The Final Deletion

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So I'm not a TNA guy (#Believer) but I'm vaguely aware of Matt Hardy's resurgence first as #ICONIC then as Broken Matt Hardy.

Well, his new gimmick and feud with Jeff Hardy (aka Brother Nero) led to The Final Deletion last night on Impact.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=GG6y-5OYc_0

Just wanted to get people to see wrestling as its most beautifully absurd. For those who have been around wrestling for awhile, this match was littered with callbacks to Hardy moments and will likely serve as their magnum opus.

I won't spoil anything for you but if you're confused, reply and I'll try to explain the sometimes unexplainable.

But seriously. You all need to see this at least once or twice.

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This match was everything I had hoped it could be and ever so much more.

[DrunkenBuzzsaw]

I...I don't even know what to say to that.

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Some people might consider a drone armada overbooking a match, but personally I don't need that kind of negativity in my life.

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Jul 7, 2016 8:46:41 GMT -5 DrunkenBuzzsaw said:

I...I don't even know what to say to that.

1) That's what wrestling would look like if e-fedders worked their way into creative teams.

2) Compare it to the recent Ricochet/Osprey match that basically serves as the polar opposite of this match by being a work-rate masterpiece that had zero storyline to it.

3) The worst thing about Final Deletion will be when WWE tries to build off of it (and TNA because they're so excited to be mentioned positively that they're undoubtedly gonna nWo this and suck the Broken Matt gimmick dry, and then STILL give it a year before letting it die). This is not "the future of wrestling". This was the Hardy Boyz, two underrated contributors to the last two decades of pro wrestling, getting to tell one last great story before they official enter the "Legends Contract" phase of their career. Anyone else playing either part would've been awful, and what made this match special was not only coherent storytelling over the course of the episode (the birthday clip opened Impact, the lawnmower/drones segment was top of the hour, and the match was the main event) but over the course of their whole career. (There's a Reddit conversation about all the callbacks within the dialogue and match itself; everything from Jeff Hardy's hamartia coming from having built such a daredevil reputation that he thinks he can't win without a major stunt, to lines like "this is your Armageddon" hat-tipping the PPV where Jeff won the WWE Title)

[Jet Somers]

I loved it, and I also had the thought while watching: this looks like a bad efed match.

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Yeah I think we've all had a match or two that looked like Final Deletion.

Kem's dad wrestled a "House of Pain" match 3 years ago: steel cage match with fire under the ring (so the canvas is like a stovetop). Dynamo, working heel, came in wearing a rival team's football helmet armed with a paintball gun. Toward the end, my opponent (Jesse Williams, you may've heard of him) confiscated the gun and tossed the CO2 cartridge into the flames, making it a bomb that blew a hole in the canvas. Later, a beer bottle gets thrown into the ring, and Jesse jams it into Dynamo's mouth then superkicks it to shatter in his mouth. The finish is Jesse putting Dynamo in a half-crab directly over the hole so Dynamo can either tap or have his face literally melt off like the girl in Halloween 2.

Oh, and Dynamo competed in a gimmick match two weeks later because efedding.

[DrunkenBuzzsaw]

Jul 7, 2016 18:46:04 GMT -5 @kemdynamo said:

Yeah I think we've all had a match or two that looked like Final Deletion.

Kem's dad wrestled a "House of Pain" match 3 years ago: steel cage match with fire under the ring (so the canvas is like a stovetop). Dynamo, working heel, came in wearing a rival team's football helmet armed with a paintball gun. Toward the end, my opponent (Jesse Williams, you may've heard of him) confiscated the gun and tossed the CO2 cartridge into the flames, making it a bomb that blew a hole in the canvas. Later, a beer bottle gets thrown into the ring, and Jesse jams it into Dynamo's mouth then superkicks it to shatter in his mouth. The finish is Jesse putting Dynamo in a half-crab directly over the hole so Dynamo can either tap or have his face literally melt off like the girl in Halloween 2.

Oh, and Dynamo competed in a gimmick match two weeks later because efedding.

Lmao

Awesome

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Jul 7, 2016 18:46:04 GMT -5 @kemdynamo said:

Yeah I think we've all had a match or two that looked like Final Deletion.

Kem's dad wrestled a "House of Pain" match 3 years ago: steel cage match with fire under the ring (so the canvas is like a stovetop). Dynamo, working heel, came in wearing a rival team's football helmet armed with a paintball gun. Toward the end, my opponent (Jesse Williams, you may've heard of him) confiscated the gun and tossed the CO2 cartridge into the flames, making it a bomb that blew a hole in the canvas. Later, a beer bottle gets thrown into the ring, and Jesse jams it into Dynamo's mouth then superkicks it to shatter in his mouth. The finish is Jesse putting Dynamo in a half-crab directly over the hole so Dynamo can either tap or have his face literally melt off like the girl in Halloween 2.

Oh, and Dynamo competed in a gimmick match two weeks later because efedding. ;)

Your opponent was whom?

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My opponent was Jesse Williams, the WrestleStock Open winner last year.

[Jet Somers]

Jul 7, 2016 18:55:52 GMT -5 @kemdynamo said:

My opponent was Jesse Williams, the WrestleStock Open winner last year.

No clue

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Jul 7, 2016 18:46:04 GMT -5 @kemdynamo said:

Yeah I think we've all had a match or two that looked like Final Deletion.

Kem's dad wrestled a "House of Pain" match 3 years ago: steel cage match with fire under the ring (so the canvas is like a stovetop). Dynamo, working heel, came in wearing a rival team's football helmet armed with a paintball gun. Toward the end, my opponent (Jesse Williams, you may've heard of him) confiscated the gun and tossed the CO2 cartridge into the flames, making it a bomb that blew a hole in the canvas. Later, a beer bottle gets thrown into the ring, and Jesse jams it into Dynamo's mouth then superkicks it to shatter in his mouth. The finish is Jesse putting Dynamo in a half-crab directly over the hole so Dynamo can either tap or have his face literally melt off like the girl in Halloween 2.

Oh, and Dynamo competed in a gimmick match two weeks later because efedding. ;)

You'd have probably loved the run of the mill match

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Jul 7, 2016 18:46:04 GMT -5 @kemdynamo said:

because efedding

That seems like a solid line of reasoning to me!