Really fun mano a mano match. CMLL was so good in '97, with such an unbelievably stacked roster, that things like this fly under the radar. These two were on the same side of a trios match the week before and I'm not sure what happened to have them at each other's throat, but they wasted no time going for it right away. Well Silver King wasted no time as he jumped Fiera as the latter was taking off his leather jacket. Those sleeves must've been TIGHT because he couldn't get the thing off and Silver King just kept kicking the shit out of him. King hooked him between the middle and bottom ropes and smashed his face into the ring board, Fiera unable to defend himself. Then King gave him a baseball slide dropkick to the back of the head and Fiera, arms still in the straightjacket of his own making, splattered face-first into the floor. It took an elderly gentleman in the front row to help Fiera extricate himself from the jacket but after that he was ready for sweet revenge. Even as he was sort of beginning to wind down - at least by lucha standards and CERTAINLY for a luchador not yet 40 years old - Fiera could throw spin kicks with the best of them. He also wanted to make up for time lost being stuck in his jacket and the ref' had to disqualify him at the end of the primera, intent on pummeling Silver King as he was. There were lots of nasty, uncooperative exchanges here. Both wound up throwing punches on the top turnbuckle and you could see Fiera struggling to balance, but rather than cut bait he just tried to shove Silver King to the floor, and as he did it he went toppling out after him, basically taking a flat back bump from the top buckle to the Arena Coliseo hardwood. Silver King winning two straight with a low blow gave me confidence that it led to a wagers match. Sure enough it did, six weeks later in Arena Mexico, but as is the lucha libre's wont to giveth as much as it taketh away, every match from that show OTHER than this one seems to be available.
