His Rhymes are Homicidal, He'll Take Your Title He's Ricky Banderas far from Billy Idol
Ricky Banderas v. Slash Venom IWA-PR 10/18/03 -EPIC
This is exactly the kind of blood soaked spectacle I was hoping to unearth. I think I had seen clips of the finish before, but never the whole match. Slash Venom is awesome southern indy wrestler Flash Flanagan and he brings the crazy right to Banderas. Banderas works him from pillar to post early busting him open with chair shots and big bombs. Venom takes over a bit and hits a spring board elbow to the floor through the table, which gets crazy height, totally memorable highspot which is really overshadowed by the bat shit finish. Venom sets up a table and they brawl to a balcony legit 20-25 feet above the floor, they tease a couple of falls before Banderas chucks Venom over the rail, causing him to take a flat back bump on a gym floor after a 20 foot plus drop. It was as crazy, if not more crazy then the Foley HIC bumps or that time New Jack tried to murder Vic Grimes. Finish would have made it memorable no matter what, but this was a corker before that too.
Judas Mesias v. Abyss TNA 1/22/08 - FUN
This was a barbed wire massacre match, basically a no-rope barbed wire match with barbed wire weapons. This isn't a match which is going to pump up Mesais reputation. It had several gruesome visuals, and some nastish bumps (Mesias goes stomach first on a barbed wire board which had to suck). The fact they had an actual feud building to it, puts it above a throw away IWA-MS Mad Man Pondo garbage match, but not by much. Abyss will bleed a ton but man is he shitty at lots of other things you are supposed to do as a wrestler. Mesias didn't look much better in the basics category either, there is one point where they are on their knees exchanging "punches" which was about as bad as I remember seeing. Also the backstory of this some bad Russo knock off Kane shit. Apparently Father James Mitchell is Abyss's biological father, and he has brought his other son Judas Mesias in to destroy Abyss. Tenay for some reason keeps calling Mesias, Abyss's step brother as opposed to his half brother. Is the gimmick that Mitchell married Mesias's mother and help raise her blood splitting son?
COMPLETE AND ACCURATE MESIAS
Labels: Abyss, IWA-PR, Ricky Banderas, Slash Venom, TNA
posted by Phil @ 5:00 PM
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Oh boy, Slash Venom is one of the most underrated millennial brawlers. He even made a short comeback to Puerto Rico in 2014 and pulled a pretty great brawl out of Miguel Pérez Jr.
The Venom/Banderas feud ran for about 2 years on and off. After this match they had an angle where Slash came out in a wheelchair and Banderas actually showed some remorse until Slash leapt out of the chair, brutally attacked him and tore off the neckbrace. They had another couple of street fights and a dog collar match before a scaffold match on February 7th 2004. After that Slash left Savio Vega's Corporation and turned face so they didn't really face off that much until their series in 2005. This is one of them from July 9th 2005 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6Hdw7gWt-g
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