It's a new year.

Dave Douglas.

Oh, my God. I've traveled with this guy. I've trained with them, I've broken bread with them.

And I choked him out.

The final battle between Raven and Tommy Dreamer. You did your job and ran the fuckers off. Look at that. From the twisted steel section of Dudleyville. Extreme Championship Wrestling has been thrown into disarray. This, my friends, is ecw.

Welcome to the extreme ECW livecast. And we are back now for ECW hardcore TV episodes 213 and 214 from May 20th and 27th of 1997. I'm Mike Prue along with JV and Rick Beebe. Welcome back, guys. How you doing?

Pretty good, man.

How are you doing, bro?

Good, good. You know, right about this time when we're airing this, it's Thanksgiving, so hope you guys had a good Thanksgiving. We're weeks out from Thanksgiving, but by the time this is out, we have already had a bunch of turkey and stuffing and whatnot. So hope everybody enjoyed their Thanksgiving and didn't get too up, as I probably did. Yeah, so we're back at it. We got May. You know, it seemed like we were like dragging ass to get the Barely Legal. Now we're already a month beyond it, just like that.

Mm.

So, yeah, so we got. We got some good in store here. We got a first visit to Buffalo. Buffalo, New York, is going to be on this episode. We got some Shane Douglas, Chris Chetty. Love, love some Chris Chetty. And we also get some Dudley Boys. More Balls Mahoney. You know, he was big on the last one.

Oh, yeah, that's right.

Yep.

So we're still rolling and you know, it's kind of like they're on tour right now. You still have you on tour. So we're away from ECW Arena. They had their big show and now they're just hitting the road. And that's what we've been covering here in the past couple episodes. But we'll get to that in just a little bit. But before we do that, please give us a follow on X at Extreme Cast. And follow me, Mike Pruitt, NPRU 83. I'll JV at John Van Damage and follow Rick BB at Leo Wyatt 85. And also check out JV and I on the Bottom Line Wrestling cast. The career of Stone Cold Steve Austin falls on X at Bottom Line Cast. And we are currently covering the career of stunning Steve Austin with episode 20 coming out at this point. And that is wrapping up January of 1994 with the whole Chicken Suit saga. And we'll be heading into February of 1994 with the Thunder Cage. So that's what's coming up on the bottom line. Wrestling cast. So please check that out, guys. We got episode 213 of ECW hardcore TV coming up here. It's May 1997, and we want to get right into this because, you know, at the time that we're recording this, there's a big fight, probably a shitty fight at this point. You guys listening at this point? Probably like, yeah, who gives a. About that fight? But it's the. It's Mike Tyson against Jake Paul. So that's going on, and I think we want to kind of get through this episode so we can maybe watch a little bit of the Mike Tyson fight. They're not break.

Hell, yeah.

At least that's what I'm thinking. So we're gonna get right into it. And if you want to follow along with this, you can go to the Internet Archive. It's available there. It's finally available there. And, Rick, what'd you do? You know, you were so excited about it being back.

Well, I was so excited and. Or paranoid that I went ahead and downloaded as much as I could so that if anything does happen in the future, I don't have to worry and neither do you two.

Right. Rick's our backup drive.

As much as. As much. As much as we appreciate Richard Land having all this stuff. That's true. You know, it's nice to have it just so we don't have to pester him all the time.

Right. He's been hooking us up, and I just got these episodes that we're covering today, just yesterday, from him. Yeah. So I'm surprised you say, hey, off me. It's. It's available on the Internet. But he was cool about it. He might not even know yet at this point that it's back up. But, yeah, I'll leave them alone since they're available again. I won't hassle them. But yeah, so we're gonna get right into it. And we got a run time of 55 minutes and 31 seconds. If you're watching along with us. And I want to make sure I'm set up.

Of course.

Jv, you. You're good to go?

Yes, sir.

And, Rick, you're all set.

I am all set.

All right, so I'll give a countdown, as always, three down to one and say play. When I say play, we'll all click play and get started with the Buffalo invasion from May 17, 1997. On this episode of ECW Hardcore TV. 3, 2, 1. Play. Printing titties. There we go.

There we go.

What a shot to start the show.

And Franchise is limping. Oh. As you noted, this is. This is the 17th of May and 3. This episode would have aired three days later. So that's quick turnaround on. On the production side.

Absolutely. Yeah. They rarely do that when it's that quick.

Yeah, very rarely does that ever happen in general. Like, I don't. I even like WWE or. I mean, at this time, you know, 97, WWF and WCW, they wouldn't necessarily have been that quick with, like, superstars or whatever.

No.

Got a superplex. Oh, Super Duper Plex.

Oh, that is a nice one. Commentary again.

Thought I heard him.

Hey, look, Chris Chetty's got the same hairstyle as the kids nowadays wear.

Yes, you're right. The mop top.

Yeah, the carrot top. That's not. Not like the comic, but it looks like a top of a carrot, you know?

Looks like it does, but the girls love it.

Yeah, man. Go figure. Go figure. What I could have actually grown in 1997 was. Is considered hot now. Now I have no hair.

Well, that's the style now, but I mean, it's not too far off from the mushroom haircuts.

Yeah, yeah, the bowl. The bowl haircut.

The bowl mushroom.

I think most of us had.

I definitely had for a long time.

Yeah.

From like fourth grade through ninth grade.

Oh, did you see that? That was. That was a nice. Yeah.

And that's it. 1, 2, 3. Chain Douglas was making quick work of piscetti.

Figured that would have went longer after a Super Duperplex.

Yeah, it's just. It was just highlights.

Yeah, it was just a highlight.

Oh, why, did we see that before?

No, it was a new match. It was just. They just cut it short.

Oh, are we gonna catch it at all or the whole thing?

No, that's it.

I know. I wanna. I'd want to see the whole match.

I would like to as well. We'd have to get the. The whole cut of the Buffalo Invasion show to see it. But that's what hardcore TVs become at this point. Going forward, for the most point is. Let me just play a bunch of clips.

Yeah.

And every once in a while you get a full match. That's what sucks about. It becomes like.

I don't want to say only gonna get worse, but that's basically what it's gonna be like from now on.

It's almost like MTV Wrestling, you know what I mean? It's Just quick cuts. Music videos. Me saying that makes me sound like I'm 60 years old. It's like MTV.

MTV, but not like Wrestling Society X, which was on MTV.

How they get these WWF clips?

I don't know. I was just about to ask. It's like they're in cahoots.

Oh, yeah.

Little side deals, Little backroom deals going on.

God, Rick Lud has the sleaziest mustache. I love it.

Oh, Rick, who's this guy singing this song? It's that guy.

Ah.

You know what it is?

I'm trying to listen.

Mr. Bundy Knight's going to find out. He can run from the ECW, but he can't hide.

He was big in the 80s, had like this weird voice, but he did a version of the Rick Rude type song.

Well, if we figure it out, does.

The break N. I don't know. I don't know if it's that good, but.

Yeah, no.

The same guy had a Christmas song, too. Raspy voice.

But Buster Poindexter, maybe the guy who did Hot, Hot, Hot. Yeah, him.

I think it's him.

Yeah. Okay. Buster Poinde. Dexter. Yeah. Because he did have a Christmas song to say. Is that you, Santa Claus? Also the. The same dude who was the lead singer of the New York Dolls. David Johansson.

Yeah, but that was definitely him singing that version of whatever that is.

Yeah. And to tie it into wrestling, he was in. He was the bad guy in Mr. Nanny.

Mr. Nanny?

Really? Yeah. With Hulk Hogan. Yeah, he's the. He's the bad guy with the metal plate in his head.

Is he as well.

He. Actually, I think he was in Scrooge. Yes. Yeah.

He's.

What?

He's one of the ghosts, right?

Yeah, I'm. I think you're right. Yeah.

I haven't seen that soon enough to.

I love.

Well, that's. That's exactly why I'm. I'm hesitating, because I'm like, I haven't seen Scrooged in a long time, so.

Oh, he's the cab driver in Scrooge, right?

Yeah. He's the ghost of Christmas past.

David Johansson.

Yep.

Tv.

Yeah. It's never on. New York Dolls. You're right. Y. Buster Point, Dexter. All right, so I. I'll take that back. If he did a version of the Rick Rud song. We're playing it.

Yeah.

I'm gonna make a note because I might forget.

It's like Dudley four of his own.

From my area.

Little. Little chain wrestling.

But he had the gym here, right, pal? Wasn't that his thing.

Him.

He didn't train. He didn't train people at P. Oh.

I thought he did.

Nice judo throw.

I think Spike's traveling up a dead end alley. If he's trying to mat wrestle with Taz, he needs to go aerial, take Taz off his feet.

Yeah.

Where was Spike school? R. Do you remember?

I don't. I know he's from Rhode island originally, but I don't know where his school is.

Academy.

Nice. Counter in midair with the drop kick right to the nose of T. He's got to follow it up now.

Of course, if I want to look at something, it's a social media thing.

Yeah.

And just click on the link.

He needs to keep the pressure on if he's going to take ts down like Dudley. Now waiting on Taz. That's a mistake. And he hurts it. Plants the knee between the shoulder blades. Here are forearms. A ch to the chest. Reversal on the Irish whip. Tip up out of the corner. Back the other way.

Oh, he took that well.

He did.

Taz is too big for this fight, Dudley.

Okay.

There have been men a lot bigger than Taz that still got choked out. Just ask 9 1. One. Ask him what?

Ask him what? I'm pretty sure Joey's like, I like doing this by myself. He this with. With the Rick Rude Y.

It's like Jim Ross and Jesse Ventura and I was just early 90s WCW.

Yep.

Whereas Tony Schiavone just played along and was like, all right. I'm not gonna acknowledge it. You could hear the animosity between the two of them. Jim Ross just hated. Hated everything that Jesse would say.

Yeah. Because Jesse was coming there. I think he needs the big wig.

Yep.

Now the bird watches middle finger from Taz. But even besides that point of the animosity and all that, I was like, rick Rude is coming off as a Jesse Ventura.

Oh, yeah.

He sounds like he's trying to do Jesse Ventura.

Yeah. But a little. But a little more risque.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's got the pawn stash. Swinging Bulldog. Isn't that as finishing?

No. The. The acid drop is a. Like a D cutter. Other way.

He went for it.

Don't repeat the spot. And you get the feeling.

And now that that was the beginning of the end for Spike Dudley. What do you think's running through there?

It is right now.

T bone tplex.

Boom.

He took.

He took that well.

He, like, sells it. Like he landed on his head, but he didn't.

Yeah.

Which is, you know, that's what you want to do.

Spike is so good that the end.

Is very, very near for Mr. Spike Dudley.

I like the look of this Buffalo place. Despite the. The basketball hoops off to the sides. That look when you're on the hot camera. Looks like Madison Square Garden.

Yes, it does. Yeah. With the entrance.

An ocean to go up and change his mind. Maybe he should have went up.

They just cut to the side like, oh, we're just in the gym, I guess.

Oh.

He'S. Come on, T, what are you gonna do? Hey, figure it out. Taking too long. That suck.

Yeah, that. That was. That was a up.

Yeah. Took too long to get to that. You up. They got to the end there. T is pissed at him, I bet. Oh, yeah, the up made me look good.

I wouldn't want to be on Taz's hit.

Wow.

Sell Out.

I think he said, I'm gonna eat your ass. I love how they're still using that song even though it's. You know, they've been using that song for like two years now.

Forever.

Yeah.

Well, it means that we can now.

Perform in New Jersey in front of.

Governor Christine Todd Whitman. I could do whatever I want.

No.

Well, I didn't get the cherry, but.

You can do dick dancing. I can do whatever I want.

So.

Okay. I won't say whenever he does that kiss, like, come on.

It's mad cheesy, but for some reason it works.

Yeah, well, yeah, because it's him. Gives him the heat. And that's how they're hyping a show in Hazelton. Yeah. And here we go again. Extreme Warfare Volume 2.

We never actually got to see that match.

Oh, the scaffold match?

No, I mean, I've seen it, but.

We have to revisit.

Right, but that's like a classic moment. And they didn't even show it. Other than that they don't show it on hardcore TV because they're trying to.

Sell this damn tape. All right, so since we've seen this a million times, let me just go over a little bit of coverage from the Buffalo, New York show that most of this episode is. You had Mahoney pin Bill wiles 4 minutes and 53 seconds after a tear shot to the head, the Pitbulls defeated the FBI, Little Guido and Tracy Smothers, along with Tommy Rich in their corner in a 14 minute match. I'm glad we were spared of that. Pitbull number two pin, Little Guido following a super bomb. All right, now back to Joey in the.

Taste.

Mr. Styles. That luscious rump roasted Francine served up comes to mind, you know, Shane Douglas.

Rick Rude looking like he just came off around the Gulf.

Yeah. Or he's going to some. Some club resuscitate.

There's his kiss again.

So obnoxious.

Oh, is this the match I was just talking about?

Spared of it. Oh, wait a minute.

No, we didn't get spared.

It's just highlights.

It's just high. Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is the second is going to be overall highlights of the whole show. Oh, yeah. Fourteen minutes of this match. It was probably entertaining because of, like, Tommy Rich and. And ringside, there's.

There's balls.

Bill Wild. Yeah, the Bill Wilds.

By the way, looks like Bill Wiles. He's a. I was gonna say he'll show up later on in ECW again, like towards the end, but he's. I don't want to say he's a nobody. He's just kind of a. A guy, you know?

Yeah, that's a good way to say he's a nobody. Yeah, he's a guy.

Yeah.

All right, big match here, Sandman.

Oh, look, Chastity's there.

Yes. Debut of Chastity, right? Yeah.

And Lupus.

And Lupus.

There's Louis throwing him down the steps.

Yeah. Let's just so show how we can't fill up the crowd. Yeah, you can't fill up the stance here, so we're gonna throw you down.

Todd. Todd's there. And new jack, too.

Man. Thanks for all these highlights. I wish we could see some of this stuff.

I know. I mean, this match was probably. Was probably terrible, but it would be awesome to see.

See. Yeah. What the hell are you gonna get to see on this episode?

Tuning up the be.

We're gonna get Tommy Dreamer and Terry Funk versus Raven and Stevie Richards.

Y.

We'll get that.

There's the eliminate. Now you can't even see what the hell's going on.

Chronos going to the top. Oh, yeah.

Always is where things get exciting. Look at that. Looks like he's a million feet in the air.

Three times.

Yeah. What's up, Prue? Remember. Remember a couple days ago I was telling you I was watching XPW because I'm a masochist or something? I meant to tell you, Cronus was in that. In that. That show I was watching, and he's a lot fatter than I've ever seen him.

Oh, really?

Like, he looks like Tank Abbott.

Holy.

Yeah.

Did he do a leg job or anything? Like, it's. Did he do a moonsault or anything?

Did I forget he did get hit with A couple of light bulbs. I know that.

Okay. That doesn't say much.

No, I know. Maybe he couldn't do the moonsault stuff.

He probably didn't do much then.

No. Nope.

He was the size of a moon, apparently.

I highly do not recommend xbw Crohn's.

Tag team in the world today. The Dudleys and Gangsters working together against the Eliminators. That may be the only way to dethrone the champions.

I thought we were about to get a divon. Get the tables, Get the tables, get the tables.

Best thing is.

Big splash. Nice.

Went quite a way across the ring for that one, too.

He did.

Athletic.

Sounds great. You're welcome.

Double total elimination.

Holy. That looked like a double, school boy.

That's one way to end on an elimination match. Pin both of the team, the opponent, opposing teams at the same time.

Yeah, that was a strange finish.

Yep, I've heard all the hype, but it's a fact the Eliminators are the best tag team team in the world today.

I agree.

Play National Geographic and take a look at an animal that is now on the endangered species.

Much better than Doug Furnace and Filip.

On.

You know, Rob Van Dam. Oh, Chris Candido, the reason you were.

There was so obvious to me. It was to get closer to my girl. But then after I thought about it, I realized, oh, that's not it, Rob.

You're there.

Cuz you fit in, cuz you're an angel ass. What's the poop? Rob Van Dam's flying the coupe, heading to the WW from the ecw. Well, I've got a little tip for you, Rob Bandam. Bring yourself a tube of KY Jelly. The going's gonna get kind of rough.

KY Jelly?

Considering he's gonna be in the WWF in like six months.

Yeah.

Morrison never sold out.

Oh, here we go. Ravenson. Let's listen to this, I guess.

Never sold out.

Jim Morrison.

Kurt Cobain never sold out. But in the 90s, it's actually quite trendy. It's all the rage now to sell out to corporate America. So in one of your superstars of ECW abandoned the promotion to wrestle on Monday nights. I feel your pain. And when somebody who's given their lifeblood for this place decides to leave for corporate financial gain, I feel your pain. How could you, Rob Van Dam.

Mr. Monday Night spoilers.

Yeah.

For corporate gain or whatever he said.

That's what's good about the promo, though. He's making fun of it himself.

He goes to wcw, right?

Yes, sir. In like a couple of months. He does not look like he has an athletic bone in his body.

I will give up cigarettes. Come sober. Get the chance to get you and be in the ring together for five minutes. Man, I love my. I go back to ECW Sandman.

Hey, that's a true story, that is. It's McMan. Sent him to rehab.

That's a shoot, brother.

Yeah, strain them out, but didn't take him back to work, though. Champion, I want to talk to you.

Just as a wrestler and just as.

An individual about Rob Van Van Damme.

Going to New York.

A Casio watch.

I was just gonna say it was Terry Funk wearing a Casio.

Oh, my grandkids gave me this watch. Shut the. Being Mr. Monday Night and started associating with those people up there. He gave away the freedom that the individuals have in ecw. He just became one of a hundred other mass products that Vince McMahon puts out. Thought Van Dam had talent and I thought he had a whole lot of brains, but evidently he doesn't because he's.

Going to just get lost in the shuffle. Rob Van Dam. So you want to be Mr. Monday Night and play.

All right, so everybody's on Rob dan for being Mr. Monday Night Now.

Yeah. What the hell is that all about?

Caters want franchise. But if they can't have me, I guess they'll take you.

Man, I was so naive. I like.

Yeah.

Robin. Then him not knowing that everyone was in on it.

Oh, yeah.

Mr. Monday Night Rob Vanan, if you.

Ever go back to the World Wrestling.

Federation again.

Say hi to Sean and Hunter for me, would you?

What happened to you, Rob? Look at yourself. You ain't one of us. You're a traitor now. Whole new set of rules, Rob. Rules you can't learn late in life. Rules you have to be born into. You see here we want to kill you. We do a. But there, they do it slowly. You have to watch all your angles now, Rob, because when the hit comes, you'll never suspect it. You broke the cardinal rule, Rob. Never sell out.

Wake up. Time to die.

Did he have real heat or no?

I think there was some real heat, yes. But I think it's very much more played up than. Than there actually was heat, you know.

Deon Dudley, Big Dick Dudley and Bubba Ray.

Cuz not like he's not gonna be there much at all. Wwf?

No. He shows up on a couple episodes.

Yeah, he doesn't really go to wwf until, what, 2001?

Yeah. Basically when ECW closes.

Yeah, you are definitely one piece of crap.

Then again, so is Terry.

Big thing his pants.

I was just gonna say he sounds like he's constipated.

Pieces of crap from Philadelphia. What about those gangsters, the Ganses?

You.

You two are both pieces of crap.

And don't forget about those eliminators.

Eliminators. You too are pieces of crap.

Stole our belts.

Think we coming a lot of crap and going on here in this bathroom.

Yeah.

Promo crap.

Yeah, this is a crappy promo. Where do I get one of those?

Yeah, I want one of these Adidas ECW jackets. Has a different one too.

Yeah, like teal. Whatever.

Yeah, I want that.

Does it say total? It does. It says total elimination. And it has like a stick figure doing the. The move. That's badass. I want that.

Sure.

There's only two of them.

I know.

Cybex machine.

Look at that.

Old cycle.

From Nashville, Italy. Can't even get his name straight.

Every step in the ring with the.

Full blooded Italians, we're going to have.

A FBI.

Tommy rich wearing a rivera steakhouse jacket.

Yeah. Monday night he's like, who? The Rob Van Dam? Monday night. I don't know. This is probably all legit.

We're going to tell you something, brother. You made your choice.

It's like when Tommy Rich cut a promo on Mike Mills.

Right.

He didn't even know who he was talking about. You, Mike Mills.

I don't.

You are. Wrestles.

I get a text this big. He goes to Japan. New Japan, Old Japan. Giant buffer. Wwf.

I'm in the house.

I can do things that I like to do.

Father's got like two teeth in his top.

Vince McMahon would send him to rehab, but he wouldn't get him implants in his first teeth.

Even Chevy has a jacket. Hey.

Are sick though.

They are. They're badass. Probably a prime example of Paulie spending money the wrong way.

Yeah, yeah.

It was money that they were probably supposed to get in their paychecks. But he's like, hey, I got these jackets for you guys.

Look, it says Chetty on it. Oh, hello.

Oh my gosh.

Thank you.

Is that what she's got in her hand? I'm not paying attention to that.

It's a hair strain. I'm imagining things.

I'm looking at something else.

I like that sheer midriff there. Oh, yeah. She's hardcore. Oh, big balls for this Chuck Taylor Santa Claus. Oh, I haven't heard that phrase in a long time.

Yes, you are. You positioned yourself for everybody in that locker room.

And you and your butt buddy over.

There, you position yourself where you can.

Actually make more money because people want.

To see you get your ass kicked.

But you know what?

There's only one problem.

Todd Gordon's still hanging around here.

It's not going to happen. As of now, you are suspended indefinitely.

From Extreme Championship Wrestling. He likes the Jack, honey. Now.

Yep.

All right, so what else we got coming up here at the CYO Center, Marcer County, Trenton, New Jersey.

Dog Colony.

First, I was buried on the battlefield. Buried on a battlefield?

What, in lines.

Way to misspell triple.

Oh, God. You should have put three P's.

Yeah. All right, then that. That's a style choice, you know, Right.

Not a mistake.

Because they are the triple threat. So. Hey, three P's? Why not?

This is your chance to own a piece of extreme history. It's the official Barely Legal poster. Personally autographed by Taz and Sabu. Supplies are Limited. Only 1000 of these collector's edition posters have been printed. Order yours now. This poster is so extreme, it's Barely Legal.

All right, so I just looked that up on ebay. How much you think one of those goes for?

12 bucks?

No, surprisingly, it's. It's actually a lot higher.

I was gonna say it's probably the really cheap parts. All right, how much is it?

The. The. There's one bid. It has one day left, so people won't be able to buy it if they want to by the time this comes out, but it is 229.

Holy it.

But it is it. It is one of the autographed ones.

Oh, if I had money to spare, I would.

Oh, for sure. I know.

Television program has been suspended indefinitely without pick.

That's cool. That's out there.

Goes from suspended to rear ended.

Ouch.

Let's talk about this here.

Right?

His jokes match between Tommy Dreamer and Raven.

That's all Paulie jokes.

Who's the bimbo? Hanger?

Who's the bimbo? That line always kills me. The bimbo like Bobby Heenan.

All right, what do. What do you think of Chastity Proof?

I love it.

Yeah.

I love this even more, though.

I love how she puts her hands behind her when she walks.

Yep. Sticking out the chest.

Yep. And looking the positives.

Another Paulie thing. Situate the positives. There's no negatives though, to hide, so.

Nope.

Except Tommy dreaming. I guess he's the negative. Hide him the out of here.

Yeah, he's. He. Unfortunately, they come as a package deal.

All right, so I know in wcw, Cassidy is Raven's sister. Is that this? That's not the same here. Right.

I mean, same same girl or same woman? Yes, same. Same story. I don't believe so.

Not sister, right?

No, no, no. I think she's just some. She's eye candy, I guess. I don't know. She's just some hanger on his new. Right. Yeah, his new bimbo. To quote Rick Rudy.

Ladies and gentlemen, as stated, this is.

A dream tag team partner.

Oh, some mystery partners here.

You can pick any wrestler from the dress room to be your partner tonight. Who do you choose? Commissioner Todd Gordon putting Tommy Dreamer on the spot.

Who the you think he's gonna choose?

Who's it gonna be?

Wild man Salomo. Johnny Bald spot. Yeah. Terry Funk.

Yeah, of course. It's like you, Tommy. I didn't want to come out.

I just cracked a beer. Damn it.

Desperado. It's my song. Seinfeld reference. That's my song.

That security guy looks thrilled.

On a side note, now my Netflix isn't loading. Ah, that 25. There's never an issue. I think it's about to kick off in the next 10 minutes or so. It's the end of the woman's match.

I was gonna say. What, the woman's fight over?

I think it was close to being over, but I don't know anymore. Is this what's gonna happen when WrestleMania is on Netflix? Oh, probably not, because more people probably watching this in WrestleMania.

Yeah, I don't know.

It's true. Worldwide.

Yeah, worldwide. I think WrestleMania is gonna a ton. I'm g get drink, though. I'll be right back.

All right, Stevie.

All right, Raven on the mic. Oh, Raven taking. Hey, good choice. Underrated Stevie Richards back where Raven.

Rumors have been flying on hotlines on the Internet. In the lock room is Stevie Richards turns headed for a reconciliation with Raven. It seems to be pointing that way.

Well, Stevie's not exactly not on good terms with Raven.

Come up with that name. Raven. Anyway, looks like a buzzard to me.

The buzzards. It's. Wait, Ray White.

Intriguing to say the least.

All right, so Stevie's like, huh, you picked me. Well, he just goes out there and pegs him off you. I'm not gonna be a match with you. What is it? I guess it's whoever they say he's gotta do it.

I know.

Just in case our first live event update didn't make.

Yeah, like they're there right now. Get this hyped up crowd. And now it's like, hey, here we are. Nobody's around.

We're not in Paulie's mom's basement. There's not a dryer. Right behind this banner at the ECW.

Arena in South Philly, Pennsylvania, Sunday afternoon, June 8th. Don't forget Francine Winnie roast at the Roots.

All right, listen, is this the.

So.

No, this is different. Oh, there it is. That's him, right?

Thanks. So, yeah.

Sounds like Vince McMahon.

You're right, it does. Please recruit. That's definitely not Bust the Point. Next. No, it does sound more like Vince McMahon.

Vince McMahon. Yeah.

That was Vince's own private cut of the song. That's one of his dildo's names, the Ravishing One.

Operators are standing by 24 hours a day to take your order.

24 hours a day. Yeah. Right?

Yeah, Right. Answer machine.

Exactly.

Mom's answer machine. Mom, you're gonna change those tapes. There's a lot of calls coming in.

She is hardcore.

How did you ever wear, like, a woman on you? Like that, though? Like, sure, with a woman on it. No, can't do it.

No, no. That's weird.

So lame. One of the pro wrestling crate boxes I got was a Brit Baker shirt. I was like, I'm never gonna wear this shirt.

No, only, only, only woman I could honestly say I could possibly would be, like, a Ronda Rousey T shirt. And that's a me. And that's a maybe. That's a maybe. Well, because she did, like, ufc, too. No, no, no. Like. Like the. Like, well, maybe, but. Because she did, like, UFC and stuff, you know, but, like, just, like Beulah, who's just a gorgeous woman. Yeah, that'd be weird.

Yeah.

No one's gonna know, right? I think the only one that would be passable be, like, Sensational Sherry, because.

It would be May Young.

Shirt.

Actually, you know what?

Something, like, ironic like that.

Yeah.

Something just like a gag. Yeah.

Sherry shirt. Yes.

Evokes like. Oh, that's a 90s. Like, early 90s WWF Young. That's even better because that's just like. Oh, if you get it, you get it, right? If not, people like, who's this old lady on your shirt? Is that your grandma?

Yeah. Why are you wearing your grandma on your shirt?

I remember I got a. Went to a Celtics game, and they were handing out Bill Walton masks.

Oh, really?

Wow.

They weren't masks. It was like. Well, yeah. Not a mask, though. So it was a Bill Walton's face on, like, a Popsicle stick.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I put it in when I worked at Putnam. This is a long time ago when I worked in Franklin. I hung it in my cube, right? And this girl used to work she comes over. She's like, oh, who's that picture of? Dead serious. Who's that picture of? Your grandfather?

I said, yeah.

I said, yeah, that's my grandfather. And for, like, ever, that girl thought it was really my grandfather until some other guy was at my cube one day and she came over to talk to me. He's like, oh. He's like, is that Bill Walton? I'm like, yeah. She goes, hey, I thought that was your grandfather. And it was like, months later.

I was like, no, I was just messing with you.

You don't know Bill Wallen is.

That's great.

But, like, either you get or you don't either. You know who that old man is on a popsicle stick or not.

Ah. All right, so we got action in the ring. We got double chops to Stevie.

Yep.

Who's here, reluctantly teaming back with his old boss, Raven.

Yeah.

His. His abuser.

And we get basically the main event of Barely Legal, plus Tommy Dreamer.

Yeah.

So Stevie's getting the. Getting some love the booking. They're keeping them on top in the main events.

I see something else. I'd like to be on top.

You'd want to be on top of Bua.

Or.

I was gonna say Chastity.

Honest. Honestly, I'm not picky. I'm not picky. Ch. Chastity's all right. Just not Lupus.

The name Chastity just evokes like, this is a challenge. I want to bang her because her name.

Yes. Yeah.

Her name. Her name means you can't me.

How the.

Did he get a mic? His old ass kicks. Old wrinkly ass. His stripe ass pants. Oh, he tagged Raven and said you. You won't like it. You tell him, Stevie. Oh, tag back in. That's one of my own gripes with wrestling and tag matches. The tag should be consensual. Can't just tag somebody in by slapping them. Person you're tagging is want to be tagged in.

Yeah. It should be hand to hand contact.

Right. I'm accepting this. Tag in.

I hate that. Attacking yourself and. Right.

And it also shouldn't be a. It also shouldn't be a. Like, oh, I gave my partner a high five. That counts as a tag, right?

Yeah, like that.

No, you tagged.

Yeah, I'd say that's. But they're telling a story. That's why all the rules get bent. It's just to tell the stars.

Oh, obviously.

Mean, I can't pitch.

Just. Just. Just, like, bitching about referees. The point is they're supposed to miss.

Stuff I know they're supposed to be heads. That's the whole point. They're the clowns in the ring. At times they're a tool. There are ends to a mean. Oh, there's Rick Rude again. Finally talking. Thought of something to say. Hey, it's Beetlejuice. The red jacket hanging around Now I meant Beetlejuice from how it's done.

Yeah, that's who.

That's, that's that reference. Okay, what is it? Hanging around?

What, do you never seen that? What are you doing? Nothing. Just hanging around.

No.

What?

That was a meme for like a year. Have you seen that, Rick?

I think so.

Oh, wow.

I'll have to look it up to be sure.

My Beetlejuice reference is always the same one. That was the me. Me? Who me?

Yeah.

You only know who me is.

I always reference the. Oh, how. What did he say, Howard? Howard said something about like, you know what, you know, you being early or whatever. And he goes, yeah, wake up. Eat coffee, brother. Eat coffee.

He had to be one of the biggest workers, right? There's no way he was that dumb. It's just.

Do you remember the. The time he showed up on WCW and Jeff Jarrett hit him with the guitar? No, he's back. He's backstage. He's in a Superman costume and Jarrett walks past him and Beetlejuice says something to him and Jared calls him Slap Nuts and then hits him with the guitar.

Oh, I. I have seen that. Oh, Mike Tyson's backstage right now. He's got ash, his ass cheeks hanging out.

He's just wearing a jock strap.

Yeah, he's just wearing his jock strap right now. Woman match still going on. Apparently it's a battle these girls.

For a championship. So it must. There must be. What, what are they do 12 rounds.

Or 15 girls are doing 10 rounds?

10 rounds.

Okay, the fourth round right now. Oh, this is live. I don't have no idea if I'm live right now. All right, back to the action. No, also you can get the Buffalo Invasion on vhs. It looked like it was a good show from.

The question is though, is it. How edited is it?

Yeah, true. Cuz they got to fit it on a tape. They probably want to just fit it on what, ep?

Yeah, I was gonna say they, they, you know, they ain't doing slp, right?

So back to the match here. There are still two big matches coming up later in the night. Even after this big match between these guys gonna take on Luis Ficoli and Terry Funk is gonna take on Raven and Stevie Richards. But we're not gonna get to see that.

I think I'll always hate Terry Funk's tights.

Yes. They sucked. Are they so lame? I mean, I've talked about them before.

I think we talked about them every time. They just suck.

They're just all old fogy, you know, I mean, like. Like we get it, you're old, but you don't have to wear those because it makes you look older.

Yeah, it's like shitty couch upholstery from the 70s.

Then eventually Candido starts wearing them, does he not? Not in ECW and in wcw. He does. Because there's a. There's a match, a famous match on Thunder. It's him and Terry Funk having a hardcore match and they're both wearing the same exact trunks. Those. Those ones, the stripes. Yeah. And I. It's. From what I remember, it's a pretty damn good match too. I think at one point they're fighting and wherever they were, there was a horse stable. And they end up at the horse stable and the Terry Funk like yells at the horse.

What was this, like 2000?

Yeah, yeah, like 2000.

Yeah, 2000. 2001. No recollection of most things that happened in WCW.

Yeah, it's probably a good thing.

Even 99. Yeah, just WWF took over. I just quit watching.

Yeah.

He'S still kicking though.

I'm currently re watching WCW. 99. I started with 96 and I've got up to 99 gradually.

You just watching Nitro?

Yeah, I'm just. I'm not watching down there. I'm just watching Nitro on the pay per views.

Gotcha.

Me like a few days. Yeah, because it's three hours long. So I'll watch maybe like a half hour at a time or something.

Yeah.

I'm going to bed.

Yeah. Monday night, Will.

Yeah, it's nyquil for my wife. Because I'm sure she doesn't appreciate it. I'm sure. But she's already falling asleep by the time I have it on. It's like, all right, I'll. This helps me fall asleep too.

You used to watch this?

Yeah, I'm still watching it.

Now.

She knows the deal.

I think Raven sense that Richard was gonna take it.

Was it a I quit match? What's up with the mics, man?

For him?

Oh, ddt.

He is jealous of Stevie success and it would kill him the World Heavyweight Champion.

What's the point of this new hot chick being at ringside if she's not gonna do anything right now? Or the camera's not even gonna be on Her.

I know right now.

All right. Like, there's no ex. Explanation of who she is. She just looks like Laura.

She's just a dare.

She looks like Sandman's wife.

Yeah.

So we hired this slut from the. In from the road.

Yeah.

It's some goof to be with her. Lupus.

Who picks his nose.

She's not related to any of these people.

Right? Yeah. What's her story? What's a chastity story? You know, Right.

I don't. I'm gonna try to look it up, but that's.

Yeah, you know how to do it now you bring back the quality control center.

Yeah, that's true.

Oh, here we go. One, two. Oh. Kick out. All right, action going on in the ring here.

Now.

Tom is. Oh, come on.

Bump. Ever. Yeah.

How dumb is that? Like, Tommy, you looked at the referee to push him in the corner.

Here comes Louie.

Yeah, that was a horrible spot.

Louie's wearing the Beulah shirt.

Oh, that's great. All the. We talked about it and Louie's wearing it. Oh, Louie's the man. Might hit on a suplex. Louie. Terry's just nailing him. Miss shot. Oh, there it is. DVD time. Oh, super kick referees. Back home, Stevie pins Terry Funk. What kind of world we live in? Stevie pins Terry Funk.

I don't know. He deserves it. Wow.

Yeah, I know. I just wanted to do that little Batman thing.

Yeah.

Joker, what kind of world do we live in when a man dress up like a bat? Anyway, that's the end of the episode. All right, so that concludes this episode of ECW hardcore TV. So 213. Yeah, it was. It was a great episode. And we haven't had like a jam packed episode like that. That felt like we watched a whole supercard in one episode.

Oh, for sure. But it also. JB said.

Yeah, right. It was like a sped up version of a supercard. Got so much action in there and we didn't get all of the good matches, obviously. So I just want to cover a couple of things before we move on. Like I said later in the show, you know, that match and that ending would lead to other matches like Tommy Dream is going to take on Luis Macaulay and defeat him with a DDT after Bueller. Bueller McGillicuddy comes into the ring and causes Lisa Coley to get a mule kick to the nuts. And Tommy gets DDT from there. And then Terry Funk defeats Raven, Stevie Richards and Sandman in an elimination match in just 10 minutes. Sandman pin Raven in five minutes. Following the Stevie Kick from Richards. Richard's been sandman with the Stevie kick at 10:30. Funk pin Richards after dropping the steel retaining barrier guardrail across Richard's back. And then Funk came out about a minute after the match began. So jam packed action show at Buffalo. And that was their first time in Buffalo, New York. So they went all out on that night. So good there. All right, so that concludes that and take a little break, take a listen to whatever we have coming up. Maybe it's that Buster Poindexter Christmas song. Since we're. We're heading into the Christmas season, right? So this is after Thanksgiving at this point.

Yeah.

Santa Claus, is that you? All right, so we'll take a listen to that and we'll be right back with episode 214 of ECW Hardcore TV.

Is that you, santa claus? A gifts I'm preparing for some Christmas sharing But I pause because hanging my stockings I can hear him knocking Is that you, Santa Claus? So it's dark out Eat the slightest spark out on my cracking jaw who's there? Who is it? Are you stopping for a visit? Is that you, Santa Claus? Are you pretty? Something pleasantly pleasant on me that is just what I've been waiting for Would you mind slipping it under the door? Cold winds are howling or could that be growling? My legs feel like straw My, my, oh me, my. I mean what you reply Is that you, Santa Claus? Yes, hanging my stocking I can hear him knocking Is that you, Santa Claus? I said who's there? Who is it? Are you stopping for a visit? Is that you, Santa Claus? A royal Santa, you gave me a scare let's stop your T's and gos I know you're there. We don't believe in no godlikes these days But I can't explain why I'm shaking that way there I can see all the Santa in the kehoe. I'll get to the C1 peeking. I'll try you. Oh, there's an eye there. Is that you, Santa Claus? Please, please. I'm bending my knees. Is that you, Santa Claus? Close. That's him. All right.

All right, we're back now for the next episode of ECW Hardcore TV. It's ECW Hardcore TV episode 214 from May 27, 1997. And it was in some places released on May 29, 1997. But if you're checking out on the Peacock Network, whatever the. Or even the Internet archive, It's listed as May 27, 1997. We're gonna run time about 53 minutes and 38 seconds. And we're gonna get matches from Banaka, Pennsylvania, from the May 24, 1997 show. I think I'm saying that right, Monaca. I always. I always say this. Whatever. I think I got it right. But we're gonna have two big matches here, and ECW's on the road, so we're just moving away. We go from Buffalo now we're in Pennsylvania again, so we're gonna get right into it. JV and Rick, you guys all set up, ready to go?

Yes, sir. Sir.

All right, so I'll give a countdown, as always. Three down to one. I'll say play when I say play, y'.

All.

Click play. 3, 2, 1. Play. Sounds like a rip off.

Yeah, sounds like.

What is this? I want to fight back here.

Yeah.

What the is this? Hey, who's this goof? Rick, who's this guy?

Looks like he's trying to be Glacier.

Yeah, it looks like it's Glacier. Like a knockoff. Like Nova without his makeup on.

Yeah.

Taz is kicking some ass, mc. All right, so this might have been from the Indiana show where Taz defeated Danny Morrison on May 23, 1997. I don't know who Danny Morrison is, but he shows up again on the next show in Monaka. Monica, Rick, do we have confirmation on that? Monica. Monaka.

I. I always said Monaka.

So Monaka.

Yeah, that sounds Knocko, like a sprite.

What, with an M?

Yeah, instead of Banaka. Banaka. Monaka, Whatever. All right, so while this is playing, after that Buffalo show, there was another show in Indiana, Pennsylvania, at the Ice and Expo center on May 23, 1997. Is the quick results. Axel Rod and defeated Jimmy Cicero. Raven defeated Chris Jetty has defeated Danny Morrison. Luis Macaulay defeated Balls Mahoney. Spike Dudley defeated Bubble Ray Dudley. And the ECW Tag Team champions, the Eliminators, defeated the Pit Bulls. And Shane Douglas, the TV champion, defeated Stevie Richards. And in the main event, Tommy Dreaming, the same man defeated Devon and Big Dick Dudley when Devon was pinned by Tom and Dreamer. All right, so Joey Styles and Rick Rudes back here with his silk shirt, the Kill Stash. I'm gonna do it one day. I'm gonna grow it. I wish we could isolate this shitty ass Rick Rude. Music. JB's right. It's Vincent Gwin. Everyone loves.

Everyone, that is, except for his own.

Partner, Sabu, who is an extremely hard, extremely shitty Sabu. Yes, I said it a million times. Is always leaving us coming back and wanting praise. You get the out of here. You come back for a pay per view and you haven't wrestled in a.

Month will be answered, as Rick said on Saturday night, June 7th, when returned to the ECW arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Oh, man.

Damn.

It's not going to happen here. Todd Gordon's beamed out.

Holy.

Yeah, he took a hit or something.

He ate a garage. Holy. I was like, we just saw that, but holy. Something about the lighting made her look even better.

Mentor the EC World Heavyweight Champion, Terry.

Have we played Faith no More? I don't know. We must have. I know.

Yeah, maybe.

Yeah, we definitely played it.

Oh, yeah.

Probably like three years ago. Yeah, we played it.

Yeah, we've played this before.

Like in 94.

Yeah.

Chase joined. Luis Pacoli did get involved, but it was Stevie Richards who ultimately pinned Terry Funk. Terry received what we call.

He got a Stevie kick by Stevie, not by proxy.

Seems to have worked. It was the super kick that caused Terry Funk's shoulders to be pinned. One, two, three. And Stevie Pictures has let me know that if he executes the kick on the point of Terry Funk's chin, he will become our new champion.

Something so cool about early 90s white guys rapping.

Yeah, like. Like snow.

Not that I like your mom down exactly, but these guys, though, what is.

This, TV for the World Heavyweight?

Too loud. My wife's in the living room and I'm only like one room overnight. Stevie knows. Oh, Stevie looking intellectual. Let's listen to this. Oh, he's making fun of Raven.

I graduated from Central High School. I remember my high school years.

Especially.

One Friday night when I did my homework. As soon as I got home, I wanted to just get to the Civic center and I wanted to see Tully Blanchard and Ron Anderson defend the World Tag Team titles against my favorite tag team, the Midnight express. That was September 10, 1988. I'll never forget that day. The Midnight Express won the tag team titles. And I remember seeing them with the belts over their heads in the middle of the ring. I said to myself.

I want to.

Be a professional wrestler. Because all the pain and the suffering that I had throughout my high school years, the only time I ever felt good, the only time I ever felt fulfilled is when I was some part of the sport of professional wrestling. I couldn't explain was instinctive. And I thought to myself, I just don't want to be a professional wrestler. I want to be a superstar in wrestling. I want to walk down the street and have some kids say, hey, you're Stevie Richards. Wow, you had a great match last week. You're my favorite wrestler. Can I have your autograph.

Wow.

Can a kid have my autograph? It's a high that cannot be explained. And I remember the first day I walked into wrestling school and the guy said to me, you don't have what it takes, brother. That wasn't the first time someone told me that I couldn't do something. Of course, that wasn't the first time I didn't listen to somebody. But, man, for years and years and.

Years.

I dreamed and I dreamed and I dreamed I got down on my hands and knees and I prayed to God, please, God, give me a chance. So my opportunity came along. In 1995. There was a man who came along and offered to teach me. And he taught me. And he abused me and he slapped me and he spit on me and humiliated me. I sold out. But not the kind of selling out that everybody's used to these days. I didn't sell out to the World Wrestling Federation. I didn't sell out to World Championship Wrestling. I sold out right in front of everybody's eyes in ecw. I had a man abuse me for two and a half years.

Years.

Until I finally came up with an idea of my own. I came up with a symbol of my pain. And now I have an opportunity to end my pain. Raven, you will never, ever end your pain, because I really don't think you want to. Stevie Richards wants nothing more than to put everything in the past and live a normal, fulfilling life. And the only way I can see myself doing that is to step in the ACW arena on June 7.

And.

Become the World Heavyweight Champion. The hometown kid, Stevie Richards, who lives 10 minutes away from the ECW arena becoming a World Heavyweight Champion, It's mind boggling. I'd be lying if I said that I would see this day, that I knew this day would come, because I never ever gave myself that much credit. And Terry Funk, I give you all the credit in the world. I admire you. My heart pours out for you. I have so much admiration for you. So much respect. There isn't even a word. It's limitless how much respect I have for you. If I had my choice of mentors and knew then what I know now, it would have been a no brainer. I would have begged you to be my mentor. But now, not only do I bring all the admiration in the world for you, Terry, not only do I bring all the respect in the world to you on June 7, I bring.

A.

Whole world of pain that I'm gonna unleash on you. And I'm going to pin you on June 7th and fulfill my dream.

Of.

Becoming the world heavyweight champion in my hometown.

Wow, that was intense.

Yeah.

Yeah.

We haven't had to lay out for a promo like that in a while. That was great, Mel. Look at these jack offs. What was the name of this Dennis Rodman guy?

Thomas the Inchworn Rodman.

Okay. It looks like the guy from Revenge of the Nerds. Lamar.

Yeah.

What's funny about him is he was like, a badass. And Karate Kid.

Yeah, that's very true.

I was born 10,000 years ago. Remember this song?

Yeah. Killing Joke.

Yeah.

No, that's the name of the band. Killing Joke.

Yeah. Killing Joke. Yeah.

Oh, okay. I thought. I thought you thought I said something about you killed the joke. And I'm like, no, no, no.

Come on. Right. All right. They're talking about the June 7th show here, man. As tough as a. As tough as they get. That's the name of it. Well, that's the name of the match.

Yeah. I think that's just because it's Sandman balls against the Dudleys. They're all tough guys, you know?

Yeah. Oh, Joe Garner time. Funny feeling. What's he got to say?

Bow tie over the neck brace. I love it.

Classic. The quintessential stud muffin. Joel. Not conceited, just convinced. Gertner.

And if you're not excited.

I know I am. If you could see me from the waist down, you'd know, too.

Is Trenton, New Jersey, at the Cycle Center.

And apparently, according to the. Ah, jv. I just thought of it. Who does he sound like that we know. Type of face that everyone wants to slap? The way he talks. Well, quite frankly, I don't think any of you are man enough. You don't have to say his name if you. If you know.

I'm pretty sure I know.

Say the initials to get.

Get the job done.

I'll tell you. Yeah.

Yep.

Yep. Doesn't he seem like he'd be this.

Character 1000% personally kick everyone's ass?

Because this Saturday night in Trenton, New.

Jersey, at the CYO center, it's gut.

Check time at the Catholic Youth Organization.

Gut check time. You haven't. Yeah, you can't see himself on the way down. Does that kiss? All right, we got a match. Finally.

It's a matching. He, in turn, taught me everything I know about lovemaking. It's okay.

Very topical then, not not so topical now.

People still like the nibble, I'm sure.

Right, right, right. But the reference, I mean, I know.

I know myself. The international man of Mystery.

Dude needs some stride X pads. Joel Gartner. Yeah. All the acne on his forehead.

I didn't know this.

Unless it's just shitty quality video and he's actually got, like, freckles on his forehead or something.

World Intercontinental, United States Television and Western States.

Spending a lot of time in ECW Arena. Probably give you some acne, all that sweat.

Yeah, Yep.

Soaking up those pores. I was a victim of the acne.

Oh, I'm not picking on him.

I had acne, too, but I cleared it with the. With the dangerous that was out there.

Yeah, the.

Was it called.

Oh, I know exactly what you mean.

I take these pills. They were dangerous. Jv, you remember I took those pills. They clad on my acting real quick.

Oh, yeah, yeah, that's right. Those are bad.

Yeah, yeah. They pulled them because people are, like, killing themselves and over it. But I didn't have those effects. What the.

Was it.

Down?

I might not remember it.

Ah, God damn it. That's gonna bother me.

Accutane. Accutane Acc. Yeah, Yeah, I. I took it. I loved it. I was like, oh, this is the best thing ever. And then, you know, a few years later, everyone's like, oh, it's the worst thing ever. People are killing themselves, taking off the market, people getting depressed. Yeah, like, it worked for me. I guess I had a good dermatologist that knew it would work for me. Oh, I was early patient. I don't know.

Well, it. Does it ever. It affects everyone differently, right?

Well, yeah, yeah, it worked for me.

Didn't make everyone suicidal, but. No, enough people, you know, reacted.

Well, dude, that. That cleared my skin. And then it made it so, like, I don't get zits ever. Like, if I get one, it's gone in a day. Like, it still has its effects working, I think. I don't know. Like, I still have fucking smooth skin for whatever reason.

You're immune now.

Yeah. And I had a ton at a time and it went gone because I was using a bunch of stuff. Prior to that, nothing was working. I was using some gel. I don't remember. It's called different gel. Use that, you know, of course, the other that was on the market. That all sucks. And then I went to the dermatologist, gave me Accutane and going. The big ass Extreme Bash.

Extreme back.

All right, so finally back to this match. We got the Dudleys taking on Dudley and Whipwreck. Yeah, that's a great team. Mikey and Spike.

Mike and Spike.

I can Spike.

There you go.

Look at that. I love this Arena. This is like an armory type place, too.

That's the golden dome.

Yeah, the golden dome, right? Yeah. Cool ceiling.

Yeah, that was Beck.

I like that song.

We haven't played that. I'm pretty damn sure we haven't. So what's the name of that song, Rick?

Loser.

That was a loser.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah, we've played that.

So Peror. That one. Yeah, that's loser.

Yeah.

Yeah. I thought it was a different song. All right, the bell's rung. I'll been spiking to stop the action Mikey's happy that he's bigger than somebody Lock up here. That look more than a hip toss. That look like a.

Oh.

Oh.

Yeah. That looked like a bad injury.

Yeah, he landed on his chin or his nose. And that was his own fault because he didn't put his arms down.

Right.

That wasn't Bubba's fault. See what he does here? That was textbook way. Yeah, I just go up to him and kick him in the nuts, right?

Kick him in the ding ding.

Kick him in the ding ding. What the is this? What a thing? Sorry to go into the real world right now, but on Netflix with this Tyson fight, on my screen, it says, while you wait for an Internet check, answer two questions to help us understand your issue. Let's fix this. Get the out of here. You're the issue, not me, you cunts. On Netflix? I was watching Netflix just fine until this stupid match was on. You're the problem, not my Internet, dickhead. Are other people using the Internet right now, watching videos in your house? That's what they're asking me. No. It's midnight. Can other devices connect to Netflix on your Internet? No. You. Let's check your Internet speed. It's fast. Try watching. That's okay. Anyway, just want to put that out there. Mike Tyson just get knocked out? No. Who the is this? They're showing past Jake Paul fights right now. All right. Anyway, Netflix is scrambling right now. All right. But Mikey Riprack is doing nice clothesline here. But why does it look so dark in the ring? And then you go to the outside, it's all bright.

Is it because it's the hard cam versus one of the. The mobile cams or whatever? So for whatever reason, the hard cam has like a. I don't say a filter on it, but, like, doesn't it shows it darker, you know?

Yeah, yeah, I know, I know.

I told you, boy, I love right talking to his opponents. He still does that today.

All right, there he goes. That's what I told Spike to do. In the first place. Go kick him in the nuts right from the start there. He did it, but it didn't work well because I was about to hit him with a suplex. Don't even tell me that Spike can have enough power to prevent the suplex.

He puts the leg behind. Maybe, But I get you. Yes. Yeah.

I was gonna say, Rick, I'm like, are you, like, trying to be my wife tonight? You know, combat everything I say.

Get him. Get him. Right.

That's okay. That's okay.

Yeah.

What the hell? Probably should have pinned them, Rick. What are you gonna say?

He did try to pin him. He just did it in a very lazy way.

You can't pin Spike Dudley like that. You can't just nonchalantly pin Spike Dudley with one hand. No way. He's legit. Like Rick. We're just saying.

Yeah, he's legit. I love that elbow that Devon does. That, like, spinning back elbow.

Yeah, it is cool.

It looks badass.

Yeah. The other thing with this golden dome, what do you say? I missed it.

I missed the second pop because your loud mouth talked over it. But yeah.

Oh, yo. Loud laugh prevented me from here.

You see that? Spike almost landed on his head from that power slam.

Going to see that anywhere else.

Rude said something about gluing a Timex to. To Spike's head and. Yeah. Then I missed the rest of it.

He's getting up.

It's kind of a gimmick. True.

It's what he does.

That's his gimmick. Getting his ass kicked and eventually getting thrown into the crowd.

And then Steve Austin telling his girlfriends a bimbo. Yeah, the bimbo. There's the bubble bomb. Now, what I wanted to mention earlier about this golden dome. Doesn't it look like they're in the inside of, like, the Epcot center or something?

Yes. Yeah. In Spaceship Earth.

Yeah. Oh, how do you do that? That's wrestling. There we go. Slam his head down. Hey, if you're gonna go for a pinfall, Bubba, hook the legs. This guy's too scraggly.

Or just sit on him.

Nice. Is Mikey gonna get in this match or what? Come on.

He's.

Mikey gonna turn heel. That's one thing I always suspect when somebody isn't tagged in for so long, like, oh, they're gonna turn hail in this match. But nope. Get the out of here. Nice. What's on, Mikey? Sure. Here still looks like a Galactica shirt, but with no color. No, it's Magneto.

Yeah.

Oh.

Oh.

Oh, my God.

Oh, yeah. The worst thing is those Those probably don't hurt as much as you think. Like, I don't want to get hit with one. But they're such a thin, cheap plastic.

You know, by comparison to what they could be hit with, right?

Well, yeah, exactly, because. Because they're. They're a very light chair. So you can swing it hard, but it's also a thin plastic, and it's not metal, you know. Right.

All right, so we got the 3D there, and Spike got pinned. Now comes Mikey back with his plastic chair from the school assembly. He's going wild. Here's Big Dick. Oh, now he shows up.

He is in control. Oh, just no sell.

I can't believe you guys can ditch all you want. So are winners here. Oh, here's all the bums.

Come the clowns.

Send in the clowns. These are all Taz's proteges he's training.

I don't know, but they better hope the cavalry arrives.

There we go. There's a real steel chair. That's the difference. Like, let's use this rinky dink plastic chair so that when balls comes in, it makes it different.

Makes a loud thud.

This guy's the balls. My stepdad used to always say that.

Say what?

Jimmy, you remember Jay. Yeah, yeah. He used to always say. Oh, that's the balls. That guys the balls.

Next Saturday night, Extreme Championship Wrestling returns to the ECW arena for what will be. Will be one of the greatest nights.

Yeah. Where is Lance? Right? Gone. He's gone because of Gner. Well, he's in wwf, I guess. For a minute.

Yeah. For a. For a cup of coffee, Bottom of it.

Oh, I want to hear this whole song.

Shazam or something.

It's got to be available somewhere. When the. Did he have this song? Oh, we get to hear a little bit over here.

This is your chance to own a piece of extreme history. It's the official.

All right, so while this bullshit's going on again, let me give you some more results from West Liberty West Virginia State College, May 25, 1997, with 411 people in attendance. He had the pit bulls feeding the FBI Little Guido and Tracy Smothers. Chris Candido defeated Chris Chetty. Alex Axel Rotten defeated Supernova. And we'll take a break there. And so went on here. Balls on roll.

Okay, you know something? I drive all the way from Jersey here.

Tired. He looks like Dr. Death. Mick foley.

Organization.

Good.

That's great.

There's got to be somebody out there. Come on. I know this locker room isn't full wimps. You know, I Could come out here with a thousand dollars.

I know. Yeah. Because Balls Mahoney has a thousand dollars.

Yeah, yeah, right.

He's got $13. Yeah, maybe. Come on, Wusses. Are you gonna be badass? Don't say wusses, Ernie. C.W. oh.

Or worse.

Yeah, come on.

I was thinking the F word, but you know.

Oh, oh, oh, the other F word. Okay.

Yeah, the F word. That we threw around quite a bit. Probably in 1997.

Probably.

Not that I'm proud of that.

No, it's part of the lexicon.

It was.

I'm not private, but it is what it is.

Yeah.

Even that crying like little girls. You can't say anymore.

Nope.

And I still slip up from time to time saying it.

Why you can't say that anymore.

You probably shouldn't, right?

It's public.

I'm saying it.

I don't give a. I know, I know. All right, cool, then.

I'm.

I'm fine, man. Because I feel bad when I'm like, oh, do it.

Whining like a little girl.

Yeah.

Damn. Can't say that. That I'm saying that.

Yeah, but when you say it in front. In front of other girls, though.

So what? I say the word too?

No, I don't. Okay.

I mean, like younger girls, like kids.

Kids.

Oh, yeah. I'm not around kids.

Yeah, I was just about to say jv Saying in front of kids, that's a little.

Or even just other adults. I'll be like.

I mean professionally.

Quit whining like a little girl. Oh, yeah. Like to say in the classroom. No way.

Right. Sandman doing his thing.

Climbing the bleachers.

What's that guy doing? Jerking them off.

Jerking them off.

Hey, the. I'll pop that top for you.

Yeah, Stroking that pole.

Nerve ass. That's his bodyguard right there with the glasses on the left.

Yeah, the dude behind, like two rows behind him with the glasses and the blue shirt was going nuts when he. When he was chugging the beer.

What an entrance. Dog. It's already busted open. This is like the ideal Sandman entrance was.

Hey, PR when you went to a. Ecw, was Sandman there?

No.

Ah. I was gonna say. How epic was that at the Main Street Armory?

No, that was. Wasn't a great. Great roster.

No.

We got Rob Van Damon and Jerry Flynn. Yeah, Jerry Lynn. Rather not Flynn. That guy.

Totally different guy. Not nearly as cool.

Yes, that was a great match.

Yeah. Jerry.

Yeah.

No, Sandman and Douglas was there, I think.

What year was it?

98. Late 98.

Sandman might have. No, I Was gonna say Sandman might have been in WCW at that point. He came in somebody's grandpa in the front row right there fiddling with his camera.

Sandman's got two cases in the dressing room. This fight's just to see who's better.

What do you bet that was a shoot and there actually was two cases of beer in the locker room. That, that dome is awesome.

Yeah. It's badass. Yeah. What is that building used for?

I'm actually looking it up right now. Golden Dome Monaca, Pennsylvania or Mona whatever.

Off to never never.

Extreme block.

Yeah. So that far of a show at the Big nominee. I was, I was thinking Shane Douglas did go up against Chris Chetty of all people. We just had a match between him and Chris Chetty. But they had that match a couple years later in forever.

The stage is set. When we come back, it's a battle for the beer. We're going to find out will Mahoney beat Sandman or will Sandman him up.

Sandman him up.

God.

I don't believe he just.

All right, so the golden, the golden dome. It's a 3,000 seat multi purpose arena on the campus of the community college of Beaver County. It's used for hosting, you know, various events like obviously wrestling shows. The Smashing Pumpkins apparently played there. New Kids on the Block played there. November to remember 97 will be held there. So it's just kind of like a multi purpose arena. They, they do high school graduations and there. But you know, it holds 3, 000 people. That's.

Wow. That's pretty good.

Yeah, that's not bad.

That's bigger than most places that they do shows in.

Right, Right.

So that the form of a show, the main event was the Dudley Boys against Balls Mahoney and Masado Tanaka.

Really?

Yeah.

That was the main event. The real main event was RVD versus Jerry Lynn. Sabu was there and he, he went against Mike Lazanski. I don't even know the hell that is.

Michael Lasansky. Why does that name sound familiar?

Candido against Whipwreck. Spike against Cell Graziano.

That had to be a really quick match. Yeah.

John Cronus versus Skull Von Crush.

Big Veto.

Yeah, Big. And the FBI took on Blue Meaning and Supernova. New Jack and Amish Roadkill. That's the show. New Jack was riling up the crowd outside before the show. You know who that's gonna be?

Winner this match gets a beer.

What is.

Only in the ecw.

That's such a mud show gimmick match.

Who gets one Beer, Right.

Winner gets one Budweiser because that's all we can afford. Nope. Had to get.

Sorry, we can't get a six pack. Can't afford the beer. But we go. We got you nice jackets.

Yeah. Which definitely cost way more than a six pack of beer.

Who do you think sold their jacket? If anybody on this roster. Who would have sold it, not kept it. Most of them.

Sandman, probably. Because he thought it was. He thought it was.

I know most of them.

But, yeah.

Looking for the most desperate person, probably. Sandman. Yeah.

Yeah.

Salmon makes sense, this thing.

Yeah. He pro. He probably thought it was.

You know, he probably gave it away probably, right?

Yeah. Yeah, that's true, actually. He probably just threw it to somebody outside the arena. Yeah.

Take this jacket, bro. I don't care.

This makes me look like a. You know what?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

They. Oh, works. Yeah.

I know. You keep wanting to use that F word.

Well, I was gonna say. No, I was gonna say the Q word. Oh. I'm trying to think. Who else would. I got rid of their jacket.

New Jack.

Yeah.

All right, here's the. Here's another question. Who's the most likely to keep that jacket?

I can see Candido keeping it.

Yeah. I was thinking, oh, this is great. I love this.

This is a cool jacket.

I think. I think Rob Van Dam, if. If. If he got one, he probably kept it.

But not, like, thinking, like, oh, yeah, I want to keep this. But just in general.

Just like, whatever. It's a jacket. I can go smoke with this on. That's awesome. I think if Jerry Lynn got one, I think he'd keep it. He seems like that kind of guy.

Yeah.

Be pinned, I think.

All right.

Based on this car and roster. Right. Who did not get one of those jackets?

New Jack.

They didn't gave him one.

I. I think that. I think when they went to give it to him, he cursed him out and probably threatened to stab whoever was trying to give it to him. Because I don't need that. I'm a. You know.

All right, all right. I was looking for, like, who's the one that was, like, that guy.

One. And probably should have got one because Luis McCully's doing.

He got one.

Yeah.

Killers. You think they got one?

Yeah, they must have. Yeah, I would think.

Who didn't get one? That's a good question.

Even Chris Jetty had one.

Yeah. Chris Shetty had one. So I would say maybe. Balls.

Yeah. Well, that's what raised the question. I saw him in the ring.

Yeah.

I was like, he probably doesn't have one. They're all like you. We're not getting one big enough.

Right.

I meant the gangsters, obviously.

Yeah, actually. Yeah.

Yeah, I know what you meant.

Yeah.

Yeah. I didn't even register that. I just. It hit me up.

I said, I'm like, what?

Yeah, I'm wondering if Tommy Rich got one.

I was like, yeah, Natural Born Killers. Yeah.

Yeah.

I think Tommy Rich got one. Oh, what if they're all sharing the same jacket? And don't tell anyone.

Well, the FBI probably got their own custom jackets, right?

Yeah, that's true. I can definitely see Guido wearing one of those type of jackets. Well, we know the Eliminators got their own custom ones.

Yeah, that's true. So maybe. Maybe they got green ones.

Yeah.

Gordon must have had a hookup with, like, some printer or something, like. Oh, yeah, he's making jackets or something.

Yeah. Because he was very involved in the community, so I. I don't. I don't doubt that. That he knew. He knew a guy, you know?

Right.

Just got fired upside down into the steel guard ramp.

Maybe he got him made at the same time he got ones made for. For his shop. Classiest pawn shop in Philly. Yeah. Carver W. Reed.

Yeah. It was so funny. When I. Last day I walked by, I was like, oh, there it is. A picture. Immediately.

There it is.

Wants like, a little rinky dink place, right?

Didn't you say it was, like, in the middle of nowhere? Not in the middle, but, like, it was just like. It's just like you're walking. Oh, it's right there.

Yeah. It's like a street with barely any parking. Like, how do people go here? Most people walk, I guess, but probably.

Yeah, it's a pawn shop. They don't have cars.

That was a miserable day that I was there. The weather was horrible. Sleet, and in June, sleep.

Off.

Same man going to town, about to hit a grand slam.

Yeah.

Grand salami. Yeah. Knock him right out of the rings. He sucks balls.

It open by the Singapore. Big dick down here.

Oh, there's the plastic chair.

Sandman with the drunk outof control plancha.

So I'm looking through the notes. Just a little side note. Chris Candido missed the Buffalo show because of a family tragedy, which I believe was Tammy's niece or something. Got into a car accident, died.

Damn.

She was. She was supposed to be on Raw too, and she missed that show. At this time on NBC, wjar, which is the Providence NBC.

Yeah, it is.

They're running the. The Eric Kulos story a bunch during These couple weeks that we've just covered too.

Tommy. The black shirt bandit.

Who does a lot of dick shots.

Yeah.

He loves hitting the nads.

He loves touching other the nets.

He loves grabbing Dong.

Tommy. Ding dong.

Ding dong. Dreamer.

Oh, his grandpa. There we go.

Coming out. Coming out of the crowd.

Yeah, look, here comes grandpa. Let's go.

Hey, you want a fight? It's a fight. Sorry, sorry. Terry Funk.

I love Terry Funk, but so do.

I. I'd like to. I'd like to think Terry Funk would have appreciated that impression of him. He would. He probably would have got a kick out of it. He's being thought of, you know.

Richard.

Oh, he's got to get back at Stevie Richards for giving him a pinfall loss. Oh, Stevie. Stevie kick.

Right in the chin.

Shitty one. Did it hit him in the chin? It looked low.

Some real chin music. Oh, and he gives the big daddy cool Hong Kong. As the show comes to a close.

That's it.

That's it.

It's over again.

What the. Why does it end so quickly, so abrupt?

Hey, that's it. That's how the cookie crumbled.

Yeah.

All right, so, hey, I would say two great episodes back to back, building up. And these aren't even ECW arena shows. They're just road shows right here.

Yeah, Road warriors.

Yeah. This episode just building up some great action. And I'm gonna say the star of the show is Stevie Richards. Got a great promo. Got a pinfall of a Terry Funk and closes with in some Stevie Chin music on Terry Funk.

So, Steve music.

Yeah, Stevie Nicks right there. Stevie kicks. Okay. Yeah. So, man, he's the star of the show now. What do you guys think?

Oh, yeah, Yeah, I agree.

I mean, it's. It's telling that he's the guy that was standing tall at the end.

Yeah. Yep. All right, so that's going to conclude this edition of the Extreme ECW Livecast. And we're going to be heading into June, which means summer's coming and a new pay per view it's coming up as well in the next couple months. So we're on the road to that. We'll take a quick little break here and we'll be back for the ECW wrap up. All right, we're back now for the extreme ECW live cast wrap up again. We'll be back in two weeks for the next episode, and it'll be covering June 3rd and 10th of 1997. It'll be our 99th episode, and we'll be covering ECW hardcore TV 215 and 216. Also again, please check out JV and I on the bottom line wrestling cast. The career of stone cold Steve Austin, where we are currently covering the curve stunning Steve Austin in WCW. And we are at episode 20 and we're concluding the chicken suit saga in late January of 1994. And episode 21 will be coming out soon as well. And that is February of 1994. The Thunderdome. A thunder cage, actually. Whatever. The. All I know about February is Austin has like two matches and that's it. So it's gonna be a nice quick episode for us to do. So, yeah, check us out on the bottom line wrestling cast. Also, again, please reach out to us on social media. Follows on X at NPRU 83. That's me, Mike Prue. Follow JV at John Van Damage. Follow Rick at Leo Y85. And also check us out at extreme cast. And also check out Rick's hybrid underscore cast. So at hybrid underscore cast. Thanks, guys for listening as always. Thank you BTT Patreon members for all your support. Guys, anything left to say before we head out?

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All right. Hope you guys enjoyed your Thanksgiving and Christmas coming up as well. So long.

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