Joseph and Colette Discuss Terry Funk vs. Leatherface
Why hasn't Joseph seen The Texas Chain Saw Massacre???
There's never really been a particular methodology to how Joseph and I pick the matches we cover here on BIG EGG. Sometimes we choose to do a theme, sometimes we're just riffing, and either way we occasionally come across a match that's on-paper weird enough to forego this blog ever coming across like it has a definitive arc in mind. Here in these BIG EGG MASTERLIST posts we're ranking every match from best-to-worst, but it's not like we're picking those matches in a concerted effort to only watch the supposed greatest wrestling matches of all time.
Sometimes it's as easy as saying "if we're doing a horror month, we need to watch a W*ING Monster match," then immediately seeing one where Leatherface and Terry Funk wrestled in a steel cage. I hadn't seen it, Joseph hadn't seen it, so why not? The worst thing that could happen, writing about a match like this, is that there actually wouldn't be much to write about, that it'd just be a wrestling match, and that's what we got.
This week's discussion, then, is a bit of a hodgepodge. Joseph and I chat about steel cage matches, slasher gimmicks, Terry Funk, and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. We also rank this bad boy on the MASTERLIST, as is our charge.
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Colette Arrand
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Colette Arrand
I’m not going to start with the fact that you haven’t seen The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, a movie whose raw power convinced my boyfriend to go vegetarian last year — that’s paywall talk. Instead, I need to point out that despite the fact that both of us (I think) are fans of the gimmick, we haven’t had much luck with cage matches on BIG EGG. The exceptions are admittedly incredible, but Cage of Death and VIF/Workhorsemen aside, we were both disappointed in a canonical JCP tag team cage match, endured HBK/HHH, and have now been bit twice when our curiosity was piqued by an on-paper fun pairing. I feel like the flaws of this one are pretty apparent, which we’ll get to, but maybe we need to intentionally sprinkle in some good cage matches to make up for matches like this one. No more mediocre cage matches, unless they’re on Nitro!
Colette Arrand
Joseph Montecillo
I'm curious where we'd go for that kind of stuff to be fair. My initial reaction is to mine the 80s NWA stuff a little more with all those Flair title matches as I've very much enjoyed the stuff with Morton, Dusty, and Garvin. There's also Tully/Magnum as far as canonical stuff goes. In the 2000s, we get some pretty wild fireworks shows from the likes of Benoit and Angle. Hell, even just recently, we had a pretty great cage title match with Hanger and Joe. So the stipulation itself can't be to blame here.
Joseph Montecillo