The first of the VCR shots was during this exchange as Necro chucked one right at Toby’s head. The action then spilled out of the ring where they greeted each other again, this time with light tubes, chairs and even a plastic Santa Claus with light tubes duct taped to it. ![]() ![]() The two squared off in a “fans bring the weapons” match that famously become known as the “VCR match”, a brutal and violent five minute encounter that resembled a street fight behind a bar on a Saturday night rather than a wrestling match.įrom the opening bell of the match, the two traded stiff chops and headbutts. But the one match that left everyone talking was Necro Butcher vs Toby Klein. Bailey and Horace the Psychopath just to name a few. The 2003 tournament included a stacked roster of Mad Man Pondo, Axl Rotten, Balls Mahoney, Corporal Robinson, J.C. It’s also the oldest ongoing tournament of it’s kind, the first edition taking place all the way back in October 1997. Throughout the years, the list of competitors in the tournament reads like a who’s-who of the deathmatch world Bull Pain, 2 Tuff Tony, Mean Mitch Page, Sick Nick Mondo, Mickie Knuckles, Matt Tremont, John Wayne Murdoch, Rickey Shane Page, Nick Gage, Mance Warner and plenty more. One of the signature events of IWA Mid-South, a promotion run by one of the original purveyors of the deathmatch style Ian Rotten, is the annual King of the Death Matches tournament. It’s not for everybody, but I went down a deathmatch rabbit hole on YouTube a while back and found two of the wildest and best deathmatches I’ve ever seen – Necro Butcher vs Toby Klein from the 2003 King of the Death Matches tournament and the epic rematch from 2004. I don’t know why I keep circling back to this painful and blood soaked insanity, but I do. ![]() That stuff that involving light tubes, barbed wire, panes of glass and all manner of weird and wild weapons. However, one style of wrestling that I keep finding myself going back to is deathmatch wrestling. Joshi, puro, lucha, southern style rasslin’, World of Sport: you name it and I’ve probably sampled it just to get a feel of all the different types of wrestling that is out there. I will give any style of pro-wrestling a try.
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