LUCHA LIBRE ON MTV2

Well, MTV2 is trying to broaden its horizons by adding some more sports stuff to their network, and they chose lucha libre.

Which is apparently filming somewhere in Vegas over Memorial Day weekend.

Allow me to over-analyze the situation.

Now, I love lucha and I fucking can't wait for this show. A bunch of people probably feel exactly the opposite because they're afraid it'll become WS-Mex or something, but man, I loved WSX. Now, I've loved a lot of things MTV did that got canceled pretty quickly, so I have to say my optimism has been pretty clouded by a big fat dose of history.

How do I think the show is going to be? Well, I think it's going to be pretty heavy on comedy, but comedy has always been a pretty big part of lucha, and it's also going to be pretty heavy on holy-shit highspots. I really don't think we will see any of the overlooked technical aspects of lucha libre, aka "Wacky Mexican Submissions" which I fucking love in lucha...but you'd have to educate an audience on why they're awesome and man, that's fucking hard. I don't think I've done that in any of my Lucha Libre for Gringos vids yet, because the majority of my stuff is AAA and they kind of stay away from that stuff for the most part as well. You see plenty of that in CMLL and IWRG though.

How would I run the promotion if I was doing it?

MIDGETS OUT THE ASS DUDE. I'd have Mascarita Dorada and build the whole fucking show around him, or at least a VERY significant portion. The guy makes fans wherever he goes, and if I truly feel that ONE luchador could be a breakout, crossover star that could be popular in the US(I'm not talking about being in some telenovelas and Dancing with the Stars or some shit), it's him.

HIRE CASSANDRO. USE HIM ALL THE TIME. Nuff said, really.

FUCKING CRAZY GIMMICKS. Shit like the Psycho Circus and Soccer Goats and Monsther and Chucky need to be on every show. I'm not saying every guy needs to have that over the top of a gimmick, but you need something that will draw people in while flipping around the channels- because if regular lucha was already doing that, people would just be watching it on the Spanish channel instead.


LUCHADORAS- Hey, why not?

THE ESTELLAR MOMENTS REELS- Highlights of dives and crazy moves from around the lucha world. This is always a highlight to see on Mexican TV, and MTV needs to steal the fuck out of this.

SUBTITLED INTERVIEWS- Don't do a MXC on this shit and don't try to force everyone to speak English, and don't get a bunch of non-luchadores on the show. Make it ALL LUCHA, ALL THE TIME. If I wanted to see a bunch of Americans wrestle I'd just watch AAA.

BURN.

HAVE A BUNCH OF SIX MAN TAGS- Seriously, these are important in lucha, but I have a feeling they're going to go one-on-one with this shit for some reason. Just a gut feeling, I guess. Explain the wacky lucha rules to the fans. I can do it on a fucking youtube video, so they can do it on a TV show.

I hope it's not a half hour long, too. Yet, I feel it will be.

I really hope this is something that not only is something different on TV, but changes the way that wrestling matches are presented, because right now you have WWE being WWE, and TNA trying to be WWE, and AAA trying to be WWE, and CMLL waaaaay off in the distance when it comes to production values. Speaking of which, do that instant replay where you can see the guys' skeletons. That was the shit.