So there isn't really any kind of wrestling (style, promotion, era, whatever) that I'm latching onto right now and just kind of want to randomly pick out a disc from the six million I have here and watch something from it. So for the next while I'm gonna do that.
Terry Funk v Tommy Rich (ECW, 2/1/97)
Crowd HATES Rich. HATES him.
Seriously, this is as much visceral hatred as I've ever seen from an ECW
crowd. He's a heel, acts like a heel, and gets rabid, honest to
goodness heel heat for it. He points to some black guy in the crowd and
tells him to come down and shine his shoes, then he leans against the
ropes and spits a huge gob of phlegm behind him into the crowd. Funk
comes out to 'Desperado' and this match is already 6 stars. Crowd start a
massive "YOU FAT FUCK" chant at Rich so Tommy runs into the crowd and
picks a fight with some skinny dude. Funk runs after him, spins him
around and punches him in the head, and Tommy is cut open approximately
15 seconds after the bell rings. Awesome. Match is basically split into
two halves. First half is Funk in control, then the second half is Rich
in control after he takes over with a great punch flurry. There's really
only two actual momentum shifts in the entire match; the first being
the transition to Rich on offence, the second being the transition right
at the end before the finish. They both throw punches and hit each
other with chairs. Whoever is working from the bottom stumbles around
and bleeds like a drunk old man starting fights outside Ibrox. When Rich
is in control he looks like a genuine psychopath with the face covered
in blood and the hair all mussed and the spitting everywhere. Honestly,
this was like the absolute best possible version of a crazy old man
fight on youtube. Post-match Funk boots Rich in the stones and runs
around the ring while 'Desperado' plays again. These guys are the
greatest.
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