Great squash

I might have posted this before. it has been a long time. I have this old WWF coffee table book from 1991. There is a pic of Typhoon stepping on one of these Executioner's throat. Might be from this match.

Executioners attack the Disasters like they are the Road Warriors. Typhoon and Quake clean their clocks. I liked when one of the Executioners yells "Hey leave my partner alone!!!!!" only to have Quake take his head off with a clothesline.

Liked seeing one of them try to double clothesline the Disasters.

I actually think this match is what inspired me to create the Psycho Chickens.


Found this one. Razor gave the Executioner a bit of offense. He also did not finish with the Razors Edge. Instead using the super backdrop suplex.

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8.FBI vs Blue Meanie, Super Nova and Chris Chetti Queens New York

FBI vs Meanie, Nova and Chetti
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This is from the same show as Dudleys vs Balls and Awesome. Match started of as Tracy Smothers vs Chris Chetti but the FBi kept interfering. So Chetti goes to the back and brings back Meanie and Nova.

Anybody know what this song is called? I know people will say Intergalactic but I don't think it is. I'm pretty sure it came out in 1999.

The difference between the Queens fans and the typical ECW houseshow fans is the Queens fans know when to shut up. Or I mean not chant show your tits during a good match.

Match starts and the "Where's my pizza?" chant starts. Always wished somebody woul say "Probably at Dominoes."

Guido clubs Nova and Nova hiptoses him over the top rope only for Guido to drop Novas throat across the top rope. Guido tries to whip Nova into the ropes and Nova hits a sitout spinebuster.

Nova tags in Meanie and they do a flippie slam on Guido. Guido retreats to the comfort of Tracy Smothers crotch.Tracy syncs up with the you suck dick chants.What makes this such a trip is both the FBI and Meanie/Nova are on the surface child friendly acts. So sesing Meanie do he dick sucking motion is very strange.

Tracy is in and works over Blue Meanie with punches but Meanie hits a nice looking standing dropkick. Follow up with a body slam then Jim Mollinoux slams Tracy. Guido complains and he gets slammed by Mollinoux. With Meanie hitting a double clothesline to the outside. Nova then does a dive thru the ropes and Meanie rocket launches Chetti onto the FBI.

Looks like Nova missed the 500 pound guy right behind him. Big Sal clobbers Nova and tosses him back in the ring. Now the fans are calling Sal a fat hog. Which seems like a redundant insult.

Anyway Smothers and Guido hit the double elbow, clubber and double STO into the Paisano elbow.

Nova is in the FBI's corner and the Big Don chokes Nova on the middle rope. Tracy whips Nova into the ropes but Nova hits his own STO. Guido cuts him of before he can hit the tag. Guido goes for the backdrop but is hit with some type of diving powerbomb.

Now Tracy breaks up the tag. Really nice tag wrestling from the FBI. If they could of gotten signed by the WWF they would of been so over. I think they are the reason Blue Meanie got signed. Watch WrestlePalooza 98. they made Meanie and Nova look like super stars.

The beat Nova down in the corner and Nova starts firing back til Tracy hits a drop toehold and tags out. With Guido dropping an elbow. Guido clamps on the chinlock and a Nova chant has started.

Say this for Nova he hit as good a flash electric chair drop as anybody. Oh awesome dick move by Rich where Guido tries to tag out and Tommy moves. He has not been in the match once. Chetti is in on the hot tag. This is something Chetti is good at since he has some flashy flying offense to clean house.

Hits some dropkicks and a spinning heel kick on Guido and Tracy then hits Guido with a powerslam. Tracy whip him into the corner and Chetti hits a springboard heel kick. Guido breaks up the pin. Now Chetti hits a springboard clothesline.

Nova and Chetti whip Meanie into Smothers then Meanie into Guido and they double clothesline Tracy from the ring. Chetti hits the double moonault on Guido only to get samoan dropped by Big Sal and the FBI steal one.

After the match Sal squashes Nova and samoan drops Blue Meanie. Nothing neater than seeing a giant fat guy squash a smaller fat guy. This brings out Spike Dudley who kicks Sal in the balls and acid drops him.

Its too bad by the time Sal fit into the FBI Tracy and Rich were gone.

Fancam Follies Day 6 and 7

RVD vs Taz 11898
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6. Rob Van Dam vs Taz January 18th 1998
Doing something differen today with two matches. Rob Van Dam comes thru the curtain minus Fonzie. So he is trying to whistl with his fingers. RVD tries to attack Taz while the referee is searching his boot. Taz moves and we are off. Taz beats down RVD and hits that flipping German suplex he does.

RVD retreats to the floor as Taz mocks him. Taz follows him and they are in the audience fighting. Watching ECW and there are two things I grew to really appreciate.

1. Someone successfully clotheslining somebody over the top rope/guard rail. Never realized how many guys mess this up. But in ECW it is like 10/90 sucess rate.

2. Brawling thru the crowd. Most guys just grab some hair/scalp and pull each other occasionally doing punches.

Taz here is really good at it. Occasionally dragging but here they are actually fighting their way thru he audience. Punching, slamming into walls. A small thing that is the difference between a bad ECW match and a good one.

RVD and Taz are a perfect fit for each other. Taz likes to throw suplexes and absorb strikes. RVD likes to bump of of suplexes and kick guys in the mush. They end up in the stands. They are fighting on the stairs.

Miss part of the match because Gabe has to run around to get back to ringside. RVD tags Taz climbing over the guardrail and hits a flipping senton off the rails. They land in a pile of chairs which helps make it look more reckless. Another thing the helps brawling around ringside is not seeing a sea of yellow security shirts surrounding the wrestlers.

Back in the ring and a chair has come into play. Taz charges but RBD boots him in the mouth. Taz charges again and RVD flips over him and dropkicks him in the face. RVD tries the running skateboard chair dropkick but Taz moves.

Neat sequence of Taz whipping RVD charging him RVD leap frogging and Taz trying for the Tazmission. RVD fights out of it. One goo ECW thing is you rarely ever see the stupid WWF kick in the groin Tazmision escape. I swear every fucking week.

Taz locks on the second try and this brings out Sabu.
RVD is trying to fight out of it and Sabu just legdrops both of them. RVD and Sabu are beating down Taz. This brings out Bam Bam Bigelow which leads us to.


Sabu vs Bam Bam Bigelow 11898
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7. Sabu vs Bam Bam Bigelow

Sabu vs Bam Bam Bigelow is one of my ECW holy grails. Always getting small taste like a short World title match, or tag matches or an awesome Triple Threat vs Taz. Which btw I wish WWE would release as a shortie on Classics on Demand. This was actually a really good show. But the main reason I got it was Sabu vs Bam Bam.

So Bam Bam comes in and attacks Sabu and RVD to save Taz. But Taz is not grateful and starts cussing Bam Bam. I liked to think Bam Bam decided to rejoin the Triple Threat at the last minute because Taz is an asshole and Shane was a good friend before Bam Bam betrayed him.

Lockerroom goons pull Taz out of the ring while Sabu and RVD jump Bigelow. Sabi chunks a chair at Bam Bam. Sabu keep kicking and opunching til he locks on a sorta camel clutch. One great thing about Bam Bam is he can sell for guys much smaller yet not have hi credibility hurt.

Sabu goes to whip Bam Bam and gets clotheslines and Bam Bam is back in control. He teases throwing abu into the crowd. But he just press slams him in the ring. We get the basic story of the match. Everytime Bam Bam has abu on the ropes RVD gets involved and he can't fight them both off. It also pushes the story of Bam Bam needing a partner.

Bam Bam starts fighting RVD and Sabu hits his Air Sabu flying press to the floor. Bam Bam fights off Sabu and RVD tags him with a kick. I liked how it looked because it looked out of control. Like RVD is swinging blind. Spaking of out of control Sabu dives off the stage, Bam Bam catches him and smashes him into it. Sabu almost overshot Bam Bam and landed in the ring. That was some distance.

Bam bam kicks RVD for good measure. RVD grabs Bigelow's leg comin in. Sabu hits a dropkick into his knee.


On the floor Bigelow and RVD start brawling and making thei way to the table. Which again I really appreciate. Sabu catches Bam Bam with a baseball slie. Allowing RVD to hold him OVER the taBLE and Sabu hits his "no brakes no brakes!!!"flying leg drop. Wipes out RVD too. Good thing about this is with their relationship its a bonus for abu to hurt RVD.


They do a good job selling the spot with it taking a bit for them to recover while RVD is still out.

Bck in the ring Bam bam misses an avalanche, Sabu attempts Air Sabu in the corner which Bam Bam counters into a German suplex. Followed by Bam Bam hitting a quality splash for two. If you ever see a bad fat guy splash you really appreciate the good ones.

RVD springbord into the ring for the save but Bigelow moves. Bam Bam hits him with Greetings from Asbury Park. Now Sabu gets a taste. But here comes the riple Threat.

Bam Bam wips out Candido and Storm. But Douglas kicks him in the nuts allowing them to hit a double suplex.

Sabu and RVD have recovered and attempt Rolling thunder. They beat up Bam Bam some more and hit it again for three.

They keep beating on him til Taz makes the save. Then Taz attacks Bam Bam. Boy I do not blame Bam Bam for turning on that jerk.

Fancam Follies day 5

5. Justin Credible vs Mikey Whipwreck 11/21/97

This took place at a house show a week before November 2 Remember 97. All around it is probably a better show.

Justin Credible had just joined ECW and he is feuding with Mikey. This match might be one of the best sub ten minute matches I have seen. Watching this and Justin vs Spike Dudley from a December 98 house show. This is more of what the WWF Light heavyweight division should of been. Instead of trying to ape WCW with luchadores and Japanese stars when WCW had almost everyone locked up. Go with guys like Mikey, Justin and Spike. Smaller indy guys who do simpler matches and have more personality with some guys like Taka mixed in. Enough with the editorial here is the match.

Starts off with this criss cross section and Mikey hitting some arm drags and slaps an arm bar on Justin. Justin lays some good looking knees into MIKEY TO break it. Tosses him into the opposite turnbuckle but Mikey reverses and Justin tries to leap over Mikey but nobody is there and Mikey lays some punches into Justin.

Another criss cross section ending with Mikey hitting a tilt a whirl head scissors followed by Mikey clotheslining him over the top rope with Mikey hitting a plancha on Justin. Mikey picks up Justin and whips him into the guardrail but Justin reverses. Justin charges him only to get kicked in the mouth. Mikey bulldogs him off the rail into the concrete.

Mikey is the perfect guy to work with Justin Credible. Because Mikey is small enough you really buy Justin getting heat on him. But Mikey is just big enough he can beat up Justin with it looking credible. Pun not intended.

Back in the ring Justin hits that spinning facebuster ddt he does. Props Mikey up In the shattered dreams position and hits a running dropkick into Mikey's crotch. Followed by that sitting powerbomb out of the corner Justin does. Props Mikey on the top and hits a hurracarana.

Now he puts Mikey into a chinlock. Mikey fights out of it only for this neat sequence where JUStin tries a sleeper but Mikey does this reversal into his own only for Justin to hit a jawbreaker. They get up groggy and Justin hits a enziguri.

Justin charges Mikey in the corner but Mikey ducks and Justin gets crotched on the top rope. Mikey hits a bulldog. They do another criss cross that ends with MIKey hitting the Stunner. I like how Mikey does it with splits.

Mikey goes to the top and misses a flipping senton and Justin hits hat's Incredible for the win.

Fancam Follies Day 4

Sandman vs Konnan (10695)
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4. Sandman vs Konnan 10-6-95

These two have a more famous match three months later at House Party 96.This match is simular but the dynamic is very different. At House Party the fans were rabidly anti Konan and cheering Sandman. Here its a much more traditional heel/face set up.

Match starts with Konan tieing up Sandman in a pretzal hold. Sandman gets to the ropes and retreats outside the ring.

Sandman goes back in the ring and again he getstied up, this time its an ankle lock. Sandman is getting angry at somebody trying to make him wrestle. Sandman is doing a great job of selling this. Getting really desperate each time he gets put on the mat. Konan is now kicking him in the head over and over. Followed by a big piledriver.

Again Sandman goes outside to regroup he comes back in and is taken down in an armbar. Shifts around into an STF. I'll just say right now based on the Sandman matches, Konan looks really good. Sandman gets to the ropes and unlike most times guuys crawl to the ropes it looks credible.

Sandman crawls out again. Love heel Sandman he is this drunken ring general. Alays knowing where he is and when to run for it. I really really wish they had ran Eddy vs Sandman a few times. Sandman is pissed now and picked up a chair an circling the ring. Waiting for just the right chance to strike.

He tosses a chair in and darts at Konan hitting him with some knees before whipping him into the corner. Dropping knees on him and choking him. Sandman does a criss cros sequence and pays for it, Again trying to wrestle Konan's match. He whips Konan into the corner but Konan avoids the charge and rolls him up.

KOnan hits the rolling clothesline, followed by two more clotheslines. Sandman retreats again.

Sandman is great just pacing around he ring, his eyes never leaving Konan. K Dawg gets distracted by something and Sandman hits a hard looking lariat to the back of his head. There is this moment that is the Sandman version of Flair doing "now its time we go to school!!!!! Nice looking slingshot legdrop. Picks him up for a big bodyslam. Now a slighshot sommersault that crushed Konnan's face.

Starts throwing the punches followed by the sloppy DDT. Konnan starts to fire back and Woman hits him with the cane. Sandman follows thru with a piledriver. Sandman is pretty wiped so he takes a mid match smoke break. Konnan takes his chance to wallop Sandman in the nuts. Then steals andman's ciggerette and Konan seems pretty cool suddenly. He does kinda look like Joe Camel if you squint. Goes over to taunt Woman while some guy plays with her hair in a odd moment. She tries to hit him with the cane and Konann takes it.

Now he starts playing a tune on Sandman's head. While Andman is still selling his balls being hit. You rarely get that in wrestling. Usually guys shake it off in a minute. Instead of the slow building agony.You usually get.

Sandman is back on his feet and before getting hit thumbs Konnan in the eye and Woman tosses in a second cane. Now they are trading cane shots, ref attemots to intervene and they both hit him and the match is declared a no contest.

This does not stop them as they keep fighting. The lockerroom empties to separate them.

This did a great job setting up a rematch and it should of aired on tv in some form.

Fancam Follies Day 3

Great Sasuke vs Tiger Mask IV 122797
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3. Tiger Mask IV vs Great Sasuke December 27 1997

Before I start this is the worst fucking audience I have ever seen at a ECW show. Let that soak in.

Great Sasuke after Barely Legal and his WWF run never happened, had another stint in ECW. eE feuded with Justin Credible. Now personally that seemed like a waste. I would of rather seen Sasuke mix it up with Sabu or RVD or TaZ. But in this run he brought Tiger Mask IV with him. They wrestled on a few house shows.That is just how ECW did things. We have these foriegn guys who could really get over. Lets just put em against each other.

So this audience basically shits over everything they do in the first half because they are

1. Foreign.

2. Not on tv.

3. Wear mask.

Fuck these people. It is like bizarro ROH. Where Japanese guy is hated for no reason.

First half of the match is your basic stuff. Sasuke and Mask trading kicks before trying to take eachother down on the mat. Anytime a wrestling hold is tried somebody yells boring.

Sasuke has a camel clutch on Tiger mask IV who slips out an reverses it.

Mask gets him up and they start a sequence of reversals with Mask winning with a spin kick. Mask hits SAsuke with a unique looking shoulderblock. Almost a running moonsault.

But Mask puts him back on the mat with a chinlock into a headscossors. And the apes are still chanting. They sure do spend a lot of time thinking about sucking dick.

Mask pulls Sasuke to the center of the ring. Nice part where Sauke puts Mask in a leglock to and they start slapping eachother. THis actually gets the crowd excited very briefly. Big headbutt by Mask and I enjoy Sasukes painful yelp. Tiger MAsk puts Asuke in a half crab Lion Tamer. Turns it into a full boston crab but Sasuke pulls himself to the ropes. Sasuke fights his way up with kicks.

Irish whip into the corner and Sasuke misses a charge and Mask wins the next kick exchange. Sasuke retreats to the floor and Tiger Mask hits a suicide dive on asuke. which looked painful since the guardrail did not budge. Back in the ring and Mask hits the flying hadbutt for two. Followed by a greatlooking German suplex into a bridge. Followed by a flipping leg submission doodad.

Sasuke makes the ropes and hit a cartwhel flying elbow. Mask hits the floor and gets hit by a big Sasuke dive. Which wips them both out.

This brings out Justin Credible and Jason "The World's Sexiest Man". Justin taunts Sasuke who takes out Jason with a pescado.

Tiger Mask IV is back in the ring and auke hit a standing second rope moonsault on Mask for two. Tiger Mask manages to avoid the powerbomb once but gets caught with a spinning kick and this time the powerbomb finishes him.

Thi was actually a pretty good match once you manage to tune out the shithead audience. They had a match in Queens the same week which im sure is much better.

Fancam Follies day 2

Tracy Smothers vs Sabu
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2.Tracy Smothers vs Sabu: Best of Sabu- Suicidal Maniac

First off if you can pin down an exact date and location let me know. It is either Georgia or Dayton Ohio.

The match starts with Tommy Rich and Tracy Smothers ambushing Sabu. They hit the super rare Big DOn Paisano elbow. He gets Sabu in the corner and works him over. Sabu tries to fight back and is beat down. Love how Smothers throws that backhand forearm. Also how he effectivly cusses the fans while beating on a guy. He whips Sabu into the corner but Sabu catches him with a boot and then a springboard leg lariat.

Sabu does the flipping legdrop on Smothers. Tracy retreats outside and Sabu hits a baseball slide knocking him over the rail. Sabu does the triple jump dive into the crowd. Fonzie stood in front of the ropes with a cool pose. But the camera angle was poor.

Back in the ring and Sabu is in control. He hits a big ddt on Smothers. Sabu and Fonzie get the table set up in record time. Tommy Rich in a dick mood takes it down. Tracy attempts to come off the top but is crotched. Sabu with the top rope hurrcarana.

Smothers gets hit by Air Sabu in the corner. Takes a bump on the top of the chair on the way down. Smothers pops Sabu in the gut to regain control.

In some bad judgment Tracy props the table up in the ring. Avoiding the table with Sabu is like trying to avoid the Hulk Up.

Love Fonz at ringside. He makes sure to put over anybody Sabu or RVD faces. Here he points out Sabu is alone against a state of the art athlete and a former World Champion. While Tracy rakes Sabus face all along the middle rope.

Big sequence of Smothers and Sabu reversing momentum on a Irish whip into the table. It ends with Sabu chunking a chair at Tracy. Then Sabu hits the running sideleg on Tracy thru the table.

Smothers barely kicks out at 2. He is struggling to stay in this. Sabu goes for another Ai Sabu catches himelf when Tracy moves, only to get tagged by Smother leaping side kick.Now he is laying in wait for Sabu. Each time he gets up hitting another kick. The crowd is getting into it chanting Sabu. Smothers DDT's Sabu into a chair.

Okay now Smothers throws a chair at Sabu but Sabu catches it. Im thinking "Oh Tracy you done messed up now." But he hits the Tracy Smothernator on Sabu!!!! And the fucking chair sets itself right up. Now that is cool.

Tracy gets ready to hit Sabu with the chair but Sabu dropkicks his leg out from under his leg and Tracy hits the chair facefirst. Sabu climbs to the top and Fonzie tosses him a chair. But Tommy Rich is on the apron. SO Sabu thROWS the chair at him. Fonzie tosses another chair and Sabu throws the chair at Rich and that is the end of him. Now Arabian facebuster finishes Tracy Smothers.

Fancam Follies day 1

Dudleys vs Mike Awesome and Balls
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1.Bubba and D-Von Dudley vs Balls Mahoney and Mike Awesome September 16 1998 Quens New York

Im really not sure if this match made tv. I know I saw clips of it in Mike Awesome video packages a year later.

Dudleys do a promo talking about how they wanted to honor the recently departed Sandman. How they had misjudged him. But one day they hoped they could leave ECW for big money too. This gets some big heat from the audience. It is strange going back and watching this stuff. At the time emotions were running high all around. Less than three years later ECW was dead and WCW was a parking lot.

This brings out Balls Mahoney. He cuts a good ernest promo. Not ranting and raving or even cursing. He just plainly says without ECW the Dudleys would be nothing working on the indy scene. He says he admits that about himself. He had hit rock bottom before ECW and he had nowhere else to go. He says this has been a long time coming and to expect the worst headache ever. But Balls turns around and gets his skull split by a chair shot. This looked dangerous but you have to understand back in the 90s nobody knew the dangers of being hit in the head with a piece of metal.

Dudleys start berating Balls but before D-von hits the third commandment Mike Awesome's FMW theme hits and I have to admit it made me cheer. He hits the ring and starts clubbering D-Von. He then powerbombs Bubba which was quite a site. Bubba no sells then power bombs Awesome. Who no sells the power bomb. I hated that spot but I understand the the thinking behind it.

Dudleys gang up on Awesome who hits a big looking double spear. He follows it with the Awesome dive. Fans are going crazy for Mike Awesome. You get why Heyman had been trying to sign him since 1994.

Back in the ring D-Von gets German suplexed. He takes an uncomfortable looking bump off of it. Not for the last time in this match.

Bubba hits Awesome with Sign Guy's sign giving D-Von the chance to attack. Dudleys do the proto Wassup headbutt but it looks a lot more painful here.

Bubba and Awesome have a chop exchange which Bubba wins with a nut shot.

Now the Dudleys are working over Awesome for the next several few minutes. It is not Demolition but it is getting the job done. Balls for his part has been selling the chair shot.

Dudleys are working over Awesome in the corner. Bubba takes the mic and says "You aint so fuckin Awesome now." Mike wesome goes nuts swinging wild. D-Von stops him a nut shot. Dudleys attempt to hit a double suplex but Awesome reverses and D-Von takes a sick bump on his head.

Balls Mahoney is in for the hot tag cleaning house on both Dudleys. Mike Awesome comes back in and they hit a double superplex on Bubba. Awesome hits an odd looking gut wrench power bomb on D-Von. Now Balls is telling him "Mike get the tables!!!!" While Awesome is busy doing that Balls hits a frog splash on D-Von. Before Balls can get the pin Sign Guy inteferes. Balls goes outside and beats up Sign Guy.

Awesome goes to hit the Awesomebomb to the floo on D-Voin but Bubba pulls him down and they hit Awesome with 3D.

Fancam Follies intro

Introduction by Matt D


Fancams are the hidden jewels of pro wrestling. They're matches that shouldn't exist, that shouldn't be available. They weren't meant to be taped. They weren't meant to be kept. They weren't meant to be watched twenty years later. Yes, it's debatable whether or not any match from the 80s or 90s was meant to be watched twenty years later, but most house show matches absolutely weren't. They tell us so much about the wrestlers and their craft, however. With TV matches, there's a specific purpose, time constraints, style constraints, more room for egos and agendas. House Show matches are there to entertain the crowd and the wrestlers in the ring and in the back. They get more time, more freedom and they can tell you a lot about someone. Do the wrestlers go all out for one-hundred and fifty paying customers? Do they stick to a basic formula? Do they just go out there and go through the motions or do they try to have fun?

ECW's fancams are particularly interesting. There's a massive amount of material out there and people have seen so little of it. This is essential, even primal material. This is the bread and butter of what ECW was, the night in, night out shows. People's opinions of certain WWE wrestlers have changed dramatically due to WWE 24/7 and the MSG and other shows released over the last five or six years. There's every reason to believe that there are a number of underwatched ECW fancam matches just waiting to do the same. Vic's fancam project is one big step in rectifying this gap.

Trying to figure out the "best" matches of any single promotion is a difficult task. ECW was a mish-mash of different styles, a nexus of deathmatchs and chain wrestling and brawls, of crazy spots and dueling two-counts and incited crowds. It was full of guys who stayed around for a few months or just a few shows and guys who lasted the brunt of their career there. One thing I appreciate about Vic is that he always looks at the question of "best" in context. Even in a promotion as disparate as ECW, it's downright counter-productive to look at matches between two outsiders or matches that could have existed anywhere when trying to gauge the "best." To do so is to try to figure out what people think to be the best matches that just happened to take place in an ECW ring, not the best ECW matches. It muddies the point, maybe even defeats it. It's also completely unnecessary. ECW matches could be so many things in so many ways that there's no reason to be limiting. Figuring out the best of the best is to embrace the company for what it was.

That's exactly what Vic's trying to do here. He's looking at shows people haven't seen, that they haven't even heard of, shows full of matches that his own specific familiarity and expertise led him to track down and he's unearthing them for everyone to see. Sometimes the matches disappoint. Sometimes they completely exceed expectations. Each and every one of them tells us something about these wrestlers and about ECW. They're all missing pieces of a puzzle, pieces that a lot of us didn't even realize were missing.

Chairshot A Love Story Day 21

21.

Woke up in the locker room. My neck and jaw are killing me. I think I'm West Coast Heritage champion before I fully woke up and realize what happened. I take my gear off and put on my people clothes. I'm done with this!!!! All that pain is for nothing. NOTHING!!!!!! I'm going to go find Mr.Johansen (the boss) and quit. If this is all being a wrestler is I don't want it.

I look over and see Bingwen is packing Bleached Evil's bags. Ugh I can't deal with his crap now, I gotta get out of here. I see Mr.Johansen's office. I don't care if he is busy, not like I work here anymore.


"STOP!!!!!"

Turn around and I see King Behemoth in people clothes. Makes him look even bigger.

"What do you want? Not like you're my friend or anything."

"Boy you can't quit."

"Why the heck not?"

"Because you're not finished."

"I lost my title match, that's it for me."

"Why do you think I bothered to help you?"

"Because you don't wanna share a locker room with a wimp."

"Boy you are a lot of things but a wimp ain't one of em."

"What do you mean?"

"I mean you are one of the toughest men I ever fought."

"What? that's crazy. I never came close to beating you."

"Being tough is not always about winning a fight. I beat you worse than I ever beat anybody. But no matter what you always wanted to wrestle me again. The only man I battled more than you was Ransom Fortune."

"Ransom Fortune?"

"After one match, most wrestlers refuse to face me again. But you never refused and each time you gave me the fight of your life. Why did you do that?"

"Well um uh I wanted to be a pro wrestler I wanted....:"

"To be a champion, is that it boy?"

"Uh Um yes sir."

"But here you are wanting to quit because you did not win your first title match."


After that King Behemoth walks away. I think about everything that has happened in the last few weeks. My life has changed a lot. I feel different. Even if Ike Simmons took my chance I had Violator pinned and the belt was mine. I'm going to be here everyday until they kill me or I'm fired. I'm a loser not a quitter.

END?

Chairshot A Love Story Day 20

20.

The dogs start barking and I go thru the curtain. Never wrestled in front of so many people before. Hard to see because different color lights are blinking on and off. I look down and I'm standing on an Overdog spotlight. I knew pay per viewa were big productions but not this big. Royal Flush is not even one of the big shows like Brainbusters Ball, End Game or Valley of the Brawls.

I high five everyone I see. I look and see little kids wearing cheap replicas of the Overdog mask. I circle the ring four times slapping hands. I tripped over the ring steps but I get up fast. Music stops suddenly and I hear the squealing pig. Violator steps thru the curtain and has a new outfit. He is wearing hot pink sneakers and purple bike shorts and a pink singlet. Yellow ribbons are wrapped in his hair and beard. Wearing a sequined ring jacket like The Young Dandy's use to wear. Even creepier than before but at least he is wearing a shirt.

He gets in the ring and I'm starting to get overwhelmed. This is it for me. my one big chance. If I can't beat him, I doubt I will ever get another title match. Violator is struggling to take off his jacket. Hate to disappoint Mr.Plant but I'm gonna do it. I run and dropkick Violator in the back. I roll him up 1...2... he kicks out. I pull the ring jacket over his head and start hitting him in the head. Ref pulls me back and Violator slides under the top rope to the floor. I run and hit him with a baseball slide to the mouth.

While Violator is groggy I take a deep breath and dive over the top on to him. It is scary and I don't have the technique and finesse of Scissor Mask or Masked Hellitosis. I just fling my body over the top on to Violator. I'm having a hard time breathing. If I don't get up it is all for nothing. so I tackle Violator before he can get to his feet and start hitting him and banging his head into the floor.

CLANG!!! He just grabbed me by my tights and tossed me into the steel ring steps. Next I feel a hard foot go into my head. Try to get up and POW!!!! He just punted me in my ribs. I just realized how long we have been outside the ring. But I haven't heard a bell so I guess the ref is cutting us slack. Doesn't matter as Violator tosses me back in the ring.

I hit him in the gut a couple of times but he just gouged my eyes. He picks me up and hits a big side slam. Violator is not that strong but he uses all his weight and I feel like I was squashed. He goes for the pin but I kick out at 1.

He lifts me up and whips me into the corner and tackles me with an avalanche. It knocks the wind out of me. But one thing I have over Violator is there is nothing he can do to me that I have not taken before. I once got hit by the Behemoth Bomb and took the Royal Treatment from King Behemoth in the same match. Two ribs were broken and I was knocked out for five hours.

Violator throws me into the other corner and tries another avalanche but I get my foot up and kick Violator in the mouth. I go to the second rope and hit a second rope clothesline. Go for the pin 1..he kicks out. Then I see blood on my arm. When did I get busted open? Then I realize its not my blood but Violator's.

I roll him up for a quick two count. Dang it to Heck!!! Violator gets up and I try to hit the Overbulldog but he blocks it and drops me crotch first on the top rope. He follows it up with a sloppy clothesline. He is dropping elbow after elbow. But the thing is I can tell each elbow is getting weaker. I realize Violator is blowing up. Before I make my move I feel it. He just slapped on the Cankle lock. He knows he has to end this now. This hurts bad and its hard to concentrate. But I was once in Martin Morris Texas Cloverleaf and years ago (before I was Overdog) Brent Stone's Rock of Ages. So I know I can endure this. I grab the bottom rope, forcing Violator to break the hold.

Try to stand up but my ankle is hurt. Violator takes the chance to punch me in the mouth. I'm in the corner and he is punching a mud pie. I can't lose I can't lose!!! I'm never going to get this chance again. I ignore my ankle and start hitting him over and over. He is reeling back. I run in for the Overkiller but he hit a Ura nage to counter it. I can hear Violator weezing. He is going to parking violate me. Some fans are beeping in anticipation. Beep....Beep.....Beep,... I hold my forearm up and hit him right in the balls. Violator lets out this high pitched scream. This is it. I hit the Overkiller!!! 1....2..... BLAM!!!!!! I just heard a gun shot and I know what that means. Ike Simmons is coming to the ring.

Why did the referee stop counting!?!?! Ike Simmons has a bandage over his eye. He must be after Violator because of what the Embalmer did. just as Violator gets up he eats an Ike Breaker. Now Ike Simmons is stomping Violator. The bell just rang and I know I'm disqualified. I should run but I'm not going to. I tackle Ike Simmons but he just kicked me in the gut and hit the Ike Breaker. I'm hearing the chants

"Ike!!! IKE!!! IKE!!! IKE!!! IKE!!!!!"

Now I'm hearing

"One More Time, One More Time, One More Time!!!"


So he hits the Ike Breaker again.

Last thing I see before I lose consciousness is a kid in an Overdog mask chanting "One More Time".

No Chairshot today but here is something.