Backfire

Tyson the Hammer vs Zack Reno, Match 693 (UCW)

The idea of a dirty fighter "hoist[ed] with his own petard" (Hamlet, Act III, scene 4 - that is, destroyed by a device with which he meant to defeat his adversary) is a favorite angle of mine because, through it, justice is revealed to work in mysterious ways. In Match 693, Tyson and Zack deliver a thrill-a-minute battle, full of big dick energy and ingenious punishments - nipple-biting and boner-squashing, to name two. In the last four minutes, a foreign object is introduced into the fight, and the two men scuffle to wield it against the other in the hottest "life-or-death" struggle in UCW history.

Though the match has little of the speed and jolt-and-smash recklessness that Joker, Quinn Harper, Eli Black, Derrick Cole, and El Fuego use to light up a fight, Zack and Tyson exhaust each other with super-long and strenuous body locks, which I especially  enjoy as finishers. As I have said elsewhere, worn-out wrestlers' sustaining the battle on will power alone is a huge turn-on.

And neither of these characters is what you would call squeaky clean. Zack is prone to violent outbursts, most notably against a tag-team partner earlier this year, and Tyson goes for the rapey option at nearly every turn - accompanied by a sadistic grin that bares his teeth and lights up his eyes. Both of these guys have sexy torsos and hair-trigger tempers, pretty much the basic ingredients of underground wrestling, and, like UCW's best matches, this one makes pugnacity as sexy as it should be. It was clear from the beginning that this was going to be a stimulating match, and it is - and it ends with a catastrophic knockout that's found a sticking place in my imagination. 

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