ECW/WCW Barely Legal II
April 14, 2002
First Union Center
Philadelphia, PA
Paul Heyman: “Over the years you think about pro wrestling in April and perhaps you think of immortality. Ten years ago in April Eastern Championship Wrestling was founded by Tod Gordon. It was only two years later when a young hotshot named Paul Heyman showed up and rechristened Eastern Championship Wrestling as Extreme Championship Wrestling. For the last eight years men and women competed in this city not for immortality, but for their livelihoods. To survive. And they’ve done it in a fashion that lived up to the name of hardcore. Five years ago that brand of hardcore and extreme just made it to Pay-Per-View, aptly named Barely Legal. And tonight, we once again test all the limits brought upon us by the brand of professional wrestling. Tonight, we go as extreme and as hardcore as anyone out there will let us. See, tonight’s not about some road to immortality. It’s not about the granddaddy of ‘em all. It’s about men and women settling their differences by any means necessary. Tonight, it’s all Barely Legal…again!”
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Joey Styles stands in the ring as the crowd is electric!
“ECW!”
“ECW!”
“ECW!”
“ECW!”
“ECW!”
“ECW!”
“ECW!”
Joey Styles: “Hello everyone and welcome to Extreme Championship Wrestling’s Pay-Per-View Barely Legal II! We are here in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania! Tonight, you will see a rematch from the first Barely Legal as the legend Terry Funk takes on Raven! You will see the next chapter in the storied rivalry of Rob Van Dam and Sabu! You will see not only the ECW return, but the return overall of Cactus Jack as he challenges for the ECW World Heavyweight Championship against Brock Lesnar! Tonight…”
“GET ROLLED WITH THE FEVER ON THE DANCE FLOOR!”
The Full-Blooded Italians, Little Guido, Tracy Smothers and Tony Mamaluke have interrupted Joey Styles!
Joey Styles: “Come on guys what are you doing…”
Little Guido: “What are we doing Joey? We wanna know why we aren’t on the show!”
Joey Styles: “Well you had a match with Super Crazy and…”
Little Guido: “Give me a break! You and all of ECW have always been against us Italians!”
“WHERE’S MY PIZZA?!”
*clap clap clap*
“WHERE’S MY PIZZA?!”
*clap clap clap*
“WHERE’S MY PIZZA?!”
*clap clap clap*
“WHERE’S MY PIZZA?!”
*clap clap clap*
Little Guido: “Yeah you people in Philadelphia wouldn’t know good pizza if it hit you in the face!”
Joey Styles: “Look I had nothing to do with…”
Little Guido: “Shut up Joey! Every week you used to claim that the FBI weren’t real Italians! You used to say that Tracy here wasn’t from the great city of Nashville, Italy!”
Joey Styles: “That’s…that’s not a real place!”
Little Guido: “What did you just say? You see what I mean? We outta slap you right in the face!”
“STAND BACK…THERE’S A HURRICANE COMING THROUGH!”
Little Guido: “Who the hell is this freak?”
The Hurricane comes down the aisleway. Oddly, he’s wearing blue as opposed to his trademark green.
The Hurricane: “Citizen Styles, don’t worry, help is on the way!”
Joey Styles: “I’m just getting out of here!”
Little Guido: “I don’t know who the hell you are but if you think a kid costume is gonna get us out of here you have another…”
Suddenly…the music of the Blue World Order is heard on the speakers! Big Stevie Cool, The Blue Meanie and Hollywood Nova join the Hurricane and run down to the ring!
Joey Styles: “I just got to the announce position…the BLUE WORLD ORDER has come to kick off Barely Legal? We’ve got a big schmozz in the ring and it looks like Hurricane and the BWO have things in hand! I can’t believe I was rescued by the damn Hurricane…do we really have time for this?”
The BWO win the battle and send the FBI running as Da Blue Guy grabs the mic…
The Blue Meanie: “Say hello…TO DA BLUE GUY!”
Big Stevie Cool: “We have three words for all of you! We’re taking over!”
Hollywood Nova grabs the microphone, but we get ANOTHER run-in…and this time it’s time to take things seriously.
Joey Styles: “My god it’s those damn Dudley Boyz!”
Bubba Ray, Spike, D-Von and Big Alex Dudley hit the ring and lay out all the members of the BWO along with Hurricane!
Bubba Ray Dudley: “I have no fucking idea why we’re wasting time with this shit! Dreamer! Sandman! Mahoney! Get your god damn asses out here right now and let’s fucking do this thing!”
“Enter Sandman” starts and the crowd can’t help but sing along! Through the crowd, here comes The Sandman, Tommy Dreamer and Balls Mahoney!
Joey Styles: “This entrance might be longer than any of the matches tonight! But here they come!”
Bubba Ray, D-Von, and Spike Dudley (w/Big Alex Dudley) vs. The Sandman, Tommy Dreamer, and Balls Mahoney
Tommy Dreamer chases after Spike Dudley as Mahoney and Sandman trade blows with Bubba Ray and D-Von! Bubba Ray and D-Von miss clotheslines. Sandman gets a Singapore Cane shot on D-Von as Mahoney jabs away at Bubba Ray! Sandman sends D-Von to the outside then hits the ugliest over the top rope dive you can think of! Dreamer’s caught Spike on the outside, but
B.A.D. gets involved right away and attacks Dreamer! He lifts Dreamer and drops him stomach-first on the guardrail! Mahoney goes for his trademark chair shot on Bubba, but Bubba ducks then low blows him. Bubba takes the chair and smashes Mahoney over the head! Bubba holds the chair over his head almost as a trophy, but he turns around and
Big Stevie Cool superkicks it in his face!
BWO is still around at ringside! B.A.D. comes in and smashes Stevie with a garbage can before throwing it at Sandman on the outside! Dreamer hits him with his own chair to the back, but there’s no effect and B.A.D. levels him with a vicious clothesline!
Sandman takes that same garbage can and nails B.A.D.! He puts the can on B.A.D. then whacks it over and over with the Singapore Cane! Spike gets into the ring and attacks Sandman and Sandman just takes him out with another Singapore Cane shot. Bubba comes in and wipes Sandman out with a metal tray! Bubba puts the tray on Sandman and jumps up to the second rope and lands a huge splash! D-Von brings a table into the ring, but Mahoney stops him with some jabs. Bubba whacks Mahoney with the same tray, taking him out. The Dudley Boyz set up the table.
Bubba Ray gets Mahoney up and powerbombs him through the table! Dreamer has some type of metal object and bashes both Bubba Ray and D-Von with it!
Dreamer helps Sandman get back to his feet and they
turn to Spike.
Dreamer asks Spike “
what the hell happened? You want to deal with your brothers’ abuse again? You don’t have to. We forgive you Spike.”
Joey Styles: “Tommy Dreamer is asking Spike a great question. Why DID he go back to his brothers? Did he have a choice?”
Sandman turns around…and walks right into
3D!, The Dudley Death Drop! Dreamer gets tackled by D-Von and D-Von punches away at him.
Bubba now yells at Spike. “
Spike, I want you to finish off this piece of garbage right now or me and D-Von are going to beat the living hell out of you!” Spike hesitates…
then low blows Bubba Ray! D-Von goes for a clothesline but Spike ducks and low blows him too!
Joey Styles: “Good good! Dudley Daw…screw it, this is ECW! Acid Drop to D-Von! Spike has Bubba Ray…another Acid Drop!”
Dreamer hugs Spike and checks on Sandman, but the
B.A.D. smashes Dreamer in the back with a chair! Spike tries to fight his brother, but B.A.D. throws him across the ring. B.A.D. presses Spike over is head…
and throws him into the crowd…only it’s short and Spike gets impaled on the guardrail!
Big Alex Dudley has complete control of the ring. The
BWO try to help, but B.A.D. headbutts Meanie and hits a big boot to Nova. Stevie has a Singapore Cane…but
Little Guido and the
FBI run back down and attack him!
Hurricane goes for the chokeslam on B.A.D…but that’s obviously not going to work. B.A.D. shrugs him off and hits a treetop slam breaking the Hurricane in half.
The crowd goes nuts though as we hear the fireworks about to go off! “Natural Born Killaz” starts playing!
Joey Styles: “Now what the hell is going on! It’s the original Gangsta! It’s New Jack! And he’s got a full shopping card of weapons!”
New Jack hits the ring and whallops B.A.D. with a stop sign! Trash can takes out
Little Guido. Trash can takes out
Tony Mamaluke! B.A.D. gets back to his feet but New Jack picks up the actual shopping cart and slams it right over his head! B.A.D. turns around into a
Balls Mahoney chairshot and that levels the big man once again! Bubba Ray and D-Von face New Jack. They misses a double clothesline and New Jack smashes a street sign over both their heads! They both stagger and turn around to get kicked and DDTed by Sandman and Dreamer! They get the cover, 1…2…3!
Winners: Tommy Dreamer, The Sandman and Balls Mahoney when Dreamer and Sandman pinned Bubba Ray and D-Von in 14:31
Dreamer helps Spike Dudley get back in the ring, and in one of the stranger scenes you’ll ever see, Tommy Dreamer, The Sandman, Spike Dudley, New Jack, The Hurricane, Big Stevie Cool, The Blue Meanie and Hollywood Nova celebrate this victory over the Dudley Clan!
Joey Styles: “I…I don’t even know what just happened. I don’t think we were going to start the show with that. We still have a lot of wrestling to go here at Barely Legal…I think they need to clean up the ring. What a wild start. I think we’re going to try to sell you some classic ECW DVDs while we clean this mess up…we’ll be back.”
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Joey Styles: “Ok we’re back live. I apologize for sounding disheveled. I was expecting to do the introduction to the show and then we’d start. Anyway, Shelton Benjamin is on his way to the ring now. He’s been in Paul Heyman’s pocket ever since he debuted with his friend the ECW World Heavyweight Champion Brock Lesnar. He aided Lesnar in retaining that title last month at Uncensored against Tazz. Now, it’s time for Tazz to get his revenge!”
“Fuck’em up Tazz, fuck’em up!”
“Fuck’em up Tazz, fuck’em up!”
“Fuck’em up Tazz, fuck’em up!”
“Fuck’em up Tazz, fuck’em up!”
Shelton Benjamin vs. Tazz
Benjamin and Tazz circle one another. Tazz goes for the lock-up but Benjamin hides himself in the ropes. This frustrates Tazz and Tazz even shoves the referee out of the way, but gets surprised with a spinning leg lariat from Benjamin! Benjamin goes for a quick cover, 1…2…Tazz kicks out. Benjamin sends Tazz off the ropes and gets a leap frog, but jumps right into a belly-to-belly Tazzplex on the way back! Benjamin backs away into the corner and Tazz misses a clothesline, crashing into the corner himself. Benjamin gets a full head of steam and goes for a Stinger Splash, but Tazz catches him with an angry man clothesline in mid-air! Tazz rolls to the outside and brings a table back into the ring and sets it up in the corner. Tazz pounds away on Benjamin and calls for a finish. He sets Benjamin up for a suplex through the cornered table, but Benjamin fights his way out. Benjamin sends Tazz off the ropes and hits a Northern Lights Suplex! 1…2…Tazz kicks out.
Benjamin catches Tazz with a superkick, knocking him down. Benjamin leaps onto the apron, lining Tazz up.
Benjamin springboards off the top rope, but Tazz catches his arm on the way down and locks in the Tazzmission, the Kata Ha Jime! Benjamin surprisingly breaks free almost immediately and sends Tazz off the ropes. Benjamin boots him then sets
Tazz up for the T-Bone Suplex! Benjamin adjusts…and T-Bone Suplexes Tazz through the table in the corner! Benjamin clearly has the match well in hand and climbs up to the top rope. Tazz looks completely out of it as Benjamin waits up top. Tazz makes it to his feet, and Benjamin leaps halfway across the ring and catches Tazz with a
Blockbuster! Cover, 1…2…3!
To the crowd’s surprise and even disappointment, Benjamin has defeated Tazz in short order!
Winner: Shelton Benjamin via pinfall in 6:33
Shelton Benjamin celebrates how the aisle way while Tazz looks disappointed and defeated in the ring. He slowly gets up and rips off some of the tape on his hands, then takes off his boots. Tazz puts the towel that he wears to the ring on the canvas, then puts the wrist tape and wrestling boots on it. Tazz looks emotional as the crowd, and Joey Styles, seem to figure out what’s going on.
“THANK YOU TAZZ!”
“THANK YOU TAZZ!”
“THANK YOU TAZZ!”
Joey Styles: “I think…I think we may have just seen the last match of Tazz. You know he doesn’t talk about it, but there were rumors. I didn’t want to address them because it’s Tazz’s business and I consider him as much as a friend as you can have in this business. But there were rumors that his neck wasn’t holding up and I can only imagine the match with Lesnar last month didn’t help…”
Joey Styles calls out to Tazz as he walks by the announcer position near the entrance, but Tazz doesn’t respond. Tazz turns toward the crowd and raises his arms up, before heading to the back.
Joey Styles: “That’s…wow…I can’t imagine this means anything else. I know we could have advertised it to pop a buyrate or something. I’m pretty sure we just saw Tazz’s last match ladies and gentlemen.”
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Paul Heyman is shown watching the show backstage. He looks a little emotional himself in regards to what he just saw with Tazz. Shelton Benjamin runs in to celebrate a little bit more.
Shelton Benjamin: “Looks like that’s the end of the so-called killer Tazz!”
Paul Heyman: “Congratulations Shelton. You and Brock, the future of ECW couldn’t be brighter! We still need to focus on later tonight of course.”
Heyman continues to compliment Benjamin, but looks back at the monitor one more time. He may have not been seeing eye-to-eye with Tazz, but clearly Tazz means a lot to him.
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Molly Marvel: “You think I’m afraid of you and your toys Jazz? You can talk about extreme all you want but don’t let this superhero deal fool you. Maybe you forgot or maybe you never knew what family I’m from. My cousin is Hardcore Holly. Tonight, I’m going to be a little less Molly Marvel and I’m going to honor my family name and be a little hardcore! And Jazz, I just have one question for you. How do you like me now?!”
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Joey Styles: “Coming up next, it’s the return of the ECW World Television Championship. A battle royal made up of former ECW AND WCW World Television Champions.”
“Rough Rock” plays as the first person on their way is…Marc Mero? And well, there’s someone who’s caught the eye of the ECW faithful as well…
Joey Styles: “…that’s…that’s Sable and god what is she not wearing? Marc Mero, he was a former TV Champion as Johnny B. Badd!”
Some of the confirmed entrants make their way to the ring. Mikey Whipwreck, Scorpio, Jason Knight, Tajiri and Super Crazy all enter (huge reaction for Crazy). But then a familiar old Spanish WCW theme plays over the speakers…
Joey Styles: “…that’s Eddie Guerrero! That’s one of the best pound-for-pound wrestlers in the entire world if not THE best! I don’t know if I am supposed to say this on the air, but he and Super Crazy have had some battles in IWA Puerto Rico and right here in Philadelphia at Ring of Honor’s inaugural show last month!”
Guerrero and Crazy lock eyes (although Guerrero then gives a dismissive smirk) and it’s clear both men have issues to settle. William Regal makes his way down still trying to avoid being touched by any fan. Fit Finlay comes down and Regal immediately hides behind Tajiri. Bam Bam Bigelow with Luna Vachon at his side makes his way down and pretty much everyone backs way from him in the ring. Lastly, Disco Inferno and Alex Wright dance down the aisle with Brian Christopher seconding them. Bam Bam looks ready to destroy them, but the biggest surprise stops everyone in their tracks…”Ready Or Not” by the Fugees plays. Not everyone in the crowd knows who it is right away…but once the song gets going, the crowd frankly loses its shit!
Joey Styles: “Oh My God! Scott Hall is in the building and he’s here at Barely Legal! Believe it or not Hall has wrestled in an ECW ring before but never on television! He’s a former WCW World Television Champion!”
“HOLY SHIT!”
“HOLY SHIT!”
“HOLY SHIT!”
Extreme Battle Royal for the ECW World Television Championship
2 Cold Scorpio vs. Alex Wright vs. Bam Bam Bigelow vs. Disco Inferno vs. Eddie Guerrero vs. Fit Finlay vs. Jason Knight vs. Marc Mero vs. Mikey Whipwreck vs. Scott Hall vs. Super Crazy vs. Tajiri vs. William Regal
Disco immediately cozies up to Scott Hall, and Hall even mocks Disco’s dancing taunt. He punches
Brian Christopher off the apron to Disco and Wright’s surprise! Everyone stands around watching as Disco runs at Hall, but hall sidesteps and Disco goes flying over the top (
Elimination #1: Disco Inferno by Scott Hall). Wright takes a shot at Hall to no effect and gets a boot for his efforts. Hall picks him up over his head…
Outsider’s Edge! Hall tosses Wright out (
Elimination #2: Alex Wright by Scott Hall). Hall does his trademark taunt, and then the match really begins from there. Almost everyone attacks Hall except Regal. Regal runs through the ropes and Finlay is in pursuit! Finlay catches Regal and pounds away at him on the outside. Super Crazy slides under the bottom rope to help Finlay punish Regal, but Tajiri goes through the ropes himself…and takes out Crazy, Regal and Finlay with a springboard Asai Moonsault! Meanwhile in the ring, Bam Bam Bigelow presses Mikey Whipwreck over his head and throws him against the guardrail onto the floor (
Elimination #3: Mikey Whipwreck by Bam Bam Bigelow)!
Scorpio, Guerrero, Mero and Hall try to dump Bigelow, but Bigelow’s power proves to be too much as he shoves everyone off him. Jason Knight cracks Bigelow over the head with a kendo stick and celebrates over it, but Bigelow is unaffected and just pounds his chest. Knight turns around into a Bigelow dropkick! Bigelow tosses Knight onto the floor with little effort (
Elimination #4: Jason Knight by Bam Bam Bigelow). Finlay comes back in and punches away at Bigelow, and he and Finlay wildly go at it. Bigelow knocks Finlay down with a huge headbutt. Super Crazy jumps back in and knocks Bigelow down with a springboard spinning heel kick! Guerrero tries to get rid of Crazy, but Crazy hangs on. Tajiri surprisingly helps Crazy by kicking Guerrero in the head. Scorpio comes flying off the top rope and hits Guerrero with the
Tumbleweed! Tajiri takes Scorpio out with a roundhouse kick, but Mero uses his boxing experience and nails Tajiri with a straight shot to the face. Mero hits some jabs on Bigelow, but Bigelow takes him out with a headbutt!
Sable gets onto the apron to distract Bigelow with her barely-there swimsuit, but
Luna Vachon pulls her off the apron and we have a catfight! Mero’s distracted now and pulls Luna to the apron, but Bigelow attacks him from behind then spikes him with
Greetings From Asbury Park…and then there goes Mero (
Elimination #5: Marc Mero by Bam Bam Bigelow). Scorpio, Finlay, Hall and Guerrero all get behind Bigelow and dump the big man to the outside as well (
Elimination #6: Bam Bam Bigelow by 2 Cold Scorpio, Fit Finlay, Scott Hall and Eddie Guerrero).
William Regal slides in and no one’s noticed that he has the
brass knuckles set for the
Power of the Punch. He cracks Finlay right in the face with the punch, then tosses Finlay (
Elimination #7: Fit Finlay by William Regal). Regal cracks Crazy as well, but before he can eliminate him Scott Hall asks the crowd about Regal’s punch. Hall spins him around and ducks Regal’s punch attempt. Hall levels Regal with a regular right hand of his own, sending the knucks flying. Tajiri tries to save Regal with a springboard back elbow, but Hall catches Tajiri and hits him with a belly-to-back suplex. He tosses Tajiri, but Tajiri lands on the apron. Hall hits Tajiri with a discus punch, but Tajiri still hangs on. Hall goes for one more big shot to knock Tajiri off the apron, but Tajiri
spews the green mist right in Hall’s face! Regal runs at Hall and Hall still manages to backdrop Regal over the top rope, knocking Tajiri off the apron as well! (
Eliminations #8 and #9 William Regal and Tajiri by Scott Hall). Guerrero dropkicks Hall though and Hall ends up over the top rope and on the apron. Hall tries to hold on, but he can’t see, and a Guerrero elbow knocks Hall off the apron to the fans’ disappointment (
Elimination #10: Scott Hall by Eddie Guerrero). Finlay attacks Regal and Tajiri on the outside as they fight up the aisle way!
Three former ECW Television Champions remain: Guerrero, Scorpio and Crazy. Crazy is still staggered from the brass knuckles shot earlier and Guerrero goes to work on him. Guerrero props Crazy in the corner and hits him with knife edge chops! Hard European uppercut sends Crazy down. Guerrero sends Crazy off the ropes and hits him with a tilt-a-whirl backbreaker! He throws Crazy over the top, but Crazy lands on his feet. Scorpio comes flying off the second rope with a flying fist knocking down Guerrero! Scorpio heads to the second rope again, but Crazy springboard hurricanranas him off! Crazy goes for a springboard moonsault but Scorpio catches his face on the way down with a hard elbow! Guerrero quickly takes Scorpio and tosses him over the top rope and Scorpio hits the floor (
Elimination #11: 2 Cold Scorpio by Eddie Guerrero)! Crazy dropkicks Guerrero and Guerrero goes over the top onto the apron…
but then slides under the bottom rope and then slides back out to the floor. Crazy sees Guerrero on the floor and thinks he’s won!
Guerrero grabs the
ECW World TV title belt and slides back in, but misses and Crazy comes off the ropes with a spinning heel kick! Crazy sends Guerrero into the corner and mounts, punching away!
“Uno!
Dos!
Tres!
Cuatro!
Cinco!
Seis!
Siete!
Ocho!
Nueve!
Diez!”
Crazy goes for one last punch, but Guerrero gets the low blow and powerbombs Crazy out of the corner. Guerrero grabs the
ECW World TV title belt once again and this time he levels Crazy in the center of the ring. Guerrero heads up top, plays to the crowd whom frankly can’t help but cheer him, and hits a perfect
Frog Splash! Guerrero tosses Crazy to the outside and we have a new champion!
Winner: Eddie Guerrero, last eliminating Super Crazy at 17:32 (New Champion)
Eddie Guerrero grabs the ECW World Television Championship, and with the smuggest look possible as he walks down the aisleway, belt on shoulder.
Joey Styles: “Eddie Guerrero has come to Barely Legal and walked out with his third ECW World Television Championship! Oh my God! You can be sure he will hear from Super Crazy again as there’s no way that rivalry is over!”
Super Crazy gets a standing ovation from the crowd.
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Joey Styles: “There’s not much to say about this one that hasn’t already been said. Five years ago, Terry Funk defeated Raven to win the ECW World Heavyweight Championship at Barely Legal II. You see Funk coming down to the ring right now to this remix of Ennio Morricone’s “The Man With The Harmonica”. No Eagles tonight! Funk saw when Raven kicked the crap out of Chris Kanyon that it was the same old Raven and has promised to finish the job he started five years ago!”
Raven vs. Terry Funk
Raven surprisingly comes out alone with no
Warriors seen anywhere. Raven just sits in the corner as Funk yells every profanity you can think of at him. Raven gets up and Funk just fires away at Raven. “
Come on asshole!” Funk continually fires away at Raven, then tosses Raven over the top rope and onto the floor. Funk goes right after him and continues to punch away before Raven springs into action and catches Funk with a knee to the low midsection. Russian Legsweep into the guardrail by Raven! Raven takes a chair and bashes Funk over the head with it, already busting Funk open. Raven slides Funk and the chair back in, but Funk low blows Raven on the way back in and smacks him over the back with the chair. Funk grabs Raven’s leg and goes for a
Spinning Toe Hold, but Raven fights out of it and shoulders Funk into the corner. Bulldog headlock takes Funk down. Raven rolls to the outside and has found himself a small ring of barbed wire under the ring.
Raven wraps the barbed wire around Funk’s neck! Raven tries to choke him out, but Funk swings wildly to try to break free and succeeds. He takes the wire and wraps it around his own fist before punching away at Raven again, cutting Raven open! Funk opens up the chair and places it in the middle of the ring, but Raven reverses an Irish whip and hits Funk with a Drop Toe Hold where Funk’s head smacks off the seat of the chair! Raven then curb stomps Funk’s face into the chair as well! Raven locks in a sleeper and the blood just gushes out of Funk’s head as
Raven has a sick smile on his face. Funk is lifeless. Raven lets go of the hold then picks up the bloodied Funk. He kicks him and hits the
EvenFlow DDT! Cover, 1…2…Funk just kicks out to Raven’s surprise.
Raven grabs the barbed wire and places it on the canvas…then drops Funk with another EvenFlow right on it! Cover, 1…2…3, this time it’s over!
Winner: Raven via pinfall in 7:54
Raven continually stomps away on Funk before once again wrapping the barbed wire around Funk’s throat!
Joey Styles: “Okay that’s enough, someone needs to get Terry Funk to safety or at the very least get Raven out of here now…wait, have we lost power…?”
The lights go out as Raven was choking out Funk…and then evil laughing is heard on the house mic.
“WHO BETTER THAN KANYON?!”
But when the lights go on, it’s not quite Kanyon standing in the ring!
Joey Styles: “That’s The Sinister Minister! And that’s…I mean it’s Chris Kanyon but it’s not Chris Kanyon! The skull mask…that’s gotta be Mortis?!”
A purple clad Mortis stands in the ring as Raven looks at him in shock. Raven takes a shot at him, but it’s blocked! Mortis hits Raven with the Flatliner on the open chair! Malice, Shannon Moore and Stasiak, Raven’s Warriors’, hit the ring but Mortis takes then out with clotheslines and a standing side superkick to Malice specifically! Moore gets Raven out of the ring as the bloodied Terry Funk slowly regains his bearings. Funk sees the Sinister Minister and Mortis though, and you can hear him yelling…
Terry Funk: “You’re, you’re the devil? Am I dead? Are you here to kill me?!”
The lights go out again, and when they come on The Sinister Minister and Mortis are gone. Tommy Dreamer runs down to help Terry Funk get out of the ring.
Joey Styles: “I…I’ve gotta tell you all I have no idea what’s going on. Cut to something. Mortis?!”
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We cut to the locker room where Rob Van Dam is warming up with shadow boxing and kicks. RVD takes a deep breath as he knows he has one of his biggest challenges ahead later tonight.
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We then cut to the parking lot as Shannon Moore and Shawn Stasiak help Raven to their rental car. Raven looks to be in shock and mumbles something about the man in his head, mimicking the poetry he was reciting earlier this year.
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Joey Styles: “Coming up next, it’s a rematch from Uncensored for the World Women’s Championship, it’s Molly Marvel defending her title against Jazz!”
World Women’s Championship
Molly Marvel © vs. Jazz
Molly leaps right at Jazz and punches away at her. She grabs a nearby…broomstick and chokes Jazz before smashing it across her back. Molly comes off the ropes with a crossbody, but Jazz catches her and slams her to the canvas. Molly reverses an Irish whip into the corner and follows up with a cartwheel into a back elbow! Molly takes the broomstick again and smashes it right over Jazz’s face! Molly climbs up to the top rope, but the
Molly-Go-Round misses as Jazz bails to the outside. Jazz grabs a chair and smashes it right over Molly’s head!
Joey Styles: “Oh My God! I don’t think I’ve ever seen such a vile chairshot to a woman before…I don’t know if Molly is moving…”
Jazz repeatedly slams the chair over Molly’s limp body as Molly’s clearly just done. Jazz shows off the damage to her face to the crowd…it looks like Molly may have broken her nose. Jazz puts the chair on the canvas and hits Molly with the
Jazz Stinger on the chair! 1…2…3, we have a new champion!
Winner: Jazz via pinfall in 3:17 to win the title (New Champion)
The Hurricane runs down to check on his former sidekick, but Jazz uses that opportunity to smash the chair over his back as well! Jazz holds the title up over her head as the new champion!
Joey Styles: “Respect for Molly to come here to ECW, but I never thought I’d see Jazz just smash her over the head with a chair. I don’t know what the relationship between Molly and Hurricane is but kudos for him coming down to check on Molly.”
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In the locker room we a camera pans up to see Cactus Jack staring at the mirror. He looks fixated on a cut on his head, presumably one he received from Brock Lesnar’s attack last Thursday on RISE.
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Joey Styles: “Coming up next, the World Cruiserweight Championship will be defended here at Barely Legal II. You hear Metallica’s “Battery”, a theme Psicosis used when he made his pro debut in the United States in an ECW ring in 1995. He returns to ECW seven years later and I mean, come on, you have to know who he’s facing. The crowd clearly knows! Talk about the world’s worst kept secret.”
Psicosis and Papi Chilo stand in the ring. Psicosis looks confident, and it looks like he knows what’s coming.
“WE WANT REY!”
“WE WANT REY!”
“WE WANT REY!”
“WE WANT REY!”
Metallica’s “Sad But True”plays over the speakers. Some fans don’t know how to react, but the original ECW fans, they know this means the man they’ve waited for…
Joey Styles: “Psicosis’ opponent also made his USA pro debut here in ECW. One of the greatest rivalries in professional wrestling continues right here, right now. It’s Psicsosis vs. Rey Mysterio Jr.!”
A masked Rey Mysterio Jr. makes his way to the ring to a huge ovation!
World Cruiserweight Championship
Psicosis © (w/Papi Chilo) vs. Rey Mysterio Jr.
Psicosis lays the title right between his and Rey’s feet and gestures toward Rey to “bring it!” Both men back up into their respective corners. Rey runs at Psicosis but Psicosis moves out of the way. Rey leaps up to the top rope and backflips off allowing Psicosis to level him from behind. Psicosis stomps away and he seems clearly frustrated that Rey has emerged to challenge him. Rey counters the Irish whip, then guides Psicosis to the canvas causing Psicosis to slide under the bottom rope and crash to the floor! Rey flies over the top rope with a somersault plancha that leads to him and Psicosis crashing into the guardrail! Rey slides Psicosis back in. He goes for a floatover into the lying headscissors, but Psicosis blocks to Rey lands on his feet. No trouble there as Rey quickly comes off the ropes and hits Psicosis with a spinning heel kick! Cover, 1…2…Psicosis kicks out and tries to escape to the floor. Rey’s right on him and doesn’t let him get away. Rey goes for a hurricanrana, but Psicosis holds him up in the powerbomb position, allowing
Papi Chilo to reach over and punch Rey in the face. Psicosis ends up having Rey draped on his shoulder but outward facing, and he sends up driving Rey into the turnbuckles to completely change the momentum of the match.
Rey’s left in an inverted position on the turnbuckles, so Psicosis takes advantage and dropkicks him right in the ribs. Belly-to-back suplex lays Rey out in the middle of the ring. His anger is seemingly gone, Psicosis is in complete control and has slowed the pace down. Psicosis drops Rey stomach first onto the top rope, then dropkicks him off the apron sending Rey crashing into the guardrail. Rey lays prone on the floor as Psicosis heads to the top rope!
Psicosis comes flying off the top with a senton on Rey’s body on the floor! That’s almost a 10-foot drop! Psicosis places Rey back on the apron and Rey tries to climb back into the ring. Psicosis heads to the top rope again and drops the
Guillotine Legdrop, literally smashes Rey’s throat against the second rope as he tries to get back in. Cover, 1…2…Rey manages to just kick out. Psicosis locks in a surfboard, then pulls all the way back, locking in the full La Tapatia! Rey screams in pain but refuses to give up. Rey is able to shift his body to help him break free, but Psicosis temporarily locks in a Dragon Sleeper! He can’t hold on as Rey manages to break free. Psicosis shoves Rey into the corner and gets a full head of steam, but Rey manages to leap away on the charge and Psicosis smashes into the ringpost between the turnbuckles shoulder-first! Rey comes off the ropes and carthwheel to get his legs up on Psicosis’ shoulders. He goes for a twisting hurricanrana, but Psicosis drops him with a sitout powerbomb! 1…2…Rey just manages to kick out again!
Psicosis calls
Papi Chilo to get into the ring. Psicosis climbs up to the top and Chilo sets Rey up for a powerbomb, perhaps he’s going to toss Rey up there? Rey fights off Chilo though. Rey then runs at Chilo,
who accidentally gives Rey the momentum to jump over him and catch Psicosis with a diving hurricanrana off the top rope! Chilo misses a clothesline and goes for a backdrop on Mysterio, but Mysterio puts on the brakes and hits Chilo with a Tornado DDT. The referee has other officials come down to remove Chilo from the ringside area so he won’t get involved further. Psicosis is recovering by sitting in the corner, so Rey comes flying in with a Bronco Buster! Rey runs towards the ropes and goes for a springboard moonsault, but
Psicosis catches him and drops him right on his head with a Tombstone Piledrver! Psicosis goes for the Undertaker-like pin and all, 1…2…NO! Psicosis can’t believe Rey kicked out of that. Rey’s still lying prone in the middle of the ring so Psicosis heads to the top rope, but the
Guillotine Legdrop misses! Both men slowly get to their feet, and Rey has to use the corner to even get back up. Psicosis suddenly charges with a burst of steam but Rey ducks and
Psicosis dives straight into the top of the ring post and crashes onto the floor! Rey gets his own second wind and leaps over the ringpost onto Psicosis onto the floor! Rey gets up on the apron. He tries another dive at Psicosis, but this time
Psicosis catches Rey and impales him on the guardrail! Psicosis drops Rey stomach first on the guardrail and leaves him there, heading to the top rope.
Psicosis on the top rope…Psycho Guillotine on Rey who was hanging on the guardrail! Once again, both men are left lying, this time on the outside.
Psicosis drags Rey back into the ring and covers him, 1…2…Rey kicks out again and Psicosis is completely exasperated. Psicosis sets Rey up in the powerbomb position…running powerbomb gets turned into a hurricanrana that sends Psicosis back to the outside. Rey gets on the apron and hits a quebrada (Asai Moonsault turned into a somersault)! Rey sends Psicosis into the ring and jumps onto the apron. Springboard Legdrop connects from Rey! Cover, 1…2….Psicosis kicks out! Rey goes to the apron again and waits for Psicosis to get to his feet.
Springboard into a hurricanrana is countered into ANOTHER sit-out powerbomb! 1…2…Rey kicks out! Psicosis slams the mat in frustration and rolls to the outside to grab a steel chair. Psicosis smashes the chair across Rey’s back, then drags Rey into the center of the ring and puts the chair on him. Psicosis heads to the top rope and plays to the crowd.
Moonsault turned into a swan dive misses and Psicosis crashes head-first onto the steel chair! Psicosis is completely dazed as Rey props him on the top rope for the
avalanche hurricanrana, and Rey hooks the leg! 1…2…3!
Winner: Rey Mysterio Jr. via pinfall in 23:14 (New Champion)
Despite being completely exhausted and in pain, Rey Mysterio Jr. celebrates with the Cruiserweight Championship! The crowd gives both men a standing ovation.
***
Officials and production crew bring tables, ladders and chairs to the ringside area.
Joey Styles: “Ladies and gentlemen I cannot explain in words the match we just saw, and it’s only going to get wilder and more extreme from there. Four teams with different claims to the ECW World Tag Team Championship compete in a match that’s only been reserved for shows like Summerslam and Wrestlemania. Now, it’s here at Barely Legal II. It’s Tables, Ladders and Chairs. Ladies and gentlemen, rapping the champs to the ring…is Coolio.”
“As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death
I take a look at my life, and realize there's nothin' left
'Cause I've been blastin' and laughin' so long
That even my momma thinks that my mind is gone
But I ain't never crossed a man that didn't deserve it
Me be treated like a punk, you know that's unheard of
You better watch how you talkin' and where you walkin'
Or you and your homies might be lined in chalk
I really hate to trip, but I gotta loc
As they croak, I see myself in the pistol smoke
Fool, I'm the kinda G the little homies wanna be like
On my knees in the night, sayin' prayers in the streetlight
Been spendin' most their lives livin' in the gangsta's paradise
Been spendin' most their lives livin' in the gangsta's paradise
Keep spendin' most our lives livin' in the gangsta's paradise
Keep spendin' most our lives livin' in the gangsta's paradise”
R-Killa and Mark Henry, the ECW World Tag Team Champions make their way down to the ring with Coolio. The normally hated champions get a great reaction thanks to the special entrance. AJ Styles and Jerry Lynn are the clear crowd favorites as they come out next, followed by Kid Kash and Jamie Noble, then Danny Doring and Roadkill.
ECW World Tag Team Championship – Tables, Ladders and Chairs
R-Killa and Mark Henry © vs. AJ Styles and Jerry Lynn vs. Danny Doring and Amish Roadkill vs. Trailer Park Kash
All eight men go at one another as the match starts as a standard schmozz! Ultimately, Roadkill and Henry clean out the ring and the two monsters stand face to face with one another. Roadkill gets the crowd behind him and he and Henry trade blows! Stereo springboard forearms from AJ Styles (to Roadkill) and Kid Kash (to Henry) breaks those two up. Kash misses a clothesline to AJ and gets hit with the Pelé. Doring comes in and just levels Styles with a ladder. He turns around and Noble smashes a chair against the ladder that hits Doring in the face. Jerry Lynn then dropkicks the chair into Noble’s face, before leaping off the second rope and over the top onto R-Killa! Styles gets back to his feet to set up a ladder, but Roadkill shoves him off and Styles hits the ropes throat first. Roadkill puts the ladder on his head so he’s “wearing” it, then spins around and takes out anyone in close vicinity! He nails Kash! Lynn slides in and ducks, but gets hit when Roadkill swings around the other way! Roadkill almost hits his partner Doring, but Henry shoves Doring into Roadkill and the ladder awkwardly gets stuck in the ropes, still around Roadkill’s neck. Henry tosses Doring at Roadkill, which only adds pressure to the ladder.
Kash and Noble set up a table on the outside before getting stopped by Lynn. AJ Styles sets up a ladder on the outside
and dives off into Lynn, Noble and Kash! Henry sets up the ladder that was on Roadkill and R-Killa comes in to climb, but Doring shoves him off. Henry smashes Doring right in the head with a steel chair! Roadkill body tackles Henry, knocking Henry to the outside. R-Killa takes a swing, but Roadkill ducks, then takes him out with the
Barn Burner! Roadkill then takes the ladder and climbs it…but not under the title belts. The 330+ pound Roadkill goes for a legdrop off the ladder, but R-Killa moves out of the way. R-Killa seems relieves, but Jamie Noble and Kid Kash come in with chairs and they want revenge. R-Killa covers his head for the incoming double chairshot, but Kash and Noble then go right for the ribs, creating a R-Killa sandwich with chairs as the bread! Lynn and Styles attack Noble and Kash from behind, but Henry comes back in and nails everyone with the ladder.
Henry specifically grabs Kash and tosses him over the top rope and through the table they had set up earlier! World’s Strongest Slam to Lynn! Henry comes off the ropes and adds the
World’s Strongest Splash! Styles hits Henry with strikes, but R-Killa gets a heel kick. R-Killa then hits
The Truth Shall Set You Free on Noble! It looks like it’s over here as a ladder is set in the middle of the ring. Henry stabilizes it as R-Killa climbs, but suddenly two guys jump in from the crowd…
Joey Styles: “…do we have fans in the ring? What the hell is going o…THAT’s BOOKER T! And that, is that? It’s his brother! Harlem Heat is here in ECW and that’s not good news for R-Killa!”
“BOOKER T!”
“BOOKER T!”
“BOOKER T!”
“BOOKER T!”
The crowd goes wild for
Harlem Heat (well, for
Booker T as they don’t recognize
Stevie Ray right away).
Booker pulls down R-Killa and R-Killa immediate runs out of the ring and through the crowd when he sees who’s in the ring! Henry attacks
Stevie Ray, but Ray blasts him with a chair off the top of his head, which takes out Henry and busts him wide open!
Harlem Heat chases R-Killa through the crowd!
Joey Styles: “It looks like we’re left with just three teams, all challengers!”
Despite what Joey said Henry is still in the ring. Jerry Lynn comes off the top rope with a flying legdrop onto Henry, who rolls to the outside. Lynn climbs the ladder but Danny Doring is back and they trade shots near the top. A second ladder is set up and Noble and Styles battle as well.
Roadkill tips that ladder,
sending Styles and Noble flying…
Noble crashes through a couple of tables set up on the outside while Styles gets “lucky” and only hits the turnbuckles. Lynn knocks Doring off the ladder, but then leaps onto Roadkill who catches him and plants him on a chair with a slam! Roadkill sets up the ladder, but Styles smacks him in the back with that same chair. Styles and a hurt Lynn grab a side of Roadkill and send him flying to the outside onto Kash! Styles sets up a ladder next to the ropes, then runs up it and takes out Kash and Roadkill again with a
Fosbury Flop off the ladder! Doring attacks Lynn, but when he goes for the back bodydrop Lynn puts on the brakes and plants Doring with the
Cradle Piledriver! Nothing can stop Lynn
as he climbs up the ladder and grabs the ECW World Tag Team Championship belts!
Winners: AJ Styles and Jerry Lynn in 17:10 (New Champions)
AJ Styles gets back into the ring and he and Jerry Lynn hug as the crowd roars their approval!
Joey Styles: “For Jerry Lynn, it’s not only affirmation that he’s still one of the all-time best ECW competitors, but it’s vindication of his decision to help mentor young AJ Styles. And for Styles, tonight is his first taste of being a champion!”
***
R-Killa is shown running backstage and into the parking lot, where he jumps into a rental car! Booker T and Stevie Ray are in pursuit. They get into a car themselves and chase after him!
***
Joey Styles: “What else is going to happen tonight?! Coming up next, a rivalry that spans back as early as 1991, yes before ECW. On one side the “homicidal, suicidal, genocidal” madman from Bombay, Sabu. The former two-time ECW World Heavyweight Champion Sabu. His opponent, one of his best friends at least at one time. The longest reigning ECW World Television Champion in history. In 1991 he fought Sabu in the USWA as Rob Zakowski. Of course ever since then you’ve known him as Rob Van Dam! Bill Alfonso, long-time manager for both men, Is at ringside and has guaranteed this match will end in a handshake.”
In another throwback, Rob Van Dam comes out to the ring to Kilgore’s “Walk”! Crowd sings along the whole way!
“RE!”
“SPECT!”
“WALK!”
Sabu runs into the ring, but Rob Van Dam knows him so well and backs away before Sabu can get an attack in.
Rob Van Dam vs. Sabu
RVD and Sabu come face to face. RVD has the audacity to do his taunt in Sabu’s face and gets decked for it! Sabu continues punching away and RVD fires back. RVD gets a front kick and sends Sabu off the ropes. RVD ducks Sabu with a split and catches Sabu on the way back with a leaping one-legged kick! RVD takes the time to bow to the crowd after getting the first knockdown. RVD pays or it as he turns around right into a dropkick to the knee. RVD rolls around the ring and Sabu baseball slides him to the floor. Sabu comes off the ropes and hits RVD with suicide dive over the top rope and onto the floor, resulting in both men crashing into the steel guardrail! Sabu whips RVD into the guardrail, but RVD moves out of the way when Sabu dives at him! RVD takes a moment to catch his breath, but Sabu’s already recovered! Sabu throws a chair right into RVD’s face! Sabu sends RVD into the guardrail once again and this time sets up a chair nearby.
Air Sabu into the RVD on the guardrail! Bill Alfonso sets up a table at ringside, but he yells to the camera that “whoever uses it is uses it!”
Sabu rolls RVD into the ring and comes over the top rope with a somersault legdrop. First cover, 1…2…RVD kicks out. Sabu locks in the
Camel Clutch to wear RVD down. RVD struggles at first, but doesn’t submit. He’s able to break the hold by getting to his knees and rolling Sabu off. Sabu comes off the ropes and RVD explodes with a spinning heel kick. RVD comes off the ropes with a cartwheel into a standing moonsault! Cover, 1…2…Sabu kicks out. RVD grabs a steel chair and places it in the middle of the ring. He whips Sabu into the corner then
monkey flips him out, with Sabu landing on the chair! Another cover from RVD, 1…2…but Sabu kicks out again. Sabu reverses a whip and RVD hits the corner, but RVD gets the foot up when Sabu charges in. RVD spins and leaps to the top rope, but
Sabu shoves him off and RVD goes airborne and crashes throat first into the railing! Sabu sets up a chair, then leaps onto it, then onto the top rope, and springboards his body at RVD…but
RVD moves (falls?) and Sabu goes sailing into a row of chairs into the crowd!
RVD drapes Sabu on the railing and heads to the apron, and hits a falling spin kick on Sabu on the railing! RVD plays to the crowd again, even indicating that his throat may hurt but he doesn’t care. Sabu struggles to make his way back to his feet. RVD comes flying off the ropes and hits Sabu with a tope con hilo! Rob Van Dam is in complete control! He rolls Sabu back into the ring near the corner, then hits the
Split Legged Moonsault! 1…2…Sabu kicks out and RVD’s a little surprised! RVD hits a springboard jump kick that catches Sabu in the jaw and sends Sabu onto the apron right in front of that table. RVD comes off the ropes and
leaps over Sabu with a sunset flip driving Sabu through the table! RVD rolls back into the ring and plays to the crowd, saying he’s going to pin Sabu with ease in a moment. Sabu slowly makes his way back into the ring and RVD quickly follow up with
Rolling Thunder! 1…2…Sabu still kicks out! RVD grabs the steel chair and waits for Sabu to get up. He throws it at him to catch, but Sabu
ducks the Van-Daminator and throws the chair off RVD’s skull instead! Sabu sets up the chair in the middle of the ring next to RVD. He runs for the
Triple Jump Moonsault, but RVD trips him and Sabu crashes face-first into the seat of the chair! RVD stumbles to the corner but then leaps up top, but Sabu moves out of the way of the
Five Star Frog Splash! Another wild chair throw sends RVD to the outside onto the floor! Sabu heads to the outside to set up and table and puts RVD on it. Sabu sets up the chair in the ring, once again he uses it to leap up to the top rope…
RVD’s now standing on the table…and Sabu springboards off the top and drives RVD through the table with a flying DDT!
Joey Styles: “OH MY GOD! He may have broken Van Dam’s neck!”
Sabu rolls RVD back into the ring and sets up the chair once again. Sabu points to the sky…
Triple Jump Moonsault connects! 1…2…3! Sabu has “upset” Rob Van Dam!
Winner: Sabu via pinfall in 17:37
Bill Alfonso gets into the ring to check on both competitors, and then to have them shake hands. Both seem hesitant, then Rob Van Dam just walks off! Alfonso gets angry and grabs a microphone.
Bill Alfonso: “Hey, hey, Mr. Pay-Per-View. You know I love you daddy! You know I love both of you. You promised me if you lost you’d shake Sabu’s hand. Are you the man I thought you were Rob Van Dam? Come on!”
Rob Van Dam heads back into the ring and he looks like he’s about to deck Fonzie, but then he shrugs with frustration. He knows he got beat tonight. Van Dam walks up to Sabu and both men shake hands to the delight of this ECW crowd! Sabu, RVD, and Alfonso all walk off together as a unit.
***
Lance Storm: “Tonight is out night. Tonight, we fulfill our destiny. We’re stronger, faster, smarter and more talented than all of you. When this started, I was selfish. I was looking at this as a Lance Storm story. What I realized in defeat is that the only way to make the most impact, is as a unit. Lance Storm, Justin Credible, Mike Awesome. Tonight we beat the legendary Eliminators. Tonight, we beat the WCW World Champion Kurt Angle!”
Dawn Marie: “Lance, Lance they’re playing the music!”
Lance Storm: “As a team, that’s how we create Total Impact!”
***
Kurt Angle and the Eliminators vs. Total Impact (Lance Storm, Justin Credible and Mike Awesome) w/Dawn Marie
Both Storm and Angle insist that the match starts with them. Storm gets an early wristlock, but is quickly chain wrestled to the canvas by Angle. Storm fights his way free and gets a hammerlock, but Angle scoops him over with a fireman’s carry and then wraps his legs around Storm’s ribs. Storm breaks free and even gets a bridge for a pinning attempt for two. Both men get to a vertical base and Storm goes for a superkick, but Angle blocks that and almost turns it into the
Ankle Lock! Storm gets to the ropes and breaks free. Angle comes of the ropes but Storm rolls him into the
Canadian Maple Leaf! He doesn’t have it locked in all the way though, but Storm quickly pivots into locking in a
Sharpshooter…but even that he can’t get in. Angle counters and
locks Storm into a Sharpshooter of his own! Angle has it in, but Justin Credible runs in and cracks Angle over the head with a kendo stick, and the brawl is on! Saturn and Kronus double back suplex Credible, but Mike Awesome runs them both over with a double clothesline!
Angle gets Awesome with a belly-to-belly suplex! Superkick from Storm sends Angle to the outside, and Storm dives over the top to take him out. Saturn and Kronus kick the crap out of Justin Credible, and Saturn nails the
Moss-Covered Three-Handled Family Gradunza! Kronus heads to the top rope and squashes Credible with a
450 Splash! Mike Awesome comes back in and smashes Kronus over the head with a chair, then gets Saturn over the back! Awesome has Kronus set up…
Awesome Bomb over the top rope to the outside through a table! Awesome tries to set Saturn up for one, but Saturn hits Awesome in the gut with the chair, then drops him on his head with a T-Bone suplex! Saturn then goes to Credible and locks in the
Rings of Saturn! Storm breaks that up and stomps away on Saturn. Storm leaps up to the top rope and takes Saturn out with a flying back elbow. Angle slides back in but misses a clothesline. Huge chop by Storm. Storm continues to chop away at Angle but Angle floors Storm with a headbutt! Awesome grabs Angle from behind and nails a release German suplex! Angle slides to the outside, but Awesome goes flying out there with an over-the-top-rope suicide dive!
Kronus makes his way back into the ring somehow and trades punches with Credible. Saturn nails him from behind. Storm saves Credible with his own attack from behind on Saturn, but Kronus nails him with a leg lariat. Kronus comes off the ropes and nails Storm with a rocker dropper. Awesome is back in but his chair shot attempt misses, and Saturn and Kronus double back suplex him. They’ve got Awesome in the center of the ring…and take him out with
Total Elimination! Storm attacks Saturn, but Angle comes from behind Storm and nails him with an
Angle Slam! That leaves Justin Credible alone with Kronus, Saturn and Angle! Credible tries a swing with his kendo stick, but Saturn ducks and Kronus superkicks him! Saturn hits his own superkick, then Angle grabs the ankle and locks in the
Ankle Lock! Credible doesn’t last long and taps out!
Winners: Kurt Angle and the Eliminators when Angle made Credible submit in 13:56
Lance Storm looks frustrated as he heads back up the aisle with Dawn Marie and Mike Awesome. Angle and The Eliminators celebrate the win and Angle holds the WCW World Championship over his head!
***
In the locker room Paul Heyman is trying to pump up the ECW World Heavyweight Champion Brock Lesnar.
Paul Heyman: “This is it Brock. All the faith we’ve had in you, all the money. Everything. It all comes to a head right here. You are the single most dominant athlete this industry has ever seen. YOU are the face of Extreme Championship Wrestling now. Not Rob Van Dam. Not Sabu. And certainly not Mick Foley. Fifty years from now when they tell the tale of Brock Lesnar the first chapter will read how you ended the Hardcore Legend once and for good. You are Brock Lesnar. You are the BEAST. You are the ECW World Heavyweight Champion. Now go out there and prove me right!”
Lesnar lets out a loud roar as he heads out to the ring.
***
Also in the locker room new World Cruiserweight Champion Rey Mysterio Jr. is packing up and looking to head out with his new title. When he turns around, he sees a familiar face, new ECW World Television Champion Eddie Guerrero! Guerrero (sarcastically?) claps for him before looking at his own title belt and walking away. Rey just shakes his head.
***
“FOLEY!”
“FOLEY!”
“FOLEY!”
Joey Styles: “Ladies and gentlemen at home this is it. I’d like to thank Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley and even Paul Heyman for this show as it’s been one of the greatest events I’ve ever been lucky enough to call. We have one more contest left. There’s no glitz or glamour left here. It’s a worldwide legend in hardcore who’s been out of the game for two years, Cactus Jack, looking to win one of the few World Championships that eluded him in his career. His opponent, the 2000 NCAA Heavyweight Champion. He won the ECW World Heavyweight Championship in his first big league professional match. An absolute monster, Brock Lesnar. Let’s send it over to Bob Artese."
Bob Artese: “Ladies and gentlemen it is now time for the main event of Barely Legal II! It is for…theECW World Heavyweight Championship! Coming down to the ring, the challenger! From Long Island, New York! He is a former three-time world heavyweight champion and known worldwide as the King of the Deathmatch This is Cactus Jack!”
“FOLEY!”
“FOLEY!”
“FOLEY!”
Bob Artese: “His opponent, the current ECW World Heavyweight Champion. From Minneapolis, Minnesota. This is BROCK LESNAR!”
“FUCK BROCK LESNAR!”
*clap clap clap*
“FUCK BROCK LESNAR!”
*clap clap clap*
“FUCK BROCK LESNAR!”
*clap clap clap*
ECW World Heavyweight Championship
Brock Lesnar © vs. Cactus Jack
Brock swings at Cactus but Cactus moves. Brock tries another wild shot but Cactus ducks again, then gets his own punches. Cactus punches away at Lesnar in the corner, over and over again! Cactus goes for the Irish whip for Lesnar reverses it right into an overhead belly-to-belly suplex! Lesnar jogs in the middle of the ring as Cactus climbs up on the apron. Lesnar tries to knock Cactus off the apron, but Cactus moves and Lesnar has his head exposed between the ropes. Knee lift from Cactus knocks Lesnar back into the ring and he stumbles backwards. Cactus runs in and hits the Cactus clothesline sending both he and Lesnar to the floor! Cactus waits for Lesnar to get back to his feet and hits him with a running swinging neckbreaker on the floor! Cactus climbs up to the apron…
runs down and hits the running elbow drop on Lesnar!
“BANG BANG!”
Cactus moves the top half of the ring steps and pulls out a line of
barbed wire…
then starts whipping Lesnar’s back with it! Lesnar’s looks more shocked about the pain than hurt! Cactus continues to whip Lesnar and the blood is starting to drip from Lesnar’s back already! Lesnar rolls back in the ring to try to escape. Cactus takes the wire and wraps it around a steel chair.
Cactus smashes the barbed wire chair over Lesnar’s back! Cactus does it a second time and the wire gets stuck in Lesnar’s back in a ridiculous visual!
Joey Styles: “I’m not quite sure the world champion really knew what he was getting into here!”
Cactus goes for the headshot, but Lesnar ducks and shoulder tackles Cactus all the way into the corner. He drives his shoulder into Cactus’ gut several times, then quickly takes the barbed wire chair and
smashes Cactus over the head with it! Lesnar drops the chair almost shocked at what he just did, but he’s even more shocked that a now bloodied Cactus gets back to his feet rather quickly! Lesnar knees Cactus in the stomach and tosses him to the outside. Brock follows Cactus out there but Cactus grabbed a
fire extinguisher from under the ring and sprays it all over Lesnar, blinding him! Brock falls out onto the floor and Cactus smashes the extinguisher over his head! Lesnar crawls down the aisle to the entrance and Cactus stalks him. Lesnar staggers to his feet and Cactus punches away at him. Cactus takes a nearby chair and runs at Lesnar, but Lesnar counters and tosses Cactus into the
brick part of the entrance set, knocking it all down! Lesnar sets up a table on the stage and finds Cactus buried underneath the set. He looks to
F5 him through the table, but Cactus counters by landing behind Lesnar and hitting a low blow. Cactus takes Lesnar and they end up on top of the table.
Cactus piledrives Lesnar through the table on the stage! He makes a cover, 1…2…Lesnar just kicks out!
Joey Styles: “I didn’t even know this was Falls Count Anywhere!”
Cactus punches Lesnar a few times, then looks to knock him off the stage into the production equipment below! He winds up, but
C.W. Anderson stops him with a chair shot that has no effect on Cactus! Cactus takes the chair and whallops Anderson! Brock nails Cactus from behind though and takes the chair himself.
Brock violently smashes the chair over Cactus’ head, and Cactus goes flying off the stage through some tables and production equipment...knocking out some of the lights! Paul Heyman comes out and yells at Brock to go cover Cactus, which he does. 1…2…Cactus kicks out! Brock looks at the
ECW crowd and for the first time looks completely rattled. Brock tosses Cactus back down the aisle, but then lifts him on his shoulders. Brock takes Cactus over to the ring post and
F5s him right into it! Brock rolls Cactus back into the ring and covers him, 1…2…Cactus gets his shoulder up and Brock can’t believe it! Brock grabs the barbed wire chair, but
Cactus hits him with a drop toehold and Brock’s head crashes right into the barbed wire!
Joey Styles: “Oh my god! Brock’s all cut up all over the place. And, what’s Cactus Jack got there…oh no, are those tacks?!”
Cactus has found a bad under the ring
and dumps out thousands of thumbtacks on the canvas. Cactus turns around but Brock was ready for him and lifts him up for the
F5…but Cactus counters with the
Mandible Claw of all things! This could be it right here as Lesnar’s losing it! Cactus steps over Lesnar’s back with the Claw locked in as the referee raises Lesnar’s arm, but it drops. He raises it a second time but it drops again. A third time…but Lesnar suddenly stands up as has Cactus Jack on his back! It’s
shades of Hell in a Cell 1998 as Lesnar drops back and Cactus goes back first into the tacks!
Brock Lesnar: “YOU IDIOTS WANT TO SEE FUCKIN’ HARDCORE?!”
Lesnar calls C.W. Anderson down. Anderson sets up a table in the ring and hands Lesnar something…
it’s a book of matches! Anderson sprays lighter fluid on the table and Lesnar sets the table ablaze! Cactus, despite being a human pincushion, knocks Anderson out of the ring, but Lesnar boots him and
sets him up for a powerbomb through the flaming table! Cactus has a hand of tacks and throws them in Lesnar’s face! Clothesline attempt from Cactus though leads to Lesnar
picking Cactus up on his shoulders…and Lesnar F5s Cactus through the flaming table!
Joey Styles: “OH MY GOD OH MY GOD CACTUS WENT INTO THE FLAMES FACE-FIRST! SOMEONE STOP THIS!”
Fire safety personnel extinguish the flames around and ON Cactus’s body and put out the fire, but Brock chases them all away. Brock lifts Cactus up one more time,
F5! 1…2…3!
Winner: Brock Lesnar via pinfall in 21:21 (Retains)
Brock Lesnar holds the ECW World Championship down the aisle until he gets to the wreckage left from the entrance set. Paul Heyman is in complete shock and has his hand on his face as the bloodied Lesnar walks past him, title over his head.
Joey Styles: “Is Mick alive…can someone see if he’s okay. I know he’s the toughest son-of-a-bitch on the planet but he was literally dropped face-first in flames, oh my god the s.o.b. is actually getting up!”
Cactus Jack, Mick Foley manages to stand up in the carnage left in the ring. He manages to raise his arm and gets a standing ovation from the crowd as Barely Legal II comes to a close!
“FOLEY!”
“FOLEY!”
“FOLEY!”
::END SHOW::
Quick Results
Tommy Dreamer, The Sandman, and Balls Mahoney defeated Bubba Ray, D-Von, and Spike Dudley when Dreamer and Sandman pinned Bubba Ray and D-Von
Shelton Benjamin pinned Tazz
ECW World Television Championship Battle Royal
Eddie Guerrero last eliminated Super Crazy to win the vacant title
Raven pinned Terry Funk
World Women’s Championship
Jazz pinned Molly Marvel to win the title
World Cruiserweight Championship
Rey Mysterio Jr. pinned Psicosis to win the title
ECW World Tag Team Championship – Tables, Ladders and Chairs
Jerry Lynn and AJ Styles defeated R-Killa and Mark Henry, Danny Doring and Roadkill, and Trailer Park Kash to win the title
Sabu pinned Rob Van Dam
Kurt Angle and The Eliminators defeated Total Impact
ECW World Championship
Brock Lesnar pinned Cactus Jack (Retains)
Champions
WCW World Champion
Kurt Angle (Defeated Ric Flair on 12-31-01)
ECW World Champion
Brock Lesnar (Defeated Rob Van Dam on 12-30-01)
WCW United States Champion
Christian (Defeated Tazz on 1-27-02)
ECW Television Champion
Eddie Guerrero (Defeated Super Crazy on 4-14-02)
WCW World Tag Team Champions
Diamond Dallas Page and The Giant (Defeated The Dudley Boyz on 3-11-02)
ECW World Tag Team Champions
AJ Styles and Jerry Lynn (Defeated R-Killa and Mark Henry on 4-14-02)
World Cruiserweight Champion
Rey Mysterio Jr. (Defeated Psicosis on 4-14-02)
World Women’s Champion
Jazz (Defeated Molly Marvel on 4-14-02)
Roster Updates
Eddie Guerrero – Finally clean and sober, Guerrero might be the best wrestler in the world today
Marc Mero – Can the former Johnny B. Badd deal with it if he’s outshone by his wife again?
New Jack – ECW’s original gangsta has always had it out for the Dudleyz
Rey Mysterio Jr. – The world’s greatest highflier has returned to the big leagues
Sable – Back with Mero, can Sable recapture her past glory?
Scott Hall – Perhaps the most surprising ECW cameo two years ago, and perhaps the most surprising at Barely Legal. Is this a long-term run for Hall?
Sinister Minister – Father James Mitchell has come to ECW once again and brought back Mortis to punish Raven
Stevie Ray – Booker T’s brother and one half of one of the greatest teams in WCW history, Harlem Heat
