El Dandy v Antifaz del Norte (Monterrey 9/17/00)
--"A lengthy Dandy apuestas match from 2000? How come I've never heard of this?"
40 minutes later: "oh nevermind"
This
only goes 40 minutes if you watch the pre-match interview/Antifaz
weight training stuff, but even at like 33 minutes it can be a complete
drag. Antifaz gets busted badly really soon, and by the time
Dandy's...doing something to him (poking eye? pulling hair? JUST
POINTING AT HIS HEAD?) you can pretty much see his entire face anyway.
Kind of makes me think "who gives a shit if he loses his mask tonight
now? we all fucking saw him." Dandy's buddy with the shitty-ass haircut,
who if I understood the commentators right was Zumbido, was a shitty
shitface shithead that was shitty at everything. He interfered a few
times and just made the match longer with everyone standing around in
confusion. I must have checked on my DVD player 15 times how long the
match had until it was over. Shithead Zumbido sets up Antifaz on the top
rope and literally turns around just waiting to be flipped. I could go
on about this but I won't. It's just not really worth watching.
El Dandy v El Hijo del Perro Aguayo (AAA 8/31/02)
--I guess I
expected more AAA clusterfuck bullshit, but this was surprisingly good.
It pretty much went swimmingly like a good title match with Dandy
getting help from other rudos and stuff. Finish was shitty, though, and
it didn't exactly come deep into the third fall. If they had been let go
for 10 minutes in the last fall this could have entered that "very
good" territory, me thinks.
El Dandy v El Hijo del Perro Aguayo v Mr. Aguila v Electroshock (AAA 9/2/02)
--Aguila
comes out to the DeGeneration X theme here and is almost a bona fide
Jeff Hardy imitator. So each guy has to escape the cage separately
and....you know what? No. I will not talk about this. It. Was. Fucking.
Bad. You will not watch this- say it with me, "I will not watch this."
None of this "oh maybe different strokes" or "I want to watch everything
talked about" or "I've wanted to watch some more Mr. Aguila so.." NO.
Don't watch this. DO. NOT. WATCH. THIS.
El Dandy v El Hijo del Perro Aguayo (AAA 2/28/03)
--Looked
ok. I say "looked" because I was more fixated on the watermelon I was
eating. Wasn't long before this turned into a fuck of the cluster kind.
Not as much as the stuff on the 1996 yearbook, but it's just confusing
and unneeded. AAA was a shithole around this time.
El Dandy v Heavy Metal (AAA 5/3/03)
--"Bull
Terry" match, and since they had chains tied to ther necks which
connected each other, I can assume "terry" is Spanish for "collar" or
something. I don't care. This wasn't good either. Death to Pena. {*} = NOTE
El Dandy/Super Crazy/Ultimo Guerrero v Nicho el Millionario/Damian 666/Halloween (LLA 7/11/04)
--Finally
AAA fucks off and I can look at something really worth watching. Thank
you Lucha Libre Azteca. This won't stick out with great trios, but it
def sticks out on a disc of shitty AAA. Is pretty much a really cool 90s
trio match. Super Crazy looked pretty awesome in the exchange with
Damian. Or Halloween, IDK. They look similar and I don't care for
either. I hope there's more footage of Super Crazy in trios like this
because he looks like a guy who really fits in with the sort of stuff
you see in the really great lucha tags. But yeah, THIS was good.
El Dandy v LA Park (ENESMA 10/29/04)
--Park's
outfit really is cool. Reminds of when Jushin Liger wore those actual
anime-inspired outfit before settling on "Thunder." This has everything a
good little lucha match should have and without going into depth, it's
really good. Not a MOTYC like I've seen it called, but as far 2004 goes I
think I prefer this to Kobashi v Akiyama.
{*} = NOTE: I wrote this before having the knowledge Antonio Pena died years ago. I feel like a piece of shit, obviously.
