Wednesday 9 December 2020

Revisiting 00s US Indies #17

Carnage Crew v Hotstuff Hernandez, Fast Eddie & Don Juan (No DQ) (ROH Retribution: Round Robin Challenge II, 4/26/03)

Man what? This has to be one of the most under the radar great matches in ROH history. What an awesome, wild little riot between six guys I've paid no attention to at any point in my life as a wrestling fan. I didn't even know Fast Eddie was ACTUALLY blind (legally, I mean) and all those CM Punk jokes were rooted in TRUTH. These guys killed each other for ten minutes with some of the craziest shit imaginable. Every chair shot looked like it would leave polka dots on a brain MRI and Hernandez literally cracked one of those chairs up the middle off DeVito's head. Masada taking a hurricanrana off the middle turnbuckle to the floor through two chairs was peak Mick Foley ridiculousness. Loc gets cut open hardway on the back of his head, Fast Eddie hits a gusher, DeVito bleeds and we get Puerto Rico close-ups on all of them. Hernandez hit two insane powerbombs in this, the second one chucking Fast Eddie like a javelin from the ring to the floor to wipe out all three Carnage Crew members. Then he goes for a tope and DeVito throws a chair at him, which practically causes Hernandez to spike himself head first on the floor like that Undertaker bit at Wrestlemania 25. A three-person spike piledriver made for a suitably crazy finish as well. There's another match in this feud a few months later and there's no way I can't watch that. 

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