Golden Moose Cholak vs. Larry Chene (Chicago - 5/15/1963)
Mar 15, 2019 17:27:44 GMT -5
Post by fxnj on Mar 15, 2019 17:27:44 GMT -5
I think I might have low balled this. Great match with a bit of a rep to it. Well worth watching if you haven't.
19630515 Golden Moose Cholak vs Larry Chene
This is from 1963 but it feels nothing like that. It's structured more like something you might see from 90's onwards, and I'd even say it's more impressive than a lot of similar matches from modern times. Both guys build the match around athletic spots and stiff brawling with the matwork being pretty minimal compared to what you might expect from this period. Cholak is the big man heel champ and Chene is the flying babyface, and they're both at home working their roles. The match follows a similar pattern to what you might see in CMLL matches with the bad guy controlling with clubbering blows and throwing around the face en route to winning the first fall, the face making a comeback to win the end of the 2nd fall, and the 3rd fall being mostly even, but I thought it escalated much better than most CMLL matches I've seen. They start off with basic stuff, then Cholak headbutts Chene with his head gear to bust him open, then Chene gets revenge by busting Cholak open with a shoe, and then it's a double juice brawl to a time limit draw. Everything just felt so natural with things slowly progressed from trying to control the match into just wanting to hurt the other guy. It took me out of it a bit how neither guy seemed in a hurry to finisher while the time keeper was screaming that only a few minutes were left, but you could say it was part of the story that they didn't really care about finishing by that point. With a tad more compelling stretch run this could have been a classic, but still well worth checking out. ****1/8
19630515 Golden Moose Cholak vs Larry Chene
This is from 1963 but it feels nothing like that. It's structured more like something you might see from 90's onwards, and I'd even say it's more impressive than a lot of similar matches from modern times. Both guys build the match around athletic spots and stiff brawling with the matwork being pretty minimal compared to what you might expect from this period. Cholak is the big man heel champ and Chene is the flying babyface, and they're both at home working their roles. The match follows a similar pattern to what you might see in CMLL matches with the bad guy controlling with clubbering blows and throwing around the face en route to winning the first fall, the face making a comeback to win the end of the 2nd fall, and the 3rd fall being mostly even, but I thought it escalated much better than most CMLL matches I've seen. They start off with basic stuff, then Cholak headbutts Chene with his head gear to bust him open, then Chene gets revenge by busting Cholak open with a shoe, and then it's a double juice brawl to a time limit draw. Everything just felt so natural with things slowly progressed from trying to control the match into just wanting to hurt the other guy. It took me out of it a bit how neither guy seemed in a hurry to finisher while the time keeper was screaming that only a few minutes were left, but you could say it was part of the story that they didn't really care about finishing by that point. With a tad more compelling stretch run this could have been a classic, but still well worth checking out. ****1/8
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