10 Controversial Wrestling Matches You'll Never See Again
4. Joey Janela Vs Jimmy Lloyd (GCW, March 21st 2020)
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Well, hopefully you'll never see it again.
A charming idea from a company that ultimately failed in its pandemic efforts in the longterm, GCW's Social Distancing match between Joey Janela and Jimmy Lloyd saw both men engage in the sort of thing that once would have baited the old guard had said talking heads not exploded with far hotter takes long before a global pandemic changed everything.
Years after The Young Bucks et al had been accused of killing the business, Janela and Lloyd kept it going a little bit longer when COVID-19 started shutting it all down. The rules of the Social Distancing match required the wrestlers to maintain the advisory space between one another during the earliest days of the coronavirus outbreak. Wrestling as if Invisible Man/Stan stood between them both, the pair fed, sold and bumped as if they were connecting but with the requisite fresh air between them.
It was creatively inspired but born out of grim necessity nobody wants to revisit.