MLJ: Virus Spotlight 5: Bracito de Oro/Cicloncito Ramirez/Mascarita Magica vs Damiancito el Guerrero/Fierito/Pierrothito

1997-10-3 - Bracito de Oro/Cicloncito Ramirez/Mascarita Magica vs Damiancito el Guerrero/Fierito/Pierrothito

Part 1 (dailymotion)
Part 2 (dailymotion)

Here's our last Virus-As-A-Mini match, at least unless more become available. As I said last week, there's another one on YouTube from our good friend (and mysterious benefactor) Dataincash's channel. I'll post it here as it's worth watching but the VQ is such that it was a bit of a chore to try to write it up.

Instead, I suffered through dailymotion (and I'm too lazy to embed so I put the links up top, sorry), as we all have now and again, but this trios is under the radar (EDIT: under MY radar, and reader Rah who had only mentioned the one above as what was left for CR vs Damiancito online. OJ says it's considered one of the best ever by certain parties that we both respect). It was probably the best total package out of the ones I've seen though it needed just a bit more heat.

Some random thoughts to start: The rudos came out to Enter Sandman which was a little surreal. Mascarita Magica had no mask. He was perfectly fine in his role but it drives me nuts to have a guy called Mascarita anything without a mask. He lost his. That's great. Give him a new name. He'd get one eventually and become "Fire," unless I'm mistaken. Oh get this. so he lost the mask to Ultratumbita and the tercera of that match is online. Holy crap. Check out this tope!

Here's the tercera:

Fierito confused me. I've seen a dozen La Fiera matches but I don't think I've ever seen him with a mask. I'm not seeing much evidence he had a mask, so I'm not quite sure what's going on there. It was sort of an elaborate demon thing, as best as I can tell. He eventually became Pequeno Violencia. (EDIT: Thanks to Nick Knowledge in the comments who let me know that there was actually an El Fiero too. There's one match with him in that gimmick on youtube, and the mask is in full force). I have no idea why Brazo de Oro gets a mini and not any other Brazo.

I can't pull much of the way of gifs in this but there's some fun stuff to be seen. The primera was mostly even with Pierroth and Bracito working well together and Damiancito and Cicloncito working really well together (as always), with Fierito and Mascarita Magica picking up the pace. Magica was super agile. This all led to a Damiancito orchestrated ambush, being the first one to break the sportsmanship, some failed double-teaming due to heel miscommunication, and a surprise cut off allowing the rudos to take the fall.

The fact that they took the primera meant that there didn't need to be a ton of heat. Instead, there was a bit of a reset, some good work, a ton more rudo miscommunication to high comedic effect, and some great dives. So the primera ended with some great submissions and the segunda with some great dives, all of this with good bridging work. A lot of the time that's more than you can ask for out of any trios match.

Then they took it home with an all action tercera. There wasn't much of the way of great selling here, nor was there any sort of build to payoff so I can't tell you that you'll be stumbling into a great match, but this was absolutely a fun match, a spotfest with enough balance and focus that it wasn't big stupid wrestling. There was nothing offensive enough to distract (or detract) from the great action. I'd call it the good sort of spotfest. It's no wonder that Virus got bumped up to the higher weight class, though. He brought so much to the table. It's just too bad we have so few of his matches from the next few years online.

Back to GdI for Weds and Fri, and I'm thinking some Negro Casas deep cuts next week, but we'll see.

EDIT: It's been a while since I was corrected twice on one match, but I'm kind of glad for it. It shows that even after over a year of doing this, there's still so much I don't know. Thanks for the feedback.