Comando Negro Apuestas Matches

Comando Negro has to be the most obscure wrestler to have multiple matches in my book

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I covered his classic mask matches with El Pollo and Trauma 1 (as Canis Lupus). While checking out his Luchablog entry, I noticed he also had hair vs. mask matches with Segunda Caida favorites Freelance and Chico Che so I tracked them down to review as well.

Comando Negro vs. Freelance IWRG 10/10/10

PAS: This was a a nice mix of highspot heavy lucha with an Arena Naucalpan style bloody brawl. Freelance starts out by headscissoring Negro off of the stage and following up with a stage dive into chairs. He also does a flip dive off the iconic Naucalpan beer cooler, a crazy plancha and a beautiful diving rana to the floor. Negro is a great solid meat and potatoes luchador, catching all of the fancy stuff perfectly and mixing in a great looking bullet tope of his own. Both guys bleed, go face first into beer coolers and chairs, and the finish has Freelance setting up for a top rope rana only to get fouled by Negro's second and powerbombed from the top rope. The tecnicos cut the ref's hair before Freelance get shaved, which seems a bit uncalled for, since he didn't really seem to be heeling much. A slight step below the two Negro all timers,  but it was an excellent apuestas full of cool shit.

Commando Negro vs. Chico Che IWRG 12/9/10

PAS: This was a total war. Che is one of my favorite all time obscure guys, and seeing a new awesome Che performance is a total treat. This match has the inversion of the traditional lucha apuestas formula with technico Che getting the dominant Primera Caida. Che is one of the hardest hitters in lucha, he feels almost like an old WAR wrestler with his combination of chub and thump he puts in every blow, he just moves Negro with ever forearm. Che takes the first fall with a heavy top rope splash and continues in the Second to tour the arena with Negro bouncing him off of beer coolers and chairs. We get some interference by Negro's seconds Gringo Loco and El Hijo Del Diablo, and when Che's seconds Los Cerebros hit double topes on them, Che gets DQed and the Cerebros get bounced to the back by the rudo ref. The third fall has some shenanigans with Loco and Diablo and the heel ref, but it also has some really beautiful moments of lucha, Negro sending Che over the guardrail with a tope, Che returning the favor later with a elbow suicida of his own. Che hitting some amazingly graceful headscissors, the seconds running in and getting pelted with trash by the crowd, and finally Negro cracking Che in the jaw with a fist wrapped in a chain for the win. Great stuff, might have actually squeezed a third Negro match in the book if I had seen it before I wrote it.