Brian Kendrick vs. Che Cabrera WPW 5/29/14 - GREAT
ER: This was weird, as it had some odd wrestling show/strip club emcee doing live over the crowd play by play, so when the bell rang we got "This is going to be a great match, folks. I think we're going to see a lot of technical wrestling here tonight!" in just about the most "Come on let's give this gal a hand." Not long after a woman in the crowd yells out words of support for the "Guatemalan Beast" and Cabrera replies that he's Cuban. That's a bold assumption for a woman to assume Cabrera was Guatemalan. But this match was pretty awesome, in a weird tiny room like those early Revolution Pro shows. Cabrera is a guy who has been on the SoCal indies for quite awhile, but hasn't broken through to bigger indy shows. He's stocky and powerful and a nice guy for Kendrick to play off. Kendrick looked really great here, flying into the ropes off throws, running hard chest first into the buckles, purposely ties himself up with the ref to break a waistlock, all cool stuff. His dropkicks and sliding kicks all landed hard, all of it had snap. Cabrera hit knees on a wayward moonsault, but had a couple pretty big slams down the stretch, really good match up.
ER: Unfamiliar with Seville the Thrill before this, but he's a local undersized loudmouth heel, and I will always enjoy small loudmouths in wrestling. He gets into it with the crowd the whole match, including taunting a couple of guys in the front row who are at least 3 times his size. This starts with a lot of really well done juniors wrestling, quick mat exchanges with roll throughs and kickoffs that felt almost lucha maestro style. The strikes really smack loudly in the Santino garage with nice chops from both, hard elbows from Kendrick, and two nice yakuza kicks from Alvarez. What's funny is he threw those kicks the exact same way Kendrick throws his, except those kicks weren't really as much a part of Kendrick's offense then. The body movement is exact, and it's a great looking kick. There's a great moment where Seville throws Kendrick to the floor and then has people move for a dive, then just gets out of the ring and tosses Kendrick back in. It's a spot I enjoy any time I see it, but here it's even better as the guys he made move were those giant aforementioned fans. Seville standing in the middle of two big goons and still talking trash makes me like him even more. Couple disjointed moments down the stretch, but still played out like a nice juniors stretch run, and while Seville may have been the reason for a couple of hitches, he always followed it up with something I liked (like his cocky pin straddling Kendrick while pinning his hands), and the sliced bread is academic.
Labels: Brian Kendrick, Che Cabrera, Santino Bros., Seville Alvarez
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