Sunday 13 December 2020

Revisiting 00s US Indies #21

Samoa Joe v Necro Butcher (IWA-MS, 6/11/05)

An absolute slaughterhouse of a thing. Pretty much every time I watch this I'm mesmerised by the insanity of it all. Joe is this unrelenting force who's run through everyone on the indies for a couple years now. Necro is a hideous mutant Resident Evil boss who cannot be killed. Joe tries to kill him anyhow and it makes for the greatest filthy seedy brawl in history. The AMBIANCE is incredible as this crowd of black tar dealers are just astonished by the brutality on display. They're nuclear hot for all of it, from the opening strike exchange to every instance of Necro almost having his head and face caved in. Necro splitting his own head open trying to headbutt Joe was wild and then Joe powerslamming him on his FACE is still about the most insane spot ever. Or at least it would've been had he not hit the exploder later. It's still the one and only time I've seen anyone take an exploder suplex on their forehead and the fact he did it on concrete off the bastard apron is kind of unfathomable. I know some people hate the commentary. Obviously it's insidey and silly, but I've always liked it for the fact all three of them are clearly having the best time watching it. "He done kicked him in the fuckin head!" Joe covered in Necro's blood as he knees and kicks him into oblivion is the damndest finish of them all. Maybe the best ten-minute match ever. 

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