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Post by mattsdmf on Jan 18, 2023 17:01:48 GMT -5
Jay & Mark Briscoe vs Kevin Steen & El Generico (Boston Street Fight) [ROH Death Before Dishonor V Night 1 8/10/2007]
These two teams sure know how to provide an unpredictable brawl and that’s what they provided. They don’t even wait until the bell rings and both teams split up and brawl through the crowd. Instead of the WWE hold their head and walk type of brawling, these guys are chucking chairs at each other’s heads and supposing each other on the floor. I could probably nit pick that things were kind of sloppy throughout but that was sort of the point of this match. It really did feel like these teams hated each other. Generico was the MVP of the match for taking such jaw dropping and painful looking spots. Also the hilarious moment of Kevin Steen looking directly into the camera calling for his mama.
If you like out of control chaotic brawls with these 2 teams, I highly recommend this! I think I even prefer this over their famous Ladder War match from Man Up.
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Post by tetsujin on Jan 18, 2023 18:24:04 GMT -5
I want to take a look at their series of matches together. Any link to this somewhere?
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Post by kas on Jan 18, 2023 18:35:57 GMT -5
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Post by tetsujin on Jan 20, 2023 7:14:10 GMT -5
Thanks for the link, Kas!
They spend the first 15 minutes brawling among the crowd, and I gotta say, it was one of the best "brawl among the crowd" segments I've ever seen, among stuff like Austin/Bret or Anarchy in the Arena. Just non-stop insane spot after spot, but they sold everything really well and it never went to overkill territory, as impossible as it might sound. The adrenaline was on full display here for all four guys, and while they all shine equally and there wasn't anyone stealing the show or whatever, I'd say Steen little details got me most of the time, for example when a table he's setting up just casually breaks and he just smiles saying "it'll do its work anyway", or when he's selling a big bump at the ringside and he's whispering "mommy?" while looking at the infinity.
While in the ring, they started things a bit weird with dumb sequences like those four consecutive chairshots, but overall the quality stayed the same. This match doesn't have the strongest of the character works, the violence doesn't go to that *next* level that other matches of its kind have, but it's surprisingly consistent because it starts on fire and stays that way throughout the whole thing, while never tiring neither the crowd nor myself, so big props for that. One of the funniest brawls I've ever seen, not quite GME-contender levels to me, but yeah really great, definitely give it a shot if you haven't seen it already. ****
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Post by mrjmml on Apr 11, 2023 16:24:24 GMT -5
A great match, it's way better than any Guerrilla Warfare match from PWG and features some gnarly chairshots. They should have put a passive CTE warning.
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