Low-Ki Advent Calendar Night 17: Ki vs. Necro KO or Submission

Low-Ki vs. Necro Butcher IWA-MS 12/16/06 - EPIC

PAS: This was flat out incredible. Probably Necro's career match, and he is a guy with a great fucking career. This was the perfect mix of Ki's sadism and Necro's masochism. This was a KO or submission match and both guys were at their apexes. Necro takes an all time shellacking, and has some incredible moments of selling which really gets over the brutality of Ki. He gets kicked in the temple and falls on his back and starts pawing in the air like a kitten with a ball of string. He ends up getting double stomped with his chest on the back lip of the chair, and sells like he is going to puke blood, and he gets a 1970s Wahoo level chop right to the dick and sells like he got chopped right in the dick. Necro has great looking offense in this match too, he throws these Juan Manuel Marquez style hooks to the body with full force, and you can really see him move Ki's organs around with them. He also has some great headbutt's nice powerbombs and various awkward hurls of chairs. Real testament to the greatness of both guys, and it is pretty amazing that Ki can have mat classics like the Danielson matches, bonkers spotfests like the Red matches, and horrifically violent spectacles like this, what a versatile maestro he is.

ER: My god the violence! This match gets a *lot* of time, and the fact these guys kept up the level of beating for the entirety of the match was just an absurd level of violence. You can count over a hundred strikes in this match, but you can't count a single thigh slap. Ki throws so many kicks at Necro's legs, chest, and head, and all of them land great. There were a few moments where Necro would lumber toward Ki and Ki would fire off a 3 pronged attack one step ahead of Necro's reactions;  take out his leg, kick his chest, kick his face, and not many people get kicked in the body and face better than The Necro Butcher. The whole match Necro is taking these shots and responding with relatable moans and OOFs. Ki kicks him right in the stomach and Necro just goes "Ooooooooooooooo" like he was a cartoon fox getting hit in the stomach with a cannonball. Necro filled the match with a ton of great doddering sells, struck stupid faces, and Terry Funk like punch drunkenness. Necro's whole body was a shade of pink or red by the end of this. But while we've gotten kind of used to seeing Ki eat guys for lunch, he doesn't come anywhere close to escaping this unbruised. This is probably the biggest beating I've seen Ki take, and Necro's shots landed with an impossible thud the whole match. Both guys had these King Kong chops, Necro was throwing big knee lifts, shifting Ki's ribs with nasty blows, and always ready with a punch to the jaw when he needed it (loved him using all his strength to lift himself up out of the tree of woe and punch Ki before the Warrior's Way). The big moves looked dangerous and suitably crazy: Necro drops Ki on some chairs with a backbreaker, body slams him while holding a chair to his back, whips him violently into the mat with a Tiger Driver (the snap on that thing made it one of the greatest tiger drivers I've seen), and even went so far as to do an insanely not recommended tiger driver off the top. Someone could have died on that one. We had headbutts and kicks behind the ear and Necro's big awesome barefoot boots to the face; we had Ki throwing Kawada kicks to Necro's trapped head; we had Low Ki double stomping Necro's stomach from the apron to the floor. And the spot of the match sees Low Ki throw a freaking knife edge chop right to Necro's balls. Necro sold it so great that I assume he fully got hit in the balls, and I am shocked that he didn't puke. We've seen Necro puke in matches before, this would have been just as appropriate a place. I was disappointed by the finish, with Ki locking on a sort of sloppy triangle. I can see a submission being the only way to actually finish a guy who can seemingly take blows to the head as well as Homer Simpson, but we had spent 20+ minutes on two guys trying to knock each other out that it felt we had all collectively moved on from submission being a part of it. But it's a light blip on a genuine all time war. After the match Ki gets on the mic and groans "...god that hurt." No kidding, it was like we were watching Daisuke Ikeda vs. Daisuke Ikeda in a Chicago suburb.


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