alright, i wanted to get to this match for a while, and today is as good of a day as any for it. negro casas is one of my favorite all-time wrestlers, and sam adonis is really good at drawing heat. i’ve only seen adonis before in the gran prix and anniversary show, but he always struck me as fine. anyways this got highly touted by lucha sorpresa, which encouraged me to go back a month later and seek this out. so lets get into it.
this started as with adonis acting like an absolute heat magnet, refusing to send someone into the back as he couldn’t have two seconds. a very quick primera. casas had adonis’s number and locked in the scorpion death lock after a tremendous la silla.
i’ve kind of grown a bigger appreciation for adonis as this segunda gets going. he’s tremendous in the little things. adonis knows to stop, milk in his heat, do something small and get a tremendous response. after breaking down casas pretty effectively (and breaking his ribs i guess from the 450 splash), adonis tied this up and it was time for the final fall.
adonis continued on the attack and focused on those broken ribs. i know that some people get super squeamish about working a pre-existing injury (or getting pretty vicious with it), but this really worked in an apuestas match. the way that arena mexico got really into casas’ comebacks was really awesome. it was proof of both adonis’ character work but also how much sympathy casas gets at this point of his career. it really felt that casas was doing whatever he could to not only stay in this match, but stay upright. i’m not saying folks should ask their opponent to break their ribs, and i feel perverse saying this, but it actually added a lot to this match.
a really tough looking superplex was when i started to lose it. casas was able to convey through real life pain that he was almost out of it and couldn’t barely kick out. another time hitting la silla and a top rope missile dropkick lead to negro casas locking up adonis with la casita gave casas adonis’ scalp.
i really loved this. the two relatively quick falls (and injury in the segunda) set up a strong and heated trecera. the trecera absolutely owned. great brawling and selling, painful looking nearfalls, and a tremendous finish. it’s really a shame that casas got injured, but it added to it. the post match with adonis still drawing in the boos, getting shaved and still trying to beat down casas, also ruled. i think it’s a must watch, even for not usual lucha fans. 4.5
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