Title: ECW Hardcore Homecoming Results
jamiegeist - June 11, 2005 05:35 PM (GMT)
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“Hat Guy,” Todd Gordon, Joey Styles, Cyrus and Joel Gertner opened the show.
-Mikey Whipwreck and Chris Chetti defeated Simon Diamond and CW Anderson
-Tracy Smother defeated the Blue Meanie
Next was a memorial to fallen brothers. Johnny Grunge, Pit Bull Gary Wolfe and Tammy Sytch all came to the ring as a video was played on the big screen. Doring and Road Kill came out and jumped Grunge and Wolfe, and Tammy brought out 911 who chokeslammed Doring and Road Kill. Grunge, Pitbull, 911, and Tammy knelt and said a quick prayer while the crowd chanted Candido.
-2 Cold Scorpio defeated Kid Kash
Kronus came out to the ring, but was jumped by Axl and Ian Rotten. They beat him down until New Jack came out, weapons and all and they brawled around the building. In the end, New Jack leaped off of a scaffold onto Ian, who was laid out on a table. Kronus and New Jack celebrated.
-Jerry Lynn defeated Justin Credible. Jazz ran in and chased Jason away.
-Raven defeated the Sandman. The Blue Meanie, Don E. Allen and Mickey Whipreck all interfered.
Terry Funk came to the ring to Desperado to chants of "Terry Terry". Funk grabbed the microphone and asked the crowd if they would give him 20 minutes of their time "because we want to get wired"!
Ring attendants came to the ring with barbed wire and the crowd went crazy again. Funk left the ring to go to the back while the ring ropes were removed and barbed wire was strung.
The Crowd went nuts. They took down the ropes but the Pennsylvania commission objected since barbed wire matches are illegal in Pennsylvania. Worked barbed wire was brought out with bad parts covered and the crowd was not happy.
-Sabu defeated Shane Douglas and Terry Funk. Douglas was eliminated first. He took out the ref, and used a chain on Funk and Sabu. The lights went out, and when they came back Cactus Jack was in the ring. He had Mr. Socko wrapped in barbed wire, attacked Douglas and then counted the pin on him when Funk rolled him up. Later, Funk dove off of a ladder through a table, missing Sabu who then got the Arabian facebuster for the win.
Credit: Wrestlingobserver.com |
Sounds like a pretty good show overall. A bit confused about whether they did/did not do the barbed wire, and frankly, not sure why they even attempted it. Cactus making an appearance is awesome, and hopefully WWE uses the "lights out" interference at One Night Stand this weekend too. I've always loved that kind of shit, except when the Warrior did it.
I still think One Night Stand definitely has the upper hand, workrate wise, but we'll see if it can touch the nostalgia, as this show brought it out pretty well.
Scrooge McSuck - June 11, 2005 05:40 PM (GMT)
Nostalgia will be the same, but the in ring quality will probably be a million times better.
jamiegeist - June 11, 2005 06:07 PM (GMT)
Just a note. I've been watching some old ECW, just gearing up for the PPV. Circa 98 mainly, and I just realized that Triple H has a massive hardon for Shane Douglas, who he supposedly hated. Look at Douglas around Heatwave 98 and a little before, and tell me the man in the ring isn't Triple H. From the hair, to the bloated body, to the style, to the promos. It is the same damn character. Give him time, and he may call himself "The Franchise" Triple H.
Scrooge McSuck - June 11, 2005 06:10 PM (GMT)
The only difference is Triple H can get over in front of crowds of 15,000+ people, while Douglas has never been seen as anything more than a midcarder outside of the Indy's.
But yeah, there's a similarity. Wrestling is based entirely on plagerism. For example.. Hulk Hogan? He's Billy Graham.
jamiegeist - June 11, 2005 06:18 PM (GMT)
I'm sure Douglas could get over on the WWE if he got to play a character that opened every show, won every match, got to play the rarely seen "never cowardly" heel, and got to book every angle he was in.
Scrooge McSuck - June 11, 2005 06:21 PM (GMT)
What was Douglas' excuse in WCW? In his early years, fans hated his guts for being a pretty boy, I don't remember him being that over in his second stint after his short-lived run in WWF, and his run in the late 90's hardly screamed Main Eventer either.
jamiegeist - June 11, 2005 06:43 PM (GMT)
I suppose it is all in the eye of the beholder. Douglas' and the Triple Threats run in 97-98 meant more to me than anything Triple H has done. I don't remember Triple H being a draw in WCW either, if you're going to go there. And Triple H clogged up the WWE mid-card for years, being shoved down our throat for god-knows-why. Do that bullshit long enough, and it'll stick. Or with the WWE, it doesn't matter if it sticks or not, they just keep doing it.
But to each his own.
Scrooge McSuck - June 11, 2005 07:00 PM (GMT)
I've only liked Triple H for a 2 year period from 1998-2000. He was a dickhead, funny, AND entertaining in the ring. From 1995-1999, he was hardly any of those, and since 2002, he's been none.
dynamite kido - June 12, 2005 12:00 AM (GMT)
Shane Douglas is one of the most overrated wrestlers ever. Promo wise and in ring wise. He was NEVER anything that special. He had potential to be great early on, and he killed it with all of his bitterness.
To me though, this show looked god awful. It also pisses me off and shows their lack of class to do an angle based around wrestlers deaths.
One Night Stand is pretty much a farce, but it should blow this show away totally.
Mad Dog - June 12, 2005 02:10 AM (GMT)
Douglas was nothing as a promo guy without "fuck".
This show looked like a shitfest with maybe Scorpio/Kash being good.
Real F'n Show - June 12, 2005 02:13 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Mad Dog @ Jun 11 2005, 09:10 PM) |
| This show looked like a shitfest with maybe Scorpio/Kash being good. |
And even that has the possibility of being trainwreck. I don't think they were ever in ECW at the same time, and probably haven't worked each other before. And both can be really hit or miss when it comes to a good match.
Mad Dog - June 12, 2005 02:57 AM (GMT)
Scorpio was gone a good couple of years before Kash showed up.
dynamite kido - June 12, 2005 06:21 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Mad Dog @ Jun 11 2005, 08:10 PM) |
| This show looked like a shitfest with maybe Scorpio/Kash being good. |
That's probably the only match on the card that even had potential to be good. The others looked terrible from the get-go.
dynamite kido - June 20, 2005 03:53 PM (GMT)
By the way, Meltz reported in this weeks observer that apparently they are going to offer this as a taped PPV at some point.