It’s all executed well enough that I got a little mad at these guys. Santito can’t fight the two on one and when he’s put into a torture device of a camel clutch and crab simultaneously, he has to give up too. Blanco hits a splash off the top while Solitario pins him down with a knee and he’s eliminated. His follow up Tope Suicida is cut off with another gross chair shot, and with him taken out, the older, slower, and more beaten up Villano IV is stuck there. Santito misfires a senton atomico and hits Villano IV on the mat when his opponent moves. Ultimately, the superteam can’t compete with these guys that are entirely on the same page. Not even that just everyone is great in it, but everyone has their moments in this to the point that aside from IV being a little older and slower, everyone seems equally as great at different points in this. Everyone in this wrestles with a ton of passion and there is no weak link. Everything is spaced out for maximum impact, while never suffering from any significant downtime. All different sorts of punching sequences and exchanges always keep it fresh, on top of breaking up the pairings perfectly. The ultimate credit to them is that this never gets tiresome at any point. This gets a long time to develop each individual fall, and each fall on its own whips enough ass that each of them individually would be great matches. The way around that is either abandoning the three fall rules as Mesias/Park did a year before, or allowing more time for things to develop a little more to my liking. It’s different, I get it, I try not to complain, but it always feels like there’s a cap on how much I can like a match that feels rushed like that to me. I try not to be ethnocentric about it, but it always bothers me when a three fall match is over in twenty minutes or less. The main benefit this match gets though is how long it gets to be. It really has almost everything going for it. Mask ripping, bloodletting, unprotected chair shots to the head, blood stained white masks, dives that are both sensational and desperate, and it’s aided on by a durably energetic crowd. It goes a million miles and hour, but it’s mean as hell too. All of the drama and atmosphere of a classic lucha brawl, but with all of the benefits of a tag team match (more moving parts makes it harder for action to get stale, more stuff you can do, different combos, etc.) as well. Take that with a little grain of salt because I’m still a little bit of a lucha fledgling, but it doesn’t feel like a bit of fledgling hyperbole to me. Park in 2011 and one of the best lucha matches I’ve ever seen. This is the best lucha bloodletting since Mesias vs. What we have though is this match, and this is an absolutely breathtaking match. It’s nobody’s fault, I’ve been told it’s just sort of a thing with lucha you have to deal with sometimes. It leaves me badly wanting more, which would be something I’d be much happier about if there was more. There’s a rematch in March that I can’t seem to find anywhere, and this sets everything up perfectly for that. The only negative about this match is that it feels like the first match in a series. After a match like this, it’s easy to see why. This is one I missed out on, courtesy of friend of the blog Brock, who I’ve been told LOVES wrestling actually.
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