Review: Lucha Underground: All Night Long…Again
Lucha Underground has returned tonight on El Rey Network for their Mid-Season Premiere. Tonight’s episode saw Lucha Underground Champion Johnny Mundo face off against challenger The Mack in an All Night Long match.
What is an All Night Long match you may be asking? Simple. It’s an Iron Man match taking place during the run time for the episode. Iron Man matches are tough to pull off. In the days where the audience was not exactly aware of the fact that what they were seeing was entertainment, pulling off hour long matches would be the norm. The biggest wrestling organization until Vince McMahon came along was the National Wrestling Alliance. They would send their champion to territories around the world facing challengers in matches that routinely went an hour. While the matches mostly ended up in a draw, the popular wrestler in a territory would end the match looking like a million bucks while the champion left town with the title.
In the modern era, Iron Man matches are tough to pull off. While some will call the Iron Man match between Shawn Michaels and Bret Hart at Wrestlemania 12 a classic, a close look at the audience will show that a large portion of the crowd made their exit during the match. Triple H and The Rock had an Iron Man match in 2000 which is only memorable for the first appearance of the American Badass version of The Undertaker. It’s tough to keep the audience interested when the crowd is aware of the fact they’re watching a show.
This was a disappointing start of the season. While shows like this are built on trying to hook the viewers to watch next week, the fact that the entire reason for this match was to determine a winner yet found a lazy way not to left me shaking my head. Lucha Underground is a great show. You can’t possibly expect a great show to hit it out of the park every episode. Unfortunately for this episode, it failed to win me over.
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