A very different match from the title bout earlier in the month, yet one no less great. I actually might've preferred this one by a hair. It wasn't quite a full blown brawl, but they go at each other hammer and tong from the very jump and everything has an amazing intensity to it. It started perfectly with Santo torpedoing himself at Felino with the corner tope, the former still in his ring jacket while the latter was yammering into the camera about whatever. Felino unfortunately kind of blows it off and goes on the offensive with his own senton off the apron, but it was early enough in the match where it didn't bother me too much. I'm repeating myself to a stupid degree at this point but by christ is rudo Hijo del Santo a fucking marvel. He has to be in the conversation as one of the best ever at flipping that switch and going for a guy's throat. I mean that in a figurative sense as well as a literal one, because here he had Felino in the corner with a boot across his throat and it looked like he was trying to remove his head from his shoulders. He hangs Felino off the apron by the creases in his boots and stomps him on the back of the head, kicks him in the liver, slaps the whiskers off his mask, it was phenomenal. I don't think he's ever leaned deeper into the camel clutch than he did to end the second caida and he threw Felino's head to the mat in disgust after it finished him. Loved how the powerbomb came into play yet again. It's been a thread running through the past six weeks' worth of exchanges between them and it almost did for Santo AGAIN here. Felino hit him with three variations, all of them looking pretty brutal, and Santo only managed to escape by being pinned close enough to the ropes to limply reach out and grab one. The dives towards the end are of course fitting of Santo v Felino, especially Santo's screwball tope over the top that blasts Felino into the first row. Like in the title match the finish might be a bit of a letdown, as you really want Santo ripping Felino's mask to turn into a blood-soaked revenge piece by the tiger man, but instead it leads to Casas storming the ring and punting Santo clean in the head. This was honestly insane, proper FUTEN level stuff and I cannot wait to revisit their September apuestas match for the first time in an eternity.
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