Despedida del Huracan Ramirez (Huracan Ramirez Farewell)

 

Huracan Ramirez, Huracan Ramirez Jr. & Mano Negra vs. El Texano, El Signo & Negro Navarro (Misioneros de la Muerte)

 

Really fun retirement that I think is a solid low end nomination. The 3rd fall was a little short or it would be a full nomination. 1st fall is odd as Missionarios take it, but Navarro legit knocks himself out in the first fall doing a missle dropkick. He does a dropkick off the top the same way you'd do a standing dropkick, and he appears to land face first and just lies there dead. He's clearly out of it as the ref and teammates are checking on him and he sits out the rest of the fall propped up against a turnbuckle. 2nd fall starts and Navarro decides he's OK to bump again and starts bumping big over the top. It's weird that Navarro is so great now, as he's clearly the 3rd best Death Missionary. Texano just looks awesome here, taking all of Huracan's old man offense (which actually looks very good), and Signo is a fat guy who bumps all over the place and holds the whole match together. Luchawiki says that Huracan would be 63 years old in this. That CANNOT be right. He was moving way too good to be a man in his 60s. Enough fun stuff for me to pass it forward. NOMINATE.

 

Monumental Monterey Vol. 2

Huracan Ramirez/Huracan Ramirez Jr./Mano Negra vs. Los Misioneros de la Muerte (Negro Navarro/El Signo/El Texano) (February 1987)

 

Yeah this is from 1987 not 1989 and here is the back story to the whole situation going on here.

 

By the mid-1980’s, though, Daniel was past 55 and heading for 60; he wanted to do as El Santo and The Blue Demon had done, and pass the name along to a son. (We’ll skip over the question of to whom Daniel would have passed along the name if he could have – that is a {long} story for another time and day.) However, Daniel did not own the rights to the name or the likeness of “El Huracán Ramírez.” It began when Jose Rodriguez Mas, the official rights-holder, and Daniel, who at that time were very close friends, decided to re-create a small photo-montage-style comic book featuring El Huracán Ramírez, a gimmick that hold sold hundreds of thousands in the 1950s and 1960, and was similar to a very popular one of the time of “El Santo.” Rodríguez got cold feet as start-up costs were severe, so Daniel agreed to work at all the film shoots and publicity without pay until the initial (start-up) expenses had been recouped. However, after the little comic book became a big hit, Daniel went to discuss money, and Rodríguez refused to pay anything, and things got so heated that Rodríguez, as rights-owner, threatened to legally bar Daniel from using the name or character in any way.

 

Daniel responded by doing something that had almost never been done before, and then only on a smaller scale by undercard wrestlers. In 1987, he walked into the ring at WWA’s El Auditorio de Tijuana ring, at the side of Mano Negra and Huracán Jr. to wrestle El Signo, El Texano, and Negro Navarro. After the match, walked to the center of the ring and unmasked at the side of Mora, showing his face and saying goodbye.

 

On Sunday, February 5th, 1987, he walked into the ring at UWA’s El Toreo de Cuatro Caminos bull ring in Naucalpan city, México state, México, at the side of Tinieblas and El Hijo del Santo to wrestle El Brazo de Oro, El Brazo De Plata, and El Brazo. After the match, Daniel, who had been served papers by Rodríguez Mas right before the match, walked to the center of the ring, condemned the character “El Huracán Ramírez” to hell, and walked out of the ring, never to wrestle again.

Now to the match itself there is some really fun stuff here such as Negro Navarro basically KOing himself after hitting a missile dropkick where he landed head first on the mat and has to sit out part of the match as he recovered. The tecnicos comeback was fun especially Huracan Sr. who was on fire here taking it to the rudos who were very good at bumping for the old man making him look great. The action never slowed down and everyone worked hard and then you follow that up with what the historical significance was with Huracan unmasking after the match and this is a definite nomination to me.

Huracan Ramirez/Huracan Ramirez Jr./Mano Negra vs. El Texano/El Signo/Negro Navarro, Monterey 8/13/89 (Monumental Monterrey Vol 2)

- Really good work by the heels early on until the faces regroup and they go through some nice fast-paced sequences. Faces pick up the first fall after Negra seemed to forget what he was doing in the ring. Nice end to the 1st fall but Mano Negra seemed sort of lost in the minutes leading up to the pin.

- I am digging the heel teamwork and miscommunication spots. Looks like the heels lose 2 straight falls. I don’t know. There is nothing in this match that hasn’t been done better elsewhere so I cant see pushing it forward on a 2 fall match with nothing truly spectacular except some huge heel bumps. When one teal is doing all of the work, it wont be strong enough to make this set.

 

EDIT: Read Kris's thoughts and the background. This could go on as an extra but the match itself isn't strong enough.