NWA (ECW) Eastern Championship Wrestling (May 31, 1994)

 

Original Airdate: May 31, 1994

Your Host is Willie Watts from the studio

Paul E Dangerously is trying to figure out who Sabu will be facing on June 24th at the ECW Arena. He’s guessing Atsushi Onita, but is informed by someone offstage that it isn’t him

We get clips of Tommy Cairo pinning Rockin’ Rebel ‘just before the taping,’ but Sandman runs out to attack him with his kendo stick

Salvatore Bellomo v Don E Allen: From Philadelphia Pennsylvania on May 13. I have no idea who is playing Willie Watts, since he’s never shown on camera, but he sounds like a cross between Joey Styles and Raven. Bellomo with a splash at 3:22, as Watts puts over all the work Sal does with local children’s hospitals. Those poor children. DUD

Backstage, Sandman still hasn’t gotten his john money from Tommy Cairo

Tazmaniac v Kyle Scherer: From Philadelphia Pennsylvania on May 13. This roster does not have a bench deep enough for all of these squash matches. Tazmaniac with a suplex at 1:34. DUD

JT Smith is sick of people trying to hurt his knee. Just leave his knee alone, you jerks

Paul E is still trying to figure out who Sabu will be facing, and fuming about it

Pitbull v Damion Stone: From Philadelphia Pennsylvania on May 13. Pitbull with a full nelson at 4:53. They gave them a lot of time for this junk here. DUD

ECW Television Champion Mikey Whipwreck is black, blue, and thinking of just forfeiting the title before he gets himself killed

Mikey Whipwreck video package

Mr. Hughes is Mikey’s next challenger, and is promising to end him. Not his reign, him

ECW Title Match: Shane Douglas v Chad Austin: From Philadelphia Pennsylvania on May 13. The idea here is that Austin could pull a Whipwreck. Shane dominates on the mat early on, but Chad manages to reverse an armbar on him. Douglas calls for help from Sherri, but she’s left for WCW, so no dice. ‘She didn’t want to leave, but Shane made her,’ insists Watts. Yeah, I’m sure. Anyway, Douglas shrugs the kid off, and finishes with a belly-to-belly suplex at 3:19. DUD

Shane Douglas hype video. He reads USA Today! And piledrives people

ECW Tag Team Champions Public Enemy are hanging outside, since they’ve been banned from the building this week

Terry Funk v Hack Myers: From Philadelphia Pennsylvania on May 13. Funk knocks him around to start, and delivers a bodyslam to send Myers hiding in the ropes to buy some time. Funk grabs a wristlock once they reengage, and he dumps Hack out of the ring. Funk follows to the outside for a chop, and apparently Myers is a smelly motherfucker, because even the unwashed masses in the ECW Arena are disgusted. That must be a special level of stink. Unfortunately, Vader never worked in the promotion to provide a baseline for comparison. I’m actually kind of surprised the WWF never sent him down there sometime around late 1997/1998, actually. Funk delivers a piledriver on the floor, but messes up his own knee on the landing. Myers beats the count in, so Terry unloads on him with a series of headbutts, and a shoulderblock knocks Myers back to the outside. Myers returns wielding a chair, but misses a swing, and ends up knocking himself silly with the weapon. That allows Funk the spinning toehold at 5:23. Myers was horrible, but Funk made a go of it. ¼*

Public Enemy are still outside, and thinking of going to Sizzler

Paul E learns that Sabu’s opponent will be Cactus Jack, and he’s so terrified that he begs everyone to boycott the show, since if there are no tickets sold, they’ll have to cancel the matches

BUExperience: The showlong build to the Cactus Jack reveal was good, and Dangerously played his part very well throughout. 

The rest was junk.