Daisuke Sekimoto vs El Generico, wXw 16 Carat Gold Night 3
Even as a fan of these two I found this pretty obnoxious. They worked stiff, and they played up the flier vs power story to an extent early on (though no where near as good as the Generico/Elgin matches), but all of Generico's FIGHTING SPIRIT!!! no-sell shit was really dreadful and there was an absurd amount of overkill. Typical mindless indy bullshit where they get the reactions in the cheapest ways possible.
Big Van Walter vs Sami Callihan, wXw 16 Carat Gold Night 3
Most of Sami's best stuff seems to be with him in a heel role, but this was a really great babyface performance from him. This was as hard hitting as you'd want it to be with both dishing it out, but became much more than just a stiff-fest once Walter started destroying Sami on the outside. Ramming him into the lighting rig, bouncing him off the apron, tossing him through a table - the sort of beatdown that makes you think "how the fuck is Sami going to come back from this?". And he came back in the best way possible, not by doing some lame FIGHTNING SPIRIT Hulk-up no-sell, but by capitalizing on a mistake then being relentless in cutting down the big tree. I dug how Sami struggled to lock in the Stretchmuffler on Walter's elephant-sized legs, and the finisher with Walter roaring to life and teasing an escape only for Sami to start desperately kicking him in the head while in the submission as if his life depended on it was fantastic.
Big Van Walter/Brodie Lee vs Michael Elgin/Johnny Moss, wXw Kruezzug ZXI
This was a decent match with four big dudes tossing each other around. Moss is a green roided up musclehead who sucked as a FIP, but atleast hit a crazy dive. Elgin was once again just a total fucking beast, he is quickly becoming one of my favourite guys to watch. Him firemans carrying Walter and Brodie at the same time was fucking nuts, as was him taking a lariat bump right on his neck and BRODIE LEE hitting a hurricarana. Finishing run was also fun with everyone getting suplexed and thrown around. Moss's suckage stood out pretty badly, though.
Karsten Beck vs Necro Butcher, wXw Kruezzug ZXI
Pretty fun one-sided beatdown. Necro CREAMS Beck with the most ungodly headbutt at the bell and from there on it's pretty much all bloody Necro beating the tar out of a shitty dude. I have never seen Beck before, but he seems to genuinely suck, which if anything added to my enjoyment of the match. The finish was frustratingly cheap, but Necro brings the violence and charisma to make this sort of match watchable.
Daisuke Sekimoto vs Chris Hero, wXw Kruezzug ZXI
This may have been the best Sekimoto singles match of the year so far but honestly I'd still have a hard time saying it was much good. on the one hard this was brutally stiff, all of the chops exchanges were nasty (Sek looks like he could have collapsed Hero's ribcage at various points) and Hero occasionally cracks Sekimoto with a straight right to the jaw. But still, this was about twice as long as it should have been and dragged pretty bad most of the way, and naturally that meant there was a whole bunch of overkill at the end. Over the last couple of months Sekimoto may have killed the deadlift german as a finisher, and to make things worse he looked totally dissinterested through the match. I think he had the exact same facial expression all the way through, which makes me think he was just phoning it in. I dug Hero throwing everything he had at Sekimoto's head, trying to knock the unstoppable retard out, but good God does he need to stop doing those awful no sell spots at the end of his matches, it just kills them. You don't even do that shit in Japan, man.
Best Of 2011
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