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I went away to explore what exile from writing wrestling would be like and WHAM! WCW went down the cra......further down the crapper. I really wish that every other columnist on earth hadn't done this topic yet or else I would have talked about it, but once again I'm the last one left. *sigh*moving right along.

The Royle Rumble is just a few hours away, and I'm really looking forward to it (I'll be checking it out at Hooters, I'm so cheap). I won't bother myself with making predictions because this won't get posted quick enough for those to matter. I expect Tazz NOT to debut, so there. Angle will beat Ken Shamrock!

ECW on TNN this week was a great show! Crazy vs Tajiri was an amazing match (I am, however, wondering how much they cut out), I'm really surprised they showed that much blood on TNN. Hopefully the censors are easing up on ECW so they can show everything that makes their product great. A great about ECW is when they don't show New Jack, which they didn't (though Hardcore TV got him! HA!). He "wrestled" Grimes...damn.....I was actually interested in watching him, I didn't think he was so huge!

I'm feeling extremely out of it this week, life's been a little weird, so this column will suffer! I've warned you all, all 3 who read this. I'm running out of ideas so I'd like to fall back on something we all love:

THE VIDEO REVIEW!!!!!

The video of choice this time around is an old ECW favorite of mine, Double Tables. You can call it a Rumble tie in if you want to because of the Hardys-Dudleyz match tonight. Let's get into it.

ECW: Double Tables (Fed. 15, 1995) ....that date might be wrong

The show starts off with Joey Styles standing outside the ring (guess ECW didn't have enough money to get him a mic cord long enough to reach IN the ring) ready to introduce "The Sexiest Man On Earth" Jason! A long time ago I enjoyed Jason and Joey's interaction, back when Jason did things and just didn't stand there. He's pre-goatee and with the Pitbulls. They're having a match tonight, whoa, it's a six man! Jason brings out his new man, Jason! Out comes a clone, no, it's the Jason the Terrible from FMW or some place like that.

I always like a wrestler who can admit when he's terrible! I wish other wrestlers would do this: Hacksaw the Horrible (we would nickname him Dubba H), Hogan the Terrible, Nash the Lazy (we've already named him that), Benoit the God, ect ect it would make wrestling more fun.

Jason T. (we'll assume Terrible is his last name) stands behind the Pitbulls wondering if he'll ever be in the building again, as we go to

TRADITIONAL ECW CRAZY THING, you know, that static that takes us to the next segment.

Match One: Pitbulls/Jason, who is Terrible vs The Young Dragons/Hardcore Hack....Myers, the SAW OF ECW (I mean shaw)

This match is just like Jason's name! No, not sexy!? The other one, terrible. At one point I remember hearing the young dragons were Mikey Whipwreak and Paul Lauria but that's not the case here, as one has their mask ripped off to show us a man with a beard, maybe it was Jim Neighart, I choose not to find out. The Young Dragons say "screw this" and leave Hack to his own divices, none of which he has. A few punches and Hack loses. Poor guy.

They then did some angle with Hack and Angel, Jason's valet or something, I didn't pay attention. Next Match Please

Match Two: Tommy Dreamer, back from All Japan with a smile vs Stevie Richards

This was the beginning of the Dreamer-Raven fued. Some ok stuff from this two, and Stevie earns a "You Still Suck" Chant. It really goes to show you how ECW can build a guy up when two years later, Richards would be ready to be world champion. The long and short is Dreamer wins!

Match Three: Mikey Whipwreak vs Paul Lauria

These two broke into the biz togeather, so there's your heat. Paul is with "The Sexiest Man In Philly" Jason, who was in a big fued with Mikey. It was a epic like Steamboat-Savage, Flair-Sting, and other classic fueds. Anyway, Mikey does a nice summersault plancha into the first row and cool top rope bulldog. Lauria takes a chair to the jaw and juices in what ECW commericals at the time described as a "BLOODBATH". This led to Ian and Axl's need to show ECW what a bloodbath was, and you know the rest.

The matches comes soon thereafter when Mikey hits his finisher the "MikeySlider" or backslide to commen wrestling fans.......well, maybe he didn't give it a special name, but it finished the match

Match Four: Ian vs Axl Rotten

Would I look like a sick jerk if I said I expected more blood? This was one of their first matches against each other I believe. My fondest memory of this is Ian using the time keepers hammer, which was disgusting. A slow brawl which sees Ian get the paste beat out of him and then some, winning with a cheap roll up.

When I first watched this I was angry that Axl (being the face) didn't win, but looking back on it I realized this was just the start of their sick fued and if Axl won the first match, it would have ended too quickly. Not that ECW would have stopped putting them togeather, but it's simple booking 101

Match Five: Al Snow vs Chris Benoit

This match was the FIRST Al Snow match I've ever seen, and this one's the highlight of the tape workrate wise. This was during Al's short time in ECW and at during Chris' great run there. The first few minutes are spent exchanging moves. Al hits a nice super kick. Personally I love a well placed superkick. Benoit takes over and dominates show for most of the rest of the match and only a little Ocean Cycle suplex is what the "Snow Man" can muster. The Crippler dumps all with a dragon suplex for the win. Wonderful matchn, and Al's springboard dropkick mid way though reminds of how good he used to be.

Match Six: Tully Blanchard vs Shane Douglas

I heard these two had another match which was really boring and looooooooong, I'm glad this isn't that one. Tully starts off stong with a slingshot suplex for a two, back and forth kinda boring. Douglas wins pretty easily. Weird, just seemed really short.

Match Seven: Sandman vs Cactus Jack *TEXAS TORNADO MATCH ;)*

Little long brawl that's hampered when Sandman is basically knocked out I believe. Damn, I really should have watched this again before I reviewed this. The endgame has Cactus throwing a sick chair shot and Sandy and dropping a elbow on him with a chair while half the arena chants "Over here" they would go over there folks, but I don't think Sandman can really walk. One ddt on the floor and ten count later and it's over.

Match Eight: Sabu/Taz vs Public Enemy (double tables)

Joey begins by hyping everyone who braved the weather to get to the show, my hats off to them to. I could barely take going to a ECW show that was the same night as Limp Bizkit (yes, the show Corino interupted!). Public Enemy says something to the internet fans there or something, whatever. Sabu and Taz hit the ring and pair off, Taz vs Rocco in the fight we dont' see and Sabu vs Grunge which we do see because Sabu is the star :)

Both teams brawl back into the ring and here come the tables!!! In a really stupid move, they set up one table and Grunge and Taz set up a table and Taz gets put on it and Grunge starts climbing the turnbuckles, only to be caught by Taz and they both go though it!

Grunge and Taz battle and while the ref isn't looking, Rocco puts Sabu though a table! ACK, what contriversity! he's mad and ends up being legged dropped though another table by Sabu! Taz and Sabu, or TS, win the tag titles. Then the spot happens.

With Rocco Rock on another table, sabu stands atop a table laid across the top turnbuckle, Chris Benoit enter and powerbombs him off onto rocco! A great spot and one of those things that led to the Three Way Dance.

The End:

Overall, this is a pretty good tape, the main event, whipwreak-lauria, and benoit-snow are all pretty good, only the first match is totally boring. This was when ECW was jsut starting to become known and the Three Way Dance angle really put them on the map, great story and planning and three good teams.

Thanks for reading this week, sorry it took so long to all the three people that read. Take care and don't let the b@stards get you down

Peacock
Founder of S.U.K (Supporters Unto Kurt) as in Kurt Angle

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This was the INFAMOUS rec.sport.pro-wrestling convention, by the way. That's what's up with all the "Internet" references. Also, the Richards/Dreamer match (I think) briefly involved fighting over one of our convention T-shirts. If you have this tape, check the left of the bleachers for the guy in the yellow turtleneck and Sacramento Kings cap - that'll be me. Rick Scaia is pretty close to me. The picture in the upper left is the best wrestling photo I've ever taken to this day. Click here for the big-size version - CRZ

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