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| Big Tuna | Mar 5 2013, 02:35 PM Post #1 |
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Biggie challenged me to do this, and it's the one area I've never really explored, so hey. ECW World Heavyweight Champion: Shane Douglas, Since 3/26/1994 ECW Television Champion: Dean Malenko, Since 11/4/1994 ECW Tag Team Champions: Public Enemy, Since 11/5/1994 ECW Hardcore TV January 3rd, 1995 The show begins with a Pitbulls vs. Axl & Ian Rotten video recap set to "Thunderkiss '65" by White Zombie. Joey Styles is in, in the back? I guess. He's somewhere in front of an ECW banner, and hypes up a final Pitbulls/Rottens match this Saturday at the ECW Arena where the losing team must split up. He then throws it to the ring. Mikey Whipwreck vs. Don E. Allen is up, but these matches are from December 1994, so they won't count. Also it's only highlights, so whatevs. Mikey wins with a Bulldog off the top. Joey hypes up the rest of the show. He says Ron Simmons had his shoulder hurt by Benoit and Malenko, and Simmons can't wrestle, but he insists on confronting Shane Douglas. He also says they'll talk to Stevie Richards or something, and there's a Public Enemy match. A video airs on Mikey Whipwreck's 1994, set to "Loser" by Beck. At ringside, Joey Styles interviews Mikey and says he was the 3rd runner up for PWI Rookie of the Year. In which he lost to Balls Mahoney, Bob Holly, and the winner, 911. The quality of the mic is horrible, so Mikey's comments can't be made out. Joey then sees some dude at ringside, and he points out Mikey's first tag team partner, Paul Lauria, in the crowd. He says things are going great for Mikey and that's great. He then cheap shots Mikey and attacks him at ringside and hits him with a chair. He then introduces his new manager, the sexiest man alive, Jason. He gets on the mic and puts over his giant, Paul Lauria. The joke is that he's short. That was all horrible. A show intro now airs some 10 minutes in and it's set to the "Closer" drum beat by NIN going into "Thunderkiss '65" again. In the back, Joey recaps the last segment and says Jason is jealous and turned Mikey's best friend Paul Lauria against him. Jason then comes on, and Joey asks him about it. Jason says Joey is thinking how can someone so good looking like him have such a brilliant man, orchestrating the destruction of that little punk. He says Paul was Mikey's best friend and there was no better way to destroy him than to ruin him psychologically and emotionally. Joey tells him to admit his jealousy and Jason says he deserves Mikey's spot, and "The Giant" Paul Lauria also deserves it more. He says Mikey hasn't paid the dues for his recognition, and things like that don't happen in the ECW. THE ECW. Joey hypes Mikey/Paul this Saturday. THIS SATURDAY JANUARY 7TH, 1995: -HYPE VIDEO SET TO "WHATTA MAN" -BENOIT/DEAN/PUBLIC ENEMY VS. SABU/911/TAZMANIAC -PITBULLS VS. BAD BREED, THE LOSERS MUST SPLIT UP -MIKEY WHIPWRECK VS. PAUL LAURIA W/ JASON A video airs for the Hardcore Heaven 1994 VHS. In the back, Joey Styles says they will announce the challenger to Shane Douglas this Saturday night before they go off the air. A pretape airs from Public Enemy. Rocco says Christmas was good to them, and they yell about stealing new leather coats. Johnny says ECW is going to be making figurines of all the wrestlers, and he got a Taz doll and it's an Oompa Loompa, and they say that doll is too skinny and good looking to be Taz. They say this is the house that the Mack Daddies of Violence built, and they know their partners can handle their end of the deal, and this Saturday, they'd rise to the occasion and they're all going down one more time. Highlights of Public Enemy vs. Sabu & Taz from Holiday Hell air. Looks pretty solid, as far as matches where only half the combatants are competent. CALL THE ECW HOTLINE. BUY HOSTILE CITY SHOWDOWN FOR JACK/SABU I. DON'T BUY IT TO WATCH PE/FUNK BROTHERS. MAYBE BUY IT TO SEE MIKEY GET A MOVE IN. DEFINITELY DON'T WATCH IT TO SEE SHANE & MR. HUGHES VS. THE BRUISE BROTHERS. HOLY SHIT HOW BAD WAS THAT?! In the back, Joey Styles says the contract to face Shane Douglas is being signed as they speak, and it's someone who is not currently wrestling for ECW. A recap video airs of Stevie Richard's recent lucky streak, and says Stevie has been calling himself Stevie The Body and Stevie Polo and Stevie Flamengo. Joey then shows the end of a Stevie/Tommy match where Tommy won with a roll up. Joey says that next week, Stevie's said he will produce the real Johnny Polo to straighten this out. In the ring, Shane Douglas complains about his opponents dropping like flies, and says Ron Simmons got hurt at the hands of two specialists, and he's claiming he can't fight tonight and calls him a punk. Ron Simmons comes out with his arm in a sling and asks what he just said, AND HITS HIM WITH THE MIC! THE MATCH HAPPENS! It's clipped, but pretty solid. Ron kicks ass with one arm because you don't fucking step to Ron. He does get sent shoulder-first into the corner though, and Shane covers to win. In the back, Joey reveals that Shane's challenger is TULLY BLANCHARD! YEAH! IF ONLY VIDEO EXISTED! |
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| Big Tuna | Mar 5 2013, 04:26 PM Post #2 |
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ECW World Heavyweight Champion: Shane Douglas, Since 3/26/1994 ECW Television Champion: Dean Malenko, Since 11/4/1994 ECW Tag Team Champions: Public Enemy, Since 11/5/1994 ECW Hardcore TV January 10th, 1995 Philadelphia, PA Joey Styles is at ringside and says the ECW Arena has been redesigned to house more people, and he then brings out Stevie Richards. He talks about his recent names and his promise to bring the real Johnny Polo here, and he's been here all day, and Johnny Polo isn't here. Stevie says this is the best, most exciting day of his life, not Haley's Comet, not the assassination of JFK, and not the moon landing. He says he won't produce Johnny Polo or Scotty The Body, and his man is very upset, and gave up a double date with Eddie Vedder to be here. He says he's mostly upset with that little punk Tommy Dreamer. He says Tommy isn't touring Japan, he's back hiding in Younkers, and January 7th, 1995 is a historical night for ECW. He then gives everyone the birth of RAVEN! ![]() Raven comes over and says Stevie suffered a minor setback last week. He says there's 12 year old kids in crack filled stupors, and parents abuse their kids. He asks if he ever woke up with stacks of cardboard boxes for a pillow and a newspaper for a blanket. Stevie says no, and Raven yells to not let it happen again. Stevie apologizes and Raven says he wants elimination by any means necessary. Quote the Raven, nevermore. He then points to the ring and says to go. Match #1: Stevie Richards w/ Raven vs. Hack Myers Hack has a neck brace on after being injured by Chris Benoit. The fans correctly respond with "YOU BOTH SUCK". Myers has solid punches, but that is about it. Hack has it won, but Raven sneaks in behind the ref's back. He loads his boot with something and kick Myers in the head with it. Stevie then covers to win. *1/4 In the back, Joey Styles recaps what happened, and says he understands Raven has been through some kind of a traumatic experience, and says he's heard the WWF will do that to a person. He hypes up some shit for tonight that's from the 1/7 ECW Arena show. He announces that they're now on the MSG Network and hypes up some kind of a big debut party last week at Club Expo. Clips air of Public Enemy forcing their way into the club wearing the tag title belts under their trenchcoats. CALL THE ECW HOTLINE! BUY HEATWAVE 1994! MR. HUGHES VS. 911! SHANE DOUGLAS VS. SABU! THE SANDMAN VS. TOMMY CAIRO IN A DUELING CANES MATCH! BUY HARDCORE HEAVEN! SABU VS. 2 COLD SCORPIO! HUGHES/911 II! Clips air of Shane Douglas showing up to Club eXpo with four women who are clearly hired escorts. In the back, Joey Styles recaps the Mikey Whipwreck and Paul Lauria angle from last week. Clips air of the Club eXpo party where Shane Douglas is dancing behind the four women awkwardly, and one of them holds the ECW Title. Coming back, Joey Styles interviews Shane Douglas and the women. He is now suddenly shirtless and wearing a hat. Shane tells Joey to get out of the camera angle because he has too many beautiful women. He says he was taking his limousine through Queens and Manhattan, and he got a flat tire. But he got a flat tire right outside Goldfingers and he thought he'd go in to wet the whistle, and he saw all sorts of beautiful women. He asked them who wanted to jump on the bandwagon and wondered how many women it would take to satisfy The Franchise. He says the four prettiest girls there said they'd go out with him, and Joey always said ECW was stiff! COME TO THE SIXERS/NETS GAME AND THE FIRST 10,000 FANS GET A NEW 76ERS CAP COURTESY OF KFC! In a pretape, Ron Simmons talk. Ron says Shane has guts and spunk, and if he was black, he'd be accepted in the hood, because he's got guts and can take a beating. But he's slipped through the cracks for far too long, and on the 14th in Florida when he gets him for the final time, he's got tricks up his sleeve that Houdini couldn't pull off. He says nobody does this to Ron, and on the 14th, he's got a trick for him. When he gets out of the sling, brother, it's all over. He says he IS the extreme, and he'll show him once and for all what being a World Champion is about. In the ring, 2 Cold Scorpio is on the mic. He says some boys calling themselves "The Shooter" and "The Crippler" went and hurt his boy Ron Simmons last week, and if they want some more, all they've got to do is get them down to the ring. Benoit and Malenko come down and get into the ring. Scorpio says they're trying to be tough with all this bullshit, and Benoit shoves him. Scorpio says they're in the wrong motherfucking house tonight AND SCORPIO HITS BENOIT! YEAH! He fights both of them until Benoit his a Dragon Suplex. They then hit a disgustingly high Double Hot Shot, followed by a Tiger Bomb and a Flying Legdrop. Referees come out to make them leave, but Scorp is hurt before his match. Sandman then comes out to be Scorpio's opponent as scheduled. He takes his time, since he's the fucking Sandman, and Scorp is able to get up, and he accepts the match. Match #2: 2 Cold Scorpio vs. The Sandman w/ Woman This isn't great. It's only like six minutes and Scorp is mostly just selling the beating from Benoit and Malenko, but he does it well. Sandman obviously controls most of it, and it all looks good. Scorp's comeback is solid, and he has one really great looking forearm. They keep on, and Scorpio gets a Moonsault to a standing Sandman for sort of the upset. **1/4 Sandman attacks Scorpio with the cane, and Benoit and Malenko come back out. 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| Big Tuna | Mar 5 2013, 05:18 PM Post #3 |
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ECW World Heavyweight Champion: Shane Douglas, Since 3/26/1994 ECW Television Champion: Dean Malenko, Since 11/4/1994 ECW Tag Team Champions: Public Enemy, Since 11/5/1994 ECW Hardcore TV January 17th, 1995 Philadelphia, PA A music video of Raven opens the show, obviously set to "Come Out and Play". He walks around a snowy street and sits down and looks around a lot and is generally all grungey 90s slackerish while there's lots of quick cuts and shit. Apart from the quick cuts, it's really well put together and done. In a pretape right after, Raven says the world is full of kings and queens who'll blind your eyes and steal your dreams. He says Kurt Cobain left an entire generation of tortured souls behind, and tells Tommy Dreamer to take heed. Quote the Raven, nevermore. Well, he'll get there eventually. In the back, Joey Styles goes over things. He says tonight we'll see the ECW debut of Al Snow, Mikey vs. Paul Lauria, and then the Bad Breed vs. Pitbulls match where the losers must split up. Match #1: Mikey Whipwreck vs. Paul Lauria w/ Jason Well, this was dogshit. Mikey isn't great, but Lauria makes him look like Ric Flair. I have no idea why this got like 10 minutes when Lauria is barely capable of basic shit. Something cool finally happens when Mikey hits a dive off the top to Paul in the crowd. Then they continue to do basic shit half-well in the ring. Jason kicks Mikey in the back of the head and Lauria hits a Flying Bulldog and actually wins. Horrible. *1/2 Mikey dropkicks Lauria out and dives onto Jason and Paul and goes wild with punches. Paul gets a chair though and lays out Mikey with it. In the back, Joey Styles talks about Chris Benoit's crippling ways and shows footage of Benoit injuring Sabu, Ron Simmons, and Hack Myers and then Benoit & Malenko brawling with Sabu & Taz. A recap video then airs of the Benoit & Malenko vs. Scorpio stuff from last week. Match #2: Al Snow vs. Osamu Nishimura Surprisingly good. Mostly mat based, but they did it well and had some cool counters. It's not great, because there's no real story or focus, but it's a really enjoyable match. They moved into some cool and tight Suplexes and some quality strikes. I often wonder what happened to this Al Snow. I blame Marty Jannetty. Al hangs up Nishimura on the top rope and then hits a Flying Legdrop to win. **3/4 A pretape from Public Enemy airs. They send a shout out to their friends Sabu and Taz, their two friends who could never beat Public Enemy. They also give a shout out to the second best tag team in the ECW, Benoit and Malenko, but they're just not The Public Enemy. Why does everyone here call it The ECW? Did Adamle send his consciousness back in time? Grunge says everyone at Titan Towers love the Public Enemy, because the New Generation is in the ECW. They then yell "THANK YOU VINCE!" They then also give a shout out to Shane Douglas for torturing Tully for an hour (JESUS WHY?!) and also torturing the fans for an hour. THEY ARE THE WORST. IT TOOK ME ONLY LIKE THREE WEEKS OF P.E. SEGMENTS TO UNDERSTAND BIGGIE'S HATRED FOR THEM. Match #3: The Pitbulls vs. Bad Breed [Losing Team Must Split Up] I can't tell you this was good. I'm not a liar, I can't do that. But it wasn't as horrible as expected. They had HATE~ and nothing too horrible happened. I am not familiar at all with The Pitbulls, but it's a match with the Rottens, so it could have been so much worse. The clubbering grows old after a while though and then there's 5 more minutes left. I enjoyed the Axl/Pitbull #2 slugfest near the end. The Breed try the Superbomb of the Pitbulls, but the one they put up counters into a Frankensteiner on Ian. Axl isn't paying attention and that gets 3. *3/4 Post-match, Ian attacks Axl for costing them the match. AND SO THIS FUCKING THING BEGINS. |
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| Big Tuna | Mar 5 2013, 06:32 PM Post #4 |
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ECW World Heavyweight Champion: Shane Douglas, Since 3/26/1994 ECW Television Champion: Dean Malenko, Since 11/4/1994 ECW Tag Team Champions: Public Enemy, Since 11/5/1994 ECW Hardcore TV January 24th, 1995 Ft. Lauderdale, Florida In a pretape by a railroad, Public Enemy says stuff. They apparently hopped trains to Florida instead of flying or driving. Highlights then air of them beating people up at arenas that clearly are not the ECW Arena and making assholes out of themselves around Florida. This takes the first 5-6 minutes of the show. Footage airs of the Bad Breed breaking up and fighting from last week. Match #1: Chris Benoit vs. 2 Cold Scorpio This is awesome. Great opening flurries of offense, and then once Benoit takes over, he targets the neck that he and Deano injured. Scorp doesn't sell a ton, so this turns into just an awesome display of offense. Everything is super crisp and painful looking, Scorpio has a ton of cool highspots. Benoit goes for the Dragon Suplex, but now Scorpio knows to avoid it, so he tries a Victory Roll, but Benoit sits down on it and traps him for the pin. *** In the back, Styles hypes up Benoit/Snow on February 4th, and also announces MIKEY/LAURIA II, TOMMY/STEVIE, DOUGLAS OR SIMMONS VS. SOMEBODY FOR THE ECW TITLE, AND IAN/AXL. WELP, TICKETS BOUGHT. He says Tully was supposed to get a rematch, but he will no longer be wrestling for ECW. NEXT WEEK: CACTUS JACK VS. THE SANDMAN IN A FALLS COUNT ANYWHERE MATCH FROM FLORIDA The Raven video from last week airs again. In a pretape, an empty swing is swinging, and Raven talks over it without being seen. He says this is the pain and suffering of a childhood loss, an empty swing is an empty father, and a broken dream is a broken home. He says laughter looks like crying with no sound, and Tommy Dreamer will relive the turmoil and anguish of an uncertain youth. Quote the Raven, nevermore. That was significantly better than last week's promo. Match #2: Shane Douglas [c] vs. Ron Simmons [ECW World Heavyweight Championship] Awesome Ron performance for 6 minutes even if the match wasn't that great itself. Super crisp punches, big power stuff, etc. Shane does a solid enough job of bumping around, but there's nothing I can point to as either really horrible or really great from him here. Shane works on the shoulder and Ron's selling rules it. He comes back, and in an awesome spot, when he tries to toss Shane off the top, Shane grabs the bad arm and jumps down to hang it up over the top. Ron's arm is fucked and Scorpio comes out to check. The ref looks it over and stops the match like a bitch. **1/2 Scorp helps Ron to the back, and replays air. Shane gets on the mic and says he remains the Extreme heavyweight champion and as he looks at fat beer-bellied toothless Southern rednecks, he asks if there is a man in Florida bad enough to step in the ring with the Franchise. Nobody comes out and he says that's what he thought, AND TULLY BLANCHARD COMES OUT! YEAH! He looks physically terrible with his severe balding and yet still vaguely long hair, but he's clearly still fine in the ring. He cleans house on Shane and hits the SLINGSHOT SUPLEX! FUCK YEAH! Shane bails out, and Joey yells about the old Tully Blanchard being back. |
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| Big Tuna | Mar 5 2013, 07:32 PM Post #5 |
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ECW World Heavyweight Champion: Shane Douglas, Since 3/26/1994 ECW Television Champion: Dean Malenko, Since 11/4/1994 ECW Tag Team Champions: Public Enemy, Since 11/5/1994 ECW Hardcore TV January 31st, 1995 Ft. Lauderdale & Orlando, FL Footage airs of Shane/Ron and the Tully Blanchard return from last week. What happened after the show cut out was Benoit and Malenko running out to help Shane. They got Tully down in a 3 on 1, and Shane put on the Figure Four as Benoit and Malenko held Tully back. I get that they're dominant and that's awesome, but that could have been a different segment after the triumphant return. In a pretape, Shane Douglas talks in front of a motel swimming pool. He tells Tully to look in his eyes and says he's going to give a sermon for a change. He says his father told him never to touch another man's plate because he might just cut off his hand. He says he wrestled him and that was fine, but he stuck his nose into his business after he made Ron Simmons surrender on his home turf. He says Tully's raised his temperature and his attention. He says Tully talked about cocaine and drinking and fucking women in bars and said not to do it, and calls him two-faced. He says he's addicted to the title and he's not ready to give it up yet. He says Tully got a taste of his own medicine tonight, but it only took three, call it the Triple Threat. He says the end of the line is here and Tully's sealed his doom and the Triple Threat will deal out more than any Horseman has dished out and more than any man can take, and three replaces four. Great ideas, but it dragged on SOOOOO long and got way too muddled with useless cliches in between awesome parts. THIS SATURDAY NIGHT IN THE ECW ARENA: -DOUGLAS VS. TULLY FOR THE ECW TITLE -PUBLIC ENEMY VS. SABU & TAZ FOR THE TAG TITLES IN A DOUBLE TABLES MATCH -CACTUS JACK VS. THE SANDMAN IN A TEXAS DEATH MATCH -MIKEY/LAURIA II -CHRIS BENOIT VS. AL SNOW -AXL ROTTEN VS. IAN ROTTEN -TOMMY DREAMER VS. STEVIE RICHARDS W/ RAVEN Match #1: Public Enemy [c] vs. Sabu/Taz w/ Paul E. Dangerously & 911 [ECW Tag Team Championship] This is from Orlando on 1/15. Sabu has a fractured ankle, but works really well with it. Taz has some fun Suplexes, obviously, and the brawling was alright. Sabu used a frying pan, so that ruled. The ankle injury gave Sabu a great sense of desperation, and they finally took Sabu out on the floor. Match fell apart HUGELY when Public Enemy had do do stuff during their control. Lots of good table shit. Taz got knocked off the top through one in the ring and Rocco covered to win after Sabu put Grunge through one on the floor. ** 911 is mad and Chokeslams Rocco Rock. The referee also gets a Chokeslam for enabling this horrible reign to continue. CALL THE ECW HOTLINE! A pretape airs with Raven in an empty classroom. He says we spend our entire youth in a room like this, and says childhood is supposed to be a time of bliss with a world of knowledge opened up before you. Unless of course, you're different. A misfit. An outcast. And then it becomes a hideous scar that refuses to fade. You can deny it, you can hide it, you can repress it, but ultimately, Tommy Dreamer will never forget it. He says Tommy will return to the inescapable horror of the classroom of his youth, except this time, he will not move on. Quote the Raven, nevermore. Biggie, why aren't you doing these in WWF 1995? These are gradually getting me more into it. Match #2: Cactus Jack vs. The Sandman w/ Woman [Falls Count Anywhere] Back to Ft. Lauderdale on 1/14. This is enjoyable. Great escalation of weapons and shots and moves throughout the match. They didn't go that far with the stipulation, but because it's Foley and Sandman, they managed to get a great sense of chaos and an out of control feel about it without doing that much out of the norm. Jack hurts his right hand during the match. Sandman falls to the floor and Cactus gets the Cactus Elbow for the win on the floor. **3/4 Sandman canes Jack repeatedly post-match, and hits four or five in a row to the face. Woman lights up his cigarette, and Sandman keeps caning Jack, and Woman says to blind him. SANDMAN GOES TO PUT OUT THE CIGARETTE IN JACK'S EYE, AND HE HOLDS HIM BACK! BUT IT'S HIS BAD RIGHT HAND, AND SANDMAN ALMOST GETS IT IN! BUT MIKEY WHIPWRECK RUNS OUT TO SAVE! He gets the cane to run Sandman off. That ruled. In the back right after, The Sandman and Woman cut a promo. He says he'll take Jack on blow for blow, but if he wants to go mind for mind, he'd better talk to her. Woman says Jack thinks he's smarter, and says she's going to turn Jack into him. In the back too, Cactus Jack cuts a promo. He says somewhere in his demented brain, there's a soft spot for his own wrestling history and for history that's affected him and for The Sandman. He says five years ago, Cactus Jack was starting to build a legend, The Sandman was just starting to exist. He says his friend Kevin Sullivan told him about The Sandman, and he watched, and he was proud. Every time he smoked a butt, it brought him pride. Every time he piledrive some hapless opponent, it brought him pride. Every time he smashed the cane against someone's skull, it made him proud. Because he knew who he was taking lessons from, and it made him so proud. He says The Sandman still doesn't care about winning or losing, just like he didn't five years ago. He says he's a changed man, because he likes to win, he likes the ego gratification, he likes to have his hand raised, and he's become a weaker man for it. He says when Sandman walked across his path, he chose to make his life worse, because he chose to remind the sleeping giant of the man he's become, the man he's maybe a little bit ashamed of. He says he makes a vow not to be that man anymore, and as of now, Cactus Jack doesn't care! He says he put everything across Sandman's head and not only did he not go down, but he smiled. He said he's made his hand a useless weapon, and now he's taken psychological warfare out of the game, and he wants to put it all out there. A match where wins don't count, where the only variable that means anything is guts. Sandman has them, and once upon a time, he did too. And if he can't take The Sandman out in the most vicious match in the game, then he should become a full-time father, because ECW isn't for the faint of heart, and he wants him in a Texas Death Match! BANG BANG! |
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| Big Tuna | Mar 5 2013, 10:08 PM Post #6 |
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ECW World Heavyweight Champion: Shane Douglas, Since 3/26/1994 ECW Television Champion: Dean Malenko, Since 11/4/1994 ECW Tag Team Champions: Public Enemy, Since 11/5/1994 ![]() ECW Double Tables February 4th, 1995 Philadelphia, PA Joey Styles welcomes everyone, and that faggot Jason comes over. A "FAGGOT!" chant breaks out. Awesome. He puts himself over as the Sexiest Man on Earth before bringing out his new clients, THE PITBULLS! MOTHERFUCKER. THIS MEANS HE'S AROUND FOR A WHILE. They also use "Thunderkiss '65" as a theme. This is Paul's "Born in the USA". Jason says they are beautiful and will bring him the ECW Tag Titles. Jason brings out his next new client, Jason Vorhees from W*ING. This is basically just a dude in a hockey mask. No worse than when Memphis brought in Freddy Krueger. Match #1: The Pitbulls/Jason w/ Jason vs. Hack Myers/The Young Dragons 11 minutes. Wow. Really? Way too long for a squash. The Young Dragons do virtually nothing and Hack is in for 98% of the match. His punches are again good, but that is all he can do. Pitbulls aren't bad, but clearly lack polish and experience, and Jason is whatever. So nobody's really good in this, but it goes 11 minutes. They finally beat Hack when the Pitbulls sling Jason up into a Splash on Hack. 3/4* Other Jason gets on the mic post-match, and says people didn't pay enough to see his monster Jason, so he sends him to the back. Jason brags about the Pitbulls, but Hack Myers gets a chair. He hits the Pitbulls in the back with one shot each, and Jason gets thrown around in the ring. Some slit in a wedding dress named The Virgin Princess Angel comes out and slaps Hack, and he punches her and hits the Piledriver. What in the actual fuck? HILARIOUSLY, Tommy is using "Even Flow" as his entrance music for this show. He is back from his AJPW tour after putting on hilariously awkward matches against Kobashi and Taue. Match #2: Tommy Dreamer vs. Stevie Richards w/ Raven This isn't much, but it's at least better than whatever the fuck came before this. Tommy is wearing a shirt that some retarded kid with cancer made him or something. Stevie puts it on during the match and Tommy eventually gets it back. So weird to see Tommy making with all sorts of athletic offense. Raven finally grabs Tommy from behind so Stevie can hit the Superkick. He fails to follow up, and tries another, but Tommy drops down, punches him in the dick and rolls him up to win. ** Post-match, Raven gets in and stares down Tommy from across the ring. He takes his jacket off to fight, but Stevie and the referee get him to leave, and they go to the back. Tommy gets on the mic and tells Raven to back to the WWF with a message from ECW, and that was to kiss their ass. He then goes to the crowd and leads an ECW chant. Whaaaaatever. Match #3: Mikey Whipwreck vs. Paul Lauria w/ Jason NO FUCK YOU. This is at least UNDER 10 minutes now. This is a moderate improvement as Mikey shows much more HATE. Paul is still the absolute worst. Like the first match, there's one good highspot when Mikey hits a goddamn Russian Leg Sweep off the apron to the floor. They then just go back into doing other shit like that didn't even happen at all. Mikey then wins with a backslide. *1/2 Match #4: Ian Rotten vs. Axl Rotten This is at least only six minutes. Really bad. They hit each other with stuff and blade right on camera, and everything anyone ever criticized about ECW or FMW or hardcore wrestling or whatever is happening here. Ian bleeds a lot and Axl hits him with the timekeeper's hammer. Ian gets killed all match and then gets a pin in the ropes to steal it. *3/4 They brawl to the back. Match #5: Chris Benoit vs. Al Snow So yeah, obvious match of the night. Really fantastic match. Joey stupidly says this has more wrestling in the first five minutes than any PPV match in the last 5 years. Which, c'mon. I get it, you're putting over ECW, and all that, but come on. Bret/Owen happened not even a year prior. And fucking Steamboat/Rude Iron Man Match exists. Just a really fucking bad commentary call. Al is out to prove himself and Benoit treats him like shit early on, AND FUCKING AL SNOW EXPLODES WITH THE COOL OFFENSE TO EMBARRASS BENOIT! Which of course, means Al has to die now once Benoit uses experience to sidestep him off the top. Benoit destroys Al's head and neck with tons of insanely vicious offense. Benoit gradually gets more frustrated with Al kicking out of stuff. Al has an awesome comeback, but it gets cut off a little too soon with a flash Bridging German by Benoit for the win. Really upsetting that this didn't become a thing, because they worked SO well together. ***1/2 Benoit is mad, and Powerbombs Al. He holds his neck and gets stretchered out as Benoit leaves. Match #6: Shane Douglas [c] vs. Tully Blanchard [ECW World Heavyweight Championship] Great match. Tully has a ton of fire, tries real hard, sells awesomely, and everything looks killer. In this one match, he looks like the 2nd or 3rd best guy in ECW at this point behind Benoit and Malenko. Although I haven't actually seen any 1995 Malenko yet, so that might disqualify him. Shane has to take it into a brawl to get anything in. Shane tries really hard too, putting forth his best bumping display in this review yet. His punches are really horrible though, and his clubbing forearms to the back aren't a lot better. He needs something to fill time with, so maybe he can throw a decent chop or forearm to the face. Tully finally goes to the brawling to fight back and has some awesome nasty moments, but gets too distracted with trying to fuck up Shane, and when he tries the Slingshot Suplex, Shane can lower his weight and gets a flash pin to win. I think they could have gone longer with that, but I loved the story and Tully's showing, so fuck it, I'll go all the way with it. *** Match #7: Cactus Jack vs. The Sandman w/ Woman [TEXAS DEATH MATCH] This is the match Foley talks about where Sandman was fucked up and ruined the match with his concussion where he kept getting up way too early at 10 counts because he was legit knocked out and forgot the rules. It's still fun, it's these two in a brawl, but it's more an entertaining match due to Sandman getting fucked up than an actual good one. Jack murders Sandman with a chair at the end and hits the Cactus Elbow off the apron for a pin at the end. Sandman gets up and Cactus gets pissed, and hits like FUCKING THREE Butterfly DDTs on the floor, and Sandman finally stays down for 10, so Jack wins. **1/4 Woman is very upset as Jack leaves. Match #8: Public Enemy [c] vs. Sabu/Taz w/ Paul E. Dangerously [ECW Tag Team Championship - Double Tables Match] Rules are those of an elimination tables match. Same idea as last time in Florida, but longer and with a better crowd. Sabu's brawling and Taz's awesome Suplexes carry PE to something approaching a good match, but not quite there because the match still requires Public Enemy on offense. Brawl and Taz/Sabu shine is all fun and mostly good, and like last time, it falls apart when PE has to do offense by themselves. They set lots of tables up, and Taz and Grunge fall off together to get eliminated! More shit happens and Rocco Moonsaults Sabu through a table, but the ref somehow missed it, and doesn't have hearing. Shit fucking continues and Grunge is occupied with Paul. Taz holds Rocco on a table and Sabu jumps off the top and through it to finally dethrone PE. **1/2 PE continues the fight, and 911 runs out to fight them. Sabu sets up a table on the top turnbuckle in the corner as a platform, and sets up a table in the ring. He puts Rocco on it, and goes up with a chair for the Arabian Facebuster, BUT FUCK THAT SHIT. BENOIT COMES OUT AND ATTACKS SABU ON THE PLATFORM. BENOIT POWERBOMBS SABU OFF THE PLATFORM AND ONTO ROCCO THROUGH THE TABLE! FUCK YEAH! SHIT GOT FUCKING REAL FINALLY. 911 POINTS AT HIM AND BENOIT STANDS THERE AND 911 DOESN'T DO FUCKING SHIT. DAMN RIGHT. In a pretape, Chris Benoit talks. He says the last two times he and Sabu have fought, they've resulted in ambulance rides for Sabu. He says Sabu is back in the ring and in the ECW and people are starting to talk, and he doesn't like it. Sabu isn't some tough guy and it's not that The Crippler can't get the job done, but he's back because he LET him back. He says he can take him out for good on any given night. He says he and Taz have yet to learn that life is about pain and humility, and the day will come when they both learn what both are all about. Pain, will come first, naturally. 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| Big Tuna | Mar 5 2013, 10:54 PM Post #7 |
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ECW World Heavyweight Champion: Shane Douglas, Since 3/26/1994 ECW Television Champion: Dean Malenko, Since 11/4/1994 ECW Tag Team Champions: Sabu/Taz, Since 2/4/1995 ECW Hardcore TV February 14th, 1995 Philadelphia, PA With episodes like these where I actually have the ECW Arena show or whatever show that they're showing stuff from, I'm obviously not reviewing stuff again, and there was NOTHING new on 2/7. An awesome music video about Chris Benoit airs set to "Perfect Strangers", before Shane Douglas was using that as his theme. In the back, Joey Styles speaks. He says Benoit and Malenko get their Tag Team Championship match on February 25th at the ECW Arena. He says Rocco Rock was stretchered out of the arena on February 4th for the first time in Public Enemy's career. He says they've been uncharacteristically quiet about the entire situation, and haven't been heard from since February 4th, but guesses Benoit and Malenko will have problems when they come back. I have no interest in a PE match, but they're building it up really well. In the back, Joey Styles interviews Paul E. Dangerously! He asks when the challengers became the challenged and when the hunted became the hunted. He says Benoit and Malenko haven't just pissed off Sabu and Taz, but they've also pissed off the Public Enemy. He says they're going to be as welcome as Jane Fonda as a Vietnam veterans reunion, and if they think they can walk in and take the titles, they're sadly mistaken, because they'll have to take it from them. Mikey/Lauria II is shown. Clips air again from the January Sandman/Cactus match instead of the recent one, which doesn't make a ton of sense. In the back, Joey Styles interviews The Sandman. He says he feels great and says Jack is doing worse than him, probably all iced up and sore. He says all people remember is that Cactus won, but he doesn't care who won or lost, and he's standing here right now, so that means he's the real winner. He says he thought the Texas Death Match ended with him winning, but right now, that Woman is signing a wrestler to fight him on the 25th. Sandman says he can't wrestle, but he will be there on ringside to see somebody do to him what he TRIED to do to him last time. In the ring, Paul Lauria comes out to be interviewed by Joey Styles. He says people have a problem with him being called The Giant, but he doesn't get it, and says nobody is as big or bad as him, and says 911 isn't even a giant on his level. 911 and Paul E. Dangerously come out to the ring now and Lauria is Chokeslammed. 911 pulls him up again and gives him a second Chokeslam. Good. Fuck him. Paul gets on the mic and says 2 is enough for ECW, and the crowd demands another, so Paul says fuck it, and lets 911 hit a third Chokeslam. |
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| Big Tuna | Mar 5 2013, 11:14 PM Post #8 |
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ECW World Heavyweight Champion: Shane Douglas, Since 3/26/1994 ECW Television Champion: Dean Malenko, Since 11/4/1994 ECW Tag Team Champions: Sabu/Taz, Since 2/4/1995 ECW Hardcore TV February 21st, 1995 Philadelphia, PA A pretaped promo airs with Shane Douglas talking about his ECW career. He puts over his first night here in August 1993 and said he had doubts that this place could put a dent in the WWF or the pockets of Turner, and he had to top himself. He says to evolve, you have to be the very best and he brings up Bruno and says Father Time took skill away from him and sucks Bruno's dick, as if you needed more reasons to hate Shane. He tries to claim Bruno passed the torch to Steamboat and Flair, and they didn't want to pass the torch. He says he is the best in the talent pool, but he had to take that torch. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA OH JESUS. HOLD ON. LET ME JUS - HAGAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH. WHAT A GOOD ONE. OH MA - HAGAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. OH MAN. JEEEEEEEEEEEEESUS THAT WAS FUCKIN GOOD. He talks for actually 15-20 minutes about shit mixed in with his career highlights in ECW, set to "Simply The Best". That...that seems familiar. That Cocksucker Shane Douglas? Goddamnit Biggie. He claims after the NWA Title controversy that he has been tasked with saving pro wrestling and says it's growing again because of him and what he started with ECW. He keeps going for another 10 minutes and it goes 30 minutes, but I can't. I just fucking can't. Who the FUCK thought this was a good idea? I don't want anybody to talk for 30 minutes cutting a promo, especially not someone who I dislike like this fag-o-tron. This was entirely absurd, and whoever booked it should be publically flayed. JOIN CLUB ECW. Tommy/Stevie is shown. R.I.P. EDDIE GILBERT 1961-1995. FUCK ME HOT STUFF FUCK ME. ADDED TO 2/25: -SHANE VS. MARTY JANNETTY FOR THE ECW TITLE -MIKEY/HACK MYERS VS. LAURIA/JASON (NOT VORHEES) -AXL VS. IAN IN A BARBED WIRE BAT ON A POLE MATCH -RAVEN WILL BE THERE |
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| Big Tuna | Mar 7 2013, 02:05 PM Post #9 |
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ECW World Heavyweight Champion: Shane Douglas, Since 3/26/1994 ECW Television Champion: Dean Malenko, Since 11/4/1994 ECW Tag Team Champions: Sabu/Taz, Since 2/4/1995 ![]() ECW Return of the Funker February 25th, 1995 Philadelphia, PA Match #1: The Pitbulls vs. Chad Austin/Joel Hartgood Fun Pitbulls squash. Unlike their last one, this is appropriately timed at some four minutes. The jobbers totally die and while the Pitbulls aren't good, they're at least intense and capable. They win with the Superbomb. This could have been worse. *1/2 Raven and Stevie Richards come out to ringside and Joey Styles is waiting with the microphone. Raven says Richards has failed again, and another has let him down. He says in the dark echoes of silence, suffering and anguish are lifelong companions, and he will collect his due pain in blood. Raven says we live out lives in quiet desperation, waiting for divine providence to intervene. Tommy Dreamer comes out and says they've had enough problems in the past, and tells him to shut up and fight him if he wants it so bad. Raven says this isn't the time or the place, but if Tommy wants to unleash his anger, he can feel free. He says he won't fight back though, and dares Tommy to hit somebody that won't fight back. Tommy doesn't do anything and says he has one more time before he crosses the line, and warns him to keep his mouth shut. Tommy leaves and Raven says as Tommy floats beneath the surface and gazes up through the murky depths, he will realize that he can never escape his past. Quote the Raven, nevermore. Stevie says he was in a club last week and he was playing air guitar and he met two guys, two tough guys from South Philly. He says he brought them here to kick Tommy Dreamer's butt and run him out of wrestling, and introduces the former ECW Tag Team Champions, Tony Stetson and Johnny Hotbody, The Broad Street Bullies! They say society made Raven and it made them too, and they're here to kick the hell out of Tommy Dreamer and anybody else he wants, because this is what Generation X is all about. SO LAME. Finally, Raven gets in the ring, and Tommy runs out with a stop sign and hits the Bullies! Stevie gets in to protect Raven, and Tommy gets in too and hits him with the sign. Tommy drops it and wraps his belt around his hand. He advances on Raven, but all three lackeys repeatedly pull him off before he can do anything, and Raven just stands there. They pin Tommy back against the far side, AND RAVEN THROWS OFF HIS JACKET, RUNS, AND JUMPS AT TOMMY AND BEGINS ASSAULTING HIM! FUCK YEAH! They way it happened it came off less like him choosing to strike because Tommy was pinned down and more like he finally had enough of keeping his composure, which is much much better. They have this awesomely heated pull-apart brawl that heads to the back. Awesome segment. Match #2: Mikey Whipwreck/Hack Myers vs. Paul Lauria/Jason Not Vorhees, lame suit wearing Jason. THIS GETS 15 MINUTES. SECOND LONGEST MATCH ON THE FUCKING SHOW. Jason is so bad that he makes Lauria look good. Mikey and Hack were not bad at all, but when the opposition is this bad, there's not a ton you can really do. They do some stuff and it drags on FOREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVER. JESUS. Finally, a masked guy comes in and KO's Hack with one punch and puts Lauria on top to win. FUCK YOU. IT'S STILL A THING THEN. Cynthia Shillinglaw Poop says (12:29 AM) LONG SIDEBURNS AND MY HAIR SLICKED BACK IM GONNA KILL SIMON IN HIS SLEEP AND EAT HIS SKIN THEN SHOW UP TO FORDS HOUSE WEARING SIMONS BONES AS CLOTHING ACCESSORIES AND TAKE A PISS IN FORDS EAR AND SHIT WHERE HE EATS BEFORE RAPING A TRANSIENT HOOKER JUST A HONKYTONK MAN Match #3: 2 Cold Scorpio vs. Hector Guerrero Fun spotfest to showcase Scorp. They clearly don't try that hard and it's not super exciting, but they do some cool mat stuff and all of Scorpio's highspots looked awesome. Biggest problem I have with this is that all of Guerrero's stuff seems like he's just putting on a show without a goal of actual victory, which holds it back from being great instead of a fun 10 minutes or so. Scorpio wins with the 450 Splash. **3/4 Before the Barbed Wire Bat on a Pole Match, Ian Rotten runs out. He hits the announcer and climbs up to take the bat down before the match begins, giving himself an unfair advantage. Fun heel trick, and it's better than watching these two idiots try and climb up for half the match. Axl evens it out maybe by coming out with lots of weapons. Match #4: Ian Rotten vs. Axl Rotten [Barbed Wire Baseball Bat Match] This is a surprising improvement upon their first match. They bleed and hit each other with stuff, and it's better garbage brawling than a PE match or their first match or anything. Some really violent shots, but it drags a while at some 12 minutes for guys of this skill level. That being said, there was a nice sense of cumulative selling as the match went on. Axl gets it at the end and just DESTROYS Ian with three not even remotely pulled bat shots to the face before a Slapjack on the bat to the gut. **1/4 Shane Douglas and Marty Jannetty come out before their match, and Shane gets on the mic. He says Marty is his friend, and he wants to give him something of a wrestling lesson, so that he doesn't get fired by the WWF again. Match #5: Shane Douglas [c] vs. Marty Jannetty [ECW World Heavyweight Championship] Who THE FUCK gave this 18 minutes? At this point, Shane Douglas feels like a parody of 2002-3 Triple H sent back in time, except y'know, people here won't get it. Talks for WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY too long about seemingly nothing in particular, loves a fucking cliche, thinks he's the fucking heir to Ric Flair so he always tries to work like that. Much like Triple H, he works much better as a cheap shot taking violent heel instead of any kind of classical heel Ace. I say that because his performance working the arm vs. Ron and cheap shot taking vs. Tully is roughly 1000x better than him "wrestling" Marty here. Marty isn't bad or anything, not yet, but he's hardly good enough to do this with Shane Douglas for 18 minutes and make it good. Highlight of this is a "WE WANT SHAWN" chant. Marty wins them over by the end. I'm not sure how, because he's hardly amazing here, but good for him. There's something of a nice story where Marty controls on the mat and in the air, but when Shane can bait him to the outside, he can take over since that's what he's good at. See? Opportunistic violent heel is what he does well. Shane hits his foot with a chair to block the Superkick, but Shane hits his arm on the post, and Marty now works over the arm! Sort of a revenge spot after the Simmons matches, I like it. He doesn't stay on it though, so that's disappointing. Marty also stops selling his foot and hits the Superkick, but doesn't cover. Shane is able to then counter a Rocker Dropper attempt into a Powerbomb to finally end this. ** At ringside, Joey Styles brings out Public Enemy for an interview. Rocco Rock is in a wheelchair, and they try to make excuses about losing the Tag Titles by pointing out how the ref missed Sabu going through a table, and they should still be Champions. In between this, they do a bunch of horrible ghetto speak with their awful promo voices, so I'll just get to the actual points. They say they're coming for Benoit and Malenko too when he gets out of this chair, and then the Tag Titles come to them, no matter who wins tonight. AND BENOIT AND MALENKO COME OUT TO KILL THEM. YES! They destroy Grunge with chair shots. Dean wheels Rocco up the ramp, AND ROLLS HIM BACK DOWN INTO A DROPKICK FROM BENOIT! HOLY SHIT THAT WAS AMAZING! BENOIT PUTS HIM BACK IN AND RUNS THE WHEELCHAIR INTO THE RAILING! DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS POSSIBLE FOR ME TO LIKE CHRIS BENOIT MORE. They hit Grunge with the chair again in the ring, AND SABU AND TAZ RUN OUT TO FIGHT! THE BELL RINGS! Match #6: Sabu/Taz [c] w/ Paul E. Dangerously & 911 vs. Chris Benoit/Dean Malenko [ECW Tag Team Championship] This is great, to the surprise of nobody. Benoit and Malenko mostly run through them early on with double teams until Taz can go wild with Suplexes. Great sense of chaos going through the match, combined with cool offense and a semblance of a normal tag structure, just adapted to the environment. They attack Taz's knee, and really fuck it up. Sabu saves, and Taz is taken to the back. Sabu has a wonderful desperate offensive by himself and puts the table on the top rope like at Double Tables. AND BENOIT POWERBOMBS SABU OFF THE TABLE TO WIN THE TITLES. YEAH! *** They celebrate with the titles, and Benoit grabs the mic. He says if Public Enemy wants to even come near these titles, they'll have to kill them. Oh, that Chris Benoit, always refusing to lose titles until he dies. Public Enemy stupidly limp out to try and fight, and Benoit and Malenko destroy them again. 911 CARRIES TAZ BACK OUT SINCE HE HAS A BAD LEG, AND HE AND SABU FIGHT BENOIT AND MALENKO TOO! THAT'S THE MATCH I CARE ABOUT, FUCK THE PUBLIC ENEMY. They brawl around the ring and 911 Chokeslams the referee. Back at ringside after the static cut, Joey Styles brings out The Sandman and Woman, and interviews them. Woman tells Jack to stop taking shots at her real-life husband and at her real-life meal ticket in the Sandman, and in general, to stop being a real-life asshole. SHOOTING~. Well, it was novel at the time, I guess. They go over how Sandman can't compete because of the concussion, and Cactus Jack comes out. He gets in Sandman's face, and Woman introduces the mystery opponent........DC Drake. Joey informs me that he was Woman's first client back when this was Eastern Championship Wrestling. Well, okay. Match #7: Cactus Jack vs. DC Drake w/ The Sandman & Woman This was alright. Too much Drake offense before Cactus starts killing him like he should. Jack finally wins with the Double Arm DDT. *1/4 Sandman comes in and attacks Cactus Jack as Woman cheers him in, also getting in. Cactus fights back on him, and grabs Woman by the throat like it's 2007 or something, but The Sandman gets the singapore cane and hits Jack with it. He canes the shit out of him, and DC Drake gets up to help beat on Cactus Jack. He tries to fight back, and DDTs Drake. He takes Sandman to the floor and they go near a large container with a black drape over it. Joey says it's for storage, but it hasn't been there all night before this match, so it's clearly got somebody/something inside. Cactus throws Sandman into it, and he pulls Sandman out by the legs, but he has a black drape over him. He gets the cane, BUT THE DRAPE GETS THROWN OFF, AND IT'S FUCKIN TERRY FUNK WITH IDENTICAL GEAR TO FOOL JACK! Creative way of doing that. BUT NEVERMIND THAT SHIT, BECAUSE CACTUS AND TERRY FIGHT! YEAH! They have an awesome brawl before The Sandman and Drake attack Cactus too, and it's a 3 on 1. Jobbers try to run out to help, but they are obviously killed, BEFORE TOMMY DREAMER RUNS OUT TO SAVE CACTUS! He gets the cane and goes wild on Sandman with it, in what I will assume is an awesome revenge moment. Funk dares Tommy to hit him and slaps him, but he can't do it. He finally goes to hit him, but Sandman then attacks Tommy from behind with the cane. Terry gets on the mic and says Cactus and Tommy are embarrassments to ECW and hardcore wrestling. Funk gets a chair and Jack challenges him on his knees to hit him. Shane Douglas is watching from the entrance, and comes down to ringside. Terry says nobody can help them, and he gets in the ring. Joey now yells about Cactus and Shane being best friends since they were trained together in 1985 by DeNucci. Which hey, hell of an angle idea for a face turn, but I have doubts that they laid any groundwork for it at all before this, so it's all like "...ok?" Terry hands Shane a chair and says to join in. Woman makes the Triple Threat sign and points at herself to say she'll manage them too like she managed the Horsemen. She then tries to seduce him too, but Shane hits Sandman and Terry Funk with the ECW Title belt! The show ends soon after that. Cool angle, but it'd be a contender as an all-time great one if they laid groundwork with Shane and Cactus at all leading to this. |
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| Big Tuna | Mar 7 2013, 02:27 PM Post #10 |
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ECW World Heavyweight Champion: Shane Douglas, Since 3/26/1994 ECW Television Champion: Dean Malenko, Since 11/4/1994 ECW Tag Team Champions: Chris Benoit/Dean Malenko, Since 2/25/1995 ECW Hardcore TV February 28th, 1995 Philadelphia, PA An eight minute video opens up the show, recapping the Sandman/Cactus, Raven/Dreamer, and Ian/Axl feuds. In the back, The Sandman and Woman cut a promo. He says ECW and the whole world will find out what he has in store for Cactus tonight. Woman says it will be smokin'. The awesome Raven/Dreamer segment from 2/25 is shown. NEXT ECW ARENA SHOW - MARCH 18TH, 1995! I don't have this one, but the big matches are available online or on TV from after the show. In a pretape from after the show, The Triple Threat cuts a promo. Shane says this is not the vault of Fort Knox you're looking at with all this gold, but it's the Triple Threat. Yeah, four cheap title belts. That's Fort fucking Knox alright. I love that Benoit is just wringing his hands as Dean looks annoyed. Gives off the vibe that they'd align with whoever the World Champion was, and hate this shithead. He says they buried four to make three, and this was all a grand design. He then rails on WCW and WWF for another three minutes because he's incapable of cutting a concise great promo like this could have been. Benoit says it's the wrestler that gives the belt credibility, and ECW can thank them later for making these Tag Titles and this TV Title important. The pre-match interview, Cactus Jack vs. DC Drake, and the post-match are shown as the final 15 minute or so block. |
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| Big Tuna | Mar 7 2013, 02:47 PM Post #11 |
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ECW World Heavyweight Champion: Shane Douglas, Since 3/26/1994 ECW Television Champion: Dean Malenko, Since 11/4/1994 ECW Tag Team Champions: Chris Benoit/Dean Malenko, Since 2/25/1995 ECW Hardcore TV March 7th, 1995 Philadelphia, PA The Pitbulls squash from 2/25 opens the show. A recap of the Terry Funk return and Shane Douglas turn airs. I think it's a turn anyways. A promo airs from right after Return of the Funker, with The Sandman, Woman, and Terry Funk. Sandman says he asked Cactus if he wanted to do this, to go gut to gut and heart to heart. Woman says this has always been a business to her, and she loathes Cactus Jack and hates his guts. She says she turned to Sandman and now she turns to Terry. Terry paused and asks if they know Dewey. OH SHIT. Terry says that's Cactus Jack's son, Dewey. He asks how he could have any brains with a fool for a mother and a jerk for a father. He says he said time and time again that he wants to be the next Terry Funk, but he's wrong. Because he will never amount to anything like himself. He tries to emulate him by being a fool, and by losing an ear, he thinks he has credibility, but he can't wrestle worth a lick. He says he is nobody, he's a fat pig, and it's all he'll ever be. He says Douglas made a tremendous mistake, and he's saying that Cactus Jack is somebody by aligning with him. He says Cactus acts like a WCW wrestler, and he's trying to dupe all the ECW fans. He says he can never walk in his footsteps, nor his brother's, or his father's, nor in any decent professional wrestler's footsteps, because he is a mockery. MARCH 18TH - ECW ARENA: -SANDMAN/FUNK VS. CACTUS/DOUGLAS -SABU VS. MARTY JANNETTY -TOMMY VS. THE BROAD STREET BULLIES/STEVIE RICHARDS/RAVEN IN A GAUNTLET MATCH -IAN VS. AXL IN A STRAP MATCH In a pretape after Return of the Funker, Shane Douglas and Cactus Jack cut a promo. Shane says as the World Champion, he has commitments to the Triple Threat, but that isn't about the two of them. He says they go back to 1984 when they were young budding athletes being trained in this sport. He says his dad told him Mick Foley was a bit of a goof, but he likes him. Shane talks about Cactus living in a car and the snow to become a wrestler. Cactus says a lot of people say he shouldn't trust The Franchise, that he's forgotten his roots. He says a lot of people out there didn't feed him when he was hungry, there's a lot of people who didn't put a roof over his head when he was cold, and there's an awful lot of people who didn't believe in him, but Shane did all those things, so they can sweep everything else aside. Cactus says he's damn good at taking a beating, and it's kind of a mind over matter thing. He says a lot of things go through his mind when he's taking a beating, but it's always positive. "Is that the best you've got?", "This isn't so bad!", and the like. He says it's a lot like Thomas, because he thinks he can, he thinks he can. He says not tonight, because he was helpless tonight. Cactus says what hurt more than the betrayal, more than the beating, was him knowing that he'll never be the man that Terry Funk is. But after March 18th, neither will Terry Funk. BANG BANG. GOD DAMN AMAZING. A video airs of Tommy Dreamer talking about his bond with Cactus Jack and Terry Funk, and how Terry took him under his wing last year and said he was like a son to him, so he doesn't know what to think about this. He says if Raven thinks this will sidetrack him, then he's dead wrong, and video airs of that brawl. He says he never sold out like Raven did when he became Johnny Polo, and he wouldn't be the man he is today without ECW. He says he can't fool anybody in ECW, and they know that as soon as he gets the call to come back, the Raven will flee the coop, but if he got the call, he'd hang up. He tells Raven to never get up in his face again. Nevermore. Shane vs. Tully from 2/4 airs. The Public Enemy interview and attack by Benoit & Malenko from 2/25 ends the show. |
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| Big Tuna | Mar 7 2013, 03:08 PM Post #12 |
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Nothing new on the 3/14 episode, so I'll go into the matches from 3/18 that I found online! Shane Douglas/Cactus Jack vs. Terry Funk/The Sandman w/ Woman, ECW Arena (March 18th) AWESOME out of control brawl. Shane accidentally hits Cactus in the heat of the moment, and their argument over it lets the heels take over briefly. Their attacks on Cactus are all really great looking, especially on Funk's end, and Foley's selling is as great as always. Terry tries to hit Hat Guy, so that ruled. Sandman and Funk use a section of the guardrail as a weapon, which I think is the first time that idea ever happened. Best spot is when TERRY FUNK GOES TO USE A TOOLBOX, BUT THE BOX IS OPEN AND EVERYTHING FALLS OUT ON TOP OF HIS HEAD! That might be the all time best transition from a heel control seg to the babyface comeback. Comeback is mostly Cactus, so it's good. Terry brings out a flaming branding iron and Piledrives Cactus on it for the win while Shane is distracted with caning Sandman. ***1/2 |
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| Big Tuna | Mar 7 2013, 04:21 PM Post #13 |
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ECW World Heavyweight Champion: Shane Douglas, Since 3/26/1994 ECW Television Champion: Dean Malenko, Since 11/4/1994 ECW Tag Team Champions: Chris Benoit/Dean Malenko, Since 2/25/1995 ECW Hardcore TV March 21st, 1995 Philadelphia, PA Joey Styles is at ringside and brings out Ron Simmons for an interview in the ring. He is now being all heelish to the crowd and shit. Ron yells at Joey for calling him a FORMER All American and World Champion, and Joey tries to say he's his biggest fan. Ron says everyone is scared of him, and asks why he hasn't gotten his title rematch, and says he's taking ECW by the ass now. Match #1: Ron Simmons vs. Hack Myers Awesome 3 minute Ron squash. SHAH is best as a jobber, as it only requires a few minutes of offense from him instead of an actual match's worth. Ron wins with the Goddamned Powerslam. *3/4 Ron gets on the mic and says he'll kick everyone's ass that gets in his way and says to bring him Chris Benoit or Dean Malenko or to bring 911, because he'll kick their asses too. 911 comes out, BUT RON SHOULDERBLOCKS HIM OFF THE APRON WHOA. He hits a Backbreaker on the floor, and rolls him in. RON THEN HITS 911 WITH THE FUCKING SPINEBUSTER. DON'T FUCKING STEP TO RON. He tries another though foolishly, and 911 ducks and hits the Chokeslam. ![]() APRIL 8TH - ECW ARENA: -BENOIT/MALENKO VS. SABU/TAZ VS. PUBLIC ENEMY IN A TRIPLE THREAT MATCH FOR THE TAG TITLES -SHANE VS. SANDMAN FOR THE ECW TITLE -AXL VS. IAN IN A HAIR VS. HAIR MATCH APRIL 15TH - ECW ARENA - HOSTILE CITY SHOWN: -CACTUS JACK VS. TERRY FUNK In a pretape, Terry Funk talks. He laughs at Cactus Jack and says he knows he can't stand his flatulating family. He says he's gonna kill Cactus Jack on the 15th, and he might get the chair, but he'll kill him. He might castrate him, then he's gonna kill him, then he's gonna torture his corpse. Then he's gonna strap the son of a bitch to the back of his '55 Buick and drag the bastard down the main street of Philadelphia. He says he's had enough of Shane Douglas and his comments about people he loves and respects, and he's had enough of Cactus Jack's body, of his thoughts that he's any good. He says proved that he's the man and that he will always be the man, and it'll be a hot time at the ECW Arena on April 15th, and holds up the branding iron. In a pretape, Cactus Jack talks. He says Terry Funk is out there questioning his credentials. He's a little sensitive about two things. His family and his legitimacy, and Terry Funk has questioned them both. He says he was born Michael F. Foley, everyone knows that, and the name Cactus Jack fit, and he's stuck with it. He says he earned the name, and it's not ridiculous, and for the last 29 years of his life, this is him. He may be a scumbag, but he's always been this way. He asks who Terry Funk is, if he's the thumper, or if he's doing the job for Swayze this week, and says he's going to put him on a permanent hiatus. He says he can't take Funk's credentials away from him, but he can take everything else. He says he's not a fireman, but on April 15th, there will be a rebuttal. Match #2: Dean Malenko [c] vs. 2 Cold Scorpio [ECW Television Championship] So hey yeah, this is fun. Matwork is obviously really great. Tight stuff, lots of cool counters, nothing contrived, etc. Eventually, Dean moves to attack the knee, and has a lot of cool attacks to it. Scorpio sells really really well for his comeback to make this more than just some cool stuff, and Malenko pulls the ref in the way of a Scorpio Crossbody. Taz comes out and drops Malenko with a suplex of some manner, but Dean kicks out! They then do a few things and Scorpio wins with a roll up. Terrible finish, the interference barely even played into it, so why even bother? *** Something happens in a pretape with Public Enemy in dresses? I'm not doing this. |
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| Big Tuna | Mar 7 2013, 06:24 PM Post #14 |
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ECW World Heavyweight Champion: Shane Douglas, Since 3/26/1994 ECW Television Champion: 2 Cold Scorpio, Since 3/18/1995 ECW Tag Team Champions: Chris Benoit/Dean Malenko, Since 2/25/1995 ECW Hardcore TV March 28th, 1995 Philadelphia, PA A hype video for the Benoit & Malenko/PE/Sabu & Taz match on 4/8 airs to "Perfect Strangers". Match #1: Mikey Whipwreck vs. Jason Joey says it's the final match. THANK GOD. This was horrible, but it's over after this. Mikey wins with the Flying Bulldog. 3/4* Clips air of Malenko losing the title last week. In an interview from right after, Joey Styles asks Dean Malenko about it. Dean wants to kill him, so Joey brings up the three way dance. Dean just cracks his knuckles and leaves. The Ron/911 confrontation is shown again. In a pretape, Paul E. Dangerously cuts a promo. He says Ron Simmons is another football player trying to relive his past glory in pro wrestling, but he won't do it to 911, and if he ever makes him dial 911 again, he'll tear him up worse than Mike Tyson this Sunday Night. k. All the VHS ads this episode have been set to "Sad But True", so I guess they found a fourth or fifth song to use. Match #2: Tommy Dreamer vs. The Broad Street Bullies/Stevie Richards/Raven [Generation X Gauntlet Match] The only difference is that everyone not in the current pairing is handcuffed to the ringpost on the floor, and they get uncuffed when they are up. This isn't great or really even good, but the booking is nice. Stetson is first, then Hotbody, then Stevie. They each get about 3 minutes total, and they're basically Tommy showcases with a little offense from the jobbers. Tommy beats Stetson with the DDT, then a really shitty Rude Awakening on Hotbody. Stevie/Tommy is the best of the pairings. BUT DURING THAT, TERRY FUNK COMES OUT WITH BOLT CUTTERS AND GETS RAVEN LOOSE! Tommy beats Stevie with an Enzuiguri, and Raven pretends to still be handcuffed. Tommy goes over BUT RAVEN CHEAP SHOTS HIM WITH THE HANDCUFF! RAVEN HITS THE EVENFLOW ON THE CONCRETE AND ROLLS HIM IN FOR THE PIN AND THE WIN. *3/4 Raven keeps hitting Tommy with the handcuff and the jagged edge that got cut, and gets busted open massively. He grabs the handcuffs that were previously unlocked and he handcuffs Tommy on the floor to the ropes with his arms outstretched. He punches at the cut and kicks him repeatedly in the gut. He gets a chair from the front row and hits Tommy with it before leaving. Sabu/Marty was supposed to happen, but Marty no-showed, and they want a replacement. Paul gets on the mic in the ring and says he has someone who could do it, and that the fans love, and who would be a great match for Sabu. He tells 911 to go get him, AND 911 FORCES MIKEY TO THE RING AS HE TRIES TO PLEAD TO GET AWAY HAHAHAHAHAHA! Match #3: Sabu w/ Paul E. Dangerously vs. Mikey Whipwreck Fun Sabu showcase. Mikey avoids stuff sometimes, but foolishly tries to play Sabu's game with chair-based offense in return, and that does not work well for him. Mikey avoids a dive though, and learning from his mistake earlier, tries to use basic stuff on Sabu. It works, but does not stop the force of nature, as Mikey's plan was more containing Sabu than attempting to win. Fun slugfest by the end. A few delightfully insane spots on the floor, and after an Asai Moonsault through a table, Sabu puts the Camel Clutch on in the ring for the submission. **3/4 |
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| Big Tuna | Mar 7 2013, 06:54 PM Post #15 |
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ECW World Heavyweight Champion: Shane Douglas, Since 3/26/1994 ECW Television Champion: 2 Cold Scorpio, Since 3/18/1995 ECW Tag Team Champions: Chris Benoit/Dean Malenko, Since 2/25/1995 ECW Hardcore TV April 4th, 1995 Philadelphia, PA The first 10 minutes is highlights of the three way tag feud to hype the Three Way Dance, with background music of "Sad But True" at the end. Highlights of Pitbulls/PE from 3/18/95 air. They've started just doing highlights instead of full matches, at least for this episode. According to Joey, PE can only get the Three Way Dance signed if they win this. They do a lot of brawling and shit and it gets heated. But Public Enemy wins. A video airs of the Pitbulls working out and yelling out Public Enemy's name, and saying that they hope Public Enemy wins, so they can take them out like the Bad Breed. They say they want the titles now, because their master Jason wants them to. They say The Pitbulls are not going to be stopped. Weird that the promo portions of this looked like them in a sauna. ADDED TO 4/8'S "THREE WAY DANCE": -TOMMY DREAMER VS. RAVEN FINALLY HAPPENS -RON SIMMONS VS. MIKEY WHIPWRECK Clips aired of the Raven/Tommy angle in the gauntlet match from last week's show. In a pretape, Tommy Dreamer is holding a towel to his face and talks after the gauntlet match. He says Raven proved that he's always been hardcore, and now he's going to show him why he's extreme. In the back, Joey Styles is with The Sandman and Woman. Sandman says Shane likes to be a historian, but he'll show him some history. He says Napolean wanted to conquer the world just like Shane Douglas, but just like Napolean, Shane's head got too big and he opened up a second front, and Hitler did the same thing. He says Shane opened up another front when he took it to him, and asks Shane if he can withstand a beating from The Sandman, and says he had the chance to join up, but he thinks he's so hot. Woman says Shane could have come with him, and she says she controlled the Four Horsemen and could have guided Triple Threat to new heights, and asks how good a historian Shane really is if he didn't COME with her. She then kisses Joey on the cheek and leaves as he hides his boner. Highlights of the tag on 3/18 air. In a pretape, Shane Douglas says he knows all about history. He says he's fighting on more than two fronts, he's fighting on every front like a World Champion has to be. He says Sandman tried to take his head off, but his Woman would like him no matter what. He says he can take it and keep on ticking and he could wrestle the Tazmaniac and brawl with Sabu. He says he is feeling the heat, but his ass is made of asbestos, and he took wrestling from watered down entertainment horse shit into being physical and intense like the sport it is like it is now. He says he'll still have the title and he'll notch Sandman's name on the corner with all the rest. A horrible Public Enemy interview ends the show. FUCK THAT ENTIRELY. |
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| Big Tuna | Mar 7 2013, 09:22 PM Post #16 |
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ECW World Heavyweight Champion: Shane Douglas, Since 3/26/1994 ECW Television Champion: 2 Cold Scorpio, Since 3/18/1995 ECW Tag Team Champions: Chris Benoit/Dean Malenko, Since 2/25/1995 ![]() ECW Three Way Dance April 8th, 1995 Philadelphia, PA In the back, Joey Styles is standing by. He goes over the booked main event, but says Sabu chose Japanese commitments over ECW. This is where the famous shoot happened where Paul Heyman, Taz, and 911 got in the ring and Paul fired Sabu for doing this, etc. It's not on the actual tape copy of the show or youtube, so idk, whatever. Joey Styles is at ringside and he brings out Raven, Stevie Richards, and the Broad Street Bullies. It gets clipped to them at ringside, and Stevie says the Bullies have to prove themselves again tonight. If they win, everything's cool, but if they lose, then they're fired! YES! Stevie turns to Raven and says he got good competition to test the Bullies tonight, AND BRINGS OUT THE PITBULLS! OH MAN! THE FUCKING BULLIES ARE GONE! RULES! Match #1: The Pitbulls vs. The Broad Street Bullies w/ Raven & Stevie Richards FUCK YEAH THE PITBULLS KILL THEM IN A MINUTE! SHIT YES! Insane crowd heat helped a lot, but it's a squash of the Bullies, so you can't hate that. Superbomb beats these faggots, and they are gone. *1/2 The Bullies leave, and Joey Styles is back at ringside with Raven and Stevie. Stevie says he told him that he'd finally make him proud of him, and asks what he thinks. Raven says he's finally succeeded, and The Pitbulls come over. They say they brought them here to kick ass, and they kicked ass. They say everyone in ECW better beware because the title belts are theirs, and to show their loyalty, when they get them, they'll hand them right to Raven! Stevie says if he orders them to kick somebody's ass, then they'll do it. They glare at him and #1 barks at him and he gets behind Raven and says what he meant was that if Raven orders them, they'll do it. They nod and say he is now their master! Raven laughs and they go to the back. Stevie taps Raven's shoulder and asks if he remembers that girl, and Raven shoves him and shakes his head. Stevie says it's the girl from that summer camp with he and Dreamer. Raven says that was the worst three months of his life, and Stevie says he's brought her here! AND RAVEN BACKHANDS STEVIE AND SAYS NOT TO TALK ABOUT THAT! Raven asks why he brought that obese piece of tail here, and Stevie says she's a lot different now AND BRINGS OUT BEAULAH MCGILLICUTTY! SUP BEULAH. Blatantly stealing screencap from Biggie. ![]() Raven looks her over, not really reacting that much to it, before getting in. Tommy comes out, finally using "Man In The Box" as a theme, and he looks really upset by it. Match #2: Raven w/ Stevie Richards & Beulah McGillicutty vs. Tommy Dreamer Joey pieces together that this rivalry must have started at that summer camp. They immediately commence with a really spirited brawl around the building. Lots of hate and intensity from Raven, and a lot too from Tommy. More from Raven though, which makes sense. Really felt like how their first match should have been done. They moved back to the ring and that was a clear step down. Raven uses several DDTs before the end, which is a little jarring given he's usually real smart about never killing his finish, although it wasn't quite his finish at this point as it's just being established. Tommy takes over, but on the floor, Stevie kisses Beulah. She slaps him so he chokes her. Tommy goes out to save, but she sprays hair spray in his eyes, and Stevie hits the Superkick INTO THE EVENFLOW ON THE FLOOR! Raven rolls Tommy back in and covers to win. Not great, but I loved the first 80% of the match enough to give it to them. *** Raven & Co. leave, and medics come out to rinse out Tommy's eyes. After he comes out, Ron Simmons gets on the mic. He says he's trying to be nice and tells Mikey not to even get in this ring and to just leave and spare himself a really good ass whipping. Mikey comes out and Ron keeps telling him to turn around, but Mikey yells that if he doesn't wrestle, Paul E won't pay him! In all fairness, he probably ran that risk even when he did wrestle. Mikey gets on the apron to talk to Ron, and he decides to kick Mikey in the face. Match #3: Ron Simmons vs. Mikey Whipwreck Awesome 5 minutes. Ron destroys Mikey on everything, and he takes huge bumps and all of his actual offense looks great too. Ron kills Mikey with the Spinebuster, and the crowd chants for 911. AND IN RESPONSE, RON KILLS MIKEY WITH A CHOKESLAM! RON CHOKESLAMS THE REF TOO, AND IT FORCES THE RARE DQ. **1/2 Ron picks up Mikey and goes to throw him out, but 911 and Paul come out. He throws Mikey to them, but 911 catches him, and passes him down to Paul. 911 gets in and tries the Chokeslam, BUT RON'S ALL LIKE, "NAH" AND FUCKIN CHOKESLAMS 911! Ron leaves and jobbers come out to help 911, but he Chokeslams all of them. He then says he's gonna fuck up Ron Simmons. After the static cut, Joey Styles brings out Chris Benoit to the ring for an interview. He says Sabu and Taz are dead, but at least Taz had the guts to show up tonight, unlike that pussy Sabu. He tells Taz right now that if he wants to come out and pay for his partner's sins right now, he might be easy on him in the main event. Taz comes out and they have an uncharacteristically lame brawl before Malenko comes out and chop blocks Taz's leg. They beat on him, BUT WHAT THE SHITTING DOG FUCK, RICK STEINER COMES OUT TO SAVE! They clean house and butt heads which is Rick Steiner for "I'll be your partner tonight". Match #4: 2 Cold Scorpio [c] vs. Eddie Guerrero [ECW Television Championship] This is fun, but not overly great. It's a total movefest, but you're not getting too many better guys at that style than Eddie Guerrero and mid 90s Scorpio. They escalate things really well from the beginning to the end, and everything is super clean. I feel like ECW uses these kinds of pure wrestling matches like WCW used the cruiserweights, as a sideshow from that the promotion was based on and a way of getting the brand over more for the types of matches without a ton of story from match to match with the sole exception of the Malenko/Scorpio finish. At least that's how it feels so far, I'm hoping it changes. That being said, this is the second best of them, with Benoit/Al being just a bit better due to an actual story there. Anyways, cool shit all match and Eddie hits the fancy Running Prawn Hold for the win and the title! ***1/4 They shake hands post-match. Match #5: Axl Rotten vs. Ian Rotten [Hair vs. Hair Match] This feud is a waste of the stipulation. Typical Ian/Axl bullshit. Weapons and blood for the sake of weapons and blood, and the sense of hate and fire in the first few matches is gone. Barbed Wire Bat match was probably the peak of their feud, if their other matches are more like this. Axl wins again with a chair shot to the head. *1/2 Axl cuts off Ian's shitty mohawk with scissors. They then brawl more before the static cut. Match #6: Hack Myers vs. Gino Sendoff Acceptable SHAH squash. He is once again best served in a short match. Weirdly, the shitty barely trained jobber then got in some offense, before Hack fought back. He wins with a Brainbuster. *1/4 Match #7: Shane Douglas [c] vs. The Sandman w/ Woman [ECW World Heavyweight Championship] Joey says that Shane has forced Tod Gordon to ban the singapore cane from the match, which turns the crowd fully in Sandman's favor. I can't review this. The match is clipped to hell for some reason. Sandman uses lots of wrestling to Shane's shock, and Woman refuses to hit Shane. This seems like a decent match. Not great, but decent. No idea why it got clipped like this. Sandman hits a Piledriver and calls for the cane. He blinds the ref with smoke, but behind his back, WOMAN GIVES SHANE THE SINGAPORE CANE! SHANE LOW BLOWS HIM WITH IT AND BREAKS IT! Shane then schoolboys him and the ref is now able to count three for the win. Great angle at least. N/A Shane brings Woman in, and they make out. Someone in the back for this show probably stewed over this for 12 years, since she's tainted forever now. Shane dumps all of Sandman's cigarettes out onto him, and he leaves with Woman. Sandman slowly gets up, and lights one for himself before leaving. Good move to get her away from Sandman and just turn him face, since nobody's booing him anyways. In the back, The Sandman does a pre-tape. He says Woman encouraged him to beat his wife on TV, to whip her with the cane, and what she's encouraged is the wrath she's going to receive right now. He says she saw what he did to his wife and asks what she thinks he'll do to her. He says he's going to beat Shane Douglas like he's never been beaten before, and Woman better bring every woman's activist she knows this Saturday night, because after he beats Shane, he's going to beat her like the bitch that she is. He takes a drag to finish his cigarette, before shaking his head and saying, "WHAT A DRAG!" In the back, Shane Douglas talks as Woman strokes the title on his shoulder. He says he remembers taking Sandman for a ride, and he remembers those long fingernails across his back after a win, and after the lights went out, all he remembers were fireworks. He says Sandman doesn't have what it takes to take what he's got, and he's addicted to the gold. He says this Saturday night, he'll shut his mouth once and for all. He then keeps going on and fucking on as he is accustomed to doing. Woman finally ends it and says she's not scared. She says Sandman was nothing before her and he always will be. She says she was the brains and the power, and she still is. Match #8: Chris Benoit/Dean Malenko [c] vs. Public Enemy vs. Taz/Rick Steiner w/ Paul E. Dangerously [ECW Tag Team Championship - Three Way Dance] Last Benoit/Malenko tag for a few years The future Horsemen and Taz/Steiner do some awesome stuff, but unfortunately, they have to do it around Public Enemy being just the goddamned worst. Rick tries to wrestle and have an actual good match with Benoit and Malenko, but it doesn't work out, and Taz has to try and guide him by doing all Suplexes and brawling until Rick finally gets it. Good chaos for a while, and the Benoit/Malenko control is wonderful. First 7 minutes are great, and then Benoit hits Taz with a Diving Headbutt and Malenko rolls on top to eliminate them. This forces Public Enemy to actually be involved, and then the quality goes down when PE have to actually bump around and do real offense. Rocco somehow breaks out a goddamned 450 Splash on Dean to win the titles back ![]() **1/2 Taz and Steiner come back out to fight with Benoit and Malenko to make us forget about the horrible result. They brawl away, and as PE celebrates, The Pitbulls run out and lay them out in the ring with chains to end the show. |
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| Big Tuna | Mar 7 2013, 09:38 PM Post #17 |
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ECW World Heavyweight Champion: Shane Douglas, Since 3/26/1994 ECW Television Champion: Eddie Guerrero, Since 4/8/1995 ECW Tag Team Champions: Public Enemy, Since 4/8/1995 ECW Hardcore TV April 11th, 1995 Philadelphia, PA Before the opening video, Tod Gordon says Sabu has been indefinitely suspended. The Rick Steiner debut segment is shown. ECW HOSTILE CITY SHOWDOWN 1995 - APRIL 15TH: -CACTUS JACK VS. TERRY FUNK -911 VS. RON SIMMONS -PUBLIC ENEMY VS. THE PITBULLS IN A FALLS COUNT ANYWHERE MATCH -TOMMY DREAMER VS. RAVEN IN A REMATCH -AXL VS. IAN IN A VIEWER'S CHOICE MATCH Eddie Guerrero vs. 2 Cold Scorpio is shown in full, so we're back to full matches on TV. The Terry Funk & Cactus Jack promos from several weeks ago are shown again. Sandman vs. Shane is shown again, along with the post-match interviews. This was worth my time. |
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| Big Tuna | Mar 8 2013, 12:44 AM Post #18 |
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ECW World Heavyweight Champion: Shane Douglas, Since 3/26/1994 ECW Television Champion: Eddie Guerrero, Since 4/8/1995 ECW Tag Team Champions: Public Enemy, Since 4/8/1995 ![]() ECW Hostile City Showdown 1995 April 15th, 1995 Philadelphia, PA Match #1: Mikey Whipwreck vs. Stevie Richards w/ Raven Mikey brings out SHAH to stop Raven from interfering after he trips him early on. They have a basic rookies match, and it's not at all bad, just that it kind of happens for a while. Mikey breaks out a really shoddy Huracanrana that he should never do again, but it gets the win. *3/4 Raven gets in to attack Mikey and hits the Evenflow, but Hack Myers slides in and saves. They fight, but The Pitbulls then run out and it's a 4 on 1 on Hack. SHAH. The fucking Public Enemy comes out to save, and they tease a multi-man there. SHUT UP JOEY SOMEBODY MIGHT HEAR YOU AND ACTUALLY BOOK IT. GOD. Thankfully, nothing happens to escalate this. Close call. Match #2: Tony Stetson vs. Tsubo Genjin This is joined at exactly the finish and Genjin gets a legdrop for the win. Why? N/A Genjin gives the crowd the finger before Stetson hits him with the mic and throws him out. I thought Stetson was fired? Why did this happen? Furthermore, why did this make tape? Axl Rotten comes out with a trash can full of weapons. He gives the fans lots of options, and then names a Bad Breed Death Match, which he says is where anything is legal (which I mean, it's ECW, so...), and the fans don't realize they've been duped and choose that. Match #3: Axl Rotten vs. Ian Rotten [Bad Breed Death Match] This blew. They basically did another barbed wire bat match, since that was 90% of what they used. More based on violence and shit than actual hate, but I've said that since the initial bat match, so I'm not saying that again after this. Cool finish, but that's about it. Ian wraps Axl's head in barbed wire and tees off on him with a chair shot to the head for the win to finally get a win in this series. *1/4 Joey Styles is at ringside after the static cut, and he brings out Raven, Stevie Richards, and Beulah. Stevie is now in a black cut-off shirt and denim cut-offs to mimic Raven. Stevie is the best. Stevie says it's a great day, but Tommy Dreamer probably isn't having a good week and he's probably a little crazy, and he's so crazy to want a THIRD match against his guy Raven. He says Tommy is not the nice guy everyone thinks he is, and says Beulah can attest to that. He says this young lady used to be about 320 pounds and a dermatoligist's dream. He says Tommy treated her like a piece of crap and the only man to treat her with any respect was his man Raven. He says she is pure Penthouse centerfold now, and once again, the Raven will crucify him. Match #4: Raven w/ Stevie Richards & Beulah McGillicutty vs. Tommy Dreamer Another brawl to start, but this was less hate-filled and heated than on 4/8, so it's not as good for me. More about doing stuff than punching each other really hard. Although Tommy hitting Raven in the dick with a plastic dinosaur was awesome. He then smashes eggs in his face. This time Raven hits three DDTs that are kicked out of. Tommy fights back on the floor, AND HITS A DDT ON THE CONCRETE IN REVENGE! YEAH! He rolls Raven in, and Stevie tries to save, BUT ALSO EATS THE DDT! THE REF ARGUES AND THROWS IT OUT AND GETS A DDT TOO! **1/2 Beulah gets in and slaps Tommy, SO TOMMY HITS HER WITH THE PILEDRIVER! Tommy does Raven's pose over everyone, and finally gets a GIGANTIC pop. He was always over, at least since the beginning of 1995 when I started, but this is the first time he's gotten that kind of star-level ovation. Tommy gets into the crowd and leads a huge "ECW!" chant. Match #5: Eddie Guerrero [c] vs. Dean Malenko [ECW Television Championship] This is somehow a 30 minute draw that went 26 minutes, but at least that's not a 60 minute draw at 47 minutes. The matwork here is the best I've seen yet in ECW, and will probably be the best in company history. This is very clearly an important match, as it's the first to really define the "Classic Match" blueprint. You can see the structure of probably hundreds of 2000s indy matches in what they do here. Matwork, initial explosions, limbwork, back and forth finish, etc. My favorite thing about this is that Dean targeted the knee early on in the matwork, and it didn't work, but when Eddie exploded in the end of the first third or so, Dean targeted the knee. Both to cut off his speed and to go to what's worked well for him so far in ECW. The knee work took out Taz to give them the Tag Titles, and it had Scorpio beat in March too. Eddie's selling takes this from another fun workrate match to being legitimately fucking great. He sells awesome on the transition, which is beyond what you expect from a match like this, and has these great little sells for the rest of the match. Dean hurts his leg briefly on a missed dive to let Eddie begin going wild with offense and the finishing run kicks ass. Eddie gets a sweet Sunset Flip Powerbomb off the top before time expires. **** Malenko gives Eddie the title, but says he never beat him. Match #6: Shane Douglas [c] w/ Woman vs. The Sandman [ECW World Heavyweight Championship] This is again sacrificed for an angle. They do some basic shit for a few minutes, and it's sort of happening, UNTIL WOMAN CANES SHANE IN THE BACK AND SANDMAN COVERS TO WIN THE TITLE! YEAH! AWESOME! *1/2 Sandman and Woman hold hands and she lights his cigarette. IT WAS A SET-UP! YES! Shane is mad at ringside, and puts on a Monday Night Raw shirt. He says if he can go somewhere where he can WRESTLE (and get exposed), they can all kiss his ass. He then leaves through the crowd. GOOD. GET OUT. Match #7: Public Enemy [c] vs. The Pitbulls [ECW Tag Team Championship] They try to wrestle. WHY?! This is HORRIBLE. They get 17 minutes to do this. After several minutes of that, it turns into a brawl. Still horrible, but at least they're more at home with this. Lots of meandering CLUBBERIN~ and weapons shots to kill time. It just keeps fucking going. Grunge ends up hitting Pitbull #1 with the chain for the win. This was worse than the Jason Vorhees six man tag. I didn't think that would be topped, but lo and fucking behold, the goddamned Public Enemy rises to the fucking occasion. Fuck the entirety of life. 1/4* Ron/911 is joined in progress where Ron puts him up top, and then 911 hits a Super Chokeslam for the win. Okay then. Match #8: Cactus Jack vs. Terry Funk This was disappointing. Not awful, but it's Foley and Funk, so you naturally expect more. They brawl everywhere and throw shit and it is chaotic and out of control in the way that a 17 minute PE/Pitbulls tag could never hope to come near. JACK MISSES THE CACTUS ELBOW OFF THE ANNOUNCING BALCONY AND THROUGH A TABLE ON THE STAGE GOD DAMN. Cactus throws a few really nice forearms. He should have thrown more forearms in his career. Funk gets the branding iron out and threatens fire. Mikey and Hack come out to stop it, but Terry destroys them both. Jack fights back, and Sandman comes out, but the cane shot misses and hits Terry! Cactus gets rid of him and hits the Double Arm DDT on a chair to win. **3/4 Sandman attacks Jack now, AND POURS LIGHTER FLUID ON HIM WHAT THE SHIT?! FUNK GETS THE BRANDING IRON AND LIGHTS THE FUCKIN THING ON FIRE! BUT JACK FIGHTS BACK AND GETS THE IRON TO RUN THEM OFF! |
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| Big Tuna | Mar 8 2013, 04:43 PM Post #19 |
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ECW World Heavyweight Champion: The Sandman, Since 4/15/1995 ECW Television Champion: Eddie Guerrero, Since 4/8/1995 ECW Tag Team Champions: Public Enemy, Since 4/8/1995 ECW Hardcore TV April 18th, 1995 Philadelphia, PA The show begins with the Pitbulls/Bullies match and Raven/Tommy from Three Way Dance, and that takes up the first 20 minutes. NEXT ECW ARENA SHOW - MAY 13TH, 1995 Sandman vs. Shane Douglas from Hostile City Showdown is aired in full, as well as the post-match. In the back, heels congratulate The Sandman. Terry Funk hugs him and says he loves him and asks for a chance at that. Sandman says to talk to Woman. Ron Simmons says he's The Man now and congratulates him and asks for a shot. Woman says they can name their dates. Sandman says the marquee says wrestling according to Shane, but wrestling is dead, and long live extreme. Woman asks who has the power now. |
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| Big Tuna | Mar 8 2013, 05:06 PM Post #20 |
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The Master and Ruler Of The World
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ECW World Heavyweight Champion: The Sandman, Since 4/15/1995 ECW Television Champion: Eddie Guerrero, Since 4/8/1995 ECW Tag Team Champions: Public Enemy, Since 4/8/1995 ECW Hardocre TV April 25th, 1995 Philadelphia, PA Joey Styles runs down stuff from the April shows that we'll see, but announces that ECW is going back to Florida soon, which means some fresh matches! Stevie vs. Mikey and the post-match stuff from 4/15 airs to open the show match-wise. A video airs of other roster members being asked about the Sandman/Shane switch: -The Pitbulls say maybe they should go for that belt too, and Sandman is lucky that their master wants them to be Tag Champions -Mikey is caught leaving his hotel. He says he'd like a title shot. He says he'll get killed, but he'll get paid more for the main event, and there's always hope -Cactus says nobody deserves the title less than The Sandman and lists guys like Benoit, Malenko, Tommy, Taz, and even 911 would all be better champions and would at least WIN the title, but he's coming after Sandman before any of them -Hack Myers says it's the worst thing to ever happen to professional wrestling. Fuck you SHAH. -Stevie runs up and is excited and tells Raven Sandman won the title. Raven backhands him, so Stevie starts saying Sandman sucks and he hopes he loses the belt soon. Raven walks away. -The Pitbulls say words. Not listening. -Paul E. Dangerously says he loves it, because all it would take is one Suplex from Taz or one Chokeslam from 911 away to get him the title Raven/Tommy from 4/15 now airs. DAT ENDING BOOKING. In a pretape from Ft. Lauderdale, FL, The Sandman held a "press conference". This is him on a boat with mics shoved in his face from off-screen, so lol. He says when his dad took him out and gave him his first scotch whiskey, he told him, "Son, I know you're only 9 years old, but there's some important things you need to know in life." He said if he wants people to listen to him, all he has to do is tell him the facts, AND THE FACTS ARE THAT HE IS THE NEW WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION. THE FACTS ARE THAT YOU WANNA BE JUST LIKE HIM. THE FACT IS THAT HE'S GOT SHANE AND JACK AT EACH OTHER'S THROATS FOR A SHOT AT HIM, AND THE FACT IS, HE'S THE FUCKIN' MAN. Video airs of a lady being interviewed in Florida too. She says she represents Shane Douglas, and says he is still under contract to ECW, and will honor his commitments. She says given that he was robbed of his title, it is within The Franchise's right to negotiate with other wrestling promotions. She says her client is a WRESTLER, and The Sandman is everything he has fought against, and is a disgrace. She says on a professional level, Shane Douglas wishes Cactus the best of luck, even though he personally feels that he is entitled to the first match against The Sandman. On a personal level, The Franchise is not happy that his best friend would take a title shot that rightfully belonged to him. A video airs from Cactus Jack at the same place in Florida as Shane's lawyer, but not on Sandman's boat. He says there's some friction between he and Shane because he's getting a shot at the belt in Florida, but Shane should be happy, because he'll give him the first shot. He says he's what ECW is all about, and they used to tell him in the other place that Jack doesn't get title shots because they're not important to him. Because they were important to people like Shane, to the wrestlers, but they're important to him, they're more important than anything. Record books say who was the champion, and his name will be there as a World Champion some time in his future. |
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