[2019-04-04-AIW] Dominic Garrini vs Joshua Bishop (Submit or Surrender)

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One of my favourite matches from Mania weekend in which Dominic Garrini worked as if he could feel no pain. A flat-out awesome, wild brawl around the arena where both guys took huge punishment that felt like a real out-of-control Southern fight. Garrini was an absolute bumping machine here though, channelling Foley in that he took crazy hit after crazy hit and just kept on moving forward. It went from the fairly mundane (though still wild) dive through Bishop and the front row before culminating in a big bump into thumbtacks by way of a unbelievably nasty, back-first crash through an entire section of seats. At one point, Bishop is just nailing skewers into Garrini's EAR before Dom responds by nailing them into Bishop's forehead. Finish comes when Bishop and his second handcuff Garrini to the turnbuckle before dousing him in lighter fluid and motioning to set him alight before Garrini surrenders. That finish seems hokey when written down but the match played out in a way where it felt like one guy getting set on fire seemed like a likely and realistic outcome. A crazy war and when you look at this and his Bloodsport match, Sunday morning must have absolutely sucked for Dominic Garrini