It's a new year.

Dave Douglas.

Oh, my God. I've traveled with this guy. I've trained with them, I've broken bread with them. And I choked him out. The final battle between Raven and Tommy Dreamer. You did your job and ran the fuckers off. Look at that. From the twisted steel section of Dudleyville. Extreme Championship wrestling has been thrown into disarray. This, my friends, is ECW.

Welcome to the Extreme ECW Livecast. And we are back to cover ECW hardcore TV episodes 203 and 204. March 11th and March 18th of 1997. I'm Mike Prue along with JV and Rick Bibi. As always, welcome back, guys. How are you doing?

Doing well, bro.

Doing pretty good, man.

Yeah, we're all doing pretty good. Because Boston Celtics are the champions. And this is old news when you're hearing this. It's like happened over a month ago probably. But yes, they are the champions. So congratulations to them.

Yeah. As we record this. The parade was yesterday.

Yes, yes.

Over a million people.

It was June 22nd today. Million people. I didn't even look to check it out and see how it went.

It was like 85 degrees out.

Oh, that's right. It was gross yesterday. It rained a lot yesterday too. I don't know.

Yeah, but not. Not during the parade.

Way after.

It was like Blowfish concert probably. Boston was popping yesterday. They had the parade. They had the Hootie and the Blowfish concert at Fenway. You know, all the. All the Celtics. A good amount of the Celtics plays were probably there.

You know, the public schools canceled school for the last day of school or where are.

Like their school. Their school runs that late?

This school? Yeah, their school year ended on Friday, but they. They cancel the day and they're not making it up. They're supposed to go to school tomorrow. They should be going to school tomorrow for their last day because teachers are contractual to have that set number of days. Well, of work. So maybe they have an in service or something tomorrow. But they're not making the kids go back. So, you know, throw that out there. Boston's screwing the system, breaching the contract.

Teachers are such lazy pieces of. Get their asses into the building.

No, you guys are going to the parade today. Oh, man. Yeah.

It is glorious, though. I mean, sucks to be a Dallas Mavericks fan.

Hey, they're lucky to be there. They had a great Kyrie.

Kyrie showed. Showed up. Sure did.

Yeah. Very great team. They'll be great next year too, probably.

I love listening, but some of the Celtics constantly, like, yeah, you know, I should have. You know, I should have handled it better here. Too late.

Yep.

Yeah. He could have won a championship.

We're still going to chant you, Kyrie.

It doesn't matter if he's now more mature.

What an obnoxious chant, though.

We're not.

It's all right to say it today. All rules are out the window once you get into the garden.

Daddy, that's a bad word. Sorry. Okay.

Not today, it's not. You know what? Say it with your chest.

Oh, man. Yeah. Other than that, not much else going on. Right? It's hot as balls this past week. Heat wave.

Yeah.

Not talking about ecw. Heat waved, man. Yeah. It's been hot everywhere, though. So I guess, preaching to the choir. And that's it. Now. JV and I, done with work, done with summertime, Summer Pru in the house.

I feel retired.

I know. I feel like I need to, like, find something to that do. I mean, there's plenty to do, but.

I don't feel like that at all.

Yeah, I know. Eventually, I think by the end of the summer, you might be itching to get back to work, though. It's usually how I feel.

We'll see.

I'll see. But, yeah, it won't be mad. It always feels like after 4th of July, it just seems like it's already coming to the end, even though there's still so much time left. But it does seem like. It's like. It's, like, over the hill, basically.

Now you're on the down stretch of July.

Yeah. Which is weird because still have all of August and basically all of July.

Yeah.

Oh, it's just those first three weeks, it's like you're all excited because you're done, and then it's like, ah, gonna stop thinking about going back.

Yeah.

Now, that's just my feeling on it. Yeah. I have a good feeling about what we're about to watch, though, because we are about to watch a couple of, I think the. The better episodes of ECW Hardcore TV that we've checked out in a while, you know, based on the card here. So I'm looking forward to. It's the March 11th show. It's. Which is all from the CYC center in Scranton. And I'm guessing that is the Catholic Youth Center. Probably.

Probably.

Wait.

Yeah. Well, it's called CYC center, so that one makes sense. It's definitely Catholic Youth. What would it be, jb? Your good old Catholic boy, cyc.

We have CYO Catholic around us. Community, maybe.

Yeah. It could be that. Yeah, Catholic youth community Center. Yeah, that makes sense. But that this show takes place all from there in Scranton, Pennsylvania. You know Michael Scott. You know Michael Scott, Doug Schrute. They're all the Dwight Schrute, Doug Shrew. Who the.

I was just gonna let that go.

I'm glad, I'm glad I caught it though, because if you did, if you. Since you did let it go, you know, people would have been like, well, idiot, just call me an idiot. Just call me out on. All right, so on this almost on this card here, we're gonna have Taz versus Spike Dudley, gonna have RVD and Taboo taking on the eliminators. Lance Storm makes his TV debut on this episode, up against Axel Rotten. And I'm gonna get a good match between Chris Candido and Luis Piccoli, who always put together good matches because they work so well together. And then on the March 18 show, it's hostile city showdown. And we're not doing this as a, as a super card because we have barely legal coming up that we would like to get to sometime this summer. I feel like you're at a snails pace as we're approaching the first pay per view, but in a month it'll be out. So if you're hearing this in early July, early August I think will be at barely legal. But here on March 18, it's coverage of Hostile City Showdown. Ravi in there versus Taz, the I Quit match. Shane Douglas versus Pitbull number one Brian Lee takes on Terry Funk, who's made his return eliminators in the Dudley boys who go on to have a big feud. Sandman versus Balls Mahoney. Sabu versus Spike Dudley. And we get the masked man. Masked man with his Bill Cosby sweaters. Talking about who? Rick.

Oh, Rick Rude.

Rick Rude. All right, so let's get things going. Kicking off the first episode. Actually, no, I didn't give us our plugs. Follow us on Twitter x at extreme cast. Follow me Mike Pruitt, MPRU 83, follow JV at John Van Damage and follow Rick BB at Leo Wyatt 85. Also check out the bottom line wrestling cast. The career of stone cold Steve Austin follows on x as well at bottom line cast. We're currently in the stunning Steve series. And by the time you're listening to this episode, 18 of stunning Steve will be out, and that is November through December of 1993. Talking about Steve Austin taking on Dustin Rhodes for the U. S. Championship.

Giant belt buckle.

What's that said?

That loudmouth redneck with a giant Belt buckle.

Yeah. If I remember correctly, you sound far away, Rick.

Yeah, I'm not any further than from the microphone than usually.

Okay. Maybe it's just because I hear my ac. So.

Yeah, he doesn't sound low.

Okay.

Okay, good. I'm like, maybe. Maybe something's up with the mic and the. The plugs.

Yeah, you definitely sound louder now than you were.

Okay.

All right, so let's get right into this. It's March 11, 1997. It's episode 203 of ECW Hardcore TV. Going to watch it on the Internet Archive. If you want to watch it on the Peacock. The Network. It's season five, episode 11. The dates are different. As I've said in the past, we're just going with March 11, but sometimes it's listed as March 13. But on the network and on the archive, it's listed March 11th. But if you look for results of the. Of the show, it's different dates. So I just want to point that out. We got a run time of 56 minutes, 19 seconds. And you guys all set up?

Yes, I am.

All right, I'm gonna get my volume set up before it starts so I don't have to complain again. Oh, fix my volume. All right, I'll give us countdown three down to one, then say play. When I say play, we all click play. 3, 2, 1, play.

Oh, loud crowd.

Yeah.

And actually read it ahead this time, and it said that this crowd in Scranton was just electric all night for everything, for any little thing that happened they were just nuts for. So they just probably appreciated the show going there, and they were all jacked up and ready to go. Look at the crowd, though, too, with the BWO shirts everywhere.

Yeah, they're hyped.

You know why they all have BWO shirts?

Why? Pro.

Because they're taking over. I thought Rick was gonna get it.

I knew. I knew it. I figured I'll let you. I let you have the glory of saying that.

Oh, we get the BWO coming out first here. And we have been talking about how Stevie Richards should be, you know, bigger star than he is. And this, at this point, this is what it is. He is the one of the big stars now.

Yeah.

As the leader of the bwo. And we're gonna see over this next month as we build up the Barely Legal, that push continues.

You see that random fan walking with them with his hand up like he was part of. But he's not even wearing a BWO shirt.

Oh, that's good.

I mean, I don't blame him if I was in the crowd and I was like, you know, 18 or whatever. I'd probably get hyped and do that, too.

But no one's interesting about this is the NWO never came out of the crowd like this. Like Scott hall didn't initially. But as the nwo, they never came through the crowd like this. But here you have the BWO doing it. And this is something that, you know, the Shield would do years later. Yeah, it's come. Come through exactly like that.

I feel like the only time the NWO came out was when the it, like you said, with Scott Hall. And then at Bash of the Beach 96, I believe, they came through the crowd for that match. And that's it. Then after. Once that was over, it was just. They came through the main entrance.

Right. Which never made sense, really, when you think about it. It's like they're not supposed to be working here. So why are they backstage?

Right.

It's like they got a free pass. All right, you guys. I guess you work here now, right?

You. You got Hogan with you?

Yeah. Got a BWO chant here. Supernova, the blue guy. A Hollywood Nova. Who's this bitch? They're Acid Wash jeans.

Yeah. What's going on?

What?

That.

That's how hot Stevie is. Is that girls just running after him from the crowd. And.

That Chastity.

Oh, good call. It might be.

Yeah. That's Chaz today. I'm pretty sure.

They ripped their shirt off. Oh, he's making out with them. Look at the crowd loving Stevie, too.

Go, Stevie. Get some.

Boy, it's so funny. Stevie's just a comedy. It's supposed to be Big Daddy Cool, but he's also Sean Michaels.

Yeah.

Yeah.

He's definitely both.

Yeah. That was good. That was a good job.

Joey liked that.

Wow. This crowd is nuts. It's awesome. They're taking over. And they are over.

This. This crowd is way more hyped than they are at the arena In Philly.

Yeah. Pennsylvania. That's right. This is March 1st, this show. I didn't mention that. Going for the gold.

Got to fight.

Oh.

Hell, yeah.

I like this.

Like Stevie cool.

Chantal Abuse to last a lifetime. And if I have my way, April 14th, you will have a new ECW World Heavyweight Champion.

And Depressed, Main.

Depressed, man.

I think I hear something in the background now, bro.

My ac. Yeah. Is it loud now?

It's gone.

Join us, Main. Oh, here's Raven. Probably you, Meanie. It goes right after him.

I'll shoot your dog.

I'll shoot your dog. And Spit on your parents grave. Never take sides against the family. This Godfather Ravens laying down that belt. Good chip.

Stevie's taking that shirt off.

Been a long time coming. Yeah, two and a half years. Let's fight tonight. Oh, threat there. See if he's got a watch behind his back. All right, that was a good opener. Building up hype to the pay per view now. More consistent basis. All right, let's see if there's anything we can quickly go through in our notes here. All right, so some quick house show results from Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania from February 28th. So the night before this, you had Little Guido defeat Chris Chetty. Taz defeated Balls Mahoney. Rob Van Dam defeated Spike Dudley. Eliminators defeated the Pit Bulls. Tommy Dreamer defeated Devon Dudley. Sandman defeated Bubba Ray Dudley, and Raven defeated Louis Piccoli. And Sabu defeated Chris Candido. And what is said to be a really good match. That was the night before this March 1st grand show.

Barely legal on Sunday night, April 13th at 9. 00pm Eastern time. But for some fans here Tonight in Scranton, Pennsylvania, who couldn't wait until Sunday night, April 13, who needed their extreme craving satisfied, the athletes of ECW took them to the extreme.

All right, looks like get our first match here. Taz heading to the ring.

Yeah, Taz with an orange towel tonight.

Yeah, that's right. Not the black one.

I usually start in the ring. Napoleon Dynamite.

Napoleon Dynamite.

We see Pedro.

Oh, it's Spike.

Oh, that's so boring to tell. It was him.

Strong with Spike. He's like biting the turnbuckle. All right, so I guess we're getting abbreviated version of the match. Highlights of his career. Taz fears me. Taz like you get in this ring, you punk. Spikes can get up in this match. Taz is on his way to a big match against Sabu at a pay per view. Nobody stands a chance against Taz during this month. Somebody's camera angle suck, like you said, jb, it's blurry. Yeah, like they the camera a certain way and then it gets blurry.

Yeah, like the hard cam. This. This shot right here is super blurry.

Yeah.

And then when they cut to one of the guys like that, that's. Yeah, much better. I mean, it's not. It's not hd, but it's a hell of a lot clearer.

Right. All right, so Spike tapped out there. Tasmission.

That was barely a match.

Yeah.

I mean, I don't know how long the actual it was caught, but they cut it way up.

Let me see if they have times on it. Doesn't say on this. I'm sure it was no longer than three minutes.

Chris Chetty defeated him.

Oh, Tommy Rich Wildfire.

Against Chris Jetty.

Oh, Tommy. Tommy Rich is with Little Guido. So we're gonna get Tommy and Guido as a team soon.

Really?

Yeah, he's gonna. Tommy Rich is going to be a part of the FBI.

Yeah, he is it. He is. He is a full blooded Italian. According Italian. Yeah, he from Nashville, Italy or something? No, no, no, that's Tracy Smothers.

Oh, yeah, that's right. Yeah. Tracy Smothers is gonna join it too.

Yeah. Tommy Rich is from Atlanta, right?

Yeah, yeah.

So he's from Atlanta, Italy.

And he. There's one thing where he says, like, they're gonna go get some pizza, like Sicilian pizza. But he doesn't say Sicilian. He says like skillion. Some Skillion pizza, Something like that. Yeah. Funny. Yeah.

We barely got any of that out of these matches.

Yeah. Geez. Basically just giving us the rundown of what happened that night in Scran. Now we're seeing highlights of a ladder match. I guess it's a lot of match or is there just a ladder in the. In the ring?

I think there's just a ladder in the ring because you don't have anything hanging up.

You're right, that's true. And there's no titles. Well, the Eliminators are the champions though, right?

Yeah.

Yeah, they're champs.

Oh, the ladder just broke in half.

Yeah. What they think was gonna happen four. Four guys like that on that rinky ding ladder.

And it wasn't even one of those ladders that you can climb both sides. So of course the. The weaker side just gives.

See if there's anything about this match.

Oh, that wasn't bad.

Eliminators beat Sabu and Van Damme in their typical ladders and tables match. At one point, the ladder broke due to having too much weight on it. But they'd already done most of the ladder spots by that point. The fans gave them a standing ovation after the match. Wow. So we're at the point where it's coming to an end and they broke the ladder.

Yep. So this is a ladders and tables match. Okay.

Where's the tables though?

I don't know.

Elbow drop into a ladder. I never understood.

That's not gonna hurt the guy under the ladder. That's gonna hurt you.

Just gonna hurt. Oh, there's the tables. Maybe they just have to get somebody through a table to win the match. Let's see Sabu going. Of course Sabu falls Off.

I was gonna say this is gonna.

Move, but, yeah, at least it was set up for him to fall. All right, so we don't see the finishing that, but we're looking at Bueller right now in a nice little dress here.

Yeah, I was gonna say. I'm. I don't care about missing that because I'm seeing Beulah.

Yeah, this is fine.

We're winning.

We are winning. That nice. The nice flowery trim. Yeah, with his purple pants on.

Yeah, I thought. I thought my screen was up, but, yeah, looks purple.

God, she's so hot.

That's a nice number that Bueller has on there. That phrase always made me laugh. A nice number there. All right, so Tommy and Sandman coming out together, drinking a couple brewskis. The Tommy's smashing them into the head. Yeah, this little kid just got his first taste of beer. You see him? He, like, grabbed it and, like, put it into his mouth.

Yeah.

This little kid, right. Oh, they cut away quick. All right, they're taking on the Dublies. Not sure how much we're gonna see of this match, if any.

Yeah, I definitely want those Sandman pants, though. Like, those look comfy as.

Yeah, wear those around the house in bed.

You can keep a whole six pack in the pockets. I mean. Yeah, we didn't even see the match. Now we got lan, Storm and Axel.

Oh, they just cut away. I mean, I guess they've just given us an overview of what the matches were. Are we gonna see any matches, like, in full form? Let's. Let me take a look at my notes.

Like, we didn't even get to see Sandman hit anybody with the cane. Like.

No, it just. They walked in and they. They just screamed. And that was it.

Yeah, that was it.

Match highlights. Match highlights. Right after these match highlights, they're gonna cut to a Pulp Fiction promo and then we'll get a match at the end. Chris Candido versus Luis McColly. That's it.

All right, well, I can. I can deal with that.

But what I do like that we're getting a little bit of everybody. Yeah, like, if I was 14 years old watching this episode. Still be cool, because you're seeing a whole bunch of. And we see Lance Storms, ECW TV debut here. He had him. He had his first match a month earlier, February 1st. And then he didn't have any matches until March 1st. And this is the first one that aired. He took on Balls Mahoney in his first match at Crossing the Line. Again. Now here he's taking on Balls partner Axelrod yeah. And the Dudley boys out here. Upland Storm.

Yeah. Lance Storm and his beautifully bleached rat tail.

Yeah, he looks like Tanaka.

Like who?

Tanaka.

Tanaka.

No.

Tatanka.

Tatanka.

Tatanka Buffalo.

Isn't that funny how Tatanka's first match was against Tanaka?

Was it?

Yeah.

Yeah. Tatanka versus Pat Tanaka.

Yeah.

All right. Showtime. All right, so the Dudleys came out to with Lance Storm. And then now here we got the gangsters throwing trash all around there, right? And then a good talk beating. Well, they just beaten on whoever Bubba takes. This a great shot to the head. It's one of New Jack's greatest hits. Was that a ice pack?

That's what it looked like.

Oh, another pan. This pan's up the ass there. What is this, a six? Oh, it's a toaster. If I was signed guy, I'd run away every time. Like, this shit's going down. Get out of there. Oh, it was a Nintendo NES system. Now those things can crack your head. The old NES see? You got any information on this or did they just cut away from it?

Yeah, it's possible they did. He's a word processor into New Jack's balls.

That's a first.

Jv. Have you ever seen anybody in the business world take a word processor to the taint?

I wouldn't have left if that was was happening.

Oh, wow. Axel's up. Axel's just like talking a bunch of. And the Dudleys are just people up. The hell's even say this is the best. Oh, they're calling the Dullies the best tag team in the world. That goes against what this team thinks. Eliminators. They're the best tag team in the world according to them. All right, so eliminate is face to face with the Dudleys. Second guy doing. Oh, you're gonna find out who's the best. Have a match. Who. Who the is this? Oh, Lance Stone's back. It's got like, LLD LLD tights on.

Yeah, he does. Actually, I never. I never realized that he does have Road Warrior Hawk tights. Yeah.

Nice drop kick. And the battle ensues once again, our head. Oh, a back punch. Bubba tied up in the ropes. That looks great.

Feel the trash still flying in. Makes it harder to work.

It's hard to work when you got a freaking Nintendo in the middle of the ring. Toaster.

And yeah, a word processor.

Word processor.

Sign guy's about to get up.

Dumbass.

Were made.

He's like, oh, total elimination. Here we go. Joey loses his every time. It's good.

Sorry.

Building up this feud here, Dudley Boys are getting better every week. There's no more, no more goofy Dudley Boys. Oh, that's thanks to Devon. But Bubba Ray is a badass now. And there's the gangsters again. Can't stop this fight. We just fight until we get to.

The back and looking like egging them on.

Yeah. With this plaid shirt. Yeah, plaid shirt and red face.

Yeah.

Hotline.

I can't do a Peter Griffin. I'm sorry. I was gonna. And then I'm like, nope, that happened.

Not working.

Yeah, I'm not gonna try. Who does have a good one is Keith Langston. Keith Langston from Greetings from Allentown podcast.

Yeah.

I don't know if you ever checked that podcast out.

I, I, I've heard, I've heard some of their stuff. I think we've had this discussion once before. Yeah, I probably did, but I don't think I've, I've heard him do a Peter Griffin.

I mean, his voice, his voice basically is like Peter Griffin. He's just, he's from Massachusetts. The. Is this song?

Yeah.

Is this More Stray Cats?

No.

What the hell is that? This guy keeps changing his voice.

This is awful.

Rick, what kind of music is this?

I don't know. Is this like. I guess. Is this like Psycho Billy? It's not really, but I don't know. I don't know what you'd call. Yeah, weird. There you go.

Oh, more Extreme Warfare Volume 2. We didn't watch the scaffold match, right? No, it wasn't on anything.

We didn't. It was on.

We watched a scaffolding match. Not that one, right?

Yeah, that one's, that one's from High Incident and they never showed it on. They didn't really show it on hardcore tv.

Yeah, we fucked up there. We should have watched that match before. The Kimono, Wanalaya. Yeah, that we did. Because it was right on the same. Same thing. Yeah, same video.

That same. Yeah, yeah, there you go.

Drop the ball on it. Come on.

See in this video clip, a lot of balls kind of dropped at the. I believe when this get aired.

That was good. Here we go now. You heard me, you nerd, man. All right, let's see. Pay per view tickets are going on sale March 3rd with ringside seats for a hundred dollars in General admission at $40. Ringside tickets also entitles the purchaser purchaser to a free T shirt, free program, and a half price ticket to the Terry Funk Banquet the night before.

Guys, we should go.

Let's go.

Hundred dollars for ringside and you get a T shirt and a program.

Banquet review.

Hostile City Showdown 97. And one of the main events has been announced.

I had a time machine. That's the kind of I'd go back and do.

Oh, yeah.

You know what I mean? That's. That's how I would take advantage of this great technology of time travel.

Right.

Don't.

Don't go. Don't go back and, like, try to alter history or anything like that. You know, Go. Go back.

I just want to be a spectator.

Right?

Go.

Go back and go to WrestleMania 2.

In. In time travel three separate times so that you can go to each show.

Right.

The one in la, the one in Chicago, then the one in New York.

I need to see Bundy vs. Hogan in a cage. Damn it.

Need to be there live.

It's not going to happen.

All right, what's. Whatever. The promo's probably already over, right? I was gonna say, let's lay out. It's over. Shane Douglas is pissed about something, as always. Did you catch what he was saying?

I think he was pissed about having to defend the TV title against Pitbull number two again at the paper.

Okay. All right. They're hyping the upcoming hostile City Showdown 97, which I wanted to see if it was available on the network. And they only have 94, 95, and 96. They don't have hostile city shot on 97, which is weird. Not that we need to watch it, because they're going to cover most of it in the next episode.

Right.

Standing by 24 hours.

Operators are standing by 24 hours a day. I call.

Yeah. Answering machine.

Yeah. Was that even a thing back then?

Oh, I'm sure it was. But not.

Waiting by his Joey Styles mom or something.

Yeah.

Taz's. Taz's wife.

Paul Heyman's Jewish grandmother.

New Jersey debut. The latest in a long string of incidents involving Taz.

All right, so some background on, I don't know, Fan Cam. Sweet. What's this taking place? I say Trenton. Yeah. This is Fan Cam from Trenton, New Jersey. This show was on March 8, so a week after the Scranton show.

So this would have only been a couple days before this episode aired.

Right. So this was fresh.

Yeah.

He has Spike Dudley set up on a table. Taz is on the mic. He's ready to up Spike. Sabo comes in and sa. Just goes through the table.

It his ankle up possibly.

Look at him. Yeah, he's grabbing at his ankle. Like, couldn't you just slow down a little bit and do it right? No, so Sabu just basically went in there to just not allow Taz to do what he wanted to do. Screw you. I'm doing it. Oh. So this feed that we're watching is from the Sports Channel. You can see the graphic. Finally, Sports Channel Philadelphia. A little white zombie song. I can go with this for a break. I don't know which white zombie song it is. You know it is because he's like, yeah, I have to go back and use my Shazam and figure it out. All right, so we got a March 14th show. Downington. It's as good as it gets. I've been taking on Chris Candido. I thought I said he's showing on. You got Francine versus Franchise versus Pitbull number one.

And an I quit match.

Yeah, I quit match. Yep. Taz versus rvd. That's a big match.

Sabu.

That means he's, like, fighting Mikey Whipwreck or somebody like that.

Yeah. So, yeah, he's. Sandman's gonna. Came the out of a jobber. That's all it means.

Yeah. Hall of Heroes, Voorhees, New Jersey.

Yep.

This Saturday night at the ECW arena at home. Hostile City Showdown. 97. Two of Raven's biggest enemies unite for a common cause. Take Raven out.

Whose voice is this? It's not Paul, is it?

Who is it?

Sounds weird.

Yeah, it's Paul. Yeah. I thought you said someone else. I was like, who? Hey, Big Ben.

Hey, Joe Gerner. Quintessential quintessential stud muffin. Live from the hood.

His chest hair probably stinks. Like.

What kind of cologne you think he wears?

Jva.

Of course. That's.

Yeah, it's.

It's either that or way too much Old Spice.

Old Spice. Old Spice. It was funny. There was an actual episode of BTT a while back because they asked Chris harbor the same thing like they always do. Like, what kind of a cologne does he have? And he said something like Old Spice or whatever. And he's like, whatever. Worked for my father, works for me. Got my mother, Got my mother pregnant with their work for me. Yeah, that's exactly what he did. The Is. Oh, the Dudley's hanging out in the old Public Enemy hangout.

Yeah.

All right, so this is kicking off the. The Pulp Fiction promo.

Testify.

Testify.

I'm sure that they would be proud of us this day. I say, those gangsters, brutish young gentlemen.

You know, Sign Guy Dudley is like, the head executive of Circus.

Is he really?

Yes.

That's cool.

What exactly is. I was impressed. I was like, oh, he's Like a legit business guy. Lou d'. Angeli.

Yes.

He's a director of marketing and public relations for Cirque du Soleil in Las Vegas. As well as the Vice president of marketing for Anthem Entertainment.

Oh, that Anthem that used to own tna. Whatever.

Yes.

Oh, sick. That's cool.

Good for.

Good for him.

He's 51 years old now.

Jesus.

Louie Dangerously.

Yeah.

All right. So Dudley boys want the Eliminators.

Maybe not.

Is he just making fun of the. The gangsters?

Yeah.

With the. The crossed arms.

The X. Yeah. Yep. Look at these guys.

Windbreakers. Jesus.

With the IC tag team titles. Yeah, Yeah. I like those windbreakers. It's badass. Promises, hair slick back. How different that place looks with. It's empty.

It's just a warehouse at that point.

Yeah.

We going to suffer the same fate as the gangsters. Doc and Gordy.

SE and Van Dam.

Total elimination. Yeah, Total elimination.

These guys would kick ass today.

Oh, yeah.

That'S Italian. Full blooded Italian. That's what we're talking about.

You know.

And hey, we're fixing to go get.

Some of the best sizzling food. We're going to Domino's.

Come on.

Gary. Tommy Rich. Raspy ass voice. Francine. Hello.

You broke my neck. You ridiculed me. You smacked this pit bull in the face. For the last time. The chase is over. No more promises, no more threats. I'm taking you out. I quit. You broke my neck. I quit. You ridiculed me. I quit. You smacked this pit bull in the face. For the last time. Quit. I'm taking you.

These Blaze.

Yeah, he's. He's stoned. You can just see he's got that like half squint thing going.

Yeah. Smirk.

Hungry.

Yeah, he's. He's, he's wondering how quickly can I finish this promo so that I can go up the street and get some Doritos Funyuns.

What'll be faster, this promo or me destroying that bag of Doritos?

Yep. Yeah. Prime time bulldozer. You.

And it's going to be my pleasure to step in the ring and end your career. And you know why?

Whose lock? It has an X on it. I think that's New Jack.

That. That would make sense.

All the other ones had like, names. Yeah, that one's just an X. Probably new Jack Raven with the.

The old ECW belt.

Yeah, true. That was probably an old clip. They just threw it in there.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure we saw that. That Terry Funk, you know, bitching at Raven promo.

Yeah, with his ear.

And then Brian Lee took a trash can and smashed him in his ear over and over and over again. You see, for 20 years, ever since Terry Funk lost the heavyweight title, he's dreamed of of getting it back. And now that dream is dead. You see, Raven, that banquet of his is now gonna become his retirement banquet. And it burns a hole in my heart to see him. Cause I was his partner. And I saw the life and the dream leave his soul. On Sunday night, April 13th, I assure you, Raven, that I'm gonna do everything in my power to end you.

I'm Tommy. There we go. Wrap it up. At least it was the last one.

Rob Van Dam claims it in.

Something's up with Paul Heyman's voice though. It's like raspy. It's like. Or it's just like three in the morning. He's tired.

He still wants revenge against Rob Van Dam. Can Van Damme pull off the upset of the century just a month before the pay per view experience the difference. Kaz vs Van Damme this Saturday night. This is your chance to own a piece of extreme history.

I feel like Jimi Hendrix is about to play the guitar right now. So I'm just like the opening to one of his songs. Oh, there is it really Rick Root under the mess. Call this hotline to judge for yourself. The Are you gonna vote on if you think it's Rick rude or not? Yes.

99 cents each additional minute. Call your parents for permission.

Oh, here's this song again. It sounds like. And it's funny because his name came up earlier when I was talking to you, Rick, before the show. It sounds like Steve Martin singing a song, like doing some character. I don't know if you ever watch Little Shopahas, but he sings in that movie and he, he does this kind of voice like he's Elvis or something. Oh, yeah.

It is now time for our television main event. Hitting two 25 year old grapplers against one another. Two young men who are looking to attain an all new level of respect.

Here at Extreme Extreme.

Chris Candido.

Oh, here we go. Match from the bell, from the start.

And Luis Spicoli.

Who's Picoli, Candido Spicoli, Francine at ringside. It's nice to see Brian Lee's there as well. Shane Douglas there too. Well, it's a triple threat, right? That makes sense. And Brian Lee off, try to get this match started. He's like throwing his hands into the ring. What's this crowd chanting? Probably something of Francine.

Show your tits.

Yeah, something like that. Probably show them Pop them out. Shane Douglas telling the crowd off.

I'm the one that gets to look at her tits. It goes like this.

It goes like this. I see the tit.

Headlock again by Spicoli.

Shot off.

Shoulder block.

Good selling by Candido after that. Shoulder block. Okay, man, that me up.

Those with some words of encouragement for Mr. No gimmicks needed, Chris Candida. And does he look dazed?

He went down hard stuff.

Stopping slow.

Yeah, too slow. Pick it up.

He'll pick it up. Yeah. Do some chain wrestling.

That's not wrestling. This is wrestling. It's all I read on Twitter now.

Aw.

And wwe, people arguing.

That's not wrestling.

This is real wrestling, man.

Like, get over it. Just watch whatever the you want to watch. There's no. There's no winning. There's no right opinion.

I don't give a about a wrestling match if there's no story. I don't if it's the most technically sound, because at the end of the day, it's scripted, right? Like, if I care about, like, skill only, I'll watch real fight.

Ufc. Yeah.

I need the theatrics.

I need the. We need the story. Yeah. Like, I mean, they can be cold matches that are good, but build to something from it, though. Well, yeah, but don't just have a random match and then never go back to. To those two guys again. Like. Like you said, who cares about a good match? I mean, some people out, like, some people like that, though. Some people just look good matches. I don't know. Some people, I think, like, the fancy themselves as, like, they're a Dave Meltzer and they want to judge wrestling matches. Like, there's some authority on what the a match is, you know, I mean, we do it here. We say, oh, it was a good match. This match suck. But we forget about it, like, two seconds later. Doesn't really matter. Man, what's up with this soundtrack, man? It's got this bluesy. Yeah, maybe this song's good, though. Who knows?

Yeah, it's definitely a very bluesy guitar solo.

Hostile City showdown. City showdown. What did it say?

No, no, I thought I. No, I. It sounded like you said shitty. That's a good one. Hostile. Shitty showdown.

Shitty. Shitty Chicken or something is the name of the restaurant.

It's city chicken.

It's CityWalk. He's like, you don't like my Shitty Chicken?

Mongolian beef?

Yeah.

Oh, no. The Mongolians rules. Funny when you. Have you seen the clips of Trey Parker Mastone doing the Chinese accents in, like, in the studio, dude, it's so funny. I don't know why that shows up on my Instagram feed a lot. Like South Park. And then it's like them backstage doing, like, the show, like, in the recording booth. Yeah, it's so funny.

Oh, I gotta try to find it.

Yeah. Oh, it's. It's. It's hilarious. Seeing them, like, go back and forth, like, between Kyle and Cartman, and that's. Yeah, it's awesome. And then I forget who it is, but which one of them does Butters? And they're like, no, no, not Butters, Kenny. And they're like. They're, like, covering their mouth to do the.

Shoulders.

Gary Owen Hart, classic move.

Speaking. Speaking of stuff that shows up on your Instagram or tick tock or whatever, you know, what showed up on mine earlier was Hulk Hogan versus the great Muda from Japan in, like, 1994. 1995. Hogan throws it in Zaguri.

Wow.

Half decent.

Yeah. Whenever you see, like, a Hogan match from Japan, it's like he's a totally different guy.

I've heard that, too.

Yeah.

So I could wrestle, brother. When I go over there with the Japanese.

Yeah.

You know, those guys really stretched me out, brother. Hey, shut the up.

Nobody isolate that.

Oh, man. Oh, double punch. Well, knocked each other out.

That's awesome.

That's a good spot. Double haymakers.

I think they might have actually hit each other because I don't think they're this good at acting.

Yeah, Candido looks like he's a. He's a little concussed.

Yeah, it's, like.

Supposed to be a double clothesline.

Yeah, it probably was supposed to be a double clothesline. Double punch. There we go. See?

Yeah, there it is.

They went right back to the spot that they were supposed to do.

There it is.

Yep.

That happens a lot. Like, you up a spot and they just go right back to it. Let's try it again. So they're definitely up by accident.

Spaghetti legs.

Skillion likes Skilling spaghetti. Those aren't connected. Oh, spine buster on Anderson style. Oh, it means business now. Yep. Took your strap. Down, back body drop. Spicoli's on fire. Oh, so far away. Scully's going up to the top. The he gonna do up there. Oh, Francine him up. Oh, Referee's back to turn. Francine takes advantage. And Luis Coley's got some hurting balls right now. What we got here? Hurricane Rana. Nope. Suplex.

Not. Not a. Not a mid Plex. He's actually on the top rope.

Oh, reversed by Spicoli. Yeah. Goes to the top. Drop Kick. No sunset flip, but reversed reverse again the flip reversal once. Jesus. Oh, cow wheels out of it. Oh, there we go. German suplex. We'll save there by Brian Lee, I think. Good chip. Nice, quick, fast paced exchange.

Center in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

Oh, didn't fully complete that Northern Light suplex, but always looks good. Get a chant. Is that what they're saying? No idea who this crowd wants to win?

No, I don't think they know.

They're just like, yeah, they're just appreciative of what the hell's going on. And to look at Francine's ass.

Yeah, probably nut shot to the Louie no Mule kick from Candido. Referee didn't see it. But that doesn't matter in ecw. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't.

Yeah.

Is this a Hurricane running spot? Oh, yep, that is. Yeah. From Chris to Louie Candido. Luis Picoli. Not gonna steal the BTT gimmick. Would you go to high school with him?

I mean, that is Chris Candido's real name.

So that's true though, right? Spotty reversed foot over two count. What I most like about this match is while Triple Threat is out there. Oh, there's the finish. Nice little roll up. And now the match is finished. I can say I like this even further is nobody really interfered in this match other than Francine with the ropes and Louis falling on his nuts. But you have any like run ins and, and.

And Francine doing that didn't cause him to lose immediately.

So that was like four minutes ago. Yeah, they're like. You can actually see an ECW match that doesn't have ton of people running in. If this match was just Chris Candido versus Luis, because without the presence of the Triple Threat, probably I don't think it would have been as good. They added in a good, nice little element to it. Now here's some post match pushing going on. Former Body Donna is with each other.

Body dawn is.

Body Donna in training was Rad Radford.

What's weird is 3 out of the 4 guys were all in WWF at the same time. You had Candido, Douglas and Spicoli. All were in WWF at one point. At the same time.

Yeah, yeah. Body donors, Dean Douglas, Red Rafford, all at the same time. Yeah, yeah. And Brian Lee was there just a year before.

Yeah.

For his fake taker.

Yeah, the faker taker.

Right now this is more like the ecw we're accustomed to. People running out the pit bulls in the ring now with their ECW hardcore TV entrance music.

Yeah. Oh, he's trying to break Shane Douglas.

Oh, yeah. Hey, Joey said it right after you.

Joey's ripping me off.

Yeah.

27 years ago.

27 years. All right. We got the twin referees in there. Both have the same bald spot now.

Yeah.

Makes it even more difficult for me to distinguish. Balsami has, like, ripped ass pants. It's like, might as well not even wear them. That's the style he's going for. Who's that? Is that super crazy, that guy right there?

No, he's one of the. The bad crew or whatever.

Really? They're still around?

Apparently. Yeah. The. The two guys that were with.

Yeah. Damien King's guys. Yeah. Yeah, maybe. Maybe.

Yeah. They're probably local. Yeah, they just needed a body there to. To separate the guys, you know?

Yeah. All right, that concludes the episode. We go off the air with that brawl there in the ring. A good little episode there.

Wasn't bad.

No. Yeah. I mean, the match was fine. I like the match. And really what we had was just like, quick segments of what happened that night, with oftentimes not even telling us what the finish to the matches were. Just this match happened. Yeah. So not one of the best, I.

Guess, but it's like when you go to a restaurant and you don't. It's like, it wasn't bad. Like, you didn't have a miserable time. It didn't ruin your night or anything. Be like, it wasn't bad, but you're never going back.

It was me.

I'll never go back and watch this again. I already forgot what the happened.

Nothing. Yeah, nothing. Nothing huge. I. I think the biggest thing probably would be the Stevie Richards angle or is challenging Raven for this.

Raven. Yeah, that was the.

Yeah, that's the main thing that happened here. All right, so we're gonna take a little break. I think we're gonna play the White Zombie song once I figure it out what it is. But if not, it'll be definitely not one of those other songs. Yeah, we'll find some White Zombie nonetheless. Even if I don't find it, we'll just pick a. I'll pick a White Zombie song. All right, so take a listen to that, and we'll be back with the next episode of you set up your hardcore TV, which is March 18, 1997.

Sam.

Yeah.

Mommy.

Sam.

Mom. Sa. All right, we're back now for the next episode of ECW Hardcore TV. And that is ECW Hardcore TV 204 from March 18, 1997. And this got a run time of 55 minutes, 32 seconds. So let's just get right into this. We got a big one. This is Hostile City showdown that they were just building up on the last show, and we're going to get a lot of coverage of that. Hopefully we'll get some actual length, you know, full length matches and not just a bunch of highlights, but we'll see. It looked like a good card, so hopefully we get to see most of it. Okay, I'll give us a countdown. As always, three down to one to sync us in, I'll say play. When I say play, we all click play. All set, guys. Ready to go.

Let's do it.

All right. Three, three, two, one. Play. And we're on. All right, so we're. We just left a big ball, and we're joining in progress. Candido just cheap shot at Ramadan. We have everybody in the whole company in the ring right now. Even Tracy Smothers.

Yes. With the rare pink with the black sash.

Yeah, that's pink, right?

Yeah.

All right, so we're building up the big match, Taz versus Sabu, by having a brawl. Oh, RVD just wanked ass. They have a match during this show, so I don't know if that's later or before this. Yeah. What a way to kick off a show. Show. Everybody's in there. This looks like it would be at the end of the night.

And Raven's just chilling in the corner.

Right. So we're back in the ECW arena for this show. This is Hostile City Showdown, and it's March 15, 1997. So this just happened days before this episode came out.

And the. The thing about this is it you have the, you know, the good guys and the bad guys all helping each other to try to keep Sabu and Taz apart. It's not like, oh, well, of course the, you know, bad guys are gonna support one guy and guys are gonna support the other. So it makes it more like it's real, you know?

Right. Like chaos.

Yeah. It's like these. These guys really must hate each other because, like, you know, Bubba Ray and D. Von and the Eliminators are all trying to help. They're not fighting, you know, each other. They're. They're teaming up.

All right. Yeah, that's great.

Here we go.

Oh, so you had Raven and Stevie in the ring, but no New Jack. The Gangsters music just hit, and New Jack's dancing atop the entrance.

Yeah.

It's the night that New Jack. New Jack dance atop the ring entrance.

Yeah. I don't want to see him in just a towel.

Though also, everyone's gathered together. Here comes New Jack flying down. Holy. That was crazy. That's a big jump. That is not as big as a jump that'll have in a year or so with Spike Dudley. I think it's.

Yeah, it's a couple years, but.

Yeah, a couple years.

I know which one you're talking about.

Yeah, yeah. It's like off a little balcony thing. Not a little balcony, but it's like 30ft, I think.

Off a balcony. Yeah.

Yeah. All right, so let me go over some house show results. So try to squeeze one in here. The week before this show, it was the March 8th show, which they showed us a little bit about on the Fan Cam in Trenton, New Jersey. The show was held at the CYO Center. You had Taz defeat Spike Dudley via Taz Mission. The Eliminators defeated the Bad Crew. So that makes sense what you said, that the Bad Crew was there.

Yeah.

Raven defeated Supernova. Pit Bull Number two defeated Brian Lee. Chris Jetty defeated Little Guido. Tommy Dream of Pin, Devon Dudley. New Jack and Louis Spicoli teamed up and defeated Exo Rotten and Balls Mahoney. Sandman defeated Bubba Ray Dudley again. Then Sabu defeated Chris Candido in another rematch. Actually, no, that was their first match, and that was supposed to be a really good match. Taboo versus Chris Candido. All right, I'll get to the Donaldson show in the next break. Let's see what the hell's going on here. Oh, big match. Taz versus rvd. Oh, looks like we're gonna get maybe the whole match because we're getting the entrances and everything has in the zone right now. Another Taz Fears Me sign. Back to back weeks.

And Steve fears Taz.

Steve Fierce does.

Magic marker on the.

Oh, is it Steven? Yeah. Has starts the match with a chair. Oh, he gives. You want to use your chair? Here's your chair. That's funny.

Thing has choked out Rob Van Dam, but not without suffering a broken nose, a black eye. And Van Damme re injured that shoulder of Taz. A recurring injury.

No. Robin then went for the chair, but Taz quickly down and got him in a French answer. Now we're rolling around on the mat. Nice bridge up. So a lot of those bridges today. Gymnastics leg out.

This leg out or bring it back to the mat.

A lot of rolling around. Just fine.

Little mat wrestling.

It's funny. Like, we're back in ECW arena, and it's like it's the same ECW arena show from last time. The crowd is exactly the same. Everyone's in the same exact spots. Even, you know, the. The Rams guys become a fixture over the past year. He's always right around that spot.

They're probably members of Club ecw. They just get the same tickets forever every show.

That's true. They probably also figure, like, I want to become like a regular recognized guy, so I'm gonna wear the same clothes every time I go.

Right. Like that guy and sign the original.

That's definitely what that Rams guy's doing.

Yeah, he wears that.

Like, if I change my clothes every week, no one's gonna recognize who I am. Everyone wants to have 15 minutes. Oh, what a dive. Looks like he cracked his skull. Taz is asking him how he's doing. Yeah, like, you all right, man?

Could have his wrist up too, the way he landed.

So. Yeah, Joe just said it. Less than a month away from the pay per View. It's March 18th now, so we're getting there. We have four more episodes of hardcore TV and then it'll be Barely Legal Super Special. Yep.

Super Card Special.

Pay Per View Special. Our first pay per view special. Super Duper Pay Per View Special. So that's a three hour show. So we want it to be released as one episode. So, you know, to break it into like an hour and a half segments instead of an hour. We do our segments now. It's just gonna be a little longer if we need to. Obviously we can record each part on a different day and then combine them, but if we're in Ballsy, we can do it all in one night.

Yeah, it'll be like if the three of us were sitting on the couch watching it live.

Yeah.

Just talking.

Probably do it all one sitting.

Yeah, let's just do it all one sitting.

Try to start a little earlier.

Yeah, we just won't have a powwow earlier.

Awesome. Power of the Tax Task Flex. Ain't that the truth.

Yeah, we'll cut out the pre show antics that nobody gets.

Right.

The business headsets on. You're being recorded.

Let's go. And we're live.

Hit the red light.

Can't wait to get the Bailey legal. Pretty sure one of these hardcore TVs is going to be like a hype show, so maybe we won't watch that and just cover. You'll see. I'll check it out ahead of time and see if it's worth us watching at all.

Yeah, because if it's just like a hype show.

Right.

We just all recaps.

Right? All right, so we got Taz. Got some Funky Grapevine block On him. He's got them all wrapped up. Weird. Oh, Joe's just called a freestyle bow and arrow. I don't know. I don't know. But what do I know? Seems like Taz really has RVD's number. Yeah, he just slows RVD down every time.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

Follows him, keeps him down.

Speed kills. But not in Taz's world, because Taz is fast. He doesn't look fast. He's pretty quick. He's a Tasmanian devil. I like to say that's what he was.

You like to say that? I say that. I came up with that on my own. Taz is like a Tasmanian devil.

No one ever knew that.

Hard hitting.

Exciting coverage here, 27 years later.

That was a hot take. JV.

It's so funny. Like, Taz is so, like, badass, but then you just see his Tasmanian devil cartoon. Looney Tune cartoon tattoo doesn't fit.

But, yeah, you kind of have to be tough to get a tattoo like that.

It's true.

Who the Busting his balls about that tattoo?

If anything, though, he should have got the test. He should have got the Tasmanian devil tattoo of, like, when Taz is in a, like, the hurricane type thing.

Yeah.

I mean, yeah, like, spinning. People would know exactly what that is.

Do a tattoo.

You just give the guy the drawer and he does it.

What do you mean?

Coming from a guy that has no tattoo, it's just so late in the game. There's no point to ever getting a tattoo.

I used to.

What am I gonna get?

I used to work with a dude. He was easily, like, 60, and he started getting tattoos. It was weird. He was, like a nice. Well, he was a nice guy. And, like, I think he had one tattoo that he got, like, when he was in the Navy when He was, like, 19. And it looked like absolute garbage because, you know, it was. It was done like, you know, some guy did it basically with like, you know, a pen and ink kind of, you know, like. Like in a. Yeah, like an actual, like, sewing needle.

Right. Just in the back room or something.

But yeah, so he started. He started going and he got like. He had him, like, on his. On his calves, on his. Started getting like, a sleeve going. It was.

It was.

It was cool. Like, he was. He was a badass, but it was also like, you're like, 60, and now you're starting to get covered. You know.

As people say, like, it becomes, like, addicting. Like, you get one, then like, oh, get another one, then. You want another?

I got one. I didn't want Anymore.

Yeah. I mean, if you stop at one, then you probably can.

They're expensive.

Avoid that. But if you get a second one, then it might just, like, continue on.

I mean, I've got eight.

Do you.

They're expensive.

Holy. One.

I got one. I'm like, what? I just have to pay you to call around my arm.

Yeah.

You have the Shamer on. Yeah.

You have eight, though.

I do.

It's pretty cool.

Seven. Seven of them are on my arms and one's on my chest.

Oh, you got a chest tattoo?

I do.

Damn.

Yep.

I got my. My family.

He's hardcore.

Oh, dude, I had to do, like, three sittings for that because.

Coat of arms, dude, that's got to be so intricate. That had to hurt.

Yeah, I had to do, like, three sittings because he did the. He did the lines. And then I was like, yeah, man, I need to tap out. And he goes, okay. And then the next time I went back was to. For him to color it in, and he got about halfway into it, and I was just like, you know what? This. I'll.

I'll come back.

And he goes, yeah, dude, I can feel you shaking. The adrenaline. The adrenaline rush.

Our friend Eric just got his done, and he said the same thing about the chest.

Yeah, yeah, my.

I got it over my heart because it's. I got it kind of like for my dad, you know, a couple years after he passed, it was kind of.

Like, all right, so the match ended. Taz. Taz won the match.

Yeah, Taz. Choked him out.

Choked him out. Nice clean match, too. No crazy happen. So like I said last episode, Taz. Taz is not losing any matches before Barely Legal on the buildup.

They're making him look strong.

Yeah, you gotta. Then what if he loses? Then what the hell is the whole point?

Right? But the only way you could get away with it is if Sabu interfered and distracted him. But even then, they wouldn't do that because it still would make Tazla weak.

Right. You can't take a pin. All right, so we got Brian Lee and Terry Funk. And Terry Funk has. He always has that ability just to find himself in a trash can. That's what happened here. It's like Oscar the Grouch, Terry the.

Grouch.

Terry the Trash man.

Trash Funk.

But Terry. Terry Funk hadn't been around in a while right prior to this match.

I feel like he's on every time we watch an episode now.

He's been around since November to remember, but I don't think he's been I don't think he's been on, like, I don't think he was on the last. The last couple episodes. I think you're right.

Okay, I'm looking now. House party in January. Brian Lee pinned them, and then Terry Funk pinned Tommy Rich February 1st. Then in February, Terry Funk and Tommy defeated Raven. Brian Lee. Yeah, we just saw that on the previous episode.

Okay.

So, yeah, jv. All right. We did just see him on the pre. One of the previous episodes. Yeah. He's been around, like, once a month, basically.

At this point, I knew I was right. Tell me. Collected. Hey, that's your head.

Keeps going back and forth, hitting himself in the head, and then Brian Lee with the straps.

Looking back, Terry, what would you have changed about this loss tonight? Not hit myself in the head with the trash can four times. I think that was a bad idea.

I wouldn't have done that. Acai Moonsault.

Here it comes. Is he gonna hit it? Oh, God.

That's still impressive. Busted his shoulder.

Wow, what a spot. Just crush that can like Sandman does.

Brian Lee's having, like, a seizure.

Nice sell by Brian Lee.

Yeah, he's doing that Shaking cell.

He showed up to show out to the fans today.

Oh, Choke Slim into the trash can now.

Cannot be resurrected. Is that a pun?

What the. Oh, reversed into a DDT. 1, 2, 3. Terry Funk with the win. Wow.

Good.

Hey, he gets his win back. Brian Lee in January.

We go, Terry.

He looks like he's all nuts now. He just got a burst of energy for Terry Funk. It's a cool name, but it's not cool when it's Terry Bolaya.

No.

No.

Your last name's Funk. Any name is cool. Should have been like, Bobby Bolaya, Mike Funk, Mikey Funk, Flash Funk, Frank Funk. Frank Funk. What the. Is this symphony music?

Yeah, let's just use every font we have in one place.

Yeah.

This line will do.

This one. Ariel English it's like. It's like a kid in graphic arts or something, you know, around.

The kids do that in their PowerPoint presentations.

Yeah, just stick to something.

Don't pick cursive, idiot.

Right. And don't put Comic Sans, because it looks like.

I always. Number one abuser of comic sand.

Oh, yeah, everyone. Kids always love that for some reason.

I don't know why everyone hates it.

Oh, it looks like crap. Like in a presentation.

Shut up.

It does.

Oh, in a presentation. Yeah.

Yeah.

It's not bad for, like, titles and for titles. It's not good for content, though.

Hey, I know what you mean. Yeah, you don't want to be reading all that. Yeah, yeah.

But people.

Yeah. Comic Sans though is AOL profile like all over the place. Like I. I think I even had Comic Sans for my.

Oh yeah, Comic Sans Ms. Everyone did Comic Sans. Microsoft.

Yeah, it was cool when you could finally just click on what font you wanted. Remember, you had to put your own codes in and.

Yeah, HTML.

Yeah.

Those are the days.

I'd love for Terry to win the championship.

I got Sandman, Terry Funk and Stevie in a three way dance.

The winner gets a shot at the.

World title in the same night.

Shot at Raven Cyber.

Some Scott music.

Make sure you watch Cyber Slam Big.

D in the kids table or something.

Is that what this is? Big deal.

No, I don't know, it's God, like you said.

Oh, oh, that Rick Ruthing is telling to get the by the tape. Crossing the line again. I thought it was a hotline call. Play ECW trivia and win prizes. Is there somebody really on the line talking to you, giving you trivia questions and. Oh, you're right. Okay, we'll send you, send you a. Oh no, you are right. Sorry.

Franchise looking like a million bucks. Oh man, there's the Francine mvf.

Oh, Rick, might as well bring this up. The. The Francine underboob tweet that. Yeah. Oh yeah, you put out there. I like that. You know. Well, it came from Francine though, right? She's the one that posted that or something.

It did.

And then you retweeted it.

Yep. I.

She ended up liking the retweet.

She did. I was, I was very pleased that. That she liked it.

Yeah.

Although like you said, she was the one that posted it originally.

But you know, but just the fact that you were like, oh, you know, me and JV would agree with it or whatever. And she liked that comment.

Yeah, she did. She's a bed shout out to Francine.

Yes. Francine. If you have a list.

The head cheerleader of the Extreme Live cast.

Yes.

All right, so here we got the I quit match for the TV Championship. Shane Douglas and Gary Wolf. Pitbull1. They're calling him Gary Wolf more often now than just Pitbull. Wow. Wow. FR just nailed Bob Ortiz with the title.

What did Bob AR ever do to you.

Stay that of tits probably.

Yeah.

It'S gonna be that quick.

Now Francine got the. The Hammer to Franchise. Franchise. Sneaking up behind Gary Wolf, hit him in the back of his neck with a hammer. Oh, he takes a drop. Yeah, he's doing it like, oh, I got hit. You know What Eddie Guerrero would go on to do. Oh, he hit me with the hammer. Francine going to work here? Yeah, unless she's on the ring crew. She knows what she's doing here. Loosening up that turnbuckle.

She knows exactly what she's doing.

And she's got the titties out, too, for sure. Good camera angle. She's loosening up those ropes. Are they gonna do with loose ropes?

Yeah. Neck, you are watching an I quit match for the ECW World Television Championship. Francine is loose in the top two ropes. No idea why.

No idea why.

Awakening. Oh. Shane Douglas throwing some shade at Rick Rude. They're going for Boston no cable. Clutch. No. A full nelson.

But he's. Yeah, he's kind of like sitting down.

Yeah.

Yeah. Too bad after he did the Rude awakening, he didn't do a little dick dancing.

Yeah, he should have. I guess they're being subtle about that buildup.

Yeah. Okay. If it's an I quit, they're Finnegan. He. Don't be counting his arm down. Yes, right. I quit.

It's true. Finnegan, get your together. Acting like Earl Hebner out there.

Yeah.

This is something Earl Hubner would do. Forget what the rules of the match are.

There we go.

Oh, that's why you wanted to loosen the ropes.

That's dangerous.

He missed them, so they loosened them, but now.

Hey, did he miss that drop kick? He whiffed.

Yeah, he did.

Yeah, he did.

Oh, just like, drop. Yeah.

Oh, now she's.

Now she's tightening the ropes with his neck in there. Wow, that's awesome.

Cool spot.

Yeah.

I've never seen that.

Yeah, I don't think that's ever happened since. That's awesome. I mean, maybe it's happened on something.

But it was just the setup.

Wow.

I call him a. I think so.

Give it up, you cock sucker. That's awesome.

Call him a.

Did I quit and they Triple threat took over.

No, Bob Ortiz is back. He's fighting with her.

She's telling Bob Ortiz, get the out of here.

Touch me again and I'll sue.

Yeah, he's just trying to touch her. Give me my mic. Give my microphone back.

I feel like Francine would be. Touch me again and I'll kick you. And then Dick.

All right. So they got him to say, I quit.

Yes, they did.

It's over.

Either he passed out One of the two.

I think you did say it.

Yeah.

Is that your girl? Damage control?

I think so.

Yeah.

In the. In the ambulance there.

Yeah. This guy doing the fake. Oh, I'm Sad. I gotta rub my head, think, oh, man, there's Rick Rude with his Bill Cosby shirt on.

Easter is gonna go on as planned. I see Peter Cottontail hopping down the bunny trail. And the trail leads to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

A shitty Christmas ornament. That's what he looks like. Like, you know those balls that are like oval. Yeah, yeah, like, good on him.

That's what he looks like exactly.

His head's like the top where the hook goes.

Yeah, if only the mask was completely silver. Yeah, yeah, it'd be perfect.

We'll be in Pittsburgh next weekend. And as you just heard from the mysterious masked man, he's got some plans of his own for the ECW World Television Champion. The Franchise.

Shane. Oh.

Cut off, button down shirt. Stop. Don't ever come back and you find.

Out just what in the hell I am all about here. For a man with three herniated discs in his neck, you have got one big mouth.

Oh, new TV title.

Yeah, it's the. The Winged Eagle.

Winged Eagle.

Taking them, sending them to the hospital and watching them get screws placed into their skull as they sit and they come cry about the pain and Francine. Damn contraption. Rick Rude, you come out here, you talk about all the rabbit that I'm going to find, and I'm sitting in another room and watching the monitor. It sickens me. Rick rude, because you're 50 pounds lighter and you're not half the man you used to be. I could give a less about how tough you were, how you kicked Sting's ass and Vader's ass and steam boats ass. I don't give a. Because it's 1997 and I'm the man that they call franchise. And they call me that for a reason. And my hand, I hold a tape.

From Japan that he calls himself Franc.

Of the Franchise. No one calls you that. You do.

It's too damn bad, Rude, that it's not 93. Because the franchise in 97 could take the best that rude had in 93. The problem is right here.

How about you sucked in 93? He was way better. It's like if only you were, you know, the shitty one. If only I was me. Now it's like, come on, what is this what if game?

He was the international WCW heavyweight champion or whatever in 1993. Yeah, yeah, exactly. What were you doing?

Shane Douglas, Steamboat. Yeah. Francine wants to know what flavor the edible underwear was that Rick Food had for her. I'll take them. No ag hall show coming up on March 28th. That reminds me to go over some results. I'll show results. All right. Donnington, Pennsylvania, real quick while you do that.

Okay, go for it.

Donnington, Pennsylvania, the farmers market. March 14, 1997. You have Axel Ron defeating Spike Dudley. Steve Williams, Dr. Death defeated Balls Mahoney. And I won't say anything bad about Steve Williams this week. Chris Chetty defeated Little Guido. The Eliminators defeated Raven and Brian Lee. Raven got pinned. Bubba Ray Dudley and Devon Dudley Boys. They defeat New Jack and Louis Spicoli teaming up again. Rob Van Dam defeated Pitbull number two. Shane Douglas defeated People number one via dq. Sabu defeated Chris Candido via submission in a rematch and a submission. What do you think the submission was that he used.

To.

Ah, I have no idea.

The figure four Sabu used the Taz mission. Yeah. So that's a nice little spot there to win with. Taz's move. Good, good book in there. Tommy Dreamer and the Sandman defeated the Dudley Boys in the main event in Downington, Pennsylvania. And then that was again, that was March 14th. So the night before this Hostile City Showdown show. And on the Hostile City Showdown, let me just go over a couple results that are not shown on this episode. Tommy Rich and Little Guido teamed up the FBI and they defeated Tracy Smothers and Chris Chetty. Tracy Smothers, we'll see soon. Joins them in the FBI. Sabu defeated Spike Dudley via submission again using the Tasmission. Chris Candido defeated Luis Macaulay in a best two out of three falls match.

That was probably a good match.

Yeah, that was probably damn good. And then everything else that was on Hostile City Showdown is going to be on this episode. So Terry Funk pinned Brian Lee. It had Shane Douglas defeated Pitbull number one in the I quit match. Then Taz defeated Rob Van Dam via the TAS mission. And we get a couple more matches coming up that they're going to cover, which is the Dudleys versus the Eliminators and then Raven versus Tommy Dreamer. Steven Richards. Actually, no, that wasn't. That's not gonna be on the show. So let me go over that. Raven defeated Tommy Dreamer and Steven Richards in an elimination match. Raven pin Richards and Raven pin Dreamer. So Raven got both pinfalls.

Wow.

In that triple threat match. That's true. And another match that they're gonna give us results to on this episode is Sandman versus Balls Mahoney. That's it. All right, what do we got on the screen here, Sergeant? General warning.

They did. They did show the card for the. The night before Barely Legal. The about the Terry Funk banquet. Oh, it's at the. The Philadelphia Hilton, at the airport. That's where they're doing the banquet.

Yep, yep.

50. 50 bucks a piece. 25 if you get a ring.

25. Yeah.

Or people, if you've got a pay per view ticket already.

A bad deal. They pay $125 for a front row seat and take it to the banquet. And here we are into that tag team match. Eliminators versus the Dudley Boys. So at the start of this feud, this building feud, which will lead to their match at Barely Leg. Sorry. Which that was a hell of a match too. Oh, it's always impressive to see, like, you know, Bubba Ray take that Hurricane runner because, you know, he's doing a front forward roll. Like he's doing it. Dude's athletic. Holy. Cronus is up. What the hell did that happen? Neither of you see a spot? Did he, like, get thrown into the guardrail or something? I mean, it looks like he probably cut himself, but.

Yeah, probably bladed.

But you mean.

You mean what caused it, right?

Like, what was supposed to have caused it? No. Nice tilt. The world Power Slam and Splash. They're becoming a good tag team. Like tag team specialists with moves just.

Lost too much blood.

Saturn is bloody too. This crowd sleeping compared to the scran crowd.

Yeah, they're real quiet for some reason. I mean, not quiet, but compared to.

Right. It's just like. Right. This is just like murmuring, like everyone's having their own little conversation. That cosplay Bubba Ray is pretty good. He's got the. The right brand on. He's got the car heart.

Yeah.

Overalls.

He's the next corners.

Yeah. I mean, Bubba's got the black car heart on this week, but he does have that same blue on denim one.

He wants more.

He wants more, more, more. Cronus has a freaking crimson mast. Yeah. Holy.

He bleeds well, that one.

God. Blow for blow here in the middle of the ring with Bubba and Saturn. Oh, bubble bomb coming. Come on. Oh, Saturn out of it. Oh, going for another one. Reversal pressing. Oh, bubble slam. Bubble slam. That's a boss man slam.

Crowd's loving it.

Yeah, they like it.

Yeah.

This doesn't seem like crazy. I guess they're just enjoying it.

Yeah.

I mean, this is the ECW arena crowd, so, like, they're used to this. You know, Scranton was new, probably, or they haven't been to Scranton as many times, of course. So that crowd was all jacked up to CCW Live.

You know, it's an amazingly gruesome blade job when the guy's bleeding all over his own back.

Yeah, yeah. Because his hair is getting so bloody that it's dripping down.

Yeah, yeah. But he's got blood smeared over the top of his back, you know, Looks.

Like a Viking warrior.

He does. Between the. The blood. Like war paint. Quote, unquote.

Right?

Yeah.

Yep. Oh, nice. I love that kick. Roundhouse sandwich.

Well, it. It describes it.

Yeah. Now, we said this a long time ago. Are you at least, Rick, you probably brought it up a while ago. Nice bubble cutter there. The guy's in the front row. Who's the older guy with the glass sunglasses? See? Someone's brother.

I believe he's. Yeah, I believe he's hat guy's brother.

Okay, that's what I thought.

I know, I know. Hat guy's brother. Is there one of them, like. Yeah, he. He's. He's one of the guys that's always there. And I think. I think that's. That's him. That, like, you say, the older guy with the sunglasses and the Wilford mustache.

Yeah, right. Oh, title change. I wasn't even thinking, like, the title match.

Wow.

Oh, yeah. It's a title match, and Dudley Boys just went clean. Wow. With a.

With a 3D like that. They are the champs.

Look at Joe Gartner jiggling.

Yep.

Oh, they need to him up, please. Quit jumping. Oh, so the push is legit. Dudley Boys are champs. But maybe this is. I don't know. I can't. Yes. I don't want to jump too far ahead, but I don't know if they transition or not, because it would make sense for them to win it here and then eliminate. Is winning back. We'll see.

Yeah, we'll see.

Just makes the feud more interesting now that the. The Heels have the titles. You know what I mean? You know what? Heels chasing baby faces.

Yeah. No, you want. You want the baby faces chasing the Heels?

All right, so they're in the hood again, quote, unquote, the hood.

Joe Gardner with his acne.

Put that brick down, Julio.

That's up.

Was that supposed to be like mean jeans? Put that cigarette out.

No kidding.

Off camera. Put that cigarette up. Put that brick down, Julio.

What I. What I think's hilarious, right, is there's. There's footage, like backstage footage of Mean Gene smoking, and he's yelling at somebody.

Put that cigarette out.

It's like, right. Like a couple of years earlier, Gene, you were puffing on a butt right before you. You did an interview, Right.

Who knows? Maybe he was just around saying that.

Yeah. Maybe.

We got Bubba playing a harmonica over there. What song was that? That was like a religious song.

Was it Taps?

Oh, was it Taps? I don't know. Maybe it was.

Yeah. He's playing on a harmonica, so I.

Thought it was like, Glory, glory hallelujah.

It might have been.

Yeah. He just said Hallelujah, but now. Is that something like Taps as well?

Yeah, Mahoney, that is. Gotcha. Earlier tonight, he had a run in with the extreme icon, the salmon. And for once, just once, I'm gonna sit back, back and shut up. Because tonight, action speaks so much louder than words.

That's what we say, but we never do. Let's see, is Joey gonna interrupt and talk? Yeah. Joey's like, I didn't have time to dub this, so you're not gonna hear from me.

Yeah. Paul Heyman's mom was doing laundry, so I couldn't. I couldn't dub it without hearing the dryer going in the back.

Those pink pants, man, they're lavender. Lavender something. Yeah. Oh, Balls is busted open big time in this match.

Sandman's about to be.

Yep, Balls Mahoney's got his easy access pants on.

He does front and back. Jesus. Hindsight being 20 20, man. Unprotected chair shots.

Get a leg drop off the top here. Nice. I like how he walks the rope quickly there for the angle. Oh, one, two, three. Samuel. The win. As he should.

Yeah. Because who's Balls Mahoney at this point?

Right. He's just hanging out of the rings.

Yeah. He slid out head first.

His feet hanging there like the wicked witch.

Yes.

Wicked witch of the east, right? Yeah. That's the one that get crushed by the house.

Yeah.

Was it?

Yeah. East. The west is the. The green now. The real.

Yeah, the real antagonist.

Right, right. Elphaba is her name. Really?

What a shitty.

There we go.

Yeah.

The crowd's ready.

That's a good one. That popped perfect, that one.

Yeah, he busted the can like it wasn't even open yet. He took a solid can and crushed it on his head. He's like, why did I just do that? Oh, so this is what was up earlier.

Yeah, that was what's up earlier.

The Hilton at the airport. Photo op, Special surprises, a dinner and a meet and greet. It's pretty good, man. I don't know how many tickets are available for fans. What song is this? I like this song. What the hell is the name of this?

I want to say are you gonna be my girl? But it's not right.

I think it's called Lust for Life.

Lust for life.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Iggy Pop.

But isn't the other song like the same music?

Yeah, the Are you gonna be my girl? Has that same drum beat.

Yeah. Are you gonna be my girl? Who sings that song?

Jet.

Oh, yeah. Okay. Yeah, you're right.

It is.

So they covered that, then. All right, cool. All right. That'll be our Ultro. Thank you, Pop.

Yeah, Perfect. I like that song. That's a good one.

Yeah, that's.

He blew his kiss. That's what you.

Oh, wick Wood.

It's JV's ancient time. That's where, you know, Jamie's kind of bored with the episode. He's gonna break out his Asian accent, spice things up.

This is a hell of a graphic, though.

Yeah, I love that. The Barely Legal one that they use animation all the way up until the show. Very first ecw Pay per view. Holy Joey Joe.

Yeah, we're back the up from the camera.

April 13th. Barely legal.

Losing it this evening.

We saw that Taz is ready for Sabu. One question remains. Let's answer it now.

Is Sabu ready for Taz with his pink pants? It's not orange.

No, that's pink.

Recover.

He just said don't adjust your set. No, maybe we need to, because that's a orange.

Yeah, but Spike has orange in his.

Right. All the other colors are right.

It's orange.

They probably throw well. It's orange enough. Just say it's orange. No. That does not look at anything at all like what Taz wears. No. Oh, What a leg drop.

That was textbook Spike.

Dudley. Spike wanted this matchup.

You got it. You asked for it and you got.

It's no tougher. 151 pound.

Spike, though. Bump Master.

Yeah.

Riding Spike. People standing up for this match. Well, maybe they're waiting for Taz to come out.

Yeah, probably.

Well, they're just stretching at the same time.

Yeah. See, when this match was. Yeah.

Oh, no. Hard Conrana. Who Run? Kanrana. That's how I'm saying it for now on.

Who run? Who run? That's what they say. Yeah, that's what Joey says. Anyway. Who runs? Look at that God rail. So beat up.

Yeah.

How droopy it is.

Didn't we. Didn't we point that out at one other time that the guardrail was like, droopy?

I probably did, but man, from that shot, I look like. Holy. Nice. Oh, yep. I love that spot. Nice swinging bulldog.

Not quite the acid drop, but.

So this match was the third match of the night. It was coming right after. Right after Taz and RVD's match that we watched. That's weird. So Sabu comes out right after that match. Yeah. Then has this match.

Must have been one of those, like, he comes out and it leads into this match.

Yeah.

Just like pushes his arm up like that. Did anything?

Yeah.

Not only, like, those pants are annoying because not only are they not the color that they say they are, they just look tiny. Like, they're smaller than his usual pants. They don't seem as baggy. Yeah. Or it's just because they don't have any shine to them.

Oh, yeah, that too.

Yeah.

They don't have that usual, like, aura to them.

Right. They're just like plain shitty pants.

Yeah. They're not even like the hammer pants.

They look like pajamas.

Yeah. They're not even like the real baggy hammer pants that he normally wears either.

Right, right. Yeah, they're too tight. Even though they're not tight. It's probably like. It's the best thing they had closest to being orange around. Oh, yeah. Where these. Yeah, we'll say they're orange on TV and people won't know. Now, see this orange right there with Bill Alonso. Sh. You're a piece of smack.

He smacked the out of him too.

Now Sabu nailing in some legit punches to the forehead.

Yeah. Make it look good, Daddy.

Yeah, definitely. He's not afraid.

I'm already missing 17 teeth. I don't care if you knock out more.

Oh, father's getting set up on the table. Yep. See if Sabu this up usually has some kind of up. Let's see. All right, Setting up a chair. See if he slips or something. Oh, seven's talking. Oh, that was awesome.

He didn't even land on the top rope. He just went straight over, jumped over.

The top rope and leg dropped. That was awesome.

That was sick. I liked that.

That was badass. Fonzie get smashed right through it. Fonzie looks dead right now. And Sabu actually said something on the mic.

I know. Well, it's. He got. Well, he got on the mic first and he was like, taz, you or something like that, you know, get your ass out here. It was real brief, and that's why Fonzie came out. Yeah.

Jen is Taz now. And he got a big brawl again.

Yep.

Awesome. Oh, what a way to end the show. Good show. That was better than the first episode we watched.

Oh, definitely.

Now, leading into the next episode, we get Francine to look forward to next time to start the show. All right. All right. So good episode. As we said, keep building two Barely Legal and you know, that was a great way to keep building that Sabu and Taz storyline. Good. Hostile City Showdown is probably a damn good show to watch on its own in, you know, complete form. But like I mentioned earlier, I don't know if it was while we were recording or before, but it's not available on, on the network or Peacock, you know, if I want to watch it, I guess I have to reach out and get a copy. But anyway, yeah, good. There. Hostile City Showdown 97. And they're on their way now to Barely Legal, just under a month away. And we'll be back in two weeks to cover the next two episodes, which are episodes 205 and 206, which covers March 25 and April 1 of 1997. All right, so we're just gonna wrap things up here. So one more time, give us a follow on social media on X. Follow Me Mike Pro at MPRU 83. Follow JV at John Van Damage, follow Rick BB at Leo Y85 and at Hybrid. Underscore Cast. Also check out Bottom Line Wrestling cast at Bottom Line Cast. And check out our latest episode, episode 18 of the stunning Steve series, Naturally Stunning, which covers November through December of 1993, which focuses on the feud between the Natural Dustin Rhodes and Stunning Steve Austin in their match at Starcade 93 for the US Championship. So check that out and we'll be back in a couple weeks. Some more. Build to Barely Legal. Thanks guys for listening. Thank you BTT army, for always supporting us and subscribing and keep listening. All right, guys, anything before we go?

I got nothing.

We have to call it a night here at mid around 12:21 in the morning.

Yeah, yeah, for sure, bro.

All right, guys, thanks for listening. Hear you next time. We'll see you next time. So long. Here comes Johnny in again.

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