Post by brassy on Mar 26, 2006 12:50:16 GMT -6
For me to love a women's match, it usually requires a lot of X-Division type action, like AJW and JWP had in the '90s. This match was the opposite of that, as they wrestled a slow, methodical, old school style. Yet I found it to be absolutely intense and I loved every bit of it. How can this be?
Well, what truly made this match were both wrestlers' personas. First, there's Melissa. She has the name "Cheerleader", so one would be expecting a bubbly, bouncy blond leading cheers and waving pom-poms. Instead, we get someone with black hair, wearing a black robe, who doesn't even crack a smile, and the only thing that remotely resembles a cheerleader is her pink ring-dress. Right away you feel there is something rather sinister about this person. I mean whose cheerleader is she, anyway? Then comes Mischif, who is just, flat out, a wild beast. She's built like a tank, wears wild hair and make-up, and her screams are downright scary. Melissa, however, was not the least bit intimidated by her. The stage has now been set for not a match between two female wrestlers, but between a torturer and a monster. I'll say that again, a torturer and a monster.
In this match, Melissa was a torturer. When she was on offense she was in no rush to win, she just wanted to take pleasure in making Mischif suffer. The bending of Mischif to kick her in the head with her own boot, the snapping of her neck on the guardrail, and the bending of her body on the guardrail are all things that come from the mind of someone who likes to hurt people. Melissa also showed she had the mind of a master dominator in how she kept the pace of the match of the match slow to carefully inflict punishment and how she spent so much time dissecting Mischif on the floor while always being aware of breaking the ref's 10-count. In other words, her mind was a dangerous weapon.
Mischif, on the other hand, was a monster for the reasons already mentioned and that there didn't appear to be any methodical thought to her offense like Melissa's. She appeared to be relying soley on survival instinct.
The end result is a match involving two very different but equally dark personas, and watching to see which one would triumph made this match so intense. This match serves as a fine example that you don't always need fast paced, and sometimes insane, ring work to have a great match.
Well, what truly made this match were both wrestlers' personas. First, there's Melissa. She has the name "Cheerleader", so one would be expecting a bubbly, bouncy blond leading cheers and waving pom-poms. Instead, we get someone with black hair, wearing a black robe, who doesn't even crack a smile, and the only thing that remotely resembles a cheerleader is her pink ring-dress. Right away you feel there is something rather sinister about this person. I mean whose cheerleader is she, anyway? Then comes Mischif, who is just, flat out, a wild beast. She's built like a tank, wears wild hair and make-up, and her screams are downright scary. Melissa, however, was not the least bit intimidated by her. The stage has now been set for not a match between two female wrestlers, but between a torturer and a monster. I'll say that again, a torturer and a monster.
In this match, Melissa was a torturer. When she was on offense she was in no rush to win, she just wanted to take pleasure in making Mischif suffer. The bending of Mischif to kick her in the head with her own boot, the snapping of her neck on the guardrail, and the bending of her body on the guardrail are all things that come from the mind of someone who likes to hurt people. Melissa also showed she had the mind of a master dominator in how she kept the pace of the match of the match slow to carefully inflict punishment and how she spent so much time dissecting Mischif on the floor while always being aware of breaking the ref's 10-count. In other words, her mind was a dangerous weapon.
Mischif, on the other hand, was a monster for the reasons already mentioned and that there didn't appear to be any methodical thought to her offense like Melissa's. She appeared to be relying soley on survival instinct.
The end result is a match involving two very different but equally dark personas, and watching to see which one would triumph made this match so intense. This match serves as a fine example that you don't always need fast paced, and sometimes insane, ring work to have a great match.
