Cover stories including Villanos winning the UWA Tag Team Titles from Silver King & Texano, La Diabolica becoming a double champion, Las Rockers re-forming in AAA after turning on La Monster (Bertha Faye who is WWF bound), Oso Negro debuting in Arena Mexico along with Ultimo Dragon returning & of course... you can be the Reina De Box y Lucha! (more on that later)
Ponzona is returning to action after being out for 6 months! He goes in-depth explaining the painful injury that kept him out of action. In reality, he went back to wrestling as Americo Rocca so he missed no time at all. This article appears to exist to explain why Ponzona suddenly re-surfaced on an Arena Coliseo show the week prior...
NOW WAIT JUST A MOMENT! Americo Rocca in main event & Ponzona in the segunda??? How can this be??? I don't have the answer. This Ponzona lasts one show & isn't heard from again. There used to be an Americo Rocca Jr. running around on the undercards of CMLL shows so one could guess this was him but I have no concrete proof.
During his "retirement" Konnan began doing a Box y Lucha column where he would answer questions from fans. This turned into Konnan petitioning the comission to allow him to return to wrestling based on being screwed by interference in the big Triplemania match. Here he gives the address where you can send letters to help his cause. Very WWF-inspired.
This is coded for "someone wrestled drunk" but we won't say who. This was at the 10/10/93 Pista Arena Revoluion show. The smart money is on Kung Fu who was a fucking disaster at this time period. Funny enough & showing the differences in culture + 1993 vs 2026 -> the magazine doesn't fault the wrestler at all. They fault the comission & doctors assigned by them who are supposed to check every wrestler before they are allowed to go to the ring. The blame is put on them for not stopping this drunk wrestler from being able to perform, not the wrestler themself from getting drunk before going out to wrestle.
Taking a shot at Mocho Cota saying how after recent failures attempting to be a promoter, he has learned it's easier to work for Chavo (Lutteroth) than promote against him. Cota had been attempting to promote shows in Northern Mexico (Monclova area). He also had been working for AAA before just recently jumping back to CMLL & in the process screwing over Antonio Pena/AAA who had built him up for a hair match against Latin Lover.
Another shot at someone for failing as a promoter. One thing you learn from reading so many lucha magazines - they love taking shots at people! In this case ex-very strict comissioner Rafael Barradas (grandfather of Estrellita). He was the one who banned women's matches from happening in Mexico City for many years. No comment.
Note about the former Arena Isabel in Leon (not to be confused with the one in Cuernavaca, no doubt a nuisance for The Cubs Fan) now being a five star hotel. WTF? It's not even in Tokyo! Joke about how guests can still hear the sounds of the ring in the middle of the night.
In an article recounting famous moments in the history of Lucha Libre, we are reminded of the first ever tag team match to occur in Mexico. With standard singles matches being 2/3 falls, this one was made 3/5 falls with the extra participants involved. I like it! Bring it back! (This concept does not stick around, in fact, I cannot remember if it ever returned)
Notes column ends with random things such as where did Nahur Kaliff disappear to? Former Pavillion Azteca guy who was left without a home when the building stopped running shows in 1989. No clue what happened to him. Then a mention of how UWA/LLI has not run any shows north of Queretaro. Their talent has worked northern Mexico but on their own with outside promoters. I think UWA/LLI had bigger problems to worry about around this time on their home turf. A shot at Konnan's autograph not being worth anything these days, Perro's goes for 20 pesos. In closing a mention about how Anibal disappeared after losing his mask, didn't wrestle another fall. Anibal passes away due to some form of cancer soon after this.
Carlos 'Tarzan' Lopez.
Irma Gonzalez in her stage of career working as 'La Novia Del Santo'. Didn't last long & had to be dropped for obvious reasons.
Los Guerreritos Del Futuro! Baby Virus as Damiancito El Guerrero here. I forget who the other two were. They were around from 1992 until 1997-ish. Damiancito sticks around, the other two do not. The minis weren't getting many opportunities. In their entire run they never had a TV match all together as a unit. Maya made TV maybe a handful of times, Futuro the same. Really shows you the difference between then & now. This month alone some of the least booked minis like Pequeno Polvora & Rostro De Acero will probably end up with 5 streaming appearences in the various arenas.
It's noted Negro Casas' wife just gave birth. And that's the last we would ever hear from her I believe...
There is a 16 team (that's 48 people total!) tournament in the works to crown new Estado De Mexico Trios Champions. I always confuse Estado De Mexico with Distrito Federal but these are the championships that would regularly be defended in Arena Naucalpan under the Moreno (Pirata) banner. The idea here is this concept will attract teams from all over & the winners may be in line for a shot at either the CMLL or UWA Trios Titles. Using my cheat sheet (LuchaDB) - this tournament doesn't actually occur until almost a year later. Cubs has a note the matches took place in various arenas but concluded in Arena Naucalpan. The winners ended up being Kraneo, Kahoz & Cadaver De Ultratumba. I can safely report that trio did not get a shot at the CMLL or UWA Trios Titles. One other thing you learn from reading so many lucha magazines... there are a lot of ideas/concepts thrown out there that go nowhere.
Another note about Arena Naucalpan is a listing of all the talent they are developing on their own. Special note about someone named Kraneo who they believe is destined to become a star. They nailed that one. This is, in fact, the same Kraneo who just left CMLL. They're right - at this time Arena Naucalpan was developing lots of talent who would find their way to CMLL. The groups sorta had a working agreement. That working agreement ends in late 1995 when the Morenos decide to become a non-exclusive building. CMLL reacts to that exactly as you'd expect so the Morenos start working with AAA & lots of Naucalpan talent ends up in AAA which is how Kraneo gets his start (as the new Mascara Sagrada, then Kraneo, then Alebrije). There's also a note about how ever since winning the CMLL Mini's Title, Ultratumbita went MIA. But don't worry, he's back this week on the Friday Arena Mexico show. No, I have no idea why he disappeared for a bit. Or why CMLL had an Ultratumbita who was basically a guy wrestling in an Espectrito outfit but using a different name while AAA had the actual Espectrito who was much more famous. Maybe they thought it bothered Pena since he used to work as an Espectro?
El Coloso says he debated retiring after losing his mask. He does not. He takes a bit of time off from lucha libre as I recall but pops back up in Promo Azteca as El Gitano, AAA as Vegas & of course most notably IWRG/CMLL first as Mr. Niebla IWRG, then Mr. Mexico once he loses his mask. I think these days he does nutrition/bodybuilding training. For a bodybuilder turned luchador, he did have quite a remarkable & lengthy career. In PROMELL he once pulled off one of the most amazing spots I've ever seen with the help of Ultimo Guerrero & Ultimo Rebelde.
The mysterious Oso Negro is debuting on the 10/15/93 Arena Mexico show. One of a few gimmicks CMLL started up around this time. Not much is known about this guy & unfortunately CMLL TV is hard to find in late 93/early 94. Not sure what happened but people just weren't recording or it wasn't airing. So little is known about this gimmick/person who only lasts about 3 months. Gone by February 1994. Cubs seems to remember something about this being one of the amateur wrestling trainers in CMLL. Maybe Memo Diaz was under the mask? Just a guess.
AIDS! YOU COULD HAVE IT! There are quite a few articles like this around this time. Including Tania La Guerrillera literally exclaiming "I DON'T HAVE AIDS!" I guess someone was accussing her of having it because she disappears from lucha libre for a while?
Among the lineups this is the Friday Arena Mexico show. Notable for the debut of Oso Negro & second appearence of Faraon (LA wrestler who's name escapes me for the moment). This is Ultratumbita's return to action & on the other side El Fierito making his debut. Strangely he's a tecnico here but soon after switches to the rudo side & stays there the rest of his career. He still wrestles in CMLL to this very day as Pequeno Violencia. One of the longest tenured CMLL wrestlers not named Atlantis or Ultimo Dragoncito.
Just an example of how loaded the AAA roster was at this time. 3 shows in different big cities with completely different lineups. Where would you have gone? Blue Panther vs Satanico in a title match is tempting but I'm partial to one of the first ever (maybe the first?) Rey Jr/Juvy singles matches. Would also give me a chance to figure out who the hell was playing Mini Psicosis in 1993. I doubt it was the guy we'd come to know as Mini Psicosis (current CMLL Alexius' father who also played Pequeno Black Warrior). The Gimnasio Juan De La Barera show was the one taped for TV this week.
Notable show to me for the strange future AAA gimmicks popping up on an AAA spot show years earlier. Histeria??? No idea. He pops up on a few other shows so this wasn't a one-off. Esquizofrenia was the first gimmick for Electro Shock when he started in AAA. Tarzan Boy is absolutely not THE Tarzan Boy, no way no how. Love random lineups like this.
Do you want to be the Queen of Box y Lucha??? Send a photo of your face & body to us through the mail! An amazing scam that went on for so many years in the world of lucha libre. You had an official Queen of Lucha Libre who would sit ringside at shows sometimes. Notably in 1991 was Vicky Palacios who would become Konnan's "girlfriend" - not sure legit or worked. The gimmick would expand to each magazine/promotion crowning their own queen so every magazine ever has an article about this every week whether it's the non-stop search for a new queen or something about the current queen. I can only imagine how many women got taken advantage in some way by promises of covers, free tickets, you name it. This would of course never fly in 2026 but it goes on much longer than you'd imagine in the magazines.
And that's that.
(this was a test to see if I enjoy doing stuff like this)
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