Pro Wrestling Revolution 3/28/15 Workrate Report

The show starts with a really nice, well put together Perro Aguayo tribute video. Really nice stuff and I'm still just stunned by his passing. Like it just does not seem real. Really makes me extremely aware of how close to death any of us are at any given moment. It's humbling and frightening

1. El Mariachi vs. Derek Sanders (6/8/14)

Boy this feud is just dead in the water. I've seen them wrestle several times, and nothing about the matches ever feels different. I watched their hair vs. mask match and it was worked exactly the same as all of their other matches. And just like those matches this is an 8 minute match shown as the entirety of a 30 minute program. We get a long La Migra entrance and promo, which is just like all of the other ones with Derek Sanders telling the audience to SHUT UP for several minutes, and then saying that Mexicans are bad and the US is the best, really compelling stuff. Then commercials and Mariachi entrance and Mariachi tossing sombreros to whatever side is loudest, and then ANOTHER La Migra entrance and more commercials. Match started about 17 minutes into the program. I mean, we really needed to show Derek Sanders saying that he dislikes Mexicans, as many viewers could have misconstrued The Border Patrol's true intentions.

Match itself was actually the best match I've witnessed of theirs, with Mariachi actually showing presence and aggression that I haven't seen before. He came after Sanders right at the bell, and throughout the match kept going for his tornado DDT, almost trying to work it into being an "out of nowhere" finisher like the Diamond Cutter. First he tried to run up the corner with it, later the ropes, later on the floor tries to run up the apron and hit it. It lends an immediacy to things and I like it. He hits several nice armdrags that Sanders takes nicely. However, since I've seen their other matches I had a feeling which direction things were going, and sure enough it's only a matter of time before La Migra ref Sparky Ballard pulls up lame with a sore shoulder after a 2 count, and then hero ref Tom Castor runs out to deal with him. Out of all the things this fed can steal from real, actual lucha, their insistence on making referees stars that are paramount to their wrestlers is just maddening. I cannot think of a dumber reoccuring theme in all of the lucha I have watched. So of course that's a trademark that they have to lift, a tradition they have to carry on. So Tom Castor gets the biggest hero moment of the match, dispatching Ballard, but it's all for naught as Sanders punts Mariachi in the balls in all the referee chaos and that's that. I really cannot stand all the stuff with the refs, as it can never build to anything interesting, and it just seems so stupid to me to build all the biggest heat around one ref, and the big hero spot around another. So yes, match itself was fine and their best match-up together, but then end was a predictable crap pile. There is really nothing left in this feud and I really hope they stopped being booked against each other.