I'm Living For Giving Pirata Morgan His Due

Pirata Morgan, Emilio Charles Jr., & Hombre Bala vs. Super Mueneco, Hurrican Ramirez, & Ciclon Ramirez EMLL 3/12/1989 - GREAT

Here's another heaping helping of Pirata Morgan beating the shit out of people. I really never tire of this. This isn't the greatest beating he's ever lain on a group of technicos, but it's a pretty hard thing to screw up. Hombre Bala provides ample support. He and Pirata bust out the awesome two-person proto-Go 2 Sleep on Ciclon Ramirez near the end of the first fall, and then Bala just flapjacks Ciclon clear out of the ring right afterwords. Ciclon eats a ton of punishment here and looks great doing so. Hurrican, meanwhile is probably the most offensively dynamic guy on his team, throwing some pretty armdrags and having Ciclon back body drop him over the top rope onto Emilio on the floor. He also eats a nasty somersault senton and a piledriver from Pirata down the stretch, because apparently, Pirata Morgan hates his guts. The main contribution of Mueneco and Emilio comes near the end when Mueneco has Pirata in a scorpion deathlock, and Emilio jumps in front of him and starts mocking his "lolling his head around" zany comedy bit, so Mueneco releases the hold and punches Emilio in the face. I'm not sure why Emilio thought that was a good idea, but I was amused nonetheless. Phil thought the finish was flat, but the finish was Pirata clearing Mueneco out of the ring so Bala could tap Ciclon was a scorpion deathlock variant while Emilio crushed Hurrican with a top rope splash, and then they all went outside and mercilessly kicked the shit out of Super Mueneco for a while, so I can't really hate on that.


Pirata Morgan, Herodes, & Gran Markus Jr. vs. Solomon Grundy, Ringo Mendoza, & Atlantis EMLL 3/4/1990 - GREAT

Solomon Grundy sort of seems like he should be Dean Rasmussen's favorite wrestler ever. In fact, I'm only convinced that they're not the same person because Luchawiki has a picture of him from 2007, and I actually met Dean in person in 2008, and I could see a difference. Anyway, there is usually kind of a ceiling on how good Grundy matches can be, but this managed to bypass it largely by being worked less as a showcase for zany fat guy comedy antics and more as a straight lucha trios match that had some zany fat guy comedy antics in it. Grundy gets a lot of his silliness in, yes, but he also mixes in a standing dropkick that maybe wasn't the best I've ever seen, but was certainly impressive for a guy that size. Moreover, the rudos took the second fall by ganging up on the big man, bringing him to his knees, and then making him submit to Markus and Herodes holding him in place (with Herodes digging his fingers into Grundy's eye) while Pirata kicked the shit out of him. And the third fall is built around angry Grundy, which is...not totally unlike silly Grundy, actually, but there's definitely a different vibe to it. There is a sense of purpose to his hip-wiggling taunt that wasn't there before, never mind his actual offense. There are a bunch of fun performances from all the supporting players here, especially Atlantis, who has his high-energy offense on display here, especially in an early exchange with Pirata where he breaks out that fancy armdrag he had back in the day, and busting out a wild looking tope right before the finish. Ringo's no slouch, either, and has a great dive of his own, and Markus and Herodes both look great stooging, brawling, and bumping, including Herodes taking a spill that almost lands him in the lap of a little old lady in the front row. Still, Pirata is the guy who proves why he has a Complete & Accurate dedicated to him. Still the best Grundy stooge, still the most badass brawler, and still the craziest bumper, taking a great Jerry bump in the first fall, and then going too far trying to scoot away from Atlantis in the third, causing himself to accidentally take essentially an inverted Halloween bump. This was right on the border between FUN and GREAT, as no one was really exceptional in this, but everyone was really good, it had no real weak points, and I was thoroughly engaged throughout. Inverted Halloween bump and angry Grundy with nothing really bad to say about the match makes me lean low-end GREAT.


COMPLETE AND ACCURATE PIRATA MORGAN