10 Life-Saving Wrestling Moments
9. The Butcher Saves Marko Stunt
The Butcher is precisely the sort of pro wrestler that WWE likely wouldn't touch, or would at least take a considerable amount of time to "prepare" for television.
He is a tremendous presence, is smart enough to recognise what he's great at, and can work the living sh*t out a plunder brawl and, opposite FTR, a delightful smash mouth powerhouse tag throwback. There's a chaotic quality to his work all the better for how unvarnished it is. The Butcher is very much an anti-WWE wrestler because, in WWE, telegenic polish is the most prized attribute.
And yet, at AEW Dynamite: St Patrick's Day Slam, the Butcher proved himself to be a damn safe pair of hands, which is ironic, since Mr. Bean teaches catching at the Performance Center that would drill him into an unrecognisable wrestler.
As the action sprawled to the outside in a 10-man tag team match that sadly wasn't as fun as the match graphic suggested, the match almost became the antithesis of fun. Marko Stunt was launched like a missile by his babyface squad, but his trajectory was all off. He almost landed like a scorpion, but the Butcher's instincts kicked in and he held his diminutive opponent in mid-air to control him to the floor.