[2016-04-02-EVOLVE 59] Chris Hero vs Fred Yehi

[GOTNW]

I was hoping we would see some matwork that was interesting for a change when Yehi started going for single legs and Hero would shrug them off-play up the size difference! It's easy! Efficient! Interesting! Do it! But. No. Arm wringers. I respect Chris Hero for his attitude of just doing what he wants and not caring much but I can get pretty tired of his formulas. He knows how to build a match and it was apparent here-they didn't just exchange control segments. Hero dominated the match and they build heat through his control segments. I really liked the Big Boot cutoff to Yehi's corner flip. Having my first impression of him be a match vs. Tracy "please quit wrestling and go pick apples" Williams certainly did Yehi no favours but it's going to take more for me to be sold on the idea of him as a world class talent. Here he didn't really look strong enough to throw Hero around, the Belly to Belly Suplex in particular looked pretty sloppy. Hero gets exposed as the match goes a little longer for relying too much on elbow>kick-out>repeat in the finishing stretch but I don't think that they went overboard in this particular instance. A solid showing but nothing particuarly memorable. ***