A recap of Cactus Jack’s heel turn at Wrestlepalooza ’95 airs.
ECW Champion the Sandman and Woman talk about how they love thinking about Mikey Whipwreck and the Public Enemy lying in a poor of their own blood. The Sandman adds that Whipwreck is a boy trying to do a man’s job. Continue reading
Highlights of Tommy Dreamer, the Pitbulls, and Luna Vachon fighting Steve Richards, the Vampire Warrior, Raven, and the Dudley Brothers in Florida is shown.
Joey Styles calls the matches on the card, which come from ECW’s July 21 show from Tampa, Florida.
Joey Styles does commentary for the show, which took place at the ECW Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on July 15. According to thehistoryofwwe.com, the show drew 1,000 fans.
Bill Alfonso gets nuclear heat by coming out and saying that the show is going to be cancelled. Commissioner Tod Gordon interrupts, saying that he fired Shane Douglas so he can fire anyone. Alfonso is undeterred, saying that he cannot be fired. The audio is so bad you cannot understand much beyond that, but a fight between the two erupts until some of the lower midcard of the ECW locker room breaks it up. Alfonso insists that he is running tonight’s show.
Joey Styles does the commentary from the ECW Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The show took place on July 1, 1995 and, according to Dave Meltzer’s Wrestling Observer for June 10, it drew a crowd of 1,075.
The show opens with a replay of the Gangstas attack on ECW Tag Team Champions the Public Enemy at Barbed Wire, Hoodies & Chokeslams. Joey Styles says that ECW had to grapple with whether to show the footage because they did not want to set a bad example for other wrestlers. He gives some background on the Gangstas in Smoky Mountain Wrestling before comparing the Gangstas debut with the Public Enemy’s debut in September 1994.
Joey Styles does commentary for the show, which took place at the ECW Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on June 17. According to thehistoryofwwe.com, the card drew a crowd of 1,150 fans.
A replay of Shane Douglas introducing referee Bill Alfonso at Enter Sandman airs, along with Douglas’ subsequent confrontation with Cactus Jack.
ECW hypes a house show wing through Pennsylvania on the back of fans getting to see more matches between Eddie Guerrero and Dean Malenko.
Joey Styles is handling commentary for this show, which took place at the ECW Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on May 13. According to thehistoryofwwe.com, the show drew 875 fans.
Cactus Jack says there should be no controversy when he faces the Sandman for the ECW Championship. He says this title shot is the most important moment of his career to this point. When Jack goes to open a door, he is met by the Triple Threat, with Shane Douglas claiming that Jack is taking his title shot. Jack refuses to back down and is hit in the back of the head by the Sandman’s Singapore cane. Douglas tries to take a swing at Jack too but hits the Sandman instead, prompting Woman to tell the camera that Douglas blew their deal.
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