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Austin Tyler vs El Fuego, Match 642 (UCW)

Tyler and Fuego conduct a strong and convincing match that focuses on grappling, leaving little room for anything else. I would expect nothing less of these two and ask no more from any underground wrestler. That's high praise because wrestling is important in my world. There's not much of an introduction here, just a terse exchange of names, which is great because our guys get right into the action, and in that department both deliver big time. 

Austin Tyler has made his name a synonym for quality wrestling, with a cool and unaffected style that barely conceals a whole lot of aggression. El Fuego is new to UCW - this is his fifth release for the company - and it's a measure of his backbone that he's already been pitted against the company's most talented and serious fighters - Axel, Chase Michaels, Eli Black, now Tyler, names that built this company and whose influence can be felt in underground wrestling worldwide. El Fuego strikes me as a natural addition to the team - a superb grappler with a taste for hurting his opponents. Hurting them hard, too.

You could say I'm a fan of both these guys. I am that, definitely.

The wrestlers are quick to engage, and within the first minute, smooth and collected Austin has Fuego in a standing headscissors with one of the masked man's arms winged up his back, his left wrist rubbing against a shoulder blade. It's a humiliating hold to be caught in, painful, too, from the sound of Fuego's moans. But less than a minute later the roles are reversed. Fuego has Tyler belly down on the mat with an arm cranked up high against his back, the other arm locked up against Fuego's jawline.

Give and take on this level defines the 22-minute fight. Both men use the ropes to good effect, but most of this fight is barefoot mat grappling, with each attempting to grind the other guy down to a state of helplessness - sharp-elbow-to-the-ribs grinding, with wrenching of joints and casual body slamming and use of one's own whole body to bludgeon the other's.

Consider 2019's cherry officially popped.


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