It's kind of cool watching this two years after it happened, knowing how the Danielson retirement tour went and who he got to work with the following year. At the time I can only imagine that it must've made THOSE folks amongst us melancholy for the fact Danielson is clearly in his element working luchadores but we'd never get to see him against, say, a Blue Panther. What did we know, right? I actually think this is the first Bandido match I've ever seen. He got to look like quite the superstar and the crowd, who I guess were more familiar with him than me, were really into him. I liked the beginning of this with them going at least somewhat down the lucha matwork route, even if it had an Americanised spin on it. They traded the tapatia and Danielson stomped down on the knees when he couldn't quite grasp it, then Bandido teased the nudo lagunero which was a cool tip of the hat to Panther, a favourite of Danielson's but maybe an idol of Bandido's or maybe that's horse shit and just sounds cool in my head, who can say? Some of Bandido's stuff came off great. The delayed vertical suplex with Danielson trying to go dead weight only to be muscled up was awesome, there was a go to sleep thing out of an Atlantida that looked way better than I'd have thought it would running through the idea in my head, the double topes, and then the backflip fallaway slam off the top which was insanity. I usually can't be bothered with moves that use elaborate rope-bouncing prior to being hit - the jawbreaker lariat comes to mind - and when Bandido tried his 21 plex initially (which was reversed) I sort of hoped that would be the end of it. But he went back to it later and wouldn't you know it but it looked like the bounce off the rope while headstanding on a bent over man's back actually did generate extra momentum, as absolutely nonsensical as that sounds. I thought this was quality stuff and I definitely wouldn't be opposed to checking out more Bandido.
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