I'm lazily making my way through a an entry about another one of my favorite Southern Indie guys, but in the meantime I am having fun going through my archives. On accident I stumbled upon these gems today - the great 2011 run of Doug Somers on the Southern indie scene. I've always been a huge fan of Somers as the ultimate in sleazy bad guys, and I was really excited when this stuff popped up so I'm going to share it with you all today including my reviews of the matches which were written back in 2011.
Bull Buchanan/Doug Somers v. Murder 1/Rob Adonis
I found this extremely entertaining. Cage match in front of a Southern crowd that is really into the two teams and the angle that the match builds to. Basically all punches and brawling and it's not fast paced but the punches all look good. Somers gets stabbed, takes a face rake into the cage and bleeds. Finish is fucking insane as Somers goes to climb out of the cage but gets caught up top and takes a leaping powerslam (awkwardly) off the top of the cage. Just a fucking ridiculous bump to take for a guy his age. Right after this the heel manager slams a door on Bull Buchanan's head and runs in the ring for the beatdown with the heels holding off the babyface lockeroom as it empties to try and make the save. Really fun stuff.
Doug Somers/Stupid v. Kyle Matthews/Frankie Valentine 7-1-11
I fucking loved this. After watching Somers in the entertaining Cage Match I wanted to see if there was anything else of his available and stumbled upon this, a really good Southern tag, in front of a crowd that is red hot, with four guys that understand how a match like this is supposed to be worked. The babyfaces don't have the most dynamic look, but for the most part did a really job getting some good spots in and selling their ass off on the defensive which made up the bulk of this match up. Some really cool teases in this including a couple of great teased hot tags on the long heat section. I like how they started with one heat section, went to a hot tag and Somers immediately comes in and rakes the eyes of the kid cutting him off in his tracks. Somers also hit a sick clothesline in this and was really the star of the match. He bumps far better than a guy his age should (took a nice back body drop here), sells his ass off to make the faces look good both during the shine and on hope spots, utilizing great tag psychology, and his offense is just perfect both in execution and style. He just comes across as a surly old bastard and is fucking perfect in this. Loved the powder to the eyes finish and the post match brawl with Somers punching dudes in the face right in front of the camera was great too. Awesome stuff when you take everything into consideration.
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