If It's Rest Borga Needs, He'd Rather Be Dead
Ludvig Borga vs. Rich Myers WWF Wrestling Challenge 9/19/93 - FUN
ER: A nice simple meat and potatoes Borga squash, working slowly with more trash talking. He's good about not using the exact same movesets in similar order (you can pick up a lot of habits from watching specific guys working squashes), and instead makes small offense changes depending on how he's going to finish. That's really the quickest way a good big man can become a great big man, and was instrumental in Mark Henry's leap to great worker. Here, Borga works a lot of hard kneelifts that believably lift Myers off his feet, and he didn't go to one knee lift in his Superstars match that aired the day before (against PJ Walker). The kneelift is one of his best strikes and it's cool that he has enough of a repertoire to know what things he can keep or drop match to match. Myers is game to be hit in the ribs a bunch, the high elbowdrop looked great, and all of the knees to the ribs lead to the cool torture rack finish.
ER: GREAT squash match. This was the most cocksure Borga has looked in a WWF ring. A man really owning the ring and getting the exact reaction a top heel should be getting. He gets in the ring and quickly walks straight up to Bell and clotheslines him hard, then holds him by the arm a few times to land several uppercuts to the kidneys and ribs. He jams his knee in Bell's stomach in the corner and holds him up in the air for a 15+ second vertical suplex. Great high elbowdrop, and nails him with the diving lariat but interestingly opts to keep the match going for more punishment. He does some great trash talking throughout this whole beatdown, and is practically strutting around the ring drawing heat. It's brilliant, a truly great, confident, powerful heel performance. He lands more body blows and puts the (good sport) Bell away with the torture rack. This is the kind of memorable heel squash that makes fans want to see you get your smug bell rung, and you love to see it.
Labels: Ludvig Borga, Rich Myers, Rod Bell, WWF Wrestling Challenge
posted by EricR @ 10:00 PM
2 Comments:
After the Rod Bell squash, I love how Borga was interacting with the fans, either tearing up a Lex Luger sign, or trying to snatch another one away! Better than Seth Rollins being a pussy and crying over a CM Punk shirt.
Great observation. Two months into his WWF run Borga really started to get interactive with crowds and it only made his in-ring better. At this point fans had started reacting to him as a bad man and not as merely "a man who is not American".
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