Watched this with Phil on youtube. Invader just kills Chicky Starr and goes to work on the cut like a sadistic relative of a murderer. I think Puerto Rico might have the best one sided matches in wrestling history. The bump Invader took for the pinfall was nasty enough that you buy the finish. Solid nomination from where I sit.

 

 

Yeah this was Puerto Rico as fuck, just two sleazy guys punching each other in the forehead until they bleed. Some great punches by both guys and Chicky bleeds like a champ. The kind of thing you do a PR set for.

I really loved this match. Chicky Starr is like a scummy as fuck Bobby Heenan - a totally weasely motherfucker who will bleed, bump and cheat in every match. He gets busted open early in this and eats a couple of post shots on the floor that generally made me uncomfortable as I was afraid he was going to face plant in the mud on the ground and end up with some horrifying staph infection. Invader III can throw a mean punch and some of the shots he throws right at the cut on Chicky's head barely look pulled at all. Starr fights back just enough where this doesn't feel totally one-sided. In fact he gets more offense in this than Embry got against him in the match I watched yesterday, lots of nasty kidney shots included. I imagine some people will hate the finish, but I bought it entirely as Chicky had crushed him with a belly to back a few minutes before and Invader III sold the headbump on the blocked monkey flip really well.