CMLL 2016/01/01
Cabellera vs. Cabellera: Maximo
vs. Kamaitachi
Okay now,
just hear me out. I think this was a perfect pro-wrestling match. Holiday
spirits, New Year’s Day, big Arena Mexico crowd being 99,99% pro-Maximo, evil
Japanese prick with long, trendy hair taking on the super beloved exotico, etc.
Everything was there. The match was so simple, and yet it was so fucking
amazing. Matter fact, I think it turned out so goddamn awesome mostly because
the layout and body of work was so simple and straight-forward. They kept it
real. It’s impressive, really, after witnessing Kamaitachi’s crazy berserkfests
with Dragon Lee to see him work a totally different match with Maximo here. He
picked a legwork as his strategy and it almost paid off. It was definitely
paying off for like 90% of first two falls, the other 10% is, you guess, Maximo’s
comeback.
Primera and
segunda were amazing in its simplicity and I loved both finishes, especially
Maximo’s to segunda where he made that amazing midair hook on Kamaitachi’s leg
for extra leverage. Crazy! Tachi was excellent at dismantling Maximo’s leg, and
needless to say, Maximo sold it like a true student of the game. And then in
tercera they managed to go the extra mile without having to make the match too
similar to Dragon Lee vs. Kamaitachi classics, because Maximo was still selling
the legwork amazingly well and it made for such a marvelous pace that made the
match stand out. Maximo was always reminding us his leg was in big pain, his
desperate highspots were truly – desperate. Masterful selling right there,
folks. Drama was high-end and the crowd totally old school and unpretentious,
everyone and their mothers were rooting for Maximo, except for that Kamaitachi
lady mark and two other tourists from Japan. Arena Mexico was going bananas for
every little thing Maximo did on offense. In the climax both competitors faked
low-blows and I loved it. The finish was great too.
I have to
watch and rewatch a lot of stuff from January, but I don’t think anything will
top this as my current Match of the Year.
*****
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