NWA (ECW) Eastern Championship Wrestling (November 2, 1993)

Original Airdate: November 2, 1993

Your Host is Joey Styles from the studio

Backstage, Sandman gets mentally prepared to challenge Shane Douglas for the ECW Title tonight

Sandman music video

Backstage, Peaches discovers Sandman’s unconscious body on the ground. Tod Gordon tries to find out what happened, but Paul E Dangerously pops in to clear up that he’d probably just passed out drunk

ECW Title Match: Shane Douglas v Sabu: From Bloodfeast night two on October 2 1993 in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. Sherri Martel attacks Dangerously at the bell, and they brawl, as Shane gets control on Sabu. Bodyslam sets up an elbowdrop, and a vertical superplex follows. I can’t be sure, but I think there might have been some clipping there, as suddenly Sabu looks like he’s been out there for a lot longer than a minute. Douglas with a cross corner whip, but Sabu reverses, allowing the challenger a side suplex. That sets up a flying moonsault, and we have a new champion at 1:31. I’m assuming there was significant clipping here, but I have no evidence of such, so I’ll go ahead and rate it. Changing the title so often this early in the lineage was not a great decision. DUD

Backstage, Dangerously gloats, until Gordon shows up to taunt him with news about Terry Funk, but Paul gets so upset that he knocks the camera out before we can hear what is said

Axl Rotten and Ian Rotten v Chad Austin and Todd Shaw: From Bloodfeast night one on October 1 1993 in Philly. The Nasty Boys rip off deal is not cool. Sadly, the two teams never met. The Rotten’s with a rocket launcher at 4:16. DUD

Jimmy Snuka barks at the camera. He should see someone

Joey gives Mr. Hughes’ career highlights, openly mentioning Lex Luger and Undertaker, before throwing it to a pre-taped promo from Hughes. Nothing here, just cookie cutter stuff

Kevin Sullivan is ready for a shoot fight with Tommy Cairo

In some New York City hotel room, Medusa challenges Sherri Martel to a match. The production values here were so bad that you wouldn’t even know it was Madusa and Sherri if you didn’t have the benefit of the graphic. This quickly devolves into a shouting match (with Greg Valentine just casually chilling in the background, nonplussed by the whole thing), ending in Madusa screaming about how she ‘might be going to the WWF,’ as if that’s a checkmate to anything Sherri could possibly say

BUExperience: Despite featuring a major title change, this was a really boring episode.