[2000-01-15-NWA Southwest] Necro Butcher vs Biohazard

[soup23]

Early Necro! Necro’s look here is odd as he has a biker bandana, shortish hair and facepaint. He kept that when I first saw him debut in IWA-MS in 2001. Bio Hazard jumps Necro at the bell and gives him a good once over. Nice height on the elbow drop for someone his size and he displays an okish dropkick. Necro sends Hazard to the outside and now we are in his domain. Senton from the apron and he is a garbage babyface with a headbutt and sends him into the railing. Necro grabs a chair and Hazard wisely realizes his best strategy is in the ring. Match plays that off with Hazard being able to take over inside with a suplex. The chair is inside the ring and with Necro neutralized, Hazard obliges in using it. Two brutal chairshots to the head have Necro woozy. Necros’ lightbulb bat is then used against him. On the outside Necro again is able to take advantage but Hazard shows that he is fresher and sends Necro into the post. Necro has a pretty good gusher now. Hazard retrieves a barbed wire garbage can. That gets boinked of Necro and the wire is spread out across the canvas. Necro gets hip tossed into that. Story of match is for sure how tough Necro is and he is back in control again. Necro gets a stop sign shot that Hazard didn’t seem to want to take hardly any part of. Hazard hits the drop toe hold into the chair and climbs to the top. Necro stops that and hits a leg drop with the stop sign to pick up the win. This was Necro’s debut and he immediately got himself over here. Fun Match. ***

[Loss]

I wouldn't call this commentary good, but it's very effective in getting Necro Butcher over as a dangerous madman. I didn't think this was really a good match but it was a good showcase for a unique guy, and I like how Necro smiled more the more punishment he took. I think it was a good decision to stop painting his face, because his facial expressions were very good. At the time, garbage cans and stop signs were pretty conventional weapons in the Big Two, and barbed wire was common in ECW, but the broken glass was pretty wild, so this went a step further than the norm to establish Necro as unusually dangerous. Glad I saw it. Biohazard looked like he could have been somebody with a little seasoning himself.

[Tim Evans]

Ah NWA Southwest. I remember when they were syndicated and aired locally in Orlando with guys like Khris Germany, Kevin Northcutt and a young Hotstuff Hernandez. It's wild seeing a totally different version of Necro with facepaint and in all black. Typical indie hardcore match here but I was surprised they used the glass so early. The announcer was horrible but he put over the butcher huge so I guess he's worth it. Biohazzard looked like the Giant Warrior's son. Interesting match.

[Moonsault Marvin]

Below Average Match. Biohazard didn't look in shape. I don't think I've ever watched any early Necro Butcher before. Biohazard struggled with basic moves and dropped Necro Butcher on his shoulder during what I guess was supposed to be a suplex. The highlight of the match was the bat with light bulbs taped to it. Butcher was able to establish himself as someone who delights in pain, but it was a rather poor match.

[GSR]

Necro looks so different with face paint. He comes to the ring wearing a bandana and carrying a stop sign and a light bulb covered baseball bat for this hardcore match. Biohazard attacks Necro from, despite his claims that he’s going to show these fans a ‘wrestling match’, and uses the top rope to choke the Butcher. Necro backdrops him over the top rope to the floor and an attempted somersault senton however he doesn’t quite flip all the way over. They fight around ringside, but as soon as Necro picks up a chair Biohazard is straight back into the ring. An ugly looking suplex and a leg drop from Biohazard for a two. He picks up a chair and a couple of shots to the chest of the prone Butcher followed by one to the head. Necro just looks at him and waves his finger, so Biohazard gives him a full force one that still doesn’t put him down. He then picks up the baseball bat and hits the Butcher three times in the back with that, breaking the light bulbs in the process. He grinds the bat into his forehead, more weapon shots (chair and stop sign), but when he hits Necro over the head he doesn’t seem to register them. He fires back and a headbutt sends Biohazard tumbling to the outside. More fighting on the floor and Biohazard again drills Necro with a vicious chair shot and again it does nothing. A couple more to the back and the Butcher is busted open by now. Biohazard throws a garbage can filled with barbed wire into the ring, nails Necro with a can and a hip toss into the barbed wire. Drop toe hold into a chair and Biohazard climbs to the top. He comes off but is met by a chair swinging Necro. The Butcher puts the stop sign over his head, comes off with a leg drop off the middle onto it and gets the three for the win.

 

I think I first saw Necro in IWA-MS a few years after this, so interesting to see him a couple of years prior. He’s pretty sloppy and rough around the edges in the ring, but even back here is taking ridiculous levels of punishment (those full force chair shots are nasty). A unique gimmick as well, almost like you don’t hit him in the head as that won’t affect him, concentrate your efforts elsewhere. Biohazard is nothing special but at least he puts his hands up to protect himself when Necro is cracking him over the head with the chair.

[grendel]

Great to see Necro before he made a real name for himself in IWA-MS. I guess everything has been said about this one. Not a good match and seeing Necro with facepaint was strange. Although, if you looked close enough, you could see shades of the deathmatchlegend that he became. I just love Necro, even with facepaint, LOL! This is why I like this project so much.

[aethelred]

This was such an interesting match to see, even if it's not a good one. Necro certainly looks different to what I'm used to and it's odd to think that he already had a "reputation" even at this early stage (if the commentator is to be believed).

[goc]

Biohazard complaining that he didn't want to wrestle a hardcore match because he's a wrestler was pretty hilarious to me because everything about him screamed garbage match worker. Necro Butcher looks so weird here, I had no idea he ever had this look. This felt like it would have been right at home taking place in someone's backyard as any actual wrestling moves that happened in this match looked like shit and the move that was consistently sold the most was a kick to the stomach.

[Stiva]

Fascinating glimpse at early Necro and I had no idea that footage of him existed. This is like seeing a supervillain's ordinary life right before something pushes him over the edge. I did think it was interesting that he was almost Foley-esque here in that he was put over as a mad man, not because of the punishment he was dishing out, rather, the punishment that he was surviving and laughing at.

[Edwin]

This is the earliest footage I've ever seen of Necro. Him with hear and not balding, wearing the face paint, boots, tights and a t-shirt with sleeves on is compelling as by the time he began working northeast and became an IWA-MS regular getting hit in the face by VCRs being thrown at him by Mr. Insanity he was already balding, wore beat up sleeveless t-shirts and distressed jeans with blood stains from every garbage indy worker in the region and barefoot without face paint.

 

This felt more ECW-ish than IWA-MS-ish sans the light bulbs on the bat. They keep it relatively simple with the typical type of weapon use you'd see somewhere like ECW than them going full blown nuts with crazy unprotected chair shots and powerbombs on the floor like what you would see in IWA-MS.

 

The commentator is pretty bad and sounds like an over enthusiastic Gabe Sapolsky on the early ROH DVD's.

 

Not a particularly great match by any chance, but it is remarkable seeing Necro before he broke out and began working more frequently all over the place.

[Chess Knight]

This is my first time watching early Necro, weird seeing him more cartoon-y with the Marilyn Manson-ish face, rather than looking like a homeless guy who just fell out of building in NYC and landed next to you on the sidewalk. I really liked the dichotomy of the hardcore face, and the heel who was adamant about sticking to wrestling. That is until he got a taste of Necro on offense (the somersault plancha looked awesome because of how it was, like, not really a somersault) and then became all too quick to use the chair and go grab Necro’s own bat wrapped in light bulbs. Necro’s early selling reminded me of Andre a bit, like when he was clubbed and bounced back onto the ropes. There was way too much usage of the chair for such a short period of time here, like a shot to the head was treated like a clothesline at times, but without that I thought they balanced the weapons decently in the short time they had. Fun plunder brawl.