Posted October 4, 201014 yr comment_5456746 Paul E. narrates over Raven return Taz in-ring promo. Good stuff as he talks about being an ECW original and saying he will beat Tanaka. Clips of Raven v. Dreamer feud Uganda v. Tom Marquez Really fun squash. Marquez bumps well and Uganda's running flip senton is fucking awesome. More clips of Raven v. Dreamer feud. Axl Rotten v. Balls Mahoney v. New Jack Really entertaining garbage match as these are three of the more innately charismatic guys in this history of this company. Axl carving up Balls with scissors was pretty sick. New Jack coming out and just floating around hitting people with shit was fun. Axl wins after Balls refuses to stay down for multiple chairshots, leading to Axl putting a trashcan on his head and wrecking him with a final shot. Tons of Dreamer/Raven feud clips some of them set to Smells Like Teen Spirit Corino in the ring running down Tajiri and Chinese people. Crazy runs in to defend Tajiri and Tajiri kicks him in the head. Crazy dives on Corino's crew when they try to leave leading to... Super Crazy v. Tajiri This is a great sprint. I'm not even certain the match went five minutes, but this is impossible not to nominate as it was balls to the wall awesome the whole time, especially if you include the pre-match angle. Really fun to watch this as these guys know they don't have a huge amount of time so they seem to kick it into a totally different gear. Tajiri's screeching baseball slide is a really badass spot. I also loved Crazy's chest kicks to the downed Tajiri. This was sort of similar to something like Tajiri v. Calo from 12/99 in that it is not lengthy but it doesn't seem like either guy could have possibly given you anything more. Crazy's spinning powerbomb into pinning combo for the finish looked really brutal and was an effective - and typical of Crazy definitive - way to end this burst of energy. Danny Doring promo Nova/Chris Chetti/Miss Congeniality v. Danny Doring/Roadkill/Jazz This was fairly enjoyable though it wasn't really any good. I enjoyed Lita's early headscissors on Chetti and their general interactions together. Roadkill destroying Jazz at the finish was pretty epic. Masato Tanaka v. Mike Awesome This was not bad for what it was and mostly notable for Tanaka winning with a pair of roaring elbows of all things. Tanaka's no selling act really annoyed me in this but this seemed like a less overkilly version of their standard match so I thought it was solid enough. Clip of Raven/Dreamer title win. Tommy Dreamer promo demanding a national tv taping from the ECW Arena while trying to squash the Philly/NYC feud in the process. Corino comes out and runs down Dreamer for his hardcore career. Corino and Rhino attack Dreamer and Francine. They end up wrapping Dreamer in barbed wire but Raven makes the save.
