November 2011

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For anyone that has signed up to Rev Pro's on demand service, there are about 15 shows on it from the period 2009 - 2012 before the company as it is now split off from IPW:UK. Going through these shows there are some decent to very good cards and lots of hidden gems. It's a period when a lot of the current guys that have reinvigorated the UK scene over the last few years were coming up, crossed over with the generation before them that didn't quite get the recognition that looking back they probably deserved. Hoping to post a few more matches that fit that hidden gem criteria, starting with this one. This really came as a surprise to me. The Lion Kid is not a guy that…

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Really enjoyable 9-minute romp with two masters of the mat. Yano's a weird one but Navarro just kicks ass, dude just doesn't care about any of his usual tricks and focuses purely on eating shots and grabbing on slick submissions; Yano would have all of these elaborate transitions to control things while Navarro would just get a simple counter to turn the tables before then completely outclassing him with more whenever needed. When Yano would actually get something on proper Navarro would just compliment the guy and/or give him a thumbs up while in the hold lol. It was definitely the definition of a grapplefuck: nearly all of this takes place on the mat with next to no str…