Lucha Underground TV Results
Taped at “The Temple” of Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, California
Aired on June 17, 2015 on the El Rey Network
Report by ProWrestling.net
This week’s intro video was based around the motivation and progression of the Johnny Mundo rudo turn. This video ended with Dario Cueto rewarding Johnny Mundo for his character change, with an Ironman Match for the Lucha Underground Championship on this week’s episode.
No more Ryobacks this week; The band known as Mexican Dubwiser poured in the smooth Latin beats for tonight. These beats were enough to pump up Vampiro again who was joined by the Sexy Matt Striker (vamp’s words not mine). Striker went straight to business by laying down the rules to the Iron Man Match that was going to happen “All Night Long”.
Johnny Mundo and Prince Puma were already in the ring to quickly start things off (obviously we’re not getting one hour since three minutes already passed). “PP” and “JM” were put in the bottom left corner of the screen to show the amount of pinfalls Prince Puma and Johnny Mundo accumulated.
1. Prince Puma vs. Johnny Mundo in a show-long Iron Man Match for the Lucha Underground Championship. Both luchadores stared holes into each other to start the match. Prince Puma extended his hand in respect for Mundo, and Mundo aggressively and respectfully obliged to the handshake. Mundo won the initial lockup with a drop toehold, but puma quickly linked in some countering chain wrestling moves. Mundo broke up the chain with a spinebuster and quickly went for a pin attempt. Mundo and Puma had another long staredown. Puma tried to target Mundo’s left leg, but Mundo eek out an enziguri.
Matt Striker noted that Konnan wasn’t in Puma’s corner this week and Vampiro continued to hate on Konnan like usual. Prince Puma lad a headlock during this time. Puma escaped with a shoulderblock and did some slick dodges to Mundo’s running attack. Mundo managed to send Puma to the outside with a roundhouse. Mundo missed on a corkscrew plancha, only plancha-ing air. Puma jumped quickly on the dizzied Johnny Mundo with a corkscrew plancha that was twice as fast as Mundo’s. Puma soaked in some cheers to send us to commercial. [C]
Puma was in the middle of a pin attempt when we came back, to no avail. A clock popped up on the screen saying that the match was timing in at about 33:43, counting down. Mundo escaped a fireman carry roundhouse. Puma escaped the moonlight drive, but took a forearm. After running the ropes, Prince Puma performed a bodyscissors rollup out of nowhere for the first pinfall in the match.
Prince Puma scored the first pinfall of the match to earn a 1-0 lead.
Puma and Mundo rested for a bit. Vampiro claimed that the ref did a fast count. Johnny Mundo hit a quick gut kick and neckbreaker. Puma kicked out of several pin attempts. Mundo moved his offense to a keylock and judo legsweep. Puma ended the offense of Mundo with a high dropkick. Mundo kicked out of a pin attempt of his own. prince Puma landed a standing shooting star, leading to a two count.
Mundo was shaken up a bit by a Puma kick. Mundo caught an incoming Prince Puma with a springboard dropkick. Puma kicked out of the following pin attempt. Johnny Mundo focused his current attack on the left arm of Prince Puma. Mundo also used this left arm to get shortarm kicks and strikes. Puma escaped the shortarm hold and hit a running cutter on Mundo. Puma tackled and kicked Mundo in the corner.
Mundo dodged a crossbody and tried to hit Fin De Mundo (Starship Pain). Puma dodged the pain but Johnny Mundo did an illegal pin attempt with his entire top half using the ropes as leverage. The ref didn’t catch the cheating and gave Johnny Mundo the tainted point. Johnny Mundo quickly rolled out of the ring to recover sending us to commercial. [C]
Johnny Mundo gained the second pinfall to tie the match at 1-1.
28:00 was the number on the screen telling us the time left in this match. Prince Puma started off with the schoolboy pin that didn’t work. Johnny Mundo tried a pin after a backbreaker legsweep. Johnny Mundo hit his signature running knee to the head of Prince Puma to get another two count. Johnny Mundo tried to hit a superplex on Prince Puma. After fighting on the second rope with punches, both men had a temporary stalemate. Puma jumped over the turnbuckle to send Mundo to the ground with a hurricanrana. Johnny Mundo crawled under the ring to pull out a wooden box and a chair.
Matt Striker quickly used Mundo crawling under the ring to make a Hornswoggle joke. Puma escaped a powerbomb on the wooden box and reversed into a Michinoku Driver, planting Mundo into the wooden box which shattered. Prince Puma stood up a bit shaken up after the move. Johnny Mundo found a crowbar and regained the advantage. Mundo nailed Puma in the head or shoulder with the (hopefully gimmicked) crowbar. Mundo dragged Puma in the ring and gained the next pinfall
Johnny Mundo scored another pinfall to take the lead at 1-2.
Johnny Mundo waited a bit for Prince Puma to get up and planted him with the Moonlight Drive for another quick pinfall.
Johnny Mundo scored another pinfall to lead at 1-3.
Johnny Mundo hollered in victory. Johnny Mundo hit Prince Puma with a beautiful disaster kick to put him in position for the Fin De Mundo, which he successfully hit. Johnny Mundo gained another visual pinfall.
Johnny Mundo scored another pinfall to lead at 1-4.
Johnny Mundo started gloating and flexing in the ring. Johnny Mundo told a ringside assistant that “I’m parched”. Johnny Mundo got a bottle of water to quench his thirst and wet his hair. Prince Puma laid prone in the ring while Johnny was on his water break. Striker and Vampiro started to worry about Prince Puma’s health. Johnny Mundo hit Prince Puma with the same water bottle of doom spot that R-Truth hit Mundo with once upon a time ago.
Johnny Mundo teased a corner splash on Puma, but Puma got some kicks in. Puma rolled the ground a bit to hit Mundo with a jumping DDT. Johnny Mundo and Puma fought on the apron a bit until Mundo hit a neckbreaker on Puma, on the ring apron. [C]
Johnny Mundo dragged out a giant ladder from under the ring with the match having 20:00 left on the clock. Prince Puma was met in the face with Mundo’s long ladder. Mundo took the ladder to get to the balcony of the Temple. Before he scaled it, Mundo set up a table beside it. This took several minutes, Mundo wanted to set up two neatly. Johnny Mundo went over to soften Prince Puma again to allow Puma to be set on the dual table setup.
Johnny Mundo scaled the ladder to reach the top of the grungy “balcony” area. Prince Puma recovered and didn’t use a ladder by climbing up the crossbeam metal to meet Mundo on the top. Prince Puma and Johnny Mundo fought in the crowd with Puma having the advantage. Puma suplexed Johnny Mundo on the top of the seating area, letting out an obvious thud. Prince Puma added a third table to the top of Mundo’s Dual table setup. Vampiro was hungry for pain. Prince Puma put a fourth table into the mix.
Prince Puma tried to Superplex mundo into the table structure, Mundo superkicked Prince Puma to the ground, missing the tables. Johnny Mundo parkoured his way to meet up with Mexican Budweiser. Mundo grabbed their mic and told everyone “Hola”. He also told everyone of his match lead. Mundo told the band to start playing music. Matt Stryker said the leader of Dubweiser was M. Bison.
Prince Puma tried to climb the ladder while Mundo was wetting his hair again. Mundo threw some of the water down on the climbing Puma. Mundo tried to use a wooden plank to hit Puma but puma stole the plank from him. Prince Puma grounded Mundo with the plank. M. Bison gave Prince Puma a Mexican guitar. Prince Puma hit Mundo in the head with the Mexican Guitar. Somewhere out there, Jeff Jarrett is smiling.
When both men recovered, but Prince Puma Psycho crushered Johnny Mundo from the top of the band area to the table structure a story down. (if Striker can make an M. Bison reference, I can be allowed to in regards to this spear right?). Striker made an audible “Oh, shit!” comment in regards to the spear. This took us to commercial when both men laid motionless in the mountain of debris. [C]
Prince Puma was the first one up. Johnny Mundo had a bloody head. Prince Puma tried to drag Mundo to the ring, but stumbled due to the fatigue. Prince Puma eventually got Mundo back in the ring after some struggling. Prince Puma gained the next pinfall.
Prince Puma scored the pinfall to trail 2-4.
Prince Puma and Johnny Mundo traded punches on their knees. Both luchadores struggled to stay on their feet when the punching became standing. Puma dodged the springboard roundhouse. Puma spun his way into a spinning roundhouse. Prince Puma hit Mundo with his fireman carry Pele Kick. Puma planted Mundo with a spinning Michinoku Driver to score another pinfall for himself.
Prince Puma scored another pinfall to trail 3-4.
Prince Puma got to his feet first with the rallying of the crowd. Johnny Mundo escaped a roundhouse from Puma by ducking out to the outside. Mundo played cat-and-mouse with Puma because he had the lead. Puma and Mundo utilized their parkour to chase each other around the arena. Johnny Mundo hid behind Vampiro and Striker. Puma eventually caught Puma with a feint kick on the apron to put him in position for a top rope move. Johnny Mundo rolled away, making Puma’s Phoenix Splash, only hitting air.
Johnny Mundo slowly walked to the top of the concourse. Johnny Mundo was met by a clothesline from another competitor at the top. That man was Alberto El Patron. El Patron kicked Mundo down the steps. Five minutes flashed on the clock as Alberto beat up Johnny ringside. Mundo was put back in the ring to allow Prince Puma to hit Mundo with a springboard 450 Splash. Prince Puma scored the pinfall.
Prince Puma tied the match up at 4-4.
Alberto El Patron grabbed the mic and said “Los Angeles! El Patron is IN THE HOUSEEEEEEEE!”. Alberto told “the perro” Johnny Mundo that this match looks even right now, but his troubles with El Patron were far from even. He said if Mundo walked away with the title tonight, he was going to be around to kick Mundo’s ass, and take the title. He then told Puma that if Puma won, just to be ready for a matchup between Alberto and Puma; but “of course, you already knew that” [wink]. 3:30 was ticking down at this point.
Johnny Mundo let out a barbaric yell, and spinebustered Puma against the turnbuckle. Johnny Mundo clubbed on Puma with punches in the corner. Puma tried a rollup, Mundo escaped. Mundo tried a backslide pin, Puma escaped. Puma tried a sunset flip, Mundo countered into a rollup and failed. Mundo hit his signature running knee. Puma kicked out of the nearfall. Vampiro was energized with two minutes on the clock. Mundo escaped the fireman carry.
Johnny Mundo countered a Puma armdrag with a standing moonsault sideslam for a nearfall that invoked a “Lucha!” chant. Johnny Mundo put Prince Puma on the top rope as the crowd had dueling “Let’s go Puma”, “Puma Sucks” chants. Mundo tried to hit Puma with a frankensteiner but Puma escaped to the other turnbuckle. One minute started to tick down.
Both luchadores struggled to get up at around thirty seconds. Prince Puma hit a front dropkick nailing Johnny Mundo with the 630 with ten seconds on the clock.
Prince Puma scored the final pinfall over Johnny Mundo with less than ten seconds remaining to retain the Lucha Underground Championship.
Johnny Mundo writhed on the ground in frustration of losing the close match. Matt Striker sold idea of Prince Puma taking things up another level in this epic matchup. Prince Puma stood in the middle of the ring holding his belt high over his head, as far as his fatigued knees would allow. This would end this week’s Lucha Underground.
