Finlay has Traveled Far and Wander Wide

Finlay v. Davey Richards AAW 7/21/12

With Finlay returning to the WWE this is possibly his last wrestling match ever. It is rough to end such a great career with a fucking Davey Richards match, but it is a testament to his greatness that he was able to get something pretty damn great out of Davey. Richards isn't a guy without positive attributes, he works stiff, will take big bumps and is a pretty good athlete. Finlay takes what he does well and doesn't indulge his nonsense. Match starts with some very cool basic mat wrestling, with Finlay grabbing tight holds and Richards keeps active trying to counter. Richards goes for his running kick on the apron and Finlay grabs his leg and dumps him on his face. Then Finlay kicks his ass like Davey was chanting RESPECT during the undercard, forearms to the throat, uppercuts, knees to the nose, the whole Finlay catalogue. Fit misses a corner charge and Richards takes over and it was mostly fine, although he did do a crappy fast kick combo. I did like Richards diving headbutt, which didn't look like any I had seen before for a derivative guy it was pretty unique. The finish was pretty cool too, Richards runs at Finlay after a rollup and gets totally wasted with a knee lift, Finlay cracks him a couple of more times, goes for a Tombstone, but Richards wiggles out and locks on a kneebar which Finlay does a Regal style quick tap. Very good match, probably the best Richards match I have ever seen, and a surprisingly effective swan song for Finlay.



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