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[1992-09-03-CMLL] El Dandy vs Bestia Salvaje


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At the time, these were maybe two of the three or four best wrestlers in CMLL, so expectations for a great match are high. This falls slightly short of that, but is still really good. I love the controversial finish. This lacks the cohesion of Atlantis/Charles or the crispness and focus of Dandy/Casas, but it's still a very good match.

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This was good. The work was solid throughout as both excel on the mat and this in particular featured some excellent transitions, as well as a neat finish to the first fall. Something was definitely lost in translation on the finish in the third as I didn't really pick up on the controversy until reading about it here and even upon a rewatch it wasn't that obvious to me. This was missing some of the ups & downs in flow and storyline that I look for as it felt more like a well done by the book routine.

 

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For once there's some clever production at the finish--I liked the fact that you could only see it after the fact, with the help of a spotlight on Satanico's interference. That said, Dandy had sat in a figure four for like two minutes, so I'm not sure why they couldn't go with just having his knee give out when he attempted the superplex. (Okay, I do know why, because they presumably had Dandy/Satanico matches to set up). Overall, the first fall was great and the third fall pretty good, but the second fall seemed to just be in the way, so to speak. And even though this is lucha and not a Ric Flair match, Dandy seemed to be hopping around pretty good on a leg that had been figure foured. This was good overall, but there are better Dandy matches and better use of the three falls in lucha title bouts.

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First of all, because almost all of us like to complain about the video quality and camerawork in lucha, a sincere tip of the cap to the director for putting the spotlight on Satanico's interference in the third fall. We didn't see it during the match, and of course it's important in setting up the hair match to come in a couple of weeks.

 

With that out of the way, I'm about to do something I do very rarely: blast a guy for not selling. It's not really a big deal to me in most cases, because I know guys have moves they want to make sure they get in in every match so they don't disappoint the crowd, some of which may involve previously injured body parts. But Dandy's no-selling of the figure-four has to be the most ridiculous example of this that I've ever seen, especially since, as Pete pointed out, it could have factored in the finish as it turned out. He was doing dives and running around the ring not thirty seconds after getting out of a figure-four that he'd spent close to three minutes actively fighting, which is unconscionable. If I'd been the booker, he'd have worked for free that night, and I mean that sincerely. No paycheck at all, and let him leave if he didn't like it. I could always claim that Salvaje had broken his leg so badly that he'd been forbidden to ever wrestle again.

 

The rest of this wasn't anything out of the ordinary, although I liked Dandy leveling Salvaje with a dropkick at the start of the second fall and Salvaje turning around and doing the same thing to Dandy at the start of the third fall. The continuity police were really on the job in this one.

 

I guess we're in for another classic between Dandy and Satanico soon, and I see from the match listing that it's a hair match. Dandy's already shaved one rival (Fiera) bald; can he make it two? We'll find out soon enough! (Note: I've already watched the Dandy-La Fiera hair match from November that's on the set.)

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I thought the first fall was great.  Second was the standard even-up deal.  Like the third until Dandy sat in a figure 4 forever.  I get that it makes guys look tough to stay in a finishing hold a bit and then make the ropes.  That long just makes the hold/wrestler look weak.  Then Dandy blows it off instantly, which I don't care for either.  I will agree the camera work was top-notch on catching the interference.

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