Kevin’s Ultima Lucha Dos Part Two Review

Part two of the huge Ultima Lucha season finale!

Gift of the Gods Championship: Sexy Star def. Daga, Killshot, Mariposa, Marty Martinez, Night Claw and Siniestro de la Muerte in 26:08
Unlike last year, this is elimination. Night Claw is the only guy to get an entrance, as he is making his debut. The interpersonal rivals are an early focal point as Sexy Star and Mariposa go at it while Killshot and Martinez fight outside. As you would expect, this had a ton of fast paced action and so much going on. Night Claw eliminated Siniestro at 2:55, which was surprising. Kobra Moon watched her boo Daga from the rafters. Daga got a big match after the break as did Sexy Star and Marty on dives. Marty is pretty agile for his size. Daga and Marty had great back and forth at one point. Night Claw got another elimination, sending Daga home at 10:55. He also climbed atop Dario’s office and hit a goddamn moonsault off of it onto everyone else! By the way, I believe Night Claw is the legit brother of Fenix and Pentagon Jr. Killshot took out Mariposa with a DVD on the apron before hitting an impressive cutter on Marty. Night Claw missed a phoenix splash so Killshot eliminated him with a storm cradle driver at 14:33. Sexy and Killshot teamed up against the butterfly siblings. Marty and Mariposa took out Sexy before Mariposa ended Killshot with the vertebreaker at 16:41. Down 2 on 1, Sexy was in trouble. There is a storm here so I lost connection to my Fubo.tv app for a while. I missed Mariposa’s elimination but it came back on in time to see Sexy Star make Marty tap out to an armbar and win. Really fun match and a great bookend to the Sexy/Marty angle that began last year. ***3/4

We got some angle advancement where Joey Ryan and Cortez Castro are setting up Mr. Cisco with a wire. He’s got to get info on Dario Cueto to clear himself of all charges.

Death Match: Mil Muertes w/ Catrina def. King Cuerno in 13:48
Like any good rivalry like this, these two just came out of the gates fighting. This was just a war exactly how it needed to be. They brought chairs into play and went to battled in the crowd. Hell, they even fought up where the band always plays and beat each other up with instruments. Things moved back to the ring but not for long. They climbed the stairs, where Cuerno put Muertes’ head through the window. Mil no sold it and did it back to him. I love how, two seasons in, they still find new, innovative ways to do things around the Temple. Cuerno made the mistake of going after Catrina, leading to a powerbomb through a table. Mil really seemed pissed, so he did a second and then a third! Not done, Muertes leveled Cuerno with a crowbar and then used a sick looking tombstone to win. Muertes was awesome throughout all of season two and this was another good performance. They didn’t quite reach the levels of Muertes/Fenix but this was a lot of fun and really well done. ***1/2

Matt Striker spoke about Pentagon Jr. beating Vampiro in Cero Miedo last week. He mentioned that Vampiro has distanced himself from being Pnetagon’s master at times. Vamp poured out all of his pills into the garbage and said it was time to go get his student ready for next week before walking off.

Dario Cueto was shown in his office when Mr. Cisco came in. He wanted in on whatever it is that the boss was doing. Dario was suspicious and quickly figured out that he was wearing a wire. Dario took the wire and shouted into it that the cops could come get him if they wanted. Ryan and Castro were shown listening. Dario broke the microphone before saying that the cops are gonna want him for murder and then proceeds to MURDER MR. CISCO WITH A THE BULL STATUS THAT MATANZA KILLED THEIR MOM WITH! I fucking love Dario. He got on the phone afterwards and all we heard was “it’s time.”

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8.0

The final score: review Very Good

The 411

Neither match tonight was MOTY level, though I really enjoyed the entire program. The Gift of the Gods match took up a big chunk of the time, moved along quickly and was a very fun match. The main event was strong and then the Dario angle was great. Add in Vampiro being great as the show closed was also a highlight.