Early Jonny Firestorm: 5'5, 140 lbs Cameron rocks and writhes, stumbling on his knees as his skull is rocked with blow after blow Young Jonny bares down in a blatant, brutal choke on fellow babyfaced twink Cameron A helpless Cameron gets carried high up and over by Firestorm for a ring-rattling suplex Cameron makes use of a foreign object as he batters Jonny with a boot Cameron's body gets crunched and twisted in a painful, crippling stump puller variation
A Timeless Classic! "Who's the Man Now Cameron, Huh?"
Jonny and Cameron were babies when they shot this match, in many ways. The ink on Jonny's back and left arm wasn't even dry yet. Jonny still had his classic babyface look, but the germs of the heel he was to become were germinating, and fast. The two work out at opposite ring posts, Cameron pulling resistance bands, and Jonny jumping rope. Then, with no provocation, Jonny attacks Cameron from behind and starts choking him with his workout band! Caught by surprise, Cameron can offer no resistance. No provocation and no resistance = no reason for Jonny to hold back. He starts hammering the stretch-band handle to the back of Matthews's head and then slams him facedown on the ring apron, kicking, punching, and karate-chopping in fast succession! Cameron's defensive high kick to the chest doesn't slow Firestorm down. Jonny goes for a low blow and still doesn't stop.
The fight finally enters the ring three-and-a-half minutes into this very full 30-plus minute match. These two future ur-stars of the pro wrestling netherworld between indie wrestling and full-on gay-oriented wrestling entertainment explode onto the scene here in this flash from the seemingly distant past!
Jonny hauls Cameron over the top rope and body-slams him to the mat. Cameron escapes a nasty choke hold and reverses with an arm bar. Despite their youth, the two are already accomplished pros, having lived and breathed pro wrestling for years. This early in his career, Jonny is already presenting his heel credentials. Cameron, the babyface just by default, is still as far from a whimpering victim as a person can be. He fights no less hard and strong than Jonny does, and takes impassive if not malicious pleasure in causing this budding bully pain. Cameron's string of arm, leg, and body locks proves he's a master of his art, no matter what his role!
This is how wrestling is done, folks. Cameron and Jonny wrestle at high speed, filling the room with their agonized grunts and groans. Jonny reverses and gets an ankle lock on Cameron, which he holds for as long as he wants, eventually switching to a thigh split (a Firestorm favorite) that looks like living hell for Matthews. "Whaddya say, huh?" Jonny says, one of the few phrases spoken amid the hoarse, piteous howls of pain. Cameron curses, refusing to submit, so Jonny shifts into about five different positions before returning to a rear naked choke. Is there no hope for babyfaced Matthews? Get freaking real! Cameron thrusts and escapes Jonny's choke hold and turns his attentions towards dislocating Firestorm's shoulder.
However, it's Jonny who wins the first fall, digging his bootheels into Cameron's vertebrae while immobilizing both of the babyface's legs and both arms, practically squeezing the words "I give, I give, I give!" out of Matthews's mouth like toothpaste. The two take a well-deserved breather, but it's cut short when Jonny stomps down on (Christ!) Cameron's FACE! With good reason, viewers may lean in to get a close look at Cameron to see if he still has teeth. (He does, but no thanks to Jonny.) Jonny presses the sole of his boot on Cameron's throat, and when he decides that's not vicious enough, he kneels next to the guy to strangle him with both hands. Actually, it's more like an iron claw to the adam's apple.
For the next five minutes, Firestorm is in total control, and his methods don't get any politer as the seconds tick by. Five more minutes, and the fight is outside the ring again, with Jonny once again strangling his beleaguered but dogged adversary. This is a match that many will argue is the best fight either Firestorm or Matthews ever put up. It's definitely in the top-ten most savage matches in BG East history, and you won't find a better fight anywhere else!
Cameron's world gets rocked as Jonny clobbers him in the skull with a boot
Cameron gets his crotch ripped wide open with a groin-stretching spladle from Jonny
Jonny bulges as his back is bent and broken brutally with a chinlocking mexican ceiling hold
Trapped and bent backwards, Cameron suffers and struggles to survive in the choke
Jonny looks to put his opponent down and out for good with a skull-crunching DDT to the mats
Leg-locked and back bent, a trapped Firestorm may have to tap out to the crippling submission
Cameron Matthews: 5'11, 155 lbs Cameron cries out in agony as he's trapped in a leglocking, backbreaking surfboard Flailing and gasping desperately for air, Cameron is garrotted with a resistance band Jonny manhandles and muscles Cameron as he brings him crashing down to the mats Dropped in the doorway he strutted through, Cameron gets a big knee choke against the steps Cameron hangs limply from the ropes as he's measured up for a knockout blow
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