Damiancito El Guerrero & El Fierito v Cicloncito Ramirez & Panterita (CMLL, 9/17/96) - GREAT
You may be shocked to hear that the CMLL minis never just got great in 1997. They were in fact out there doing all sorts of fun stuff the year before. At the very least this was another chance to see Damiancito El Guerrero and Cicloncito Ramirez, one of the all-time great pairings, do their thing. The first caida was really just excellent and I could watch these guys all day. Fierito and Panterita paired off and it wasn't always perfectly crisp, especially if we're comparing it to Damiancito/Cicloncito, but it was super nifty. Panterita looked really slick and worked some great stuff while maintaining wrist control through most of it. Damiancito and Cicloncito were spectacular yet again. Give me everything they ever did. Ramirez is a magician and I don't think it's a huge stretch to say he's about as smooth and graceful as any tecnico ever from the footage we have. Damiancito has that perfect mix of buffoonery and undeniable skill, where he'll fling himself into missed elbow drops and get splatted on throws but is always dangerous when he gets rolling. Plus he's a terror when contorting people. There was one extended sequence between him and Ramirez where they ran through a bunch of stuff and just kept upping the bar, Guerrero missing things and popping up for another run at it, Cicloncito trying to turn him in circles. Damiancito does a go-behind into a hammerlock and Ramirez pops him with an elbow, then later in the same sequence the roles are reversed but Cicloncito ducks the elbow and whips Guerrero across the ring with an armdrag. The finish to the fall was amazing. Damiancito accidentally dropkicks his own partner out the ring and Fierito follows up at 100 miles an hour with a flipping tope, Damiancito then turning around into the perfect hurricanrana from Cicloncito. After some rudo mugging in the segunda they return to Damiancito v Cicloncito in the tercera, this time with Guerrero coming out on top with his awesome Steiner-ish fallaway slam, although the ref' seemed to fuck up the count. A shame, because even a couple more minutes of that pairing would've been a treat.
It would be reductive to say this was a test run for the October match, but you could at least see them putting some of those intricate pieces together. Cicloncito v Pierrothito was really good in the primera and I always like watching the latter beat his chest like a shithead. The last 90 seconds were sort of spectacular and at least a precursor to the amazing stuff they'd do in October. The segunda was short and the rudos took it off the rails immediately, humiliated as they were by the ending to the previous fall. There was no way someone like Pierrothito wasn't going to stomp someone in the kidneys. The tercera was even shorter and ended when Felinito went a step further than kidneys stomped on Oro's willy. The slow-mo made this look like one of the nastiest ball shots ever and I don't know how much of Oro's selling was actually selling!
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