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Post by elliott on Sept 27, 2019 16:59:11 GMT -5
Still probably the most harrowing match I’ve ever seen.
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Post by bossrock on Aug 23, 2020 22:05:01 GMT -5
Second.
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Post by Cap on Aug 24, 2020 6:48:37 GMT -5
Third
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Post by puroraisedme on Aug 24, 2023 11:13:50 GMT -5
Watched this today and my god this is incredible. Fairly simple stuff sure, irish whips into the barbed wire, table spots and whatnot, BUT the brutality of it all is top shelf stuff. Sabu destroys his bicep with the barbed wire about halfway in and tapes it up mid match, him and Funk get dropped and thrown into the barbed wire in some of the most cringe inducing ways and to top it off Van Dam and Alfonso wrap funk in the barbed wire and put him onto the table to get put through it by Sabu, and THEN Sabu wraps himself in barbed wire to do it again. The finish is wonderful and violent in all the best ways. Truly a spectacle of a match.
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Post by fxnj on Aug 24, 2023 16:53:58 GMT -5
Best ECW match ever? The match delivers on the blood and carnage, but I was impressed by how well they did the little things, like sensibly building to the bigger spots and not taking forever to set things up. Sabu getting his bicep sliced open and needing to take time out of the match to tape it up also goes a long way to selling the brutality. Yeah, they slow down towards the end and the ending is a bit sudden, but the post-match really gets across how close these guys came to life-altering injuries if they were just a little less careful out here.
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Post by elliott on Aug 24, 2023 18:22:12 GMT -5
Best ECW match ever.
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Post by puroraisedme on Jan 24, 2024 6:50:02 GMT -5
Rewatched this and yeah, this is still without a doubt the best ECW match ever.
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Post by tetsujin on Feb 7, 2024 16:48:00 GMT -5
I started liking this, but ended up hating it so much. The gimmick becomes the match's worst enemy, dragging the pace and making it too uncomfortable to watch at the end, and not even in the "I can't stop looking at it" kind of being uncomfortable, more in the "ok when is this gonna end?". I was not entertained once Sabu cuts his bíceps and spends the rest of the match trying to apply a bandage on it.
As I said before, hardcore wrestling is not really my thing, and it's rare when I find it enjoyable. This was not one of those moments.
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