Funk is heeling like crazy here which is odd because I don't recall him being a heel at this point. Oh wait, they are in Pittsburgh never mind. Funk tears a banner off of the guardrails and piledrivers Shane on the floor. Shane tosses Funk into the front row and goes to the top to attempt a dive and Funk starts hurling chairs at him from the crowd while cursing out and threatening to attack fans. Funk is bumping and selling his ass off for Douglas who's idea of offense is not terribly impressive here. Shane suplexes him through two seated chairs for a huge pop. Funk is just wandering around punch drunk throwing shit around. The crowd surfs a sign that says "fuck the Funker" on it and he punches Funk with it over his face and then suplexes him through a ringside table. Funk makes his comeback by punching Douglas in the face and then bulldogs him on the remnants of the table. Then he rips another banner off the guardrail and gets in a tug of war with an old lady for it while he teases that he is going to hit her in the face. Shane's selling in this is pretty good. He takes two consecutive neckbreakers through seated chairs as a sort of payback spot for the suplex he hit Funk with. Douglas retreats to the crowd and Funk hits the ref with a vicious running chair shot to the back of the head and then headbutts Francine. Shane hulks up on the floor after some Funk punches and ends up crotching Funk on the guardrail before Francine decks Funk with her high heel. Shane hits three belly-to-bellys but there is no ref to count. Then Sabu runs in (they had a pull apart with all of these guys earlier in the night) and beats down Shane. Funk rolls on top for the three which he counts along with his fingers while he sticks out his tongue and mocks the crowd. Holy shit this is a great performance from Terry Funk. Possibly the best individual performance he ever had in ECW actually.

Terry Funk v. Shane Douglas Easy Nomination - FanCam 8-2-97

- This starts as a war and remains a war throughout with chair spot overkill. My biggest gripe early on was Shane recovering so quick from the outside piledriver to take control right after. Everything else was wild, ECW-esque wanton violence. I am not as high on this as Dylan but this will be on the set and a real crowd pleaser.

Terry Funk vs. "The Franchise" Shane Douglas (8/2/97)

 

This was in Monaca which is a suburb of Pittsburgh so Douglas was the babyface and Funk knew his role and he was fucking awesome as the heel coming to beat the local guy's ass. This had some wild chairshots and violence as these guys wanted to beat the hell out of each other and Funk wanting to incite the fans which worked very well. This was a great Terry Funk ECW match and one of the best he was in at this stage of his career so I have no problem in pushing this forward.