Posted September 29, 201015 yr comment_5456395 Joey Styles introduces Shane Douglas Taz in ring promo. Taz promo recounting the early ECW tapings and how loyal the fanbase has been. Talks about Shane throwing down the NWA title and creating a new World title. Talks about Shane losing the title and jumping ship running to Vince. Says Shane saying his belt is fake is bullshit and that Shane isn't a real Franchise because of that. Compares his FTW belt to Shane raising Eastern title as World title. Says he made the TV belt. Finishes by calling out anyone to face him for the FTW title which brings out Bam Bam for an impromtu match. EXTRA Bam Bam Bigelow v. Taz last about two mintutes, Taz signals for Tazmission which brings out Candido and Storm. Candido and Storm doing a rolling thunder variation which brings out RVD and Sabu to clear the ring. EXTRA Tommy Dreamer v. Bubba Dudley This is heavily clipped, but what is shown is insanely brutal. Tommy takes a crazy chairshot, a nasty nut posting, and a fucking vertical suplex on the floor among other things. There is a great shot of him bleeding profusely as the fans lift him up to beat the ten count from the ref. Dreamer ends up hitting a wipe out plancha on all the seconds after they try and interfere. Finish is Jack Victory running in and eating a DDT before Dreamer gets blindsided by a guitar shot from Bubba. Sandman promo. D-Von v. Sandman Heavily clipped. Some cool spots shown. Finish is Sandman stealing a fall with a side russian legsweep. Finish of Big Dick beating Spike. Lance Storm and Chris Candido playing trust exercise games and then a promo. Chris Candido/Lance Storm v. RVD/Sabu JIP and heavily clipped. Pretty much all that is shown are big spots and the finish. RVD crowd bump and subsequent dive sequence was the only part of this I really liked. Finish is Storm turning on Candido Pulp Fiction montage. RVD/Sabu, Dudleys, Tommy Dreamer (teary eyed and totally over the top) Finish of Bigelow/Taz I. Taz promo talking about loss to Bammer. Very good promo. Recap of Storm/Candido angle from previous week. Douglas who is on commentary "shoots" on Storm afterwords. Masato Tanaka/Jerry Lynn v. Mike Awesome/Justin Credible Pretty good as a preview of two ppv matches. They build relatively slowly here but then the big spots really just come. Awesome is really hit or miss to me, but I thought his big splashes especially looked brutally stiff and impactful. Double plancha spot was pretty cool. This is just a hair short of a nomination, but I can't see it standing up to scrutiny when it is time to make a cut. EXTRA Big hype package for ppv.
