Originally published at https://www.postwrestling.com/2018/03/04/rev-pro-live-at-the-cockpit-27-results/
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The Cockpit Theatre, LondonOriginally published at https://www.postwrestling.com/2018/03/04/rev-pro-live-at-the-cockpit-27-results/
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The Cockpit Theatre, LondonHow are people receiving ELP? He’s originally from Vancouver, and it’s insane to see how well he’s been doing less than a year from leaving the black hole that is the Pacific Northwest and moving full time to England.
El Phantasmo is a guy who’s been wrestling since 2005 (2006? idk) so I’m not surprised he’s doing okay. While I’ll admit my home territory is a bit of a black hole, El Phantasmo has always been a guy who’s been the big fish in a small pond and was our territory’s go-to-guy for wrestling imported talent like Jeff Cobb, Kyle O’Reilly (another Vancouver guy), and a handful of others. I feel like there should be no surprise from anyone that he’s doing well.
I guess though, my only criticism of him is that an El Phantasmo match from 2011 and one from 2016 look almost the same, he goes to a lot of the same spots and does the same kind of schtick, even though he’s dropped a lot of the comedy elements he originally got over with. I haven’t seen his English stuff yet but I think he is a guy who absolutely needs (maybe needed, I don’t know) things that are uniquely his own that are new, or I think his staying power might not be so great, especially in such a hot part of the world for wrestling.
He’s now wrestled Bate, Dunn and has a victory over ZSJ, in under 6 months of being over there. That’s absolutely huge. I assume he didn’t leave here without having some contacts and a plan, but man is that a quick rise to prominence.
I’ve watched some of his most recent matches(Dunn and he surprised everyone at Ballroom Brawl 9 this Jan) and he’s still a little goofy, but not nearly as spot heavy as he once was. And the spots he does now are more ‘walking 2/3rds around the ring’ and less his nipple play spot that while entertaining, can become tedious. I feel like Scurll went through the same issue last year, where to me and a few friends, he really showed in the jr heavyweight tourney how much he relied on a few fun spots. He’s spent the rest of the year working on it, and I think he’s a much better wrestler today because of it.