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April 2, 2002

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An awesome, although temporarily confusing show this week. Vampiro returned to CMLL TV, sporting a Scott Weiland-esque haircut, and cut a 'glad-to-be-home' promo. An awesome Torneo Cibernetico also aired, featuring many luchadores who had been absent from CMLL programming in the last few months, including Santo, Damien 666 and Nicho. The main event was barn burner, as two of the greatest trios teams (and my personal favorites) collided in a battle for the belts.

Mr. Niebla, Blue Demon Jr & Antifaz vs.
Killer, Violencia & Gran Markus Jr
Negro Casas, Atlantis & Felino vs.
Black Tiger, Rey Bucanero & Fuerza Guerrera
Brazo de Plata, Rayo de Jalico Jr & Vampiro vs.  Apolo Dantes, Emilio Charles Jr & Universo 2000
Torneo Cibernetico 16-Man Elimination Match Winner:  Mascara Magica
Los Guerreros Del Infierno vs.
Dr Wagner Jr, Blue Panter, Fuerza Guerrera

The main event was like butta'! The age old battle between the dominating veteranos and the hungry youngbloods got the lucha treatment, ending in a huge brawl with Juventud Guerrera, Mr. Niebla and Antifaz getting involved. The bump Tarzan took to the outside over the ringpost has to be one of the most hardcore things I've seen in lucha libre. Hopefully, these two teams will meet again in the near future. The Torneo Cibernetico was a great change of pace for the longer-than-usual show, and hopefully doesn't mark the end of Mascara Magica's push. I especially liked the move Damien used to finish off Mephisto (what the hell would you call that?), and I cringed when Volador Jr's dumped Nicho on his neck with his german suplex.

The first two matches were reruns from the January 15 show. That's almost three months ago! Why they threw two old matches into a new show is beyond me. I got a kick out of watching the old match with Felino breaking the middle rope (Ha! Fatty.), but the outdated Boriquas match was awful, AND seemed to telegraph the fact that Veneno lost his mask in a shitty feud.