New /Lucha Underground General/

That's how you build a fucking monster heel, fucking beast.

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Favorite part of last night's Aztec Warfare?

>actually marking out for Rey Mysterio
>Pentagon ruining Muertes' shit
>Joey Ryan getting fed to Matanza

There was so much going on in that match at once, I feel like I need to watch it again because I know I missed a lot.

>>1100521
There was so much done right I can't even think of one moment I liked more than the rest.

Even the little stuff like Famous B shilling throughout the entire match and marking out when Dragon Azteca Jr. did that crazy dive was fantastic

so pentagon and muertes are busy with eachother. Only puma and dragon azteca can try to take the title right

>>1100521
>>1100537
I loved how they sent Fenix in to get slaughtered, first.
Any other company would have saved their Champ for last or later on, at least. But LU understood that maiming the Champ quick would imbue everyone with hype due to the guarantee of a new Champ.
Would've have Matanza kill a few lesser guys first, honestly. Then have Fenix have his big "stand up" moment. That way it's still early but built to a bit more. But they went for raw impact, and it worked well.

I'm just glad Dario is back full-time. This season has been great, but I think we can all agree it's much better when Dario, one of the more stand out characters on the show, is featured more. Looking forward to the potential war between him, Matanza and Lotus against Muertes and Catrina.

>>1100557
it won't happen. there's no way it could end well, whoever loses will be stripped of all its aura.

That was the first time I actually wanted Rey to win a match.

>>1100566
how can you not be a rey "ultimate underdog" mysterio mark

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>>1100549
>Only puma and dragon azteca can try to take the title right

...or what about Famous B?

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>>1100566

>>1100566
Did you start watching wrestling last year or something?

CERO MIEDO

>>1100549
Even after Matanza wrecked everyones shit the roster is still very strong, you can throw just about anyone at Matanza

>>1100569
of famous b it pretty much looks like a joke or a rich bastard, like daivari last year. not enough to take away a monster heel. If you're suggesting rey mysterio he's too old, he only has to put over young guys.

>>1100580
aztec warfare was packaged of top guys, i loved that , the opposite of the fucking royal rumble. But big enough to take away the monster? Very few of them

>>1100582
>If you're suggesting rey mysterio he's too old, he only has to put over young guys.

On that premise, he should go for Matanza and keep him busy, putting him over hard as fuck by getting destroyed for the next few shows.
Build to a Dragon Azteca retribution arc?

>>1100568
It's the same thing for Johnny Mundo, Alberto Patron and PJ Black. They were so boring in WWE despite being fantastic in the ring; it's just their writers have no desire of doing anything interesting for anyone not involved in the main event title scene. Everybody else is just a generic face or heel.

But in Lucha Underground, you actually mark out for these guys because the writers crank all their character dials to 11. You become huge fans of wrestlers you were bored of in WWE. Rey Mysterio becoming another example. Everybody has their own unique personality, motivations, lore, and arching storyline.

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>>1100603

>>1100603
Again, have you never seen Rey in WCW?

Or even Ruthless Aggression WWE?

>>1100472
Rey Mysterio when?

>>1100603
it's not exactly the same, because johnny and del rio have always been booked like shit, but when rey was young he was booked good enough (and obviously he was amazing). After, i don't know, the feud with eddie guerrero or even the relatively recent with cm punk you have to be a mysterio mark for life. So pretty much this >>1100613

>>1100600
that is a pretty good idea. I really hope he'll stay in lucha underground for a long time before a legend return in wwe

>>1100613
Yeah, masked Mysterio was great in mid '90s WCW. Especially his cruiserweight feuds with guys Chris Jericho. I'm talking about recently. I didn't watch Ruthless Aggression at all though; at that point, I got bored and stopped watching wrestling around 2002 and didn't get back into it again until a couple years ago.

>>1100606
>taking the time to shitpost fedora memes in a thread you don't like

Wouldn't it be easier to just not post? You are the worst type of cancer.

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>>1100626

>>1100626
so yes, that was the first time because you started a couple of years ago and missed the biggest part of his career

>>1100626

Newfag you'd be more comfortable here

>>>/squaredcircle/

>>1100521
>Favorite part of last night's Aztec Warfare?
>Cuerno's suicide dive
>Brenda
>Dragonslayer falling down the stairs while Mack and THEYCALLHIM faced off
>Aerostar returning
>Those bridging germans

When Matanza just starting killing everyone it felt like the air got sucked out of my living room and it was fucking great. Great match.

Only problems for me was the camera work. Too many spots and segments were interrupted by new entries or too many things happening at once.

Also, (and I'm nitpicking now) Argenis and the little guy kind of annoyed me because I knew they weren't going to last having SoH, Angel or Ive instead would've been better.

>>1100564
I really don't think so, man. Think of this match. Muertes had to be surprised, knocked down a flight of stairs, pummeled with a chair in his back and face, frogsplashed AND held down with two men, and that kept him down for exactly the 3 count. He was immediately up an swinging paws at Pentagon.

Matanza's been booked as probably stronger than that, but he doesn't have the magic earthquake stone to raise him from the dead like Muertes. As long as they had a long, uninterrupted match without (or hell, with) too much of the around-the-temple-weapons crap, and pulled a Hogan kick-out at 3.25 (JUST after the third count), it wouldn't ruin anyone's aura.

>>1100564
Nah, I'm with this guy >>1100760

They could easily book them as titans swinging above everyone else's weight class.
Look at Fenix. He beat Muertes, did that strip him of his aura? No, because it was handled properly.
One monster getting slightly out-monster'd by another monster after they tear shit up and rock each-other with earth-shaking blows for half-an-hour wouldn't make anyone look bad.

>>1100472
Also, you're no aware that the "monster" Matanza is of roughly the same size, weight, and athletic ability (that we've seen) as one Human Suplex Machine.

Drop the ball much, WWE?

1-800-GET-FAME

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>>1100785
>tfw 423-GET-FAME is a real number

>>1100564
If there's one thing you should be able to have faith in with Lucha Underground, it's their ability to build people and have them take losses without making them look like total chumps.

And even if they do wind up looking like chumps, it eventually pays off, like with Son of Havoc.

Is Matanza supposed to be a retard or something? When he won the belt he was looking at it like 'wtf is this? Where am I?' Then Dario raises his hand.

>>1101036
He spends his time in a cage killing drifters.
I doubt he's very eloquent desu

>>1101036
He is supposed to be a guy possessed by an aztec god

I hope Matanza just drags the belt around on the floor like Austin used to

>>1101036
A guy who lives in a cage probably isn't going to be well-educated

>>1101071
I'm sure he'll do something other than wear it around his waist. Not that he's anti-authority like Austin, but he's definitely booked as missing.

As in, "not all there" doesn't describe him, he's "all gone."

>>1101036
he was only interested in destroying everybody, probably wasn't even aware there was a belt to win

About to watch s02e01 now. What am I in for?

Why did Rey's mask look so bulky? Did he have a face-guard underneath or something?

>>1101403
A great season opener. Cero Miedo being baller.

>>1101421
>Cero Miedo being baller
Sweet. I've considered a Pentagon Junior tattoo, actually. I'm a huge fan of him in both LU and AAA.

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>just finished the first episode of the second season
>Pentagon Jr. breaking Mil Muertes' arm

>>1101430
He's the best thing in televized wrestling right now, but I'm a sucker for story lines that go places.

>>1100521
That comedy spot with Jack Ryan and Mundo was great

>>1100939
Where does it go>

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>>1100472
>Kane and Big Show eliminating half the entrants is okay when Lucha Underground does it

Shame, because it was great until came down.

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>>1101430
>I've considered a Pentagon Junior tattoo, actually.

Dragon Azteca jr looks like a watermelon.

>>1101694
I can totally see how it's comparable for guys who've been in the WWE since the late 90s and a guy making his debut

>>1101698
>don't get tattoos representing people and things that inspire you
kay

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>>1101803
>getting tattoos at all

>>1101862
>Posts a pic of 3 people with zero visible tattoos.

>>1100521
How about hearing the fans cheer for Dario Cueto until Matanza started his rampage? Catrina wasn't the worst heel authority figure in wrestling history, but she felt like a cheap replacement and she wasn't even as interesting as she was before. Dario simply is El Jefe.

>>1101694
The difference is that, first of all, Lucha Underground is laser-focused on the story, while WWE doesn't care about the story implications of a lot of its matches. It doesn't mean anything when Big Show, Kane, or whatever other gigantic Raw midcarder does it, because even if they were to win, and they won't, we all know they'd just lay down for someone at Wrestlemania. Lucha Underground says it's building to something big with Matanza. All these little scenes that talk about the Aztec gods and tribes, and about the Cueto family's history. Also, it's the building of a new monster, not trying and failing to restore the monstrous status of a previous monster. Kane has been thoroughly de-monsterized. There's no way to make him a monster again, not after Hunter humped that mannequin. Matanza is still fresh, and while he's so monstrous that there'll be very little place for him once he loses, it does work as a good in-ring introduction to someone who's been built up as exactly this kind of unstoppable force since the first season.

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>>1100521
pic related by far

>>1100521
>that bite lip
>those legs that will never spread for you

how can one woman be so goddamn sexy?

>hey call him a paragraph because he's too short to be called an essay
my fucking sides bro, I'm in literal tears

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>>1101997

>>1100472
when he came out i said oh shit its the shockmaster
> tugboat lookin pretty good these days

>>1100939
GET FAMOUS

>Puma has had enough of this nonsense and turns heel
>the following night Pentagon Jr gets attacked by someone in the audience
>guy takes his shirt off to reveal Ricochet tats
>"WAIT A MINUTE THOSE TATTOOS IT'S PRINCE PUMA BUT WEAR IS HIS MASK?"
>Next night has Ricochet a vignette about him giving up his lucha spirit and he's going to do things his way from now on.

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>>1102086

Drago's new gear is great how much does he spend on his shit? because they look fantastic.

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>you will never go to the same gym as her

>>1102086
Have him lose some big match, then tear his mask in half in frustration. Destroying his soul.

>then a new soul moves in

>the soul of an Aztec God

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>>1101997
>Melissa

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>>1102206
>you'll never touch that metal stool while it's still warm from her body

just end it

>dario didnt kick catrina out in spectacular fashion

maybe she can be his assistant

>>1102214
>kicking such a hot piece of latina ass out

gay

Will Famous B get in the ring or is he just an arena personality?

>>1100472
What the hell is his finisher anyway?
A swinging power slam?

>>1100521
Joey Ryan's hand cuff thing was hilarious from start to finish and it even sets up Matanza's monster shit

Anyone else expecting Vampiro to go full CERO MEIDO soon? They teased it with Catrina slapping the taste out his mouth.

>>1102247
right now he is totally fucked up physically, so yeah he probably went and taped another match for season 2

>>1102239
He wrestled a few times last season

>>1102249
>Pentagon feuding with Mil
>fighting for Vampiro
fucking based.
If I didn't lnow better, I'd think this could lead to Vampiro vs Mil.

>>1102240
I think he got the most pins with his bridging german, but he put the biggest threats (Fenix and Rey) down with that reverse power slam, I'd say that'll be his go to when people kick out of the bridging german in the future.

Did El Patron teach Rey a few things?

r8 my succinct fantasy booking for LU in the coming weeks/months

>Muertes vs Pentagon ends with Pengaton looking threatening as fuck but not quite being able to put away Mil
>during this time, both Puma and Rey are losing hard to Matanza
>as these two storylines round up, a number one contendership match occurs
>DA Jr Wins
>during the match, Pentagon breaks Puma's arm
>Pentagon vs Puma feud re-ignited to keep those two busy for the remainder of LU
>Azteca Jr fails
>Mil steps up
>Monster-clash showdown
>Mil gets Kil
>FROM THE ASHES
>FENIX
>gets a decisive pinfall against Mil to earn the right to fight Matanza
>goes on to face Matanza in S2's climax
>Mil faces Azteca because he needs to prove himself in some way for ReyRey and Mil is the second best guy to do it against
>don't know whether I'd have Mil lose, because that's potentially quite damaging after a string of defeats, or Azteca lose and continue the underdog seeking to prove himself arc into S3

That's how I'd like the big names to be utilized for the remainder.
And, quite happily, LU is like the only fed that I fully believe in to trump my own fantasies.

>>1100566
Same.

>>1101705
my nigga.

>>1102241
I also love how the cuffs are a subtle hint to him being a cop

>>1102379
Penisplex in the temple when?

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>>1100472
Why is this show not releasing in 720P on trackers anymore ? !

>>1102406
Nevermind I found one
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>>1102398
>implying he won't use it to go over Matanza at Ultima Lucha

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>that cringey as fuck "cero miedo" shit

>>1100964
I legit cried when they first won the Trios Belts

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h-h-hey guys, r-remember me?

>>1102514
Yes, Fenix used you to win the LUC from Mil like 3 weeks ago, separation anxiety much?

>>1102514
Yeah see you next UL

>>1102514

Bro, the cash in was just last week. They have to distribute the medallions again before another gotg champ can be found

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post yfw Evans spin kick got no sold by Marty

>>1102559
Well, he sold it, he sold it like he's a creepy fucking masochist that liked it and wanted more.

>>1102549

Well the medallions are now dispersed like dragonballs so yeah prolly

>>1102561

My bad I was looking for the correct term to use and failed. Doesn't change dat smile though

>>1102494

What's cringey about it. The fans or the fact that Pentagon uses it?

>>1100472
Better than the Royal Rumble. LU's best match this season, which is saying a lot.

>>1100738

Mascarita offers fun In a gritty setting. It's always a pleasure to see him in the ring. I just wish Pimpinela would come back soon

>>1101415

I thought the same. It looked really big on him. Look at the poster to Austin Warfare. Pretty huge.>>1101415

>>1102167
>Drago's new gear

Its actually his old gear. He used in AA about 2-3 years ago.

>>1101415

Its the mask he uses now. I think its pretty great.

>>1102616

You're right. Considering AW2 got LU its biggest rating ever including him was a great move since it showed new viewers what LU is all about. I just hope that Matanza didn't turn them off since they didn't see the build up to his debut.

Who do you want to get the 7 Aztec medallions?

>>1102739
Azteca Jr. He seemed to be really good in the ring and I'd like to see him face off against Puma in kinda of a "young upstart Luchador trying to prove himself against face of the company, most tested performer" feud.
He does kinda look like a geek, though. That big-ass nose and the goatee, like a main character in a stoner comedy.

>>1102319
Fenix shouldn't beat Mil twice in a row.

Mil should literally get killed by Matanza, then get another death Zenkai boost like after Grave Consequences and beat someone at Ultima Lucha 2.

He needs to beat Fenix in their next encounter, then Fenix can finally decisively beat Mil at Ultima Lucha 3 (Which will likely be the LU finale).

>>1102769

Agreed. I think the goatee works against him given the design of the mask but that might be intentional. The mask had been worn for years by someone before him. This is a man literally trying to fill someome's larger shoes.

Just learning that Cobb/Matanza had a WWE tryout and was turned down – despite slaughtering the athletic testings – due to issues with his height.
He seems to be roughly the same size and build as Rusev, though.
A Cobb/Gable tag-team would have been godly.

>>1102877
I get you. Kinda trying to convey that he's a little bit of a goof to get across the message that he's a young upstart?
He used to go by "El Hijo De Rey Misterio" – or, "The Son of Rey Misterio".
So there's clearly a lot of belief in this guy.

>>1102907

For sure. He's a bit lanky, and the mask may have looked better on Rey since storywise, he was meant to take on the mantle. Not Angelico-tier for sure but if you look at it, the color green has a symbolic meaning for Jr.

>Beaner wrestling show
>Top two wrestlers are murderers

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>>1103002
hot take on the 4chans

>>1103002

>Rey Mysterio a "murderer"
>doesn't even know what murder is

>>1103002
>Rey/Matanza death match
>Matanza wins
>Becomes most over heel of all time

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I'm so glad they turned Mundo heel. He's so much fun to watch. And Taya is hot.

>>1103023
>Shouts "I DID IT FOR PERRITO"
>Most over face in the history of Mexican wrestling

>>1102907
He's actually almost identical in every dimension as Tazz.

>>1103103
>Matanza
>Tazz
>Matazza
>Muh-Tazz-a

Coincidence?
Yes.

>>1103107
Kek.

Does show you what WWE COULD have done with the human suplex machine, though. Instead he feuded with commentators for year-long intervals.

>>1103088

Yeah but I wish that they didn't have to sacrifice his rivalry/friendship with Puma to do it. That was one of the more interesting aspects of LU to me. I know you're not supposed to see any one superstar as THE main character but Puma and Mundo was as close to a fighting game archetype as you could get. And now It feels like nowadays that Puma has outgrown Mundo, which sucks to see given where they started.

Yeah I know they had that little segment together but it felt like Mundo's been turned into the Dan next to Puma's Ryu. When he should really be more like a Ken. I dunno maybe I am looking into this too hard. Taya is wonderful to see in action though.

Matanza is just Brock Lesnar with a tan.

If Drago is really a dragon and Vampiro is a real vampire does that mean that Cage is actually an android?

>>1103236

This

>>1103237
>>1103236

Shit, you guys are on to something.

>>1103236
That would explain how he survived a cinder block to the head

MANLET

>>1103236
Sometime in the future an android will develop a soul. It will then want to travel to the past to learn how to be a warrior. Cage was a mindless beast until the soul of that android travelled back in time to possess him and head to the Temple in order to learn how to be a warrior.

>>1103216
Pentagon is the Ken hell didn't he used to look like Scorpion?

>>1103216
Puma isn't even the main character anymore.

You can't really even compare the LU roster to a fighting game anymore because of how much the focus shifts between wrestlers, though the best example would probably be Mortal Kombat (Mundo is a picture perfect Johnny Cage).

Puma was the silent protagonist in Season 1 who's biggest friend and enemy was Mundo, but Dario ended up taking his spot as the central character, then Fenix/Muertes became the defining rivalry, and now we have Matanza who looks like the secret final boss you only unlock after 100% completion with Dragon Azteca Jr. being his future foil and most likely being the last "main protagonist"

>>1103236
Well, considering his gimmick is that he's just a really strong guy with no special powers (or robotic bits), I'm guessing no.

>>1103572
>no special powers

He's literally immune to glass

>>1103580
Except we saw him bleeding, and it did slow him down.

Do you not remember his vignette? By the truck? Where the random dudes attacked him with a living room? And the whole time he was LITERALLY SAYING he was just a man who worked out in the gym to become super duper buff, including when dude busted a bottle between his eyes. He CALLS himself a machine, because that's how driven he is, but he's clear that he's not gifted like some of the others.

>that pop that Rey got
Jesus I forgot how over he was

>>1103606
Fenix trying to contain his mark was adorable

>that random-ass shooting star press

dear god

Anyone got a webm of Cuerno's dive this episode?

>>1103216
Puma needs to have outgrown Mundo. If LU just relied on WWE talent to keep filling its top tier and didn't give newer wrestlers, indie stars, and Mexicans the chance to shine at or near the top of the promotion, it would end up turning into TNA, or more likely just dying because a network nobody actually gets run by a director who can't escape his best friend's shadow can't afford to steal away talent or even snatch up every Wellness Policy violator and all the guys who are mad at Vince the way Panda Energy's "give Bob and Janice's moron daughter a place to play so she doesn't ruin everything else yet" division does. The way they used Mundo to build Puma is how you use the guys your audience knows to put over the guys you want them to know. It just kinda feels like he's stalling now because he's in a feud with Cage, and Cage is the kind of guy Vince would love to have in his company rather than someone that Lucha Underground needs to sell to its audience.

Do I have to learn Spanish to follow this production?

>>1103664
No, but if you don't you'll miss out on some pure gold that isn't subtitled like Texano telling Matanza to go fuck his mother

>>1103672
Think Matanza would be into necrophilia like that?

>>1103672
I was laughing like an idiot with the "Ya chingaste a tu madre pinche monstruo!"

I know he's a maneater that lives in a cage but Matanza's outfit just makes me think of Daniel Wyatt.

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>>1103638
How long till he dies?

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>>1103216
The Puma Mundo rivalry + Ricochet's amazing wrestling skills + him being the first original wrestler (next to Son of Havoc) LU introduced always made me think of him as the main character.

>Mundo's been turned into the Dan next to Puma's Ryu
Yeah, I totally agree. At this point Mundo doesn't have much to do with Puma anymore. I'm curious to see what he'll be doing once the Cage feud ends.

I think they're going to make Dragon Azteca the Ken. They'll probably have Rey saying he was a friend of Konnan and then take Puma under his tutelage to work on taking down the Cuetos. A shame webm related was pretty much the only impressive thing he did in his debut match.

I've been trying to post this for 3 hours. Fuck.

>>1103697
WHAT IS FATHER HAVOC DOING IN THE TEMPLE

>>1103572

The way he tosses people around is inhuman strength.

>>1103672
kek

based Texano

>>1103572
>>1103595

Cage is just working you into thinking he's just a man, but he's being honest about really being a MACHINE.

>>1103789
>I think they're going to make Dragon Azteca the Ken
Well, Puma WAS supposedly the one who grabbed Black Lotus for the previous Dragon Azteca. It's not impossible, I guess.

Man the casting for this show is great
Marty is so perfect for his role and he's a damn good wrestler on top of it.

I forgot how short Rey was he's a midget in a sea of caramel midgets

>>1103926
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>>1104314
>>1104330
>>1104332
this

>>1103789
Well, on the other hand it'd also be a shame to have him do something super-awesome (Angelico style), or kicking out of someone else's protected finisher, something crazy, just to get mauled by Matanza anyway.

Fenix - Mil
Dragon Azteca - Matanza

He'll be huge, don't worry.

>>1104392
He was trained by Rey so I have absolutely no doubt he's great but seeing a bit more of what he can do would have been nice.

>Fenix gets to do a move with Rey
>his student doesn't

Considering Rey seemed to do one every two minutes, some kind of double 619 would have been rad.

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>>1104398
thought that was gonna be LU.

you guys think we gonna get more of these this season?

>>1104398
I don't know if that is considered overselling when you're opponent is Cage

>>1104397
Brandon Stroud was at the Season 2 tapings and said that DAJ will end up being everyones favorite wrestler just based off of what he does in the ring, so I wouldn't worry about it

>>1103530

Well back in S1 he didn't have much interaction with Puma and was doing his own thing with his sacrifices and what not. This year he's been getting involved with a lot more but I wouldn't call him a rival to Puma in the way that Mundo was.

>>1103556
Like I said, yeah I know you can't really compare it anymore but Puma and Mundo could have still kept that rivalry between them while still having Mundo up his "it's all about me" attitude. Shit like them fighting together, All Night Long, taking on Mil in a double pin last year, even when all the shit had hit the fan between them Mundo still came through for Puma in the trios. I fucking miss that shit between them. Sure Puma no longer has the focus but that doesn't mean he still can't have a connection to certain people. As you said, Mundo was his biggest friend and enemy.

>>1103656
Well I see what you're saying on that front but I was kinda looking more at it from a story perspective and not necessarily business. It's where their emphasis is.

>>1103789
>>1104314
>>1104392
>>1104397

And see that's what had me wondering. It made sense to have the veteran go on to face Matanza but if they really wanted to put home the fact that DA is the new hotness they should have had him and Rey being the final two to challenge him.

>>1104441
it looks believable.

>>1103772
BASED
A
S
E
D

>>1104577
>if they really wanted to put home the fact that DA is the new hotness they should have had him and Rey being the final two to challenge him.

That match was much more about putting home the fact that Matanza was the new hotness, not DA.
So it made perfect sense for him to run through LU's biggest Face for S1 and Rey as the final two.

>>1104649

True. Still sucks for Puma though. He's been getting rekt by Mil all season.

Anyone know where can I watch the special match where Joey won his invitation?
It's still not available in my country

>>1103772
Did he always do that move or did he pick it up as part of the Cuerno gimmick?

>>1104672
El Hijo Del Fantasma does the same thing, just called a "tope suicida." As Cuerno he calls it "Arrow From the Depths of Hell," only difference.

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Post you're favorite Luchadors in LU

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>>1104715
Puma a shit

>>1104726
Do you think Octagon could get into LU only to be shocked that the entire temple adores Pentagon?

>>1104726
>>1104715
>the inevitable Pentagon vs Puma feud that was teased early-season and will be cashed in on late-season

Calling it now. Pentagon will lose to, but fuck Mil up horribly, and take his vendetta against Puma.

>>1102086
Awful

>>1102240
Standing shooting star press also put away a competitor.

>>1104726
Even Lucha Underground knows that Lucha Underground is wrestling's Mortal Kombat.

>>1104664
This. I heard Killshot did some cool shit in it.

Remember when they teased a feud between Killshot and Cuerno towards the end of season 1?
I really want to see that now that his feud with Fenix is over.

Killshot is in my opinion the most underutilized wrestler in LU right now.

>>1104715
I used to have a top five, but now I can barely keep it down to a top 15. Everyone in this fucking show is so perfectly cast for his role, that it's just unbelievable.

Johnny Nitro/John Morrison/Johnny Mundo was one of my all time favorites in WWE and he was the main reason I started watching LU. Even if there are a bunch of people that are arguably better in the ring and more interesting story-wise, I'm sticking with him.

>>1104664
>>1105170
I used keepvid to just download the video if that works for you guys

Rey sees a lot of himself in Fenix apparently and he's impressed by Puma and Cage
http://www.channelguidemag.com/tv-news/2016/02/02/rey-mysterio-adding-more-star-power-to-season-two-of-lucha-underground/

>>1105170
>Killshot is in my opinion the most underutilized wrestler in LU right now

Don't worry, he's the guy who starts fighting ISIS

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That's a damn nice header.

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>>1105473

>>1105201
>Johnny Mundo was one of my all time favorites in WWE and he was the main reason I started watching LU

Ya know what, that's not a bad reason. Mundo has been killing it in LU. He's never been one of My favorites, but I got nothing but mad respect for him (and pretty much everybody else on the roster). Anybody who jumps ship from LU to WWE loses My respect, though.

>/wwe/ complains about tripfags
>full board is now full of tripfags
What a cancerous faggots they are, I see now why /sp/ wanted them out.

>>1106562
> thinking they are from spee
We had like 4 or 5 tripfags max, 2 of them are pretty decent
The new tripfags are all /asp/ies from applesteve's thread
Probably all are that Carter faggot

>>1106567
All of these tripfags are the same person

>>1106615
So that Carter faggot
Who was from asp

>>1101997
YOU JUST KNOW

>>1106658
>YOU JUST KNOW

If there was a man to ever cuck The Machine it would be El Jefe.

>>1106652
Yeah, basically

>>1106658
>>1106684
Could anyone resist El Jefe?

Is there anywhere to watch Lucha Underground without shit quality? I don't get El Rey.

>>1104398
Can someone show Reigns this video? Needs to learn how to do proper corner clotheslines.

>>1107000
Kat, piratebay and xwt
Xwt are having sign ups right now

>>1107049
Cage did an AMA about a week ago. One person asked if he thinks he could beat Reigns.

>Oh my God, yes.
>A man would be Roman Reigns, and he'd be fighting a machine in Brian Cage.

Based Cage.

>>1107082
that wasn't a bad answer but it's not like he was gonna say "nah I'd totally do the job for him"

>>1107082
Cage for the next Terminator when?

Catching up through all of S1, it's not gay if I'd totally fuck Angelico, r-right?

>>1102181
moar

>>1107141
It'd be gayer not to.

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After binge watching for the past month and a half, my fiancée and I are finally caught up on Lucha Underground, and all I can say is fuck WWE. This show is all I need now.

>>1107141
>you will never get double teamed by Angelico and Jack Evans
Why live?

If Punk gets rekt at UFC...will he go to the Temple?

>>1107669
What would his lucha name be though?

>>1107960
CM Gamberro

If I wanted to start watching LU should I start from the very beginning? I watched the first episode a while ago and enjoyed it but couldn't find the time to really dig into it.

>>1107976
Yes. You'll develop attachments to certain characters and see how they develop.
Enjoy it man.

Will they ever release the wrestler themes?

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>>1100785
>>1100939

>want to watch LU
>have entire first season just sitting on my hard disk
>just can't get the motivation to do it
Help me guys

>>1108261
Give yourself the time to get into it for 3 episodes. If you're still seeing it as a chore after 3 episodes, you're not ever going to get into it and you might as well just quit.

Are either of these links good?
https://thepiratebay.se/torrent/12522423/Lucha_Underground_Season_1_(All_39_Episodes)
https://thepiratebay.se/torrent/12844906/Lucha_Underground_Season_1_720p

>>1107960
El Punk-O

>>1108338
I downloaded the 720p one, no viruses so far.

This question was asked in the /wwe/ General, and it was pretty interesting. But unfortunately, it's a wretched hive of shitposting, so I decided to pose it here.

>Rate the following BigGuy4U talents from best-to-worst as overall packages

>Cage
>Lesnar
>Muertes
>Cobb/Matanza

>>1108511

Lesnar > Matanza = Muertes > Cage

https://vimeo.com/160572063

>>1108537
are they filming season 3? jelly as fuck

>>1108531
>Muertes on-par with Matanza
>over Cage

He's a based as fuck character, but he's still a very limited wrestler. I'd say he's LU's Taker, in that the creation of an excellent persona was both due to excellent writing perfectly apt for the guy, and his fitting portrayal.
I'd still put the other 3 above him as pure talents. Dunno where I'd put Matanza right now, though, feel like I need to see a bit more. But the glimpse we've been given was incredible.

>>1107976
You'll know by Aztec Warfare whether this is a show you'll be sticking with

>>1108511
I haven't got to Matanza's introduction yet in my LU backlog, but for the rest I'd go

Lesnar >>>>>Muertes >>> Cage

Cage kind of sucks, but he works in LU so far due to the novelty value.

>>1108570
Honestly it kind of sucked before Aztec Warfare

I'm about halfway through S1 one and atm I'm mainly just watching for Son of Havoc/Angelico/Havok's Ex

>>1108582
Aztec Warfare paid off all the storyline stuff that happened up to that moment, but it's true that before that it was mostly just a lot of decent wrestling bookended by a bunch of introduction vignettes, definitely not bad but nothing altogether groundbreaking. Have you seen Grave Consequences yet?

>>1108596
Puma's arc is the best arc so far, but Dario/Matanza could be pretty good

>>1108596
In the middle of the trios tournament.

Chavo's storyline was the only real one in the early eps, a lot of gimmick matches with the midget guy or intergender, a lot of luchadores not really doing that much. It wasn't bad but it was hardly groundbreaking, just good solid wrestling with a weird camera filter.

The writing has definitely gotten better already has the season has gone on. This Kill Bill stuff is hilariously campy but I love it. Apparently there is more stuff like this later? Some of the stuff I heard is coming sounded like a more serious CHIKARA and that just sounds based.

>>1108605
The trios tournament is great with an amazing finish. And yeah, there's more stuff like that as the season goes on.

To be honest I hated anything and everything involving Blue Demon Jr. He's just not good, but fortunately there isn't much of it.

>>1108208
I keep waiting for some proper releases.
Puma has a Street Fighter style to his song that I love

>>1108635
DAT FUCKING ANGELICO SPOT

I am rock fucking hard now. Best part of LU so far easily, these three's arc.

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>>1108599
>>1108747
> arcs

>>1108766
>he doesn't know what a character arc is

That's the thing about LU, it's written like a TV show with coherent plots and character progression, unlike the random shit you get in WWE.

>>1100521

Someone hit Jack Evans with a flip piledriver of the middle and top rope. I think it was Fenix.

That was the single coolest spot of the year so far. I lost my fucking mind, and so did Vampiro.

>>1101675

Where Mundo tried to buddy up to Jack EVANS and Evan shouted "WHY WHERE YOU KICKING ME?"?

Yeah, I got a hearty chuckle out of that. Mundo (and Evans really) are great Full of Shit heels. Because in LU these guys can actually wrestle, they're just also buried up their own asshole. Where in the WWE I get the feeling that any scrub off the street could beat the chickenshit heels if they got them 1v1.

>>1101963

>Catrina wasn't the worst heel authority figure in wrestling history, but she felt like a cheap replacement and she wasn't even as interesting as she was before.

The problem with Catrina in charge was that it was clear her character was still focuses solely on Mil Muertes and their feud with Fenix. She just now had to throw together some other matches and some of it felt kind of half-assed.

Now Catrina can go back to being 100% in her own angle, and Dario resumes being the over-arching boss of the place.

>>1109374
Jack Evans is fucking hilarious.

Have you seen Battle of Los Angeles 2015? He has a match with Angelico, he fucking never stops talking the whole time

>>1102907

I'm pretty sure RuRu is taller. Rusev is like 6'1'' or maybe 6'2''. Matanza is pretty well under 6', and the undisputed God King of Manlets.

>>1103236

>Swole as fuck
>Mohawk

BAH GAWD IT'S ANDROID 16!

>>1104398

Jack Evans is too good at selling for his own good. Selling like that, he'll ALWAYS be the middle-of-the-road guy used to make beasts like CAGE look superhuman.

>>1104583

Not necessarily "believable" if you've ever were a football player or amateur wrestler (even the guys who aren't huge are pretty goddamn hard to even get on the ground, let alone hurl through the air, when they're actually competing against you rather than helping you put on a stage production), but it's "action movie" real.

And really, despite what ancient relics of a bygone and largely forgotten age like Cornette will piss and moan about, that's what pro wrestling is, and what it is when it's at its best: An action movie with a good, or at least functional, story.

Like The Rock (the Nick Cage movie, not the wrestler) or The Dark Knight.

WWE is more like Transformers. A lot of obviously fake bullshit with stupid storylines involving indistinguishable characters no one is capable of caring about. But at least there's usually a nice piece of ass walking around.

>>1105473

I have to wonder if Matanza can see well out of that mask. Stupid ass masks obstructing vision were a big part of why the original Sin Cara was a botch machine.

Of course, Matanza seems less into flippyshit, so it probably won't be that big of a deal

>>1103236
That's what I've always assumed.

>>1107669

God I hope so. If only to hear the "YOU'RE A QUIETER" chants.

>>1108511

GOD that's a tough one, but Lesnar is clearly the worst.

>>1108537
>https://vimeo.com/160572063

The joke is Justin Gabriel was the Adam Rose bunny in WWE? Pretty cool footage anyway, looks like a fun show.

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>>1109468
>Stupid ass masks obstructing vision were a big part of why Sin Cara was a botch machine

O RLY?!

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>>1109529
So, he was a bunny, and then he was a wolf...?

If LU was picked by a big network and they went to the monday night timeslot, RAW would be on some big trouble.

Matanza seems like he's a pretty shirty wrestler desu. This is one thing that worries me about LU, falling in love with the concept of a character and deciding to build the show around them regardless of who is performing as the character. Still love the show, though

>>1109580
>wrestlers haven't been wearing masks since like the 50s in a wide context

>>1113623
What the fuck are you talking about? I haven't seen a performance as destructive as his debut since Bork dropped Cena on his head 16 times in a row. His suplexes all look brutal, he can cleanly bridge a German, he has a ton of ring presence, he can standing shooting star press, which is ATHLETICALLY IMPRESSIVE FOR A BIG MAN EVEN IF YOU DO NOT LIKE FLIPPY SHIT, his mask is dope, and he's represented by the best talker on the program. What aspect of this are you not super excited about again, you fucking pleb?

>>1113642
His german suplexes are fine, they aren't anything special, especially after you've seen six in one match. He can flip but he didn't land the standing SSP well, also he's not even that big. He's fairly short.

His debut was a good moment in that he was in the match with a bunch of great wrestlers who could sell like crazy and make him look strong. But it was clear that he's very green, and is just a body to fill the mask for the character. His run may very well be good since their roster is full of people who can make him look good, but if they continue to throw green wrestlers into roles as main event characters, it will become a problem.

>>1113623

The guy playing Matanza is pretty damn good. He's no Vader or Lesnar, but he's one of the best power guys to come out of the indies in a fair while.

>>1113642

Jeff Cobb is a former Olympic wrestler (admittedly one of the least good in that particular olympics). If he couldn't suplex a guy or bridge a german, something would be insanely wrong.

I'm on episode 4 right now. A few things. Keep in mind, never watched any wrestling before.

>I seriously hope they bring back Blue Demon Jr. I love the motherfucker, and he did good against Mil Muertos. I'm glad they at least pushed him out properly and not just make him look like a bitch. I would love to see him return as a heroic figure again.
>Johnny Mundo rules. I love how he's out for himself and arrogant, but he's never actually done anything shitty. Hell, he's even shown he can make friends easily.
>Prince Puma is the shit, and I hope he becomes hero tier.
>Fenix is fucking amazing.
>The multi-gender fights are a cool concept, but they feel much slower than the other fights.
>Mil Muertos is awesome. He's basically wrestling Bane. Catrinas a bit annoying and odd, but I like her relationship to him.
>I love the way the out-of-ring scenes are shot.
>Drago sucks. The performer is amazing, but the character gets his ass beat constantly. He doesn't have the sympathetic factor of Fenix, so he just seems like he looks cooler than he is.

>>1113678

The mixed-gender matches get better later on, once they're done with the whole 'prove I can hang with the men' angle.

>>1113678
You will fall in love with Drago.

>>1113710
I just saw the rematch of him and Cuerno, and he won me over in that one. He lost, but he went balls out. The first fight he almost got lucky, but in this one he threw everything he had at the guy. Gotta love that.

>>1113678
>>Johnny Mundo rules. I love how he's out for himself and arrogant, but he's never actually done anything shitty. Hell, he's even shown he can make friends easily.

See, that shit was the point I was trying to make with my earlier post in >>1103216

I wish Mundo would have stayed that way. He could have still remained an asshole and not have to go completely heel.

Sorry if the guy reading this got spoiled by the way but if it helps, this shit doesn't happen until S2.

>>1113729
Mundo is much better as a heel than a face

>>1113729
Fuck, you DID spoil that for me.

I don't know how I feel about that. Dammit I like him as a protag.

>>1113622
Technically they still have like 2 hours to themselves

>>1113652
>green
Are you serious anon?

>>1113678
Same anon. I just saw the first free-for-all. That was so fucking perfect. That was like Lucha Secret Wars.

>Dat Puma/Fenix team up against Big Ryck
>Dat Drago immediately targeting Cuerno
>Dat midget wrestler (forgot his name) fighting Big Ryck and wrecking the other fighters
>Dat Pentagon Jr. Getting his ass beat by everyone
>Dat Fenix/Puma final showdown
>Dat Puma taking off his bandages

I came so hard watching that. Fuck, Fenix is so based. He can literally synch with anyone's style, then use it against them. Puma is a rock star. I don't really get the love for Pentagon Jr., considering he's supposed to be the arch enemy of Fenix but doesn't seem up to his level.

>>1113964
>Pentagon Jr.
He really get's going when the dark master plot line heats up

>>1107960
It'd be shortened to "Punk". Everyone would joke about him being a bitch just so he can try to reprove himself.

>>1107960
>>1114198
He'd just be CM Punk, he owns the right to his name.

>>1107960
>>1107975
>>1108401
>>1114198
>>1114383

>implying he wouldn't be Cero Miedo Punk
>Vampiro's other disciple, Pentagon's rival

>>1114398
>we finally learn what CM stands for
>yfw his entire career was just to make his name look strong for this moment

>>1113964

Mascarita is fantastic. I remember that exact moment you're talking about too. I had to rewind a few times

>>1114412
>one week later
>What's Vincenzo El Mahón doing in the temple brother?

Did you guys see the LU season 3 spoilers?

>>1114695
Mascarita is definitely one of my favorites. He's such a trooper.

I want Catrina to lick my neck so bad lads

>>1114906
Do I want to?

>>1113964
>Pentagon Jr., considering he's supposed to be the arch enemy of Fenix but doesn't seem up to his level.

Pentagon and Fenix are real life brothers. So they probably did those early matches partly for family love and partly as an early show of what they can do.

Like others say, Pentagon's story doesn't become interesting until he starts breaking arms.

>>1114976
Yes

I don't watch LU but what happened to Ricochet/Prince Puma was interesting

>>1115342
Fuck off with spoilers. It's bad enough season 2 is half spoiled already.

>>1113964
>considering he's supposed to be the arch enemy of Fenix

Fenix's arch enemy is Mil Muertes

>>1115356
Calm down mexiboo I haven't spoiled anything

>motherfucking Jack Evans just appeared in the Temple

He teams up with Angelico later right? At the moment they are just not mentioning the fact the two are obviously tag partners and wear the exact same gear.

>>1115360
Where I am right now, Fenix and Pentagon have had 4 matches. He's only had 1 match with Muertes right now.

>>1115374
Jack Evans is a heel, Angelico is a face, so unless Team Havoc breaks up and one or the other turns they can't really acknowledge that the two are a team.

>>1108596
>Have you seen Grave Consequences yet?

Fuck, turns out I accidentally skipped that episode, I wondered what happened to Mil. Going back and watching it now once I got to a storyline about him coming back from something I missed happen to him. Guess I can work out who wins this match then.

>>1115506
Fuck, seriously? That sucks. Do they even keep wearing matching ring gear without anyone mentioning that they are obviously partners?

>>1115516
Yeah, I always thought their similar ring gear was weird too. Finding out that they're partners elsewhere makes a lot of sense.

>>1114964
do you think guys ask to do jobs to mil so they can get licked?

>>1115539
There was a funny bit in their match in the Battle of Los Angeles in PWG where the commentator said "They must have felt silly when they saw they both came into work wearing the same clothes" and that's the only reference it got there too, lel.

Both are fucking cheapskates,only having one set of ring attire.

>>1114412
Isnt CM Chicago Made?

>>1115975
Not even.

>>1115975
craves men

>>1115975
Cuck Magic

>>1109580

I don't know how that actually affects his vision. Also, Aerostar might have more experience in that mask than Sin Cara did. The retards in WWE put that new mask on him and shoved him in front of everyone without giving him any time to adjust to it. If there was ONE established wrestler that the WWE should have kept in developmental for a while, it was Sin Cara.

>>1113622

Striker and Vampiro would have to stop swearing.

And I'm pretty sure Catrina screamed "GET THE FUCK OUT" at Vampiro after Pentagon screwed Muertes.

>>1116089
Mistico refused to go to developmental.

Because he's a dipshit.

>>1113622
I think LU being on a small network that otherwise features b-movies and other nonsense adds to the charm. The LU universe itself is pretty grimy and having those cheesy horror flick commercials in between justadd to that.

>>1115516
It's always funny how things are different in kayfabe.

Like how Pentagon and Sexy Star are a Heel tag team in AAA and in LU SS is getting stalked by a mothman and Pentagon is a beloved tweener.

I bet if Octagon ever got in LU he'd be the a guy who keeps trying to convince people Pentagon is evil even though the crowd loves him.

>>1116147
Pentagon IS evil in LU

>>1116157
Compared to the two other monsters on the roster he's the least evil.

>>1116169
He's "cool" evil because he overcomes adversity even if he does it by breaking arms.

>>1116169
He's definitely more evil than Mil.

Anybody know where I can watch the season 1? I watched latest episode out of curiosity and it was hype as shit. I want to watch the full series now.

>>1116089

WWE didn't fuck up Sin Cara, Sin Cara fucked up Sin Cara.

>>1116177
Mil is a zombie possessed by a magic stone doing the bidding of an evil aztec witch. Sure, he himself might be turned good after he breaks from the spell. But still, Muertes was the final boss of evilness for a good long while.

Pentagon is more chaotic evil, making it seem worse but actually he ain't THAT bad. F.i. he lined up with Puma in that match against the disciples pretty quickly. Mil would never do that.

>>1116179
watchwrestling.to

>>1116177
Mil's terrifying imposing evil who wants everything under his control.
Pentagon's not that bad, he's just "break your arm and sacrifice you" evil.

>>1116157

Pentagon is Stone Cold tier, he has transcended labels.

>>1116190
Thanks senpai

>It's a "New episode of LU Day" Episode

Also, gentle reminder for those unaware: Wew's Taima stream now has High Quality streams at time of broadcast.

>>1116193
>Pentagon is Stone Cold tier,

I love me some Pentagon.
But never say this shit again

>>1116196

Pentagon is literally Mexican Stone Cold.

>>1116196
What's the card?

>>1116190
>>1116192
> Pentagon's not that bad

Are we all forgetting about how he once attempted to break a ring announcer's arm and then tried to set a commentator on fire?

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>>1116193
The Mack is LU's Stone Cold. That match with Cage pretty much laid that out and he was flipping off dudes left and right before giving them the Stunner during Aztec Warfare II.

>>1116207
He was possessed by big bad Vampiro, brother. He couldn't help it.

>>1116208

Hes just going through the motions.

>>1116207
Admittedly, yes.
He may be worse.

>>1116206
Don't know, LU is the only thing I don't spoil myself on desu

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Who do you think is La Roca's favorite luchador?

>>1116571
New bread.

>>1116228

He seems pretty good when he's not cheesing the Stone Cold character.