Satanico vs. Jerry Estrada, hair vs. hair, 3/23/90

Jerry Estrada again.

I swear if you can't work a hair match with Satanico then you can't work.

If I didn't have such a huge dislike for the guy, I might be able to appreciate what he did here, but it was crap.

It was Estrada's match from the start, yet it was nothing like an Estrada match. He seemed more sober than usual, perhaps that was the problem. He developed a strange fixation with Satanico's shoulder and you could feel the match waste away as he worked over Satanico's arm. Brawl motherfucker! Nobody wants to see that in a lucha libre hair match. If there was ever a time for Estrada to take mad bumps, blade and be thrown around like a ragdoll this was it. Satanico should've pummeled the fuck out of him.

A clever piece of "psychology" from Estrada to take away the punch? This is lucha. It's a hair match. That's a form of mano o mano. You take a punch, get up and punch the guy back. Working the arm doesn't have a place in this kind of match, unless you're particularly excellent at hurting someone. Worst of all, he didn't give The Master room to sell the arm.

Satanico should've taken this one by the scruff of the neck, but he didn't. I'm throwing it away.