This was only two falls, but it started out as a fun rudo beatdown and wound up being kinda great by the end. With a third fall it might've been pretty awesome. Atlantis and Emilio felt like the central pairing here, clearly still having beef from their match in the autumn. Of course Emilio wasn't all that eager to engage unless his partners were there to back him. It's not like anybody really paired off in a traditional sense either, at least not in the primera. Structurally it was rudo beatdown --> tecnico comeback --> finish, but the real beauty was in how they moved from section to section. The tecnico comeback was initiated by Atlantis and his stand against all three rudos was absolutely spectacular, the way he spun all three of them, hit his backbreakers with precision, moved about as gracefully as anybody ever, it was amazing. I guess I sometimes forget how good Atlantis can be as the lead tecnico in a trios but this thirty second exchange was a nice reminder. That sparked something in Oro and Triton because they got to put the rudos through the spin cycle as well. There was one great Chicana moment where he tried to fling himself at Triton but missed woefully and tangled himself horizontally in the ropes, so Oro followed up by dropkicking him to the floor. Usually you expect the tecnicos to take it home after that and even up the falls. Ordinarily I'd be disappointed that they didn't, because the build to it was perfect. Except this time Oro takes one of the most screwball missed tope con hilos you've ever seen, and I guess in the shock of it all the rudos blindside Triton for the sweep. Honestly, the Oro bump is sort of hard to watch when you consider the fact he died in the ring not but a year later off a botched bump. I'm pretty sure this was intended, but man, that kid was wild for the spectacular.
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