Indie Spotlight: Furious Wrestling Society

4 Corners of Pain Death Match: Corporal Robinson vs. Dale Patricks (11/21/15)

I kind of fell into this fed while watching an old Corp IWA-MS match, and saw in the youtube sidebar a very recent Corp match. I watched [this match] on a lark and loved it more than the IWA match I had watched before it. The fed has a lot of matches uploaded so I took a crack at another Corp match, and while it wasn't the level of the Murdoch match, it was a GREAT Corporal Robinson performance, and a fun little slice of a scuzzy indie scene. The 4 corners of death, in this particular match, are a staple gun, some barbed wire boards, rubbing alcohol, and...jeez I don't remember. Heart disease? A family history of alcohol abuse? Corp does not hold back at all and murders Patricks with punches and elbows to start. His punches are great enough where you can tell he obviously is taking SOMEthing off of them, but you know Patricks is still being punched in the eyebrow. They look great. They look painful. He doesn't look like a guy who would have speedy anything, but Corp always looks like he has impressive punch speed, throwing really quick but devastating haymakers. The staple gun comes out pretty early. Patricks gets kicked in the ass and then gets a couple dollar bills stapled to his face while older women in the crowd jump up and cheer. I am comforted by the knowledge that Patricks got paid at least two dollars for his work.

We spill to the floor and eventually some cheating happens when some guy named Father Fear interferes and attacks Corp. Father Fear is a skinny older guy with a big white beard and a black leather duster. He may be Dusty Hill. He has a weird presence to him, and would probably land somewhere around 0.4 on the Mr. Donnie scale. So Patricks takes over and starts working over Robinson's punching hand, which is really smart considering the nasty shots that hand had been dishing out. I love hand work and we get a bunch of cool stuff, with Patricks slamming it on the ring apron, stomping on it, smashing it into a ringpost, all great stuff, and Corp sells it the whole damn match. Shaking it out, holding it tight against his body. He may not look like a pro wrestler (or, he may look EXACTLY like a pro wrestler), but Corp's wrestling game was on point here. Patricks takes an eternity to gently set up THEE FLIMSIEST barbed wire board you have ever seen. It genuinely looks like barbed wire taped to a sheet of cardboard, and he's gingerly trying to balance it between two chairs. And the punchline is that after all that set up, Patricks goes to give a death valley driver to Corp...and just plants him lower back fucking first over the backs of one of the chairs. Good lord. And these weren't flimsy chairs. They weren't even folding chairs. These are the type of chairs you see stacked in the corners of Indian casinos, just hard metal backs with no give whatsoever. My goodness did it look brutal. It would have been so much better to get tossed through the barbed wire cardboard. But Patricks got paid back for that one, you bet on it. He eventually takes a spinebuster on it and another rough bump, Corp continues beating him with nasty punches, both guys are bleeding all over. At one point Corp uses the rubbing alcohol to light his own fist on fire to punch Patricks.

The match itself was just a step back from the great Robinson/Murdoch taipei deathmatch, held back by some clumsy weapons set up and not as much focus. But it contained an excellent Robinson performance, one of my favorites he's ever delivered. Afterwards we get a satisfying run in beatdown, with Simon Sezz (!) and a guy who looked almost like a Moondog and a big bearded guy who threw down some great stomps. I want to see all of these guys! So yeah, I'm a fan. I'll be watching more Furious Wrestling Society, branch out towards some non-Robinson stuff, get more slices of that sweet Memphis flea market wrestling pie.

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2015 Ongoing Match of the Year List

23. Corporal Robinson v. John Wayne Murdoch FWS 11/7

ER: This is a taipei death match where both guys have broken beer bottle glass glued to their fist and wrist tape, but really if you're hitting each other this hard the broken glass will be the least of your problems. They waste no time at all punching each other hard, and Murdoch starts bringing the unprotected headbutts. They immediately brawl to the floor and start cutting each other open in front of the only large group of children in attendance. They brawl all over and transition to new parts of the building by nasty strikes. Murdoch is good at moving the brawl to new areas, as he hits tons of headbutts and then stagger sells into somewhere new, falling over chairs, into fans, spilling over concrete; it's a nice change of pace from one guy grabbing another by the head and walking. Murdoch hits about 30 headbutts over the duration of this, and Corp holds back next to nothing on his punches. Both men hit brutal yakuza kicks on the floor, Murdoch dumps broken glass on Corp and hits him with the bucket containing the glass. Another time Murdoch got staggered back into a chair and blasted a charging Corp with a slippery when wet sandwich board. Ending gets silly with run ins, but didn't undermine the 10 minutes of brutal vicious brawling that preceded it. Both men got some big wounds and bruises on their face and head, and Corp shows off his battle wounds to the camera afterwards. He also shows off that he has the methiest teeth for a man with that large a belly.

PAS: This was pretty great, Corporal Robinson is still a nasty asskicker this many years later. I imagine doing security for ICP all of those year will really burn your soul down to an ember, I can just imagine the number of 17 year old meth head girls he had to bury in an rural Indiana sink hole over the years. Hadn't seen much of Murdoch before but he ruled it here, I loved all of his Terry Funkish weeble wabble selling, he looked like he wanted to get blood spots on every ring rats' t-shirt. There is this great moment where they are sitting on chairs exchanging shots, and Murdoch does this diving headbutt from the chair right into Robinsons mouth. Finish was pretty lame, but I want to watch all of this feud.


2015 MOTY MASTER LIST

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