RIP Supreme

Supreme vs. Necro Butcher XPW 5/24/08

PAS: This was a no-ropes barbed wire match for the XPW King of the Death Match title, on the first XPW show in five years (they ran once more in 2009 and then the PDM/XPW show reviewed down below).  Necro is the perfect guy to bring in for this kind of match, he was in the tail end of his prime, and still perfectly willing and able to put together a big time death match performance. Supreme was right there willing to take all of the big bumps, Necro right hands and chairs to the head. There were a couple of really neat cut offs by Supreme, a sneaky lightube shot to stop Necro from pushing him on a barbed wire table, and throwing a bucket of thumbtacks to stop a rush. I tend to enjoy the regular brawling parts of these matches more then the death match parts, and there was some really fun bumping into chairs and jabbing with soda cans.

ER: Anyone who bought a ticket to see Necro Butcher vs. Supreme in a big time death match main event, easily got their money's worth. Necro really knows how to bring gravitas to a match like this, and Supreme does his part by doing what he's good at: dangerous bumps, lots of blood, an ingenious match turning cut off spot, and a hot dog neck roll so impressive that he is impervious to a collar and elbow. Supreme gets busted open all over the place, from mouse traps and barbed wire and gruesome table bumps. We get a big suplex off the apron through a barbed wire and light tube strewn table, then a Russian legsweep through a totally different sharp and stabby table. Necro punches Supreme in the face, headbutts a tube into his head, and walks around barefoot like a total psychopath. The ring and surround area was filled with broken glass and here's Necro walking around with no shoes. And just as I start to think about how stupid and endearing Necro is to be wandering around a death match with no shoes, sure enough, Supreme breaks out one of the finest, smartest, wonderfully timed spots in death match history: Stopping a speeding Butcher by throwing down a spike strip in his path. Supreme utilized two "desperation" moves in this match, making unexpected headway while being dominated, and fanning out a bucketful of tacks into the pathway of Necro is some twisted sadistic Kevin McCallister level evil. Necro is suddenly wounded hopping around and trying to avoid tacks, dropping to his butt to frantically slap tacks out of his feet, and that's when Supreme starts stomping Necro's feet into the tacks! This is sicko stuff, done at the perfect psychological point of the match, the kind of logic that inserts itself into the best death matches. We get a couple of other nasty falls into tacks, and I loved the finish of Supreme just dropping his weight onto Necro in the tacks.


Supreme/Johnny Webb/Kaos/Carnage vs. Halloween/Damian 666/Bestia 666/X-Fly PDM/XPW 8/2/11     Part 2

PAS: This was a really great performance by all 8 guys, and especially awesome performance by Halloween and Damien. This was in a junkyard, and may have been as good or even better then the best Zona 23 stuff. The in between brawling was pretty great, everyone through good punches, and there were a bunch of fun weapons shots including Kaos getting drilled in the head by a flying garbage can from out of nowhere. They built to the big car spots, including Damien taking an totally psycho fall off of a scaffold ribs first on a car windshield. Supreme was more of a minor character in this match, but looked good in spots, and got his bowling ball head smashed into a windshield.

ER: Wow this ruled, a match that we would have placed ungodly high on our 2011 MOTY List (if we had one). This was how you do a wild brawl, with a great junkyard setting surrounding the ring, truly a performance where every single person contributed something big. At the center was a tremendous Damian performance, one of the wildest garbage brawl performances ever, with several different unnecessarily ugly bumps taking by the 50 year old! This was Damian with a boiler as big as Supreme's outbumping the man who was literally known exclusively for his crazy bumps. Damian is a real violent lunatic here, and this was the kind of setting where the bumps from a guy delivering a move were just as ugly as the guy taking a move. Sure, you just suplexed someone onto the roof of a car, but that means you took and arguably uglier bump because your back landed right where the windshield meets the roof. Damian wings a galvanized washtub at Supreme's head (and this washtub was really the 9th man in this match, and was at least the 6th best guy here), powerbombs Kaos on that washtub, hits a big suplex on the ramp, misses an elbowdrop off the bleachers (incredibly rickety bleachers that a 50 year old man should not be even attempting to climb), takes a wild bump over the guardrail into the crowd/chairs, and then peaks things by taking the undisputed bump of the match by getting knocked off the camera scaffold and landing hard on a car. Totally insane bump for anyone to take, totally suicidal for a 50 year old man to take it.

Crazy bumps were the order of the day in this match, with the centerpiece being a cruelly unforgiving washtub that had to have given half the participants sciatica. Kaos ate a powerbomb on it, X-Fly ate a powerbomb on it, Kaos did a suplex that landed the edge of his back on it, everyone else either had it banked off their head or landed kidneys first on it. Whoever brought that washtub was a real sadistic asshole. Halloween bled buckets and hit two different violent spears, including one onto a car that looked fantastic. Carnage got the back of his head sliced open, Supreme took several tough bumps onto chairs and through tubes, Kaos took at LEAST eight different powerbomb and suplex variations, Bestia hit a big crossbody off the scaffold, just total chaos. This whole thing was pure uncut insanity, not a second of it worth the body damage that surely resulted from the insanity. I had no clue this match was out there, but I imagine I'll go out of my way to make sure many more find out about it.