Sam.

Welcome to the extreme ECW Live cast. And we are back with a special bonus episode. And it's been a while, but we promised it would be coming and here it is. It's The Best of ECW 1992, Volume 2. And his little tagline with it too. The Bloodiest Matches. So I'm mike proof and I'm back with Rick Beebe. Rick, what's going on?

Not much. Prue, how you doing? Getting good bloody matches, even though. Yeah, we just saw some. Some bloody matches on the last episode with the Born To Be Wired match.

Yeah, yeah, that's true.

Terry Funk bleeding all over the place.

That's the bloodiest match.

Yeah, that one of there was. I don't know if you have ever seen it, but WWE put out ecw. I don't even remember exactly what it is, but it was like the bloodiest matches or something like that. Yeah, it's. It's vaccine. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I. I mean, I had it. I don't know if I still do, but. But they did it. And it was most of the stuff I. Granted, I haven't seen this the episode that were. Well, episode. The VHS tape that we're about to watch. I haven't seen it in a while, but. But I'm pretty sure that some of the later matches in ECW were a lot bloodier. But then again, they wouldn't have known that in 1992 when they put right 90s. Yeah, we'll cut him a little bit of slack.

Yeah, it's just like Volume one, too. We should. On that was like, oh, it's the best of ecw. Like, what the fuck's the best of some crap from 92? Like.

Right. But we did point out there was no Sandman on there at all. You know, like, you would think that

at least on this episode.

Yeah, you would think that, at least. Granted, they didn't know, but that at least he'd show up, you know?

Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, should show. Anyway. Yeah, it's been a while since we said we were going to cover volume two. We did volume one back in July 2024, and here we are now, March 2025. Oh, knocking on the door of April of 2025. Yeah, like, all right, let's do it. So we found our opportunity to sneak this one in, but, you know, we got a crazy hectic schedule. Like, we can't get our regular out on time, never mind do a bonus episode, so. And this bonus episode's only happened since because JV had something going on that we were ready to record something and JV had something going on. So we were like it, let's just do this bonus episode together. Yeah, so that's why this is coming out. And Rick, what you just referenced, you know, about the. The bloodiest Cebu match, whatever, the one to be wired that's not out yet. Like this is probably going to come out before. Listen, Heroes cover that.

Yeah, that is very true.

Possibly. We'll see. So you're either hearing this before or after. And in some cases you're hearing this in like a year.

Right. On the free feed.

All right, on the free feed, which we just released on the free feed Volume one, which was only exclusive to the book of the Territory Patreon up until just recently. We kept that there and now it's available. Figure day. If we're gonna put this out. Might as well let people on the free feed hear that. And then we'll bang this one out too. Send that out as well. On the free feed. Eventually.

Yeah, eventually. So.

All right, so, you know, before we get into all the details of what we have going on here, please give us a follow on Twitter at Extreme Cast or X. Sort of, you know, sick of saying whatever the. But at Extreme Cast, follow me Mike Pro at MPRU 83, Paul Rick BB at Leo Y85. And also of course, follow JV at John Van Damage. And also check out JV and I on the Bottom Line Wrestling cast the career of Stone Cold Ste Austin, where JV and I have covered the entire career of Stone Cold Steve Austin all the way from the time of being the ringmaster all the way through his retirement and everything he's done. Complete Stone Cold Steve Austin coverage. And then also we did the Hollywood Blonde special series. And also Stunning Steve is currently going on and we are 21 episodes into that. And our latest episode will be coming out very soon. Episode 22 covering March of 1994. So check that out and follow us as well at Bottom Line Cast. All right, so from there now, Rick, you ready to get into this?

Yes, I am. I got my. All right, so Todd is God. Right? Right here. In case I need the references. I wrote down some. I wrote down some notes, so we should be good.

That's right. Rick is the historian, so this is a perfect episode for him. And just like we did Last time on volume one of the best of ECW 1992, Rick is going to chime in with his little tidbits. I'm gonna kind of just navigate through some house show Results and we'll. We'll see what comes up. You know, what kind of gold comes up there with some of these random wrestlers that, that I'm gonna mention, most of which I don't know who they are, because again, it's 1992 indie promotion. This is not the ECW that most of you are familiar with. This is Eastern Championship Wrestling. Before they had a TV deal, any of that crap. Not even a TV deal. They didn't get a TV deal. They got a late night syndication infomercial deal. That's what they got. But.

Right. Yeah, and that was after they. They filmed like three pilots and shopped them around and Sports Channel Forever went, yeah, okay, we. I forget if I get a chance to look it up in the book, I will, because I know it's in the book. But basically what I remember is they kind of lucked out in that Sports Channel was looking for new programming and they sent the tape in and Sports Channel was like that. The. This is cheap enough, you know, it doesn't cost much for you to make it. You film, you're filming it in a, you know, brainy college.

Yeah.

You know, that's where the planet, like, you're gonna fill it, film it at the local college. Like there's no production value to it. What the. We'll. We'll give you a shot kind of thing.

Right. All right, so the last time we covered the first half of 1992 up through July, around the Fourth of July that time. So we're going to pick up in mid July of 1992. So I'll go through the results and let's see what we got here. Rick, start off here with ECW in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. And they're at the Chestnut Cabaret, July 15, 1992.

And I got a story about this show.

There you go. All right.

From Todd's book. All right, so they booked this Chestnut Cabaret, which is a nightclub on 38th and Chestnut street in Philly. And they booked it on a day that they were closed in July of 92. And Todd says that about a week before the show they had strong ticket sales, advanced. And about a week before the show, the manager of the venue called and said, hey, by the way, just to let you know, nobody under 21 can get in. And he was like, well, but I've got 400 tickets. And most of them are people with kids. Like, most of them are kids or teenagers like that, you know.

Right.

It's a wrestling show. And you know, he's like, it's closed. They. He Goes, they also sold beer at the Eagles games, and there's kids all over the fucking stadium. And the manager was like, sorry, it doesn't work. That. That's different. You know, being in a veteran stadium in Philly is different than the nightclub. We can't let minors in. And so Todd says that they did the show, less than a hundred people were in the crowd, and he ended up refunding hundreds of tickets. And at the end of the night, he was paying off the talent because he's not, you know, he's not a scumbag, so to speak. And he said every one of them took their pay except for J.T. smith. He went, found J.T. smith packing up his gear, went to hand him the. The check. JT Says, no way, man. You got killed tonight. I ain't taking that. And so Todd finally made him take the $40 check. And JT just took it, ripped it up, threw it in the ground, said, I can't do that to you. I can't do that to you. And so, as I noted last episode, you know, eight months ago, whatever, J.T. smith was involved in an angle. J.T. smith, who was an African American gentleman, was involved on the first show. He was painted white by Larry Winters and Johnny Hop Body. And so Todd says, this man who was painted white in some shitty angle, not even worthy of a backyard wrestling show, refused the payday because he knew the venue had fucked me. I didn't expect him or anybody to do that, and he shouldn't have, but he did. I asked him what he did for a living. He said he was ushering at a movie theater. I hired him as a Carver Reed employee the next day because he knew that he could trust him with, you know, the jewelry and all that, that if this dude was turning down $40, that he's not gonna. Him, you know, he's not gonna be stealing from him. And I mean, as far As I know, J.T. smith worked Carver W. Reed for a long time. If not if. I don't know if he still works there, but he's worked there. He worked there for a long time. And that's part of the reason why Todd kept him around is because he was a. One of his employees anyways. But also he knew he's a loyal guy that wasn't gonna try to, you know, shyster them out of more money or whatever.

That's great story. And you never even brought that up until now.

Well, I didn't. I didn't want to. I didn't bring it up last Time. Because we didn't. We weren't.

I don't get to this point. July. Right.

But yeah, that's. You know, out of all the guys that worked that night, he was like, I'm not taking $40 from you. The venue screwed you over. That's. That. That's a pretty good. In my opinion.

Oh, no, man. That just raises his stock with me, man. And I already love J.T. smith. That's awesome. All right, so thanks for that, Rick. That's. That's a great story. Well, let's get into the results here. So like I said, chime in whenever you have something to say. And also disclaimer. Guys, it has been eight months. Eight months since we previously covered 1992. So Rick and I were talking earlier, like, I think we're gonna make probably some of the same jokes with some of these guys names, but, yeah, you know, we'll. We'll see. See. All right, so first match we got again, July 15, 1992, at the Chestnut Cabaret. Hurricane Curry pins the Anchor.

I got nothing. Neither of these. Neither of these guys had had any type of a link that I could find. There was a guy named Jim Curry that was on a previous ECW show. It may be he's Hurricane Curry, but there's nothing for the Anchor. And again, we reiterate, these are local indie guys from 1992 in Philadelphia. They're guys that. They could have been. Right, exactly. They could have been on any high school gym show or armory or whatever.

Yeah. So, yeah, and the Anchor is not Tugboat, like we mentioned.

Yeah, no, he's not. He's not a shitty rip off a tugboat.

All right, the next match we have a battle royale, and that's Larry Winters and Johnny Hot Body Co win it

because they were a tag team, so they probably did the. The skyscrapers thing and just decided to split. Split the. The money with the purse.

Yeah.

Split the purse. Yeah.

Next match, we have Nikolai Volkov defeating Vladimir Markov. Yep.

Vladimir Markov, also known as Nikita Breznikov. He apparently has a book out that is about the WWWF in the 70s. Nikolai was kind of like his mentor, you know, whatever. On the road. Yeah. Apparently like he traveled.

I was the mentor.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Nikolai kind of like took him under his wing. Yeah. Hence why they, you know, they wrestled on the. Yeah. You know, it's like he's training them. Not training him, training him, but like he's kind of, you know, being like, I say a mentor and.

Right.

So he put him. Put him in with a Guy that, you know is gonna try to make you look good, you know.

Is that book fairly new or is it an older. Older book?

I don't think it's that old. But, I mean, I don't want to say it just came out. I did. I didn't. I mean, I haven't read it. I just found this out yesterday. Today when I look this guy up. But, I mean, it's available on Amazon, so it's not like, you know, it's not out of print. It's not like he wrote it in, you know, 20 years ago or whatever.

Nice. All right, next match, we have Tommy Cairo hitting Damien Knight.

Yeah, I got no idea on Damien Knight, but we all know Tommy Cairo, right?

No, Tommy Cairo.

Iron Man Tommy Cairo.

Right. Damien Knight made me think it was Little Guido, but, yeah, he's Damien Stone. Damian Stone, Yeah. All right, then our boy J.T. smith, he pins King Kalua.

King Kalua, Yep. Standard Islander gimmick, right?

Yeah, Typical. Super Ninja and Cyclops Scott Summers defeated Max Thrasher and Glenn Osborne.

Yep.

What was the name of the tag team? Max Thrasher and Glenn Osborne? Did they have a name?

Uh, they were the Night Breed.

The Night Breed, that's right.

Yep. Yeah. Not. Not the bad breed was the Rottens, but the Night Breed.

Right. Yeah.

And. Right.

They were like fake ultimate warriors and shit like that.

Yeah. Yeah. One of the. One of them looked like a roadie for, like, the Eagles. And I looked it up. Super ninja is a guy named Rick Michaels, who's not to be confused with Chris Michaels, who was one of the Suicide Blondes.

Yep, yep. All right, then we have Salvalomo. He's pinning Tony Stetson and falls count anywhere match the Hitman. And then. Yep, now you have. I guess this is probably based on the. The co. Win of the Battle Royale. You have Johnny Hop Body taking on Larry Winters. And we still don't get a winner because now they fight to a double DQ.

Yeah, they. They like those double DQs.

Yeah. So, yeah, I wonder how that played out. Like. All right, we have this Battle Royal, but it was a tie, so you guys have to fight to see who's the winner. And then It's a double DQ. So no winner. And then the main event, ECW champion, Jimmy Superfly. Snooker pins. Mr. Sandman. There he is. There's the Sandman. Always in the title picture, it seems, early on, right from the start.

Yeah.

And here he is getting pinned by Snooka. All right, so now we skip ahead a month. So they're not doing many shows. They're just doing like one a month jobs there. And they're back, right? Yeah, just a few. Oh, yeah, almost a month. It's August 12, 1992, with 200 people in attendance. And these results that we're reading through from the history of wwe dot com. Our boy Richard Land and Graham Hawthorne run that great website and have all these great results for us. So just want to give a little shout out to them because. Yeah, we didn't do research other than finding their website and.

Yeah.

And copying it. So anyway, they're back at chess by cabaret, August 12, 1992, and we got the Super Ninja defeating Jeff Royal in 5 minutes, 19 seconds. So now we got some time stamp as well.

Yeah, it does. The attendance apparently was 200 people, so.

Right.

Yeah, five minutes and 19 seconds. Sounds like it's a. A bit too long. Although for an opening match, I guess, right. You gotta. You gotta do enough to excite the crowd. Yeah, yeah.

Chestnut Cabaret sounds like a bar, right?

It's a nightclub. It's a nightclub.

Yeah.

So, yeah, I'm guessing 200 people. It probably holds four to 500.

Yeah. And most of them are probably already there just to drink.

Yeah, exactly.

Not there for wrestling.

Right.

Like the numbers.

Yeah, just like the people that. That went to Mike Schmidt's original sports bar. Half of them are there because they want to watch the Phillies or they want to watch the 76ers, or they just want to get drunk because they don't want to go home, you know.

Right. You know, and a bunch of them that were in attendance, they were probably annoyed that there was some wrestling going on.

Right.

What the is this? I'm trying to watch this game. Yeah. So anyway, we move on to the next match. You get the Sandman. Mr. Sandman. And he's fighting Tommy Cairo to a double count out in 8 minutes and 47 seconds. And, you know, this is a early, I guess, a prelude to pay your bills, Tommy.

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing.

Right, Next match we got Jimmy Jannetti and Gino Caruso defeating Damien Stone. Well, there he is. There's Damien Stone. Do you think that. You think this Damien Stone is the same as Damien Knight? They fucking change his name like a month later.

It could be. I also was thinking, I wonder if it's Jason Knight and they just put Damien instead.

Oh, yeah, good point.

Yeah. But then again, I. When I looked up Jason Knight, he doesn't come up as you ever using Damian Knight. Whether that's just like an oversight with Cage match or not? I don't know, but it could be.

Yeah. Because Jason Knight is. He's doing jobs in WWF at this time.

Oh yeah, he was. Yeah, he was definitely wrestling already active. Yeah. Yeah.

So it could have been him. Yeah, that makes sense. All right. And Damien Stone is teaming up with John Rock. Is it just a local guy?

Yeah.

I was like, did they confuse Johnny Grudge and Rocco Rock and make John Rock?

No, because at that point I'm pretty sure Johnny Grunge and Rocco Rock were still being Johnny Rotten and the Cheetah Kid. And I believe they were wrestling overseas at this point in like Germany and stuff. I mean, again, I could be wrong because there's not a lot of Cheetah Kid versus Johnny Rotten footage. I've seen some, but it's, you know, hand cam, like fan cam kind of footage. So it's tough to, it's tough to gauge even like a year. But, but yeah, it, I, it could, I mean, I guess it could be, but John Rock has his own entry in on cage match. So I don't think, I don't think it's them, you know, mistaking one or the other for, you know, for John Rock, but anything's possible like Garnett says.

And even still, you know, who cares? Yeah, Jimmy Janetti, Gino Caruso beat John.

Rocking right. He, he jobbed out to them in nine and a half minutes, nearly 10

minute match with me.

And these, you can tell just by looking at some of these match times, they were just stretching the out. They were, they weren't in a rush to do anything. They aren't getting paid by the hour.

Like we got this time frame here. Just drag it out.

Yeah.

Nobody's watching,

right?

People watching Lenny Dykstra at bat. That's what, that's what's going on.

Lenny Dykstra nails. That dude's a character. Lenny Dykes.

Oh yeah, for sure. All right, the next match we get another tag match. And I hate back to back tag matches, but here we go. We got the Hell Riders defeating Max Thrasher and Glenn osborne. Yep. Yeah. 9 minutes 24 seconds.

20 minutes of tag matches back to back. Another tag match. Yeah. A half an hour attack, matches back to back to back. God.

Yeah. And this tag match was J.T. smith and Soul Train Phillips. Know who the that is?

I again, they didn't have, didn't have a thing on him. Yeah, and I think, I think these

guys came up last time too. Mr. Anthony and Mr. Perez.

Yeah. And I found, I found out in the first Episode we were just like, oh, I wonder if they have a name. Yeah, they do. They. They do. They were called the Flames.

The Flames.

Because they're both gay.

Oh, I, I was gonna, I was gonna make a gay kind of joke in a second, but. All right.

Yeah, yeah, that's exactly it. Mr. Anthony, Mr. Perez.

They were, they were going with it. All right.

Two gay guys. So they're the Flames.

I'm surprised. They were. Yeah, I feel like that's a little subtle.

It's a bit, it's a bit subtle. It's not quite.

They could have added the R, you know.

Yeah, exactly. But I mean, I'm. I'm guessing because I haven't seen much footage of them. I'm guessing that they probably played it up very much in the ring so that it didn't. That the name didn't have to be too on the nose. Man.

I want to see something. I want to see how they portrayed

that T. I know that there's a twa, I mean there. TWA for Tri State wrestling footage out there. And I know in one of the Battle Royals that they do. I don't know if both of them are in it or just one of them, but there's definitely one of them in there and they're, they're very flamboyant.

Oh, yeah, Maybe that'd be another bonus episode is to do some twa.

Oh, yeah, that's definitely within whatever it's called. Yeah, twa. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They had, I mean, they used to do quarterly shows, so there's like probably 10 shows out there at least.

Oh, all right. Yeah, all right, we'll put that on the docket.

Yeah, but I mean, that can be a bonus show, but we can do it later if you, you know, if you want to involve jv definitely kind of thing. Get his reaction to even shittier wrest 1990.

All right, next match we have Johnny Hot Body pinning Larry Winters. And that happened after some outside interference. Johnny Hot Body originally won the match via dq, but Larry wins. Had hit the referee, John Finnegan. And then Todd Gordon comes running out and you know, he wants his spot in front of the crowd. He orders the match continues. Right. This match continue. I can picture, I can picture exactly what was going on with Todd Gordon running out there.

Oh, yeah.

So because of these pre match stipulations, Johnny hopped in ECW TV Championship. And then we have the ECW Championship match. Jimmy Snuka defeating Super Destroyer number one by dq. And how long? Thirteen and a half minutes. Thirteen and a Half minutes of Jimmy Snooker versus Super Destroyer number one.

Probably a lot of rest holds.

Oh, geez. And that. That sounds brutal. And the thing like this was recorded. This show had to be recorded because the next match is a match that we're gonna watch in a little bit. So they recorded this show, so there's got to be some. Some somewhere. It's out there, maybe. Who knows? But anyway, the next match, probably not.

Yeah, before we end. Before we end this show, I got a story from Todd's book about. He. I'm assuming it's this one, because I think there was the only two shows at the Chestnut Cabaret. There was one in September, so maybe that is. I'm gonna. Wait, I'll tell you during the September thing because. Okay, he doesn't specify, but it's definitely before October, so we'll go with September.

All right.

Yeah.

All right, so the next match, the main event match, was Tony Stetson versus Sal Palomo in a lumberjack match. And I'm not going to read the result because we're gonna watch it, so get away. All right. From there now we move on to August. Still in August. Well, 10 days later, August 22, 1992, in Philadelphia, again at the Aztec Club. All right, so they're hitting up the club scenes, right? And they're gonna do back to back shows at the Aztec. I guess they're had a falling out with Cabaret, but maybe they go back like you said in.

Yeah, so they think they go back. I think it's probably just a case of they wanted to do another show and Cabaret wasn't either. They weren't open or. Yeah, they, you know, they had a prior engagement booked or something. I mean, like you say, it's only 10 days later, so it's not right.

So. Yeah, so they probably already had this book along with the other one at the Cabaret. Yeah. All right, here we are at the Aztec Club. Damien Stone defeats Tommy Cairo in the opening match via count out. King Kalua wins Battle Royal. You have the ECW Tag Team Champions, the Super Destroyers defeat Easy Rider and Super Ninja Boy. Right?

Yeah, yeah, I think Easy Rider.

Which one? Which one is the Dudley Boy? HD Rider or Hard Dick Rider?

What?

Our Dick Rider?

We made that joke last time I had.

Oh, that was. Yeah, yeah. Dick ryder, dick rider, Mr. Rider, science teacher. All right, J.T. smith, our boy, he's pinning the Sandman ship. Sandman takes a loss. He takes a pinfall to stuttering JT and Larry Winters and Jimmy Jannetti. So lame. Jimmy Jannetti.

I know.

Like, what are you gonna be a knockoff of, like, not good rocker?

I mean, I. I gotta wonder if he was trying to do the, like, oh, he's my cousin, you know, or. Or something like that kind of true. Easy Rider was Chubby Dudley. So, okay, the. The guy that. That was involved in the facing the Super D's was Chubby Dudley. Right.

Okay. All right, so Larry went to this Jimmy Genetic. They defeat the. The Flame. No, not the flames. It's Mr. President. Is John. Got a new boyfriend? John Rock.

Yeah, he's cheating. He's cheating on Mr. Anthony.

All right, then we got a title match. Jimmy Snuka defeats King Kalua. So I guess in that battle royal, King Kalua earned a title shot later in the show.

Yeah.

Went through him and retains his championship. Then you have Glenn Osborne defeating Max Thrasher.

Yeah, the night. I mean, the partners. Yeah, the Night Breed explodes. I. I would wonder if some guy or two guys didn't show up. And Todd was just like, all right, you're working together. You two go out and work, work each other. I don't have anybody else for you, you know?

Yeah, probably. And. And they went to a dq. So it's like, all right, no one's gonna win over each other, right? Just. Just go out there and just hit each other and call it a night. All right. And then in the. The main event, loser leaves town. Match. Tony the Hitman Stetson defeats Sal Bolomo. So, Sally, you're out. You're out of Philly. But as we know, he won't be out of Philly for long.

No, he comes back.

He'll probably be in the next show.

Yeah. Loser leaves town for a week.

Yeah. All right, so we move on now to September 12, 1992, back at the Aztec Club. And we have a rematch. Jimmy Snuka defending his title once again against Super Destroyer number one, who is with Hunter Q. Robbins. The Turd.

The late Hunter Q. Robbins iii.

Yes, that's true.

Unfortunately. Rest. Rest in peace.

Yeah, I liked him for, you know, what he did there in early days.

Yeah, he was very entertaining being the. The Dollar Store, the Kmart slick, you know? Yeah, Kmart suit and all that.

Yep.

Yeah.

So this was a false count anywhere match and it went 11 minutes. And Jimmy Snooker pinned Super Destroyer in a pool.

Yep.

In a pool. All right, so the Aztec Club had a pool in it, and Snuka gave him a big splash into the pool probably and give him a back breaker, I guess, too.

And I. I wouldn't Be surprised if he at least tried to do the super fly splash into the pool.

Right? You. You would think so, right?

Yeah. Yeah.

And then after the match, Snooker was so ramped up that he. He took the referee, probably John Finn again and tossed him into the pool as well. Then he chased Hunter Q to the backstage area. So what a way to kick off the show.

I know that was the first. The first match too, right? How do you follow that?

Now this match, I'm wondering if this is who they say it is. Here is. Fatu defeated the anchor and Mr. X in a handicap match. So did they actually get Batu?

Yes, they did that. That is. That is one Rikishi Fatu right around the time or right before he ends up in WWE as a head shrinkers. Yeah, Yep. Yeah, that. I. I looked that up because I'm like, is that the same guy? Because I know in the late 70s and early 80s there was a guy named Sabu that wrestled and it's not the same Cebu that we see. An ecw, similar gimmick, but not the same guy, but exact same name. So I was like, I wonder if this is the same guy. And it is.

Oh, that's cool. I didn't realize he.

Yeah.

A little pre. Big time ecw, you know, appearance there.

Well, I know. Yeah, the. The Wild Samoan training facility or training school, whatever it is, is in Pennsylvania. And I know currently, I don't know what the name of the promotion is, but Samu was. Has been running a promotion and it's been in Pennsylvania. Like that's their home base or whatever. So it would kind of make sense that like, hey, if that's where he's living and training, you know. Oh, yeah, I can come into Philly for, for a night, you know, kind of a thing, right?

Oh, it's cool.

Yeah.

All right. The next match is the tag team match. And I don't know if you know anything about this, but this team names. I like the team name. I don't know if it's the Flames with a new name.

It's not.

It's. But it's the Cream Team. The Cream Team defeats the Hellraisers. Yep.

This Cream Team, the only thing I know is that it is Dino Casanova and Rip Sawyer. Sometimes Dino went as Dave Casanova, but that's all I know. They were just indie guys, had had careers, but never probably did jobs on, you know, WWF tv, WCW or nwa, but never, you know, never wore anything big. But they got. They got an interesting name.

Yeah.

And they used it in the Indies, too. Like, it listed them as the Cream Team.

They are the Indies at this point. Right. But I mean.

Yeah, but I mean, like, they used it in other places. It wasn't just like, oh, this is a rib on them. I'm gonna call them the Cream Team.

Oh, yeah.

Like, they use this in other places. Yeah, exactly.

All right, in the next match, we got another new name in. I'm pretty sure this is probably just at the time in here. 1992 is a papa Shango knockoff. And that's Rasta the Voodooman defeating Super Destroyer Number two. Or no, didn't actually defeat him. They fought to a double count out. So anything about Rasta?

Rasta the Voodooman was a. He was a wrestler. He was actually in Global around this time. So he was on espn? Yeah, he was on espn basically, from what I've seen. It's exactly what you said. He was like a Papa Shango ripoff kind of gimmick, but clearly was not. He never. He never made it anywhere, you know, big, so to speak. But I. As soon as I saw the name, I'm like, that's got to be the same guy that was in Global. And he. He is, but I don't know much about him otherwise. Just that he was on. He was on national tv, you know, as a.

Right.

As a wrestler.

I used to love watching Global when I was a kid on espn. I. I need to go back and watch episodes. It's something I've been meaning to do.

Yeah, I know.

Watch some old Global.

There was as much as you say, as much as people talk about, like, how it was, you know, they're promoting it. Like they're this international company and they're in the Global Dome, and it's like they're in the Sportatorium in Dallas that's got, like, a new paint job, you know.

Right.

The Global stuff that I've seen, some of it's pretty questionable in terms of quality. I'm not saying, you know, gimmicks or whatever, but just quality and then some of it's actually decent. I think I remember seeing Cactus Jack versus Bam Bam, you know, Terry Bam Bam Gordy. And it was a pretty fucking good match, you know, and it was even after Terry Gordy had his. Around the same time he had his incident of, you know, being in a coma and everything. And I mean, as far as I remember, they put on a hell of a match. And it was like, on tv, too. It wasn't, you know.

Right.

Because they didn't do Pay per views or anything.

So no. Yeah.

So yeah, global is definitely something to check out. I'm, I'm gonna have to check it out now that I. Now that we're talking about it.

Yeah. All right, so from there now we move on to the Samoan Warrior defeating Tony Stetson. And Tony Stetson, he's been having some good matches. He beat Salvalomo, right? Loser leaves town. Yeah, he's in a lumberjack with him and now he's taking his loss to

Simone. Warrior, who is La Smooth one? One of the Anawaii family. I hope I'm pronouncing that right. Yeah, he is a Lloyd and Hawaii also known as La Smooth. So if I'm not mistaken, he was one of the guys that was in the Samoan gangster party that we saw in ecw.

Yes.

And he was also one of the guys that was in the crowd that was supposed to be setting up an angle to harass. Make a difference. Fatu.

Oh, that's right.

Yeah.

Oh nice. Yeah, those are the same. Yeah. So Fatu and a small Warrior both on the show together. So. All right, that makes sense then.

Yeah, they're cousins or something like that.

No.

Yeah.

Who's King Kalua? Was he related as well?

No, King Kalua from what, from what I could find, he's not, he's not related to that family, at least in that. In name. I don't know, you know how expansive it is with marriages and all that kind of thing, but I don't believe that I saw anywhere that he's related to them like blood wise. I think it's just he's, and I mean he's got some sort of island heritage, but I don't think he's of the same Samoan family. I mean for all, for all I know he's not even, he's not even island, you know.

Right.

Like, like Scandal, Scandal. Akbar was a dude from friggin Texas, but he was making it out like he was from Libya or wherever.

Yeah, he's just some guy from Philly.

Yeah, exactly. He's just some dude from Philly with a tan, you know, like, like Johnny Be Bad. Yeah, you know, Italian dude from New York, but he plays it, he plays a black man from the South.

I'm a Samoan now.

Right,

Maybe.

Yeah, I think they did bill him from Hawaii. So just, just like Ricky Steamboat was built from Hawaii.

Right.

It's like. No, he's, he's from North Carolina.

All right, then we have J.T. smith defeating the Sandman and Then from there you have Glenn Osborne taking on his partner again, Max Thrasher, and they fight to a DQ once again. Ten days later, another DQ match. And then Larry Winters teams up with Jimmy Jannetti. They defeated King Kalu and Scott Summers.

Yeah, they changed his name spelling though, so it clearly is not Cyclops.

Right. Maybe they were gonna get sued. Yeah, they probably did go with the name because of the cartoon.

Oh, sure.

Like. Oh, we gotta change it though, because we don't want Marvel finding out.

Yeah, Marvel's litigious.

Yeah. And. And how presumptuous is Eastern Championship wrestling to think that Marvel's paying any attention to this?

Exactly.

You could have had a whole team called the X Men, brought them out.

Yeah, no kidding.

There's Wolverine versus Magneto. Gives a. Yeah. All right, and then in the main event, you have Tommy Cairo pinning Damien Stone. All right, now, next show is back to the Chestnut Cabaret. So Rick, do you want to share the story now?

Yeah, it's, it has to do with the main event. So we'll go over the results and then during the main event, I'll, I'll fill in the story.

All right, perfect. All right, so September 30, 1992. 220 people. So they squeezed about 20 more people in or just counted 20 more people. Probably the staff. But anyway, they're back there. And we have a battle royal to kick things off. And we get co winners again for this Battle Royal. It's Sandman and Glenn Osborne winning together. The fuck's that mean? Like you just don't you stop fighting, stupid.

I, like I said, I mean, I guess I can understand if like the skyscrapers, you know, we're not gonna fight. We're gonna split the money, you know, fifty thousand dollar plant prize, we each get 25 grand. That's not bad. You know, kayfabe, obviously.

Actually, maybe that's a stipulation though. Maybe it's the final two. I want to have the match that's later in the show.

Very good point. Cut. Like what do you call it? And 90. Yeah. Is it 93. On RAW, they had a battle royal and the last two guys, Razor Ramon and Rick Martel, then went out the next week for the IC title. Yeah, so maybe that's. Yeah, that, that could be what they're doing.

Yeah, that sounds right. Because the previous show the same thing happened. Right, so they both ended the royal, the Battle royal and then they had a match later. Yeah, the same thing happens here. Looking down on the card, you have Glenn Osborne and Sandman fight each other for the. The vacant TV title again. This is TV title again.

TV title. We don't have tv, but we have a TV title.

So funny. Yeah, that's like when you're like, you're doing your own, like, backyard wrestling promotion. You have the TV title too.

Well, quick, quick aside has nothing to do with ECW. But back in 2003, 2004, I went to a local indie promotion. It's one that for anybody that listened to the Patreon to ask me, Mike Crockett, I asked him about this show. I believe it was any W or N E, W A, something like that. But anyways, it was at the Shipbuilders Lodge in Quincy, Massachusetts. And they had a TV title. A guy that had a TV title. They did not have tv. They did not have a TV show or anything that I'm aware of.

They didn't have fucking cameras in the building. No.

Oh, yeah. No, there wasn't. This wasn't even being filmed. Like, there was no. If they had a video, it was like a fan cam, like Rob Feinstein at ecw. You know, we're gonna. We're taping this show that we're gonna, you know, sell tapes of later on. Like, it wasn't anything professional, but they had it. They had a TV champion with no tv. Because I remember, I remember. I remember either I heard somebody in the crowd say it or something, they were like, why does this guy have a TV title? They don't even have a TV show anyways. Yeah, hey, Carney's gonna. Carney, you know.

Yeah, Yep. It's so funny, though, because the promoters, whoever's in charge, probably wasn't even, like, thinking of it. It's just like, yeah, we gotta have a TV title.

Oh, we're gonna have a TV taping, brother. No, you're not.

All right, so moving on now. So from there, you have the Super Destroys Explode Super Destroyer number one versus Super Destroyer number two. And hey, nobody gets the advantage there. It's going to be a double count out again. So whenever you have tag teams facing each other, attack team facing each other, they go to a double counter or double dq. I guess you don't want to put one over the other because. And you get that rift.

Yeah.

And it's probably one of those situations again where it's like, oh, we don't have another team for you guys, so go ahead and fight. These guys are the tag team champions too. So I don't know what the they're fighting about, but probably argued about Some. All right, from there now you have Max Thrasher. He pins the Kodiak Beer. Who is going to be on one of the first episodes, I think on the first episode of ecw, right, yeah,

one of the first episodes. Yeah. But like, he only shows up like once.

Yeah, one time.

Yeah, yeah. What? One taping, you know.

Right. And next match, Tony Stetson gets a win against the Anchor. And then following that, you have Tommy Cairo fighting JT Smith to a double dq, which was probably a damn good match, I would imagine.

Oh, yeah, I would imagine that was a good one.

All right, then we have the next one.

Not so much the writers.

The big riders explode. Easy Rider fights HD Rider to double dq. So again, can't have one guy win a match if they're in a tag team.

I was gonna say, how would you be if you paid money to go to this? And 1, 2, 3. Three matches all ended in a double DQ.

Yeah. Well, not all that, but I guess, you know, we. We talked about the stipulation. But you have a battle Royal where two guys win, right? There is double count out, double DQ, double DQ. And then the next match, Mr. Rex, who I guess is the Rock and Rebel.

Yeah, he was a Rock and Rebel. Rock. Rock and Rebel.

Hashtag Rock and Rebel. Yep, Hashtag Troy Aikman. He defeated Jimmy Jannetti. And count out, he had a count on as well. Yeah. And then get this, Larry Winter is going to take a loss, too. Terry Taylor. Terry Taylor's there. That was the big draw, I guess. This is Red Rooster in the house. Terry Taylor, you got.

Here's the thing you got to think in was we in September. Yeah, September of 92. Terry Taylor had been in WCW early that year as one half of the US Tag title champions with Greg Valentine. So he was in between gigs, essentially. I don't even know if he was really the draw as much as I just need money because he shows up. He shows up in a couple of months. Well, I say a couple of months. He shows up in early 93. And WWF has terrific. Terry Taylor, right?

Yeah. Yeah, that sucked.

Yeah.

All right, so he gets the win against Larry Winters. And then you have next the. The Battle Royal match for the TV title at Glenn Osborne. And he pinned Sandman, and Glenn Osborne is now the new TV champion. So this was vacant. So TV title is vacant already?

Yeah. I'm not sure if it was vacant or if it was like they were crowning him as the first, but either way, they had a vacant TV title.

Well, they. The previous one was Johnny Hot Body and Larry Winters fought each other for the TV title. Body had one. Oh, that's right.

Hot Body broke his ankle. I believe it.

Oh, okay. So that explains why I went vacant.

Yeah, well, I know.

I was thinking.

Yeah, go ahead.

I was thinking, like, is this like Smokey Mountain Wrestling where I was like, Beat the Champ TV thing, like, where they're gonna have a battle oil every. Every event, and then the two guys fight for the TV title?

I mean, that's. Hey, you could do. You could do that. Yeah, that. Hey, it works for Smoky Mountain with the Beat the Champ TV title. Even though they didn't have any title per se. Yeah, you know, about. Or a medal or anything?

Nothing.

No trophy. Not. Not even a certificate. But I know with ecw, it's. It's not weird, but, like, before they get tv, they have a TV title, and then when they get tv, they vacate the TV title strictly so they can have a tournament to crown a TV champion instead of just coming in and going, hey, by the way, Glenn Osborne is our TV title. TV champion. No, no, no, we don't have a TV champion. We're gonna crown an ECW TV champion. It's like, okay, so they make. They forcibly vacate the TV title. This poor guy had the belt. And then they go, well, we're gonna give it to somebody else, but we don't want you to lose it. You know, we're just gonna strip you of it and have a tournament.

Glenn Osborne, we're taking this from you. Right, Right.

Go back to college.

We'll let you be on the tv, though. So.

Yeah, you can be on the tv. Yeah, you got a good look, kid. Just not a TV Titleist.

All right, so that brings us now to the main event. This is a big match. So, Rick, what do you have? What you started?

Well, first, let's just cover. It's Don Morocco and Jimmy Snuka for the. The tv. For the tv. Jesus, you got me saying the TV title for the world title. The ECW title.

Not a world title. Well, hey, an Eastern title.

It's. Yeah, you're right. It's the Eastern Championship title. It's not. Not a world title. But during that match or after that match, Todd is, as he puts it, he had the dubious fortune to be a recipient of the Superfly Splash. And he talks about how he was in the ring as part of an angle to turn Snuka into a heel. And Snuka called the spots that he's going to headbutt him. He's Going to slam them and then do the splash, he says. He quietly said the spots, and before I could process that, he had said scoop, and he deadlifted me into the air and slammed me to the mat. In a flash, I lay in the center of the ring as Snuka posed on the top turnbuckle. He was then airborne, and I closed my eyes for the impact of which I felt nothing. I sure as hell heard it. A smash of the mat around me as he landed. But he'd used his knees and forearms to take the brunt. And I truthfully didn't even realize he was on top of me. Jimmy was such a pro. So I was like, that's pretty cool that he. He's so good at doing that splash. He's done it so many times that he can land on Gordon, and Gordon doesn't even realize that he hit him.

Wow. He probably just like, bounces right up immediately.

Yeah.

You know, like. Yeah.

Yeah.

That's awesome. All right.

That was them. That was the. The story.

Nice. Yeah, that's cool. So Snooka is no longer champ. We got a new champ, Don Morocco. I love Don Morocco at this time, too. He's always good anyway. But early ecw, so good. And here he is as the champ now. And from there now we move on to October 2nd. So a couple days later, now we got a crowd of 550 people. Holy.

the.

It's more than double than we've.

Kensington Youth Association.

Yeah, whatever the that is.

Yeah. I'm guessing it's like a YMCA or something. Yeah, that type of a deal.

Yeah, but the 550 people, that's a lot of people. Must be a big spot. All right, so you got Tommy Cairo defeating Damien Stone. You get the tag team champions of Super Destroyers who just fought each other to the double dq, but everything is all right, I guess, now. So they're defending their titles and defeat the Samoan Warrior in the Super Ninja. What a team that is. Samoan Warrior and Super Ninja. All right. Sandman defeats J.T. smith. ECW champion Don Morocco defeats Nikolai Volkov. And not even in the main event, just in the middle of the show. King Kalua and Scott Summers defeat Jimmy Jannetti and Larry Winters. When King Kalua pins Janetti, Johnny Hop Body wins a battle royal. And he didn't have to share it with anybody this time. He was on his own. Max Thrasher and Glenn Osborne fight again, and they go to a double dq. Of course, Jimmy Snuka defeats Ivan Koloff. And then in the main event. And they really are spotlighting this guy. But Tony Stetson defeats Terrific. Terry Taylor. So Terry Taylor's doing a job. The Tony Stetson. That's great. That's awesome. On October 2nd, 1992. All right, now we move on to another youth association. This is the Tabor Youth Association. And it's the next day, October 3rd, 1992. 375 people. So, geez, business is picking up here for ECW at this time. And we got Ivan Koloff winning a Battle Royal. Nikolai Volkov pins Vladimir Markov. You have Larry Winters and Jimmy Janetti defeating Scott Summers and King Kalua. Tony Stetson once again defeats Terry Taylor. Tommy Cairo defeats Ivan Koloff. And then we get Rip Sawyer, Dave Casanova. And that was the Cream Team, right? Rep Saw and Dave Castano. Yeah, Casanova. All right, so the Cream Team teams up with ECW TV champion Glenn Osborne. They defeat Max Thrasher and Super Destroyers. And then you have the Hellriders defeating the Metal Maniac. The Metal Maniac teaming up with the Rock and Rebel. Right. Hashtag

Chuck Williams.

Yeah, that's right. Yep. Oh, what a match we have here. Nice. J.T. smith and Tigra. JT Smith and Tiger the Feet, Sandman and Peaches. Peaches is in the house now. Awesome. And then in the main event, you have Don Morocco defending his title against Jimmy Snuka. And Jimmy snooker wins via DQ. So Don Rocco retains the ECW championship. That leads us now to October 24, 1992, which is going to be, for the most part, what we watch in just a few minutes. And this is from the Chestnut Cabaret. So we actually get to see what the. This place looks like when we watch this, because many of the matches are going to be from this show. All right. But the matches that we're not covering. Let me read those results. The Rock and Rebel pins Frank Cody in 3 minutes and 48 seconds. The ECW tag team champion Super Destroyers defeat Cream Team. David Casanova and rip Sawyer in 17 minutes and 52 seconds.

Torture.

Oh, my gosh. That must have sucked ass. All right, then one of the matches we are going to watch is Tommy Cairo against Ivan Koloff in a Russian chain match. Then another result here is we have Chris Michaels. Fake Shawn Michaels.

Yep.

And he was Suicide Blonde, right? Is that.

Yeah, yeah. Sir Richard Michaels.

Yes, Sir Richard Michaels, that's right.

Actually, they called him Sir Christopher, I think, once. And then they switched to Sir Richard because they had. They had Chris Candido as Sir Christopher Candido.

So that's Right.

They didn't want to have two Sir Christophers.

Wasn't there a third member of the Suicide Blondes too?

Yeah, Sir Jonathan. Oh, buddy.

Hot body. Yeah. Who.

Who is not blonde?

Bald spot. All right, so you had Michaels and Stone, Damien Stone. They fought Larry Winters and Jimmy Genetic to a double DQ in 11 minutes. And then we had a rematch between Don Morocco and Jimmy snooker for the ECW championship. And this went 5 minutes 48 seconds. Don Morocco pinned Snuka. He used. Used the ropes. He put his feet on the ropes for leverage. After the match, he had Stacey Wayne Manor.

This is where Snuka hits the splash on Gordon. Not I was wrong.

Oh, okay.

Well, I still told the story.

Yeah, you told it, but Here it is October 24th.

Not. Not October 2nd. Or whenever I was. Was thinking it was.

All right, so you had Stately Wayne Manor. I love that though.

Stately Wayne Manor.

Right. How Batman always opened at Stately Wayne Manor. The 60s Show.

Yeah.

So anyway, he leaves the broadcast area and he joins Snook in the ring. Snooker then throws the referee out of the way. Manor puts a chair into the ring and then praises Snuka after bad mouthing him on commentary. So I'm talking out of both sides of his mouth. Todd Gordon then came out to address the situation with Gordon telling Manor to get back the commentary banner. Then grabbed the chair and went to hit Gordon with it. And Snooka stops him. Moments later, Snuka began choking Gordon. All right, so things are getting crazy there. And you know, it just goes on to or Rick explained earlier where you have a showing stick ends up splashing Todd Gordon. Okay, why, why is this match not on the show we're about to watch? Like, I want to see this.

I know I would. I would watch a six minute match. That's Don Morocco and Jimmy Snuka. And then Snuka turns heel and beats up a bunch of people. Like, I watched that. Jimmy Snookum does the best crazy beatdowns, you know.

Right. It's nuts. This is crazy looking. Yeah, that's all these people come out. Jimmy Janelle, Larry Winters, Metal Maniac, they all come out. Snook is just, you know, them all up. All right, then in the next match, which is the match we're gonna watch, and Jesus, I'm looking at the time of it, it's like, oh, no, really? Fifteen minutes we're going to be watching Johnny Hot Body versus Tony Stetson. And then for seven and a half minutes we're gonna watch the Kodiak Bear. And the Canadian Wolf man against the Hell Riders. And this is supposed to be the best of ECW Volume 2, the bloodiest, bloodiest matches.

I swear. I mean, yes, we have a Russian chain match, so that should be the

only bloody part, right?

I was gonna say, I highly doubt anybody is gonna bleed in the Kodiak Bear and Wolfman versus the Hell Riders if. If they do, I will be shocked. If it's. If it's not like an accidental cut.

But I have blood in every damn match.

I know you can't call it the bloodiest matches if nobody bleeds

and then the next match. This got boost. Actually, no, I'm skipping a match here. ECW TV championship match had Glenn Osborne defeating Max Thrasher. So now there's stakes in that little feud they have going on. But then in the main event. Now this is the pumped up main event status as it should be. J.T. smith and Tigra defeating Sandman and Peaches 16 minutes after Tiger pinned Sandman

that

would have been a nice match to see too. The. Yeah, but no, we're not gonna get those matches. We're gonna get matches.

No, Tiger and Peaches.

That's it. That brings us now to our watch along portion, the best of ECW 1992, volume two, ECW's bloodiest matches. We're gonna watch this on the Internet archives so it's available there if you want to watch along with us. And we got a run time of 1 hour, 1 minute and 41 seconds. All right, Rick, so you're all set, ready to go?

I'm all set.

All right, so I'll give a countdown three down to one, then say play. When I say play, we click play. And we get started here with ECW 1992, volume two, the best of ECW's bloodiest matches. Three, two, one, play.

All right, classic Gunfighter intro, right?

For Eastern Championship Wrestling one. Yep. You know, it's not like it's Southern Championship Wrestler something, right? All right, so this brings me back as always. Now this opening looks more like the best of ecw.

Yeah, I know.

We're about to watch. It's a good quality in this video.

It is. Wow. There we go.

That's. That's trash.

You jinxed us.

Yeah, before there was buffering, there was tracking.

Right?

That's it. They just.

Our next match.

All right, so this is from the October 24, 1992 show at the Chestnut Cabaret.

Yes. Place looks small, but look at that green. I was just gonna say that. Clearly they have some sort of a project Projector. Because you can see a screen.

The game's on. Yeah, yeah.

Either that or like to music videos or something. Dude has a cigarette.

Dude just walked by with a cigarette. Look at that. There's a five year old there with his grandma.

Some kids doing his homework maybe.

Yeah, that's what it looks like. He's got his pants rolled up too. Socks.

Yeah.

Holy. What time is this show? And they're just showing the crowd. They're not even showing the ring or anything. What the going on here?

Yeah, there's. Oh, there's. The guy's coming out though. Yeah, there's Donnie Allen.

Donnie Allen and Johnny. Yeah, looks like Brutus Beefcake.

He does. Yeah. Ah, Jawjack him. The crowd.

What a. Like this is. Is so like charming in a way, like.

No, it is, it has, it has, has charms. That's probably the best way to put

it, you know, because like, like. Yeah, it probably is. It's got to be. It's got to be Hat guy. They're talking to him.

D. He smacks the hat.

Tried to whiff his hat.

Wrestling fans, once again, this music is atrocious, though.

Horrible. Part of the charm though is like, you know, these guys, you know, they love wrestling, they want to be wrestlers, but it's like they're pretending to be restless.

Right.

You know what I mean? It's kind of like what I was saying before. Like in a backyard wrestling league, like you pretend you're a wrestler and that's kind of what they're doing. Even though there's paying people watching them, like they're almost there. People paid to see them.

I'm getting paid $40 and a hot

dog or just hot dogs.

And my manager and you are going

to give us a round of applause.

There's no commentary, huh?

Once again, I'd like to introduce the manager, the devious.

Look at all those TVs right across. Yeah. Holy. They just. Boom, boom, boom, boom, Boom. Rosa tube TVs.

I know. Think of all the weight that's hanging off of that ceiling.

Oh my God.

Cuz in 1992, even a small TV that size still still weighed a good amount of weight, you know?

Right.

There's like eight of them hanging up there. Maybe 10. Yeah, there's like 1012 TVs hanging out.

12? Yeah, I just counted 12. They all gonna be right there. You better get a.

There's nothing. Yeah, there's nothing blocking those fans from the wrestlers either.

Oh, a very intimate crowd.

Yeah.

They jump.

He can't. He can't really stand Up.

Yeah, because he'd be. He'd be in the sailing.

Yeah. Knocking those tiles loose. We got commentary.

Okay, this is Bob Smith. And sitting next to me, a guy who's far more mysterious to me.

Bob Smith. Oh, stately, stately.

Wayne Manor. Yeah. Bob Smith.

Quit imitating me.

You can never do it by. Mr.

This audio is like going in and out. They're not. They're probably just not talking into their mics.

Yeah, probably not.

Stetson and Hot Bodies, one of the longest running feuds in Philadelphia. You recall he had a very unique situation here not long ago where Stevie Wonderful.

Wonderful, yeah. Being mentioned on commentary.

I was gonna say there's no. There's no wonder that this match is so long. Johnny Hop Body has to jawjack with the fans.

Right.

Stevie Wonderful would have to retire.

I think the referee can kick everyone's ass. The land, the munchkins here.

I feel. I feel like you, you and I are probably taller than dbs Donnie Allen. And neither of us are anywhere near six feet tall.

Five. Five. Yeah.

Hell, dude. Me, you and JV are probably taller than the three of them. And you and JV and I could probably beat at least two of them up at the same time.

As Stevie himself used to say. Isn't that wonderful? What is? Oh, Jimmy Janetti making a brief appearance at ringside. I think he's just.

Oh, Jimmy Janetti just ran out there for whatever reason.

Yeah.

Johnny Hot Body. Just wasting time. Let's get down to action. Yeah. Not much action going on, man.

About.

I'd say about three months ago he suffered a severe knee injury.

How lame is it where you can see a wrestle shadow in the background.

That's. That's bad.

That's a bad lighting shadows.

Of course, he's still managed by that

piece of try fighting like Peter Panny.

T is a real swell person, you know. Know. But let's face it, is Space shuttle.

Isn't Rockets. Shut up.

A lot of success.

You know, indie wrestling is not supposed to be filmed. You know what I mean? It's not made for tv. But this is not the you doctor. If it's going to be filmed.

No, this is. This is what you do at live audience thing, right? Yeah, yeah. You got to rile up the fans, get them. Get him to hate you. But.

Right.

It doesn't translate well to tv.

Exactly.

You also have to remember Donnie got a Johnny.

Yeah. Like commentators aren't doing anything. They just. They're just monotone. Talking about the crowd, talking about the wrestlers. It's like you're not. You're not doing anything. You're not. You should be talking about how he's wasting time.

Correct.

He was a gentleman. He knew not to strike a lady. At least when he was wearing his hat. You always should remove. Kids at home, never strike a lady without first removing your hat.

Yes, for you fans,

No. Did you hear the commentators?

Here we go.

No, I think it was Stately. Wayne Manor was talking about Johnny Hop Body. He refused to hit a lady while he was wearing his hat. So you hear that, kids? Make sure that if you're gonna hit a lady, take your hat off first. Like, that's. That's A, that's bad advice. B, that's not. It's not even like, oh, that's funny. Like, if Bobby Heenan said it, it would be funny. No, like, that's just dumb, right?

Yeah.

They're trying too hard, right, to steal

a line from Lake Mills or named. You think you're funny, but you're funny.

D, man.

D. You don't think you're funny. You're not.

Yeah. Yeah.

All right.

Finally, they lock up referee stance.

All right, so we got some wrestling,

I think, going on now. We finally get some wrestling going on. Six minutes into the match,

the smaller man.

Small, smaller man. That was not good.

Yeah, those hip tosses suck.

Physique of Johnny Hot Buddy.

He is.

We think he.

Johnny Hot Buddy is built. He's billed at 510. There's no way out of here. He's maybe five, seven.

Maybe, maybe.

But I will. I will say this dude.

Knees are like. Not even, like, off the floor.

Look at his bald spot.

Come on.

In the center of the ring and more.

Stetson's the same. He's built. He's billed at 5, 10.

Yeah, everyone probably tried to build themselves at 5, 10. Like, right? It's not tall, but it's not short. Cool. It's believable. No referee is probably 5, 10.

I'm sorry. No cheering in the press box, which

makes him look huge.

It's bad when the referee is taller than the wrestlers. Look at that. Finnegan is taller than Johnny Hopody.

What the. All right. Looks like he's about to knock Johnny Hopody out, throw you out of this ring. Pay attention to the rules. So what happened? Johnny Hop Body just tossed Tony Stetson out of the ring.

Yeah, Johnny Hop Buddy and Tony.

Now the ring bell. Hot. The ring bell.

Oh, my God.

Already busted off open. Oh, right into. That's right. Into the cut.

Yeah, that. That's the biggest problem. With what we've been watching and what we're watching now is that this is not meant to be on tv. It's not meant to even have commentary.

No, it's one hard cam too. It's like, so you can't see what the hell's going on.

They're trying to force, like, oh, let's. Let's make this a TV show.

He goes after Tony. This is not TV backing off.

This is crap.

Yeah, look, he's dropping elbows in the crowd.

And you can't see.

All you can see is all the people that are standing in front of them.

Burn down convents on rainy days.

We. We need a

God, these commentators are terrible.

Another couple of referees out here because there's just too much activity amongst the crowd.

We need a couple referees, we need a couple commentators, need a couple cameramen. That too. Hard body. Hard body. Hot body. Hot body was just on the bar and he looked like he was still like a little.

Yeah, he. He was. He was about 6 foot there,

but he looked like a toddler. Like, like what I'm thinking is like, you know when like a kid like tries to get on the counter to get like snack out of the cabinet or something. He was like a little toddler on top of the bar.

Look at me, man.

Oh, he's Dick Dancer.

I didn't have that on my bingo card for this. Johnny Hot Body Dick dancing there for a while. Shimmy the. That. That come down on top of them. That projection screen.

Be funny. Like if it pulled him up and he got wrapped up in the thing. We little man, that bar looking for a drink. That's what he's looking for back there. This. Give me a drink.

Stetson comes back empty handed.

Well, we mentioned this feud being a long and hot one. This match demonstrates that Bob Devious Donnie Allen.

Oh, no, he's at ringside doing Jack. Oh, suplex on the floor.

Okay, all right, I'll give him that.

Yeah, that's fine. It's like a three year old right in front of him. Yeah, he did that.

Actually getting close to being back in the ring.

Who's bringing their little kid to this at a bar? Shades of Cactus Jack.

That was not a Cactus Jack anything. He just kind of.

That's just about the only difference.

Yeah, well, he did a noble drop off the.

Yeah, but it was not nearly apron. Okay. That was a better Cactus Jack. He almost slipped. Yeah. Oh, no. If it was not good.

It's funny they bring up Cactus Jack, though.

I know.

Yeah. At this time, 92 so he's probably right. He's in WCW. He's probably feuding with Vader around this time, I think. Amnesia. No, no, that was later.

Yeah, he would have been. This would have been when he was feuding with Sting. Well, after Sting, because that was what, July, June was Beach Blast, when they have the falls counter anywhere.

Yeah, you know, not far after this.

Yeah, yeah. Soon after this. That is when he starts with the Vader. Vader feud.

Hangman arrived 10 minutes early. So he died before his time.

Yes, sir. I'm being regaled with tales of the past from stately Wayne Manor as Tony Stessen staggers around.

Bob Smith.

I don't know. I could probably do a better job just above. At least. At least we had Dick Graham on the previous Volume one, Illegitimate Children.

So. So it's been said. Yes.

You know, they're making a movie about that called Honey, I Abandoned the Kids.

Oh, please.

Oh, God, what a joke.

Hope it looks like Jerry Lawler's trying to block it.

Illegal kids here or whatever.

Yeah, yeah. And then Honey, I Abandoned the Kids.

Like, come on.

You know, Johnny could also be on some sort of mission from when you're

making jokes about Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, something

like. It's topical to an extent.

Yes. Right.

Yeah. But at the same time, it's not. It's not funny. You go like, no, you're not funny. Bob Smith.

Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. Honey, I Blew up the kids.

Honey, I Abandoned the kids. Puppies.

It's going to be hard for Tony to make a comeback now.

What was Honey, I Shrunk the Kids movie at the time?

Look up the series Honey, I Blew up the Kid I think was probably that. I think that they had done the second one at this point. Well, you know, I think that was out or it was coming out. Pretty close friends. There could be a little payback time here in 10-92.

And also this is the man that got.

What was the sequel called Honey, I

Blew up the Kid.

Oh, it is, yeah.

Honey I Shrunk the Kids was the first one and then Honey, I Blew up the Kid was the second one.

And that. That was just like the toddler, right? The little boy.

Yeah, that was a little boy. Yeah.

Looks like Harley Race.

Yeah.

Early one there.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. They did a direct to video of like Honey, We Shrunk ourselves. I think, I think. And I want to say that maybe it wasn't even direct to video. Maybe, you know.

Okay, yeah, I was thinking that was some. Between Shrunk the kids and blew up the kid. Yeah, honey, I blew up the kid. Was 1992.

So that was the more current wanted to come up.

Let's see, July 17, 1992. So cabaret that summer.

Yeah,

see, that's how shitty this is. I want to look how. Honey, I sh. Based on his shitty joke that he made,

Apparently. Stetson, look at this kid.

You got kids grabbing the ropes and. Yeah, they're fighting in the crowd and the people just like, oh, let me get into this wrestling ring. I'll be surprised if somebody's in the ring right now.

Look at that kid's on somebody's shoulders.

Yeah, I don't think there was anything in it, but it was a Budweiser beer case just got rammed in the head with flashbulbs are popping.

I'm just trying to eat my buffalo wings over here. All right, get back in the ring.

You know, this pride you might. Might not be able to catch.

See, this is exactly the kind of thing that works when you have cameras to follow. Right now we got a kid's head, but he's back. Back of some kid's head.

Just hand around the waist. Hand.

Let's sit here and watch these guys beat on each other. Okay.

It's losers.

No kidding. You didn't need a microphone for that one. Unbelievable.

Oh, who the hell just got hit

or anything like that around here? They actually.

Out of nowhere. Oh, we got blood.

All right, there we go.

There's the blood.

Although, to be fair, I. I wasn't thinking that this match wasn't going to have blood in it. Stetson and hot body. Okay, whatever. But I do doubt the Canadian Wolf man in the Kodiak Bear match.

Right? It can't be.

That's. No. How is that a bloodiest match?

How is this a bloodiest match? Probably this got squirted on him and

you know, it's the guy. He got his head rammed into somebody's hot wings. That's just Buffalo.

It's so funny. Like, when this camera was more zoomed in just a moment ago, like, just to see in the background was like, table that had, like, napkin holders,

you know? You know what this. I know it's. This is the Cabaret. Chestnut Cabaret or whatever. This looks like a bowling alley.

It does.

There's been a lot that I would want my kids to watch here.

This is every bowling alley that we went to in. In the 90s, you know.

Oh, got big clothesline there. I guess he's going to the top. Tony Stetson going up to the Top with his bloody forehead, his buffalo sauce head.

He's gonna hit. He's gonna hit his head on the. Oh, no. Donnie Allen's Donnie Allen trying with all

his might to shake the rope in

the most literal sense.

Usually you shake it one time, the performance supposed to drop. Yeah. Tony Stenson did not help him out. Oh, funny. How about he going for a superplex off the top rope? His foot's gonna go through the roof. Oh, he avoided the hazard.

All right, I'll give. I'll give him that. That wasn't. That wasn't terrible.

No, it wasn't.

And it's still not in.

Yeah, not destroying the ceiling.

Yeah. They're like, we don't want to pay for this because I'm only getting 40 bucks.

Yeah, right shoulder. Right. Isn't that opposed? The action's at a furious pace now.

All right, Johnny just rammed into the corner post. Now they're fighting on the outside again.

Three year olds in the front row. Jesus.

Yes.

Too many.

So many kids here battering each other. Which, I get it, it's wrestling, but

that mom has her. Her hair all crimped like she's trying to pick up a wrestler.

What's funny? Like, that. You notice that? I. I noticed it too, but it's, like, crazy that with this quality, we could tell that she had crimped hair.

Yeah, well, because we were there. That's the thing. Like, we remember 1992. Like, that was what every. Every girl that was, like, from the age of 15 to, like, 20. Something. Something had their hair crimped.

Right.

That was the style. I mean, your sister probably had her hair like that. Yeah, I know. My older cousins, you know, my girl

cousins did each other, like Savage.

They apparently got counted out, so.

Yep, that was the count out. Oh, we got the Wizard.

Yeah, The Cosmic Commander.

Cosmic Commander. Yeah.

This dude's on the. He's on one of the first episodes of ECW as the manager of Sal Bolomo, and then he just disappears. And sound goes from being a heel to a face for no reason.

Yeah, I don't remember that.

Yeah, he's literally on one episode. And it might even be the first episode. You and JV are like, who the is this guy?

Hey, we got some music. Hey, there's that dude walking by again with his cigarette.

That dude just loves to walk by the camera smoking a butt, like, during people's entrance.

Like, I get back to my seat

or close it, one or the other.

He must be going to take a piss or something.

Yeah, maybe.

Was this dude like a ripoff of the. The Chic. Hey, Cosmic Commander. Smoking too.

Yeah, off and away there.

Yeah. It's funny, cuz that dude looks like he's ripping off like the Chic or, you know, a Middle Eastern gimmick or whatever. The other dude looks like he's ripping off Brody Lee.

Yeah, McFoly before McFoly, right?

Yeah.

Song is this?

I don't know, but that dude kind of looks like he's trying to be prime time Brian Lee.

He does

the Hell Riders.

CH Rider, Please welcome. What the hell? CH Rider.

CH Rider.

Couldn't hear Rider.

Yeah, no kidding. Instead of Hard Dick Rider,

Cut Hair Rider and Easy Rider.

Easy Rider motorcycles against maniacs here.

Welcome back, the Ed Rider. Erectile dysfunction. Erectile dysfunctional.

You know, I just saw that.

All right, so we're gonna get a show match here for sure. Let me look at the time step. Hopefully it's not that long.

This dude got a piece of duct tape across his ass. Right there. That dude.

Oh, no, it says Kodiak.

Oh, it says Kodiak. With the quality, it looked like it's like he had a piece of duct tape stuck to his ass,

But here come the help riders.

That's funny though. Kodiak does kind of look like a Brody.

He does.

Oh, what a shitty back body drop. He almost broke his neck. And how, like the going on out here. Stetson and Johnny Hop body still fighting out here. So is this the blood? This counts as blood again, There's no way to.

So essentially they brawled off, got counted out, and they kept brawling like Triple H and mankind at like summerslam97.

Yeah, yeah. Maybe that's gonna be the theme of the shows that they just keep showing up through all the matches.

Yeah.

I think people are just hitting whoever gets in front of them at this point.

That's right. Here comes Todd Gordon, who I'm surprised guys is alive at this point.

Yeah, that was a shame what happened to him.

Yeah. I wonder what your role in that was.

This show would probably be better off without the commentary. Just let us.

Oh, yeah, yeah, exactly. It would. Honestly, it probably would if it wasn't for these two jackasses talking over it. You could. You could at least like make up your own storyline, you know?

Right. Instead of trying to watch what's going on and listen. Listen to that nonsense, which I guess it's kind of like, oh, we are sometimes.

Right? Yeah. The people that are listening right now are like, oh, well, you guys are doing the exact same thing, right?

Yeah. Calling Kello Black, Right.

Okay.

You guys doing the same ring?

Believe it or not.

Yeah. Now let's see here. The who's this referee corners the Hell Riders on one.

Rico the fuck Canadian.

Yeah, no kidding.

I guess this really starts the match in earnest, huh?

I can't say enough about the athletic conditioning of the Kodiak.

Of who and the Canadian.

The athletic conditioning of the referee.

Yeah, nobody in this ring is athletic conditioning. Look at the guy trying to survive on the. On the corner there. Fake cheek guy. That the Canadian Wolf Man.

Oh, man, I'm getting out of here.

Oh, we got some outside action again with Tony Stetson.

Now the announcer's blocking the camera.

Yeah. Can you see the shot to told him to sit the down. Oh, look at that guy.

That what?

That was Bob Smith.

I guess that was Bob Smith, huh?

Looked like he was from some 80s hair metal.

I was gonna say he looks. He looks like he's. He's gonna be the guy that fronts Twisted Sister after D. Snider leaves.

I was wondering the same thing. Well, he probably has his cover band playing after this. Yeah, we're back.

I think we're back.

Are you ready to rock? I said yes, fans.

There is a magic. Anyone is even looking in general direction of the ring right now.

The fans. Yeah. Nobody is. You know what the going on? Got a match going on here and you got another match going on outside the ring.

These guys basically.

Like, I'd be pissed off if I was in this tag team match. This is my time to shine here. And we got this nonsense going on outside.

There could be.

You know what I just realized?

Victory over them.

What's that?

That's H.G. in the room.

This is.

Is like watching Shotgun Saturday Night, but like way, way worse. Like, it's like this is what. What ECW? What version of ECW? Vince McMahon saw and was like, we should do that, pal. We should have it in a bar anyway. You know, like, imagine that.

Imagine if that's what he saw. BCW is this shitty tape.

Right?

Right. Oh, that's right. That's real wrong. We're going to do this.

Here comes the wild man to break up that attempt. Oh, a lot of beef in the center of that ring right now. Look at that ring.

Oh, there's a lot of beef in the center.

That's the. That's the most correct thing he has ever said.

Am I correct in that? Now he's tagging. Now he's tagging.

Oh, he just. You correct.

Yeah, I understand that. These.

Hell, you just called them HD Rider.

Yeah.

I don't know why the ring announcer called them ch.

How do you that up? HD Ride and ch. Yeah. Who cares I guess right.

Just wants to get. He's like just make sure I get paid. I know I'm Bob Arches. Just make sure you pay me. You know creatures.

I know the last name's Rider. Whatever the unbelievable.

I don't care what he's riding.

Referee Canoli looks like he's really.

Referee Canoli.

Is it really?

That's what he said. Referee Canoli.

Canoli.

They should just let these guys go. No DQ anyway.

Just let them freak.

Let them go. No dq.

Yeah let them go. No dq. Let them beat the out of each other. Who's. Who cares.

Let him battle to a winner here. Let's get. Let's get a victory or a loss on somebody so the fans can see a conclusive ending to a match.

Oh yeah. Cuz you always get DQs and count outs and yeah fall would be nice.

Not yet.

So you know you talk about these guys size. A lot of people go they don't. They're not built like Lex Luger or whatever.

But nonetheless when somebody that's name dropping Lex Luger. Yeah. And they're not doing steroids. They're doing donuts

headbutts a lot. He just used one on Ryder. There's another one.

But he's got something to prove for

Canada because Canada ever since his gut just jealous. Holy moly.

He's like the Canadian Moondog.

I was just gonna say he's a moondog athlete.

I guess now that Bruno.

Oh

he's talking about Dino Bravo retiring. What the is this?

Oh my God.

All right.

Now you got Chubby the future Chubby Dudley looking like Cactus Jack. Shout out to Chubby Dudley.

If he's.

If he's listening his name is over here is.

We're not I got the names right myself.

And now you're going calling this gentleman the cosmic cookie cutter.

We got to talk about something.

Deserves a lot of respect dressed in that outfit.

Not much going on here.

Grand wizard going to seed. If that's possible.

I understand that he channels the Grand

Wizard a lot of bald spots.

One of my heroes is a.

It really is by hd.

Jar hd. All right.

Now there's HD again.

Don't just say

if it was. If it was CD at least he could be chrome Dome rider. You know.

Absolutely Cosmic commander

with it and scores a little interference.

I think what it was.

Oh they even said that the time

so that's 7 minutes and 35 seconds. That's 7 minutes, 35 seconds. I'm not gonna get back no Cosmic

Commander, fake wizard, brand wizard, a rock or something.

The knockoff. I mean, the grand wizard had been dead for a decade at this point, but still. Why? Why? No. Nobody in this bar is gonna care, you know?

Right. There goes this turban Harry Potter character,

the Cosmic Commander, undefeated in his one

match so far in ECW, he's got a thousand percent.

One match, he's 1 0. It's his first match. I don't think he's gonna get two.

Yeah, no kidding.

All right, so there it is. The riders, the cutting hair, easy one, HD hard dick victorious. Now, the Russian chain match. Should have blood versus.

Yeah, yeah. There was no blood in that last match. Unless you count Tony Stetson Russian, who wasn't even in the match.

Right. So we got to hit the corners.

This is. Yeah, one of those type of chain matches.

So they're going to do the thing where somebody drags along and the guy that's getting dragged hits the corners too.

See? Let's play guest to finish. There's only about three ways that you can finish one of these matches.

Oh, is that cigarette guy gonna come by? We got. We will rock you going on here.

Yeah. With a real bassy version of it. Yeah.

Holy sound system.

Tommy Cairo, New Jersey, Please welcome Iron Man.

Tommy.

Ky. Pay your bills, right?

Pay your bills. Tommy Cairo.

Probably had a tab there. Cabaret.

Yeah.

Okay, I'll get back.

Sandman.

Definitely. I'll be back here next month. Don't worry. I got you. Yeah. Is this the Russian having a hard time getting this? I think this is the. Yeah, I think it's the Russian one, though, not the Soviet.

Yeah, yeah. He's having a hard time getting those chaps off.

Yeah. He's like, I shouldn't want this.

No, stop. Stop wearing them.

Tommy Cairo fans from Moscow, Russia,

I recall, a good shape. Another one in there, too. The way he did. I mean, the best shape of everybody. All those young guys.

Yeah.

Oh, here. This is going to be a wild one, Ivan.

And he comes from a time of wrestlers who didn't, like, work out, who didn't eat right, who drank a lot, and he's still jacked. Look at his arms.

Yeah.

Like, they're not. They're not huge, but they're ripped, you know.

But when he hates his opponent, he uses this chain like one of those

dudes that works with his hands, you know?

Oh, yeah, yeah. He doesn't have smooth hands.

No. Doesn't have. Doesn't have smooth hands. His arms are, like, rippling with muscle, but not like, in the same way that guys who work out for, you know, seven hours a day do. Just has that, like, man strength. Yeah, yeah. You know what I mean?

Yeah. All right. I'm fine with that. Yeah, Whatever the you want. Yeah. That was an abrupt up.

Literally hundreds of these kinds of.

Yeah, literally. The bell rang, and all of a sudden, Tommy Cairo's on the mat and Ivan's whipping him. What?

I'd say a minimum of 25 years. And he looks fantastic.

It looks.

Everybody done that for some of the other matches. Like, instead of us looking at a kid's head, cut that out.

No kidding.

Well, you know, Ivan Koff is known as the only man to ever pin Bruno San Martino in the center of the ring. And that should say enough, right?

All right, good point. Call back there. Mention how Kov pin Sam Mono.

That was back when it was the wwwf.

In fact.

That is right.

Wow.

Now, you know, has a little.

They're trying to show their. Their knowledge. That's www Worldwide Wrestling Federation. Whatever. The. Oh.

Only man who ever pinned Bruno in the Garden.

I get a feeling this chain is

going to put Cairo on pain land.

You know, this one thing.

What are they saying?

All that. And that's great. I'm not taking.

I don't know. Hard body. Harper calls it.

Now he's raking that chain across the forehead, the scarred forehead of Ivacolo. Now he's wrapping around his fist. Oh, gosh, this is brutal.

All right, there's gotta be blood, right?

Yeah. It's Ivan Koloff. He's gotta believe he's gonna play a chain match. Yeah.

This is ultra violence, as they would say in Clockwork Orange.

Absolutely.

Clockwork Orange. Reference.

This guy's all over the place with the references. Well, like, he's referencing Bruno and ivan in, like, 71 in the garden. And then he's jumping to the throat as he's other. You know, like pop culture stuff.

And isn't that Cairo ugly? Look at all those teeth missing and everything.

You know, he's got belly to belly.

That was a nice belly to belly. But I love the announcer ripping on Cairo from having missing teeth.

Oh, that's right. He does have missing.

Yeah, he's got the. Like that one tooth in the front missing.

Yeah. Going quick 3.

Nope. KOF drapes those legs around the bottom rope.

There's where the experience shows. Now, this is a man who's.

I mean, realistically, you could keep the guy in the middle and just hit all the corners.

Yeah, the chains. Always that.

Who wrestled in Canada, United States area. And of course everybody knows about his turncoat cousin or his nephew. Excuse me, Nikita. Cold cuts at real off.

Co off.

I'm sorry, did he call the kid cold cuts?

He, he did he. Because he was trying to, you know, be funny.

Is that a joke? Oh but. Right.

But he thought it was funny, but he wasn't funny

cuts. I'm laughing about it though.

I know. Hey. Yeah. It's like people calling him the junk food dog because he got fat, you know.

Yeah.

Now you ask. Exceptionally fine wrestler. We won't get into this because he's not here to defend himself. A Cairo teetering very close to a bunch of fans out in the front row.

How you say Enchanting Bruno at him. Yeah.

It wouldn't have done as much damage. Cuz you know. You know what? People worry about him. He poses for Jacko Lanners, models.

What the.

He was saying Tommy Cairo because he's missing teeth. He models for Jack. See, that was funny.

That was good.

Cairo in a Russian chain match has been trying to wrestle. He caught him with that nice suplex a couple of times and now he's going to beat him simply by out wrestling him rather than battering him. I think that's to be admired and commended.

Oh, kicked in a nut and he falls out of the ring.

It's a, it's a chain match. It's no dq. Yeah, the cares announcers.

Referee just needs to make sure that somebody hits the F corners. That's it.

The referee is only there to count to count to four.

Right.

Boy, did that turn the tide of this match.

Enforcing anything. That's one thing I hate about referees and matches like this big blast. No DQ matches like.

Shut up. Why are you even here?

Right in the forehead with a rusty Ch.

Nobody's taking the. The Brian Danielson or Daniel Bryan approach of, you know, the I have till 5 referee airline in a no DQ match. Just keep doing the stuff the ref tells you to stop. Be like, it's no dq, ref.

Just punch the ref.

I can do what I want.

Makes a man weaker throughout the rest of the match. So that's why he went and being the veteran.

I got one, He's got one more. Oh, he can't get there.

Now he's for the first time he's got Cairo exceptionally angry here.

All right, hit him to the ropes.

Bleeding. Yeah.

Now you see, Cairo could have went for the pin, but he is angry. He's going to pound Away.

I can't. I can't win with a pin in this match. See, that's. That's once again the experience difference. Hit naturally. His instinct was to cover a man when you have a man injured down like that and everything.

This is weird. I think I just noticed. Is the ring like about snapping out here. He's inside the bar area.

Little woozy.

That. That was a big blow to forehead.

I see the register.

This is getting brutal now. This is.

Looks like it's in the middle. And on. On the outside is where.

As if he needs more impetus to draw blood.

You know what I'm saying?

Yeah, I. I think I do get what you're saying. I don't know. Because.

Huge gash across this.

I mean, we're not seeing where the hard cam is.

Watch out your fans in the front row here.

There's like a big bar that wraps around and the ring is like actually in the middle.

Right.

Where the staff would be working.

Exceptionally barbaric.

Wrong.

But I mean, if it's a nightclub, maybe that's the. The dance floor, you know? I don't know. That's a good. That is a good question because I'm

pretty sure that's a register straight ahead there.

Is this. Is this the bloodiest?

Yeah, yeah. That looks like a register.

It's its way up there. This is. This is really a complete mess. Reminiscent of the.

All right, anyway.

Ivan Koloff about to go aerial.

Holy. He's going up. Hey, Russia.

Chance.

Oh. Oh. I like. But I do like the spot, though, when somebody's on the top rope and it's a chain match or a strap match, you just pull them down.

Oh, for sure.

Become flying down school is even uglier than usual.

But it works better when you don't land on the guy.

Yeah, he does appear to have the

upper hand here in this day and age.

That's the guy that is pulling his fault. He needs to move. Cairo's fault. Yeah, there he is. All bloody. We got three. One more. Come on. Easy

to the. Holding the rope.

All right. You can't get there. Stomps away. Stomping on. Was he biting his ass? All right, that's the meaty part. Yeah, those. Yeah, I guess it's close. A quick cold cut.

A rump roast.

Oh, it's clothesline there. No pinfall, dummy. Forget what kind of match you're in on,

Fans. There are a lot of cows out there being from Jersey.

Really?

Yeah. Jersey.

Will you stop that?

I like that.

Okay, that was. That was funny. That Was. That was amusing enough.

Off the beach, you go back out into the ocean.

I'm not even going to qualify that

big with the chain, but I think

Cairo is as woozy as call off is.

You know something, Bob? Looks like the. These guys have gotten such a hatred for each other.

They're not.

They're not really trying to tag that off the top. Tag the corner.

That's right.

All right, so now Tommy's turn again. Hit the corner twice. Third time he's gonna get the fourth. Come on. He's right there. Quite get it. Oh, there it is. We got an actual win. Tommy car defeats. 10 minutes, 4 seconds and then another random cut.

Yeah.

Think he lost the war on that one. I think he's a little worse for wear.

Everybody else goes down.

It's so funny when, like with no mic, you can just yell and the whole crowd hears them. Oh, you got more. More.

Oh, it's a lumberjack match.

It's our main event.

Main event?

Yeah, an event. And this is not from the same show. This is actually the August 12th show, but we are still in the. Wait, no, where are we here? August 12th is it. It's a different place, right?

August 12th.

Yeah, this is the. No, it's the Chestnut Cabaret.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is Chestnut Cabaret.

So this.

This wasn't just ECW volumes. Oh, hey, it's Stevie. Wonderful. Yeah, this wasn't just at the Chestnut Cabaret. This is volume two. Ecw. Chestnut Cabaret. Not the bloodiest matches necessarily.

Compilations from the Chestnut Cabaret.

Yeah,

Sally boy with his Halloween costume.

Yeah,

Stevie. Wonderful. Oh, look at Stevie with his little handcuffs hanging from his belt.

Yeah.

So badass.

He's got a coat, his own coat that says Wonderful on it.

Looks like Oliver Humper. He does

wonderful.

And isn't it wonderful?

That was terrible.

It's like a guy talking before he's about to sing karaoke.

Yeah, yeah.

He's got the mic, got it going.

Got a microphone and you don't. So you're gonna listen to every goddamn word I have to say?

Yep.

You bunch of morons.

I give to you look too close to the mic, Steve.

Yeah, he's eating the microphone and he's the audio guy. What the.

What is going on? And you know what? It's. Isn't it wonderful? Why do we got like a feedback thing going on there? Like an echo? Yeah, it was like.

Yeah, it was warbling.

We got more of him.

The ECW Enforcer.

The Easy W Enforcer. How many nicknames does he have? The Hitman.

He's The Enforcer, Broad Street Bully.

He's taking it to Stetson. I know that. Stetson's bleeding already.

This is bleeding already.

Come on. Ow. What did he do? Just walked out there.

Cut himself on something in the crowd.

Dick Graham has nothing to say. J.C. smith. Look at Stetson.

Bleeding all over the place.

He made a pizza delivery.

He didn't get a good enough tip.

He complained and some old lady beat him up.

There's a bunch of people.

Sandman.

Where these guys come from, too. Like they weren't there before. Just. Oh, here we are. This guy with the blonde mullet look like Tommy Rick.

I was. Yeah, I was noticing that. That one dude in the. In the left kind of looks like Lance Storm.

Yeah, he does. Yep. Is that Tommy Cairo?

It might be. That dude's got the. The mullet thing going on. You know, the back of it's kind of flapping.

That looks like Bruce Beefcake at the time.

Yeah. I gave you something for you to give.

Maybe it's Damien Stone.

There you go. He did have that kind of hairdo. Yeah.

Might be a little too tall. Wonderful.

Yeah. That's more than one syllable, isn't it?

Yeah.

Well, it's been wonderful having Stevie up here.

All right, so in the rain, we got tossing out Hitman. And there's Sandman, though, in his wetsuit. Yeah, this wetsuit. Yeah, Mr. Sandman, because he's a beach bum. So funny. Like, that's the origin of his name is just being like a surfer now.

We got the Lumberjacks fighting this early into the match.

Yeah, the fighting each other instead of throwing the guy. You're right. Still in the ring along with Stetson. I thought maybe the whole. The whole ring was going to collapse under all the weight. The idea of a Lumberjack match is cool. Not only, like, because, all right, you keep the action in the ring, but you can build on, like, new feuds by going on on the outside. Yeah, well, for this production, like, it serves, no problem. Nervous because we don't know what the hell is going on.

Right, right, right.

You can barely see what the hell's happening. God forbid the announces talk about what's happening

or who's. About who's around the ring, right.

Who's the actual people? Like, who's hitting who right now. They're stopping on him. They're stopping on him. Who? Canadian Wolf Man. Who the Just took the mic. Stevie Wonderful again.

That's Stevie Wonderful.

Just randomly grabs the mic, bought some random.

Yeah, it's time to headbutt him. Sal.

Hasn't even worked up a sweat. No, it sounds right. Ripping apart Tony's face here.

Yeah. He's pulling his mouth open.

He's not going to let up until he really destroys him. Snapmare.

Yeah. 20th century schizoid man.

20th century schizoid Man.

Everybody's getting new nicknames on this. This.

You know what amazes me about S. Is that these people.

Oh, Stanton Drop kick.

First, a guy Sal Balomo's size. That was pretty good. Although he's got these skinny ballerina legs. You notice that?

Yeah. It's probably why he wears the outfit that he does.

Yeah.

Cover as much as he can. No, Sal's on the outside. I guess this is the baby face contingent over here. Tossing them back in. But now they're fighting.

Yeah. Every time that one of the guys goes out, the lumberjacks just start fighting on that side of the ring.

Right. This guy in the red trunk, like Tracy Smothers.

I was just gonna say he looks a lot like Tracy Smothers.

Yeah.

There's Tommy Rich like you said.

Right. Somebody says, yeah, maybe Buddy. Oh, my God. Time. I wish buddy would have been in ecw.

I know just the promos cotton from

ECW for this type of behavior.

Who the is that? Was that Stevie Richards?

He was prancing over there. Yeah, could have been Stevie Richards.

Come.

Probably start a riot here.

He was with the ref Jack match. Oh, that guy's worked up in the.

I was just gna say that. Losing his mind.

He just hopped up out of his chair, started, like, smacking his chair.

He started slamming the chair momentarily.

I hate to see that they're all worked up.

This match has got some heat.

He's getting all worked up over this match.

I think seeing that blood incites him, I wouldn't be surprised if he took some home there. He held our skelter on somebody.

A big blow from Sal to Tony. Tony's in the corner now. He's fighting back

now on rubber legs.

I get it. There's. There's been blood and matches. But to say this is the bloodiest, then what the.

Yeah, this is by. No, I, I, I've bled more and than like, shave cutting myself shaving than any of these guys have bled.

Yeah, I hate that. Like, every time for me, it's like right underneath my ear, like. Yeah, that spot and I always nick and then it's just bleeding forever.

Or like the part like right at the top of your, like where your cheekbone is, where, like, you catch it, you know?

Oh, yeah.

Like the Fatty part, so to speak. You kind of catch it and it's like, oh, great, now I gotta look like Nelly with the toilet paper up there. Do you do that, dude? Use the toilet paper trick?

I used to. Now I just. I won't, like, leave with that on.

No, no, no, no.

Yeah, no, I'll get, like a little bit of toilet paper and just hold it there.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. To clot it and all that. Yeah. My dad always used to, like, he'd, you know, put like the little squares on. He'd walk around while he's, like, finishing getting dressed and everything.

Yeah. Now the guys outside are getting in.

Oh, I don't think he. When it gets to Palomo, near those chairs.

Oh, they're Canadian. Wolf man, he wants in it on the action. These people,

these announcers could just tell us who's who, right?

I'd like to know who.

Cool.

That J.T. smith or not? Who the is he? I mean, I would imagine it's everybody that's on the show, right?

The entire roster.

So this is the August 12th show, right?

Yeah, I believe so.

It's Super Ninja Jeff, Royal Sandman Cairo, Jimmy Janetti, Gino Caruso, Damian Stone, John Rock Riders, JT CT Smith, and Soul Train.

Maybe that's Soul train Phillips, then

Mr. Anthony, Mr. Perez. I don't see the Super Destroyers out there, though. But they were on the show. They're too good. They're too big for it. I think that's J.T. smith.

Yeah, we'll say it.

That's what shot here. Oh, is that one of the Perez. Is that Mr. Perez right there, just like Terry Funk?

I don't think so. Actually, the guy in the pit, the pink shirt might be.

Oh, that's a good point. Oh, there's J.T. smith.

So the other dude must be Soul Train Phillips.

Okay.

Yeah. Attempting to enter stately Wayne Manor. Disqualification and a double disqualification in a lumberjack match.

What a show. All right, so they're saying all this, but we don't know who they're talking about because the camera is just a wide shot, like, oh, Jimmy Janetti. And Mr. Per is going at it where. I don't know where they are. They're probably not even looking at. Well, yeah, what do they know? They probably don't even have a camera with it.

Yeah, they're not monitors.

Yeah, they don't have a monitor. So they're just calling the action based on what they. What they're looking at, not what we're looking at. Oh, we got a ladder. Oh, he Just threw ring. You talk about crazy easy.

Oh, what is that from? There's a. There's something that I've seen where the guy's like, look at it.

Look, look, look, look, look, look, look. Really? That's exactly what he was just doing now. Oh, was going nuts. Throwing chairs, ladders.

Plug in some hotline. I think he's had enough ring.

Look, look, look.

And you know, if you want to

get the unbiased opinion of Stalin Wayne

Manor, you can call my.

Oh, what a chair shot. That sucked.

That was a shitty chair shot.

He's being very kind to Stevie. Yeah.

Oh, yeah. He's being nice to him.

Oh, 26 is jumps on Sal choking them out. They can take. Continue to fight. Oh, somebody just threw a drink.

More getting thrown in the ring.

The lumberjack's like this. I'm out of here. Yeah.

They're like, we. We. This. This job doesn't require that much work. So we're. We're good. Let's just go.

Right. We may be for another a day or two till we get out of here.

He's choking him with a belt or his tie or something.

All right. Who is that dude? Oh, that's Jimmy Janetti, right?

Yeah, I think that's Jimmy Janetti.

Is it?

He looked like a roadie for Skid Row, but

he did. Oh, wow. What a show case. Like, hey, we would have had fun there, though.

Oh, yeah. I'm sure live this was a lot better.

That would have been a good time for sure. Just shows why people went to it.

Yeah. Comes in, hits somebody with a chair,

and you're not seeing, like, even in. In these shows at that time, you're not seeing people using chairs and. And like that. Like, they are so.

No, this is just. This is just insane. Like,

oh, wooden chair. Damon just took a shot from Tommy Cairo.

Yeah. And Soul Train.

Hey, that guy looks good, man.

He does. He's got a good look. Yeah.

Whoever's walking around is going to get a shot. Surprised you didn't stick around for the next few months. Actual tv.

Yeah. No.

All right. All right. So that concludes that episode, volume two of ECW best of 1992. And then. It was fun. It was enjoyable. You know, it is what it is, right? Yeah. We didn't have high expectations for any match quality or anything like that storyline. Just taking a little look at early ecw and it's always fun, so I enjoyed that. That was fun. And. Yeah. What'd you think, Rick?

Yeah. I mean, looking at it as for what it is, an Indie promotion that videotaped it with a hard camera in the stands.

Right.

It. I can. I can honestly say that I've been to other indie promotions, promotion shows that weren't any better. You know, it's just where we don't see them on a videotape, you know? Plus, we're also. Oh, God, almost 30 year, 35 years removed from. From this. So back, like you said, if we were there, we would know who these guys are and it would make a little more sense that, oh, that's why Jimmy, Janae, Janetti's fighting Stevie Wonderful or whatever, you know.

Right. Yeah. And it's also, you know, part of it is that we're only watching. This is because of what ECW became, right? So it's not. It's not fair to just be like, oh, that sucks. Well, yeah, in comparison to what it became and whatnot. Obviously, it's. It's not the same, but, yeah, it's typical of any indie show at the time. And for the most part, they probably thought, no one's ever gonna see this anyway. Even if we do tape it, it's gonna. It's not gonna last the test, you know, the test of time.

Right. Then it's not a good. Yeah, it's not like they were using. Trying to use this footage to get on TV or something. It was more or less just, hey, we taped this so that we can sell copies of it, you know, at the next show or.

Yeah, so, yeah, that was fun. And now this. This doesn't include our coverage. We're gonna continue, Right? Just a little bit longer. Yeah, we're gonna continue with some more house show results to wrap up. 1992. So let's get right into it. All right, so in November, so just two weeks later, November 16, 1992, again, Chestnut Cabaret, we have Kodiak Beer and Canadian Wolfman defeating John Rock in the Anchor. And then you have Rock and Rebel defeat the Metal Maniac. Johnny Hop Body defeats Glenn Osborne via dq, which was a TV championship match. And now a title change, a big title change. ECW champion Don Morocco loses his championship to Mr. Sandman. So Sandman becomes first time ECW champion. How many times did he end up winning it?

Six. Something.

The most.

Yeah. And I'm not sure if they count this, you know, ECW or not, but I mean, it. He had the title.

Wow.

Five times at least.

So there it is. First time at least. And as an Eastern championship wrestling.

Right.

Oh, big, big change there. All right, and then you have the Hell Riders defeat Ernesto Or Ernesto, whatever. The, he goes by like a million names. Ernesto, Benfica and Frank Cody. And then you had J.T. smith and Max Thrasher fight to a DQ. And they love the damn DQs. Holy. All right, Tony Stetson defeats Jimmy Snuka with Hunter Q. Robbins iii. So Jimmy Snook is a heel now at this point, and they fight for 12 minutes and goes to DQ. Snuka came off the middle turnbuckle with a Hunter Q's cane that led to the dq. Following the entrances. Tom Gordon, Todd Gordon, Tom Gordon, Boston Red Sox picture. All right, so Todd Gordon came into the ring and told Snuka again that he wouldn't wrestle until he paid the five thousand dollar fee for attacking him. Jimmy Snooker then took the mic and said he didn't care what the fans thought of him. Moments later you have Hunter Q then come in the ring and gave Snooka a wad of cash. So he hooked him up, Snooker gave the money to Gordon and then drop, dropping Gordon with a headbutt after that and beat him up some more, threw him on the outside of the ring. And then during the match, the great crowd, you know, we, we heard a little bit of this before with when Koloff was in the ring or Cold Cuts, they were chaining Bruno, right? So in this case they have, you have Snooka in the ring and the crowd's chanting Piper. Oh, I guess it's some historian. Wrestling fans there, they remember the old feuds, so they, they bring up, oh, this guy you feuded with. So we're gonna share his name. Typical of an indie crowd. The only thing we're missing is a USA champ. Usa. Usa. So anyway, Snooker then chokes, that's in with a cane. And they start the fight. Oh, we got another big show there. J.T. smith and John Rock come out to make the save and stop Snooker from beating everybody up. In the main event, you have Sao Palomo defeat Tommy Cairo. All right, and then we're in Philly. I don't know where this show is, and it's not a lot of detail to this anyway, but it's November 28, 1992. Jimmy Snuka pins J.T. smith with Tigra, 7 minutes, 26 seconds with a pile driver moments after Tiger. I don't know, this doesn't make any sense, but anyway, I think what it's saying is clothesline.

Okay, so good. Clothesline Tigra, right?

He clothesline Tigra just after the pile driver. And then Hunter Q Robbins enter the ring after the match, Todd Gordon came back Again. And now he finds Snuka $15,000. Todd Gordon's a pain in the balls.

He's just making these numbers up as he goes.

Now you owe me 15,000. And then he also said, on December 19th, Todd Gordon's going to manage. Davey Boy Smith face Jimmy snuka in Morrisville, Pennsylvania. Which brings us now to the Morrisville, Pennsylvania show, which is at the high school, December 19, 1992, with 610 people in attendance. Max Thrasher defeated J.T. smith after the Metal Maniac attacked Smith and dropped him with the pile driver. Chris Michaels and Damien Stone defeated Larry Winters and Tony Stetson. And that was a via count out because the Super Destroyers came out and just led to it. But to that count out, Tommy Carroll defeated the Samoan Warrior. ECW champion Sandman with Peaches defeated the Rocket Rebel via reverse decision. Rock and Rebel originally won the match and the title after hitting him with brass knuckles. But Pete just pulled the weapon out of the challenges trunks and referee John Finnegan changed a call. Right. So you got that little moment where, oh, she's putting his hand down his pants. Oh, because he's got brass knuckles. Yeah, we've seen that before. I'm pretty sure that spot happens again in early ECW once we get to hardcore tv.

Yeah, it sounds familiar.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure it is. ECW TV champion Glenn Osborne defeats Canadian Wolfman. Hell Riders defeat the tag team champions, Super Destroyers via dq. JT Smith wins the Battle Royal by last, eliminating Metal Maniac. And for whatever reason, they gave us the elimination of order here. So, yeah, why not? All right, so first out was Chris Michaels, then Damien Stone, all about Kodiak Beer, Canadian Wolfman and Tommy Cairo. Then you get Simone War again tossed out. Then Devious Donnie Allen, then Max Thrasher and Glenn Osborne, and then finally the metal maniac, and J.T. smith is the big winner. And then in the big main event, you have Davey Boy Smith and Todd Gordon. So this became a tag match. Davey Boy Smith and Todd Gordon defeated Jimmy Snooker and Hunter Q. Robbins III when Davey Boy Smith pinned Jimmy Snooker. That wraps up ECW 1992. Man, I didn't even know about that Davey Boy Smith match.

Yeah, that should be available, right? You know.

Yeah, right.

I'm. I want to say that they probably filmed it. I mean, I haven't seen it, but I feel like I've seen footage of him.

I've seen an image of him.

Yeah, yeah,

yeah, yeah. I wonder if that's out there.

Yeah, yeah, somebody probably has it. It's Just a case of. Is it of publicly available?

Right? Yeah, we'll see. See what's out there right now. And then that concludes another one of our bonus episodes. But you know, we look to do more of these from time to time. I think the next one that we'll probably plan on doing is the pilot, right? Oh, yeah, because we never covered that originally. Oh, we'll check out the pilot episode. I've seen it before and there's been reviews like OVP did a review of it a while back. Yeah, I'd like to check that out and see. You know, this is what they presented to try to get on air.

Right. This is what they showed as a demo.

Right. So that'll be interesting to check out. You know, we don't know when it'll be. I'm not going to be like last time and say, oh, we'll be back probably in a few weeks and then eight months goes by. So yeah, it'll be available at some point and if you, if you really want it, you know, let us know and then maybe we'll be. We'll put it higher on the docket.

Yeah, we can expedite it if. If there's demand for it.

Right, exactly. All right, so we're just gonna do a quick little wrap up. So we'll be right back with the Extreme ECW Live cast.

Wrap up.

All right, we're back now for the Extreme ECW Livecast wrap up. And again we'll be back with another episode of the extreme ECW livecast covering ECW hardcore TV. And our latest episode coming up is episode 104, which is covering ECW Haku TV 224 and 225, which is August 5th and August 12th, 1997. Most of that is covering the Born To Be Wired Sabu winning the championship. So, you know, crazy stuff there, fun stuff there. So that'll be out very soon. Or it's already out, who knows. But that's our latest episode. And then what's coming up after that though is our big special. It's our Pay Per View special. Our second one, it's hardcore heaven 97 from August 17, 1997. So that'll be out soon. Looking forward to covering that. That might be in two parts. We're going to try to do it in all one episode. We'll see, we'll see. But that's what's coming up here on the Extreme ECW Live cast. Also check out the free feed where you can also check out volume one. If you hadn't heard? Volume one of the best of 1992. That's one of the latest episodes available on the free feed. So please check that out along with all the episodes covering 93, 94, 95, 96, and part of 97. Because we're now into. What is it? January is one of the latest ones, right?

Yeah, I think.

Yeah, I think the first week of January 97 is where we're at there on the free feed. So definitely check that out. And again, check out JV and I on the Bottom Line Wrestling cast Stone Cold Steve Austin, where we are currently covering stunning Steve and we are 21 episodes into covering stunning Steve Austin and WCW. Our latest episode was Thunder Cage, which was February of 1994 and coming soon will be March of 1994 as well. So again, check that out. Give us a follow on social media on X. Follow Me Mike Pro at NPRUA 3 Paul JV at John Van Damage while Rick Bibi at Leo Y85 and also at Hybrid. Underscore Cast and also again follows at Extreme cast. That's all I have, Rick. You got anything else?

No. Volume two is in the. In the books.

All right, guys, thanks for listening and we'll be back. So long.

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