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Post by elliott on Dec 8, 2017 21:35:44 GMT -5
El Satanico vs Shiro Koshinaka (Hair vs Hair - EMLL 7/30/1984)
Classic match from Koshinaka's excursion to Mexico and Satanico's legendary 1984 run. This is an awesome match that is actually a pretty high degree of difficulty. Koshinaka was virtually a rookie working in a foreign country against a foreign opponent in a foreign style. Lucha brawls tend to be more universal than title or trios matches. But still. You wouldn't know it from this match. This is a great mixture of wrestling and brawling. I've always loved this.
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Post by Cap on Dec 9, 2017 15:38:53 GMT -5
Second
This is a match that doesn't click for me quite the same way it clicks for others. I agree with everything Elliott says though and think on the uniqueness and balance alone it deserves consideration. I am going to give this another go at some point and see if it cracks my list, but right now it is on the outside looking in.
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Post by microstatistics on Jan 6, 2018 22:16:10 GMT -5
I am irrationally high on this. Unique and brilliantly executed story of the local anti-hero taking on the invading foreigner. Amazing brawling and selling. Clever and poetic finish + an awesome post-match. This has it all. Top 10 contender.
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Post by bossrock on Jan 15, 2018 21:16:34 GMT -5
This is a pretty fantastic match. Like Elliot said, it's an interesting mix of wrestling and brawling. Shiro works the arm early and controls the majority of the grappling exchanges, pissing off Satanico to the point where he's ready to tear him apart. The selling from both guys is great but Satanico in particular is masterful. Selling exhaustion due to blood loss and accumulated blows is a bit of a lost art and this match proves just how compelling it can be.
Extremely underrated brawl and could very well make my list.
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Post by mrjmml on Aug 15, 2023 13:19:49 GMT -5
Satánico vs Shiro Koshinaka (EMLL - 7/30/1984)
Hair vs Hair
Shiro is absolutely wild in this match, this match is notorious for breaking most of lucha’s rules and the explanation for most of those rule-breaking moments is the lack of an NWA commissioner that’s the same thing that usually happened in Puerto Rico, I’m sure you’re at least familiar with the brawls World Wrestling Council was known for, Hugo Savinovich (a terribly obnoxious announcer) used to highlight his presence whenever he showed up to a match, if that happened a brawl was absolutely guaranteed, the commissioner was always upset and Hugo never failed to tell the viewer about it, the most famous instance of that happening was that Carlos Colón vs Abdullah The Butcher, the one where Carlitos poked Abdullah’s eye to such an extent that the match had to be stopped and Savinovich tried his best to maintain Colón’s image as the puerto rican hero. In México this situations are rarer but they can happen once in a while and this match is the prime example of it, Shiro Koshinaka proved himself in front of the mexican crowd against the greatest wrestler of the year and officially the best rudo in EMLL the previous year if you’re curious the best wrestler of EMLL in 1983 was Sangre Chicana, he also had a classic against Satánico that year, that’s how good Satánico is, his work is just different, it’s special and as rough as lucha can get, during this match the announcer said that Satoru Sayama and Mitsuharu Misawa worked in México and that made me think ‘‘if what we have is this good imagine what we don’t have’’ that’s the same thing that happens with the great workers from the 1950’s and before, Lou Thesz debuted in 1929 and we consider him one of the greatest wrestlers in history with what we have since 1950, lucha is very similar, we start to have consistent footage in 1983 so everything before that is a blindspot of the wrestling community.
The first fall went to Shiro, he hit Satánico before the introduction and maintained the advantage, the second was won comfortably by Satánico and the third is the funniest part, Shiro hit a piledriver on Satánico and somehow he kicked out, if you are piledrived in lucha you’re supposed to leave the arena stretched off so kicking out is just badass anyway Satánico won because Koshinaka hit a low blow and the referee saw it.
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