I guess it's fitting that I finally watched this on the same day I saw that Springsteen was coming out with a new album full of previously unreleased tracks. I'd need to think long and hard about the answer to a hypothetical "which wrestler's entire career would you want to have available on tape?" question, but Sangre Chicana is about as good an answer as any. Things like this are a good indicator of why and any new Chicana footage is to be celebrated. He came out of nowhere at the start here and jumped Faraon, the latter getting absolutely nothing in the short primera. Chican revelled in it and Faraon's selling was amazing, really looking like a guy who'd been caught off guard and maybe concussed into the bargain. The ending to the fall was perfect Chicana, submitting Faraon with an octopus stretch and then, needlessly and unprompted, punching Faraon in the dick while the hold was still applied. As far as low blows go it was an easy 9.5/10. Faraon's comeback was full of the venom you'd expect and Chicana wanted none of it, continually backing off without outright turning and hightailing it. At points he knew he had to fight and when they started trading punched it was spectacular. The highlight was Chicana backtracking as Faraon stalked him down outside the ring, Chicana picking up a glass bottle and shattering it on the ring post to use as a weapon. Faraon's immediate and instinctual response was to pick up a piece of that glass and continue walking down Chicana and for a second there you wondered if he wouldn't actually try and stab him. I've seen Glasgow street fights where you'd bet the house on someone leaving in an ambulance and this was similar, the referee in a very precarious position trying to talk both of them off a ledge. By the tercera they're both bleeding and cracking each other with punches and if it ultimately led to a hair match you'd happily sell your soul for it to appear on the internet one day.
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