Agree, this was great. At the end of match I thought "this doesn't sit well with me, it felt like Mendoza was the better wrestler." Then a split second elapsed and I realized, duh, that's the whole point! It helped a lot that the finishing choke looked so brutal.
I also appreciated that a bit of the Gulak match revolved around how you shouldn't cross your feet when you have someone's back because it makes you vulnerable to an ankle lock. That's a habit that gets drilled out of you very early in BJJ, but pro wrestlers, in those big boots, do it all the time. I realize that grappling in pro wrestling will never be realistic, but this something they could quit doing without losing anything except the ability to work a rear body scissors as a rest hold (switch to a body triangle, it's more realistic AND it looks cooler, problem solved).