It's a new year stuff. Oh, my God.

I've traveled with this guy. I've trained with them, I've broken bread with them. And I choked him out.

The final battle between Raven and Tommy Dreamer. You did your job and ran the fuckers off.

Look at that. From the twisted steel section of Dudleyville.

Extreme Championship Wrestling has been thrown into disarray. This, my friend is he.

She. Welcome to the Extreme Easy to be live cast. And we are back at you with the next episode. And we are covering ECW Hardcore TV episode 207 from April 8, 1997. And we are just a week away from Barely Legal. Wow. I feel like we've been trying to approach this pay per view forever. We ain't here now. I'm Mike Pru along with JV and Rick. BB as always. How you guys doing?

Doing great, bro.

All right.

We made it.

We made it. We're here. This is a, you know, a little prep episode, I guess for Bailey Legal. And it's a short episode. We're just doing one hardcore TV episode. That's it. There's a couple new matches that we're going to cover, but a good amount of is prep and hyping up the next big show, which is Barely Legal. So that's what this is and we're excited to do that. So thanks guys to listen as always. All the BTT Army JV Goon Squad. And also shout out to all the JV Goon Squad members that were down Louisiana that hung out with me for some wildcat wrestling, which I didn't watch any of. I didn't watch any of that show.

Really?

No, dude, we're in the bar that. That match was at the whole show and most of us were just hanging at the bar and the ring was.

Oh, that's why that's good.

Actually set up separate away. We're just hanging there. The whole crew was just hanging out there near the bar getting. And Mike had pointed us out on one of the recent episodes of ptt. I think it was a regular BTC episode, not a special one. But Mike was surprised by how cheap the drinks were. And dude, the drinks are cheap. Jv, how much do you think a Captain and Diet would cost.

Atla? Like what. What's comparable? Like, what's this place comparable to up here?

This would be like. I don't know because they haven't been out in a long, long time to.

Regular like the vfw, like the PL.

Hall.

Or is it like. Like an. I mean, I know it's not an Applebee's, but like, that kind of a bar. Like a. You know, this restaurant.

This was like. Oh, yeah. This was like a haul that was hosting wrestling show. That a bar.

All right.

I would say, yeah.

VFW. American Legion, pal of stuff.

750.

750. All right. It was $5 a drink.

Holy.

That's cheap.

$5 for a captain and diet. And.

And how, like, how was their poor. Like, was it really fine? Extra. Extra diet now?

That was good. It looked good. So good.

You weren't feeling much.

I think. I think they did a good job. But, yeah, it was a good pour. And I was like, holy, $5 a drink. Okay, well, I'm good. I'm good with this.

Yeah.

$5. Dude, up here, that's like $10 for a Captain Diet, if not more. Yeah, like 10. 50.

Yeah, yeah.

@ minimum. So that was nice in the first place, but, dude, everyone down there was great. Everyone that showed up b Army squad, everyone's awesome. Mike was fun as hell. Hopper made out with me, obviously, the picture. I was. I was like, hey, dude, let's take a bit. He's like, kiss me. I'm like, man, he's funny. His girlfriend's funny. Tiffany. She's awesome.

Nice.

Now, Mike's cool, of course. Of course. But everybody else, like, just when I get to the hotel, I was like, who's here? Like, I didn't know who the was going to be. Where. Whatnot. Who's in what hotel? Whatnot. But Adam Price was in the hotel that I was in, Sparks Hayes. And that it was funny because they were playing games, like, Adam. Adam Price was like, oh, I'm gonna pretend like I'm Doc this week. He's gonna show up in a mask and.

Because somebody showed up in a mask, didn't they?

Oh, it was Adam Price.

Oh, that was. That was Adam. Okay. I wasn't.

I wasn't sure.

Yeah, Doc never. Doc never shows up because Doc doesn't want to give up his identity and have somebody use it against them in his real world. Yeah, he's trying to avoid that, but, you know, I don't personally say I'm gonna pretend to be a Spikes. So he had bought my ticket. I. Hey, can you get my ticket for me? So, yeah, I'll get it. And then it came time for the show, and he's like, oh, he. He. He had this gimmick going that he was gonna make it. Like, what the, man? I'm gonna get my ticket. Yeah. It's like, oh, do this. And Then, you know, we had this. And we had had this meeting in the hotel room, where I show up in the hotel room like I'm walking into a mafia hit. Did I see Adam Price there? It's like, hey, what the you doing here? Oh, I didn't get hit. All right, Adam Price is here. Cool. All right, cool. Hiding for me. That was funny. Then Half Pint, too, was there.

Stand on a stool, saw the pictures.

Well, Halfway. Halfway was in the hotel with us, but they didn't want to tell Half Point either. Half Pint about the. About Adam's gimmick. So even though he's in the same hotel as us, he didn't get to know the whole gimmick and that, you know, Adam was doing that and had his ticket and all that. So Halfway had to get his own ride to the show because I. I rode with Adam and everybody else. So, yeah, that was pretty funny.

I want to go sometime. Sometime I will.

Yeah. So the other thing now, like, the show's going on. That's great. Oh, that's fun. Hilarious. Everyone's cool. Just talking, bullshitting. Yeah, dude, it feels like you didn't even leave your home. Like, you took a plane ride, you went to a bar, and you just talk to people. That's it. And then you go home. It's like, I didn't even feel like I was in Louisiana. It was just like, I felt like I went to a bar and I'll go up people that I've been talking to online. Know what I mean? And then went home. Spent a lot of time in the airport, by the way. But anyway, yeah, so that's the whole fun of it, is just meeting all these people, and everyone's so cool. Everyone's great. And. But I do want to point out, though, because every time, like, not every time, because I only went twice, but last time I went, like. Was like, oh, it's jv. Where's jv? And then this time, I was like, oh, where's jv? Where's Rick pb? And then now I'm like, trying to defend why you guys aren't coming. I'm like, it's like, yeah, they want to come. And part of me feels like. Like, I'm, like, being the sticky guy. Oh, I don't. I don't tell them. I just come by myself. You know what I mean?

Yeah, yeah.

It's like, Mike, I want them to come, too.

Yeah, I need. Yeah, next year, just.

And I told you, I said, hey, dude, go. I bought you a ticket, actually. JV for the show.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I just want to make sure you had a ticket just in case you were able to go. But I know it's not easy. Like, this is not an easy thing to do. Like, when I ask my wife, she's cool about it all the time because she knows what it is. But if I have to, like. Like, I don't have to explain it, because I don't. But sometimes Alex will bring it up, like, oh, Mike's gonna be away this weekend. Oh, why? Like, talking to her mom or a dad or something. Oh, he's going to Louisiana for some wrestling thing. And they're like, what the. What do you mean? It's like, oh, yeah. I do a podcast and I'm a part of. Part of this podcast group that has listeners and we meet. Yeah, sounds like a whole. Whatever. But I. Hey, it.

Doc doesn't go.

Doc doesn't go because he doesn't want to expose his identity.

What a g move. I don't want anyone to ever know who.

Awesome, dude. It would be awesome if we all went.

Yeah, we. We definitely need to. I want. I want to go. It's just a case of last year. I just started my, you know, new job, so. Yeah, I can't. I can't be like, oh, by the way, I know I've only been working here for a month, but I need. I need to take a couple of days off.

Yeah. I hadn't been in three years. I went.

Right.

20, 21, I think.

Yeah. You went to the. The COVID Yeah, it was the first show back from COVID Yeah. When they did, they did it like a high school or something, right?

Yeah. It wasn't even X rated, so this was way better.

Yeah.

Because this was at an actual bar. When last time I went, we had to just watch a wrestling show sober and no drinking, and then go out to a bar. But this time it was. The show was at a bar, and then we went out to the bar that we went out last time, which is awesome because it's called the Harbor Bar. So I'm like the Boston Accent guys. Like, oh, we're at the Harbor Bar. It was fun. But, yeah. Hey, that's the great thing about this tradition with the BTT army is that it's been going on and sometimes people go, sometimes people don't. And, hey, hopefully our crew will all be able to go eventually. Just this last time, Sparks and Half Pint was the first time they met in person was at this show.

Really?

And they've been Doing their show for a couple years. Yes, already.

All right, so yeah, there's a people I just see on like Twitter all the time. I don't know who they are. Like I'll interact with them. I don't even know his real name, Beer man.

Oh, I don't know Batman's real name either.

It's make me laugh pretty hard.

But nah, dude, you have a great time. Hop is hilarious. Mike is cool as everybody else is awesome. All right, so that's that. I mean, you heard more on the BDT about this get together, but yeah, it's fun. And thank you Goons Squad for everybody that came out and everybody that actually listens. Keep the Wii. It's awesome. But yeah, let's get this episode going here. Give us a fall on Twitter X Twitter at Extreme Cast. Follow me Mike Peru MPRU 83 Paul JV at John Van Dam mentioned. Follow Rick BB at Leo Y85 and also please check out JV and I at the Bottom Line Wrestling cast the career of Stone Cold Steve Austin where we are covering his entire career. It's been covered Stone Cold Steve Austin. And we are now on to Stunning Steve Austin. We've covered the Hollywood Blondes. We covered the first half of Stunning Steve Austin. And now we're into the US title reign of Stunning Steve Os Steve Austin. So please check that out. New episodes coming out every other month. So please check those out. And guys, anything else before we get started here?

Well, I. We didn't discuss this in the pre show, but I just want to throw it in. Rip Kevin Sullivan, he. The night. The day we record this, he passed away. The news broke this morning and I.

Know.

Mike and Doc already cut a little. Well, they cut in a. An episode this morning when they were normal recording and they did a little piece. I haven't had a chance to listen to it yet, but they did something to say Rip and talk about him. So I'll just, you know, because he was a big part of ECW in the beginning and you know, and also is a big name in wrestling, you know. Yeah.

And Florida wrestling.

Oh yeah. And a Boston guy. So.

All right, he's a Boston guy. What do you think they do to monkeys in Malaysia? Yeah, that's one of his big lines.

The lady of the third eye.

What was the other one? We're not building a rocket ship here.

Yeah, ain't that hard, guys. We're not building a rocket. We're trying to get guys over in a fake business.

Oh yeah, he was a. For all intents and purposes, he was a good booker. And.

Yeah.

Yeah. I don't know about the whole conspiracy theory about how he. Yeah, yeah, I don't believe that.

Yeah.

And if anything, I feel bad that somebody that he loves was killed by a. Not right. That he was the. So that's. In my opinion. Yeah, that's enough of that. But, yeah, Kevin Solomon had great influence on wrestling.

Oh, yeah.

And. And he never had a career in wwf and he had such a great influence. So. Yeah. How many people can say that?

Not many.

No. I mean, if his influence is the Dungeon of the Doom, maybe that's not that great. But. Yeah, but no, he was. He was a good mind. And if you did listen to his podcast over the last decade, I. I think he would have learned something from him about wrestling in general. So, yeah. RIP Kevin Solomon. All right, so from there. Now, let's move on to ECW hardcore TV episode 207. And we are going to cover this episode. It's on Peacock, April 8, 1997, season five, episode 15. But we're gonna watch this on the Internet archive. And it's April 4, 1997, and, man, the episodes are just all over the place. You can find this somewhere else is April 10th, I think. But we're going with April 4th on the Internet Archive. And if you happen to want to watch it on Peacock, it's April 8, 1997. We're gonna do a runtime of 53 minutes, 25 seconds on the Archive. And matches are going to come from the April 5th show, which is in Queens, New York. But a lot of this is going to be hyped to the pay per view that's coming up. The very first Pay per view of ecw that's barely legal, so a lot of promos, but then a couple matches in there as well. So we're just going to cover that. Just one show this week, and then next time we're gonna come at you with the pay per view. Finally. Finally we get the damn pay per view. All right, boys, you guys get yourself set up. The pay per view.

Yes, sir.

I'm ready to go.

It's the go.

That's the guy.

All right, I'll give a countdown three down to one and say play. When I say play, we all click play. 3, 2, 1. Late. All right, so we got Pitbulls talking to each other with some Metallica playing in the background. Like I said, this is gonna be promo heavy. So I don't know how much we want to lay out during these promos. I'll just talk randomness.

I guess we'll just play it by ear.

Yeah. They're showing Gary Wolf in his halo.

Bracelet, like that villain from that movie 13 Ghosts.

Yeah.

I was wondering, with, like, Gary Wolf in that halo, are those screws really in his head, like his Frankenstein up with that? I mean, is that what they do?

Yeah.

The screws in your head?

Yeah, they bolt it. They bolt it to your skull.

So they don't put, like, a little padding or anything to sturdy it.

I mean, I think they do, but they do have the. The halo, as far as I'm aware. I've never seen one in person and obviously never had one. As far as I know, they do attach it with bolts or screws or something into your head so that obviously it. It, you know, stabilizes your neck and you can't move it. As far as. As far as how much padding there is and. And what other precautions they use to, you know, protect your skin and everything. I'm not 100 sure, but. But I do know that they're. They're supposed to, like, attach it to your skull. It's not just, like, tight against it, but it actually has pins or. Or bolts or whatever.

I gotcha.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

At this point, though, that he would still be wearing doctor's ordered in the wrestling ring in Philadelphia.

Yeah, I don't know.

I don't think so.

Probably not.

That's a good question. I never looked at it from that.

I mean, he's got a. He's got a neck brace on right there. One of those foam ones.

Yeah. Bobby Heaton and.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Happen.

Even though I had screw. Even though my arm was dead. No.

It'S great, though, how the crowd reacted to that.

Oh, yeah, that was real heat.

All right. I'm going to do my thing that I always do. Have we played Metallica, Unforgiven? I don't think so.

Yeah, we have.

We have. Oh, I'm forgiven.

Yeah, I think we have. Yeah.

All right, here comes Ravishing Mysterio. Sweater Man.

Yeah, Sweater Man. And dad Jeans.

Get back in the ring. Get revenge.

It's a new year.

All right, so we got Ravishing Rick Rude in the mask confronting Shane Douglas. And Rick Root is looking to things up here. I don't know if he wants to bang Francine or not. I think he's more interested in talking about Shane having a little dick.

Right.

With the franchise, if you want to. With the franchise, why are you hiding behind a mask?

This is lame. I. This was so lame.

Yes. It was Wonder who that sounds like. Jesse the body.

Yeah.

I take my mask off, you yourself.

Have to deal with the smell. Yeah.

Come on. That sucks. It should have said if I take my mask off. Francine, beyond our knees talking to my cock. Something like that.

Straight X rated it porn.

Now.

I believe there's somebody in the.

Back who is is ready.

Who is it? And we know who it is, cuz we already seen this. But yep. I like to build up.

A hamster.

You hug like a hamster.

Hamster. Damn. Damn.

You got somebody in the back. Who is it? Who is it? It's not Tommy Dreamer, is it? That's because we took care of that piece of.

All right, so it's not Tommy Dreamer. Not Anthony Duranty. Could be.

Everybody.

Francine's like, I didn't know he had a hamster dick.

You bring him out and I'll prove to you and all those pieces that I am the man in ECW.

For all you franchise Francine dick suckers. He's got a hamster. That's what he wanted to say.

So while we've been watching this, I did a quick little look up if this was airing on April 8. Two days earlier, WCW had presented Spring Stampede, which was headlined by Savage versus DDP in a no DQ match.

Really early. Early April.

Yeah. April 6th. Yeah. And then obviously the next weekend would be barely legal. And the weekend after that, WWE. Well, WWF @ the time would put out in your house. 14 revenge of the taker.

That was one of them. How come I don't remember that?

Revenge, which the main event was something that you guys covered on the bottom line cast was Stone cold against Bret Hart.

Huh?

Run to take her. Yep. April 97.

April 97. April 20, 420. 97 Spring Stampede.

Yeah. On the Tick was a champion, but he sucked, right?

Yeah. Because it was right after WrestleMania 13.

Yeah.

But spring spin. Spring Stampede 97, that is a mouthful that is also infamously known for when Booker T. Called Hulk Hogan the N. Word on that on live pay per View. Memorable.

Yep.

Come for you.

Yep.

And then Sherry starts patting his head like it's okay, but it's okay.

You're good, honey. Don't worry about it, baby.

I'll make sure you don't get fired.

You're gonna be a big S one day, baby.

Baby, baby.

That's why I became big star. He's the first to call Hogan out. Come view. What the is this? It's like Jimi Hendrix about the start. What's this? You hear it? Yep. It's a different song but it sounds like Wayne's world too. When goth is like all turned on by Kim Basinger. Yes, the St. Makita's donut shop.

You know you are.

To that must.

Attend event for any true ECW fan. And speaking of must attend or at least must see this Sunday night ECW pay per view barely legal 9pm eastern time.

Barely legal.

9Pm start time.

Raven for the world heavyweight title.

I can't believe it was a 9pm Stockton because I did watch this pay per view live. What was April 17th? Was that Saturday?

No, April 13th. April 13th was a Sunday.

Was that 13th?

Yeah, it was April 13th. Yep.

Must have been April vacation. Probably.

Yeah, probably.

Probably as the franchise show.

There's no way I was sleeping at my grandparents house on.

On a school night.

Yeah, on a school night.

Probably Saturday today.

Can feel the estrogen.

File that under things you can't say on TV now.

Definitely not.

All right, so we got our first match here. This is a fan cam match. Like I said earlier, JV is gonna lose his mind in this. That's so shitty. But there are some good spots in this match. I had checked this out before. One, my name is the man.

And.

He'S here taking on Pitbull number two. But he landed on Gary Wolf, Pitbull number one. So now everyone's concerned about him who shouldn't be there in the first place. Got three lefts gathering to somebody. Not even in the match. Everyone bitching at Ram. Now Rick, earlier I said this looked like the place that we talked about before with.

The Webster Town Hall.

The Webster, not Newton. But this. Yeah, this is a different place. But it looks similar.

It does. This. This to me looks kind of like the. The Hammersmith Ballroom or the Manhattan Center.

Yeah, close to that. But also like when you look to the upper decks, it looks almost like Webster.

Right, right, right.

One major difference that you'll notice is that you have a whole crew of fans on a stage. So they got a lot of people sitting on a stage.

Yeah, right there.

Yeah, to the right.

Getting back into the ring.

So Rob Van Dam looks good in this match.

Oh yeah.

Upon and selling. One of the reason why I wanted to highlight Robbie N is that there was Jean Claude Van Damme marathon on this morning that I ended up watching a bit of.

Oh, what movie?

And it was Double Impact Blood Spore of course. And then what was the other one? Ah, it was another one. I had this girl, I was like, this girl's got the nicest tits I ever seen. What the not in death, any. What.

What was the movie about?

The movie was about same basic, like. Oh, Cyborg. It was called Cyborg.

Oh, okay.

You know Cyborg. Yeah, she. He had like, get this girl. And he didn't want to banger because he loves his wife still. But she showed her titties.

Yeah. I don't remember the chick.

Oh, yeah. Her name was like, Deborah Diedrich, something like that. It was dj, Ah, Smoke show. She was another movie called Hot Takes. Yeah. Because I. I went down the rabbit hole. I was like, what's this 80s chicks from? And yeah, she was one of those 80s, like, I'll show my tits being movies. Deborah Diedrich.

It sounds like the kind of girl that would have been in an 80s movie and be the, you know, stereotypical chick that flashes tits.

It was funny, though, because I was just watching regular tv. It was ifc. Ah. So during the commercial breaks, they make it a point to say we show unedited movies. No cuts, no sensors, like all that. I was like, oh, cool. So it was like a whole marathon of Jean Claude Van Damme movies with girls showing her tits. So I had that on throughout the morning, and then after that was like a desperado. Once upon a time in Mexico Marathon. And. Yeah, but when Bloodsport came on, it's so funny how much they show. I forget the guy's name, but he's the villain. Was it Chung Lee? Right? Yeah. When he does the little face in the camera, like when he pumps his fist and.

Polo young. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Chong Lee. You're right. Yeah. Chong Lee. Yeah, in blood. In Bloodsport.

Yeah, in Bloodsport.

Yeah. Yes.

He was also in the movie I watched before that. He was in. He was in Cyborg.

He was in Cyborg.

Really? Some random dude.

It's like.

Oh, it's in this movie too.

Franchise.

Oh, dude, let's listen to this. This is a good promo.

I World heavyweight championship that had historical lineage.

Terminator franchise. Yeah.

To most wrestlers, that would be a night to cherish, but for a franchise, it was a night to change history. This is it tonight. D. God, that's beautiful. And Rick's steamboat.

And they can all kiss my ass.

It was some serious cutting there, right, Rick?

Yeah, they. They. They cut the. They cut the beginning of that promo out. Yeah. And him talking to his. His dad in heaven.

P. Seven years ago.

The franchise. Shane Douglas is the man who ignites the new flame of the sport of professional wrestling.

Terry Funk once held that belt.

Tonight, before God and my father is witness. I I declare myself, the franchise, as the new ECW Heavyweight Champion of the world.

I was the first ECW World Heavyweight Champion. And if there's something, something to be said about this big day coming, this pay per view of ours, whether you like it or not, whether you've got the guts to admit it or not, whether you have the intelligence to understand it or not, whether you've got the to admit it or not, I am the man that has been the catalyst that brought us to this event. I am the man that laid the foundation for ECW to say, we are on pay per View. It's all mine. The glory's mine. The wonderful part of this is all mine. You're welcome.

Hey, that's a great comment. To me.

Yeah, it is. It's within character, too.

Full of entertainers.

Pay per view is here because of me. I'm the franchise.

I brought us to Nirvana.

I saw that they needed me back. They needed somebody that was able to take them to the promised land. Promised land. The Nirvana called pay per view. But that's not the reason I came back. There was something that got my blood racing, something that got my heart pumping, something that got the blood pressure up just a few points.

Francine's hand, I. I was just thinking the same thing. That that is. That is making my heart race just watching her hand.

It goes like this.

And who can fly the highest or who can swing the chair the hardest or who can get the 1, 2, 3. What it is about is who can play the star? And you people sitting at home right now with those bellies down over your belts, whether you like us or you.

Hate us, I feel attacked.

When you see us walking down the.

Aisle above my belly on the tv.

You tell the kids to shut up. Because, you know you're seeing greatness. You know you're seeing a star. You know you're seeing superstars. You know you're seeing a franchise.

Awesome pro. Awesome. Sorry, girls. He doesn't want you. He's already got me. Show you titties.

You see Pitbull number two. For years I sat in the dressing room and I watched all these haggard.

Grizzled gets in the sock.

As their careers were fading and it was slipping away, I took pages from them and I took them and added them to the book that is called the Franchise. I took from a man named Terry Funk and I siphoned off him as his career is in its twilight days and it's slipping away. One thing I learned from people like Terry Funk is that you never overlook an opponent.

That's awesome.

Never look past the man standing in the ring in front of you. Never think about the meal on tomorrow's plate before you've swallowed and digested what's there today. Anthony Durante, I know what kind of man you are. 275 pounds of beat your chest, raw power. A man capable and hell bent on breaking the neck of the franchise and on breaking the neck of the sweetest girl in wrestling today, Francine. A man that can do it like that if he's given the opportunity. A man that can take her and snap her neck like that if I give him the chance.

What do you mean, my man?

But Anthony Durante, there's something like what?

The stand. Oh, me.

He never said he was going to hurt me.

I've not yet decided that I am in my twilight days. And as we come to the morning, to the dawn of the greatest thing in ECW's history, I'm not looking past you, Anthony Durante. I'm looking for you. And something you must understand, Pitbull number two, is that I'm not the one that's saying you're just a footnote. I'm not the one that's saying you're an insignificant other. I'm not the one that's saying you're just a notch in my belt. It's history. It's history. Pitbull number two, History is saying that you're going to be a footnote, an insignificant sidebar, nothing more than a notch in my belt. It's history. And you see, I just happen to be writing that epitaph, Anthony. I just happen to be the author of this story. And it finishes like this, you footnote to the most significant career of an athlete that this sport has ever been offered.

Hey, good promo. That was good.

That's talking them into the building.

Yeah, and that's what most of the show is going to be, is people talking us into the building. It's gonna be. Not a lot we can on. Gonna be a lot we need to just listen to. I'm sure Taz is gonna cut a good promo building up while we got some shitty commercials going on here. Let's see if there's any notes. All right, so let me just give it a little run through quick. I don't think it did the Scranton show. Did I do a Scranton April 4, 1997 show on the last episode, right?

I don't think so.

All right, let me just run through that quick. All right, so April 4th, 1997, 900 people in attendance. All right, let's listen to the Dudleys.

How does it feel?

How does it feel?

Ellis with the IC tag titles. Shane Douglas with the World Championship TV title.

Anymore.

We've taken everything that you guys got to offer. Hurricane Cronus.

I do like the evolutionary hair of Bubba. He's become a badass at this point. He's becoming like a bully.

Yeah. Alpha of the Dudleys.

Yep.

Barely Legal. What makes you think.

Anything is gonna be different? Total elimination.

At the pay per view this Sunday night. They will regain the world Tag Team title.

I don't know about that.

This past weekend we were in Queens, New York City.

What if they hit a 3D? Oh, so we're gonna get a match here. Queens Triple Threat match. This match is crazy.

Yeah, this is a tight. This is for the belts.

Yeah, Dudley's a defending against the Eliminators and the Gangsters. Triple threat.

What a snappy dresser.

What a snappy dresser. Is that what you're laughing at, jb? Yeah, Joker.

Yeah, with the. The bow tie and the no shirt under his sports co. By the way, Pru, the. This show was at the Elks Lodge in Queensland.

Okay. No, I. I had that in my notes. That was the Elks Lodge, but it didn't seem like an Elk Lodge.

Yeah, I'll be at an Elks Lodge tomorrow afternoon for a steak and lobster dinner.

Where? Newport forever. Oh, for everyone. Okay. Across from the Shores and whatever. North Main Street.

Yeah, North Main. You're not hear me?

No, I didn't hear you. Yeah. Is your dad a member? Who's a member?

My uncle. Uncle. He's. It's for like a. He's in a Lakeville Golf league.

Nice.

Even like selling ticks.

Nice. You suck, Ugly. It's funny, people on Dudley's. You suck, Dudley.

Wow.

John Cronus, man. Doing freaking moonsaults. Beast. And then of course, Saturn. Like, yeah, it's awesome.

A giant doing moon stalls. It's kind of crazy.

I'm so pissed off that John Cronus never got a run in WCW or wwe.

Desperate. WCW was towards the end, like he was still around, wasn't he?

Yeah.

Yeah.

How do you not take him? You take Saturn. You don't take him. No. Maybe it's all up.

I don't know that that could be.

Well, here's the gangsters and New Jack is going nuts. And believe me when I say he's going nuts, he's gonna do something nuts in this match because I did look at. Look ahead a little bit and did some research. He does Something crazy here, like. Because if I'm gonna watch a recap show with Bill, anything new, I want to know what's going on. And New Jack takes over this show.

The really good or really bad?

I mean, it's up to you, I would say. I mean, he gets a crowd wild. Probably pretty dumb.

Yeah.

Bring a gun or something.

Oh, you'll see. No, I. I love this guy. In the crowd right here, though, you see him right off to the right of Mustafa. He was, like, ready to dance. I just noticed he was like, yo, Gaga. Oh, here it is. That's what I'm talking about. Here it is, jv. Keep your eyes open.

Oh, I can't miss it.

Nope.

Oh, what the was that?

He sat on him, basically dropped down.

Yeah, there's nothing there so bad. It's good, I guess.

Like, it wasn't even. There was a table there at some point, but where the the table go?

Like when I fall off a. Like, fall off a cliff in like a video game?

Yeah, cliff. That. There's no cliff. You think you're jumping on a cliff and it's like, man.

And now he's dancing.

Yeah.

Cocaine's a hell of a drug.

New Jet. The Cross. New Jack.

Thank you.

Gaga. New Jack. Chill the out, dude. Yeah.

No.

At one. Peewee's not counting. What's going on here?

He was in the rope.

Hey, call the action. Bubble cutter. One, two. All right, do we. Do we gotta win here now?

The gangsters have been eliminated against.

Eliminated. Dudleys win the match.

No, because.

Eliminators. Awesome. I love his perfect elbow drop. Elbow drop's great. Hey, diva, wake up. Hey, for a show that doesn't have real matches, I'd like the fan cam matches here.

Yeah.

Because they're giving us, like, a legit match and coverage. What?

The.

Roadhouse? What? A roadhouse sandwich?

That round roundhouse sandwich. Because they're roundhouse kicks.

Okay.

Total elimination.

I'll eat roadhouse sandwiches.

Blinded by.

Let's go back to my.

Dan Dudley's interfering with.

Hey, look at that upper crowd. They're all standing. Holy. Oh, we got a one. No, he didn't. Oh, I don't think so. I didn't see no count retain the dials. Yvonne, get the out of here quick. Bubba doesn't know where he is. Thanks for my belt, but get out.

With the belt asap.

Oh, here comes two Stepping Joe Gurna.

Is he crip walking?

That's awesome. Oh, what's this gonna say?

Motel and titties hanging out?

Oh, they're not so happy. The eliminated is not so happy with tits. Oh, sign guy is gonna get up.

Total elimination.

Can we do it to Joe Gna though too.

Please?

This Sunday night.

Oh, let's listen to this promo night.

In the history of the ECW Arena. It's the biggest night in the history history of the ECW promotion. And it's the biggest night in both the lives of the Dudleys and the Eliminators. But for you Dudleys, it's your biggest defeat, your biggest embarrassment, your biggest ass kicking. And for the Eliminators, it's our biggest victory. Because we get to become three time ECW Tag team Champions and for the first time win those belts in the ECW arena on pay per view. And we're gonna do that by taking you out. And we're gonna do that with total elimination.

Yeah.

Total elimination.

Yeah. Total elimination.

All right. Riddler, shut up, man. I'm getting hyped for this pay per view.

Yeah, I'm getting pretty hyped.

Oh yeah.

This is a good setup for paper, like all the promos and.

It'S a well done go home show.

Yeah.

And we definitely decided on what we're going to do. Are we going to watch the whole pay per view in one sitting or break in two episodes?

How long is it? Is it like two, two and two hours? Something like that plus.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

We can stop earlier than 9:30. Yeah, we start like 8 o'.

Clock. Yeah. Bring it out.

Yeah.

This Sunday night.

Being serious, always remembers.

Hey, it's you guys least favorite band, the Culture. Remember the Stone Cold Metal album? You guys hated that cult song Rain?

Yep. Did I hit it?

Yeah. You guys, you guys on it. And then I'm. I was like, come on. Like that. They have a good back catalog.

I think you're growing me.

Yeah.

But yeah, that was. I believe that was the album cover of Sonic Temple by the Cult. Nice highlight package for the Sabu and Taz feud.

Oh, that's a big match. Big paper match.

The way Haymon looks at Sabu, we got the.

Shitty. Well, I won't say it's shitty, but jv, you played this for the next episode. The previous episode, right?

Song?

Yeah.

I haven't edited the other episode yet. Oh, okay, yeah, yeah, we've played. Yeah, that was episode 93.

Oh, was it?

I played some Rob Zombie song on 93 right now.

All right, let's listen to Taz. That should be good.

You're just a visitor. A very welcomed visitor this Sunday night. ECW Arena, Barely Legal, pay per View, Sabu do me a favor, brother. Be the old Sabu. Bring to the ring the old Sabu.

One that sucks and can't land any.

Moves that I used to know. The Sabu that would give 150%. The SABU that has a heart the size of a lion. The Sabu that would fight me to the death, to the finish, to the end. Push me, Sabu. Come to Philly and push me. Bring it all, Sabu. I beg you, I plead, I pray the old Sabu shows up. And when he does, he's gonna hit a wall. Me, I promise I am not only going to beat you up, I am not only gonna blow you up, I am not only gonna stretch you.

I'm.

Gonna choke you out, Sabu, it's gonna be a war. I know it's gonna be. And I also know you're part change our future careers. And I love that. I love it. I love it so much I could smell it. I could feel it. I could taste it. I can't wait to have my hand raised in victory and look down on the mat at your sweaty, battered body. Sabu, I'm gonna choke you out. Sabu, I'm gonna choke you out. Because I have to. I have to choke you out. I don't have a choice. And neither do you. This Sunday night, Sabu, this Sunday night, two years of waiting, two years of anger, two years of frustration will come.

To a crushing halt.

You are going to get choked out by me. I'm going to make you pay for making me wait. I'm gonna make you feel like.

I have to. Saboo.

I'm gonna choke you out. See you on the 13th.

This is your chance.

The man right there. Come on.

Yeah. That was awesome.

Clean. Not deny that.

I'm hyped for this show.

I want that poster. I want the T shirt. I want it all.

I want the Beulah T shirt. They've been chilling.

I like that, too. All right, let's see if there's anything I can mention here, all right? Yeah. I wanted to do the CYC show from Scrambling, Pennsylvania. April 4th. Little Guido defeated Crochet Balls Mahoney defeated Axel Rotten. Spike Dudley defeated Capital Punishment. Pitbull Number two defeated the Bad Crew and Handicapped Man. He went wild. And Anthony Durante just. Everybody up. The Bad Crew Sabu defeated Louis Piccoli via submission. Terry Funk and Tommy J defeated Shane Douglas and Brian Lee. When Dreamer pinned Douglas, we had TV Tag Team Champions, rather Dudley Boys, Bubble Ray and D Von the Eliminators. And New Jack And Mustafa in an elimination match, which is what we kind of just saw, but was held at night earlier in Scranton. So we'll saw the replay of that. The Elk Lodge, which ECW doesn't do often. They usually don't have back to back matches. You know, it's not like WWF Style where they just run matches over and over again, right? In this case they did. Let me just wrap up this quick. Taz defeated Robin Dam via submission. And then in the main event, he said a champion Raven defeated Stevie Richards. All right, let's see what Joey Style is talking about now. Oh, he's all right. He's talking to Sandman. So what Sandman had to say. Let's take a listen. He's drinking a beer. He's all up in the head. Maybe he's not saying anything. All right, so we got a fake promo going on here where Joey's pretending to talk to. Okay, Sandman drinks some more beer, types his head.

Psycho. He looks younger.

The.

First pay per view appearance this Sunday night.

Thanks. PWO promo. It's of any substance. Let's take a lesson. All right, so I'll quickly move into the April 5, 1997 show for queens at the Elks Lodge. You had Little Guido pinning Chris Chetty. Brian Lee pin Stevie Richards, B. Mahoney pin Axel Rotten. Taz defeated Spike Dudley via the TAS Mission. And then we had two matches that we had watched and that was Driving Nan pinning Pitbull number two or going to a no contest with Pit one number two. And then we also had the Dudley Boys taking on the Eliminators and the the Gangstars in the elimination match in which the Dudley Boys pulled it off somehow. Taboo also defeated Luis Coley. And then Terry Funk and Tommy Jimmy defeated Raven and Shane Douglas. So they were hyping that. So I wish they would have showed that. Let's go back to the promo.

Sometimes our choices are made for us is Raven. And sometimes there is no choice at all. So it is written and so it shall come to pass. I visited an old friend of mine today. One 17 year old gypsy lady who makes her living by telling people's fortunes. As we sat down and she went in a trance, she started speaking some sort of gibberish. I could make out the words fear and dreams. Then she started singing a song from my youth. It went Listen carefully to the sound as the heartbeat drives you mad in the stillness and the memory of what you had and what you lost and what you had and what you lost. And it made me think of the day they first took the ECUW world title away from me. I was sitting in rehab for addictions that were no one's business but my own. And a junkie walked up to me on methadone to try and clean him up. And he said to me, he goes, what would you be doing right now if you weren't here? Because obviously he'd be out scoring, scoring. And then and there it sunk in.

I mean, banging the pain.

No, I think he means getting drugs.

Oh, it's like babies in the butthead. Let's score.

One of the only two things in my life that I loved. And now I got three gunslingers coming for me. The Sandman, Stevie Richards and Terry Funk. You're gonna have to be Mr. Miracle to pull this one off, because those are three determined individuals. Three men who hate me, three men who despise me, and three men who want to wear my title more than anything they want in their entire lives. And all that pain that I'm gonna have to suffer and all that anguish and the torment and the desperation.

It.

Makes me feel alive. I feel my own pain. And I like it. Quote the World Heavyweight Champion forevermore.

This is the Texas Panhandle, and this is where my father is. I come here a lot when I need strength. Sometimes I get a twitch in my eye.

We're going back to Falcon 93.

This is a throwback being a time machine, baby.

All the way back. This is like with the horse farm. Yeah. Some Eagles music playing.

My wife and kids are going to be there Sunday night, April 13, with.

The ECW pay per view, but not riding horses. Terry Funk making it through a three way dance with Sandman. And Stevie Richards. Sounds like a joke. One step at a time. But can we just admit that Harry Funk has to face Stevie Richards in the Sandman.

Yeah.

Come on.

Yeah. It seems. Yeah.

Terry Funkle those up. Don't even start with that.

The man's a former NWA World Heavyweight Champion.

Yeah.

He fought Giant Baba.

Who's Everybody fought Giant Baba.

All col. Before Giant Baba. I. That's making that up. Oh, we got some Eagles music playing here, so I love it at the end.

Oh, everyone face that guy.

Playing Eagles, playing Eagles at the end.

Sorry. Logan had to wrestle Giant Pop.

I'm.

I'm looking it up.

All right, we got Terry Funk talking at his little thing here.

That's the next episode pro.

Oh, is it? Yeah, you're right. That's what sucks about the next episode, because we're not going to cover the next episode in the way that we usually do. Rick's gonna cover it, give us a little coverage of it. But the first part of it is like more build up to barely legal. Then the second half, like, talks about the matches like the. We can't do that because we gotta watch the show. So when you. When you cover it, just do your due diligence and. Oh, yeah, cover it the way you want. Knowing that we're gonna watch the whole pay per view.

Oh, for sure.

But yeah, I think this first spot with the Terry funk stuff. Yeah, definitely cover that whatnot. All right, so that was fun. I thought I would say it's fun.

That was a good episode.

I felt like deep in this episode.

And there was two good matches in this episode. It was bad. No, they weren't bad. And they were not even regular matches. That was fan cam. Pipple number two versus Robin dam. And then you had the tag title match or freaking new jacks diving off the balcony, doing a leg drop and then gets up and starts dancing in the ring.

Yeah, definitely put the drop and leg drop.

The promos are awesome. Like, hell of a show. Leading up to our first pay per view, barely legal. And I can't wait to get to it. We're gonna cover the whole fucking show in one episode. So it might be two parts. It's gonna be longer than usual, but it's gonna be a big one and I'm looking forward to it. So, guys, anything else you want to say before we wrap things up here?

Nope, I got nothing.

I got nothing.

All right, so we'll be back in a couple weeks with our first pay per view special, barely legal, April 13, 1997. And it's gonna be a fun one. It's gonna be great. Check that out and continue to follow us here on the ptc JV goon squad. So we would love your support and just keep supporting us there and also support JV and I of the bottom line wrestling cast as we cover the correct stone cold Steve austin. We're currently doing the career of stunning Steve austin. We've just done episode 18, Naturally Stunning, which was November through December of 1993. We're about to do January 1994 as we're heading into him as being the u. S. Champion. So that's going to be fun. So check us out there at the bottom line wrestling cast, but also check out all the previous episodes. We've done over 250 episodes covering Stone cold Steve Austin the whole run. Check that out. And also the Hollywood blondes too. We did that as well. And again, give us a fall on Twitter. Follow me my crew at NPRUA 3. Follow JV at John Van Damage. Follow Rick BB at Leo Y85 and check them out also at Hybrid underscore cast. And then also check us out at stream cast at extreme cast for the extreme ECW live guest. And yeah, I think that's it. We're gonna have an outro song. I'll play that as we head on out. J.V. rick, all good. I know. Jamie just left. He's like, we gotta get out of here.

Yeah. Up.

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It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sing FL it makes you feel that I been a truth of that reflection But I've said nothing so far I can keep it out for as long as it takes and it don't matter who you.

Are.

If I'm doing my job it's your resolve that breaks Cause the hope brings you back I ain't telling you.

No lie.

The hope brings you back oh man, she can relax there is something Ms. I am being insincere in fact I don't mean any of this still my confession draws you me to confuse the issue all familiar heroes from long ago no matter how much we made the pen refuse to grow Was that the heart brings you back that I I telling you no love the Sam desperately I'll sing the raging hate and pain and fear itself And I can't keep these feelings on the shelf I tried well no doubt I lied could be friends with suicide But I got too much pride inside to hide or slide I'll do as I'll decide and let it ride until I die and only thin shall I fight this night and catch little tunes I've hit the limit titties I want to bust all your balloons I want to burn all of the seas to the ground I burn that will never run unless I play and hey I would want to thank you But I say I'm a prayer to pray that's really all this was When I'm feeling stuck in the heart.