It's a new year stuff.

Oh my God.

I travel with this guy. I've trained with them, I've broken bread with them and I choked them out.

The final battle between Raven and Tommy Dreamer.

You did your job and ran the fuckers off.

Look at that.

From the twisted steel section of Dudleyville.

Extreme Championship Wrestling has been thrown into disarray. This, my friends, is E C W.

Welcome to the extreme ECW live cast. And we are back with our 100th episode of Covering ECW Hardcore TV. It's episode 217 and 218 from June 17th and June 24th, 1997. Welcome back everybody. I'm Mike Pru along with JV and Rick Bibi. What's up guys? Happy New Year. Happy New Year.

New Year.

Happy New Year.

Happy New Year. At the end of January basically. Yeah.

January 17th. This will be released this week, right? This coming week.

Yes. Yeah, some within like the next few days probably. If you can.

If you can.

Yeah.

Three day weekend.

Perfect. Yeah. So you guys are hearing is not so soon after we record and yeah, happy happy New Year everybody out there and hope everybody made it through nice and safe. Kick off this new year. So yeah, hopefully everything's fine. Hopefully everybody out there in the BTT army is all good as well. And thank you for your continued support. And we were just talking about before we started that like five years of this already. So not only the 100th episode, but five years of, you know, coverage of ECW, you know, just started out as a little side project and now it's the main thing. Oh, pretty cool. In our. In Rick. Rick BB too. For two years he's, he's been a regular on here too. So.

Awesome. Rick's two year anniversary.

Roughly. Right?

Yeah, yeah, I know. I was doing the, the QCCs like by, by this point two years ago I was doing the QCCs. But I think being like actually live on with you guys. I want to say it was like February. It was right, right around the end of February, the end of February, beginning of March. So we're a month off but close enough.

All right, so we're in for another good year as we wrap up the second half of 1997 and go into 1998, which I'm excited to get to because a lot of that stuff, you know, I've forgotten, haven't, haven't gone back to watch any 98 and in a long time.

So yeah, same here.

The 96, 97 stuff is kind of stuff that I remember still.

Yep.

But once you get to 98. I kind of. I wasn't really following as much.

Yeah,

well, this is kind of when, like, WCW and WWE were kind of really good.

Yeah.

Yeah. Especially 98.

Yeah.

Right. Stone Cold is the champ at that point.

Right.

Something. Yeah, they were getting my attention.

Yeah. I was re. Watching some of the. The late 99, early 2000 TNN stuff. So I'm kind of. I'm, you know, I'm kind of still fresh in my mind, but. But 98's like, okay, I think I remember what happens, or I know a few things, but, you know, it's very much not there for me. So I'm looking forward to that.

Yeah. The main thing I think I remember, and I might even be wrong, this might be later in 97, but, you know, Al Snow coming in and the whole head thing blowing up.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

I remember knowing he was like an ECW guy but not really being into ECW and then thinking like, wow, this guy's kind of a clown.

Yeah, I was. I was gonna say that, but I believe I can remember what happens at House Party 98, which is January of 98.

Okay. So.

Yeah, but I could again. And I only. Because. And I only would have remembered it. I wouldn't have remembered it, I should say. But JV just kind of saying Al Snow kind of jogged my memory a little bit. But I still don't know everything. Yeah.

All right.

So.

Yeah, so. Yeah, so a lot more that we'll get into. And hey, we're coming off of the best episode that we've watched while.

That episode was fantastic.

Yeah. So episode what? 216? Yeah, episode 216 from the 10th. That was great on that. You know, we had Tommy Dreamer versus Raven. You know, Tommy Dreamer finally beating Raven, then all the. The Jerry Lawless after that. You know, calling people. What do they call somebody? A Kill that slut to get out of here or something.

Yeah, he was going all.

He was not. He.

He.

He looked. He looked around the arena and said something about this place needs to be built by. Out of toilet paper because it's full of something like that.

That was great.

Not pg.

Yeah. Not pg. Yeah, he was. He's probably loving it. He could finally go off. We had that development, you know, with Jerry Lawler, and then you had all the Taz stuff. Taz losing to Sabu because he was. He was. He had the tasmission on, but his shoulders were down, so he ended up losing. But Taz didn't give a. Nope. That's funny, though. Like, that's his, you know, his big enemy. But he's like, screw it, I don't care that I lost. I'm just kidding the out of you. Yeah. And then from there, he wins the freaking TV title against Shane Douglas in less than three minutes.

Yeah. Like right after.

Right. Oh, that was a jam packed show. So it's great coming off of that, but I'm thinking that we're gonna have a little let down, you know, based on what I see with the. The lineup of this episode looks. It's looking like a lot of recap of all the good that we just talked about and watched last week.

One of those episodes. It's like every other episode is one of these.

Yeah, it seems like it.

Yeah. There isn't coming up too.

So get that to look forward to.

Yeah.

Yeah. Well, Pay per view. Yeah. A couple months, right. Is it in July or is it in August?

I think it's in July. I thought it was July. Yeah.

Is it in Heat Wave usually July, or is Heat Wave.

I was gonna say, for some reason I'm thinking Heat Waves usually August, but I. I don't know. It could be. It could be July, though. Yeah, you're right.

Maybe we'll see some ads in the episode.

Yeah.

All right, so. Well, before we get to that though, Rumble.

That's next weekend, right?

It's the first Saturday of February.

Oh, yeah, I know, it's weird this year.

Yeah.

February. What the hell is that? And I get a. Wrestlemania's March, sometimes April. But no Royal Rumble is January. Yeah. Because they just. It's because it's. Because this Saturday is Saturday night's main event, so they bumped the Royal Rumble so they could be on NBC. That's probably what happened.

Well, I. There's a big UFC event too, and TKO groups probably like.

Oh, that's true. They got a.

Is that. Is that how tal to them?

Yeah, they got a big one tomorrow. It's like. It's like an undefeated Islam Makajev, who I think's like undefeated. And then the undercards, like Khabib's cousin or brother or something's fighting and he's like undefeated. Oh, it's like a pretty big card. I guess tomorrow

they gotta do what's good for the whole company now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, so before we get into this, let me just, you know, remind you guys, give us a fall on X at ExtremeCast. Follow me Mike Pro at mpru83. Follow JV at John Van Damage and follow Rick BB at Leo Wyatt 85. Also, check out JV and I and the Bottom Line Wrestling Cast, the career of Stone Cold Steve Austin. Give us a follow at Bottom Line Cast. And we basically had the. We had the whole run of Stone Cold Steve Austin from the time he came in as ringmaster all the way till when he leaves all his special appearances in the years after he left. And we've been covering Stunning Steve Austin throughout the past year and a half or so. So all those episodes are available, more than 200 episodes over there. So go ahead and check it out. Even if it's old, it's still good. Check it out. It's Bottom Line Wrestling Cast, the career of Stone Cold Steve Austin. All right, and with that, let's get to this next episode of ECW Hardcore TV. It's ECW Hardcore TV 217 from June 17, 1997. If you're watching it on Peacock at this point, you know, years later when you listen to this, you probably won't even be on Peacock anymore anyway. Be on the Nick network. But if you are listening to this now, it's on Peacock Season 5, episode 25. And yeah, you can also just go to Internet Archive and watch it there because that's where we're checking it out. And we've got a run time of 50 minutes and 27 seconds on this episode. And this is an episode based around the results Of Wrestle Palooza 97, just like the previous episode, which was jam packed with great from Wrestle Palooza 97. And this episode has one major match from that night that we'll be getting into. All right, so as usual, sync goes up, I'll give a countdown three down to one and say play. And when I say play, we all click play. Everybody good?

Yes.

All right, three, two, one. Play. All right, kick it off with Taz

in the Winged Eagle TV belt. Fucking love it.

Even though I'm the new ECW World Television champion and it just might get me fired, I don't give a damn about any what he is. Course, in a little while, I'm gonna tell you the truth about Wrestlepalooza 97

brother extreme championship wrestling.

I'm Joey

Big Ass Rick Rude.

Huge.

Yeah, he is huge.

Kisses, yes. Kisses. So goofy. All right, so this is. They're currently showing us the recap of what happened between Tommy and Raven. So Tommy finally just pinned Raven. Bueller looks gorgeous as she hops in the ring.

Oh, yeah, our white. Her white blazer.

Lupus.

Yeah.

And Chad, guys just pissed off, begging a finger. Look at that. No moving, just finger up

the most stoic figure finger.

That's a great middle finger. Much better than Vince McMahon's middle finger. Remember that?

Oh, yeah.

He does like the curled hand with the finger. It makes like a fist.

Yeah.

All right. That was a Rob Van Dam came in. Then we gotta. You know the whole bunch of people that come running in here, I think they're just gonna play the whole thing for us again. Probably.

I'm not complaining. The good segments.

Yeah.

Are the lights flickering? Are they transitioning?

Yeah, yeah. To the next person. Throwing whips. The chair.

Such a boss move.

Yeah. The. You take this chair. Luis Macaulay with a little boner on Beulah. I know I would sit with me. Bueller.

Yeah. Thrusting his heart on.

Oh. Now he's. He's like pulling her tighter into his crotch.

More of this. See me after.

Got the light is no cell phones. You got real lighters.

Yep. The good old days and flashbulbs.

Yep, yep. Cameras. Oh, there he is. All hell breaks loose immediately. Yeah.

His mic doesn't work. Who knows what he's saying?

Yeah. Super hot crowd.

Yep. Super hot people.

This had to be one of the best shows of the year. Russell Paul Looza.

Oh, this. If this was how the pay per view went, oh my God, it would be legendary.

Yep.

I mean there already is kind of a legendary night.

Yeah. For Barely Legal to be this show though. Jerry Lawler on there, that would have been great.

Kicks him now down.

Hey, this bingo hall ought to be built out of toilet paper because there's nothing in it.

But this is nothing in. Yeah, that's right.

Let me say something to the franchise. Hey, franchise, how about coming down here, get a little piece of this.

Like you are him.

I ain't part of this, brother. Go ahead, pick all the asses you want.

I got no part of it.

Yeah.

La. The goofy want the war with me.

Look at this. Look at.

So since we seen this, I just want to give a little recap of something that happened on Monday Night Raw. Holy volume just went crazy on me.

Yeah.

Cuz the gangsters music on Monday Night Raw. That was on the Lake Placid, New York. Chris Candido was on because they're doing like inter promotion. Chris Candido defeated Brian Christopher by dq. Jerry Law interfered. They originally gonna have Tommy Dreamer be involved, but they decided against it because Bueller wasn't available and Heyman didn't want to have Tommy without Beulah. And he also because the. The Bronx style was going to be used so it would have made Tommy look like in the ring.

Yeah.

That would expose them.

So good choice to have Chris Candido. But when you have Chris Candido on, it doesn't really like stick out as, oh, it's ECW. Because Ms. Candido had just been in WWF.

Yeah. A year earlier.

Long ago.

Right.

It's like, oh, let's just Skip. But now he's Chris Candido. I guess that was part of the edgy thing with ecw, is that. Oh, he uses his real name. He's not Skip. Is that a ironing board?

Yeah, I was just thinking that.

Like a mini.

Yeah.

Hotel ironing board or something.

Yeah. The ones that you put on a table.

Yeah. I don't think I noticed that last time. Same man going to town. What a scene.

It's such like a perfect. I love. Alfonso's just holding Lawler.

Yeah. He is carrying the crown.

Yeah. I'll take care of this for you, Jerry. Uhoh.

Probably asked him, could I put it on backstage, daddy?

It probably did

them up.

Okay. That was good execution. Nice. Yeah. They both landed at the same time.

Yep. Usually that something that would get up.

Yeah. Especially given how Van Damme was just doing a jumping splash, but Sabu had to slingshot into the ring first. They timed it perfectly.

Yep. That was nice. Buell is still wrapped up in Louie's legs.

He's got his. His hand precariously. Not his hand, but his hand positioned perfectly so that his forearm rests on the tits. But it's still like plausible deniability that. Oh, I'm not trying to touch you. I'm sorry.

I'm just working.

Just working.

Yeah.

Beast, he's the man. So this is like Taz's breakout episode, I think.

Yeah.

Sets him on a path to being the guy.

Yeah.

It makes sense though, because they're losing Raven, so they need to have somebody step up. Raven's already been gone in two days. Right. Is that what it was?

Yeah.

Monday.

If this was. If this was the. The Saturday, then. Yeah. He showed up on Nitro that following Monday.

Yep. Oh, the other thing is that I didn't realize the last episode, you know, Saturn was injured. That's all. That's not exactly the last we'll see of him, but it pretty much is.

Yeah.

Because he's injured, but he comes back from the injury early and then he. He's basically gone within a couple weeks because he doesn't want to work with John Cronus anymore.

Exactly.

And gets his release and then he joins Raven, joins the flock. He gets injured there too quick. So. Yeah, bad year. For Saturn.

Yeah, he. He did not have a good. A good. 1997. 1998. Yeah.

You know how old he was? Because I. Because I was looking earlier when I

was, you know, were you saying now Saturn?

Yeah, Saturn.

At this point, Was he like, 30?

Yeah, 30 or 31, depending on my birthday. Was. Yeah.

Oh, you know who I was looking at random but was Jeff Jarrett.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Like how old he was when he was in WWE? He was like, 30.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

I thought he was old as then.

30. When, though? Like in 95 or 30? Like in 99.

95.

Wow.

65 then.

Something like that.

Yeah.

He's not as. He was not nearly as old as I thought.

What he was.

Yeah, no, because he. When he started. I want to say he started when he was like 19 or something, you know, because his dad owned the promotion, obviously.

But. Yeah, and that was.

He was.

Yeah, I was like late 80s.

Yeah, the mid to late 80s. Yeah. So maybe he was just a. Yeah, yeah, he's probably. Yeah, that sounds about right. He's been like 30 and 95.

Double check that. But it was. I thought he was like 40.

Yeah, he did kind of skew older.

Yeah, he does. There's a hair. He's born in 67, so he would have been 28 in 95.

Yeah. All right. Yeah. So I was right.

Yeah.

Thank you, Van Dam.

Thank you, Sabu. God bless you, Jerry Lawler. Not only do I have something to

die for, he's getting stitches, getting stitched up.

Yeah. No damage control. Dc,

you see your ass, there's prostate or something.

Big Ass Extreme Bash.

You are watching Mikey?

Yep. From two years earlier.

Swamp ass jack.

The Big Ass. The Big Ass. Yeah, like a big ass blast cactus. Yeah, well, we got these ads that we've seen a million times. Sorry, I just muted myself. Let me just go over the results from Palooza 97. Or try to get through what I can. All right, so you had ECW TV champ Shane Douglas pin Chris Chetty, who he seemingly fights all the time with a belly to belly. Pit Bulls defeated the FBI, Little Guido, Tracy smothers, Bubba Ray and D. Von feeded Sandman involves Mahoney. And this earned the Dudleys a title shot against the Eliminators. Later in the show, ECW world champ Terry Funk in Chris Candido in 13 minutes. Right to that. Stevie Richards came out in street clothes and said that he might be done wrestling, which we saw in the last episode. And then, of course, we saw Tommy Dreamer versus Raven. Sabu feeding Taz, then Taz Winning the title from Shane Douglas, which we're gonna get a recap for right after this. And then the main event match is going to be the tag team title match. The eliminated versus the Dudleys. I won't give that away. We'll save that for when we watch it. Yeah, yeah. All right, so that's Wrestle Palooza.

Extreme Warfare. Next, Call of Duty title.

Oh, we got some clips from USWA in Memphis. No, but I was looking it up earlier and I just didn't get. Get time to watch it this afternoon. But I'm, I'm gonna watch it because I found it on YouTube.

Yeah, it's, it's. I mean it's not like the greatest thing in the world, but it's pretty cool to see him on, on Memphis tv, you know?

Right. I, I had some clips on and he was like in the hallway getting, trying to break into some locker room.

Yep.

And then another thing later in the show was just outside the ring, he was just like tossing people around. Tommy Dreamer.

Yeah. Smashes up the announce desk.

Yeah. Yeah. Tommy Dreamer invaded uswa.

I came back into wrestling to commentate about the athletes at ecw, about the Sandman, about Dad. Yeah, I've been good so far saying about Shane Douglas. I don't want to talk about like Jerry the King raw.

Oh, jeez, that's low. Yeah, I don't know how true that is. Jerry Law, he's got Amiga.

I got something I need to say. Not something that I want to say. Something I need to say. You want to shoot with me?

Huh?

That's what you said.

You want to shoot with me? Well, let's shoot, okay? Let's tell it like it is. Let me tell you exactly what I see is happening here. I want to. I want everybody in your whole stinking organization and all of those sick degenerate so called fans of yours to know what the score really is. Because you see, Paulie, when, when some of your wrestlers like Rob Van Dam come and wrestle in the World Wrestling Federation, some of those sick perverted fans chant, you sold out. Well, let me tell you something. Let me smarten everybody up in the ecw. You, Paul E, you're the one that's trying to sell out. And you know what? I can help you do it. All I gotta do is, is say the word to Vince McMahon and I.

That is a shoot.

He'll give you a job. Yeah, because it's obvious to me. It may not be obvious to those pea brain morons that work for you and it may not be obvious to those brain damaged imbeciles that come to your matches. But it's obvious to me that that's what you want to do. You see me and you see all of the rest of the superstars in the World Wrestling Federation that are seen all over the world by billions, not millions, not thousands, but billions of people. And it eats at your guts, doesn't it? You can't stand it, can you, Pauline? You can't stand the fact that you are just a little nothing happening.

Nobody.

Your little organization, ecw, is not a pit bull on the ass of the World Wrestling Federation.

And you know that.

And that eats at you, doesn't it, huh? You can't stand it, can you, Paulie? We're shooting now, aren't we?

Huh?

You like this? Let me tell you something. I came to ecw. I saw what it was all about. I saw what, a thousand, fifteen hundred degenerates, bags, homeless perverts that come crawling in off the street. I saw them there. You call those your fans? Oh, that's something to be proud of, Paulie. Yeah, that's really nice. You really got a great organization there, the ECW and all your wrestlers.

You're.

Nothing happening either has beens like Terry Funk, who has got to be so old that it was an embarrassment to watch him hobble out to the ring. There either has beens or there never was. Is like your Tommy Dreamers. Tommy Dreamer. Come on, pal, anytime, any place. And Sandman, you want to cane somebody, you ought to be Canaan somebody at the Betty for Ford Clinic. You dope addict. You drunk.

Oh, wow.

I'm telling you something, Paulie, you want to play with me?

He's shooting.

He does not like it.

I'll play with you.

What was the man about?

The only, the only sentence he said that was working was about Terry Funk because you know, you know that he has way more respect for Terry Funk. He really does have more respect for him. And that, you know, his comment about how he's so old he's pathetic. Yeah, hobbled out of the, out to the ring, you know, he was. He cleared that I'm sure, with Terry Funk to begin with, probably. I'm sure he went, look, I'm about to call you old and say you're crippled. Sorry, you know,

All right. Hardcore heaven, they give us a date

right now and let them know you want the opportunity to be taken to the extreme to see.

Not like I can't just look it up on the Internet. August 17th century, two months away.

Brutal, to say the least. It was kind of an up and down day for 10. Has he had some goods? He had some bads.

He lost some goods, but he won a war.

Like I said, it was an up and down day for Taz and an up and down night for Francine. If you know,

up and down night for Francine.

Now that's in Youndo. Rude.

Implying he banged.

Leave him alone, my girl.

All right. They're gonna show us this whole match again. Is there any rule against us? Fast forward,

Cover.

Just pick on people in the crowd.

Yeah, do that.

That's what. That's what we tend to do.

Yeah.

I don't know if that clip is bad, but I just saw. Oh, yeah. It was just the quality. Oh, how vicious that one was. Here comes the whistle. Blow the whistle. You know that song?

No, I don't think so.

It's like a club song from back in the day. If I played it, you'd heard it. We'll play that.

Play for the break song.

All right.

Let me write it in the notes. Blow the whistle. Hey, it goes with Fonzie. So

that was a smart move by Sabu taking Big T off his feet.

So is Jesse the body doing main event tomorrow again?

I haven't heard. I. No, I don't think it's tomorrow. I think it's a week from now.

Yeah.

Next Saturday. Yeah, the 25th. Tomorrow's the 18th. 25th. Then the after. The week after that is Royal Rumble. That's where they have a Saturday night's main event right before Royal Rumble.

Yeah. This is kind of odd.

Another thing. How about, you know, Royal Rumble being in February is one thing, but how about Royal Rumble, the real Royal Rumble, being in Saudi Arabia next year

or

in a couple years, whatever the it is. I can't take the big four out again.

Kevin breaks the record,

throws out 20 people.

Talk meter. Okay, love. No issues. The Saudis at all, but. Jesus Christ, can you like, like, new wrestlers, right, Goldberg? Just give them all the network for free.

Do you remember when. When they first were gonna do a Saudi show, and the who. Whoever, like, the contact was there was like, oh, they'd like. They'd like to see, you know, Hulk Hogan and Yokozuna and this. They named off, like, four people, three of which are dead and once retired. It was like, you know, because they're just so out of touch with. With who. That. That was. Who was popular the last time they had access to wwf.

Wow.

Like, bring back Macho Man. We're like, we can't. He's dead.

What do you mean?

Yeah, here's more money. Bring him back.

All right, so Sabu get the win there, as we know. Yep. Call to win. I'm glad. It was quick.

Yeah.

That's why they didn't mind showing it back to back weeks, I guess. Battle.

But he's winning the war. He refuses to let.

Let it go.

I don't think he cares.

He does not care. Ravish and Rick Rud is kind of like Jesse the body on commentary.

Yeah. It seems like that's what he's going for. The voice is similar.

Yeah. Not nearly as good.

No. That kid's dead. Landed on his head.

That's it. He's dead.

There he is. Franchise.

Taz tells him. And this is so funny because this was like an insult, you know, at this time, this is something you would say to somebody and you would definitely not say it today. I don't know if they're going to have him say it again, but look

at that guy with the black hat on and the black vest. Like.

Yeah, in the nation. He's in the fake nation. Hey, Tilo and Comma. Yeah, that's Tammy. So what I was get. What I was getting at is Taz tells Shane to. Why don't you come in and suck my dick? Remember when people used to say that to each other? Yeah.

Now girls say it to each other. I hear it on the Internet. It's like some chick like, suck my dick. It's like, whoa, I gotta deal with this.

Don't be taking off our.

Yeah, that's.

I guarantee you.

I guarantee you I could make you tap out within five minutes.

Five minutes. Brother. Brother. You got confidence, the size of this building. Cause you ain't got it in your brother.

I tell you, A big building.

I'll be willing to put the belt on the line.

But.

But five minutes. I don't tap out. You walk out and I don't got to look at your greasy ass for 60 days.

I won't make you tap in five minutes. Being that you're so round of this number, I will make you tap in three minutes.

Shame, brother.

That's a good, good line. I didn't pick up on that last time. Just so fond of that number. Three minutes. Praise that, Taz. One in three minutes.

Y.

Less than that. That was like four minutes, Joey. So moving this TV title to Taz does that again. I don't remember everything that happened. Does that open up the door for Shane Douglas to go for the big title?

Yes.

Okay, that makes sense to do all this then.

But it's he. No spoilers. But it's not gonna be like directly after this. You know, you're right.

This is build to it. Yeah.

We are now off. Four minutes. Oh my God.

Excellent move by Shane Douglas.

Man, that looked dangerous.

Yeah, that does not look safe for either of them. Right,

The match we are halfway through. We are a minute 30 into this three minute challenge. Full nested now by the franchise. T goes to the countdown today. The franchise plus the weight off that goes downstairs.

It was a gutsy challenge by Taz who maybe was trying to spin a web and catch a fly. Whether or not he has the gas left in him remains to be seen.

Reversal. There it is.

There it is. Wrap this up. We get to some new stuff.

Pretty cool gimmick, I guess.

Yeah, I like it. I like the stipulation

and it's well executed.

This is gonna go for a bigger belt after this loss though. Yeah, kind of weird.

Not right away though, is what Rick was saying. But this allows for him to move on to a different title and just.

Right. It gives, it gives Taz the push, you know, to, to be higher on the card. But it also lets Shane Douglas kind of slot back in to the. The main event slot, you know,

it's all because of Raven leaving.

Opportunity comes in knocking.

Yep. It's actually good that Raven left because. Because, because of this. It freshened up the product. Right now you can do things you don't feel like you have to stick with.

Chaz is a much better character to have pushed than Raven. Yeah,

It's always better to have Douglas in the. The ECW Championship picture.

Yes.

Especially if Terry Funk is the champion.

You say if the gold goes away, the lady won't stay. That what he said.

What's that?

What did Rick Ravager said? If the gold goes away, the. If the gold doesn't stay, the women goes away. Did I hear that right?

I think so. And then he.

Then he made something about having a small wee wee.

I was gonna say that. Then he made reference to Shane having a small wee wee and a small wallet.

Get that Raven T shirt. We're trying to get rid of them.

Yeah, Half price.

She's hardcore.

So let me get this straight.

All right. Back to Taz,

who's been the NWA champion, Intercontinental Champion, ECW World Heavyweight Champion. Yeah, an ECW World Television champion.

I just felt like the audio was not coming through my speaker.

This belt for 11 months.

All right, it is.

And I made him tap out in under three minutes. And I predicted it. Why? Because he Put my back up against the wall. Why? Because I could.

Why?

Because I wanted to. He snapped next at will. Snapped a picture on his neck. He taps out at my hands another three minutes,

I'll break your neck.

That's what it's about. That's what this company is about. Competition. Pure violence and competition, aggressiveness, hardcore extreme and all of that stuff. That's what it's about. It's not about. Jerry Lawler has a kid who wrestles. Who cares? Who gives a flying hey that Jerry Lawrence Cage wrestles.

There's a big deal role reversal in 2025.

Personally, I don't think women old enough to have kids. That's not what it's about. It's not about Rob Van Dam wanting to jump. And ECW is going to stop him. Why?

Why?

Why stop him? Who needs him?

Let him go.

Who cares? Go Sandman. Dreamer. What are you guys thinking? You guys are into that stuff, Having wars. Oh, that's cool. Let's have a feud with the WWF and stop Rob. Guys are stupid. Let him go.

Yeah, fuck that.

You're wasting your time, Paulie. You too, brother. See, the one thing I like about you, and it's just one, is you give me the opportunity to be me. And that's it. You give me the chance to be me and express myself. Just like you do every other athlete athlete in this company. But I told you nearly four years ago, we don't need pay per view. You don't need it. You need to experience ECW Live. You need to experience Taz Live and Vince McMahon. Brother, you're just man, you're just pathetic. You turn my stomach. I nearly. I don't even really know you and you turn my stomach. You didn't want me five years ago, you want me now. Look into my eyes, Vince. You want me now. You want the company I work for, you want it now. Well, you can't have it, brother. And you can't have me, nor ecw. Not as long as is I'm the ECW World Television Champion. You see, cuz what that means is I represent this company on television. As long as I have this belt, you can't have this promotion. I don't want to come across as some company man. Lord knows I ain't no company man. I ain't no company player or whatever you want to call it. I stand for me. That's all I care about is me. End this belt now. This changes things just a little bit. So Vince or anybody else out there, be it wcw, ecw, wwf, Japan, Canada, Mexico, Europe, anywhere but Vince, especially you. If you have anybody, was there anybody in this business that's man enough to take this belt from me? You step up to the plate and if you can beat me, I'll hand it over to you. Shake your hand like a man and strap the belt around your waist. I'm the ECW World Television Champion. And I'm Taz. Beat me if you can

survive.

If I let you.

Oh, yeah. Damn good promo.

Yeah, the, the, the cinematography, whatever the. You call it there was really good.

Yeah, the, the lighting.

Yeah, yeah, the orange lighting did the shadows and everything. Yeah, awesome.

Good stuff.

Yeah, that, that's much better than many of the Raven promos we've seen over the years. Although he had a few good ones. Oh, shut the up, Bubba.

Surgery scheduled for Tuesday.

All right, so Saturn's going to be out for a year and the Dudley are laughing their asses off about is.

Not my pleasure to ask the Eliminators to please come out and surrender the tag team belts.

This has just become vacant. You shouldn't just hand them over to whoever your opponent was supposed to be, right? You. You don't get them. You do.

You ain't.

What does that sign say?

What's this music?

Yeah, what is this crap? What about the real music?

Cronus, the most underrated wrestler of all time.

The Icy tag belts. The world belt. You get the IC now. Yep.

Only thing they didn't do a copy of with the tag belts. Yeah, like the, you know, the, the

shape right on back. Have to watch the painful side of

the Eliminators turning over the tag team belt.

Yeah. Imagine if the ECW Championship was attack belt.

Yeah.

All right, some quick results before we get to this match. A week later, on June 13, 1997, in Allentown, Pennsylvania, Tommy Richard defeated Chris Chatty. Mikey Whipwreck and Spike Dudley defeated PG 13, Wolfie D and JC Ice. The Pit Bulls defeated Axel Rotten and Bobby Duncan Jr. I can't say these results because it gives away what we're about to see. Shane Douglas defeated Tommy Dreamer in a false count anywhere match. Taboo and Robinhead Nan defeated Taz and Chris Candido on a tag match

that

was June 13, 1997. Here comes Saturn in the ring with his crutch up, leg up, tibia up, patella, it's all up. And his son just died before this, right?

Something like that, yeah.

That sucks.

His son died in a car accident. I don't, I don't know how old the kid was, but damn, I don't

think he was that old.

Must have been a kid.

Yeah,

We were going to lose them belts. No disrespect intended to you or ecw. Nothing means more than promising me there being ecw. ECW World Tag Team Champions.

You hear that person? Speak up. Speak up yourself.

You being the founder of ecw, you should understand ECW tradition. Okay, we got to lose the belt, but let us lose them in a fight. They want them, let them beat us.

Yeah, there you go.

The doctor. You know you can't wrestle.

Hugh morris. An egg without a yolk.

That's pretty accurate.

Oh, yeah, that's.

That's a way to not have the boss to say, yeah, these guys can beat the out of you. Okay.

After being verbally abused by Bubble a Deadly, there should be no match. One man, even a make without a yoke. If you said to not wrestle two men, especially not perform a World Tag Team Champions. If Conus is indeed an egg without a yoke, he's about to get scrambled.

But he must have liked that line. He keeps referring to it. He's a naked. Yeah, if he was a nightmare

in the hunt, Joy. And like I said at the beginning, if they have to lose those belts, they want to.

Yeah. Either he liked it or he thought that Rude was using it in some way to set up an innuendo. And so that's why he was kind of saying it to feed him it, you know?

Right.

Turned over a belt, didn't he?

I like how Rude knows that. Twice I see. Title and the world title.

These guys are a team. They live together, they die together.

Couple of round houses on bub and Debon. And the death board has.

There's the big dick. Whatever. It's gonna say something else.

Then Rude goes, that's one big dick.

Perfect one count. Guess that Big dick choke Slim did nothing. The big dick choke. Oh, that's what it should have been called.

Oh, I thought he said Goofy.

Oh, maybe he did.

I mean, either way, it works.

Yeah,

lion head. But the is Yvonne have a durag on a bandana. Look like he's a patient. Yeah, he has a cut on his head or something. Up.

Coming to you from Wrestle Paloa 97, the Gunley Boys, Devon and Bubba Ray.

Oh, Joe, you didn't just make that sound like this was recorded after the event.

Right?

You're watching a match From Wrestle Palooza 97. Isn't that Wrestle Palooza 97 right now? Obviously not. You're in Ton's basement right now recording.

Yeah.

Doing commentary like us here. All right, Sat it in there. Uses his crutch. Better be careful though. Bubba doesn't give a.

O. Diamond Cutter.

Oh, he hurt himself right there.

Ring.

Just trying to get out of the ring. Slammed his leg into the rope. And got to give it to Saturn for even going through with this.

Yep,

and they should have told him. Hey, don't worry about it. Up. He could have done the same thing without Saturn being there.

Yeah, man. Cronus,

big ass knife chops. Oh, there we go. Little cotwheel. Ah, Bubba cutter. Everyone loves the cutter. Oh, he kicks out. Got some heart.

To a three count than that.

Now the next count we're going to

see is the three count and the crowning for the second time of the deadly jv.

That. That side shot of Saturn just then. Didn't that look like Eric Bran?

Yeah, it did. Like old school. Eric Br. He was nuts. He just like, in a good way, he would just like climb.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's right. At the park, climbing trees and.

Yeah, like. All right, bro, you win.

Oh, what the hell is that? Bubba just rolled out of there. All right, Cronus going to the top. Oh, no. Oh, so you can't. You're too far.

You are watching the most.

All right, Definitely setting them up for a spot here. There we go. The second. Going to the top. Don't waste time. Oh, oh, great, great. 450. No referee. Of course. What the. The ref should never be outside the rink.

No, it was a ref bump.

Okay. Where the hell was that? Let see it. Oh, you got tossed out of the ring though, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Should be another ref rundown.

No matter how much longer the match goes, we'll leave this building with the knowledge that the Eliminators were the best tag team in the world.

That's sad that this is the end of the Eliminators. That's basically really split them up because Saturn's gonna be injured for the rest of this year. Well, for most of this year, actually, it's only a couple of months. Really what happens? Holy Saturn. When. When Saturn comes back, he basically says, like, Cronus is lazy and he doesn't want to work with him and he asked for his release. He goes to wcw.

Wow.

Eliminates Eliminated. Wow, how ballsy that Saturn jumps off the top rope with a broken leg, hits the elbow, wins the title or retains the title. Crazy. But yeah, dude. Yeah. They are gonna split. Well, he's gonna go to wcw. So for Cronus, what's the name of that team? It's him and New Jack. Well, what do they call it?

The new Jack.

Yeah, the gangster natives.

Yeah. Because Mustafa off too. So they just find the gangsters and they eliminate us.

Yeah. So this not quite. Because we are going to see. We are going to see them lose these titles eventually. Yeah. This is the last month of the Eliminators. All right. That was good. I mean, I mean, good episode overall, if you were just watching it, you know what I mean?

Right.

Like, as a snapshot, if you just chose to watch this episode, this is a hell of an episode too, because of all the good from the previous episode that we already been praising.

Yeah.

But then to have this match on top of it, you know, that great episode too. It's just for us watching it now, it's kind of like, yeah, we just saw all this even though it was three weeks ago.

Yeah.

It was a good refresher for us though, to go into the next episode.

Definitely. Yeah.

Also, I saw something. I don't know if you looked through the notes, Rick, but there was something about the damage control girl getting involved in something.

Oh, I didn't see that.

All right, I'll try to be on the lookout for it. I think Taz puts her, like, in a TAS mission. Oh, no, wait. Yeah. On June 14, Sabu Leg drops Todd going through a table, and Taz choked out the damage control woman with minimal crowd reaction.

Ah. I mean, I guess in a way you could look at that and say that's. That's not necessarily a bad thing, you know, because at least they weren't screaming their heads off like, yeah, choke that out, you know?

Right. They're probably. What the hell's going on here?

I mean, it is Philadelphia.

Yeah. Yep. So that was the June 14th show. Let me just go over that quick while we're. Oh, we're stopping here for a second. Warwick, Pennsylvania. Twin twin rinks. Is that a roller rink? June 14, 1997. 350 people. Mikey Whipper defeated Spike Dudley. Shane Douglas defeated Chris Chetty. The pit Bulls defeat PG 13. The Pit Bulls. I don't. We don't see them, like, where the hell are they? But maybe, I guess they're coming back. This week, Axel Rotten Defeated Bobby Duncombe Jr. ECW Tag Champion John Cronus defeated Tracy Smothers and Little Guido in a handicap match by pinning Smothers. The match was to have been a tag team title match, but Cronus partner Harry Saddam was too injured. The double Leaves defeated Sandman Balls. Mahoney Sabu and Ravan Dan defeat Taz and Chris Candida. So back to back shows are pretty similar on June 14 and June 13. One in Allentown, the other in Warwick. And then the next show is June 20, 1997. And this show is going to be the basis for the episode that we're gonna check out next after our quick little break here, which is in Waltham. Yes, yes. Right, Got it. All right, so we're gonna take a quick little break, and we'll be right back with the next episode of ecw. Hardcore tv. They gotta listen to that blow that whistle thing.

I'm trying to look it up.

All right, we'll be right back.

I go on and on, can't understand how I last so long I must have some superpowers. Rap 225,000 hours, get it calculated, do the math I made a thousand songs that made you move ya and for the last 300 months, I made 16 albums with me on the front and they bump where you get your beats? I heard 93 rappers say like me, two singers and 10 comedians and I'm still gonna yell it every time you see me in what's my favorite word?

Beer.

Why they gotta sad life short you know they can't play on my court can't hang with the big dog stay on the porch, blow the whistle, blow the whistle.

Whistle

where you get that from? Grab a mic, spin one, let me that MC8 ball and MJG keep spitting that D to the impression bun B that's Texas, baby Ball and D, that's Memphis, baby Short dog that's Oakland, baby Ain't nothing but pimping these days, G my got locked up but these girl still know they got some give a what you say short dawg with UGK do you really want to be like me? Spit game like Snoop and tip pretty girls in the village they came with train they don't need I.D.

blow the whistle, blow the whistle, blow the whistle, blow the whistle your mind

is gone this blaze you've been wide awake for the last three days it goes down for real don't stop, just keep rolling downhill Crash and burn, can't stand fall back you're doing too much you can't handle all that man it's been way too long time to let the whole world play your songs like me My sh gets around let a country come back and hit the town I'm in Miami, New York, in atl, Houston and LA Ask Dave Chappelle about my rich he got it from me and made $50 million I'm proud of you, D. But I'm crazy you don't want to be like me. I come from east up where the youngsters get a fight.

Keep blowing.

Too short. Up all night, baby. Album number 16. Y' all can't do that.

All right, we're back now for the next episode of ECW Hardcore TV. And it's ECW Hardcore TV, episode 218, June 24, 1997. Available on Peacock, season five, episode 26. Got a run time of 50 minutes and 29 seconds. And these matches are coming from ECW House show on June 20, 1997 in Waltham, Massachusetts. Got it, right?

Yeah.

Walam, not Waltham. Well. Oh, Waltham. God damn it.

You said it right. And the. When you were right before the break.

Yeah. Well, damn. Both them. God damn.

There you go.

Yeah, got it. Both same. God damn. That's how I gotta remember. No, because I think there was a wall thumb, like in England or something. Like. I. I don't know, the. Whatever. That's probably the way you're supposed to pronounce it, but Massachusetts it up.

Yeah,

we want the wall fam. All right. Anyway, so we're gonna get some new matches here, a whole new show. And, you know, it's jam packed. So it's like JV said earlier, it's like every other episode we get a bunch of new matches, and then the other episode is always recap. So this is all new stuff. We've got a tag team championship match. We gotta. We got the triple threat in action. And we have an I quit match and another promo from Jerry Lawler. So it seems to be a good one. So let's get right into it. I'll give a countdown. Three down to one. Say play. When I say play, we all click play and get started.

Sounds good.

That's all set.

Yes.

All right, there we go. Three, two, one, play.

You're watching. Extreme championship to Wesley from Boston, Massachusetts.

Joey doesn't know how to say it either.

Yeah.

So he just said Boston and Boston, which. It's right there, Right. It's only how long? How far from. Is what, like 10 miles?

Yeah.

Which would be like about 20 minutes probably.

Yeah, something like that. Half an hour. Yeah.

Holy.

Oh, wow.

Yes. That was awesome. Crack the wooden crutch right on Big Dick's head. You smashed that. Big Dick. Crushed it. Now it's a knife. It's a sword now.

World tag team title belts on his own.

All right, so another match. Another title match. I don't know why the W boy should get a title shot. One man. And why does John Conis have to continue to Defend on his own. He should be able to pick a partner.

Right.

That's when they should have got new Jack back.

Right?

Stop that gangster native right away.

That. Yeah, that would. That worked.

There's some new clips in this opening.

Yeah, they added a few.

Yeah. Terry Funk, too. Yeah.

Yeah. There was one of Rick Rude kissing the camera.

Oh, the. My shit's freezing. I'll have to catch up with you guys after.

They took it.

What's happening?

Joey and Rick Ruder on screen talking.

Just. Yeah, popping.

All right, I got them on the screen. We just said Beantown.

Yeah. You're a couple seconds behind from Saturn

today, and I'm afraid I got.

244. 245. 246.

Yeah. Okay, so you're about four seconds.

Four seconds behind,

paragraph five.

Yep. All right. Todd Gordon's reading the contract. Yep. Yep. Okay.

Up to

you.

See, as everybody knows, Perry Saturn, listen boy with a broken leg and with torn ligaments, has been stalking the Dudley boys. Therefore, we went to our attorneys and they agree with us. And you now have been presented with a restraining order. Perry Saturn. I think this Saturn's just as crazy as Cronus is.

What the heck is he doing on the top turn?

But.

Oh, my God, I can't believe it.

He just dropped an elbow. He got one leg and he's hurt

there.

Perry.

On the top turnbuckle right now. Yep, yep. I should be right with you guys. Tell him to shut up. Oh, Joel Garner.

Anyone that'll listen?

Oh, yeah.

Key member of Team Extreme, right. I don't have to get on my hands and knees and beg you not

to have this promotion closed. I'll do it.

I'm begging you not to have this happen. Please.

Swallow his dignity. What's that? Is that a code word?

Dignity?

Swallow. You swallow my dignity? Yeah. They're going to shut down ECW because the Perry Satins are straining you out of the.

Out of here.

Goddamn sneaks, these Dudley boys getting a title shot in the handicap match.

Should have never turned his back on the Dudley boys.

Got poor lighting there.

Yeah, the crowd. The crowd's dead. Not dead, but like the black. It's black, so it looks empty.

Yeah, I get. It's a handicammer. Someone get the. On the ring apr. Just gonna double team him. The whole match, guys already had a disadvantage, and the ref doesn't tell anybody to get in the corner. Right, but we can have all this about a lawsuit and restraining order before we don't have to follow the rules in the R. This Looks more like a bingo hall than ECW Arena. Look at that floor. That's bingo hall floor right there.

It is.

Yeah, it is. D6.

What is this building? I. Ibew Hall. So what the is that like.

Oh, it's a. It's a union hall. Yeah.

Okay.

This is in Boston. We know that. Yeah, yeah. Not Boston.

Oh, yeah, he keeps saying Boston, though. Yeah.

Fake cloud.

Sounds cool. Joyce said Beantown. Nobody says Beantown.

Yeah, we don't. We don't call it Beantown, people.

No, Idiot outsiders, dude.

Right.

Tourists.

Stopping it.

Hey, Rude. Say, talking some sense. Again with the cutters

and Jimmy. You're right, though. That is. That's something that Jesse Ventura would say on Commentary about, you know, let's call this. That's unfair. Depending on what side he was on. Jesse Vetura always kind of speaks the truth. Nice.

Yeah.

I've got bloody cronus setting up for a 450. Blood's gonna go flipping around into the crowd

there.

All that blood splattering everywhere. That was great. Look at that cell job by Devon. Just convulsions.

I love when he does that. He kind of like hops on his ass, you know?

Yeah, like a cartoon.

Yeah, right.

Oh, big dick.

Big dick. Calling them on.

Oh, big dick. Choke. Choking a monkey.

Spanking the monkey.

I was gonna say, you have all the time in the world to move from that. That hand springing cot wheel and that's it. Trouble cutters just couldn't last. You got up, put up a good fight, lost the titles. Is this Dudley's first? Didn't have the title. I'll second. Okay.

Yeah, pretty sure it's the second.

Didn't have them for long the first time, right? No, what's not about.

They got him just so that basically the Eliminators could win him back at fairly legal.

Yeah, that's right.

Girton is rocked.

You think so? Maybe so.

Yeah. I think he is a little.

Is it a little.

A little snockered?

What did he seem up in the first part with the contract?

No, no.

Oh, no.

I feel like he's a quick call playing. You think he's just acting better?

Oh,

that's funny. At this time, Do not support the next ECW pay per view. Okay. Why are they playing the ravishing Rude song for the Hardcore Heaven promo? Whatever. This song is just hilarious.

Yeah. Singing is just.

Sorry.

Ass.

Baritone Louis Armstrong knockoff.

He is the one who all the girls these rud. What the is he saying? Heavy on the orgy.

Yeah, because the. The show. The show that they're promoting is called Orgy of Violence.

Oh, what show was that? What did they say?

Whatever they're. They're promoting. So that end of June.

I thought it was hardcore heaven.

Well, no, they were, but. But the next, like, arena show, not the pay per view.

Oh, nice.

If I. If I can remember correctly, I think Orgy of Violence is where another memorable ECW moment happens. Whether we get to see it or not, I'm not sure.

But yeah, I haven't looked. I haven't looked to the next couple episodes to see what we're doing. June 20th show. All right, so excerpts from Orgy of Violence. Be on episodes 219 and 220. So the next two episodes are gonna have stuff from that.

Okay, good.

July 5th and July 12th, it was the ECW arena show. Oh, Jason's back at OG of violence. I haven't seen him in a while. Is that ring announcer Kenny, Follow us.

Looks like

that when Brian Lee that turn coach decided to take some money because somebody named Rick.

I wish Rude could wrestle.

Who says he can't?

I guess he already broke that Lloyd's of London agreement, right?

Wrestler in this business today, and his name is. No gimmicks needed. Chris Candido. Every single day I wake up. I know. Damn great.

Dies.

You know, Joey, Shane Douglas needs to

know that this isn't glue.

It's goo. Where it comes from.

Wow. Know where it comes from?

He's just like it.

And he blows a. A little kiss.

The original mad dogs of war.

Sound like it turned into, like, some Spanish.

I was just thinking that JB's busting out the Spanish. What?

Mankind.

That's racist.

1960. Still selling that poster. Oh, sign, though. That's right.

Small, though. Two feet. Two feet by three feet. It's 22.

It says. It says movie theater size.

Yeah, but 22 inches by 35 inches, that's just under two feet by just under three feet.

Is that movie theater size, though?

I don't know. You worked at a movie theater? Yeah.

No, but I don't know the size. Yeah, I think that. I think that's the size of a regular movie poster. If you. By 3ft. Size of a small person,

It just. It seems smaller. When I. When I was looking at that, I'm like, that seems small, but I guess. I guess you're right.

Yeah. Just think of, like, three pieces of paper, like, stacked up. That's about the height. Close to a little bit more.

Yeah,

that's a good size. Extreme warfare. All right, we got a match. It's a match.

Extreme Horfair.

What the. What the. Up with balls. Is that balls? Wearing that shitty T shirt and jeans. Got a haircut. Is pitbull number one here? Two balls and

two just runs through. Candido dropped down by Candido. Leap frog.

All right, it does look like.

Yeah, that's. That's

all the shiny tights. All right, so Gary's in the ring. He should be up. Shane Douglas, All their background. That look on Candido's face when he turned around. Yeah, priceless.

Giving up both size and strength here.

Oh, what was that?

What was that garbage? No, that was cool.

Why would you jump off the top rope and just land in his arms?

That overhead, though, was pretty impressive.

Yeah.

Yeah, that was good.

See the former manager of the pit bulls leading. Well, basically, no cheers for Chris Candido.

We got to give her an E for effort, though, don't we?

He.

He just. That saying up, Right.

How do you phrase it? I didn't notice him.

Yeah, I didn't. I didn't notice it either.

Yeah. He said E for effort. The correct expression is A for effort.

You get an A for effort.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

E for effort. That's what he said.

Yeah, that's wrong.

These are two of the most agile big men in the sport today, and they're going toe to toe.

Shut up. Bam. Bam.

Bam's awesome.

Flaming dragon.

What's that from?

Tropic Thunder. We are Flaming dragon.

Even gets the inflection right.

Oh, man. Whenever that movie is just, like, randomly on tv, I gotta keep it on for, like, a half hour.

I keep it on the whole time.

It's one of those movies that you. You're flipping through the channels and you land on it. Oh, you're watching the rest of it. Whatever's left.

Yeah. Y. Tug Speedman. Watch that dude all day. Doctor Death. Fat man.

Yeah.

Oh, Hurricane Run off the top rope. Nice balls. Mahoney looks like balls.

Mahoney is not Dr. Death. Right. They're different people.

Totally different people.

Does look like right now Dr. Death ought to be there. Had a bad week.

Does this tank top say dare on the back?

I think it says balls.

It says balls. Yeah.

Oh, nice eye poke, Douglas.

Order

shane douglas from wish.

Who. Who are you referring to? Fake Shane Douglas.

Who do you think?

Chris Candido.

Chris Candido.

Yeah. He's trying to be like him. It's like his whole thing, right?

No. Yeah, I didn't realize. Yeah, good call.

Yeah, now that you mentioned it, yeah.

I feel like he's kind of, like, purposely trying to be like. Be like him. It's part of the gimmick.

I don't know.

Thought it was.

Yeah, that's a good observation. You know, they calling him no gimmick needed. But maybe his gimmick is he's trying to be like Mini Shane. He's like. It's like that old cartoon with, like, the little dog is exactly. He thinks he's the big tough dog.

It's exactly where my head went.

Yeah.

Bam.

Bam.

I love when heels do that.

Do what?

The. You know, they switch off and then they'll just do the clap. Like, you know, they didn't actually tag, but they do it just so you get the sound effect. Almost like. Then the ref can come over and be like, hey, you guys didn't tag it.

Yeah.

Did you hear. Yeah, you heard it.

You know, it definitely wasn't the crowd clapping.

No, no.

I think it's Chester and Spike. That.

Yeah, you're right. Yeah, that's what it's.

Yeah, that sounds right.

And Spike's the little one.

Yeah, Spike's a little one. Chester is like the big bulldog kind of looking dog.

Little guys get the strong name.

Oh, what a drop. Oh, right into a power bomb. Nice. Power bomb.

Thought he just yelled off when he did it.

Maybe.

Yeah.

Wrestlers just stop dropping F bombs.

Well, in ECW, they think they were. Especially in a show like this. They probably didn't think it was being recorded.

Balsamoni sucks.

I think I like those.

Good.

Like, that's a hot take there. JV

all sucks.

Looks like.

Well, I think it's just this match in his outfit.

Yeah, he's this guy in my way at Home Depot, and I'm trying to, like, get a paintbrush. Just looking at them all

taking up space.

Yeah. Just standing there, picking up his pants.

Picking up his pants.

Yeah. The tank tops, it's either too. A little too tight so that, like, you get the side boob coming out, or it's a little too loose. So then you get like a. The full tit hanging out, you know,

Like, hey, don't wear tank tops.

Right.

And you got two extra loops on your belt. Use them.

Gonna make sure that belt's tight.

His arms can't get around his stomach to pull it. The extra, too. Just leave it. Just.

A little bear hug action in the ring here.

Little bear hug.

No. How do you cut away from that Rick root? They cut the Rick Rude. He just sprayed, you know, baka whatever on his mouth and then down his pants. Yeah.

Rick Martel's arrogance.

Oh, he's at ringside now. At least he has the same clothes. Oh, he just grabbed their ass. Wow. And kissed him. He just raped her.

Yeah, that was. That's some sexual assault right there. Damn. The dude. The dude in the front row in the Seahawks jersey's just going. Yeah, do that. He's encouraging it.

Oh, oh.

Snot rocket. That was a big snot rocket into the ring. Holy Jesus.

Yeah, there was some liquid in that.

It's the leftover blow. He.

Yes.

That was building up all night. He's like, I'm saving this snot rocket.

The sleight of hand. You thought he was spraying. He literally just put some up his nose. Quick.

Yeah, maybe.

House of hardcore

heaven.

96 orders now being taken for immediate delivery.

Kevin Owens. From the side, it looked like him, right? Paul Varlins, the Polar bear. Back when Taz was doing matches. Now he's finally made it up the card.

Dude, we don't want to buy a shitty vhs. The match. The hell just happened.

Yeah, I would got a taped version from somebody back in the day.

Sit on them.

Sure. There's somebody that owns all the official copies though. You got a good grab of her ass for sure.

Yeah, she had. She had like hand prints when she took her pants off that night.

I get with her. We're going to put a little tootie fruity on Rudy.

Oh,

A lot of weight.

It's a good match.

Yeah, it is.

There's nothing spectacular. It's just, you know, good going on. Good guy, good wrestlers overall.

A lot of talking.

Yeah. Entertaining.

Two's been in the ring for ever.

Yeah, it feels like it. I mean balls was in there, but quite a bit.

Here he comes.

Distracting referee Jim Moloto and The franchise chokes Pitbull 2 in the corner.

On a side note, Sabu got married on June 12, a week before this. What's his to who? I don't know. Say. Probably not married to her anymore. Who knows?

Probably not. He does. He. I. I have heard an interesting story that he. He's told about not specifically marrying this. This woman, but he was on a Japan trip and he. He got laid like the night before. He. What do you call it before, like his first match and yeah, because it's like it had been a while and the girl for anyways and he goes, I was so tired the next day trying it between the jet lag and that and it was just like oh my God. Like.

Maybe did Arabian face buster on whatever.

Yeah, the Arabian facial.

Yeah. Facial blaster.

Yeah.

ECW broadcast the news at this time, ECW secured a 2am Saturday night spot on WPAX, formerly known as WBIS in New York. Yeah, it's so funny though. It's always like, oh, they're on at 2:00am 1:00am Yep. Yeah, they just filled the infomercial spots.

But I have to Ms. Cleo.

Ms. Cleo

and that. The, you know, for hot, hot girl. Hot girls are waiting to talk to you. Those kind of things.

Yeah, right. Yeah. Like it. Yeah, it's like a Saturday night, like into Sunday morning. Yeah, it always be like after, you know, Saturday Night Live, there'll be something on at 1 and then 2 o' clock would be like DCW or something. You know, that kind of. Yeah, for a while. Ring of honor, like 10 years ago or whatever. They were on at 1:00 o' clock right after SNL. Remember that?

Yeah.

Aren't very flattering for franchise, are they?

Probably that.

Yeah.

Yeah. Y. I can remember the syndicated version of the Howard Stern show was on.

Yes.

Yeah, at like. They had it on at like midnight or one o', clock, something like that. There was also WWF Jacked or WWF Metal.

Oh yeah.

Oh yeah, I remember those.

I was on at like 3 o' clock in the morning on the Spanish channel. It came on after ecw, you know. Yeah, yeah. It was always like. It was always like this, guys. Yeah, but even. Even before then it would be like Chaz, you know, chat Chaz versus some. Some, you know, random jobber guy. It wasn't even like, you know, the. The intercontinental level guys. It was like the, you know, this is the only place you'll see them kind of.

Yep.

It was like their own little federation.

Right. Yeah.

Their own separate cannon.

Yeah. Stevie Richards would have been on it. You know, other cover.

I have. I have access to those episodes. I might go check one out tomorrow, see how shitty it is.

I mean, I remember it being a. A lot like a recap type show, but then they'd have like a couple of matches.

Yeah, that. That sounds right.

Yeah. Like you weren't seeing any angles progressing. You were just seeing what happened the previous. The last week on Raw type of thing.

Baby going up. Big spot. Nope. Oh, Pitbull's up though. Oh, Pitbull. One comes right down. Slams him down.

Power bomb.

Roll up. Oh, follow that. Why? The referee stopped counting. Shoulder maybe. Bam. Shoulder came up. Looks like Shane missed the spot though. Like he was supposed to break that up.

Yeah, yeah. I think Joey tried to cover it by saying that his shoulder got. He got his shoulder up.

Yeah, looks like it. Sure. They won't show that in the replay.

Look at the face on Bam. Bam.

Yeah, baby. That was great. See, they.

Look at they.

Fast forward right through it. All right, so Douglas punched Pitbull with the chain. That was it. That did the job.

Oh.

Jerry Law at wwf. Whoa.

Are you ready for this Saturday night, Philadelphia East CW presents an all star card at the bingo hall. B52. Hey, bingo. Is that a joke or what? What do we got? 20 or so pretenders and only two real wrestlers. And you know that, don't you, Paul E. You realize that Rob Van Dam and Sabu are the only true athletes in that entire scam or charade or whatever it is you call ecw. Who are they going against, huh? Tommy Dreamer, the only guy I've ever seen with a charisma bypass. And the. And the dope addict Sandman? That's really something in it, Paulie. Well, let me tell you something. I figured you out a long, long time ago. And I know what you're doing, Paulie. You're trying to your best to convince all of those moronic Philadelphians that the King is going to be there. Also, you're trying to use me to

draw a crowd, aren't you?

Huh?

Let's face it. Let's shoot again, huh? You want a house, so you're trying to tell everybody that the King's gonna be there. But I'll tell you something, Paulie, I've been there and done that. I came, I saw, I conquered, and I knew I was in Philadelphia when I stepped off the plane and the stench knocked me to my knees. And when I drove to the neighborhood and I saw people with toilet paper hanging out on the lines of dry, I knew I was in Philadelphia. And when I saw that bingo hall that you call home, I knew I was an ECW and believe me, once is enough for the King. So I don't care how you try to imply, I don't care how you try to hint. I don't care who you drop the rumor to. I'm here to tell everybody, if you morons can read my lips, I will not be in the ECW Bingo hall this Saturday night in Philadelphia because I'm not going to help you.

All right, I'm back.

Get a house. Do you understand that? Been there, done that.

You guys hear me?

And they go, yep.

All right, I have to step away. Cats are freaking the out making. I couldn't hear him, my headset on. I guess they were like scratch at the door for the past half hour.

This audio, it's like all over the place now.

Yeah.

What the heck is it much louder.

Yeah.

Yeah, definitely.

Jesus. Quit. I quit. Match Tommy Dreamer vs Spagoli.

He is looking to take out all of his enemies from Wrestle Palooza 97. And he's got one left from before.

Wrestle Palooza.

Rick.

Next move.

That's right. But we all know what a durable creature Tommy Dreamer is. He caused Raven to fly the coupe. And you better believe it's Patoli isn't going to put a dent in his armor.

Be the man to say, I quit. You are the better man. I can't take anymore. Prepares for his match against Luis Pauli. He is gunning for all of his enemies from Wrestle Palo.

All right, so now the selling the home video.

Who's that blonde again?

Chastity.

That's right.

I don't know if they even had the home videos made. They probably just waited until they got orders. They're like, okay, we're gonna. We're gonna make five of these. Whatever.

Right

there's on demand making them as the orders come in.

Yeah, yeah, why not?

Yeah, they got two VCRs hooked up together. Dubbing them over.

Sam,

Come on. Don't tell me they're gonna show this again.

Yeah, no kidding.

We got the. Just Jerry. L just had a promo. Talking about all.

It.

Trying to find something to read while this shit's going on, but it's not

much the third time I've seen this.

Yeah, I think there's a little bit of news. Robert Dam refused to do a planned finish his Mask against Jesse James on WWF Sun Shotgun Saturday night. The finish would have seen Van Damme lose by count out due to Jerry Law's interference. Rob Van Dam compared the situation to Bret Hart wrestling and ECW Job Guy, which angered WWF officials, particularly Jerry Briscoe. You didn't even want to take a loss to Road Dog. Road Dog was not the Road Dog at the time though, right, 97? No, he was still this early in 97.

Yeah. I don't think so.

He was double. He was the real Double J. Just James, quite frankly.

I don't think we belong there.

I know we don't want to be there.

The incident nearly jeopardizes. All right, so back to action here. Atomic Dreamer got jumped by Taboo rvd. There's the damage control girl.

Looking great in white.

Yeah, and she even got her knee pads. That one was not executed as well as the one we saw earlier. That splashing leg drop.

Well, obviously we won't be having the scheduled I quit match. As Tommy Dreamer was jumped before the match even started by Rob Van Dam and Sabu again.

That poor bastard Dreamer just can't get a break.

Kenny.

Now, is it that Spicolis in cahoots with Sabu and Van Damme? What's the poop?

Think Tommy Dreamer.

Good acting. Joey looking like he's. Oh, he's. I'm watching Louie right now. Where's he going? Horrible. Is there anybody there? Jesus. Just a bad camera angle, ma.

Want to make Tommy say I quit already. Tommy beaten down by

everybody there.

Okay.

And I don't think he will either.

Me and gummies, so I don't really want to hear. I don't think anyone's going to be sucking on gummies all over. I'm trying to mute. I can't understand what the hell he's saying either.

No.

I have no clue. Just talking. Are you gonna give up? You gonna give up, right?

Orgasming in the mic.

Why the is Luis Piccolo dressed like Tommy Dreamer? Yeah, they're doing that as like an insult or something. Is that what the case is? The table broke before I even threw it. You see that?

Yeah, it was like bent over his head and then he threw it and it had to slide across the back of his head to get to Tommy.

That table up. That table up?

Yeah.

Or whoever cut it early it up. Who knows? Maybe they. Now, somebody fell into it earlier.

Yeah. Isolated the innovator of violence.

Oh, you could tell. Lou's like this table man up, everything.

He doesn't want anything to do with it.

Will not stop this unrelenting attack until he hears Tommy Dreamer say in front

of those words, what you say? Dreame. Yeah, it's like Dr. Phil. Hey, what are you saying? How you feeling? It's like way too pleasant to be asking. Hey, how you doing?

You. No.

And quit if he can't talk. Oh, my God. All right. Tommy, can you do anything? Do something?

I mean, he. He. He can take a ass kicked up.

Yeah. And I. Yeah, this. The story is he got his ass kicked before. Before this match even started. So.

Yeah,

but you got somebody like Luis Macaulay and you expect a wrestling match, but that's all you know. Louie was frustrated with the table, but he seems like frustrated with just this match in general.

Everything

like this sucks doing this. Nutshot. Nutcracker. Sweet. Oh, well, that's how he quit.

Grab somebody's nuts with a pair of pliers. Yeah.

Oh, how they quit. So get me the out of here.

Here we go.

That's a unique way to win an I Quit match.

Yeah, that's what Louie gets for holding Beulah up against his crotch. Little payback there, huh? You got a nice little boner on my girl now. Crushing nuts, man.

Yeah.

All right. So that was a match that was weird. The Triple Threat. Triple threat. Yeah, I guess that's what it was. That was a good match. Orgy with violence. Orgy of violence.

Orgy of violence.

This Friday night in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, you will see two first time ever singles matches.

All right, so we're gonna see a good portion of this stuff come next episode by Shane Douglas.

Now the challenger will take on tag for that belt. And then this Saturday night at the ECW arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Right. So they're hype in the June 28th show that's coming up. But there is one other show that I'm going to read the results for before we head on out of here. The show comes to a conclusion. Good episode. Yeah, Just as good as the first one, I guess. But if you were watching these just like as their own, the first episode was better than this one because you got all the Taz stuff again.

The world tag team title belts against the gangsters.

You can bet there will be more

at the arena this Saturday and then this Sunday afternoon at 4. Anticipation and bell.

What the. His problem with this orgy with violence? He sounds like he's hooked on fire. He can't. What's this orgy with violence?

Phonics is hooked on him, right? Isn't El.

I'm hooked on. So I don't know yet.

Hooked on Phonics. Works for me.

You can buy.

Yeah. Yeah. What the. What the hell's going on with this? Everyone's ready to leave.

Yeah,

Joey's about to crack up laughing. Jo's like this. That's great. All right. What the. We got here. I thought the show was over. There's only 10 seconds left. All right, we got Rob Van Dam and Sabu in the ring and Tommy Dreamers drinking beer. No, I mean Samhan's drinking beer. The going on here, There was no background of what the hell was going on here. Same man just spit beer and Sabu's face and they went off the air.

Yeah, that was it.

That was that. All right. That was weird. And the whole thing with Joey trying to sign off the show got this guy yelling and gibbering in the background. What the. I gotta go back and try to listen to that.

Yeah, me too.

All right, so before we wrap things up though, just let me run through some quick results from R Mass. The Wonderland Greyhound Park. On June 21st. Shane Douglas pinned Chris Chetty again. Axel Rotten pinned Bobby Duncombe Jr. Tag Team Champions. The Dudleys defeated John Cronus the Pip in the Pit Bulls. John Cronus and the Pit Bulls. So it was three. Three. I guess it was. Oh, no, no. I'm missing a part here. Little Guido and Tracy Smothers were in there, too. The elimination match. Mikey Whipreck and Spike Dudley defeated PG13. Chris Candido defeated Balls Mahoney, which I like that because Chris Candido and Balls used to work together in Smoky Mountain. They had an angle going on back then. ECW TV champion Taz defeated Luis Coley in 31 seconds. She's Sabu. And Rob Van Dam defeated Sandman and Tommy Dreamer. All right, so that concludes that. And the next show that they'll have is what we're gonna see. The orgy of violence, or the orgy with violence. As Rick Rude couldn't stop saying. That'll be next time when we get to ECW hardcore TV, episode two 19 and 220. And we'll be heading into July, July 1997. So good couple episodes there, guys. Anything you guys want to say before we head on out of here?

No, sir, not I.

All right, thanks, guys, for joining us once again, and we'll see you in a couple weeks.

So.

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