Superstar Sleeze Posted September 17, 2015 Report Share Posted September 17, 2015 Chavo Guerrero vs Mr. Olympia - Houston 6/24/83 Chavo Classic had all the tools on offense. He shows off his ability to fly (dropkicks, plancha), submissions (upside down surfboard and a lucha submission), hot strikes and suplexes (German). He is ripshit because Olympia/Akbar put him on the shelf for two months. He starts off hot with punches and three dropkicks to send Olympia to outside. This is match of levels and is incredibly well-executed. Olympia never really fully takes control, but slowly earns his heat segment. He takes advantage of each mistake by breaking Chavo's momentum with a trip to outside or sapping his energy with a chinlock. In fact most of Olympia's offense in this is a chinlock. Normally, I would dislike that but it makes logical sense because how hot Chavo is and the need to cool him off to set up your own moves, We see that each chinlock takes more of its toll at first Chavo is able to resume control, but it as the match wears on Olympia's offense is more sustained. Olympia's first major opening is when Chavo was yanking him by the mask into the turnbuckles and on the third one he sent Chavo in hard into the turnbuckles. He followed up with his first big offense of the match a kneedrop and backbreaker neither negotiated the fall. Now instead of going back to the chinlock, he Irish Whips Chavo this is dumb because Chavo feeds off movement this allows Chavo to hit a crossbody, yank him out by the mask and then a plancha. This was perfect face wrestling and plays right into the movement vs power story. Chavo loses it in the corner with strikes and when the ref pulls him off Olympia loads the boot and dropkicks him to the floor. Olympia cant get the win again so it is back to the sleeper. They tease the three arm drops and Chavo powers up to a big pop and drives Olympia into the corner. Olympia misses the top rope elbow. Big rush by Chavo ends in a German suplex for the win! He wants to take the mask off so he gives him another. Almost gets the mask and here is Akbar and now DiBiase. Hell beatdown commences until the save, I loved Chavo's fire in this and commitment to always fighting back. He played the perfect vengeful face. He did a great job mixing up his stuff. Olympia gave a a really simple, but effective performance. I didnt mention this but he was great bumping for Chavo. Match of Olympia/Stubbs career and maybe the best Chavo match on tape. ****1/2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JKWebb Posted July 27, 2017 Report Share Posted July 27, 2017 Chavo getting his foot on the rope after taking the loaded boot got me! I was expecting that to be it, but not for Chavo. As was said, Chavo shows great fire in this match and I loved the performance from Olympia as well. Chavo going for the mask was great, and the final moments of Dibiase and company hitting the ring were really intense. The heat was very audible. This is an excellent match! If I were to put stars on it, I'd agree with Sleeze. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tcg91 Posted November 24 Report Share Posted November 24 This was a very good match, it was incredibly simple and yet everything they did got tons of cheers and heat. Chavo was on form, really over in Houston, he managed to bump around convincingly and sold a simple chinlock like it was crushing his face, which helped maintaining a good momentum throughout the bout. The middle lacked something, and drama peaks like Chavo aiming for the heel's mask were only teased, but it's hard to suggest better idea when all they did was so over. The clean finish also made this very enjoyable all around, this was an intense and well fought 15 minutes ***1/2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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