Ultima Lucha: Lucha Underground’s 2-Part Season Finale. Main Event: Prince Puma vs Mil Muertes

In a night of wrestling, Lucha Underground delivered with its first night of Ultima Lucha. The show opened with a killer Falls Count Anywhere match between The Mac and “The Machine” known as Cage, with weapons placed throughout the temple. It followed up with a Tornado Trios Tag Team championship match pitting the defending champions Son of Havoc, Ivelisse, and Angélico vs The Disciples of Death. And the night finished off with Drago and Hernandez in a “Believers’ Backlash”: Think of a typical lumberjack match, but with fans holding leather straps and wailing on Hernandez whenever he was outside the ring.

Ultima Lucha: Night One brought a sense of finality between The Mac and Cage, and Drago and Hernandez storylines; and a twist to the trios title scene. It’s fantastic exactly what a pay-per-view should be, a series of matches culminating in a big payoff. And next week, Ultima Lucha will conclude in a 2-hour season finale with Prince Puma defending the Lucha Underground championship against Mil Muertes.

The concept of a wrestling show running on seasons is unheard of because it has always been an all-year-round gig with no off-seasons (as WWE has phrased). Even Steve Austin on The Steve Austin Show was perplexed because he believes that the product should be on every week so as not to run the risk of losing its audience. Plus it gives the boys a steady paycheck.

As a wrestling addict, the thought of not seeing Lucha Underground for the next couple of months is devastating. But it does allow a reprieve for the writers to come up with more storylines to keep the product fresh. Next season it is rumored that ECW-WCW-WWE famed Rey Mysterio, Jr., will compete in the temple. We’ve seen his battles with Johnny Mundo (John Morrison) and Alberto El Patron (Alberto Del Rio) in WWE; imagine Rey paired up against King Cuerno, Cage or Mil Muertes?

Lucha Underground, to me, is the best of both worlds: it has phenomenal wrestling and entertaining storylines. Although some of the storylines are a little out there, meaning that you kind of have to give in to the supernatural. But if fans have been able to follow Paul Bearer controlling The Undertaker with a mystical urn, then Catrina controlling Mil Muertes, and the Disciples of Death, with a mystical stone shouldn’t be that big of a leap of faith.

Again, Ultima Lucha will culminate on Wednesday, August 5. The silent champion Prince Puma will indeed be the underdog going into his title defense. Throughout the whole season of Lucha Underground, Puma, as the inaugural champion, has defended it against the likes of Cage, King Cuerno, Johnny Mundo, Drago, Hernandez, and Chavo Guerrero. But Mil Muertes is definitely his gravest challenge to date. And with his mentor Konan locked away in Mil’s coffin, Puma will be alone. And if the Trios championship match from Night One has shown us, the odds are against you when Catrina is around.

Will Lucha Underground end its season with a new champion, or will Prince Puma prove why he is the temple’s greatest warrior?

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Prince Puma’s Gravest Challenge

Before we jump into the crazy world of professional wrestling, I want to congratulate The Patriots on winning this year’s Super Bowl. In an ending that baffled and ticked off Seahawks fans – including Daniel Bryan and Brie Bella – many are calling it the worst ending in Super Bowl history. Similar sentiments were felt at the conclusion of last week’s Royal Rumble event, which if you haven’t read “Didn’t Like the Royal Rumble? Better Call Paul” you should definitely go back and read it as wrestling fans attempt to change the fate of this year’s WrestleMania.

Following the events of Aztec Warfare, the Lucha Underground champion Prince Puma has had a tough road in the temple, proving himself as a champion, while adding prestige to the promotion’s first title. But the inaugural champion has hit a massive road block as The Machine known as Cage has targeted Prince Puma and the Lucha Underground championship. The charm that Lucha Underground has is a very old school sense of storytelling.

Reminiscent of when Shawn Michaels went into his first WWE championship match, Prince Puma went into Aztec Warfare under the tutelage of Mexican legend Konan and–against 19 other luchas–came out on top as the Lucha Underground champion. And as the white-meat babyface champion, Prince Puma took on all comers including the challenge from Fenix. But as soon as one challenge was met, another suddenly emerged. The King Kong Bundy to Hulk Hogan’s championship reign if you will, The Machine known as Cage decimated Puma with powerhouse moves and demanded a championship match. Amd even though Cage has a clear weight advantage and is noticeably much stronger, Prince Puma doesn’t back down.

Much like the early days of WWE, Lucha Underground is feeding Puma his first monster heel. Despite the statistics that would argue that Puma doesn’t have a snowball’s chance of defeating the much larger Cage, it’s the heart of a champion and of a lucha that rallies the support of the fans, and gives the champion the strength needed to overcome adversity. But all the warrior pride in the world cannot block a shot to the grapefruits.

Cage was on the losing end of that championship match and needed to keep his heat going. So from the pages of “The Dirtiest Player in the Game” Ric Flair, Cage went for the low blow: standard heel tactic. He then attacked the Mexican legend Konan: average heel tactic. And finally, he ripped apart the Lucha Underground championship: SUPERHUMAN heel tactic!

Frankly, as cool as it might have been on paper to have the monster heel rip apart the promotion’s championship, the Lucha Underground title shouldn’t have been ripped apart because it made the title look cheap. With gold plates supposedly melted down from Aztec gold, the insides of the title itself looked as legit as Damien Mizdow’s stunt title.

After such a humiliating beat down, how will Prince Puma enforce his status as a champion without a championship?

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