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The Party of immortals.
Nick Gage & Matt Tremont vs. Jun Kasai & El Desperado vs. Masashi Takeda & Rina Yamashita (16/4/26)the greatest thing about deathmatch wrestling is that it is a universal language, a deathmatch is the only form of wrestling that could get Nick Gage, Matt Tremont, Jun Kasai, El Desperado, Masashi Takeda & Rina Yamashita in a wrestling ring, they are so different from eachother, brawlers, juniors, shooters, grapplers & strikers but the thing that can put them in a ring together isn't the fact that it's a deathmatch, hell all of them have different signature weapons from eachother, it's the fact that they are all immortal, both figuratively and relatively. legends and story's will be told about them, how one of them came back from death itself, how one of them adored the pain of a deathmatch, and how for some of them, pain saved their lifes, it's all really poetic, this isn't just a dream match, it's a symbol of how powerful deathmatch wrestling really is, and let me quote El Desperado after his first match with Jun Kasai when he said "After seeing what you just saw, don't you feel you have the power to do more in your life? That power is the power of deathmatch."
immortality is what brings them together here, the fact that they can do all this extreme stuff and still live on to see another day, and as a viewer, it's the extreme that pulls you in, the joy, frustration, anger, pain and survival is why we like deathmatch wrestling, why we feel so pulled to it, because it's a gateway to see the stuff that we can't really do in real life, if your boss overtasks you for the day, can you really throw him into a kasai bundle of death? if your partner cheated on you, do you grief by breaking a light tube on your own head? you can't. all of us deal with our struggles differently, but some of us hold on to them, so seeing people let go of their frustrations on eachother in such an extreme and violent way gives you a chance to let go yourself.
countless people die while they're yearning to live. and seeing these people dance with death, it really gives you the clarity of how beautiful life is, but also clarity on how important fighting through pain is, you may lose now, and it would hurt so fucking much but ur still alive to live another day, and that's the beauty of it, romanticizing pain only because you know a win would feel better when you struggle to get it, the high of how extreme a deathmatch is makes us the viewers and the wrestlers themselves closer to life, dancing with death or watching the beautiful dance itself makes you appreciate life even more.
i mean emotional stuff aside this match banged, but the emotion in every move is what makes it special, the emotion and the connections between Despe/Kasai and Takeda/Rina is special, the tension between Gage and Kasai is poetic, the friendship of Tremont and gage is special, mix that with the pain & the persistence that allow me to call these great wrestlers immortal? and you got yourself a special match.
you can get this type of feeling with any great wrestling match but it's different when it's a deathmatch, and we don't thank deathmatch wrestlers enough for the dances they do.
so thank you to Tremont, Kasai, Gage, Despe and takeda for making me burst into tears like a little kid.
****1/2
the greatest thing about deathmatch wrestling is that it is a universal language, a deathmatch is the only form of wrestling that could get Nick Gage, Matt Tremont, Jun Kasai, El Desperado, Masashi Takeda & Rina Yamashita in a wrestling ring, they are so different from eachother, brawlers, juniors, shooters, grapplers & strikers but the thing that can put them in a ring together isn't the fact that it's a deathmatch, hell all of them have different signature weapons from eachother, it's the fact that they are all immortal, both figuratively and relatively. legends and story's will be told about them, how one of them came back from death itself, how one of them adored the pain of a deathmatch, and how for some of them, pain saved their lifes, it's all really poetic, this isn't just a dream match, it's a symbol of how powerful deathmatch wrestling really is, and let me quote El Desperado after his first match with Jun Kasai when he said "After seeing what you just saw, don't you feel you have the power to do more in your life? That power is the power of deathmatch."
immortality is what brings them together here, the fact that they can do all this extreme stuff and still live on to see another day, and as a viewer, it's the extreme that pulls you in, the joy, frustration, anger, pain and survival is why we like deathmatch wrestling, why we feel so pulled to it, because it's a gateway to see the stuff that we can't really do in real life, if your boss overtasks you for the day, can you really throw him into a kasai bundle of death? if your partner cheated on you, do you grief by breaking a light tube on your own head? you can't. all of us deal with our struggles differently, but some of us hold on to them, so seeing people let go of their frustrations on eachother in such an extreme and violent way gives you a chance to let go yourself.
countless people die while they're yearning to live. and seeing these people dance with death, it really gives you the clarity of how beautiful life is, but also clarity on how important fighting through pain is, you may lose now, and it would hurt so fucking much but ur still alive to live another day, and that's the beauty of it, romanticizing pain only because you know a win would feel better when you struggle to get it, the high of how extreme a deathmatch is makes us the viewers and the wrestlers themselves closer to life, dancing with death or watching the beautiful dance itself makes you appreciate life even more.
i mean emotional stuff aside this match banged, but the emotion in every move is what makes it special, the emotion and the connections between Despe/Kasai and Takeda/Rina is special, the tension between Gage and Kasai is poetic, the friendship of Tremont and gage is special, mix that with the pain & the persistence that allow me to call these great wrestlers immortal? and you got yourself a special match.
you can get this type of feeling with any great wrestling match but it's different when it's a deathmatch, and we don't thank deathmatch wrestlers enough for the dances they do.
so thank you to Tremont, Kasai, Gage, Despe and takeda for making me burst into tears like a little kid.
****1/2
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