Saturday Night Digging in the Crates

We take a trip to the Bay Area to watch a couple of guys hit the mat hard.



Mr. Athletic Jeff Cobb v. Timothy Thatcher Supreme Pro Wrestling 2/17/13

PAS: Really odd awesome match. This is as close to RINGS as US wrestling is ever going to get. Thatcher is a Billy Robinson trained Catch guy, and Cobb is on the Guam Olympic wrestling team and outside of a few highspots, this is all grappling. Thatcher mixes in some cool WOS escapes and Cobb throws some nasty suplexes. I loved the finish, which had Thatcher mixing in some very cool counter wrestling as he reverses a german into an armbar.

ER: Thatcher is my favorite Bay Area guy (though it appears he's getting a lot of gigs all over the country, which is awesome for him) as he does cool throws and stiff strikes like Cesaro, but since he works on the indies he can do a lot more mat stuff, and he's really good on the mat. Cobb is a cool freakish power wrestler who can do incredible deadlift type throws. Cobb throws some beastly suplexes in this, including a nasty deadlift German where Thatcher desperately grabs for the ropes or anything to prevent from getting tossed (it doesn't work). One of my favorite show-off moves that Cobb does (which really not many can do in wrestling since few have his strength) is doing a move or slam almost to completion, then stopping his momentum and doing the move back the other way. Starts doing a powerslam, stops before the slam, and then goes back the other way with it. Just a total awesome feat to show that he's running things.