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[6.0] "Neither CMLL's matches or BCC's matches do much for me these days, so this was never going to be anything that appealed to me very strongly, but it was still quite good. What it had going for it was action, since this was obviously one of those 'exhibition' work-rate matches where all the guys involved got plenty of time to show off their stuff one after the other. One of the few things I outright rolled my eyes at here was Panther (and to a lesser extent also Guerrero) getting those moments of not just clearly keeping up with or even momentarily getting the better of his opponents -- given he's in his 60s AND clearly looks it too -- but also the moments of him withstanding, surviving, or even taking out the BCC on his own. I get this is a lucha legend and that the crowd popped for it, but I do prefer some logic in my wrestling and not just cheap pops and unbelievable fairytale moments for the sake of it, and those moments were hard to swallow. Aside from that, this was a typically fun, mindless lucha match that did well mixing with the equally mindless AEW tag style. Danielson did well his his aggressive and intense striking, though at times he was annoyingly lost in the fray as BCC as a whole did their gang-ups and run-ins. Claudio looked really motivated here, going back to some of his lucha-style roots as he played an exciting freight-train powerhouse just running through dude while also acting as a really strong base for his high-flying opponents. Sydal, the replacement for the unavailable Yuta, was good as the token high-flyer for the BCC team. He obviously didn't at all have the character to fit in with them, but seeing him direct his high-flying spots in a more heelish light and then mix up with his equivalents on the CMLL team was pretty fun. A good portion of Moxley's performance was the other 'thing' after Panther's (and to a lesser extent Guerroro's) strong booking that I couldn't take seriously, since he was in that mode where he was selling/emoting in a really unhinged way, walking around quite unnaturally, and delivering a lot of pretty messy or soft-looking attacks, which undercut the other 50% of his performance where he was typically trying to act like a badass bruiser. I'd prefer if he'd cut the theatrics while 'playing tough guy' and instead just tried to play a cold, hardened street brawler who straight up clobbered guys, rather than only lightly going after them whenever he's meant to be punishing them. Mistico is basically just a signature-moves guy, hitting all the same spots in basically the exact same ways from match to match, failing to impress in any other way... but damn is he still impressive with those spots all the same, since he always gets great speed and looks incredibly crisp whenever he flys or twirls in the air, so I couldn't complain too much with him. Volador was someone who was sadly restrained for ages until his brief run-in where he took BCC out with all his explosive and flashy spots, reminding me of exactly why he's probably my favourite CMLL wrestler from the last few years. It would've been great to see more of him, since even with this being a "everyone gets time" match, it didn't feel like he got as much as the others here, despite arguably being the most impressive pure "work-rate" guy in the ring. It definitely felt like a waste having these apparent elimination rules only for there to be a single elimination before the match-deciding elimination as captain Sydal was eliminated, and it didn't help that those eliminations happened so quickly after each other. Sydal being the BCC team's captain was a bad enough telegraphing job, but it also just didn't make sense that BCC dominated many portions of this match for so long but only got a single elimination right before the end. I mean, why do these 'elimination' and 'captain' rules if you're not going to use them to make the match feel more significant by having more eliminations and thus adding more drama as the numbers whittle down? There's also the obviously questionable logic in why the BCC team would handicap themselves by elected Sydal, the kayfabe weakest member, as their captain. Anyways, my issues with the booking, Panther/Guerroro, and Moxley aside, this was dumb fun. ***1/4"

[6.0] "A pretty average match that feels even more anti-climactic after having followed the fantastic title match between Sting and DDP earlier in the same episode..."

[5.0] "RANDOM MATCH ALERT! (I watched this choosing a match at random on Cagematch by using random number generators.) Nothing much to this one. Nothing particularly bad about it, just doesn't generate very much heat or interest. I do dig the flames on Bam Bam's outfit, though..."