Dead The Sports Guy
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| Subject: Sin Cara suspension’s affect on lucha libre Mon 18 Jul 2011, 4:12 pm | |
| It’s cloudy right where I’m at right now, but it’s been a pretty illuminating day. Sin Cara has been suspended by WWE for a violation of their drug policy. WON believes he failed a steroid test in early June. This has quite a ripple effect.
- Sin Cara may not be staying with WWE. Don’t know
any more than that, but the WON report mentions it as a possibility. WWE did seem to protect him at the PPV, but did not seem to protect him by releasing his real name. (Which I’ve already had to take off the wiki once, thanks.)
- If Sin Cara left WWE, he’d be immediately scooped up by AAA. I’d
presume they’ve got or are getting an offer ready for him right now. They’ve been planning for this since he went to WWE, just in case they had a chance. There’s almost no chance he’d return to CMLL, though he could do the independent thing for a while. His name is going to be an entire issue in itself, and there’s no telling what this will do to his image in Mexico. (Rey Misterio’s PED suspension appeared to have no long term affect on him.)
It’d be very easy for WWE to write off bringing in Mexican luchadors if Sin Cara left after this. They’re still going to want another Rey Misterio or a replacement one, but this would be a disaster of epic proportions and might sour WWE on at least reaching out of the country for a Latino wrestler. I can’t believe Sin Cara and WWE are leaving, because they benefit from that relationship more than any other. But something needs to be fixed.
- Averno is staying in CMLL – for a great deal longer, if he’s even still going. Don’t
need Mistico’s opponent if Mistico isn’t going to be around for 30 days. He should be feuding with Sheamus when he returns, though WWE isn’t really consistent about those sorts of things, so maybe WWE doesn’t need him for longer. Since Averno’s whole purpose in WWE is to work with Sin Cara, he’s not going to be brought in if Sin Cara is gone, and Sin Cara might have lost the privilege of naming his favorite opponent. It’s really great Averno has been awesome as a unmasked rudo in CMLL, because he may be one for a while to come. It’s also great that he hasn’t appeared to burn any bridges on the way out – he’s made every date, he’s made Mascara look good, and he’s added greatly to the program. CMLL would be a fool to punish him right now, and they know it, because they gave the Avernos the trios titles.
- CMLL has known about his for a while.
Maybe not known Sin Cara was suspended, but obviously known Averno was going to be around for a lot longer. And – they managed to keep it a secret this time! Good work, everyone!
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