Low-Ki Advent Calendar Night 22: Ki vs. Necro in JAPW

Low-Ki vs. Necro Butcher JAPW 5/19/07 - EPIC

PAS: I still have one more singles match to track down and watch, but so far this is an unimpeachably all-time great series of matches. It is like the US version of Ikeda vs. Ishikawa if Ishikawa was a homeless drifter. This had some structural issues which kept it from being at the all time great level of the second IWA-MS match, but this was just as stiff and had as many eye popping moments. Ki just brutalizes Necro as one might expect, he laces him with chops so stiff they bloody his chest a bit, and throw these full force kicks right to Necro's mouth. Necro responds with full force punches right to Ki's jaw, he does the Tenryu chop/punch combo stiffer than fucking Tenryu does it, and I have seen Tenryu straight break a guys nose with those punches. Necro also takes two horrifically violent spills through wood doors, including missing a cactus elbow off the apron through a propped up door, and getting John Woo kicked through the door where he looked like the victim of a car bombing. There is a great spot where Necro fights out of hanging double stomp by punching Ki square in the mouth, and then Necro's hits an awesome looking sloppy top rope rana for a near fall. They do some stuff with thumbtacks at the end, which is really redundant, stepping on tacks is nasty, but Necro was taking full force kicks to the ear, a tack in the foot is nothing in comparison.

ER: I thought this was great, as great as any of their other singles matches. It is notable for being the most slender I have ever seen Necro. He's never been a fat guy, but this is definitely the leanest I've seen him. He's almost fully Lead Singer from Spin Doctors here, and he's awesome. Also, we have Monsta Mack on commentary and I had no idea that Mack sounded liked Bobcat Goldthwait mixed with Don Knotts. And that voice happened a LOT throughout this match. But this was a total brutal beatdown from both guys, and nothing will keep you from enjoying that. Ki throws some of his best kicks here, with a ton aimed right at Necro's face and head, with several more right to his chest. There's a kappo kick that is the most deserving thing of a Necro stumble sell. Necro punches to offense and kicks at Ki, flies through a table set up at ringside, hits a nasty folding powerbomb that Ki almost reverses, and punches some more. We got a cooler version of Necro fighting out of the tree of woe, with Ki grinding on Necro's kneecaps from the top rope leading to Necro decking him, and that sloppy rana was dangerous and exciting as hell. I liked how they used the thumbtacks, personally. Necro brings them out then starts stumble stepping into them, tries to powerbomb Ki on them but Ki wriggles out, then Necro hits the punch of the match (punch of his career??) and Ki takes this spectacular falling bump into the ropes, hitting all the ropes on his way down before lying slumped in a pile. He didn't go full Bernard Hopkins, but he didn't need to. The thumbtacks were used as a great distraction for Necro to allow Ki to recover. Necro stumbles through them, and while the kicks to the head earlier, this was a good way to occupy Necro. Ask Phil how he feels when he inevitably steps heel first onto a LEGO when his boy is old enough to play with them. So while Necro is trying to sway tacks out of his feet Ki hits his shotgun dropkick to propel Necro through a table like he was making an airbag test video to post on YouTube. Necro takes that killshot, Ki lands in the tacks back first performing the dropkick, but the shelled table leaves Necro prone for the Warriors Way. Awesome, awesome match, right up there with the best they've done.


COMPLETE AND ACCURATE LOW-KI