Low-Ki is a Fake Cartagegna, Nice With The Hands Better With the Banger

Low-Ki vs. Necro Butcher IWA East Coast 7/12/11 - GREAT

ER: Just when you think you've seen 'em all, some match between two legends pops up in your inbox. And it's weird and great because Ki comes out as a full fledged babyface, including bringing a kid into the ring and giving him his t-shirt. Ki giving merch to kids like he was Bret Hart? Wut? Necro immediately recognizes how bullshit that is and jumps him. Ki spends the first few minutes of this as an underdog babyface, which is a weird role I've rarely seen him in; part of the appeal of Ki is that he's often the smallest guy in a match who doesn't care that he's the smallest guy in the match. I liked seeing him treated like the small guy, Necro holding onto ropes to avoid whips, shoving him off with ease, and part of the fun is that you know Ki isn't going to take it for long. I really love when guys like these two show up in places that aren't entirely made up of smark crowds. Feuds in FIP were always more interesting than the same feuds in ROH, because FIP matches would have a ton of weirdos and kids and developmentally disabled people flipping out for the action. Once this match spills to the floor is when it gets really great, because suddenly it looks like Necro is in a sea of varying degrees of Necro clones. Every guy in the bleachers looks like a different era of Necro Butcher, like all all of the Simpson males at the end of the Lisa the Simpson episode. They brawl through the bleachers past all of the various members of the Butcher clan, and you get to hear some kid yell at Ki to kick Necro in the face, and Ki does him one better by doing an awesome double stomp on the bleachers, hopping right onto Necro's chest from 4 rows up. Necro gets the top of his head busted open, Ki throws Necro off the top through a set up chair BY HIS BEARD, kicks and chops from both guys echo through the building, the exact thing you were hoping would happen. We got a ton of Necro gouging at Ki's eyes and face, dropping him with a couple big powerbombs, there was a big spot where Ki came an inch or two from being dropped on his head (looked like he waffled between a somersault bump or flat chest bump and got about the worst combo of those two things), but this felt like a Ki/Necro match at all times. Not sure how I haven't seen this match before, but it made me desperate to see these two working more regional indies and less super indies.

PAS: Their pair of 2006 match are arguably the greatest two match series in indy wrestling history, this is five more years of wear on Necro's body, and it isn't surprising that they couldn't hit those heights again. Still a great match, and a pair of guys with magical chemistry. Necro is a guy Ki can hit as hard as he wants and KI really takes advantage of that, while Necro figures if he is going to get pounded that hard he might as well unload too. I loved all of the fights on the bleachers, it was what I remembered from watching the match years ago. Ki leaping off the bleachers to crush Necro's ribs was super nasty, no give on bleachers, so it was all feet to bones. There were a couple of awkward spots, but the finish was a finish and I am glad this showed up again so I could enjoy.

COMPLETE AND ACCURATE LOW-KI