NWA (ECW) Eastern Championship Wrestling (August 16, 1994)

 

Original Airdate: August 16, 1994

Your Host is Joey Styles

ECW Tag Team Champions Public Enemy are still a bloody mess, after getting buried in a sea of chairs at Hardcore Heaven

Terry Funk and Cactus Jack reflect on Hardcore Heaven, and are ready to team up to get the tag title from Public Enemy

2 Cold Scorpio is really excited to be on TV

ECW Television Title No Disqualification Match: Mikey Whipwreck v Jason: From Hardcore Heaven on August 13 in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. Posturing to start, controlled by Jason, but he gloats, and Whipwreck schoolboys for two. Jason cuts him off with a clothesline, but a criss cross allows Whipwreck a bodypress for two. Whipwreck with an atomic drop and a dropkick, then a hiptoss, and an armdrag. Jason pops up, so Mikey keeps going with a bodyslam and a dropkick, so Jason bails. Whipwreck is on him with a baseball slide, and Whipwreck feeds him the guardrail out there, then the apron for dessert. Whipwreck tries a dive from the apron, but Jason blocks with a kick, and he slams Mikey on the timekeeper’s table. Jason dives with a legdrop from the apron to drive Mikey through the table, and Joey quickly declares that Whipwreck is ‘dead.’ He’s like the boy who cried death. Jason powers Whipwreck back into the ring, where he uses a snapmare to set up a kneedrop. Jason tags him with a backelbow for two, and a dropkick follows. Jason with a snapmare into a chinlock, but Mikey escapes, so Jason puts him back down with a big boot. Back to the chinlock, but Whipwreck escapes again, and hooks a sunset flip for two. A crucifix gets two, and a cradle for two. Schoolboy for two, and a bodypress is worth two. Rollup, but Jason blocks, so Mikey plays possum, and hooks an inside cradle - they each reverse each other through it a bunch of times for two counts, and Jason is up first with an enzuigiri. That allows Jason a gutwrench powerbomb, and he adds an elbowdrop for two. Jason dumps him over the top with a suplex, but a whip into the rail gets reversed, and Mikey uses a chair out there. Whipwreck tries a flying bodypress on the way back in, but Jason ducks it. The challenger grabs a chair, but misses a swing. Mikey grabs it, and tags Jason with it, but the referee eats it too, and there’s no one to count. But then the groggy referee stumbles over and counts the pin at 11:25. That draws the Pitbulls out to beat Mikey up, and they put Jason on top, with the still groggy official counting another pin at 12:11. Apparently the referee passed out while counting the first pin, and didn’t realize he’d counted it, so it didn’t count. This was actually a good match, though the finish was really bad. I don’t mind those ‘sports entertainment’ type finishes, but they didn’t do a good job of getting it across even for the home audience, so I can only imagine how confusing it would have been for the live crowd. Jimmy Snuka and Tazmaniac then run out to attack the Pitbulls, which led into a match between them, but it’s not shown here. ** ¾ 

Styles catches up with new ECW Television Champion Jason, who is in full celebratory mode

Paul E. Dangerously readies himself for the NWA World title tournament that is coming to the ECW Arena later this month. Oh, I’ll bet he is

ECW Champion Shane Douglas is still bitter about not making it in WCW. I’m sure he’ll get over that soon, though. He promises to win the NWA World title, which will put him on equal footing with Ric Flair (or ‘Dick Flair,’ as he calls him), and once he does, he challenges Flair to a match to see who really is the best

BUExperience: This was just fallout from Hardcore Heaven. The ominous references to the NWA World title tournament begin here, too.