In the NFL, the “Targeting” would result in ejection from the game!
This gallery continues my review of the epic Tag Team battle — a Mexican Death Match — between the Fabulous Ones and the Guerrero Brothers. Last episode focused on Chavo’s utter defeat and today the Fabs get their hands on Hector.
Their focus will be on his face and skull, trying to knock the beloved Immigrant Hero out cold.
The use of a Pile Driver signals that the Fabulous Ones are trying to injure Hector! This was a common Heel gimmick in the 1980s — for the Bad Guys to want to ruin a Baby-Face’s career, to take away his source of income.
That is so heartless and brutal sounding — to want to injure a man — that it’s kind of intoxicating.
Hector is utterly destroyed, broken, and emasculated.
Given that I viewed wrestling as a turn-on, almost like sex, this attempt to end Hector’s career seemed especially emasculating and cruel.
Not being able to wrestle any longer meant, in my mind, not being able to indulge in the pleasure of stripping down and get in the ring with other bare-chested dudes. Ending one’s career in pro wrestling was akin to being castrated.
And being pinned won’t save Hector. This is a Mexican Death Match, so he must stay in the ring, trapped like a fly in a spiderweb, suffering endless abuse and torture until he can no longer defend himself, or until he submits and verbally agrees that the Fabs are dominant over him and his brother (which he can never do as the Heroic Baby-Face.)
Seeing the Fabulous Ones play the relentless, strutting Heels is really a rare treat. They were so darn good-looking, they usually portrayed beloved Babies.
But in front of this Houston crowd, they just want to own these Guerreros and turn on everyone in the audience while doing it. I think I need to see more Fabs acting as the Dickhead Heels. Hurt me, Steve and Stan!
Shit gets brutal outside the ring.
Hector is tossed out to the floor where a steel chair is pressed into his skull. There must be a sharp metal edge because Hector is bloodied by this outrageous assault!
This cruel act violates about five rules of pro wrestling, and the Golden Rule, and a couple of the Commandments too!
This match is a great example of the ruthless aggression and graphic violence that made pro wrestling so realistic, gritty, and exciting in the 1970’s and 80’s.
Stan watches as Steve brings Hector back in the hard way.
I found a nice write-up describing this epic bout. The reviewer seems to really enjoy some violence in Tag Team wrestling, and who doesn’t?? He too loved seeing the Fabs working as Cruel Dickheads. He wrote:
“This was awesome! The Fabs knocked it out of the park in their performance. You could not ask much more from a heel team.” Here, here.
They will keep destroying him until he submits to their superior power.
The Guerrero Boys do great work as well — acting limp and helpless, allowing their faces to be bloodied and their bodies to be owned, laying flat on their backs like ragdolls, just waiting for more abuse and humiliation.
They definitely checked their egos and their Man Cards at the arena door before this match. They suffer a bloody ass-kicking from these cocky blond Gringos right n front of their Mexican fans. Their willing participation in this public shaming is hot.
Now is THAT legal in a Mexican Death Match??
One Fab holds his legs so the other Fab can hammer his ribs with repeated Chair Shots. This is totally out of control! They are just trying to injure this poor man and end his wrestling career!
This is the stuff that great wrestling feuds were made of. Surely these proud Macho Men will want their revenge on these devious (but oh so gorgeous) sadists. Their homo-erotic drama could go on for months!
Oh no, the dreaded Chair to the Throat! That will surely finish Hector off — and finish me off too because I’ve been triggered by this chair-choke since seeing Roddy Piper do it to Jimi Snuka when I was a youngster.
We would expect the Mexican team to thrive and dominate in a “Mexican Death Match” — a match named for their home country. But ironically, it is the brutal American blondies who rule the ring and destroy their helpless Mexican play-things. This kind of hot Tag Team punishment and public humiliation in the ring just never gets old.