew he was "Mr." Cisco, yet somehow I thought that Cortez and Castro were two different people but whatever. This takes us right into our opening contest which I hope doesn't last long.
Match One: Mr. Cisco and Cortez Castro vs. Pimpinela Escarlata and Mascarita Sagrada
In the opening moments Matt Striker said Pimpinela reminded him of a cross between Chavo and Liberace, but then took it back and said he meant Charo *not* Chavo, but I'm still hopeful that Chavo Guerrero Jr. comes out before the night is over and destroys Matt Striker. This match ended when the formerly known as Ricky Reyes gave the codebreaker to Mascarita Sagrada. I don't particularly like the Pimpinela gimmick and as such I'm going to just leave this match and move on now.
Big Ryck came into the ring and said that he was going after the Lucha Underground Championship and didn't care who got in his way or was holding the title at the time. The group I once dubbed Big Ryck and The Johnsons then came to an abrupt end as The Johnsons attacked Big Ryck. Without a tag team division established it's nice to see wrestlers breaking up. The trio then went into Dario Cueto's office.
Back from the break and Dario Cueto is shown talking to the trio that I don't have a new name for yet. He said he tried to get Big Ryck to do his dirty bidding for him but he couldn't do it so now he had to take him out. He paid them off and made them say "yes sir" like some kind of army or servant thing.
Vampiro is shown as a sit down interview with Cage. Vamp says that Cage has something about him and he doesn't outright say it but we're all thinking it's roid rage. Cage says he is the best luchador here and I say he has no idea what a luchador is. This was a good chance for Cage to really sell me on his character and he basically said that when you're in the ring with him you're in the ring with a machine, which was his reasoning for his name being "Cage". What being in a cage has to do with a machine makes about as much sense as this character to me and I hope he gets busted for "performance enhancers" again and finds his way out of Lucha Underground.
Match Two: Super Fly vs. Pentagon Jr.
Matt Striker noted that this was the first time we've seen Pentagon Jr. since Chavo Jr. kind of sort of turned on him at Aztec Warfare but that was only, what, two weeks ago? We didn't see a lot of luchadores last week that we normally do because oh wastes of space like Cage taking their spots. I've said Lucha Underground needs more time every week but they also need to create a show that doesn't air on television or the internet and involves Cage fighting his parole officer. Okay, I'll leave Cage alone for the rest of this episode unless he should surface (which I hope he doesn't) This was a good, fast paced, high flying good versus bad type of match and you knew one of these two would have to hit a huge move for the win. Pentagon Jr. did it and here is to hoping he moves up the card because he is such a well rounded athlete and entertainer.
Post match, Pentagon Jr. said something about Chavo Jr. and apparently a heel just turned on another heel but they're both staying heels. I'm not completely sold out Pentagon Jr.'s "No Fear" gimmick yet simply because "No Fear" was that lame clothing line in the 1990's.
Match Three: Sexy Star vs. El Mariachi Loco
Great, the masked woman is fighting the waiter... err, umm, server, sorry. At this point I'm no longer concerned with the fact that a woman is fighting a man but rather just that Sexy Star calls herself sexy but wears a mask. What's up with that? I just tweeted her so let's see if she responds. She won the match, but I still don't care. We move on.
Match Four: King Cuerno vs. Drago (Last Luchador Standing Match)
Matches two and three seemed to lack something so let's hope that this makes up for it right here. Cuerno was down first for the attempted ten count, but then Drago was down for the next one following a huge powerbomb by Cuerno. This just has a big fight feel to it and as I've said before I could watch these two fight forever. King Cuerno had Drago put up on a table like last time and Drago managed to get back up as Cuerno stopped himself as well. They fought on the apron and Cuerno ended up putting Drago (and himself) through the table with his finisher Thrill of the Hunt. Wouldn't it be cool if Shawn Michaels could come be King Cuerno's manager? After some decent spots, King Cuerno actually used a rope to tie Drago down. This reminds me of all the times WWE used cheap endings to these Last Man Standing matches by having forklifts drop lots of stuff on opponents. Vampiro asked Striker if he thought that this feud was over and obviously it is not since King Cuerno had to win by shenanigans.
Overall this was a pretty good episode of Lucha Underground. The opening match and main event were solid, despite the finish of the main event, but every time I've said now that Lucha Underground needs more time per week (Another hour long show or just a two hour spot would do) matches like what made up the middle of this show are not helping my cause as they could just as easily cut that stuff out in favor of us seeing Prince Puma (Who was not on the show, despite being their champion), Johnny Mundo, Chavo Jr. or any other number of wrestlers having matches. Where is Mil Muertes? Where is Ivelisse? Why am I see comedy and tired cliches instead of them? Hopefully these questions and more will be answered next time.
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