About as pure a representation of the beautiful lucha libre trios match as you can get. It was sort of like a lucha version of the best Rock 'n' Roll Express v Midnight Express match, with all of the shtick and sequences and ridiculous fun while still having the serious edge to it when needed. And like the very best of your Rock 'n' Rolls v Midnights, it had so many cool and notable moments that to mention all of them would turn this into a play-by-play and not a single soul can be arsed with that. You'll just have to take my word for it and when have I ever steered you wrong before? In a broader sense, Rambo acting like a bully shithouse was amazing and definitely worth talking about. On the rudo side Wagner Jr. was the most low key of everyone given his standing and relative youth, Casas was Casas and as magnetic and captivating as only peak Casas can be and not even remotely low key, so Rambo was there to be the grizzled bruiser, just as happy to eat shit and look the fool as to run someone over like a boar in army fatigues. He also took one punch late on from Texano and I swear to god, this might've been the best KO sell of a punch I've ever seen. Your All Japan folks will tell you Kawada did it better but let me tell you he did not. Texano actually threw several - SEVERAL - amazing punches in this and clocked Casas with one that was absolutely impeccable. Some inventive rudo miscommunication results in Casas throwing his toys out the pram and defecting to the tecnico side, which of course is only a ruse and really he deserved to be punched in the face like he was, probably by both sides if we're being honest about it. He looked phenomenal in all of this though, Casas. Every time I watch him from this '92-'97 period in particular I feel like it's one of the very best runs of any wrestler in history; just a staggering level of consistency and peak output up and down the card. Outside of getting punched in the face by Los Cowboys his exchange with Hamada here was exceptional. He matched the wee fella for grace every step of the way and that it no small thing given Hamada is who he is. That guy is in the absolute top tier of hitting things clean as a whistle regardless of difficulty. He was damn near majestic in this and nobody flips out of a back body drop like Gran Hamada. The rudos must've taken exception, especially Casas, because they even bloody him up with Casas punching him in the cut and Wagner Jr. trying to guzzle blood out his head like a ghoul. At the core of it the rudos always had that nasty, vicious side. They'd be made to look like doofuses more than once and people might have a chuckle at their expense, but they'd always be able to regain credibility with some savagery.
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