[2003-03-07-CMLL] Atlantis vs Dr Wagner Jr

[ohtani's jacket]

This was OK. The first two falls were generic, modern style mano a mano wrestling, and were a bit disappointing given the level that these two can work at. The third fall was a lot better. It was one of those tercera caidas where one of the guys is going over clean so the loser puts a ton of effort into the fall. They started digging deeper into their offensive bags, and there was a lot more selling than they bothered to do in the first two falls. There are times when you're watching mano a manos where you have to remind yourself that it's only a mano a mano and you shouldn't expect too much, but the tercera here was pretty close to an apuestas level tercera. There were a very sloppy, awkward moments, but some great near falls as well. At the end of the day, the match was completely unnecessary, and I'm not sure why they even ran it, but I'd have to say that it overdelivered on the build while falling well short of their previous singles matches.