Joseph and Colette Discuss Sabu vs. The Lightning Kid
Wherein Colette invents the ultimate tag team finisher, the 1-2-3D.
Most of BIG EGG's dive into the indies focuses on the 00s-10s indie boom, and it was within the context of said boom that I first saw this match, uploaded to Adam Lash's Indie Wrestling Archive YouTube page. It's been a couple of years since anything was uploaded to the channel, but it remains a great resource for anybody looking to do some digging into the 90s and early 00s. Check out Green Mountain Wrestling if you're looking for a hit of hyperlocal indie wrestling.
Rather than do a long spiel on this match (I went long enough in my review), I'm gonna encourage y'all to wish a happy 30th birthday to Joseph! It looks like commissions are open over on his Ko-fi — if one of y'all has $200, why not wish him a happy 30th by sitting him down in front of Will Ospreay vs. MJF?
I am also going to plug the fact that I have two shirts available for pre-order right now. They're reprints of a couple of designs that have mostly been retired, and profits from the sale of both will benefit Second Harvest Heartland, a Minnesota-based food bank serving that state and parts of Wisconsin. Given the weather and the scale of need for folks in that part of the world right now, this is a short pre-order window — I'm placing orders on January 28.
UP NEXT: We're finally breaking the PWG bubble on BIG EGG, going out to Cali for the 12/16/05 Guerrilla Warfare match between Kevin Steen and Super Dragon. A legendary spectacle that remains definitional to what that company was so good at, a few years before its Reseda-era boom period. A first watch for Joseph, and my first time revisiting in at least a decade. Can't wait.
Colette Arrand
Colette Arrand
So, up front, it's obvious that I kind of have a soft spot for this match. I love Sabu. I love Sean Waltman. It's kind of crazy that this is the biggest, most significant match between the two of them. Like, it feels like something TNA would have done during its weekly PPV era, but the timing never really lined up. I bet I'd like their 3PW matches — a old 411 review of it that I read of one of them notes that the finish was a top rope X Factor through a table, and Ineed to see that. I like this one a lot though, so much that in the few years that've passed since the last time I watched this, I forgot that the finish wasn't clean, and that there's an angle at the end to set up Sabu vs. Jerry Lynn that takes forever. It's a better match in my head than on tape, but my nostalgia for it and my enthusiasm for both wrestlers makes it better, if that makes sense? Where are you at on Sabu and X-Pac? You didn't grow up with them in quite the same way I did — I feel like Waltman is quietly one of the wrestlers I've seen the most of as a fan just by watching TV in the 90s, and the Sabu: Magazine Sensation thing was real to me. My first Sabu match was on an ECW VHS tape I bought from Sam Goody with money I made picking up nails on roofing sites, a sentence that makes me feel one hundred years old — so I'm genuinely curious!
Colette Arrand
Joseph Montecillo
I'll start with Waltman as I've seen less of him. I'm not an experienced hand at Attitude Era TV so most of my exposure to the guy came, same as you, from his appearances with CHIKARA, and then in recent years going back for things like the masterpiece against Bret. I also encountered him a couple of times in my 1990s work, primarily working against Jerry Lynn throughout various smaller promotions in America.
Joseph Montecillo