Super Porky v Rey Escorpion (Hair v Hair) (CMLL, 10/18/13)
How's this for something totally different? I don't remember ever seeing a lucha/shoot style hybrid before, but that's what this was. It's MMA rules and it's sort of surreal watching Brazo de Plata don the gloves and work FUTEN-level stiff. It's unfortunate that they stuck to the two out of three falls format, though. We never got a ton of actual match time and the falls hurt the pacing of it. Felt like things were really starting to break loose only for us to have to settle down for a minute or two before resumption. Porky was crazy fun in this. He doesn't have much left in the tank at this point, but I loved him using his fatness to ground Escorpion, secure the mount and rain down holy hell with the punches. When Escorpion was on top it was all Porky could do to curl up and cover his face, which got the crowd behind him ten thousand percent. I should watch more Escorpion from 2013. I think I've only seen him in this feud, but he was awesome in it and there's bound to be other stuff. The spot where he used his legs to tie Porky to the ropes while punching his unprotected head was glorious and I don't remember seeing anything like that before. Finish might've been cheap on the surface, but Escorpion pummeling Porky so badly that it caused Maximo to lose it and come to his old man's aid was quite the moment. I thought this was a really fun novelty. Probably would've been even better with a few tweaks, but I'm not sure it's ever been done before so it's hard to criticise them for not getting it spot on first time.
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