Oh No, They Say He's Got To Go, Go Go Pirata Morgan

Pirata Morgan & Sangre Chicana vs. Antifaz del Norte & Hator Monterrey 7/8/2007 - SKIPPABLE

Sangre Chicana is an awesome professional wrestler who rarely makes tape these days, and to that end, when he does show up on tape, I'm hesitant to turn my nose up at it. And to be fair, it's not like he did anything wrong wrong in this match. Neither did Pirata. It wasn't a transcendent performance for either man, but they punched guys in the face a bunch, and that's all I really ask for from them. For that matter, Antifaz was perfectly fine here, too, eating stuff well and making great desperate, gutsy attempts at comebacks. Hator was pretty useless. He spent a lot of this match fooling around with his hair when downed or in holds. Say what you will about guys like Sabu and Misawa selling by adjusting their tights, I at least buy that misaligned tights could theoretically make wrestling more difficult, and as long as you're not going anywhere at the moment, you might want to fix that. But it's not even like Hator's hair was in his face or restricting him in any other way. Sangre Chicana would put him in an armbar, and he'd just fiddle with his hair for some reason. He doesn't even have nice hair! It's all stringy and greasy. I don't even know why you'd want to play with it. But honestly, I could even forgive Hator apparently not even realizing he was in a wrestling match at the moment. No, what seals this as SKIPPABLE was the epically shitty booking of the match. This had one of the more aggressive rudo refs I've ever seen. Forget slow counts and missed calls, he is openly taking shots at Antifaz and Hator here, and in full view of the technico ref, who really can't be bothered to care. Now, I've defended non-traditional refereeing in the past, and honestly, while this was jarring, I could look past it....until the end of the first fall, when Pirata accidentally-on-purpose does a falling headbutt into Antifaz's crotch, and the rudo ref suddenly sees the error of his ways and DQ's him, and then becomes aggressively technico. I'm sorry, I don't buy that you went from actually attacking the technicos yourself despite your position (and having the technicos fight back against you, for that matter) to completely reforming after seeing one of the rudos perform a possibly unintentional foul over the course of a single fall. And then the second fall has some schmozz finish where the Jr. Piratas and Los Vipers run in, and this time nobody gets DQ'd for some reason, and Pirata and Chicana lose cleanly-ish...whatever. Between the booking and Hator sucking, I just didn't give a shit anymore.

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