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Super Dragon/Necro Butcher vs. Kevin Steen/BJ Whitmer CZW 4/15/06 - GREAT

ER: More of a great Super Dragon/Necro match than a great overall match, notable for being one of the two times CZW used Super Dragon/Necro Butcher as a team. Imagine a cooler team in 2006 than Necro Butcher and Super Dragon. Do it, right now. I love them together and loved them in this. I just don't think this era of Steen/Whitmer was able to match their stiffness. Not even close. It was a dominant Team CZW match - which I like - but that made it feel like a missed opportunity for Whitmer and Steen to get real actual heat for repping ROH. Think about Akitoshi Saito showing up in Big Japan. BJ Whitmer could have been a shittier version of that. But is this actually a BJ Whitmer Match? 

Whitmer is good at taking damage, great at bumping for Necro, and this finally got going when Necro threw a chair into BJ's stomach and Dragon bounced a chair off Steen's head. Whitmer was great at taking and selling chairshots all match. Necro and Whitmer's suplex to the floor looked rough (complimentary) and Whitmer honest to god saved one of Necro's lives catching his cannonball over the ringpost. BJ Whitmer stood strong and absorbed all of that maniacal cannonball when nobody else could, and his reward was getting a dozen chairs bounced off his body. 

Maybe it's Kevin Steen and only Kevin Steen who keeps this match from being a classic, even though I liked everything Dragon did TO Steen. Dragon was throwing elbows and kicks that Steen could not credibly respond to. Dragon was generous, I thought, to both ROH reps, more than their offense deserved. Taking a Super Calo bump on the back of his head for a Whitmer clothesline is pretty generous, but he was kind enough to throw his body into bumps for offense that didn't always justify the bump. The violence down the stretch was good; Dragon stomping Whitmer's head on a seated chair, or Necro getting powerbombed onto the backs of two folding chairs. I love them so much, and I love the finish. Dragon drops Steen on his head to the chorus of a loud CZW chant, picks him up at 2...then drops him on his head again with a Psycho Driver while the chants only grow louder. 

COMPLETE AND ACCURATE SUPER DRAGON