Joseph and Colette Discuss Dr. Cerebro vs. Ricky Marvin
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Our four match dive into lucha libre ends a little off the beaten path, as Joseph and I watched an IWRG match between Dr. Cerebro and Ricky Marvin. It wasn’t a classic, but both of us found a lot to like in Ricky Marvin’s match-long selling of a busted arm, and we got to revisit the lower quadrant of the BIG EGG MASTERLIST without having to ask if a match was better than anything from Hunter Month.
If month-long retrospectives of wrestlers are your thing, GOOD NEWS: next month on BIG EGG is Cena Month! With John Cena’s farewell tour slated for 2025, Joseph and I are dipping into the past to watch one of the greatest of all time at four very distinct moments of his career as he faces off against Eddie Guerrero in a street fight, The Great Khali in a falls count anywhere match, Rey Mysterio for the WWE Championship, and Cesaro for the United States Championship! Thanks for your suggestions — some of them will reappear in the month’s EXTRA BIG EGG poll!
Speaking of EXTRA BIG EGG, I’ll have a piece for you on Santito vs. El Dandy this weekend to bring the lucha retrospective to a close. Revisit my pieces on Battle Satellite in Tokyo Dome and Dick Virj vs. Volk Han if you haven’t had a chance!
Colette Arrand
For our dip into lucha libre, you chose a couple of classics, and I filled in around the edges with some off the beaten path stuff, this one legitimately being "A guy I liked from DEAN~! and a guy I am mostly familiar with in passing," which may be the loosest reasoning for any match I've chosen for BIG EGG to date, but about a minute into the second fall I found my total stab in the dark rewarded by an utterly incredible performance by Ricky Marvin, who has rocketed to the top of my shortlist of wrestlers I want to become more familiar with. You also singled out his performance in your piece, so I suppose we should start with him: how familiar were you with Ricky Marvin's game before this week?
Joseph Montecillo
Ricky Marvin I mostly know from his work in Lucha Memes in the 2020s. He's the kind of wrestler where if I see his name on a card, it doesn't even really matter who it's against, I'll give it a go. He's just a really fascinating worker, combining the kind of stiff striking that he honed during his early career excursions to Japan with the back and forth rhythms of lucha libre. It makes him a really compelling brawler especially in a place like Coliseo Coacalco when he gets to roll around in the dirt with the freaks. Love the guy.
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