[2000-TASW] Necro Butcher vs Hotstuff Hernandez (Hardcore, No DQ, Falls Count Anywhere)

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Hotstuff comes out to a mash up of the Fugees and Donna Summer which is neat.  Necro goes right for him and they’re just stiffing each other with hard chops.  He clotheslines Hernandez over the top rope, but when he follows him out gets caught on the apron and press slammed to the concrete.  These two aren’t holding anything back here.  As they return to the ring Hotstuff gets in first with a low blow and is back blasting away at Necro’s chest.  He straddles him over the middle turnbuckle and then kicks him in the groin before distracting the official so that his valet can do the same.  An unnecessary distraction seeing that this is no DQ!  Hernandez wrecks a trash can lid over his head and as he drags him into the centre of the ring it looks like Necro is biting him in the crotch!  That brings the valet back in, but after she slaps him across the face he piledrives her.  As Necro turns around he’s levelled by a Hernandez spear which gets a muted, but funny “you’re not Goldberg” chant.  Hotstuff slams him into a barbed wire board before crotching him on the top rope and nailing him with a missile dropkick.  ‘The Butcher’ tumbles to the arena floor but he’s not safe out there, Hernandez soaring over the top rope with an impressive no hands tope.  A ‘Stop’ sign to the head has little effect as Necro fires back with headbutts.  Hotstuff reverses positions in the corner and then starts teeing off on him.  They attempt a huracanrana through a barbed wire board that Necro had earlier bridged between two chairs, however make a pig’s ear of it as Necro can’t hold on and ends up taking a delayed bump that looks bad.  Both clearly realised and ‘the Butcher’ immediately belly to back suplexes Hotstuff into the barbed wire.  From here they pick up a couple of chairs and take it in turns to destroy a few of the others brain cells, the shot Necro takes looking particularly nasty.  Hernandez recovers first, buries Necro under a second barbed wire board and then comes off the top onto it with a big splash.  Missile dropkick to a plastic garbage can over Necro’s head!  He’s taken some crazy punishment already and the craziest of the lot might be the running powerbomb from the apron through a table on the floor.  The guy’s a nut job!  It’s not enough to put him down for good though and he rolls back into the ring where he avoids a Hotstuff charge and back drops him onto that barbed wire board.  He swings what’s left of it at Hernandez and then sets up a couple of chairs.  Necro telegraphs the back drop but as Hotstuff looks for a powerbomb he reverses things and goes for one of his own.  Hernandez dead weights him so he unloads with a series of rapid fire forearms across the face.  That does the trick as he gets him up for the powerbomb and drops him onto the chairs.  Necro makes the cover and the TASW Brass Knux champion picks up a win over the Heavyweight champion.  A nice embrace between the two, although it looks like Necro might have legit hurt his leg with the way that he’s hobbling around.

I thought this was on its way to being a ‘lost’ hardcore classic the way things started out.  The botched huracanrana was a shame and although there was some bonkers stuff that followed (running powerbomb to the floor), it just felt a lot more ‘spotty’ from then on.  Christ knows what state Necro’s body is in in 2019 seeing him take this insane amount of punishment in 2000 and knowing what is still to come out of him.  I’m not bothering to rank the undated matches due to how much of the Puerto Rican stuff is joined in progress, but if I did, this would be ranked first and is absolutely worth checking out if you’ve never seen it.