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Eddy, Chavo y Mando Guerrero vs. El Satanico, MS1 y Masakre (8/23/91)
Every time I've seen Chavo Guerrero work Mexico he's been awesome and this was no exception. I'm fairly confident that he could've been one of the great luchadores had his father stayed put.
Here he squared off with Satanico and we were treated to a real arm wrestle between the two. Towards the end they gave a master class in how to work a lucha exchange. I watched it several times to see how skillfully they caught a limb, how hard they hit the canvas and how quickly they got up. Neither guy had the advantage in the end, but they sized each other up before tagging. I thought it was brilliant how they left it unsettled.
The match itself wasn't all that special. The Guerreros' style was a little perplexing. It wasn't lucha but it wasn't like the territories they came up through. Perhaps it was reminicient of Gory Guerrero, I'm not really sure. It involved a lot of quick tags and aggressive limbwork. Satanico had the ring cut off from him and his frenzied escape was further proof he's the greatest ever.
The Infernales, for their part, got a lot of mileage out of front facelocks and wrenching side headlocks. This being a Masakre version of the Infernales they were weaker than usual and that was probably the sticking point.
Still, Satanico locking horns with Chavo was memorable.
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