Worst in the World: Dos Caras, Rayo de Jalisco Jr., and Villano IV vs El Canek and Los Hermanos Dinamitas-CMLL Leyendas Mexicanas 2017

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In recent years, WWE has received criticism for its reliance on old stars on their shows. Specifically, with their Saudi Arabia propaganda events, WWE has routinely booked their aging wrestlers to go out and wrestle despite being well past their primes. While this doesn't seem to have negatively affected the active members of the roster not named Bray Wyatt, the matches are still borderline unbearable, with two of these matches (DX vs Brothers of Destruction at Crown Jewel 2018 and The Undertaker vs Goldberg at Super ShowDown 2019) being considered the worst matches of their respective years. With that being said, WWE can't even hold a candle to the use of aging wrestlers in Mexico. AAA's version of WrestleMania, Triplemanía XXVII, featured the main event of Blue Demon Jr. (53) vs Dr. Wagner Jr. (54) for a combined age of 107. That would be the equivalent of that Undertaker-Goldberg match main eventing WrestleMania. However, the match that takes the cake in the use of the elderly wrestlers department has to be from Leyendas Mexicanas 2017.

Produced by CMLL, famous for where you send'em to get polished up and learn a lucha libre, Leyendas Mexicanas is an annual show centered on celebrating the history of lucha libre and features legends returning for matches. The main event of the 2017 edition saw the team of Dos Caras (the brother of legendary luchador Mil Máscaras and father of former WWE Champion and piece of shit Alberto Del Rio), Rayo de Jalisco Jr, and Villano IV (last seen on the Worst in the World when the Villanos faced Los Psycho Circus at TripleMania XXIII) take on the team of El Canek and brothers Cien Caras (no relation to Dos) and Máscara Año 2000 of Los Hermanos Dinamitas in a traditional lucha libre rules six-man tag, meaning it's two out of three falls and you need to get a fall on each member of each team to get the actual fall. I think that's the rule, I've tried looking it up but I haven't found anything to confirm that, so I might be wrong. The combined age of everyone in this match: 367. To put that in perspective, the youngest person in this match, Villano IV at 52, is only one year younger than the oldest person in the DX-Brothers of Destruction match, the Undertaker at 53. The oldest person in this match, Cien Caras, was 68 at the time. It doesn't get much older than this.

Now, I don't always talk about entrances, but I feel like these entrances are alarming considering what kind of show we are watching. After Dos Caras' team makes their entrances, El Canek comes out from the back along with a small child in a mask, who Canek is seemingly holding onto for dear life.

It is painfully apparent that that child is there so El Canek doesn't fall over coming down the steps. This man is about to wrestle a professional wrestling match and he is having difficulty walking down the stairs. That is not good. Cien Caras doesn't fare much better, walking down the stairs at a pace so slow that Albert Pujols would be jealous. Again, these men are about to wrestle a professional wrestling match.

Jalisco and Cien Caras start the match by playing up the crowd and then teasing a lock-up before Caras gets out of the ring. After literally not touching once, Villano IV and Máscara Año 2000 tag in and lock up, over two minutes after the match started. The two chain wrestle slowly, with Villano able to get a takedown followed by an arm drag. Dos Caras and El Canek tag in and continue the trend of slow chain wrestling with lots of pauses. The two go back and forth before shaking hands and tagging Jalisco and Cien Caras back in. Caras hits the first strike before kicking Jalisco. Caras goes for either a clothesline or a knee, neither of which connect but Jalisco sells anyway. Caras appears to go for another...whatever that was...but Jalisco catches him with a knee, followed by a dropkick in which Jalisco manages to get about 1cm at most off the ground. 

Jalisco follows up with a jumping...something. It looks like he's going for a running headbutt, but he doesn't really turn so he just kind of jumps and Caras runs into him. Jalisco makes the cover before everyone runs in the ring, with Villano hitting the same move on Máscara and making the cover. Dos Caras opts against whatever that move they're trying to do is and rolls up Canek. The referee counts all three men down and Dos Caras' team wins the first fall. Dos Caras and Máscara start the second fall trading full nelsons. Cien Caras tries to run in to break it up when Dos Caras has control, but every time he does, Dos Caras turns and uses  Máscara as a human shield. That was pretty great, not gonna lie. Máscara reverses it and locks in a full nelson of his own, only for Cien to try to kick Dos Caras. Dos dodges it and Cien hits his own partner. Dos goes for the cover, only to move when Cien tries to elbow drop him, inadvertently hitting his teammate again. Dos goes for a double pin, only to avoid another attack from Canek, who accidentally splashes his teammates. The rudos/heels (I think they're the rudos) argue before Villano IV tags in. He and Máscara trade blows and moves, including a shockingly quick arm drag by Villano. Well, quick by comparison at least. Villano kicks Máscara, leading to each rudo walking up to Villano and getting kicked before Villano almost kicks the referee.

Canek & Máscara double team Villano before elbowing him out of the ring. Dos Caras enters the ring (no one is tagging, but from what I understand that's just kind of what they do in Mexico) and gets triple-teamed before Canek hits a spin kick for the three on Dos. Jalisco gets triple-teamed and pinned, even though I don't think any actual move is hit before Villano submits to an elevated double Stump Puller by Máscara and Canek to officially win the fall. 

The third and final fall begins with the rudos beating down the técnicos/faces. This goes on until the técnicos throw the rudos into each other before we get a six-man rowboat spot. Jalisco & Villano roll up Cien Caras and Canek, but both kick out. Dos Caras locks in the world's worst abdominal stretch before Cien Caras tries to run the ropes. It is the saddest thing I've ever seen. This 68-year old man who could barely walk down the stairs takes eight steps to get to the ropes before Jalisco knocks him down. Suddenly, Nueva Generacion Dinamitas, which consists of Cien Caras' sons El Cuatrero and Sansón and Cien & Máscara's nephew Forastero, run down and attack the técnicos, causing a DQ in the final fall. The rudos beatdown the técnicos before leaving the ring. Jalisco takes the mic and, while I don't know Spanish, from what I understand is that he challenged Cien Caras (who was the oldest person in the match) to a singles match...and Caras accepted. As far as I can tell, this match never happened...thankfully.

The Verdict

I don't really know how to rate this. The match is bad, obviously, but it's almost unfair to grade this like a normal match. All of these men were clearly past their primes...by a lot...and most of them can't even run, let alone wrestle anymore, but at the same time, this a show focused on legendary luchadors. Expecting something like Octagón and El Hijo del Santo vs Los Gringos Locos is not realistic. Still, this match is pretty terrible, but it's not like I was expecting anything good to begin with. Don't watch this.

Rankings (Best to Worst)

1. Rick Rude vs Jake Roberts-WrestleMania IV
2. Too Much vs Al Snow & Head-King of the Ring 1998
3. Randy Orton vs Bray Wyatt-WrestleMania 33
4. Vampiro vs Sting-Great American Bash 2000
5. T&A vs Head Cheese-WrestleMania 2000
6. Triple H vs Sgt. Slaughter-D-Generation X: In Your House
7. Konnan vs One Man Gang-SuperBrawl VI
8. Ultimate Warrior vs Hercules-WrestleMania IV
9. Rick Rude vs Hawk-Clash of the Champions XXV
10. Shelton Benjamin vs Viscera-New Year's Revolution 2006
11. Steve McMichael vs Reggie White-Slamboree 1997
12. The Tag Team Fatal 4-Way Match-WrestleMania 13
13. Tag Team Battle Royal-WrestleMania XIV
14. The Chamber of Horrors-Halloween Havoc 1991
15. The Natural Disasters vs Money Inc.-WrestleMania VIII
16. Ivan Koloff vs Paul Jones-Clash of the Champions IV
17. ODB, Taylor Wilde, and Roxxi vs The Kongtourage-Genesis 2009
18. Ivory vs Tori-SummerSlam 1999
19. The Reverse Battle Royal-Impact! (10/26/2006)
20. Jerry Blackwell vs Boris Zhukov-SuperClash II
21. Nikita Koloff vs Bobby Eaton-Bunkhouse Stampede
22. Alex Wright vs Steve McMichael-Halloween Havoc 1997
23. The Great Khali vs Kane-WrestleMania 23
24. Savio Vega vs Crush vs Faarooq-Ground Zero: In Your House
25. The Shockmaster vs Awesome/King Kong-Starrcade 1993
26. Total Divas vs Other Divas-Survivor Series 2013
27. The Oddities vs Kaientai-SummerSlam 1998
28. Hulk Hogan vs Sid Justice-WrestleMania VIII
29. Paul Ellering vs Teddy Long-Capital Combat
30. Dusty Rhodes vs Big Boss Man-Saturday Night's Main Event (10/31/1989)
31. Tyson Tomko vs Stevie Richards-Unforgiven 2004
32. Kane vs The Great Khali-SummerSlam 2009
33. Hollywood Hogan vs The Giant-Hog Wild
34. Hollywood Hogan vs The Giant-Souled Out 1997
35. Dustin Rhodes & King Kong vs Awesome Kong & The Equalizer-Battlebowl
36. Finlay & Little Bastard vs The Boogeyman & Little Boogeyman-No Way Out 2007
37. Jake Roberts vs Andre the Giant-WrestleMania V
38. Yokozuna vs King Mabel-In Your House 4
39. Dusty Rhodes vs The Honky Tonk Man-SummerSlam 1989
40. Sting & Hawk vs Meng & Kurasawa-Clash of the Champions XXXI
41. Hulk Hogan vs Randy Savage-Uncensored 1998
42. Al Snow vs Big Boss Man-Unforgiven 1999
43. Mickie James vs Ashley-Royal Rumble 2006
44. Christy Hemme vs Big Fat Oily Guy-Against All Odds 2007
45. Stevie Ray vs Konnan-World War 3 1998
46. Vampiro vs The KISS Demon-Bash at the Beach 2000
47. Team WCW vs nWo Wolfpac vs nWo Hollywood-Fall Brawl 1998
48. Vampiro vs Oklahoma-Starrcade 1999
49. Hulk Hogan vs Andre the Giant-WrestleMania III
50. Van Hammer vs Terrance Taylor-Clash of the Champions XVI
51. Junkyard Dog vs Moondog Spot-Wrestling Classic
52. The Undertaker vs Goldberg-Super ShowDown 2019
53. Hiroshi Wajima vs Tom Magee-All Japan Pro Wrestling 1988
54. Jim Duggan vs Big Boss Man-Royal Rumble 1990
55. Meng vs Jim Duggan-Uncensored 1995
56. Jim Steele vs The Equalizer-SuperBrawl IV
57. Sting vs Tony Palmore-Battle 7
58. D-Generation X vs Brothers of Destruction-Crown Jewel
59. Wendi Richter vs Leilani Kai-WrestleMania
60. Edge vs Triple H vs Vladimir Kozlov-Survivor Series 2008
61. Kevin Sullivan vs Dave Sullivan-SuperBrawl V
62. Steve McMichael vs Brian Adams-Road Wild 1998
63. Scott Hall vs Roddy Piper-SuperBrawl IX
64. Kane vs The Great Khali-Breaking Point
65. PN News & Bobby Eaton vs Steve Austin & Terrance Taylor-Great American Bash 1991
66. Scott Steiner vs Sid Vicious vs Jeff Jarrett vs Road Warrior Animal-Sin
67. Hollywood Hogan vs Roddy Piper-SuperBrawl 1997
68. Batista vs The Great Khali-SummerSlam 2007
69.  Sable vs Tori-WrestleMania XV
70. Super Invader vs Todd Champion-WrestleWar 1992
71. King Kong Bundy & Jim Neidhart vs Yokozuna & Jake Roberts-Heroes of Wrestling
72. Sid Vicious vs The Nightstalker-Clash of the Champions XIII
73. The 8-Divas Tag Match-Survivor Series 1999
74. The Fabulous Freebirds vs The Renegade Warriors-Halloween Havoc 1990
75. The Knockouts Gauntlet-One Night Only: Live! 2016
76. AJ Styles vs Frank Trigg-No Surrender 2008
77. Rick Rude vs Masahiro Chono-Halloween Havoc 1992
78. Mike Awesome vs Vampiro-Halloween Havoc 2000
79. Bray Wyatt vs John Cena-Extreme Rules 2014
80. Brothers of Destruction vs KroniK-Unforgiven 2001
81. Mabel vs The Undertaker-King of the Ring 1995
82. Wendi Richter vs The Fabulous Moolah-The Brawl to End it All
83. David Flair vs Kimberly Page-Mayhem 1999
84. The Truth Commission vs The Disciples of Apocolypse-Survivor Series 1997
85. The Bushwhacker vs The Fabulous Rougeaus-WrestleMania V
86. The Beverly Brothers vs The Bushwhackers-Royal Rumble 1992
87. Teddy Long vs Eric Bischoff-Survivor Series 2005
88. Greg Valentine vs George Steele-Heroes of Wrestling
89. Abdullah the Butcher vs One Man Gang-Heroes of Wrestling
90. Major Gunns vs Miss Hancock-New Blood Rising
91. Bradshaw & Trish Stratus vs Christopher Nowinski & Jackie Gayda-RAW (7/8/2002)
92. Triple H vs Scott Steiner-Royal Rumble 2003
93. Hollywood Hogan vs The Warrior-Halloween Havoc 1998
94. Mr. T vs Roddy Piper-WrestleMania 2
95. The Royal Family vs Clowns R' Us-Survivor Series 1994
96. The Blacktop Bully vs Dustin Rhodes-Uncensored 1995
97. Team Dos Caras vs Team El Canek-Leyendas Mexicanas 2017
98. Pat Patterson vs Gerald Brisco-King of the Ring 2000
99. The Four Doinks vs Team Bigelow-Survivor Series 1993
100. Sting vs Jeff Hardy-Victory Road 2011
101. Oz vs Tim Parker-SuperBrawl
102. Van Hammer vs Doug Somers-Halloween Havoc 1991
103. Ultimate Warrior vs Andre the Giant-Saturday Night's Main Event (11/25/1989)
104. The Doomsday Cage Match-Uncensored 1996
105. Kane vs The Undertaker-Judgement Day 1998
106. Rebel vs Shelly Martinez-One Night Only: Knockouts Knockdown
107. Kaitlyn vs Maxine-NXT (10/19/2010)
108. Sabu vs The Sandman-November to Remember 1997
109. Seth Rollins vs "The Fiend" Bray Wyatt-Hell in a Cell 2019
110. Michael Cole vs Jerry Lawler-WrestleMania XXVII
111. The Bushwhackers vs Iron Sheik & Nikolai Volkoff-Heroes of Wrestling
112. James Storm vs Chris Harris-Lockdown 2007
113. John Laurinaitis vs John Cena-Over the Limit 2012
114. Ultimate Warrior vs Goldust-In Your House 7
115. Los Villanos vs Los Psycho Circus-Triplemania XXIII
116. Jenna Morasca vs Sharmell-Victory Road 2009

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