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Ace Aarons vs Bryan Idol, Florida Fights 10 (BG East)

Few underground wrestling promotions feature wrestlers with experience in live shows, and none of them have more wrestlers with backgrounds in indie wrestling than BG East. That background is most evident in performance style. These guys aren't horsing around or learning the ropes. For them, performance - selling every move - is paramount. From entrance to finisher, everything they do is for the story.

Four years ago, I saw Ace Aarons in a live show, Wrestling with Pride in Florida. He was by far the heel of all heels that evening. He not only attacked his opponent, the rookie Tiko, but the ref, too. Then he went after Kid Leopard, the boss, at which point, quite dramatically, heroes of BG East past - Brad Rochelle, Shane McCall, and Scott Williams - stormed the squared circle. It was undoubtedly the best-told ring story of the evening.

Aarons vs Idol is a heel-vs-heel spectacle. These guys know how to fight nasty and snarl for the crowd (in this case, the invisible audience who will eventually be watching the video of the match). They are also evenly matched in talent and build, so the give-and-take represented in the still shots above is both believable and suspenseful. Either guy could win this one, but only one of them will. The advantage spins so quickly between the two it's hard to keep score.  

The sweat starts pouring halfway through the 27-minute fight. Typically, the action slows down at this point. But these guys speed up, forming a back-and-forth tornado in the final minutes, climaxing in a finisher that's just shy of being first-degree murder. I liked Ace and Bryan the first time I saw them, but this match bumps them up to the stratosphere of my esteem.

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