The big - or moderately-sized - blowoff to what's been a pretty fun midcard feud. As far as bloodless apuestas go it wasn't Casas/Panther, but it was an okay way to kill 15 minutes. It almost had a story of Ruso being the dominant force, using his size advantage and general brutishness to stay on top, with Banda having big bursts of offence to keep him in the fight. Ruso wipes the floor with him in the primera, then Banda comes back with one of those offensive bursts in the segunda and we're all set for an epic deciding fall. Or a moderately exciting one. The tercera starts with Ruso about giving Banda whiplash off a turnbuckle headshot, but Banda comes back with a huge dive off the top and if we had three gallons of blood this would've been pretty awesome. Even though he had some spotty selling towards the end Ruso was a fun bruiser throughout, while for Banda it felt like we got a better look at him in the lead-in trios. Banda's selling after the - admittedly brutal - running powerbomb was kind of weird, and then Ruso gets himself DQd for essentially trying to kick him to death and that will always be an anti-climax in a by god hair match.
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