It’s amazing how much imagination us wrestling fans have 😂 It’s funny because anyone who is a true wrestling fan can appreciate this for what it is, pure entertainment.
I was introduced to GCW through this show (Joey Janela’s Spring Break 3 Part 1). The show introduced me to a lot of what are now still some of my favorite wrestlers. From some classic wrestling matches to a double amputee doing a 450 splash, to TAKA Michinoku wrestling an at the time quickly rising star in Orange Cassidy, to a BRUTAL death match main event… Invisible Man vs Invisible Stan showed me that wrestling can do and be anything as long as there’s heart and fans that love the showmanship and theater of wrestling. I was also incredibly crossfaded and hadn’t seen any independent wrestling before. Definitely a life changing show for me, and this match was the highlight of it all.
All jokes aside: this match is an absolute masterclass in how important storytelling and the crowd is to a match and young wrestlers would be well advised to watch and learn.
This match was absolutely disgusting. There were kids in that arena! Genuinely harder to watch than some bruiser Brody matches. Jokes aside, loved how you just immediately played along. It was great to see your enjoyment of this treasure.
A strange idea for a match just like when Kota Ibushi fought a blow up doll. Also seeing all the matches Bryce Remsburg has referred this has to be the strangest match I've seen him ref.
I can understand why some people would have problems with this match, but if you look at it as an exhibition of the importance of the referee, it does a good job of getting that point across.
Bret v Austin who? This is the greatest match of all time and it's not even close! In all seriousness though, the ref and commentators deserve so much praise for telling a whole ass story with no actual wrestlers. And the crowd was right there with it. If you have a chance to see GCW live, I HIGHLY recommend it. It's always so much fun.
If you're looking for another video like this I'd suggest The Most Illegal Move in the History of Wrestling by Aiakos or Classic PWG Moment: Omega VS Danielson by Highspots Wrestling Network. Both are hilarious and prove that you open so many doors by dropping Kaye Fabe and having the Audience in on the joke.
I was a very big Chikara fan and they really pioneered this out of the box thinking/meme wrestling trying to reach internet fans and comic book fans. They got so much crap for it but a lot of people from their roster are now stars. Bryce (the ref for this match and AEW ref), Claudio, Eddie Kingston, Orange Cassidy, Chuck Taylor, Sara Del Rey (WWE Trainer), Wheeler Yuta, 3.0, the late Brody Lee, Dalton Castle, etc. They even set the stage for getting Joshi, Japanese women’s wrestling, popular in the states again. The controversy that closed Chikara left a very big hole in the indie scene.
You couldn't tell without bad boy vision! I have a pair at home and was wearing them, this was definitely a shoot, bloodiest match I've ever seen I don't know how the ref didn't slip! Stan was on his bullshit, there was one part where he sneaked brass knuckles out of his sleeve and the ref didn't catch it! Charges should have been pressed that's how bloody it got!
If you want a really good fun match, watch Danhausen V Psycho Mike where Danhausen thinks he's fighting Psychic Mike and Mike can read his mind, funniest match ever
the Bad Boy Vision is such an important device i see absolutely nothing wrong with magic sunglasses, there's a lot you can do with that. its like same but different if you compare it to the hypnosis antenna that is Rikishi's tiny yellow sunglasses. i also thought of it as a normal antenna that gets radio waves from a station that only broadcasts the 2 Cool theme song, as a pirate radio station it goes where they go.
Pre-cut wood with some fishing wire to pull it apart under the ring at the right moment. That’s how I would have done it. Same way they do visual effects for film before the CGI is put in. 👍 really sells that match here.
