NWA (ECW) Eastern Championship Wrestling (May 24, 1994)

 

Original Airdate: May 24, 1994

Your Hosts are Willie Watts and Paul E Dangerously from the studio

Jay Sulli catches up with new ECW Television Champion Mikey Whipwreck, who is still celebrating his new title win (‘in only three months, mom!’), but Jay bursts his bubble by announcing that he’ll have to defend against Kevin Sullivan later

Video package of Mikey getting beat up by various workers

ECW Television Title Match: Mikey Whipwreck v Kevin Sullivan: From Philadelphia Pennsylvania on May 13. Sullivan grabs him to kick start the match, and they end up on the outside right away, where Sullivan throws him into the crowd. Sullivan follows to beat on the champion with a chair, and Kevin delivers a powerbomb on the floor as they go back to ringside. Into the ring, Sullivan uses a tree of woe, but he gets frisky with the referee, and gets disqualified at 3:46. ¼*

Shane Douglas reminds us that he’s a wrestler, not an entertainer. I’m not going to argue with that

Mr. Hughes video package

Public Enemy video package

Terry Funk video package

Bruise Brothers video package

Tommy Dreamer video package. All of these were pointless, just clips of the guys doing stuff, with no dialogue or context. And I’m guessing whatever was the original music has been scrubbed for the Network version, making them all the more pointless

Backstage, Paul E Dangerously hypes Sabu taking on 2 Cold Scorpio 

Backstage, Funk reminds us that he’s well known

Chad Austin v Keith Scherer: From Philadelphia Pennsylvania on May 13. The announcers keep putting over Keith getting a massive upset win over Jake Roberts back in February, despite that not taking place in this promotion. Yes, it was the Paul Heyman venture WWN, but still. Austin with a cradle at 3:36. DUD

Backstage, Shane Douglas and Mr. Hughes are ready for the eight-man tag

Eight-Man Tag Team Match: Shane Douglas, Rocco Rock, Johnny Grunge, and Mr. Hughes v Terry Funk, Tommy Dreamer, Ron Harris, and Don Harris: Terry Funk is supposed to be part of this match, but Public Enemy has a restraining order against him, so he’s ejected. So the remaining seven guys brawl on the outside, until Funk finds JT Smith backstage, and sends him out in his place. Dangerously flips out about it on commentary, and promises to get his lawyer (AKA, his dad) involved. Gosh, when Bruce Prichard says that Heyman and Jim Cornette are essentially the same guy, he’s not wrong. Even their gimmicks are not dissimilar. Smith hurts his leg, and the referee wants to stop the match, but JT refuses. So Shane slaps a figure four on him, and the referee stops it at 4:55. Afterwards, Smith beats up the referee, and storms off. DUD

Backstage, Sandman still hasn’t gotten his hooker money from Tommy Cairo, so it’s going to be settled in a Singapore Cane on a Pole match

BUExperience: A really nothing episode this week.