10 Holy Sh*t Wrestling Moments You Didn’t Know About
8. The Matrix Minute
After Low-Ki and the Amazing Red exchanged a sequence so white hot at an early Ring Of Honor show that the crowd received a worked contest as a real bloodsport, the entire rhythm of a professional wrestling match changed in its wake.
This is not hyperbole; the 'Matrix Minute' was such a phenomenon that every worker who borrowed from it learned a new trick.
Low Ki attempted to blast Red with a kick after feigning a collar-and-elbow tie-up. Red was smart to it, evaded it, and caught the striking specialist with one of his own. Outwitted and enraged, Ki charged forward with a hailstorm of fists so rapid that the crowd became unglued. If Red was just a millisecond off, he'd have taken several very real blows to the mush.
Ki was so fired up and he exploded so quickly that this felt like a shoot in the magic of the moment. The man looked unbridled in his fury. He tried to blast Red with a lunging back fist; Red avoided the impact and a series of stomps with his new breed of springing athletic endeavour. The timing and energy was so combustible that the fans rose to their feet like a Vegas crowd smelling the blood of a knockout. And then, registering its awesomeness, Ki stood there and roared in Red's face.
The fans didn't even know to chant "This is awesome" yet. This sequence arranged its moves so well that the wrestlers who watched it would soon learn to generate the standing O with this intoxicating new formula.