Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) is still on a limbo to return. The biggest company in Mexico is still struggling with the ambiguity of the Mexican government.
Julio Cesar River on Tuesday on CMLL Informa had this to say: “El tapete sanitizante, que te tomen la temperatura, tienes que llenar un cuestionario y todos los caminos están señalizados.” [The sanitaze ring, taking the temperature, you have to fullfil a questionare, and all of the pathways have arrows for directions.] He later inquired: “la arena ya está implementada, lista y aforada para comenzar las actividades sin público, solamente estamos esperando a las autoridades del gobierno y la comisión de la Ciudad de México.” [The arena is ready to begin wrestling without fans, we are still waiting for the government and the wrestling commission of Ciudad México.]
CMLL stopped running their shows all over the country when the Covid-19 pandemic started to get worse. The idea, for now, is running empty arenas in Mexico City.
Lucha Blog expands on the topic:
El Universal followed up with El Fantasma, who says he did receive a request to run CMLL shows from Salvador Lutteroth. He, in turn, went to the medical authorities to see what they were recommending. That’s changed. Orange health conditions were the bar to reach to allow lucha libre shows. That’s now officially pushed to yellow. (Fantasma also took a moment to criticize people who’ve been running secret shows during this time.) We’re all just waiting and watching the Friday night calendar updates.
Mexico City will stay in orange health conditions next week. They’re delaying the opening of shopping malls until Wednesday in fear of getting an uptick of cases. There had been a rumor Mexico City would skip right to green, but that never made sense: one of the requirements to get green is basically “stay safely yellow for four weeks.” We can work off that; if Mexico City doesn’t get to yellow by the July 20th update, they won’t be in green by the day of TripleMania (August 22nd), and it’ll be challenging for AAA to run. I’ve already been assuming TripleMania won’t happen on August 22nd, barring a miracle or a rash decision. July 20th is a soft deadline to when they’ll need to make a decision and maybe announce something.
This week, the Mexican government started to reopen some stores in the city, but that still a long way to go. Until August, a clear answer is still uncertain.
