The Dandy/Azteca feud rolls on. That was the centrepiece here and it ruled, not just in what they actually did together but how it progressed over the course of the match. Azteca comes in with a chip on his shoulder after being SLIGHTED by Dandy and Texano the previous week. At the end of that match Azteca and Dandy were at each other's throat and YOU knew that AZTECA knew Dandy didn't see him as being on his level. Azteca took umbrage and wanted to show Dandy and everyone else how wrong he was. He had the whole primera to do it, the entire fall one extended Dandy/Azteca exchange, but maybe the moment was too big for him because in the end he was soundly dispatched. You'll sometimes hear sprint coaches talking about athletes getting out their own head, focusing on staying loose and maintaining stride rhythm, rather than thinking about running as fast as humanly possible. You don't want to try SO hard that you tense up and movement patterns stiffen and the run suffers. That's what the primera looked like for Azteca. He had a point to prove and in his head that was all that mattered, but it crippled his rhythm and he couldn't focus on the moment and you can't get away with that against Roberto Gutierrez El Dandy. The matwork had a real intensity to it and it always felt like it could break down, then Azteca grabbed a hammerlock and Dandy, with one arm, slammed him on his neck. It was brutal and immediately after that he submitted Azteca with headscissors. As soon as the fall ended everyone else jumped in the ring, conscious of the fact the match was on a knife edge and that tensions could spill over, each guy prepared to let it fly should it come to that. Then as the match went on Azteca started to loosen up, started to find his rhythm and settle into a groove. That wasn't always against Dandy and it took Chavo Guerrero cracking his jaw with an uppercut along the way, but regardless of how he got there he'd peaked by the tercera. The match finished with them going at it and every roll-up felt like it could be the finish, which is the kind of thing that can sound hyperbolic but I really mean it. The crowd felt the same and bit on every count. Everyone else brought the goods in their supporting roles and each exchange kept pace with Dandy/Azteca, the struggle always present and that intensity was there for everything. Chavo hitting his amazing northern lights suplex on Americo Rocca was a thing of beauty and Rocca sold it by locking his leg out and quivering like he was going into shock. Cruz and Rocca also obliterated Dandy with a doomsday device dropkick even the Road Warriors would wince at. I am ready for every instalment of Dandy v Azteca.
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