Fuck me. This doesn't have the AMBIANCE of Joe/Necro or the dream match buzz that the first Ki/Necro had, but I might've liked it better than both. The first Ki/Necro was Ki committing a mauling for about 75-80% of it. Necro of course will die for our pleasure and take a hellish beating like no one in history so that dynamic worked. This time, in kayfabe terms, they're a little more familiar, and they work like that. They still murder each other to a stupid degree, but it's worked way more even and I liked how they structured it a bit more than the first match. I thought it was pretty much amazing, basically. It might actually be closer to 60/40 in favour of Necro and I genuinely don't remember seeing Ki ever take this much of a hammering. Necro throws some of the meanest chops ever while Ki is flat up against a wall, so he can't even rock back to absorb the blow a little. At one point Necro picked him up, walked over to a stack of scattered chairs and gave Ki a backbreaker across a couple of them, clearly not trying to land the move in a particular way (the safest way, for example) and just dropping him all shoulder blade and ribcage across the chair backs. He was stomping Ki in the head and face and his bare knuckle hillbilly boxing never looked wilder, the bit where he punched Ki in the cheek from a tree of woe position being especially awesome. Obviously Ki gave as good as he got and then some. There are 206 bones in the human body and Ki must've kicked or stomped every single one of Necro's - roundhouses, short punts, Kawada kicks, koppu kicks, the entire repertoire and Necro took them to the femur, the ribs, the jaw, the ear, the toes, the shin, the spine, the skull. This was also a match where Ki hit a top rope double stomp to Necro's back while he was bent over the back of a chair. In pretty much any other match that would've been the nastiest thing to happen. It was horrific and Necro sold it like he had internal bleeding and for second there I believed it. It was probably only the second nastiest thing to happen in this as Ki full force knife edge chopping Necro in the willy had me hooting in shock. How Necro never puked up his gummy bears I'll never know. Honestly, I didn't love the finish as it felt like a bit of an anticlimax, BUT the name of the game (or part of it) is tapout so I guess it's my own fault for discounting that it could've happened in the first place. Necro's resume in 2006 is ridiculous and this is another corker you can add to the list.
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