Dos Caras

[Grimmas]

Discuss here.

[ohtani's jacket]

No chance. You want him to work like he does in that Michinoku Pro stuff and then you find out he doesn't work like that at all.

[Grimmas]

My quest to check out everybody I haven't seen enough starts at the last thread posted upon. I'm going to try to do this for everyone that has a shot (that I am not rally familiar with), so here we are.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h34CW0Gho28

vs El Samurai (Super J Cup 1995)

 

I haven't seen the Super J Cup in many years now and I have no recollection of this match. Caras is filled with cool looking submissions and roll ups and one awesome tope. A pretty solid early round tournament match and Caras was good and old, but did not look very special.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kW8t3U0vYcU

vs Great Sasuke (M-Pro)

 

 

After ten minutes of fun mat work this match goes to the floor and gets awesome. Sasuke is a freak with the bumps he takes on the floor and in the ring. Slams to the floor, insane power bombs where his head bounces. There was this neat spot where Caras was holding onto Sasuke's leg to try to get them both counted out. Sasuke took another huge power bomb where his head bounces.

 

So, after all of this viciousness Caras does a monkey flip into a boston crab into a rocking horse into a single leg crab. A very bizarre choice. After a few questionable choices Caras unleashes a VICIOUS TOPE!

 

Sasuke fights back with an Asai Moonsault and a freaking space flying tiger drop which splatted both on the high school gym floor. Sasuke is able to roll in for the countout.

 

A very good match, but more a case for Sasuke than Casas. I'd go like *** 1/2 to *** 3/4 for the last stretch.

 

w/ Blue Blazer & Gran Hamada vs Los Brazos

 

The video is only ten minutes long, so I feel like we'll be missing something here.

 

It's funny that Owen looks like a huge monster against the Brazos. After a fun Owen start we have Super Porky vs Dos Caras. If this isn't good I am done with Caras.It was alright.

 

A fun comedy stuff down the stretch, but nothing special. Hamada, Owen and Porky out worked Caras here.

 

I've liked Caras in the past and this small sampling keeps him there. Unless somebody makes a case for him I am unsold.

[cad]

Not a single positive comment so far about Dos Caras. Here we have a guy who worked a bunch of different places over a long period of time, and when Dos Caras gets a starring role there's a good chance it's going to be something cool. He frustrated Jumbo Tsuruta with monkey flips and cool submissions in 1979, worked an exciting heavyweight style technical match with Canek in his own backyard, and impressed American smarks in a maestros match with Blue Panther in 2004. He's got versatility, longevity, charisma, and a solid docket of big matches. It would be nice if he looked great every week once the Toreo wrestlers got television exposure, but that was some dire television and he was quite old by that point anyway. No, I think even with a relative lack of matches from his prime, Dos Caras would look good on somebody's list.

[ohtani's jacket]

Something positive about Dos Caras.. His All Japan match against Dr. Wagner is one of the best exhibitions of pure lucha libre that I've ever seen. 

UWA television was dire? I love that stuff. 

[cad]

The matches are all so rushed and everything looks dingy. Compare it to the CMLL TV and it looks like a minor league promotion. Obviously that was a very hot period in Arena Mexico, but it's not like the UWA was hurting for star power (or talented workers) itself. They just had a TV program that made everyone feel smaller.

Dos Caras vs Canek is actually a good candidate for best match in the history of that show, to me.