We kick of 2026 with some glorious lucha libre

Los Dandys v Mandibula Jr, Maulee Jr & Arana Negra Jr (Cuernavaca, 2/27/22) 

Look, it's Maulee Jr's world and we're all merely living in it. If you're surprised at that being the case then let me tell you, it would've been news to me not but 20 minutes before I finished watching this. Honestly I had no idea who any of these guys were. I almost certainly never would've stumbled onto this match if it weren't for Rob Viper's Season of Giving entry on Boxing Day just gone by (Charles' Wrestling Playlists truly is the gift that keeps on giving). Don't know which promotion this is from, only that it happened in Cuernavaca, again thanks to Rob's short blurb on the match. And it was full blown awesome from beginning to end. Maulee was a revelation, a skinny classic-style tecnico flier in a cut-off t-shirt zipping all over the place at warp speed, hitting spectacular twisting takeovers and ranas, getting huge height on bumps, landing his big dive in the tercera spectacularly, it was just a tremendous performance from a guy I had no clue existed. In the final fall he and one of Los Dandys got into what initially looked like your standard modern day strike exchange. Maulee threw a chop that did not land particularly hard and asked for his Dandy adversary to return the favour. So the latter obliged and Maulee got crushed with one brutal forearm. There was no strike exchange to be had, Maulee's youthful exuberance (he might be 52 for all I know) got him shut down, but he showed he was wise beyond his years (he could be 63) and never tried that shit again, instead letting his grace and speed do the talking. Los Dandys were a really fun trio of bruiser rudos, basing for everything really well and laying out a beating when the switch was flipped. It's been a few days since I watched this now and I wish I could talk about a few more of the particulars, but either way if you're one of the 12 people who stumble upon this blog and think this sounds interesting, I'd be shocked if you were disappointed.