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Monday, December 05, 2016

Complete and Accurate Low-Ki



Low-Ki is the last of the indy legends. Tyler Black and Kevin Steen are main eventing WWE PPV, American Dragon is in the WON Hall of Fame, and Ki never signed with a major label (well he did but TNA doesn't count and that WWE stint was pretty negligible). He was pretty awesome straight out of the gate and still shows up a couple times a year and kicks ass. There is a fair amount of TNA stuff we ignored, and random indy classics to unearth.

1998

 Lokey vs. Monster Mac vs. Ken Sweeney vs. Indian Chief Tango LIWF 10/10/98 - FUN

2001

Low-Ki vs. Crash Holly WWF 2/17/01 - FUN
Low-Ki vs. American Dragon ECWA 7/21/01 - EPIC
Low-Ki vs. Amazing Red ICW 9/14/01 - EPIC

2003

 Low-Ki/Elix Skipper/Christopher Daniels/Vince Russo vs. The Road Warriors/Dusty Rhodes/Jeff Jarrett NWA-TNA 1/15/03 - GREAT

2004

 Low-Ki vs. CM Punk - JAPW 10/30/04 - GREAT

2012

Low Ki vs. Ahtu EVOLVE 1/14/12 - FUN

2015

Low-Ki vs. Drew Galloway TNA 3/16/15 - GREAT
Low-Ki vs. Chris Dickinson JAPW 3/21/15 - EPIC 
Low-Ki vs. Rey Mysterio JAPW 11/14/15 - EPIC
Low-Ki/Homicide vs. Da Hit Squad Beyond Wrestling 12/27/15 - GREAT

2016

Team Doghouse (Low-Ki/Homicide/Da Hit Squad vs. Team Pazuzu (Chris Dickinson/Jaka/Team EYFBO) JAPW 4/30/16 - GREAT
Low-Ki vs. Drew Galloway HOG 8/19/16 - GREAT
Low-Ki/Homicide/Eddie Kingston vs. Dave Crist/Jake Crist/Sami Callihan AAW 11/4/16 - EPIC
Low-Ki/Homicide/Joker vs. Da Hit Squad JAPW 11/12/16 - EPIC
Low-Ki/Homicide/Eddie Kingston vs. Drago/Brian Cage/Pentagon Jr. AAW 11/26/16 - FUN


2017

Low-Ki vs. Alberto El Patron HOG 2/18/17 - GREAT
Low-Ki vs. Sami Callihan AAW 3/17/17 - EPIC
Low-Ki vs. Shane Strickland WrestleCon Supershow 3/31/17 - GREAT
Low-Ki vs. Trevor Lee vs. Suicide vs. Sonjay Dutt vs. Andrew Everett vs. Dezmond Xavier Impact Wrestling 4/20/17 - FUN
Low-Ki vs. Trevor Lee vs. Andrew Everett Impact Wrestling 4/23/17 - EPIC
Low-Ki vs. Andrew Everett Impact Wrestling 4/23/17 - GREAT
Low-Ki vs. Abyss AAW 6/17/17 - GREAT
Low-Ki vs. Matt Sydal v. El Hijo Del Fantasma Impact Wrestling 7/4/17 - EPIC
Low-Ki vs. Penta El 0M Tier 1 Wrestling 6/11/17 - FUN
Low-Ki vs. Johnny Impact Wrestling 8/19/17 - EPIC
Low-Ki/Homicide vs. WALTER/Timothy Thatcher wXw 10/7/17 - EPIC

2018

Low-Ki vs. Amazing Red HOG 2/3/18 - EPIC
Low-Ki vs. Kotto Brazil MLW 2/8/18 - FUN
Low-Ki vs. JT Dunn WHAT Wrestling 3/11/18 - FUN
Low-Ki/WALTER vs. Jordan Devlin/David Starr OTT 6/2/18 - EPIC
Low-Ki vs. Ricky Martinez MLW 6/7/18 - FUN
Low-Ki vs. Shane Strickland MLW 7/12/18 - FUN
Low-Ki vs. Sami Callihan HOG 8/17/18 - GREAT
Low-Ki vs. Rey Fenix MLW 9/16/18 - EPIC
Low-Ki vs. Daga MLW 10/4/18 - GREAT
Low-Ki vs. Shane Strickland MLW 11/8/18 - GREAT
Low-Ki vs. Fred Yehi MLW 12/13/18 - GREAT 
Low-Ki vs. Konnan MLW 12/14/18 - GREAT

2019

 Low-Ki vs. Tom Lawlor MLW 2/2/19 - GREAT
Low-Ki vs. Volador Jr. IWC Legacy 4/14/19 - FUN

Low-Ki vs. King Mo MLW 2/17/21 - FUN
Low-Ki vs. 2 Cold Scorpio DFW 4/9/21- GREAT
Low-Ki vs. Ninja Mack Loko Wrestling 9/18/21-EPIC

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2016 Ongoing MOTY List: Killer Cult v. Rottweilers

27. Sami Callihan/Jake Crist/Dave Crist v. Homicide/Eddie Kingston/Low-Ki AAW 11/4

PAS: This was the climax of a long feud between Callihan and Kingston, with Kingston bringing in Homicide and Callihan bringing in the Crists (including pulling Jake out of retirement), This was a six-man with Outlaw Inc. bringing in a surprise partner, and it had to be one of the best actual deliveries of a surprise in wrestling history. Ki comes out in a black suit, looking like video game Hitman and starts fucking dudes up. They have a really fun area tour brawl, throwing each other into the sides of walls, leaping off bars, chucking chairs. Callihan smashes Ki's knee inbetween chairs, and when the match goes into the ring, we have Kingston and Homicide battling the Killer Cult with Ki blitzing in on a bad knee to break up pins. There is a near fall and out of nowhere there is this crazy fuck in a suit leaping in with a double stomp. Ki sitings are so sporadic these days, that every time he shows up it is a treat.

ER: Yeah buddy this was good, and Phil is dead on in proclaiming this one of the greatest surprise deliveries in wrestling. I would have blown my buttons live. And I would have ran around the building following Ki's fight wherever it went. Both times I got to see Necro Butcher live you can see me on tape following wherever he goes, standing as close as possible and squealing with glee whenever he would do Necro Butcher stuff. At last year's WWN WM Supershow I ran all around the building watching Drew Galloway and Gargano hit each other from a few feet away, way harder than my chest or face could take, and later when I watched the show on tape there I was cringing and yelling and jumping around filled with joy. So there is no doubt in my mind that I would have been following Ki everywhere and losing it for every strike. Ki comes out in a suit like a Puerto Rican Jason Statham, and this whole match was a total 5 star Low-Ki performance, but I liked the whole crew here. Dave Crist draws the short straw and gets matched with Ki and does an awesome job getting kicked around the room, peaking when he gets planted head first into a chair and just sticking there vertically. Ki does all these great running dropkicks and both Crists are game to bump like they're getting blown back by an explosion. Also I'm pretty sure neither Crist is retired. Those guys show up in results seemingly more than anybody. Anyway Ki hits a crazy footstomp off the bar, and meanwhile we have Eddie Kingston tossing dudes into support beams and into the crowd. Killer Cult finally mounts some kind of comeback when the sturdy non-folding chairs come into play, smashing Ki's leg and Kingston's arm in mean ways. The Low-Ki nearfall save is a wonderful moment to cap a total blast of a match.

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MLJ: Brazo de Oro vs Gran Markus Jr. [DF HEAVY]

1995-08-15 @ Arena Coliseo
Brazo de Oro vs Gran Markus Jr. [DF HEAVY]


I wanted to go full on DVDVR with this one. FAT MAN WAR~~~!! BATTLE OF THE BULGE 1995~~! It's sort of warranted, too. This was posted last night and since I don't have access to the Network currently and didn't feel like dealing with the malware that you get from finding a stream, I went with it. Brazo de Oro was 98 on my GWE ballot, and while that was a gimmick/personal pick to a degree, that was only because of footage. I've enjoyed everything I've seen him in. Markus, Jr. is not someone I'm as familiar with (despite seeing a ton of Markus <unrelated> matches on NWAonDemand), but I've heard not great things so I didn't know what to expect.

This was for the DF Heavyweight Title, which I spent two minutes looking for a lineage of and couldn't find without actually trying. I'm sure it's out there. There are so many belts in Mexico, belts tied to the country, to a region, to a specific arena. They're all defended with a two week build and companies can't even remember who has what. It's charming in its own way, but I'm not going out of my way to figure out exactly what this thing was.

Title match formula more or less works. This felt a bit like a middle ground between 80s title matches and what we have today, where there are tiny primeras and segundas and endless laying about and nearfalls in the terceras. Everything was a little shorter here, but I think it was more to keep Markus from getting winded and so that the match didn't wear out its welcome. I thought it worked for what it was.

The primera was mostly matwork and some rope running, more fluid than you'd expect even if at a measured speed, and ended with this vaguely impressive spot as a reversal/cut off:



And a splash from the top by Markus. After some surprisingly good bullying from Markus, Oro came back at the end of the segunda mainly with this awesome armdrag and a Kane/Albert level rana to even things up.




Then they went back and forth in the tercera with two big topes from Oro, some nice callback spots, and an awkwardly graceful (sic) roll up to finish:




They highlighted each other's strengths well, able to pull off very unlikely spots with one another. Oro showed that Brazo athleticism you'd never expect from looking at him and had a real connection with the crowd, which were chanting for him most of the way through. I came out of this wanting to see Markus base for a high flying up-and-coming tecnico (though I'm not sure who that would be in 1995 CMLL except for Garza, and that's not quite what I'm thinking of). Between his bullying and the way he went over for some of Oro's armdrags, it theoretically should work. You pretty much knew what you were getting with this title match, but if it's something that interests you on paper, you should check it out.

Last takeaways:
1.) This is El Brazo, right? Why is he wearing this shirt? I'm not googling it. That's for sure.

2.) This dentist has the best bedside manner.


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