Pat Tanaka & Paul Diamond vs the
Public Enemy
Good solid tag team wrestling here.
Nothing outstanding, but this is well worked, decent stuff. Tanaka looks great
here, loved his kicks and sudden legsweep, and catching a Rock rana into a
ditout powerbomb looked really good. A lot of the early stages feel like a
Tanaka & Diamond showcase, but Public Enemy are solid when they get
control, working over the knee of Diamond. Tanaka makes for a fine hot tag,
loved the double superkick they hit before Grunge accidentally hits Rock during
an O’Connor roll and Tanaka gets the pin. Fun stuff.
Jimmy Snuka vs Chad Austin
Austin is an average looking man in a
pink singlet, and he gets treated accordingly. He bumps well for the slow paced
beating Snuka inflicts on him. Genuinely can’t tell if the release powerbomb
Snuka hits was intentional or just laziness. Slingshot suplex gets the win for
Snuka.
Johnny Hotbody & Tony Stetson vs
The Sandman & JT Smith
Given that three of these guys are
the best wrestlers in ECW, it’s quite galling that this is the match that gets
clipped. Plus, since we last saw them, Hotbody and Stetson are mysteriously tag
champions. They look good as a unit, double-teaming nicely, and Stetson goes
right after the injured leg of Smith. Dug his little tricks like grinding his
knuckles into the knees of Smith. At this point, it clips and we come back to
Stetson dropping big leg onto Smith’s
knee. Bizarrely, the heels just let Sandman tag in after all that work on
Smith. The end is hokey, as Sandman gets backdropped onto Terry Funk at
ringside and, as Sandman puts Hotbody in a sleeper, Funk comes in to hit Sandman
with a chair, seemingly in affront at Sandman having the audacity to get thrown
onto him. Really odd ending.
Tommy Dreamer vs Tazmaniac
Here’s a young, suspenders-wearing
Tommy Dreamer making his ECW debut, as a Marcus Bagwell-esque pretty boy face.
It’s Taz who brings the fun stuff to the match, hitting a big t-bone suplex, a
nice powerslam and then reversing a suplex attempt into a big Northern Lights.
Tommy takes a beating here for a crowd who don’t seem certain what to make of
him, getting a chair broken over him and eating a big DDT on the floor. Tommy
fires back, and Joey Styles massively telegraphs that he won’t win by
guaranteeing he will, only for Taz to catch him on the top ropes with a big
Northern Lights suplex from the top to win. Actually fun stuff here.
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