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Friday, February 23, 2018

Santo and Casas Close Like Bethlehem and Nazareth

El Hijo Del Santo vs. Negro Casas CMLL 11/25/95 - GREAT

This is a HH from the LA Sports Arena and a stellar example of the beautiful music these two can play with each other. I loved the knuckle lock monkey flip spots, which they always pull of flawlessly. Santo does his awesome headscissors counters too, which are always great. We get Santo's beautiful tope which Negro takes right into the chairs. This felt like very much a Santo match, with Casas more in the role of rudo base, he is incredible at that role, but I like it when he is a bit more front and center. Match was really chugging along, but I am not sure the low blow finish really worked for me. It is classic rudoism, but didn't feel like it belonged to the same match I was watching, otherwise this was a really great example of their magic with each other.

Labels: CMLL, HH, Hijo del Santo, Negro Casas, Rivals

Mini Complete and Accurate RIVALS: Negro Casas vs. El Hijo Del Santo

Our buddy Rob Bihari is killing it lately, and as part of his uploads he has thrown up a couple of rare Santo vs. Casas matches, so I figured I would watch and review all of their legendary series.

1987

El Hijo Del Santo/Eddie Guerrero vs. Blue Panther/Negro Casas Juarez 1987 - EPIC