This was Santo's second match back after his CMLL return. His actual return match was the previous month, which in itself had come after Perrito had recently turned rudo on Casas. I never watched the Santo return match but now I'm thinking I maybe should have just to see where this much animosity came from. Maybe it was just Perro out to take a scalp and no scalp would make more of a statement than El Hijo del Santo's. He jumped Santo at the intros and left him hanging off the ramp, legs in the air while spectators tried to cushion any fall. When Casas and Atlantis got to the ring they were swiftly jumped as well and the primera was really a mauling. The comeback was amazing though, especially Santo's tope after ducking a double clothesline. Perro went flying and the poor bastards in the first row never had time to react so I'm assuming someone's front teeth were lodged in Perro's shoulder blades. While the falls were evened up quickly after the comeback itself, I liked that the tecnicos just continued going after the rudos. This wasn't a case of the comeback culminating with a pinfall or submission - the pinfalls were merely stops on the road and as soon they happened the rudos were on the floor getting thrown into things. Obviously Santo v Perro was the main pairing here and that's what the match was built around, but I did love the brief Casas/Tarzan Boy exchange in the tercera. Tarzan Boy was such a punchable little prick, taking his shirt off and flexing, challenging Casas to a posedown. Of course Casas couldn't be arsed and instead put him on his back, but he did stop to hit the double biceps pose right after it. The finish was great. It came down to Santo and Perro and Santo went for the camel clutch, but as Perro shoved him off Santo flew into the referee. It was a minor ref' bump, nothing big or exaggerated, but it gave Perro his opening and he booted Santo clean in the balls. I will now endeavour to watch their singles match again. It didn't do much for me when I watched it about 10 years ago and that feels stupid.
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