[1993-12-18-CWA] Terry Funk vs Tony St. Clair (Falls Count Anywhere)

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

Think Terry Funk wrestling in a boxing match. Novel and good, and the music selections between rounds was mostly superb.

[Dylan Waco]

I was actually pretty blown away by this when I saw it on Will's Funk set. I watched that set from beginning to end, and this was one of only two matches I watched two times during that stretch

[PeteF3]

Good start right off the bat--"The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" theme isn't as awesome as "The Man with the Harmonica" but it's a fine selection of entrance music. This is a TEXAS RODEO STYLE MATCH.

 

I had trouble getting into this, outside of the novelty aspect--crazy ringside brawls simply don't mesh well with the rounds system. And I don't really care for non-WOS St. Clair, either.

[garretta]

This one didn't do much for me, either. We couldn't see a lot of what went on outside due to the way the camera was positioned, and this really wasn't violent enough to need the fallls count anywhere stip at all. Terry hit a few nice moves outside, but St. Clair never really got into the spirit of the thing, and the fact that there were still countouts ruined it. FCA is a match that's mainly meant to be fought anywhere except ​the ring, which means that the wrestlers should spend a lot more than twenty seconds at a time outside if they want to win.

 

As for the round system, I'd have to watch a whole set of matches fought with rounds in order to see how wrestlers build matches using them. These occasional CWA matches are hard to get into because I see the rounds as an interruption and a hindrance rather than something helpful in building suspense and psychology, which I'm sure is how wrestlers brought up in that style use them. If we ever get a European set full of matches contested in rounds, I'll bet my opinion changes favorably.

 

I've never figured out why the ring announcer talks during the matches in Germany. Is he calling the bout for the fans who can't see the action? I know he sometimes gives the wrestlers warnings (in English, no less), but he obviously didn't need to do it in a match like this.

 

I recognized some of the between-rounds songs, and they definitely added to the atmosphere. It's enough to make me wish that the big American companies still used actual songs instead of in-house music, which in all but a few cases is markedly inferior to any "real" theme that a given wrestler may have had before.

[soup23]

This is kind of a jekyl and hyde match as I have seen it three times the past few months, just have failed to write my comments for it. Each time its went from being a fair match to a near great one. I landed on just barely very good this watch and feel confident with that placement. The volatile Funk style is nice to see from afar and we get some cool arm work to keep things interesting but St. Clair isn’t exciting and the finish was anticlimactic. ***1/2 (6.9)