Lucha Underground Recap: Cage Commits Homicide!

4 matches in the 1st round of the Cueto Cup aired on last night’s Lucha Underground episode. Additionally, a murder took place in the show’s final scene.

Lucha Underground
S03E22
Boyle Heights, LA

• Pentagon Jr. walks into Dario Cueto’s office in the show’s opening scene. He says he is all healed up and ready to come back.
• Cueto offers him a spot in the Cueto Cup, with a match that night.
• Pentagon accepts but says that if he doesn’t win Aztec gold, he is going to break his bones.

1. Cueto Cup 1st Round Match
Mala Suerte (Rabbit Tribe) vs. the Mack

• This was a back and forth match, with Suerte getting a surprising amount of offence in.
• Mack hit a pounce and then a stunner and got the 3 count.

Winner: the Mack

• In the back, Cage is lifting weights and admiring his new robotic hand that gives him super strength.
• Cueto tells him that a city councillor, a powerful man, wants to meet with him.
• Cage first tells Cueto he isn’t interested, but then ends up taking his card.

2. Cueto Cup 1st Round Match
Pentagon Dark vs. Argenis

• Pentagon Jr. got the bulk of the offence here, but Argenis was also given time to get his offence in.
• Pentagon hit the package pildriver and pinned him.

Winner: Pentagon Dark

• After the match Pentagon looked as though he was just going to leave the ring, but old habits die hard. He walked over to Argenis and gave him his arm-breaker, seemingly breaking his arm.

3. Cueto Cup 1st Round Match
Texano vs. Famous B w/Brenda

• Famous B and Brenda were dressed up in western gear, and B cut a promo before the match. He told Texano he wanted to manage him and would do the right thing and lay down so he could pin him.
• Texano started to pin him but stopped the count at 2. Texano gave him a sit down powerbomb and then pinned him.

Winner: Texano

• A video hyping up the Lucha Underground championship match between Rey Mysterio Jr. and Johnny Mundo aired.

4. Cueto Cup 1st Round
Drago w/Kobra Moon (Reptile Tribe) vs. Aerostar

• Drago was led to the ring in a collar and chain by Kobra Moon, after having joined the Reptile tribe last week.
• Kobra Moon would get involved frequently during this match, allowing Drago to go on offence.
• Aerostar attempted to steal Drago’s Dragon’s Lair, but Drago countered it into his own version of the move and got the 3 count.

Winner: Drago

• After the match, Drago beat down Aerostar on order of Kobra Moon.
• Commentary played up how conflicted Drago looked during the match.

Cage vs. City Councilman Delgado Scene

• Cage arrives at the councilman’s office. Delgado tells him he can never take the glove off, and Cage doesn’t object.
• Delgado then starts to say that Cage works for him, and Cage didn’t like that. He continued that Cage would soon have power beyond his dreams and that they would work together. Cage grabbed him by the throat and pushed him against the wall, though moments later composed himself and apologized.
• Delgado accepted the apology, but then said Cage was still “acting like a man”.
• This angered Cage and he reared back and punched the guy. The camera panned out to reveal guts and blood on Cage’s hand and arm.
• Cage said “I’m not a man, I’m a machine!”
• He then stepped over a headless councilman’s body, stepped on an eyeball, and left the office.