The Most BRUTAL Wrestling Match You've Never Seen Before

Guerrero vs. JBL, Umaga vs. Cena, and Jon Moxley's Greatest Hits pale in comparison.

by Michael Sidgwick
Samoa Joe vs. Necro Butcher
IWA-MS

All wrestling is fundamentally brutal. It all hurts. Hulk Hogan is a shell of a man. He is also a physical wreck, and this is a bloke who got over primarily by flailing about on his knees and shaking his head from side to side.

All wrestling is brutal, and the brutality is the selling point. Even the most "pure" in-ring stories, a lot of the time, run it back with a weapons match.

Tables. Forks. Barbed wire. Fire. Barely protected falls from 20 feet in the air. Shoot bombs. Pro wrestling has experimented with violence and weapons to insane lengths, and yet, the most brutal match ever held only needed a guardrail, a chair, a hoss, and a bonafide f*cking lunatic. Oh, and some exposed concrete.

Samoa Joe Vs. Necro Butcher, June 11, 2005, promoted by IWA: Mid-South in the New Alhambra Sports & Entertainment Center (formerly, unofficially, the ECW Arena): this is the most unbelievably violent, sickening, grotesque pro wrestling match ever held.

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Michael Sidgwick is an editor, writer and podcaster for WhatCulture Wrestling. With over seven years of experience in wrestling analysis, Michael was published in the influential institution that was Power Slam magazine, and specialises in providing insights into All Elite Wrestling - so much so that he wrote a book about the subject. You can order Becoming All Elite: The Rise Of AEW on Amazon. Possessing a deep knowledge also of WWE, WCW, ECW and New Japan Pro Wrestling, Michael’s work has been publicly praised by former AEW World Champions Kenny Omega and MJF, and surefire Undisputed WWE Universal Champion Cody Rhodes. When he isn’t putting your finger on why things are the way they are in the endlessly fascinating world of professional wrestling, Michael wraps his own around a hand grinder to explore the world of specialty coffee. Follow Michael on X (formerly known as Twitter) @MSidgwick for more!