Llanes, Herodes, Ms-1; some 1990 CMLL

Pierroth Jr., Ulises & Super Halcon v Javier Llanes, Huracan Ramirez & Americo Rocca (CMLL, 1/19/90)

Javier Llanes is such a fascinating worker. Lucha uploaders on YouTube have been doing god's work the last few years so a chunk of 90s Llanes footage has shown up. That means we mostly have late career Llanes, but there are a couple trios from the Dandy feud that are awesome compliments to the title match. We just don't have much of anything from his prime, which sucks because there's a hair match with Estrada from '83 that probably would've been wild. He's almost fifty here, a near-twenty year vet, so in lucha terms he's still a whippersnapper. He had fun exchanges with all three rudos in this and Pierroth in particular must've seen that the old man could still go, because after they matched up the first time he wanted no more Llanes going forward. Americo Rocca is the same age as Llanes, probably moves better than him at this point, but in comparison kind of feels like a relic. He still has those pretty armdrags though, and probably has the best mat exchange of the match with Super Halcon. Match got real rough in the tercera when the rudos started with the beatdown. They were bending Llanes' fingers over the ropes, Ulises was stamping right on Rocca's mouth, a bunch of nasty looking stuff. Halcon punting Llanes low at the end was magnified as a total dick move (pun intended, I guess?) because up to that point he'd been the most clean of all three rudos.


Angel Azteca, Super Astro & Mascara Sagrada v MS-1, Herodes & Tierra, Viento y Fuego (CMLL, 1/19/90)

How about Herodes and MS-1 for a dream team you never knew you needed? This never had a chance of being a clean contest as MS-1 kicked Astro in the head as the latter was doing his pre-match interview and naturally Astro took exception. Astro is simply doing his TV commitments and the rudos are starting shit already? Never a good sign. The rudo unit was a hoot all the way through this and everything they did seemed to rile the tecnicos even more. At one point Astro bamboozled them with his footwork so thoroughly that you knew he'd pay badly for it. He was also hitting his headbutts from everywhere and Herodes took the brunt of them, usually right in the nose. You were never keeping that rudo unit down for long, though. They were always going to find a way to shithouse themselves into an advantageous position and sure enough it was Mascara Sagrada they mugged first. Herodes doing the foreign object shtick and clocking folk ruled. The ref' knew he had something on him but Herodes was always careful, only used it sparingly, and any time the ref' tried to check him Herodes would straight up run away. After all, you can't call what you can't see. They even started with the mask-ripping in the segunda, then when the tecnicos had had enough Herodes got desperate. Of course the ref' was watching him like a hawk and that bit of metal was his undoing. Not an amazing trios, but there was too much talent for it not to be fun.


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