ECW 1998 Hardcore TV, PPV's and whatever shit i can find Review thread.

[Crippler]

ECW World Heavyweight Champion: Shane Douglas
ECW Television Champion: Rob Van Dam
ECW Tag Team Champions: Rob Van Dam & Sabu
“FTW” Champion: Taz

ECW Hardcore TV: Episode 278
August 24th, 1998
Queens, New York

Chris Candido comes out with, IDK should I call her Sunny or Tammy? Candido says he knows everyone paid to see him wrestle his ass off, but Tammy grabs the mic and says everyone paid to see her ass. She then calls out Storm, and he does some out. Strom says when he and Candido were a tag team, he (Lance) was the better half. He then says Sunny is the better half, from vagina down She slaps him and Candido attacks him. Tammy gets on the mic and says she doesn’t care if ECW doesn’t like it, or the WWF doesn’t like it. But she plans on riding his ass back to Canada.

Sal E. Graziano vs. Spike Dudley
Sal is 600 pounds of trash; Spike low blows him and hits the acid drop in 16 seconds. Good times lol.

Tracy Smothers (w/Full Blooded Italians) vs. The Sandman
This was okay I guess, total Sandman showcase getting him ready for the Credible match. FBI get involved a lot, but Sandman doesn’t care he takes them all out. Sandman hits this hilarious slingshot summersault legdrop, shit looks like his was going 1mph on the flip. The majority of the match seems like they are in slow-mo, Sandman wins with a Russian legsweep. After the match; Jason runs out, so Sandman canes him. Chastity runs out to distract him, and Justin Credible comes from behind and grabs the cane and canes Sandman. The FBI helps and Credible canes the shit out of The Sandman, until the FBI feel uncomfortable and have to pull him off. DAT PUSH!

Both the Dudleyz and RVD/Sabu come out for their match, Shane Douglas rants on commentary about how he comes out every week and puts over his competitions, yet all he hears is RVD, RVD, RVD. Well, he’s sick of it. He and Francine leave and say they have a plan.

Shane and Francine make their way down to the ring, Shane says Shane says to wait just a moment, and says The Dudleys had their shot, and he wants the gold off of Van Dam and Sabu. So if they're talking about tough tag teams, the equation isn't complete without THE GOD DAMNED TRIPLE THREAT, AND BIGELOW AND CANDIDO COME OUT!

3-way-dance for the ECW Tag Team Championships: The Dudley Boyz (w/Joel Gertner & Sign-Guy Dudley) vs. Rob Van Dam & Sabu (w/Bill Alfonso) vs. Bam Bam Bigelow & Chris Candido (w/Shane Douglas & Francine)
This is chaotic, which is great so many different pairs and a shit ton of brawling. But in typical ECW fashion, have to chorographic as one pairing is in the ring at all times. This has a couple of cool dives, but the highlights were RVD/Bam BAM and Buh Buh/Bam Bam tease job. Francine gets the ref to motorboat her, so he gets double squashed. TAZ HAS SEEN ENOUGH AND COMES OUT! He TazPlex’s everyone before turning his attention to Douglas, but the Dudleyz attacks him from behind. In another cool moment, Taz counters the 3D into a Tazmission on Buh Buh. Taz chases Shane to the back. Candido hits a Splash off the top to the knocked out Buh Buh and eliminates the Dudleyz. Real fun crazy finishing stretch, everyone hits everyone with stuff RVD puts a chair in Candido's face with a Flying Sidekick for the win. ***

 

[Crippler]

ECW World Heavyweight Champion: Shane Douglas
ECW Television Champion: Rob Van Dam
ECW Tag Team Champions: Rob Van Dam & Sabu
“FTW” Champion: Taz

ECW Hardcore TV: Episode 280
September 5th, 1998
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Lance Storm comes out with a new mystery woman He says encase you people don’t know who this is, now that she no longer dyes her hair, and had those ridiculous implants taken out. This is the true Tammy Lynn Bytch. That imposter that has been hanging out with Candido is a fake and a fraud. Sunny days are not over for Lance Storm. He says this is the real Tammy and did favors to get her job, keep her job, and to confirm the rumors, this woman was, in fact, the heartbreak chick. FUCK YEAH! Lance is GOAT!

Lance Storm (w/Tammy Lynn Bytch) vs. Chris Candido (w/Tammy Lynn Sytch)
This is really good, I love that they keep changing up the match, but everything is still done with the intent to hurt the other. This one has a lot more striking than the previous two, and brawling. Lance puts Candido through a table on the floor with a mediocre elbow drop. Back in the ring, and they go back to the formula of counter for counter, exchange for exchange. Everything is great looking, and this is the best Candido has ever looked, he’s not taunting or pandering, that much. He cares more about winning or hurting Lance. Bytch gets involved so Sytch gets involved and rips her dress off, FUCK YEAH! Lance goes to suplex Sunny, but Candido hits him in the back of the neck with a chain and Tammy cradles him for the win. WAT? THE FLYING FUCK? Outside that dumbass finish match was really good. After the match, Candido pulls down his pants and is wearing a man-thong. BRAH! ***

Shane Douglas says welcome back to ECW. Home of the best-undressed woman in wrestling.

Big Sal E. Graziano vs. John Kronus
SAL SQUASHES Kronus, FUCK YEAH! After the mic; Ref Jeff Jones says Sal got screwed in Queens, and that will never happen as long as he’s reff’ing. He then challenges anyone in the back to fight him……………..Spike Dudley accepts

Big Sal E. Graziano vs. Spike Dudley
Literally the exact same match from Queens.

Tracy Smothers (w/The Full Blooded Italians) vs. Tommy Rogers
Shockingly a good time, both men are game tonight And proceed to beat the shit out of one another. They brawl and shit for a few minutes until Axl and Balls come out to even the odds, they fight to the back leaving it a 1-on-1 match. They continue to have this really good just fight, Tommy carefully setting up high flying spots was weirdly entertaining. Tracy gets a low blow to block the Tomikaze for the win. ***

Handicap/ Singapore Caning Match: Justin Credible & Jason (w/Chastity & Nicole Bass) vs. The Sandman
So this happens, it’s more of an angle advancement match. Jason gets his ass kicked for 90% as Credible plays coward on the ring apron. He gets in whenever Sandman is down, then tags out immediately runs when the Sandman starts coming too. They smartly target Sandman’s shoulder so if Sandman does win, his arm is weakened. So that was good, but then Sandman no sells and they forget about it after 2 shoulder breakers. Sandman then hits Jason with an inverted DDT outta nowhere for the win. After the match; Credible and Jason try to run, referee John Finnegan says if Jason doesn’t get in by the count of 10 he will be banned from ECW for life. He gets in and eats 10 quick cane shots. Justin tries to slide in with his own, but Sandman canes him in the face before hitting Jason with a cane shot to the face too! Nicole Bass gets in and eats the White Russian Legsweep, but it allows Credible to cane Sandman over and over. *3/4

 

[Crippler]

ECW World Heavyweight Champion: Shane Douglas
ECW Television Champion: Rob Van Dam
ECW Tag Team Champions: Rob Van Dam & Sabu
“FTW” Champion: Taz

ECW Hardcore TV: Episode 281
September 12th, 1998
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Rob Zombie plugs ECW to open the show and they hype the CD release.

Joey Styles is in the ring and welcomes us to the show; Bill Alfonso comes out and says, he wants to stop everything for 60 seconds to cash in a marker that somebody owes him; he says tonight he’s calling out “THE WORLD CHAMPION” Taz, to collect on his favor. Taz comes out and the crowd chants "NEW TRIPLE THREAT!" Fonzie says the people want it, it gets people talking, and it puts money in their pockets and says he wants to make this a done deal. He offers his hand, but The Triple Threat comes out. Shane yells that Taz couldn't cut it in the Triple Threat, AND HE'S NOT A FUCKING WORLD CHAMPION. Taz says to take his belt from him then, and Shane says he already has the real belt, and Taz says he knows Shane wants it. He says he threw down another fake belt and dares him to do it to him unless he doesn’t have the balls, Fonzie then cuts in a says, Douglas has the smallest dick in the world, and he knows Francine is dying to have sex with him tonight Bigelow and Candido blindside him. Bam Bam hits a big splash off the top onto Taz, then Candido DDT’s Fonzie. Bam Bam goes for the Greetings from Asbury Park on Fonzie, but RVD and Sabu make the save.

Replay of the ending of Storm/Candido from last week.

Backstage: Lance Storm is with Tammy-Lynn Bytch, Lance says Candido needs to get a hold of his woman, unless he's too whipped to do it. He says he confirmed some rumors last week, but Sunny did some of that too, when she ripped the clothes off another woman the first chance she got and exposed herself too. He says Candido may have gotten one over on him last week, but the way he sees it he spent 3 seconds with his old lady on top of him, and from what I hear from the boys. The going rate for that is about $20, so he saved himself some cash and lasted two seconds longer than Candido.

Shane Douglas and Francine are having a mental breakdown and ranting to Styles.

Jerry Lynn vs. Mikey Whipwreck
Solid face vs. face, spot match. Both men have respect, and share mutual hatred for Credible so theirs that. Lynn is pretty awful at transitional moves; he fucks up a basic arm reversal and backup into the corner. This is very back and forth, with some really good near-falls towards the end. Lynn rolls through a Frankensteiner to get a Sunset Flip for the win. **1/4

Tommy Dreamer wants to fight Jack Victory for some reason, but Mr. Wright changed the rules, so he has to beat Danny Doring first in a gauntlet match. UGH!

Gauntlet Match: Tommy Dreamer vs. Danny Doring (w/Lance Wright, Mike Lozansky, & The Equalizer)
This is pretty shit and uninteresting, so Dreamer is done with the Dudleyz? Okay, BUT WHERE IS BEULAH AT? After about 3 minutes this randomly becomes Tommy vs. Danny/Jack and Equalizer because ECW can’t follow their own fuckin rules that they made up. The b.W.o come out after a while and makes this a 6 man, they do a bunch of shit, Nova kills them with a Captain America shield for lulz. Tommy puts the shield on Jack’s dick and then drops a bowling ball on it for the win. After the match; Tommy balls a strike into Lance’s dick. They then do the New Jack X taunt, and all 3 dance. TOMMY YOUR HOT ASS GIRLFRIEND STILL HAS A BROKEN NECK! WHAT ARE YOU DOING!

Masato Tanaka vs. Bam Bam Bigelow
FUCK YES! YES! HELL YEAH, MAN! Tanaka takes a hell of a beating and sells tremendously well. What’s great is Tanaka was battling a giant of a man like Awesome who he tough was the toughest. But now he’s facing an even larger, maybe more violent without a weapon beast. So he throws everything in his bag of tricks but Bam BAM keeps coming back for more. Bam kills him with a powerbomb, I love Tanaka’s energy and being able to adapt. He knows he can’t fight Bam Bam so he uses his quickness. He makes the mistake or doesn’t think Bam Bam is that strong and goes to the air, but Bam Bam keeps catching him off crossbodies. Both men grab chairs, they have a dual chair battle and Tanaka does his no sell Chair shot spots. Bam Bam is cut on the back of his head on one of the chair shots, he brings a table in. He counters a Tornado DDT into a spinebuster through the table. RVD AND SABU COME OUT TO ATTACK BIGELOW IN REVENGE FOR FONZIE! YEAH! They put him on another table and hit the Double flying Leg drop, before Sabu throws Tanaka on top to win. I NEED A REMATCH! WITH NO FUCKERY! ***1/4

 

[Crippler]

ECW World Heavyweight Champion: Shane Douglas
ECW Television Champion: Rob Van Dam
ECW Tag Team Champions: Rob Van Dam & Sabu
“FTW” Champion: Taz

ECW Hardcore TV: Episode 282
September 19th, 1998
New Orleans, Louisiana

The show opens with a video package of Justin Credible’s insane over push.

Masato Tanaka vs. Balls Mahoney
This again is really good, both guys are similar in height and style but Balls has a few fat pounds on him. This just like the first is built on respect, they’re willing to beat the shit out of the other but don’t intend on hurting the other too bad. They try to mat wrestle early, but that gets no reaction they quickly move on to move. Tanaka hits a sweet missile dropkick and follows up with a plancha to the floor. Back in, Tanaka misses the roaring elbow and Balls kills him with a backdrop driver for two. Both men go to the air, quite a bit. Like the first move off the top would connect but when they go for a 2nd the other would cut it off and hit a move off the top instead, etc. Roaring elbow gets two, and Tanaka leaps into a superkick. Both men grab chairs; Tanaka does his get no sell 2 chair shots to get killed on the 3rd spot. He then murders Balls with 3 of his own for two. Balls counters the tornado DDT into a spinebuster on top of a pile of chairs for two, he then counters a whip into the tornado DDT for the win. After the match; they hug and leave together. ***

A replay of the Triple Threat/TAZ/Sabu/RVD/Fonzie promo from last week.

Francine is with Joey Styles, she says you people have pushed him way too far. He is the ECW champion, and he is the leader of the only Triple Threat in ECW.

A replay of Jason getting canned 10 times, then Sandman getting the cane.

Backstage: Justin Credible is with his entourage, he says he beat Sandman in his own arena and in his own match. He says Jason, has contacts all over the world. He says he doesn’t have to put up with his crap anymore. Someone yells "SHUT THE FUCK UP" and Jack Victory walk in. He asks who they're having problems with, and Credible says The Sandman. Victory says to pay him, and Jason takes out a wad of bills. He puts two bills in his hand and Victory asks if he looks like a fucking jabroni. He gives him the entire wad, and Jack Victory says all his problems are solved.

Shane Douglas says he’s sick of being pushed around and now that his back has put up against the wall. I’m coming back faster and better than before.

Justin Credible and his shit entourage come out; they also have some guy with them. Justin gets on the mic, he says everyone is expecting Sandman to come out and kick his ass, but guess what I already beat him. So what I got was the best help that my money can buy, he introduces Rod Price.

Rod Price (w/Justin Credible, Jason, Nicole Bass, & Chastity) vs. The Sandman
This isn’t bad, but it went on far too long. Price is great at striking and making everything believable and looks rough, Sandman drunk selling is good. This has a shit ton of interferences, the match is split in 2 half’s first half is all Rod and then Sandman takes over, neither man has a comeback or even fights back, they just take a beating. Credible taunts Sandman into trying to cane him but Jack Victory jumps him from behind, credible canes Sandman in the head until Dreamer makes the save. HOLY SHIT! ONE MAN GANG IS HERE! He hits both Dreamer and Sandman with splashes; babyfaces from the back run down and everyone clears out.

One Man Gang (w/Jobber Heels) vs. Spike Dudley (w/Jobber Heels)
One man does some shitty strikes, he misses one. Low blow and acid drop wins it.

Shane Douglas says He says he's the Franchise, the World Champion, and the one that throws out challenges. He challenges the "new" Triple Threat against the REAL Triple Threat. He says he's going to stand tall as the only leader of the god damned Triple Threat that means anything.

 

[Crippler]

ECW World Heavyweight Champion: Shane Douglas
ECW Television Champion: Rob Van Dam
ECW Tag Team Champions: Rob Van Dam & Sabu
“FTW” Champion: Taz

ECW Hardcore TV: Episode 283
September 26th, 1998
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

LATE BREAKING NEWS ~ THE SANDMAN LEAVES ECW RIP Enter Sandman. Tommy Dreamer is in the ring, he says 5 years ago to the day Paul Heyman took over the booking for ECW. Dreamer talks about the history of ECW, he says we couldn’t have done this without the fans. Tommy speaks of the growth and says they're going to the top and puts over the roster for giving 100% fight through injuries and personal problems. Joey talks over Tommy's promo and announces that The Sandman signed with WCW before Tommy can, Tommy says The Sandman deserves a quality send-off and everyone chants his name. He thanks Sandman for everything, in the ring but for also being one of his best friends. Tommy opens a can of beer, downs it and smashes it over his head. Jack Victory comes out and calls Tommy Dreamer a huge kiss-ass. He says when he left the business, nobody gave him all of this and he went through tables and barbed wire just like that drunk. Tommy calls him a worthless piece of shit, and says you wanna make this into a fuckin angle and says this is what Sandman would do, and hits him. Rod Price comes out to save, AND THE LIGHTS GO OUT! "ENTER SANDMAN" HITS……………..BUT IT’S JUSTIN CREDIBLE! Holy Shit that’s awesome. Credible canes the shit out of him, they strip his shirt off and Credible canes him 10 times in the back. Wrestlers come out to save. AMAZING segment, the lengths they go to, to get Credible heat tho.

We then cut to 2 nights ago at a Queens show; Paul Heyman is in the ring, he says when everyone is leaving tonight will be handed a tape of all 3 hours, so they will never miss a show.

Oh great another Justin Credible push video package.

THEY AIR THE CANING AGAIN!

A Sandman video package airs.

They then air the Caning from last week too, JESUS FUCKIN CHRIST GIVE IT A REST WITH THIS CREDIBLE BLOWING. Oh then the Spike/OneManGang fuckery too

FUCKIN’ 30 MINUTES IN

The Dudleyz are in the ring, Buh Buh has the mic; he says Philly woman are nothing but a bunch of whores, he then takes the time to rip a fat chick in the crowd. He say she isn’t wearing a dress, it’s a fuckin Moo Moo He then picks on a Mexican and says “I would ask you to jump over the rails, but that like asking you to jump over the boarders and you don’t got your green card” Bubba is amazing; Joey says people don't watch ECW to see The Dudley Boyz insult the crowd. Joel “your marvel at the size, while In-between your thighs” Gertner has the mic, he introduces everyone. "Tonight, he acts as a corner man. Hailing from the metropolitan section of Dudleyville, he is the Mayor of Philadelphia and the Duke of Dudleyville. When asked out on a date by Monica Lewinsky, he said "close, but no cigar", MAKING HIM THE PRESIDENT OF PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING” Buh Buh-Ray Dudley. Joey then cuts out D-Von's long intro somehow by staring at the screen like he's too good for this.

HEY GUESS WHAT ECW! I DON’T TUNE IN TO SEE FUCKIN COMMENTARY ACT LIKE THEY’RE TOO GOOD TO BE LISTENING TO GREAT HEAT! FUCK OFF! I don't watch to hear commentators talk over the managers and wrestlers because he don't approve, and guess what I don't watch to see some 29-year-old man dress like he's fuckin 69 have more air time than anyone else on the show. Joey has gotten awful since, Douglas joined commentary, and now that Douglas has left he’s even worse. Cyrus please hurry up.

Tanaka makes his way down, Buh Buh again has the mic; he says when he's in America, he better learn the fuckin language. He takes the mic while giving the finger and says "BUH BUH BUH BUH BUH BUH" to mock him, and they have to hold Bubba back. Awesome.

D-Von Dudley (w/Buh Buh-Ray Dudley, Sign-Guy Dudley & Joel Gertner) vs. Masato Tanaka
This wasn’t at the level of some of Tanaka recent matches, because D-Von isn’t really good, outside tags. I’m not saying this was bad, it just didn’t do it for me. Best moment of the match was Buh Buh going over the Dudleyz commandments but doing it in Japanese accent, also as he says it D-Von is nailing him with the 3 chair shot spot. Bam Bam Bigelow comes out to watch and Bubba gets involved. They try the 3D on chairs, but Tanaka blocks into a DDT on the chairs, Buh Buh misses a Splash for the save and Tanaka covers for the win. **1/4

After the match; BAM BAM AND TANAKA BRAWL! FUCK YEAH! The rest of the Triple Threat comes out for a 3-1 assault, Shane the grabs the mic and says he has a message for Bill Alfonso, he’s spent 16 years building the Triple Threat lmao and he's not about to let three new jabronis take his creation, the Triple Threat, away from him. Shane says Taz won't stand with Sabu and Rob Van Dam ever, and anyone who buys that is a mark. He says RVD prostitute himself to anyone for a little glory, but asks them to remember Barely Legal. He says they couldn't even stay together as a tag team with Paul Heyman of all people being their manager could keep them together. Douglas says tonight on his first night back, this is the only Triple Threat that matters. Joey then talks all over Douglas’s promo SMH!

ECW November to Remember, Sunday Night – November 1st 1998 i won't be watching as i already reviewed it before i started watching ECW, i reread it and my thoughts haven't changed http://wrestlingsmarks.com/threads/ecw-november-to-remember-98.73499/

Joey Styles says next week it will be the Triple Threat vs. Sabu/RVD and Taz, Maybe.

ECW tribute video ends the show

 

[Crippler]

ECW World Heavyweight Champion: Shane Douglas
ECW Television Champion: Rob Van Dam
ECW Tag Team Champions: Rob Van Dam & Sabu
“FTW” Champion: Taz

ECW Hardcore TV: 284
October 3rd, 1998
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Joey Styles welcomes us to the show, LATE BREAKING NEWS ~ MIKE AWESOME INJURED Joey says he will be out for at least one year after blowing out his ACL against Balls.

Full Blooded Italians vs. Tommy Rogers, Chris Chetti & ?
This one of those weird war games rules, 2 men start then every 2 minutes a partner would come out. This is clipped to less than 5 minutes, Big Sal randomly is on the floor and is on the face side; and JT Smith is the mastery guy. Chris Chetti fucks up and takes out JT Smith by accident and ECW clips out their own ending of a fuckin match. GOD DAMN ECW IS Blue!

Joey Styles is in the ring with Fonzie, Sabu and RVD. He calls out Taz, and hands him a new “FTW” belt; Taz asks how much he wants for it, Fonzie says no money he just wants a “NEW TRIPLE THREAT” And wants them to shake hands, Taz says he doesn't want to shake his hand or Van Dam's hand, AND HE POINTS TO SABU AND SAYS HE WANTS TO SHAKE HIS HAND. Sabu offers his hand to Taz, but Taz walks past him. RVD then shakes Sabu’s hand for lulz.

Replay of the Credible/Dreamer beat down from the last show; Heyman must he just found out how to do the “Late Breaking News” font cause he has it here. Styles says Tommy has refused to leave the building to go to a hospital.

Tommy Dreamer comes out, still bloody and looks a mess. He says you guys have already beaten the shit out of me, I’m tired but I want a PHILLY STREET FIGHT! NEW JACK’S MUSIC HITS!

Justin Credible, Jack Victory & Rod Price (w/Jason, Lance Wright, Chastity & Nicole Bass) vs. Tommy Dreamer & The Gangstanatorz
This is your typical New Jack match, weapons, moves, brawling shit like that. Kronus makes out with Bass then low blows her, New Jack uses the guitar off the top for the win.

ECW video package.

Bill Wiles is sweeping up the ring and the broom breaks. The crowd pops, and begins a “you fucked up” chant He then grabs the mic, and tells them to fuck off. He calls the Philly fans out for being the worst fans in wrestling. He says he's paid his dues by cleaning the ring for three fucking years and says he can kick anybody's ass in this building. AND 911 COMES OUT?! He chokeslams Bill. Referee Jeff Jones comes out and welcomes him back and calls him the only true giant. He issues an open challenge to fight 911, so Spike Dudley comes out.

911 (w/Jeff Jones) vs. Spike Dudley
Spike counters the chokeslam with a thumb to the eye, dick kick and acid drop wins it.

Backstage: Lance Storm is with Tammy Lynn-Bytch, he says he cuts promos like no one else on this business, he says at the next ECW show you won’t believe what he has next. We then cut to earlier tonight; Lance Storm does the ring introductions for his match. He says he’s the best-built 235-pounder, this side of a negative piss test, and his tag partner “NO-SILICON-NEEDED” Tammy Lynn Bytch He then says Candido is hailing from his mother in laws house, and weighing in at a performance enhanced 241 standing at 4 foot 2…….CHRIS CANDIDO Lance is awesome. We then cut away to the Triple Threat making their way down to the ring.

Douglas gets on the mic, he says Taz and Sabu hate each other’s guys. And it doesn’t matter who they get as a partner. RVD and Sabu come out, Taz doesn’t………………..BUT NEVER MIND THAT! MASATO TANAKA COMES OUT! YES!

The Triple Threat (w/Francine) Rob Van Dam, Sabu & Masato Tanaka (w/Bill Alfonso)
Douglas and RVD start, they waste no time brawling to the floor. Candido then stops an RVD dive to hit one of his own, Sabu then hits Douglas with the double jump plancha. BAMBAM/Tanaka interactions, Tanaka hits a roaring elbow and the match breaks down into a brawl. Suddenly, The Dudleyz come out to jump RVD/Sabu. They hit Tanaka with a 3D! And it becomes a 5 on 2 beating on Rob Van Dam and Sabu. Mikey Whipwreck runs out to save, but Shane hits the Side Belly to Belly to cut him off. Jerry Lynn comes out to save, but Candido hits him with a Piledriver. The BWO come out to save, but they get destroyed too, and the other jobbers come out. Candido hits Chetti with a Piledriver and Bubba hits the Bubba Cutter on Tommy Rogers and Balls Mahoney. JT Smith gets taken out by D-Von, AND TAZ COMES OUT! YEAH! Taz gets rid of the Triple Threat with TazPlexs. RVD and Sabu fight off the Dudley Boyz! The Triple Threat retreats and Taz shakes Fonzie's hand. Taz high fives RVD and while he doesn't shake Sabu's hand, ALL THREE POSE TOGETHER IN THE RING! Taz then holds his hand up for Sabu, AND SABU HIGH FIVES TAZ. NEW TRIPLE THREAT. I’m kinda upset that sacrificed what could have been a great match, but this segment ruled and kinda makes up for it.

 

[Deezy]

Kronos had some balls....?Making put with prime Nichole Bass

 

[Crippler]

ECW World Heavyweight Champion: Shane Douglas
ECW Television Champion: Rob Van Dam
ECW Tag Team Champions: Rob Van Dam & Sabu
“FTW” Champion: Taz

ECW Hardcore TV: Episode 285
October 5th, 1998
Dalton, Georgia

The show opens with the final minute of Lance Storm vs. Chris Chetti. Storm wins with a sweet spinkick.

Lance Strom video package.

Tonight: Buh Buh vs. Tanaka & Credible vs. Balls

Joey Styles announces Axl is injured but he will be in the corner of Balls tonight, also the Main Event of November 2 Remember is The Triple Threat taking on The “NEW” Triple Threat.

Bill Wiles directs the timekeeper on how to ring the bell.

Justin Credible (w/Jason & Chastity) vs. Balls Mahoney (w/Axl Rotten)
Credible comes out with a cane, cause I guess that’s his thing now. So let me get this right we can’t show Lance/Chetti which I’m willing to bet is the better match, for this piece of shit. This fuckin over push man, this gets fuckin 11 minutes. I swear if I wasn’t sick with the flu as it is, I would be willing to bet this match gives me some kind of disease. FOR FUCK SAKE! THEY TRY TO WORK A WRESTLING MATCH! SO THEY STUMBLE AND HORRIBLE DO MAT WORK FOR A FEW MINUTES, Fuck you ECW. Calm down fab, you only have 3 months left. Balls come out with a ton of energy and even hits a sweet spin kick knocking both men to the floor, they do shit until inference happens which leads to nothing. The match ends in DQ when Credible hits Balls and Axl with cane lol. Extreme. After the match; Credible continues to assault, BECAUSE HE IS THE FUTURE AND THE PRESSANT! Until Dreamer comes down for the save, he cane Justin and begins pounding away, but Jack Victory and Rod Price run out before commercials.

Back from commercial; Axl is bleeding from the mouth, dat internal bleeding.

HOLY FUCKIN’ SHIT! They air the Credible/Dreamer beating again from the ECW arena.

To kill more time, they air highlights of the last ECW Arena show from the past 2 or 3 weeks.

The Dudley family are in the ring, Joel “Put your hands in my pocket, and your eyes will pop out of your socket” Gertner has the mic. He introduces everyone, and after weeks or month he finally does the D-Von weight line, he weighing in at 200lbs.

Buh Buh-Ray Dudley (w/D-Von Dudley, Sign Guy Dudley, Big Dick Dudley & Joel Gertner) vs. Masato Tanaka
So this is good but not great like it should have been, it's better than the D-Von match but that’s a given. BuhBuh uses his weight advantage early, which forces Tanaka to rethink his initial game plan of wearing BuhBuh down with moves and changing into a more high flying offense. They brawl on the floor for a bit, Tanaka hits the running chair shot, he goes for it again but BuhBuh gets the boot up and kicks the chair back into his face. Back in Tanaka hits a sweet belly-to-back suplex for two, they go back and forth delivering moves but Buh Buh constantly refuses to go for the pin; he just wants to dish out as much punishment as possible. Buh Buh murders him with a chair shot, BUT TAKANA IS HYPED! The Triple Threat comes down, as Tanaka starts to come back, and after he hits Bubba with the Diamond Dust, Bigelow comes in to attack. Sabu and RVD run out to save Masato Tanaka and the Dudleyz, and they hit their version of the Event Omega on BuhBuh. They dive to the Triple Threat, and Tanaka covers him for the win. After the match; The Dudley Boyz fight Tanaka away, and The Triple Threat beats on Sabu and RVD in a 3 on 2 until Taz runs out to save. Everyone brawls it’s pretty cool. **3/4

 

[Deezy]

Justin credible was the worst push in my life.

 

[Crippler]

you will see him as a top guy dammit.

 

[Crippler]

ECW World Heavyweight Champion: Shane Douglas
ECW Television Champion: Rob Van Dam
ECW Tag Team Champions: Rob Van Dam & Sabu
“FTW” Champion: Taz

ECW Hardcore TV: Episode 286
October 17th, 1998
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

We open up with Candido/Lynn match, Mikey Whipwreck comes out. He’s starts looking like a simp lusting over Sunny before turning his attention to Jerry Lynn. He says we are 1-1, and he came here looking to end this but sees he’s facing Candido instead, Lynn says “you wrestle whoever you’re told to wrestle” and if you can’t handle that, get your chunky ass back to that concession stand Mikey is pissed and says this isn't over, and leaves. Candido then gets back on the mic, he says the last time they faced off Lynn won but he was injured, not tonight it’s about him. Sunny tries to make it about her, so Candido sends her to the back.

Lynn vs. Candido is clipped to two minutes; it ends when Lance bulldogs the ref and hits 2 piledrivers on Candido. He then holds Candido up and Bytch slaps him, Sytch runs out to attack Lance but ends up getting killed by a loaded purse from Bytch. Mikey comes down and takes Lance out, but Bytch throws powder into his eyes, a blinded Mikey then Whippersnappers Bytch, then “accidently” Whippersnappers Sytch who was helping him up. Lynn then bumps into Lance, who nails him with a chair. He then leaves and Candido jumps on top for the win.

Joey Styles welcomes us to the show, Lance/RVD and Credible/Dreamer tonight.

ECW Television Championship: Lance Storm vs. Rob Van Dam (w/Bill Alfonso)
Bytch isn’t at ring-side, due to getting Whippersnapped so the crowd chant “where’s your bitch” creative. How things have changed since barley legal 1997; they have this long weird feeling out process, like they would stumble through mat exchanges just for RVD to taunt after; thankfully RVD puts an end to hit and starts hitting beautiful moves, his monkeyflip might be goat and his senton dives might be up there. Back in Lance takes over with a series of sweet kicks; he begins to target the head and neck area. RVD introduces a chair which ultimately backfires and he gets killed with 3 chair shots to the head. Fonzie gets involved which allows RVD to connect with a sweet leaping sidekick to the chair back into Lance’s face for two, RVD then hits the 5-star-frogsplash for the win. **3/4

Extreme Death Match: Justin Credible (w/Jason, Chastity, & Nicole Bass) vs. Tommy Dreamer
This is a huge brawl right off the bat, which I like a lot. They waste no time introducing a chair and even though it’s the same weekly spots it’s passable. Chastity gets involved so Dreamer hits her with the DVD, Jason gets piledrived and Bass gets Russian leg sweep. Rod Price runs down, to help. Kronus evens the odds, Jack Victory then runs down, which brings out New Jack. And this turns into a New Jack match. FUCK YEAH! NEW JACK DEATH DIVE! ONE MAN GANG COMES OUT! WAT?!?!! He hits 747 on Dreamer and Kronus, but here comes Spike, but immediately he gets taken out. Spike and One Man are left in the ring, One Man kills Spike with a back drop on a ladder, he then goes to put Spike through a table but Splike counters with he acid drop through the table. And Spike Dudley pins him to win a singles match between Tommy Dreamer and Justin Credible. Fuckin’ ECW man.

 

[Crippler]

ECW World Heavyweight Champion: Shane Douglas
ECW Television Champion: Rob Van Dam
ECW Tag Team Champions: Rob Van Dam & Sabu
“FTW” Champion: Taz

ECW Hardcore TV: Episode 287
October 24th, 1998
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Recap of the closing clusterfuck ending of Lynn/Candido airs.

Highlights of Storm/RVD air.

Bam Bam Bigelow (w/Francine) vs. Sabu (w/Bill Alfonso)
This is joined in progress, ugh. I guess we have to save time for a Credible match or show his shitty cane beating clips. It starts off with both men brawling on the floor, Sabu then hits his double no hands plancha dive into the crowd. He then hits this Asai Moonsault which connects but he falls on his neck on the landing, BAM BAM IS UP FIRST THO AND DROPS SABU ONTO A CHAIR. Sabu gets the momentum back with stiff strikes, but he almost fucks up the double jump legdrop, but Bam Bam quickly gets up and shakes the ropes making it look like he was the one to stop it. AWESOME! He then hip tosses Sabu through the table onto the floor, back in Sabu out of desperation starts hitting Bam Bam with chair shots but Bam puts up his massive forearms blocking the blows from connecting with his head, brilliant. SABU GOES LOW WITH CHAIR SHOTS TO THE KNEE! FUCK YEAH! Triple Jump moonsault connects but only gets a two. He then hits a triple jump side-kick to set up the camel clutch, but Shane Douglas runs down and hits him with the injured arm. RVD makes the save, RVD clips Bam Bam's knee on the Greetings From Asbury Park, but Bam Bam still manages to hit it and falls on RVD head with a bonze drop too he then covers Sabu for the win. After the match; The Triple Threat work on RVD while Sabu is down. The Dudleyz join in too until Taz makes the save. Shane bails as Taz cleans house but when Taz does stuff on the floor, Shane Douglas runs in and attacks Sabu's hurt neck. Taz comes back in, and Shane runs away again. ***1/4

Joey Styles hypes up N2R PPV, he talks about the Dream Partner Tag Match between Tommy Dreamer and Justin Credible. Joey says everyone knows that it will be Terry Funk.

They air that amazing Dreamer tribute video to Terry Funk again.

Joey Styles says they had reporters call the Double Cross Ranch, and Terry Funk is NOT the partner. Styles then tries to claim it could be Raven, even though he’s under contract with WCW still. lol

Balls Mahoney (w/Axl Rotten) vs. Masato Tanaka
This is my least favourite out of the 3 but it’s still pretty good, they work it at a solid standard TV match. Then randomly both grab chairs but during the duel, the Dudleyz run out and attack both men.

Joel Gertner grabs a mic and says the Dudley Boyz have no interest tonight in wrestling Balls Mahoney, if the mission was to make him look ugly, the mission has been completed. Axl gets the mic on the floor and says if they want a great tag team, and if he wasn't injured, he'd wrap a chair around all of them, and since they can't do that, he's giving Masato Tanaka HIS spot. They go in to fight, but the Dudleys leave. Buh Buh says TIME OUT! Everyone knows that the Dudleys are the best scientific tag team in wrestling. They're as great as the Briscos, the Funks, the Andersons, and if there's one thing they don't condone, its chair swinging in a wrestling match. He says they will only get in if it’s a mano-e-mano scientific wrestling confrontation, Styles then trolls him wondering if Buh Buh knows mano-e-mano is one-on-one.

Masato Tanaka & Balls Mahoney (w/Axl Rotten) vs. The Dudley Boyz (w/Joel Gertner, Big Dick Dudley & Sign-Guy Dudley)
This is alright; nothing really stands out, until they do the series of dives. Tanaka jumps off Balls back for a crossbody, Balls jumps off the top and Buh Buh hits a no hands dive too. Back in Buh Buh uses a cheese greater in Balls busting him open. This then leads into a huge brawl, Big Dick gets involved which leads Alx to get involved. They introduce Chair and murder one another with them, and after a Nutcracker Suite and Tornado DDT onto chairs in stereo, Balls and Tanaka cover for the win.

 

[Crippler]

ECW World Heavyweight Champion: Shane Douglas
ECW Television Champion: Rob Van Dam
ECW Tag Team Champions: Rob Van Dam & Sabu
“FTW” Champion: Taz

ECW Hardcore TV: Episode 288
October 31st, 1998
Cleveland, Ohio

They replay the finishing moments between Balls/Tanaka vs. Dudleyz

RVD and Sabu are set to defend their tag titles, against Balls and Tanaka. But the Dudleyz jump Balls and Tanaka during their entrance, Sabu wants to help but RVD holds him back because he wants to hold the titles, the Dudleyz brutalize the fuck out of them and both men get busted open. Balls is bleeds small puddles, and Tanaka face is covered but he’s also busted open at the back of his head too. Jesus, both men are literally being carried out.

Back from a commercial, Fonzie challenges the Dudleyz to a tag title match RIGH NOW!

ECW Tag Team Championships: Rob Van Dam & Sabu (w/Bill Alfonso) vs. The Dudley Boyz (w/Big Dick Dudley, Sign-Guy Dudley & Joel Gertner)
This really good, they cut ¾ of the tradition match out and go straight into the breakdown portion of the match; RVD/Sabu hit a couple of sweet dives as they want to put this one away asap. Amazing yet hilarious note, RVD simple throw/passes the chair to SABU but the top bit nails him in the jaw. This is all RVD/Sabu, and the Dudleyz are doing amazing bumping. We return from a commercial and RVD DOES A FUCKIN’ SPRINGBOARD FLIP SENTON ONTO BUH BUH WHO IS OVER THE RAILS. Sabu then misses a dive and crashes through a table, The Triple Threat comes out to attack Sabu, and Bam Bam hits the Greetings from Asbury Park. Douglas locks on a neck hold…….BUT HERE COMES TAZ! He fights them out of the ring, but the Dudleyz hit 3D and cover for the win. The Dudleyz grab the titles and bail through the crowd. *** - ***1/4

Backstage: Axl says this is a shoot my friend NO FUCK OFF NO! NO He promises violence and blood on PPV. He then promises Balls and Tanaka will be leaving ECW tag champions.

A Jack Victory/Tommy Rodgers match airs, I didn’t watch I’m still pissed Axl had to say shoot in his promo. Credible cane’s Tommy after the match, DAT PUSH!

FOR FUCK SAKE THE CANE SEGMENT FROM PHILLY AIRS AGAIN! Fuck you Heyman.

The Triple Threat come down to the ring, Douglas says the real triple threat is in the fuckin ring. He says RVD belt doesn’t mean shit, Taz belt isn’t even real and Sabu doesn’t even have s fuckin belt. He continues to talk but every other word is bleeped out, so I gave up.

New Jack is outside, he says he promised them a weapons match, but it never happened because Jack Victory and everyone else tried to destroy him. But he still showed up and whooped that ass at the end, will have to meet him in New Orleans, because he's Tommy Dreamer's partner. Ain't no mystery. He gives a damn about winning or losing. It’s about satisfaction, and it ain't no titles, it's beating his ass until he can't breathe. He wants them all to show up, that man Nicole, that fag Jason, Chastity, Rod Price, and watch what happens in New Orleans. They're gonna be like crabs, he's gonna tear them apart and suck them down his throat and tearing that ass up. BUT ROD PRICE AND JACK VICTORY BREAK A GUITAR ON HIS HEAD FROM BEHIND.

Joey Styles goes over the N2R card.

A long ass video package airs of all the feuds going into the PPV.

Tommy Dreamer says the first time is was in No Orleans he lost his girl, 2nd time he got laid out. Not this time, this is his time, don't worry about who my mystery partner is, worry about how much of November you'll never remember.

 

[Crippler]

http://wrestlingsmarks.com/threads/ecw-november-to-remember-98.73499/

PPV.

 

[Crippler]

ECW World Heavyweight Champion: Shane Douglas
ECW Television Champion: Rob Van Dam
ECW Tag Team Champions: Masato Tanaka & Balls Mahoney
“FTW” Champion: Taz

ECW Hardcore TV: Episode 289
November 2nd, 1998
New Orleans, Louisiana

The show opens with Terry Funk screaming that his pissed off, and him making his way through the fans at the PPV. We then cut so some street band in the middle of Nola playing Jazz music, UGH it’s gonna be one of those shows.

Joey Styles welcomes us to the show; he then shows still images of highlights between Lynn/Storm. Lance says he’s not surprised he won, because when you break in, in Calgary you are brought in to win. The funny thing is, I’m just getting started.

The Triple Threat are in their locker room; Douglas says he's no liar, despite everything else, and says the other Triple Threat will fail tonight, because the only thing bigger than Bigelow is Taz's ego, and Sabu is too pissed off about having no belt. RVD wants to be the whole fucking show, but he's second place. He says this is the true Triple Threat, not three guys who stand together, but friends. Shane says 20-30 years from now, after they're all retired, they'll still be friends. RIP! Bam Bam and Candido.

Highlights of the Tag Title angle and match from last week’s show.

Still images of the tag title match, backstage: Axl, Balls and Tanaka cut a promo he says it was this time last year he and balls were getting screwed out of the tag titles, and only a month ago balls and Tanaka were beating the hell out of one another, now look at them. TAG TEAM CHAMPIONS!

The Terry Funk promo from the PPV airs.

Still images of the Triple Threat vs. NEW Triple Threat, Shane Douglas says he’s man enough to say he got pinned tonight. When someone steps in the ring with Tyson, if you can survive 30 seconds, you mentally won. He says it’s just like Taz, Taz had him in his hold but I DID NOT TAP! I took the best you had, and I’m still standing. I’m not happy about the loss, but it took two men to beat me, one with a chair and the other with the most deadliest hold in wrestling. Congrats to Sabu you stepped over Taz, and at the next PPV. It’s me and you, you remember 1993 you lost, and you’re gonna lose again.

They play the dream tag match in full to close the show.