2015 Ongoing Match of the Year List

32. Negro Casas v. Maximo CMLL 1/11

ER: This match is the day after Casas's 54th birthday, and he celebrates in gleeful dickhead fashion by just continuing to be arguably the best wrestler of the last decade. That guy. Right out of the gate he jumps Maximo, going right after his knee over and over with low kicks, dropkicks, leg whips, you name it. He goes after Maximo with a viciousness normally reserved for stip matches or actual feuds. It is possible that on his birthday he got some novelty old age gag gifts from Spencer's Gifts and they were not sitting well with him, so for every novelty bottle of jelly beans labeled "Old Man Stay Hard Pills" he received, he was going to take it out tenfold on Maximo. And he must have received an insane amount of novelty dick pills. Maximo takes his beating well, not like a man, because there are many moments where Casas makes Maximo literally squeal. Like, he's wrenching at Maximo's jaw and nose and Maximo is squealing. At one point Casas mule kicks him right under the jaw and the way Maximo's leg buckled as he crumbled was a thing of beauty. Maximo's comebacks are all wonderful, with the crowd being way into them, and then blowing the doors off everything with an all time great, rewindable, comment worthy tope which plays like a gigantic missile that's all shoulders, head and chest. Just massively crashes into Casas. Great match, Casas is just on a whole different level when he gets the bug. Great match.

PAS: Casas is an all time great rudo, but for the most part he has worked defacto technico for years. I love that he celebrated his birthday by turning up the rudissimo to 11. He goes after Maximo's leg with unbridled aggression and it looks great. Not only does he try to rip off Maximo's patella, but he does a dickish little limping dance to make fun of him. He not only slaps Maximo in the face, he tries to rip his nose off. "You thought I was a good guy? I am the baddest fucking guy you have ever seen" Maximo is really great at limping, he limps around but still hits this amazing limping tope where he just obliterates Casas, top of the head right into the jaw. We get some great near falls, with Casas having tons of cool ways to almost put on the Casita but get foiled, and Maximo finally finishing him off with a giant top rope armdrag. Total blast and so much fun to watch Casas do what he does best.


2015 MOTY MASTER LIST