MLW Azteca

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www.si.com/wrestling/2021/12/07/mlw-azteca-lucha-libre-series-court-bauer

A new brand of lucha libre will be unveiled in 2022, Sports Illustrated has learned.

Court Bauer’s Major League Wrestling will premiere its new standalone mini-series, MLW Azteca, on Thursday, Jan. 6 at 8 p.m. ET on MLW’s YouTube channel and FITE. Viewers will also be able to watch on cable at a later date, with the series making its debut on beIN Sports on Saturday, Jan. 8 at 10 p.m. ET.

“Wrestling in America is on fire, but what’s missing is more representation from Mexico,” says Bauer, who is MLW’s CEO. “Enter MLW Azteca and the masked world of authentic Mexican lucha libre.”

Though officially unconnected, the show is the spiritual successor to Lucha Underground. That was the cutting-edge cinematic presentation of storytelling and compelling characters in a wrestling-centric universe. A key role on MLW Azecta will be played by actor Luis Fernandez-Gil, who achieved acclaim in wrestling as nefarious Lucha Underground boss Dario Cueto. His new role is as MLW matchmaker Cesar Duran, and he will oversee a collection of stars in the world of MLW Azteca.

Filmed in Mexico, the show will feature a collection of the top luchadores in the world. This includes El Hijo del Vikingo, who just won the mega championship on Saturday at AAA’s TripleManía Regia in Mexico. Viewers will also get the chance to see Aero Star, Pagano, Octagón Jr., the iconic Psycho Clown, King Muertes and Karlee Perez. An emphasis will be placed on bringing in characters the MLW audience is familiar with, and MLW champion Hammerstone will play an integral role.

No pressure to be trying to follow LU there court none at all lol.

[Finish Uncle Muffin’s Story]

Dec 7, 2021 12:46:40 GMT -5 @sigmax said:

www.si.com/wrestling/2021/12/07/mlw-azteca-lucha-libre-series-court-bauer

A new brand of lucha libre will be unveiled in 2022, Sports Illustrated has learned.

Court Bauer’s Major League Wrestling will premiere its new standalone mini-series, MLW Azteca, on Thursday, Jan. 6 at 8 p.m. ET on MLW’s YouTube channel and FITE. Viewers will also be able to watch on cable at a later date, with the series making its debut on beIN Sports on Saturday, Jan. 8 at 10 p.m. ET.

“Wrestling in America is on fire, but what’s missing is more representation from Mexico,” says Bauer, who is MLW’s CEO. “Enter MLW Azteca and the masked world of authentic Mexican lucha libre.”

Though officially unconnected, the show is the spiritual successor to Lucha Underground. That was the cutting-edge cinematic presentation of storytelling and compelling characters in a wrestling-centric universe. A key role on MLW Azecta will be played by actor Luis Fernandez-Gil, who achieved acclaim in wrestling as nefarious Lucha Underground boss Dario Cueto. His new role is as MLW matchmaker Cesar Duran, and he will oversee a collection of stars in the world of MLW Azteca.

Filmed in Mexico, the show will feature a collection of the top luchadores in the world. This includes El Hijo del Vikingo, who just won the mega championship on Saturday at AAA’s TripleManía Regia in Mexico. Viewers will also get the chance to see Aero Star, Pagano, Octagón Jr., the iconic Psycho Clown, King Muertes and Karlee Perez. An emphasis will be placed on bringing in characters the MLW audience is familiar with, and MLW champion Hammerstone will play an integral role.

No pressure to be trying to follow LU there court none at all lol.

Court and MSL are full of shit and such carnies. I wish somebody would step up with money to give us a legitimate, viable third brand in America right now. MLW ain't it and IMPACT's too small to be it.

[Rave]

Hammerstone shoehorned into this as well? Joy. So much for being a continuation and having a separate roster.

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Dec 7, 2021 16:47:27 GMT -5 Rave said:

Hammerstone shoehorned into this as well? Joy. So much for being a continuation and having a separate roster.

There is a quote from Court in that same article that he calls this a "precursor".

So I wonder if what they taped was just a sort of unofficial pilot and not indicitive of the actual show.

Even LuchaBlog said this sounds more like something to just get them to the next set of tapings and not any sort of actual show.

[This Player Hating Mothman]

Lucha Underproduced

[rnrk supports BLM]

It's going to be no Lucha Underground, but I'm still looking forward to this just for the chance to see a lot of Mexican talent without much international exposure (some without visas, period) getting featured on US TV in a setting that'll play more to their strengths than putting over FTR.

Also, Dario Cueto meets evil clowns.

[kingoftheindies]

[1 Free Moon-Down with Burger]

That….was that the real Matanza

[ISO Mid Thigh Pull]

Using promos with that much background noise is evil. Feel like I have an ear infection lmao.

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Alright MLW my expectations are laying across floor so lets see if you atleast get me to open my eyes.

[prowresblog]

MLW Azteca #1 was not good at all.

Nobody knew who anyone was in the opening trios match as MLW didn't really tell us and even the description of it on their youtube channel was wrong. It had no real story to it but had tons of big dives and moves.

The Holliday/Clown match had a lot of stalling and goofing around with the crowd and was a slow and boring match.

The Apocalypto tag match also wasn't very good. It was basically just a hard core match with several big wooden boards outside. They had some very cheap weapons. Pagano threw some of the worst punches ever. The wrestling looked like crap and it was very slow. Pagano turning on Hammer also made no sense at all.

Overall thoughts: If you wanted more Lucha Underground, this is not it by any means. Everything about this is way worse and I'm pretty sure this is going to be the first and last season of it.

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Yea lived up to my expectations meaning there was none so lol.

Well in actual interesting news...LU (the real one) is back on El Rey Network on Roku and this interesting if you know the entire story of season 4 and how that relationship went up in smoke and then El Rey as a channel went down and then came back.

And when you know that that the AAA and Lucha Libre FMV lawsuit is apparently coming to a close soon supposedly might be something to keep an eye on.

[rnrk supports BLM]

That was... interesting. It wasn't well-executed, but the actual product in the arena had some of the fun of the pre-pandemic AAA TV tapings they'd stream on Twitch, undermined by the editing and commentators having no idea what to do with it and trying to present a story at odds with what the performers are doing.

Like Holliday/Psycho Clown was such an amazing mismatch. Psycho comes out to a big pop, pals around with the crowd at ringside filled with kids in Psycho Clown masks, mugs for cheers in the ring while getting the crowd to do naughty chants at Holliday... and all the while the commentators are trying to play up Holliday as the poor good guy being put up against a dangerous lunatic by the evil promoter. And then they lock up and it's dead because Holliday is being a whitebread babyface and not playing to the fans heckling at him, and dragging it back to straightforward mat wrestling that Psycho isn't good at and the crowd wouldn't be interested in even if he was. Then we get the angle where Dario's flunkies kidnap his girlfriend and Psycho Clown dutifully does the preplanned spot where he wins by hitting Holliday with the strap while he's distracted... then immediately goes back to playing around with the crowd and the kids wearing his mask.

And at the end of the main event, you see they cut away from Pagano quick when Dario's flunkies come out because he's putting his fists up getting ready to fight thinking they're doing a run-in on him, because apparently nobody working here bothered to tell him that he's supposed to be part of the same faction as these dudes? Yeah.

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This was I guess better than last week even though not a high bar of compliment but I guess because this was far more story heavy that I tolerated it if nothing else.

But the big mark out DAT NAME DROP AT THE END!!...not so much the first one though lol.



That hurts my soul...how incompetent must you be TO HAVE THE ENTIRE SCRIPT IN FULL CAMERA VIEW ON YOUR PHONE!

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So last week it was

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{Spoiler}{SPOILER: CLICK TO SHOW}Killshot being teased for MLW Azteca.

And tonight we get

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{Spoiler}{SPOILER: CLICK TO SHOW}A Killer Kross teaser.

Puttin the open door policy to good use.

[Ultimo Gallos]

Only seen the first episode so far,and watched it with no sound cause I was on my phone talking with a buddy. Enjoyed what I saw.

But so far there hasn't been a MLW episode I didn't enjoy. To me they got the feel of ECW in 95. Where you never knew what would happen or who would show up.