(3) Magno & Celestrial beat The Right (Petey Williams & Jon Rekon) in a non-title tag match. Celestrial, who hasn’t been at any other Albuquerque show, was a smaller luchador with a blue, full-face mask that heavily resembled Sin Cara’s. The beginnings of the match felt like it would end as a squash, with Rekon handily throwing the two luchadores all over the ring. However, the match shifted when Petey tried heelishly to rip off Magno’s mask. Once he ripped it off, it turned out Magno was wearing another right under it, and Magno promptly forced the mask onto Petey. Rekon was then blinded by an eye rake, and mistakenly took out Petey with his Samoan Drop which allowed the luchadores to win. As this was Petey and Rekon’s first tag match together since winning the title, it felt odd to have them lose and look rather buffoonish here. However, it looks like there will be time to build them back up before a match with a more established team.

(9) The Puerto Rican Powers beat The Latin Liberators (Supernova & Rocky Romero) and Medianoche & Mascara Purpura in a three-way “Lucha Ladder” tag team match for #1 contendership for the Tag Titles. After a show that had been a bit low on actual in-ring action, it was great to see this match featuring some of LLUSA’s most impressive high-flyers. They didn’t disappoint, and all the participants brought out a ton of innovative ladder-based moves. One impressive sequence saw Purpura hit a shooting star press off a ladder held up between another ladder and the ropes, followed quickly by Medianoche hitting a backdrop off the very top of the ladder. San Juan Kid also hit a tremendous corkscrew moonsault onto Purpura lying on a folded ladder. Petey Williams and Jon Rekon eventually stormed the ring and tied the Latin Liberators to the ropes with zip ties. After a few scuffles between the other two teams, the PR Powers finally grabbed the contract after dropping Medianoche through a propped ladder in an amazingly painful-looking spot.

Williams then introduced “The Voice of The Right” Stevie Richards. Richards came down from the announce table to the ring. He explained that he had been called up by R.J. Brewer’s mother, Arizona governor Jan Brewer, to help out her son. Richards then brought out The Right’s newest member, Kip Gunn (Kip Sopp, A/K/A WWF’s “Badass” Billy Gunn). Gunn claimed he joined The Right because he was tired of all the “high-flying masked guys” stealing his spotlight.

Finally, The Right’s leader and LLUSA champion R.J. Brewer was introduced. He sold fighting back tears as he described his championship victory and how proud it made his mother. He declared that The Right is strong and will be making changes around Lucha Libre USA. This lengthy segment ended with Gunn declaring that “If you ain’t down with that, we got two words for ya – Right Power.” This long promo section wisely placed the focus of season three on The Right, their dominance, and the threat they pose to the traditions of lucha libre.

(3) Magno beat Petey Williams via DQ. Before the match, Stevie Richards humorously built up Williams by declaring him “the future best man at my wedding.” Magno was also noted as a “returning” luchador, as he had not been at LLUSA’s last few tapings. The few months off seemed to have been good to Magno, as he looked to be in great shape and brought a lot of energy to the match. This was overall a very solid match. Magno made a few great counters on Williams, including turning a hurricanrana into a powerbomb and a Canadian Destroyer attempt into a fireman’s carry to sit-out scoop slam. Magno was about to put away Williams with a top rope move when Richards stormed away from the announce table and attacked Magno for a DQ. The Right beat down Magno until Marco Corleone ran out to make the temporary save.

Marco then grabbed a mic as The Right re-gathered at ringside. Brewer gave Marco one last chance to join up with The Right. Marco then cut a pretty terrific tecnico promo, explaining that, while Brewer and his cohorts judge people by their culture and their differences, he “and all decent people” judge people by their individual character. Marco said he won’t stand for disrespect towards Mexico or the traditions of lucha libre, then took a fighting stance as The Right surrounded the ring. Suddenly, Supernova and Rocky Romero appeared and joined Marco and Magno in a four-on-four brawl all the way backstage. Leticia Castro then spent some time with the audience as Stevie Richards presumably got in gear for the next match.

(4) Stevie Richards beat Rocky Romero. Before the match, Rocky came out and cut an entertaining promo on Richards, channeling Razor Ramon at the end in referring to him as “chico.” Like his fellow Latin Liberators in their matches, Romero showed great energy with some explosive moves off the ropes. In following the trend of the night, this match was interrupted by Right member Petey Williams. Rocky was able to take him out with a dive to ringside, but the distraction was enough for Stevie to pull off his Steviekick for the win. Marco ran out to help Rocky but was taken out by Gunn. The three Right members stood tall over Marco and Rocky before heading up the entrance ramp. Marco and Rocky finally recovered and shared a fist pump of solidarity before leaving the ring.

Soon, all the members of both The Right and The Latin Liberators were once again brawling, with the Liberators and Marco finally gaining control of the ring. Marco, still reeling from the attack, took a mic. He said that while he had been focusing on Lizmark, Jr. for the past several months, The Right now had his “undivided attention.” He then reintroduced the audience to luchadores in the ring- the “King of the Cuban Cutter” Rocky Romero, the “American Mexican” Magno, and the “mysterious, high flying” Supernova. The four tecnicos were then rechristened collectively as The International Alliance. This new stable posed for the crowd as the show went to intermission.

After the intermission, The Right’s podium was once again set up in the ring. Brewer then spoke of the changes that, thanks to “the best lawyers in Scottsdale,” would be coming to LLUSA tonight. They included changing the name of the show to Professional Wrestling USA: American Warriors, and the banning of all masked, mini, and chica wrestlers from the company.

Suddenly, a man in a suit and a red, white and blue mask resembling LLUSA’s logo came to ringside. He introduced himself as a representative of LLUSA’s commissioner’s office, and explained in a humorously soft-spoken manner that Brewer’s changes will not be taking effect; in fact, Brewer would have to defend his championship against Lizmark later in the night, while Williams would have a match with Supernova up next.

(7) Supernova beat Petey Williams. This was another highly-entertaining match in the series of matches these two have had over the months, with many high-speed exchanges and big spots, including a huge top-rope hurricanrana by Supernova. Supernova would eventually gain the pin with his trademark lucha DDT.

(1) Rocky Romero beat Petey Williams. This was one of two matches that worked to build up the eventual match between The Latin Liberators and The Right for the vacant tag team titles. This was a great match to open the show, with several nearfalls and exciting spots. The match ended with a particularly clever sequence. Petey had dodged Rocky’s lunge into one of the ringposts, though Rocky had avoided crashing into the post. As Petey recovered, Rocky got in position and played possum to make it appear that he really had been hurt. Petey then casually set up his Canadian Destroyer; Rocky easily reversed this into a pin for the win. Subtle spots like this are often lost on an audience, but this one seemed to go over quite well (a few fans took relish in yelling reassurances to Petey that he indeed had the match as good as won).

After this, The Right, Marco, and Lizmark came out to sign the contract for the upcoming championship match. Ring announcer Leticia Castro announced that Lizmark had added a few extra stipulations to the match. If R.J. lost, The Right would have to disband. R.J. defiantly said he didn’t need The Right to win the match; this angered Petey and Jon Rekon, and the three argued back up the entrance ramp.

(7) Petey Williams & Jon Rekon of The Right beat Supernova & Rocky Romero of The Latin Liberators to become the new Lucha Libre USA Tag Team Champions. The two singles matches earlier in the night did a terrific job setting up the dynamics of this tag match, and all four wrestlers played their parts wonderfully. There were lots of great spots throughout, including Rocky pulling off his Cuban Cutter finisher, several big ringside dives, and Petey finally pulling off his Canadian Destroyer (the first time the Albuquerque audience has seen it since January) on Rocky for the win. The crowd response as Petey and Rekon gloated in the ring once again proved just how successful The Right’s rudo gimmick has been – the boos were deafening.

After the match, R.J. celebrated with the belt as his Right stablemates came to the ring and displayed that the stable was now in control of every championship in Lucha Libre USA. Stevie Richards grabbed a mic and demanded the outraged audience to acknowledge R.J. Brewer as their champion. Unfortunately, a net of red, white, and blue balloons over the ring failed to open, and some crew members (as well as The Right) looked visibly upset at this snafu. R.J., Petey, Rekon, and Stevie stood tall at the top of Lucha Libre USA’s entrance ramp to close out the show.

After the match, R.J. Brewer and his Right stablemates entered the ring. R.J. complained that he was the last man eliminated in the Lucha Roulette match (at March’s show); as Charly Malice had failed to capture the Lucha Libre Championship, Brewer felt he should now be #1 contender. This prompted Marco Corleone to enter and argue his case for fighting the champ. Finally, Lucha Libre champion Lizmark Jr. came out with stablemate, Sydistiko, and mocked both men, but said he would choose opponents for them; if they could win their matches, he said he would consider giving them a match.

Petey Williams and Jon Rekon then took the ring, followed by masked luchador, Magno. Magno said that because his Latin Liberator stablemates had already wrestled, he needed to find a new partner. Thankfully, he was able to find someone who Petey “can’t stand…you’ve fought him all over the world, and he’s definitely more Macho than you.” Out came “Black Machismo” Jay Lethal, decked out in his terrific Randy Savage gear and robe, to start the next match.

(7) Petey Williams & Jon Rekon beat Magno & Jay Lethal. Lethal did not get a lot of in-ring time during this match, though the time he did have was full of some terrific high energy offense. I thought it was a bit disappointing that he wasn’t given more time to pay tribute to Savage after Savage’s death last week – I was expecting a top-rope elbow drop or something similar. After some scuffles outside the ring, Rekon finally caught Magno with his Samoan Drop finisher and allowed Petey to make the pin.

After the match, there was yet more planted fan interference. This was thankfully brief, as a front row fan shoved Petey and was immediately dragged off by security. Just like at March’s show, this felt utterly unneeded – The Right continues to garner tremendous heat without any gimmickry.