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More jarring than that was the scene where the owner of OVW had an epileptic seizure and Al Snow’s only reaction was to casually walk to the kitchen to get an ice pack while the rest of the staff including the god damn Mayor of Louisville was freaked the fuck out.
 
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Mr. S£im Citrus said:
As someone who's admittedly not a fan of the style, maybe I've just been watching all the wrong ones? What's an example of a deathmatch done right?
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I think you would really appreciate Megumi Kudo vs Combat Toyoda. It's a perfect death match with fantastic storytelling from two great overlooked female workers. Definitely in my top 20 or higher and one of the best women's matches I've ever seen.
 
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Valeyard said:
I think you would really appreciate Megumi Kudo vs Combat Toyoda. It's a perfect death match with fantastic storytelling from two great overlooked female workers. Definitely in my top 20 or higher and one of the best women's matches I've ever seen.
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I'll put it on the list.
 
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It's literally as good as people say it is. My favorite women's match ever. They treat the gimmick (Electrified Barbed Wire) as an ever-present danger, which is how a deathmatch should be worked, and tell a great story using it but not requiring it. Top 5 deathmatch, easily.

My top 5 deathmatches:
1. Sami Callihan vs. Danny Havoc, CZW Cage of Death XI
2. Megumi Kudo vs. Combat Toyoda, FMW Anniversary Show 1995
3. Messiah vs. Supreme, XPW Go Funk Yourself
4. Team ROH vs. Team CZW, Death Before Dishonor IV (it counts!)
5. Samoa Joe vs. Necro Butcher, IWA-MS Something to Prove (it counts!)

Of those, 4 and 5 aren't "traditional" deathmatches, but certainly qualify by gimmick or brutality. Callihan/Havoc is possibly the best example of an American deathmatch to date, as it's incredibly violent but fits with the story (both men wanted to outright kill the other), and there's never a dull moment as it builds to a disgusting and jaw-dropping crescendo.
 
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How did @BruiserBrody never tell me that Balls Mahoney wanted to literally murder “Hacksaw” Jim Duggan?

Balls Mahoney told this story on a shoot tape a couple of years ago.

Jim Duggan and Balls were working an independent show and Mahoney was doing a fire-breathing gimmick where he would hit the baby face in the head with a fireball from his mouth.

Duggan and Balls went over the spots in the dressing room and planned out that Duggan would duck when Balls spat fire. They went out there and Duggan screwed up the first two spots so Balls just decided to get to the fire and be done with it.

Balls got the fluid in his mouth, held his lighter and got ready to spit but Duggan simply knocked the lighter out of Mahoney's hands, causing Balls to just spit fluid and making him look like a total idiot.

Balls flipped off Duggan in the ring and headed to the locker room to retrieve a huge hunting knife that he carried with him at all times. The boys in the back were so scared that they lured Balls into a closet and barricaded him in until they could get Duggan out of the building.
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I read another version of this where King Kong Bundy drags Balls into the closet.

Balls didn’t have the best of luck facing ‘80s WWF stars in the ‘00s/‘10s apparently.
 
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He wanted to kill Big Show at one point too, I think. Or vice versa.
 
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Was it Jericho that had the story about him having really bad BO?

I can't hate Balls. First wrestler I ever met and I went to the House of Hardcore show right after he passed where they honored him. Big Balls forever.
 
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Balls always kind of makes me think of Foley if he stopped progressing in like 1990. That isn't an insult, either. He's got that crazy but likable thing.

He'd have been fun in the Attitude Era just because I think he and Crash would've clicked well.
 
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See if Vince probably didn't know what a Harry Potter was we could've gotten wizard Balls in a cape and glasses.
 
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I don't know what she said but I also don't care because I do not go to her for her sociocultural commentary.

Disco trying to insult anyone is meaningless, too, but then this boils down to a celebrity being unhappy during a personal experience and him being an annoying fan and thus she treated him like she probably would anyone else as annoying and not as a peer. Why would anyone be nice to a Disco Inferno who wants to meet you because he jerks off to you?
 
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Tbf, she met Disco cause she made an appearance for the strip club he managed (manages) so ideally it was presumably a bit more professional than that but who knows since it’s Disco?
 
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