Bryan Danielson vs Necro Butcher (PWG - 7/29/2007)

I don’t know if I’ve ever seen this match. Whenever I try to find stuff from this era of PWG I’ve come up empty. I’ll second it anyway because there’s no way it’s not great.

Second

This was great fuckin craic. Danielson/Necro feels like a match-up that should've happened a few dozen times, but I get why it didn't and BECAUSE it didn't it manages to have that Indie Dream Match feel to it. And there's nobody better at working Indie Dream Match than the Necro Butcher. The early grappling was great, just super gritty with Danielson trying to stretch Necro out and Necro fighting like a mad man to avoid it. We all know what Necro is by now and mat wizard isn't it, but he absolutely does add an awesome sense of struggle to holds, sort of like an Ian Rotten with his meth head Battlarts. There's an authenticity - maybe even a by god LEGITIMACY - that lots of guys held up as good mat wrestlers never capture. Danielson offers up a knucklelock so Necro punches him in the stomach and throws headbutts, because of course he does. He throws two clonkers, then Danielson reels back to avoid the third and rolls Necro onto the mat, at which point he starts grinding his knuckles into the newly-opened cut on Necro's forehead. The brawling on the floor ruled. Necro recklessly throws chairs at Danielson and appears to cut him open above the eye, then whips a plastic bag out his pocket and tries to suffocate him! When Danielson starts throwing chairs in return Necro leaves himself wide open like a true maniac and gets smashed in the face with at least three lobbed chairs. Loved the bit where Danielson tried to go for Cattle Mutilation and Necro smashed him in the face with the back of his head, then tried to gouge his eye out while Danielson was trying to hook those arms. Necro's hobo Holyfield punch flurry, Danielson's crucifix elbows, everything in the last couple minutes was hit with a thud. Just an awesome ten minutes.

Third. A fantastic little thing.