Posted December 16, 201014 yr comment_5460439 Axl doing "talk to the hand" stall jobs in the early part of this made me chuckle as did his ring length chucking of Spike. Sweet heel spot as Axl rakes Spike's eyes on a test of strength spot then complains of a hairpull! Semi-strange spot with Axl lunging at Spike after getting kicked in his butt, but it actually looked okay as Spike took him down. Really cool sequence of reversals follows including a cool spot where Spike does a headlock takedown from an Acid Drop position. He ends up charging at Axl off of a break and takes a huge over the top back body drop. Axl walks around ringside and teases using weapons but throws them down every time which naturally gets him mega heat fromt he ECW mutants. Crowd starts chanting "boring" and Axl dances around and openly encourages it. Axl locks on a chinlock and jaws with fans that he will "sit here all night long." Spike makes a come back off of a missed Axl splash and hits the Acid Drop for a nearfall. Follows it up with a cross body for another nearfall and a missle dropkick for another. One final trip up and Axl hits him with a nasty lariat for the finish. I thought this was the second best of their matches, but a good bit better than the two low end nominations.
January 26, 201114 yr comment_5463113 Axl Rotten vs. Spike Dudley (11/29/96) Axl got a lot of heat here and he was good at stalling among other chickenshit tactics to make it stronger. I loved the picking up weapons then dropping them to piss the fans off then the dancing around to the boring chants and Axl was using Memphis heel antics very well. Spike was fun here on his comeback before Axl killed him with a lariat. This match was all about Axl's heel antics other than the action and while it was fun, this isn't a nomination.
May 29, 201114 yr comment_5472089 Axl Rotten v. Spike Dudley Solid Nomination - ECW FanCam 11/29/96 - Man, tough crowd for these guys. Decent effort but they still get the boring chant… so Axl responds with a chinlock. This match really should have been monster vs. the little engine… sort of like a Rey-JBl but Axl didn’t really play it that way. Nice finishing Sickle though. No vote.
