![]() These three fought about a hundred times in a year and as usual, this is elimination rules. The fans aren’t sure if that should be a CANDIDO or ECW chant. With the fun opening out of the way, Pitbull Gary Wolfe gives us the roll call of ECW wrestlers who have passed away, which is far too long of a list when the promotion was open four and a half years before this show. Post match the Impact Players post and Jericho gets a nice Lionheart chant. Storm cheating to win was a surprise and makes a bit of sense in a way, as he is going with the Impact Players side, which makes a bit more sense than the Triple Threat associate stuff, especially given Chris Candido passing away a month and a half before the show. They had to find a way out of that one and it’s not like Jericho is ever going to be hurt by a loss. Joey isn’t sure about that but it wouldn’t be ECW without violence for the sake of violence. With the two of them dispatched, Storm kicks Jericho right into a kendo stick shot from Storm for the pin in what Storm said might have been his last match. Storm gets the knees up so Jericho steps to the side and grabs the Walls, only to have Jason and Justin Credible come out. That’s broken up and Jericho knocks him down to set up the Lionsault. ![]() ![]() The fans rant about John Cena as Storm gets the half crab. He gets tossed off the top though and Jericho’s top rope elbow to the jaw is good for the same. Storm can’t hit a Jerry Lynn cradle piledriver so he settles for two off a superkick instead. Jericho hits an enziguri (Foley: “EN-ZU-GOO-REE!” Joey: “Nicely done Mickles!”) and the fans chant for Chris Candido. Storm tries to dive off the top but gets dropkicked out of the air for the first….oh you know what they’re chanting. A delayed vertical suplex sets up a quickly broken chinlock so Storm goes to the first right hand. Jericho’s dive off the apron lands on the barricade and it’s Storm hitting a nice dropkick for two back inside. Lance’s manager Dawn Marie is affectionately (?) referred to as a crack w**** and it’s Jericho chopping him down.Ī baseball slide puts Storm on the floor as Joey rants about the required floor mats. They start with the technical stuff that you had to expect and trade armdrags into a standoff. Well at least Lance does but he was a bigger deal in ECW. We even get some highlights from their ECW careers during the entrances. We get the ECW on TNN intro, which is still one of the best theme songs ever.Īnd that’s Lionheart Chris Jericho, complete with the old WCW style gear. That’s way better than having Cole or Lawler out there and the fans will show him respect. He gets choked up before the first OH MY GOD and brings out Mick Foley, thankfully in a Cactus Jack shirt. Joey Styles gets a big introduction as they’re already off to a great start as you can’t do ECW without him. The venue is great too as I can’t imagine WWE running the bingo hall. The show looks like an old ECW show and the fans are out in force with their chants. It just wasn’t something I grew up on as I was a bit too young for it, though I have seen a lot of since then and know more than I did when I last saw this show. Therefore, this isn’t going to have quite the sentimentality for me as it will for some others and there are going to be references that I miss or don’t get in the first place. I knew Raven from WCW and they kept playing clips of Bam Bam Bigelow, who I knew from being a WWF fan. The only thing I remember from a Hardcore TV was Joey Styles talking about how some guy named Tommy Dreamer had pinned Raven to end their feud. It came on Friday nights at like 4am for me and I might have seen one show ever. I did not watch most of it as it aired and had no connection to it when the Alliance was formed in 2001. That leaves the big question: can WWE manage to screw this up? Let’s get to it.īefore we get started, a little background on my history with ECW. Therefore, this show was born as a celebration of ECW’s history and legacy (which certainly exists and in many cases is a positive one). It was one of the best looks back at a company that was certainly influential and had a heck of a cult following that you could ask for and made the fans want to see something more. So back in 2004, WWE put out an outstanding DVD about ECW called the Rise and Fall of ECW. Location: Hammerstein Ballroom, New York City, New York
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