CZW ToD X

Necro Butcher vs Matt Tremont

This was a really, really fun brawl and almost certainly your Deathmatch Of The Year. There was a neat underlying Old School vs New School story with Necro beating Tremont up early and taking him to school, before the tables turned and he found himself desperately trying to hang with the new blood. And the brawling itself was totally nuts. Wild crowd brawling, shit getting thrown around wrecklessly, and some really violent moments that stood out, such as Tremont getting hit over the head with a bottle and Necro wildly throwing a beer cooler at his face. What really seperates guys like Necro (and Tremont from what his showing here) from 99% of garbage wrestlers is that all of the actual non-weapons brawling and strikes such as punches, chops, headbutts, etc all look good too. Tremont took a hell of a beating. The trademark Necro sitdown punch showdown spot was particularly brutal. This isn't going to be for everyone, but those who give it a look won't be dissapointed.

MASADA vs Matt Tremont
MASADA vs Masashi Takeda

Both of these were pretty mediocre and way beneath the Necro match (which shows you just how valuable Necro is to the DM scene). MASADA can go when paired with a good opponent (his match with Sami earlier in the year was really something), but when left to his own devices his matches are usually plodding displays of mutilation instead of heated brawls. They are about gross-out shock'n'awe than actually making it feel like a DEATH MATCH. Tremont took some sick punishment, but that kind of match is bottom of the barrel shit. The Takeda match was also lacking in any hate/intensity and felt like two gus trying to have a puro match with props rather than an actual deathmatch. Some stuff was hit well, some stuff was hit shittily. Takeda took MULTIPLE bareback fire bumps, including an absolutely insane finish which was so violent it almost made up for the rest of the match.