NWA (ECW) Eastern Championship Wrestling (October 12, 1993)

Original Airdate: October 12, 1993 

Your Hosts are Joey Styles and Paul E Dangerously in the dressing room. I’m pretty sure that’s a bedroom door in someone’s mother’s house, with ‘dressing room’ pasted on the door

Six-Man Tag Team Match: Jimmy Snuka, Don Muraco, and Kevin Sullivan v Terry Funk, Abdullah the Butcher, and JT Smith: From Bloodfeast Night One on October 1 1993 in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. Everyone throws chairs at each other right from the get-go, and it’s a big brawl all over the place with no order. Powder gets thrown, and Smith hooks Muraco in a small package for the shock upset at 4:29. DUD

Tommy Dreamer is ready to make his debut against Tazmaniac! You can call him a pretty boy, but he don’t know about that! He’s a pro-wrestler! Looks (and sounds) more like an extra on Jersey Shore at this point

Backstage, Jay Sulli catches up with Tod Gordon, and they’re still reeling from Sabu’s debut last week. Sabu was so wild that he’s banned from television for now, though you can still see him at live events. That draws Hunter Q. Robbins III and Paul E Dangerously over to protest on his behalf

Chris Michaels is still no cartoon. It’s hilarious to me that almost every promotion’s strategy and posture in the late 80s/early 90s was ‘we’re different than the WWF!’

Malia Hosaka v Molly McShane: From night one of Bloodfeast, October 1 in Philly. They do a few nice reversal sequences early on, dominated by Hosaka. Hosaka with a spinkick for two, but Molly reverses a suplex for two, so Hosaka snapmares her over. Criss cross ends in Molly using a drop-toehold, and a gutwrench suplex gets her two. Molly adds a jumping backelbow, and a bodyslam gets her a two count. Molly misses a dive off the middle rope, however, and Hosaka hits her with a flying somersault senton at 3:48. I’m surprised these two never ended up in the WWF to prop up their attempt at having a women’s division in 1994. *

Axl Rotten and Ian Rotten are here, and they want Pat Tanaka and Paul Diamond

Axl Rotten and Ian Rotten v Pat Tanaka and Paul Diamond: From Bloodfeast night one on October 1 in Philly. Ian and Diamond start, as Styles hypes up an event with ‘over twenty’ ECW stars at a hotel near LaGuardia Airport, which I’m sure indeed did feature all the names advertised, no doubt. Both men tag out, and Axl stalls, afraid of getting nailed with a karate move. Pat catches up to him with some strikes, and Diamond tags in with a spinheel kick. Snapmare sets up an elbowdrop for two, and Diamond works the arm, as Dangerously does his best Mike Tenay impression. Okay, not really, but close your eyes, and he sounds just like him! Back to Ian, and a double team allows the brothers to take control of Diamond. Diamond blocks a charge from Ian, and a 2nd rope bulldog allows him to tag out. Pat with a superkick, but he fails to cut the ring in half, and Axel grabs a tag. Axel pounds Pat down on the ropes, and a cheap shot from Ian gives Axel a two count. They work Tanaka over, until Ian misses a flying splash, and Diamond catches a hot tag - Roseanne Barr the door! A combo sets up a side suplex from Diamond for the pin at 9:28. ¾*

Public Enemy are trespassing non non-public property

Joey catches up with Rockin’ Rebel, who is mocking Salvatore Bellomo

Rockin' Rebel v Don E Allen: From night one of Bloodfeast, October 1 in Philly. Joined in progress with Rebel dominating, and working Don over. Don fights back with a pair of dropkicks, but a bodypress gets countered with a backbreaker for two. Spinebuster finishes for real at 1:42 shown. Afterwards, Rebel and Chris Michaels get in each other’s face, and brawl around ringside

Matty in the House wants to show us the match between Rebel and Michaels, and rebels against the studio, who wanted to wait to air the match next week

Rockin' Rebel v Chris Michaels: From night two of Bloodfeast, October 2 in Philly. Rebel attacks before the bell, and drops Michaels with a swinging neckbreaker. Rebel unloads with chops in the corner, but a cross corner whip gets reversed, and Chris clotheslines him down for some mounted punches. Rebel responds by pulling knux out, and he knocks Michaels cold at 1:43. That’s it? This felt twice as long at that. DUD

Sandman and JT Smith are coming for the tag title

BUExperience: The roster is expanding, and the show is getting better as a result.