Lucha Underground Was The GOAT

[Playaz Eyez]

Loved LU and it was the best wrestling show on tv for pretty much it’s whole tenure. The storylines are still burned into my head, more than a lot of WWE feuds in recent years. The amount of character investment plus quality entertaining wrestling was great.

 

[Vice Queen]

Damn shame what happened to this show because it was fukking amazing.

 

[The Amerikkkan Idol]

Yeah, that's why I made the thread
https://www.thecoli.com/threads/after-a-month-of-watching-aew-i-gotta-admit.746142/

 

[Heelish]

Did it get cancelled cancelled?

 

[Rack4K]

This may be an unpopular opinion but LU (particularly the first 2 seasons) is the best week to week wrestling show I've ever seen. Yes this includes the best RAW, Nitro etc runs too. Because it was planned ahead of time, had every match and segment mean something and had satisfying season finales and conclusions.

I don't expect people to agree because it wasn't that popular, didn't start a boom period, didn't last long, didn't have a traditional wrestling TV format, etc but I'll stand by that.

Like somebody said, there's room for another season-based wrestling show like that in the industry to this day.

 

[TheGodling]

That's really the effect of them knowing going in that their seasons were going to last a specific amount of time, and filming all of it in advance.

So, shockingly, they actually wrote their wrestling TV show.........like a TV show

Until they start planning specific seasons, no other wrestling promotion will ever get storytelling done as consistently as LU did.

I only partly agree because writing towards a season finale isn't that much different than knowing the time you have to build up from say Wrestlemania to Summer Slam. Sure, there are ppvs inbetween but they got a clear road map of where to go and when they will get there.

What did help LU is the off-time to plan all that stuff out in advance, so it also becomes easier to tweak stories and feuds around injuries that they still had to deal with.

 

[Mr. Negative]

it's the modern day GOAT

a wrestling show thats a wrestling show

like it was a kung fu tv series but with wrestling instead of kung fu.

I know I said it about NWA (which I dropped), but NO OTHER wrestling promotion made me feel like I was a kid watching wrestling more than LU.

 

[InstantKlassik]

It was great but let’s not get carried away

 

[Doctor Doom]

Anyway to watch this in 2019?

 

[HollywoodP]

Ricochet...Pentagon...Fenix...Shane Strickland...Jeff Cobb...Willie Mack...John Morrison...AR Fox...Rey Mysterio...Alberto Del Rio...Cage...Chavo...Dezmond Xavier...Sammy Guevara...Jack Swagger...Paul London...Killer Kross...Famous B...Marty The Moth...Joey Ryan...Io Shirai...Maya Iwatani...Kairi Sane...Angelico...MVP

Crazy ass roster

 

[The Amerikkkan Idol]

This may be an unpopular opinion but LU (particularly the first 2 seasons) is the best week to week wrestling show I've ever seen. Yes this includes the best RAW, Nitro etc runs too. Because it was planned ahead of time, had every match and segment mean something and had satisfying season finales and conclusions.

I don't expect people to agree because it wasn't that popular, didn't start a boom period, didn't last long, didn't have a traditional wrestling TV format, etc but I'll stand by that.

Like somebody said, there's room for another season-based wrestling show like that in the industry to this day.

That's not crazy at all.

I'd probably go with '97 WCW, but it's not that far off at all.

I mean, Lucha had me excited by Sexy Star vs Mariposa like it was Mankind & The Undertaker or something.

 

[Mr. Negative]

Chavo...

 

[Bryan Danielson]

Our boy Cueto was on Curb tonight

 

[Metal Face]

Show kind of fell off for me a bit middle season but I miss the vibe of it

 

[Doctor Doom]

Watched Season 1 and that shyt was legitimately

Mil Muertes/Penta/Fenix are prolly my favorites on there.

(Spoiled myself and watched the Killshot vs Dante Fox from ULIII, and I dont regret it.)