Tommy Dreamer, The Sandman and Terry Gordy take on Raven, Stevie Richards and Brian Lee in a match where if Stevie gets pinned, Raven loses the ECW World Heavyweight Title. Chris Jericho def... Read allTommy Dreamer, The Sandman and Terry Gordy take on Raven, Stevie Richards and Brian Lee in a match where if Stevie gets pinned, Raven loses the ECW World Heavyweight Title. Chris Jericho defends the ECW World Television Title against Shane Douglas, 2 Cold Scorpio and Pitbull #2 i... Read allTommy Dreamer, The Sandman and Terry Gordy take on Raven, Stevie Richards and Brian Lee in a match where if Stevie gets pinned, Raven loses the ECW World Heavyweight Title. Chris Jericho defends the ECW World Television Title against Shane Douglas, 2 Cold Scorpio and Pitbull #2 in a history-making four-way dance, and more.
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- Trivia"The Franchise" Shane Douglas defeated ECW World Television Champion Chris Jericho, 2 Cold Scorpio (Charles Scaggs) and Pitbull # 2 (Anthony Durante) (w/Francine (Francine Fournier)) in a four-way-dance to win the title. Scorpio pinned Jericho with a Tombstone Piledriver and the Tumbleweed (Somersault corkscrew leg drop). Pitbull #2 pinned Scorpio after a Superbomb (top-rope powerbomb). Francine entered the ring and threw powder in Pitbull #2's eyes. She then turned her back to the camera and pulled down her skirt to reveal her thong with the word "Franchise" on it. Pitbull #1 (Gary Wolf) made his way to the ring and the Pitbulls made history by Superbombing Francine through a table, making her the first woman to go through a table in North America. Douglas won the match by pinning Pitbull #2 with a belly-to-belly suplex. The match has long been considered one of ECW's best.
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The Gangsters vs the Samoan Gangsta Party opens the event, which is a really short bloodbath that ends quickly in a no contest. Mikey Whipwreck squashes Paul Lauria in about 90 seconds, but then stays in the ring to be joined by Sabu for a losing effort against The Eliminators. The Dudley Brothers defeat the Full-Blooded Italians. There's another hardcore match between Tarzan Goto and Axl Rotten. Shane Douglas wins the TV championship over Chris Jericho, Too Cold Scorpio and Pitbull #2. Louie Spicolli beats El Puerto Riqueno in another squash, before Sabu returns to the ring and defeats him. Then The Sandman beats Raven in an enormously complicated match.
So, there's lots of this show that isn't good. The Gangsters fight is mercifully short which unfortunately can't be said for the Goto Rotten match, which is a brutal but uninspired affair. The first of Sabu's matches is unfortunately marred by a couple of botched spots but his second match, with the late Louie Spicolli is much better. The Dudleys vs. The FBI is marred by way too much story and too many characters in the match and is often unwatchable.
The main event is better, but a bit too complicated for its own good. What is pitched as three matches. Raven and Sandman in the cage, Stevie Richards against Terry Gordy on the outside and Tommy Dreamer vs Brian Lee elsewhere soon becomes all of them fighting in the cage at the same time. What should have been a decent story, with Raven having to keep Richards from losing as well as himself (as the title was decided in the Gordy/Richards match with them as proxies for the pair) gets lost when they're all together in the ring. When you add Lori and Tyler Fullington into the match, as well as Beulah and Missy Hyatt too there's just too much happening.
Which is interesting as the best match, and a template for telling stories within a complicated match, was also on this show, with the Four-way Dance for Chris Jericho's TV title. Making them tag in and out was a nice addition as it meant that the Jericho and Scorpio could work most of the match, whilst the storyline, between Douglas and Pitbull #2 could be kept alive by Douglas staying away from his opponent. This really was an excellent match, almost half an hour before the first elimination and lasting 40 minutes in total, it involved a big heel turn and some outside interference but a dropkick from Scorpio to a mid-Lionsault Jericho was amazing and that match was really excellent.
The dvd again has the licensed music replaced by awful dubbed over tracks, and several of the entrances are not present.
As I say, not the best overall PPV in the history of the company, but certainly one of it's best matches.
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