10 Wrestling Moments That Literally Made You Jump
1. Samoa Joe Kills Necro Butcher
This infamous match is so wild in such an ill-advised way that it effectively makes you reverberate, much less jump, in a sickened, ghoulish delight.
It is undeniably captivating. An inspired dynamic promoted at the perfect time, it pitted the most legitimate-feeling and convincing wrestler in the world against the most unhinged masochist at the crest of their underground buzz.
The match is shockingly, gratuitously violent. The art of strong style, or something like the WALTER Vs. Ilja Dragunov series, is to leather the opponent almost as hard as possible in relatively safe places using dulled points of impact. Chops to the chest, forearms to the flesh of the cheek, padded shins to the broad surface area of the back: the secret is using the sickening nature of sound to accompany and almost disguise the visual.
Samoa Joe legitimately hurt Necro Butcher in the least safe places. As demonstrated by the above GIF, if you can bear to look at it, Necro allowed Joe to drop him crown-first on concrete with a suplex that the Four Pillars of All Japan would not take. The resulting blood splatter looks like an ink blot picture a child would make at nursery.
It's perhaps the most wrong-feeling ever wrestling match ever worked, not that it was really "worked".
And apologies, but it f*cking ruled.