Wrestling fans there is without a shadow of a doubt that the biggest pro wrestling company in the wold is very easily the WWE and as such there are very little to no alternative companies to the WWE out since of of course AEW , ROH Impact Wrestling. As such we really do have to be watch out because you never really know when there's going to be an alternative to the WWE out there and well in 2014 we actually got another alternative to the WWE and so join me as I review the October 29th 2014 episode (which is also the very first episode) of the wrestling show and the wrestling promotion that was being called simply just "Lucha Underground" enjoy.
The biggest and only storyline that we had going into and running all throughout this debut episode of Lucha Underground is that Lucha Undergrounds owner Dario Cueto is offering a staggering $100,000 American dollars to the wrestler who impresses him the most on that particular night. Now then I will very fully admit that as intriguing as this story sounds the makers of Lucha Underground don't really do that much with it in this particular episode outside of teasing things that happen in future / later episodes which is a shame because this storyline is a fine enough storyline for a debut episode but when you do the bare minimum with it the storyline just comes across as looking weak which pure and simply just isn't the case here with this particular storyline in my opinion anyways / at least.
The set for Lucha Underground is meant to look like an Aztec Temple but to me at least this set just looks like a dirty and grimy looking warehouse. I'm a fan of minimalistic wrestling stage sets since there is a certain charm to those kids of wrestling stage sets that being said however the sets still have to look like what the intended inspiration is and since the inspiration for this set is an Aztec Temple you'd think that the makers of this show would go out of there way to make sure that this set looks like an actual Aztec Temple but nope the makers of this show clearly chose not to put in the actual effort that would required to make an Aztec Temple inspired set instead they chose to just put a few Lucha Underground posters , some lights and wrestling ring up in some building and call it a day which just makers the makers of this show look lazy and unprofessional in my opinion anyways / at least.
Now then I will very fully admit that at least in this episode of Lucha Underground since there's not really alot there in the set to begin with and so it really wouldn't take much effort in order for the wrestlers that are competing on this very show to make the most of the set. However with that being said I did find it rather weird that this set doesn't have a traditional stage setup with no titantron or anything like that / of the sort.
Now then unlike the WWE Lucha Ground made great use of a more filmic style look for it's backstage promos which is honestly something that I think helped set Lucha Underground apart from all of the other wrestling promotions that were out there in 2014. I honestly really do like the fact that Lucha Underground went with this more filmic style approach to it's backstage promos since it adds to the overall production value of the Lucha Underground show as a freaking whole in my opinion anyways / at least.
Now then this show does indeed feature a fairly controversial wrestler with the wrestler in question being called of course simply just Sexy Star. Now then incase your wondering what it is exactly that makes Sexy Star such a controversial wrestler it's because at Triplemanía XXV Sexy Star was in a match against Rosemary and during the match Sexy Star would apply an unplanned armbar onto Rosemary which would then of course lead to Rosemary being legitimately injured.
I will very fully admit that I don't know much about the incident with Rosemary since i've not seen the match nor have I done that much reading up on either the incident in question or the match in question and as such I can't give that much of an opinion on the incident or the match in question. However if this is indeed true then it's really bad thing that Sexy Star did since when your a wrestler you would never ever go out to deliberately injure your opponent regardless of how you personally about your opponent however this could have been a simply case of either miscommunication or it could have been simply a case of Rosemary forgetting that there was an armbar spot planned for the match but in all honesty the only three people who will ever know the truth or both Sexy Star herself , Rosemary herself and the referee.
Rather shockingly there was only three wrestling matches on this whole card which for your debuting episode isn't really a good thing at all in my opinion anyways / at least. Since in my opinion anyways / at least you should have a good decent amount of wrestling matches on your debuting show just to get people more interested in watching the show and plus if you had alot more wrestling matches on your debuting episode it would then allow your storyline for this episode to mean something because of the fact that you'll be seeing more wrestlers competing to earn that freaking huge $100,000 American dollar prize money.
This episode of Lucha Underground had a grand total running time of exactly forty three minuets and nineteen seconds and which if i'm being well and truly very freaking honest here people this episode could and more importantly should have been alot longer. Since this show is a new wrestling show and so they have to try and convince people that they should be watching Lucha Underground instead of any of the other wrestling based shows that were on in 2014 and plus with this show having an incredibly short running time alot of the matches that are in the card of this show are very short and thus the wrestlers that are wrestling in those incredibly short matches aren't given the best opportunity to show what it is that they can do and tell a good story at the same time because they have to hit all of these match beats in their respective matches in such an incredibly short amount of time but that's just what I think anyways and that's just in my very humble and as well as being in my very honest opinion anyways / at least.
Now then since this show is a wrestling based show after all and that does infact mean that are some actual wrestling matches n this wrestling based show and that infact means that I have to actually talk about the actual wrestling that's featured / presented to us in this actual / very episode and well in my opinion anyways / at least that the wrestling that's featured / presented to us in this actual / very episode is really good. This is because in my opinion anyways / at least this debuting episode has alot of really good wrestlers competing in wrestling matches and heck it was the main event of this very / particular / actual episode that actually reminded me of how good of wrestler John Hannagan AKA Johnny Nitro AKA John Morrison AKA Johnny Mundo really is since his match with Prince Puma is very easily the best match of the night / in this actual / very episode in my opinion anyways / at least.
Overall in terms of just debuting wrestling episodes this wasn't that bad of an episode since you do get a feel for what this promotion and for what this show is / was about but at the same time it's still not that good of an episode for all of the reasons that I mentioned / listed in this review and then some. Now i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very / actual episode in this very review and as such that means that this very / actual episode gets a grand score of a 6.5 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I got all of the images that I used in this review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I used in this very review from the official Pro Wrestling fandom wiki page and nowhere else and since I only went to the official Pro Wrestling fandom wiki page and nowhere else for the images that I personally did infact end up using in this review. I have no choice but to say that my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this actual / very / particular episode is infact the official Pro Wrestling fandom wiki page this is because the official the Pro Wrestling fandom wiki page actually and rather shockingly has alot of images from this episode and plus all of the images that I personally used and that I personally found and that are also currently up and on / featured on the official Pro Wrestling fandom wiki page are all fairly high in quality and as well as being fairly high in definition.