That threw off even Sabu, and he had Bill Alfonso help him by taping the wound shut with athletic tape. The match fell off the rails when Sabu missed an Air Sabu dive off the chair and landed hard on the wire, slicing his bicep wide open. There was some early circling and punching, with both guys tasting the wire. Funk was 53 years old and the ECW World Heavyweight champion, defending against ECW icon Sabu, who at the time was working a WWF invader gimmick. Terry FunkĪ grisly, messy match, but certainly a memorable one. I could have done without the three-on-one Good Brothers run-in finish-which left the ending of the match feeling a little flat-although if the time-bomb spot looked better, that would have been forgiven, but it was a dud, and that is why the match is so low on the list. A lot of the early teases looked good: they built well to the impact of the first falls into the wire and the paradigm shift into the barbed-wire landmine was really nasty looking, even if the landmine didn’t look great.
I loved the spot when Moxley broke up the pin after Omega’s finisher, the One-Winged Angel, by kicking the wire and setting off an explosion. It was so bad the crowd started booing, which was a bummer because both guys worked really hard. Unfortunately, if you add a time bomb to a match, the explosions have to look good, especially the final explosion here, it looked like crap, like a couple of 12-year-olds lighting sparklers. Omega used Onita’s Thunder Fire powerbomb, Bryce Remsburg was dressed in the same sort of Hurt Locker suit as the ref in the FMW match, and the sacrifice by Eddie Kingston was very similar to the Onita sacrifice.
Onita match (which we will discuss later). This “Exploding Barbed Wire” death match was a great effort from both wrestlers, a match with some very clever and well-done spots that has one famous fatal flaw: This was AEW’s attempt to do its version of the Funk vs.
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