Dan Aubriot is the Brainwasher

Dan Aubriot v. Pierre Bernaert 9/11/62-EPIC

PAS: This project just keeps churning out classics with guys I have never heard of. Aubriot is the flashier of these two guys, he moves really quickly, super fast ranas, headscissors and the quickest spinning toe hold I have seen. Sometime I think the video might be a bit sped up things are so fast. He also takes a crazy bump getting slammed into the turnbuckle pad and flying over. Bernaert really starts shining when things break down and get nasty, he ends an uppercut exchange with a straight forearm which dims Aubriot's running lights, and as things get chippier he sneaks in nasty stiff cheapshots, by then end he almost feels like a proto-Terry Rudge or Finlay. I still haven't gotten a sense of how these matches end, as it felt a bit abrupt, but the work here was off the charts and we get to add two names to the list of forgotten French maestros. 

ER: This stuff is just impossibly cool. The ref looks like Michel from Breathless, and all the matwork looks like stuff Jackie Chan could have stolen and milked for several more movies. The headscissor reversals at the 4 minute mark alone are worth the price of admission. Seeing these two skinny French guys throw knees makes me realize how poorly the modern knee lift has been appropriated. Aubriot throws a couple quick variations to the side of Bernaert's face, and Bernaert throws one short and fast to the stomach that looked better than any Mr. Wrestling kneelift I've seen. The stiffness of these guys continually surprised me as they throw finer uppercuts and forearms than any of the modern tiny overcompensating indy guys. This whole match had a different feel to the others that had popped up so far, as it still had all the cool ranas and armdrags and reversals that you've never seen before, but by the end had devolved into a real slugfest. Soak these up while we got 'em, people!

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