[2001-03-09-Tijuana] El Hijo del Santo & Rey Mysterio Jr vs Nicho El Millonario & Sabu

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Handheld that is filmed deep in the crowd.  The audience pops for the first Rey and Sabu interactions.  Sabu with a springboard leg lariat, however he misses the Arabian moonsault and Rey lands one of his own.  Rey’s picked up something from his time in WCW as he’s in the face of the referee complaining that was only a two count.  Sabu launches Rey skywards, as he comes down he catches him with a stunner/cutter, something that I can’t remember seeing out of him before.  He picks him up for a powerbomb but Rey counters with a headscissors, taking him over the top to the outside.  Flip dive by Rey.  Inside Nicho starts ripping at Santo’s mask.  Sabu loses his balance on the triple jump plancha, the crowd laugh as he has to reset, although nails it second time around.  Awesome leaping rana by Rey to Nicho, then a second off the elevated rampway down to the floor.  With how far away the camera is you are losing the wrestlers at time.  Sabu with another cutter.  Air Sabu to Rey, when he tries it to Santo, Santo steps out the way and he crashes into the corner.  Nicho is backdropped out onto the apron, Santo forearming him across the face and sending him flying into the guard rail.  Barmy suicide dive by Santo. Rey sets up a table at ringside, but Sabu crotches him upstairs and hits a perfect top rope rana.  He baseball slides him onto that table which he puts him through with a legdrop off the top.  As the ref checks on them both, Nicho kicks Santo between the legs and covers him for the win.  Some of the crowd pelt them with bottles as they celebrate their cheap victory.

I remember reading in the Observer how the WCW Luchadores would often sneak back down to Mexico to wrestle on their off nights, here is such an example.  With WCW down to one show a week at this point with the exception of when there was a PPV, can you blame him?  According to cagematch this was the first ever meeting between Sabu and Rey (the only other would be at the second One Night Stand) and the two were really good together, although there was an obvious styles clash when it came to Santo and he.  A unique and interesting match-up.