El Dandy defends the Mexican National Light Heavyweight Title

Park is in a cool red variant outfit. The first fall is technical wrestling where Dandy gets the win with a leg submission. It's not the type of stuff you want out of LA Park in 2004, but he is solid enough here.

The second fall stats off super fast paced with some great armdrags by Park then a tope into an armdrag on the floor. Park gets a submission of his own for the very very short second fall. Lots of fun, but modern lucha short second fall syndrome here.

The third fall is a lot of fun. Lots of dives and big moves, but sold well through out. The ending was interesting as Dandy and Park both take out the other seconds and look to do topes in sequence, until Park turns around and pins Dandy quick.

Overall a pretty fun match, but way below any expectations I would have.

 

 

#wrestling365

This was pretty fun - given the year and wrestlers involved it's hard not to have higher hopes. Park has a cool red outfit and does some good dives and top rope moves. Fun finish. Match was missing something though. Worth watching but both have hit way higher.

 

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This was everything I could have hoped for from a Dandy vs. Park match from this point in time. I'm not sure what I thought of it in the past, but I've sat through my fair share of Parka indy matches, and his disappointing CMLL run, since then, and this is far better than Park's match against Ultimo. In fact, I thought it was one of the highlights of the year until the finish. That was such a bad finish. It reeked of 2004 indy wrestling in general. It was so shitty it took the shine off the match to the point where I couldn't, in good faith, rank it among the best lucha matches of the year. It's too bad because I wanted to sing their praises and now I feel like the match is forgettable.