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Dralistico responding to someone about not being on AEW Grand Slam Mexico card (translation inside) (infosec.pub)

submitted 2 months ago by GeekFTW@lemmy.zip to c/squaredcircle@lemmy.zip

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"These are CMLL policies and rules that must be respected 🤷🏻‍♂️ We are happy where we are. If tomorrow AEW sends us to defend the flag, we will gladly do so. In the meantime, an apology to all the fans who thought LFI would be at that event"

A surprisingly level-headed response, good to see!

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[–] ImADifferentBird@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Worth noting that Hologram and Kommander were advertised for the show (though Kommander obviously won't make it with the injury), so this is pretty much just a grudge against LFI at this point.

And yeah, I have to applaud Dralistico here for being the bigger man.

[–] GeekFTW@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

More of a grudge against Rush if anything, CMLL ain't never gonna forgive him lol

Neither Hologram nor Komander have histories of bad blood with CMLL (that i know of at least but I've been wrong before), meanwhile for Rush and fam per Luchablog:

Rush quit CMLL directly after winning the ROH World champion in a Twitter video to promote his YouTube channel.. CMLL responded by firing Rush & Dragon Lee in a press release. Rush stopped appearing on CMLL shows four weeks earlier and both sides knew they were headed to a breakup. Rush admitted he was breaking just about every rule CMLL had and wasn’t happy there. There were ways where they could’ve parted ways amiably, but Rush instead quit in a manner trying to maximum attention at the cost of his relationship with CMLL. It’s likely CMLL still holds a grudge about all of that.

The Rush split happened shortly after Salvador Lutteroth III replaced Sofia Alonso as the most powerful executive in CMLL. Rush claimed in CMLL he would’ve stayed if Paco Alonso had still been alive and likely if Sofia Alonso had still be there. Rush also mentioned he discussed a new contract with Salvador Lutteroth twice without coming to an agreement. I think CMLL wouldn’t give Rush what he wanted out of a new deal, but Rush publicly questioning the new leader and saying the old ones were better may have made it personal.

Rush attempted to start a new promotion, Federation Wrestling in 2021. The promotion imploded without running a single show, but still left a scar. Rush bringing in ROH wrestlers ended CMLL’s working relationship with that promotion. (I guess it’s back tonight.) Rush and his allies also quietly worked to convince CMLL wrestlers of note to leave that promotion and join his. Rush has since denied any involvement with Federation Wrestling beyond appearing as a talent, but no one really believes him on this one. Even though no CMLL wrestler actually ended up leaving, CMLL said this as an attempted talent raid of their roster, and that makes Rush a forever enemy of the state. Reasonably, they figure the only thing stopping Rush from trying to steal talent again is finding another weird money guy to pay for it. Rush is considered a bad influence and CMLL doesn’t want bad influences around their wrestlers.

Dralistico just catches strays as he's Rush's brother and may not be held to the same 'fuck him' standards that CMLL Is holding Rush to, but being his brother they probably don't wanna open the doors for either to keep it simple. Dralistico putting out the comment also probably helps to attempt to smooth things over and show respect since both Rush and CMLL won't wanna be the one to make the first go at it, and he finished his contract out with CMLL like he was supposed to instead of jumping ship with the ol 'fuck you'.