Aroluxe & Konnan Starting Wrestling Company

[tigermaskxxxvii]

Nov 17, 2017 23:58:11 GMT -5 DASH 243✅ said:

I picture this being like wsx only crazier

It'll be Wrestling Society X for people who don't have the attention span for Wrestling Society X.

[jagilki]

Odds Del Rio will be their champion?

[DASH 243✅]

Nov 18, 2017 0:06:38 GMT -5 tigermaskxxxvii said:

Nov 17, 2017 23:58:11 GMT -5 DASH 243✅ said:

I picture this being like wsx only crazier

It'll be Wrestling Society X for people who don't have the attention span for Wrestling Society X.

But with more a pole matches

[tigermaskxxxvii]

Nov 18, 2017 0:13:47 GMT -5 DASH 243✅ said:

Nov 18, 2017 0:06:38 GMT -5 tigermaskxxxvii said:

It'll be Wrestling Society X for people who don't have the attention span for Wrestling Society X.

But with more a pole matches

"I told you, Russo, that pole could not hold a tank of piranhas!"

[Talent Name]

Nov 18, 2017 0:10:42 GMT -5 jagilki said:

Odds Del Rio will be their champion?

Si

[evilone]

Aryan Lucha in US? That's called schizophrenia or globalization. Don't know which one you tell me.

[segaz]

I always liked Konnan. So I hope he gets bowdy bowdy and rowdy rowdy and realizes that the Harris brothers are all about they're for white, whereas he should be uh..... something something Spanish, Forever.

Seriously what did he say at that part? Forever is only one word in Spanish yet he said a whole phrase.

For some reason that catchphrase never really got tiring for me. I enjoyed it always.

Like Raven and his 'what about me, what about Raven'. It's funny because my strongest memory of that catchphrase is the one time he shouted it down the mic instead of saying it. I just love that whole gimmick, that whole stable, the character and the wrestler. Perhaps one of the strongest midcarders ever for me.

I always thought he was criminally misused in WWE.
Wait, what were we talking about again?

[Allie Kitsune]

Nov 20, 2017 17:08:59 GMT -5 segaz said:

I always liked Konnan. So I hope he gets bowdy bowdy and rowdy rowdy and realizes that the Harris brothers are all about they're for white, whereas he should be uh..... something something Spanish, Forever.

Seriously what did he say at that part? Forever is only one word in Spanish yet he said a whole phrase.

For some reason that catchphrase never really got tiring for me. I enjoyed it always.

Like Raven and his 'what about me, what about Raven'. It's funny because my strongest memory of that catchphrase is the one time he shouted it down the mic instead of saying it. I just love that whole gimmick, that whole stable, the character and the wrestler. Perhaps one of the strongest midcarders ever for me.

I always thought he was criminally misused in WWE.
Wait, what were we talking about again?

Something about Vince Russo and poles.

[rnrk supports BLM]

Card for their first show's announced, and it actually looks like a pretty sweet roster they've got lined up. Mostly guys who've already been working Crash shows, biggest shocker is Mundo and Taya. Though they're promoting him as John Morrison, so who the hell knows if they've actually got all their shit together.

Quoting card and relevant speculation from luchablog:

AroLucha (SUN) 12/10/2017 Nashville Fairgrounds Sports Arena, Nashville, Tennessee
1) Willie Mack vs Mr. 450
2) Demus vs Máscarita Dorada
3) Keyra & Lacey Lane vs Taya & Vanilla Vargas
4) MVP vs Sammy Guevara
5) Hurricane Helms, Jack Evans, Máximo vs Daga, Garza Jr., La Máscara
6) Pentagon & Rey Mysterio Jr. vs John Morrison & Rush

That’s basically a The Crash show with a few US additions of note instead of the opening match Tijuana guys. Mr. 450/Mack is even a The Crash feud of the moment. It’s not actually a The Crash show though; that promotion hasn’t mentioned this one, and seems to have it’s own plans to run in the US in 2018. Both groups are, at least at the moment, using the same wrestlers and same main creative person behind the scenes, and it’s going to be tough for both of them to enter the market successfully at the same time.

The press release makes no mention of it being a TV taping, but it is listed as one on the ticket website. Most of the matches have someone in them who is currently contracted to Lucha Underground. Either LU’s been really permissive and swift in allowing their guys to work for other promotions when they’re not running, or another show is going to drop. Johnny Mundo seems like he would be one of the very last people to leave abandon Lucha Underground, so this is probably more these guys believe they’re allowed to work this show rather than trying to get out of their LU deals. Still, that press release using the trademarked names “Pentagon” and “John Morrison”, so it’s not a group that has all their legal ducks in a row.

There’s still no mention of when, where or how this show will air. There’s also been almost no promotion of the event before today. I saw many of these guys in The Crash in Mexico, where what they drew varied a lot by the market. I also recall the first few Lucha Underground tapings, with some of these same people, struggled to fill the Temple with free tickets. I don’t know what AroLucha needs to look good on TV (because it’s unlikely they’ll be turning a profit just with any amount of turnout with $10 tickets), but I do they probably need to work on hyping the show locally the next couple weeks.

It’s a weird wrestling word when Johnny Mundo is AAA champion and working a TV taping for Konnan, a guy AAA hates last we knew. It suggests he and Taya would probably be working some The Crash shows if they were legally able to, and might in the future when they are. Taya hasn’t been back to AAA in months, but both sides have been careful to say she’s taking a break, not that she’s out of AAA. I wonder if that might be not long from changing. Angelico has similarly stopped working matches for AAA but said he was done on 01/01; perhaps the foreigner’s deals end at the start of the year? (Then again, AAA doesn’t seem to have any urgency about getting the title from Mundo to anyone else, so he’s got to be around for a while longer. Then again again, it’s AAA so Mundo leaving without ever losing the title would not surprise any outside of AAA.)

[OVO 40 hunched over like he 80]

Vince Russo is a dumb out of touch racist.

[Allie Kitsune]

Am I missing something when it comes to Mr. 450?

Every time he shows up in WWE, he looks like the worst Shindie Dude to ever Shindie.

[Deleted]

I guarantee that this is going to be like Scarface: the Wrestling promotion. Kennan loves him some fake street gangbanging. Also: tossed salads and peeled potatoes. It’s going to be bad. If there’s not an Aryan Brotherhood team I’ll be shocked.

[2coldMack is even more baffled]

Nov 27, 2017 15:15:29 GMT -5 Allie Kitsune said:

Am I missing something when it comes to Mr. 450?

Every time he shows up in WWE, he looks like the worst Shindie Dude to ever Shindie.

I don't get it either.

[Deleted]

Nov 27, 2017 15:15:29 GMT -5 Allie Kitsune said:

Am I missing something when it comes to Mr. 450?

Every time he shows up in WWE, he looks like the worst Shindie Dude to ever Shindie.

He looks like Hispanic Enzo. 

[Sephiroth]

Nov 15, 2017 20:33:29 GMT -5 @sigmax said:

Konnan and Vince Russo heading up a discount lucha underground with the harris bros.

Impact you just might lose the ultimate train wreck award.

Do Konnan and Alberto get along? He’s all that’s missing from this.

[King Devitt: What Plants Crave]

You'd think someone billed as one of the most "creative minds" in the business would come up with better material than "serious as a late period" and "that blue pill"
every. single. f***ing. time. on. the. mic.

[KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!!]

Nov 17, 2017 15:21:22 GMT -5 OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 said:

Nov 17, 2017 14:46:33 GMT -5 Allie Kitsune said:

Konnan chose to do this. It's not like the Harris Bros. shanghai'd him in the middle of the night and dragged him into a dungeon and shouted "RUN OUR WRESTLING COMPANY OR ELSE!" (as much as many people likely wouldn't put that past them).

"Deserve" goes out the window with voluntary association.

I said it wrong, I wanted to say that Konnan might be a scumbag but he's not a neo nazi or a racist

Yeah, he just runs a business with them. That’s much better

[Final Countdown Jones]

This card raises a whole lot of questions, and I would like to offer the possibility that Konan is trying to book Not The Crash on Aroluxe's dime to bilk them out of money and have a shot at landing a maybe TV deal, but either way making sure he gets him and his boys some extra money. Konan is skeezy, but I can't think of any immensely stupid self-destruction decisions with him. I think he's working some money marks who lost TNA and wanted something to fill the void.

[chrom]

Nov 27, 2017 15:15:29 GMT -5 Allie Kitsune said:

Am I missing something when it comes to Mr. 450?

Every time he shows up in WWE, he looks like the worst Shindie Dude to ever Shindie.

The name doesn't do him any favors either

[rnrk supports BLM]

Nov 30, 2017 22:06:29 GMT -5 Sephiroth said:

Do Konnan and Alberto get along? He’s all that’s missing from this.

I'm not sure if he's appeared since his meltdown with Paige, but 'Berto's worked a few Crash shows before, so it's totally possible.

Dec 1, 2017 11:15:06 GMT -5 Final Countdown Jones said:

I would like to offer the possibility that Konan is trying to book Not The Crash on Aroluxe's dime to bilk them out of money and have a shot at landing a maybe TV deal

I can definitely see it. I think it's also a matter of stung pride with Konnan; after leaving Lucha Underground, he complained that they'd roped him in by offering creative control and that he'd get to book the shows, which ended up not happening (frankly, they probably dodged a bullet on that one), and I get the feeling he wants to show off that he can book a better crossover lucha libre promotion than they did.