NWA (ECW) Eastern Championship Wrestling (June 14, 1994)

 

Original Airdate: June 14, 1994

Your Host is Matty in the House from the studio

The Bruise Brothers v Joel Hartgood and Dino Sandoff: From Philadelphia Pennsylvania, date uncertain. The Brothers don’t even wait for the entrances to finish before attacking the jobbers in the aisle, and finishing them off at 0:51. DUD

Falls Count Anywhere Match: Sandman v Tommy Cairo: From Montgomeryville Pennsylvania on June 3. It’s a tiny venue with only a few hundred people there, but at least it’s well lit, and doesn’t look like it’s taking place in a cave, like the stuff from the ECW Arena. Though, I guess that was part of the charm at the time. Tommy with a bodyslam and a flying corkscrew bodyblock, so Sandman bails, but Cairo chases. They brawl around the building, with Tommy dominating. Sandman gets hold of a chair to turn it around, and he beats on Cairo with what appears to be a metallic folding table. But then Cairo grabs it back, and bashes his head in for the pin at 3:03 shown. This was heavily clipped, so I won’t rate it. It looked like the usual chaotic brawl, nothing special… but both guys weren’t afraid of taking bumps all over the place, which helps. Afterwards, Sandman attacks him with the kendo stick.

Sandman is calling in Cairo’s debt - he needs the money, and other guys are lining up for Peaches, so stop being selfish 

Clips of Mikey Whipwreck getting beat up

2 Cold Scorpio is very excited to be in ECW, where the ‘real wrestling happens.’ Yeah, if you can’t get a job anywhere else. Scorpio does get in a great line here, referring to Public Enemy as ‘Public Enema’

ECW hype video

JT Smith v Hack Myers: From Philly on May 13. Hack knocks him around early on, but Smith wins a criss cross, and delivers an armdrag and a fallaway slam. Smith with a dropkick for two, so Hack goes to the eyes, and hammers him. Hack with a short-clothesline for two, but Smith dodges him in the corner, and hooks a small package at 3:21. DUD

Paul E Dangerously is spinning conspiracy theories about why WCW has allowed Cactus Jack to come to ECW

Sabu v 2 Cold Scorpio: From Montgomeryville Pennsylvania on June 3, and this is Scorpio’s debut match. Willie Watts keeps calling Sabu ‘the modern day phenomenon,’ which is a nickname that definitely did not stick, and for good reason. Sabu with a takedown, and he goes to a toehold. Scorpio escapes, and gets an anklelock on, as Watts talks about how this match proves that historic wrestling moments don’t only happen in places like New York. Yeah, it put Montgomeryville on the map, no question. We’re all still feeling the reverberations of this one, today. A criss cross ends in Sabu dropkicking him out of the ring, and he dives after him with a somersault plancha. Sabu rolls him in just so he can clothesline him right back out, and he tries a sunset bomb, but Scorpio holds the ropes to block. Scorpio with a twisting bodypress from the apron, as Willie’s voice starts breaking like a teenager. Inside, Sabu manages a bodyslam, but a slingshot legdrop misses. That allows Scorpio to kick at the leg, and he gets a grapevine locked. Sabu slugs free, so Scorpio throws a standing dropkick to send him to the outside, and Scorpio follows with a suicide dive. Scorpio with a superkick out there, and a spinkick sends Sabu over the guardrail. Scorpio follows with a bodyslam on the floor, but Sabu beats the count in, and he brings a chair with him for good measure. Sabu goes to town with it in the corner, and then springboards off of it with a leg lariat. Sabu tries a piledriver off the top, but Scorpio shoves him off (with Sabu taking a nasty bump into the chair), then dives with a flying bodypress for two. Scorpio with a bodyslam to set up a flying splash for two, and a bridging German suplex is worth two. Scorpio with another bodyslam to set up another flying splash, as Watts’ voice is going completely. It’s almost unlistenable. Scorpio dumps him to the outside for another suicide, and he shoves Sabu into the timekeeper’s table. That draws 911 over to grab Scorpio, and he chokes Scorpio down, before putting him on the table. That allows Sabu to put him through it with a springboard moonsault, and 911 dumps his limp ass into the ring for Sabu to pin at 13:38. For those that think jobbing guys in their debut is a new, or WWE exclusive phenomenon, look no further. This was solid and entertaining, though mostly reliant on high spots which were executed with varying degrees of competence. * ¾ 

Cactus Jack clarifies that he doesn’t care about WCW, he’s here to do what needs doing to Sabu, on his own accord

BUExperience: A pretty good episode, mostly because of the strong Sabu/Scorpio match.