Revisiting WWE ECW 2006 Big Show Wins ECW Championship, CM Punk’s First Promo, Test Debuts

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James sharing our favorite dessert, a plane ass vanilla ice cream.
Our escaped from the insane asylum.

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But some sprinkles on that at the very least, like
what the bug.

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But there's just so much more expanded.

Speaker 4 (03:56):
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a new stable.

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Thank you for sharing.

Speaker 4 (04:31):
I love Chase Richard, Adam, Jackpott, James, Mike Rocock, Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (04:43):
Yeah, yes, Gavin Butler, John Zandig singing down with the sickness,
Justice Savage, Brian Kinsley, Johnny Once did an impression of
Macha Man, saying I'm infiltrating metal gear and it's been
a vocal stem for me.

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Sounds very funny?

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I gotta be honest, pretty good.

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I'm a wiener, Yes, yeah, Noah, h Icarus, Harry, We're
going to carry Oh yeah, we are marking out like
Tony did for the Ying Yang Twins. Jonah Murphy mister

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shitty stinker.

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my friend Dick's child. They laced Richard Son, hyper Missou

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Johnny gets the observers, and what does Tony get paid?
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my twelve year old son listens to this show. So
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I'm gonna grab your head and run it into the ground.

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super interesting name. It connected two names.

Speaker 2 (07:39):
He like made that? Yeah, yeah he made a friend there.

Speaker 1 (07:42):
Good idea dude, Yeah shouts out.

Speaker 2 (07:44):
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long shower. You had to think about it. Huh.

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It took you a second, I mean it, and then
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Keep yeah, keep it on, I get fired.

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Second of all, if you could help us get back
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to sign.

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Dude.

Speaker 2 (10:31):
Yeah, I brought James his at the last show.

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Yeah, I was so confused, like what I was looking at.
We ordered it so long ago.

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You forgot what it was, saididgo, buddy, I put it
on your shelf. I don't even know if you knew
that I did that.

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Oh, that's very nice of you.

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Speaker 1 (11:10):
All right, now it is time for the Patreon Q
and A segment.

Speaker 3 (11:15):
Come on, James, Yes.

Speaker 2 (11:21):
Yes, five dollars and above.

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Don't forget the above.

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Once in a while. You can't forget the above time
because there's so much above and so much below. Oh ship,
that's like fucking uh. That's right of Towey.

Speaker 1 (11:41):
That's the means.

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June a time. You asked the questions, and we might
answer them, and we might give you an answer. You
could ask a question and it turns into a whole
different question and answer depending on how we feel.

Speaker 3 (11:54):
Yeah, we might not answer you either, but you could
ask you.

Speaker 2 (11:56):
Let's see how it goes. Zach asks, what's one thing
you wish you knew before starting a wrestling promotion? I
wish I knew how like much more there was going
to be than just booking the show. Booking the show
is obviously very important, but that's like work doesn't even

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begin there. Like everything, there's so much more to do
that surrounds the show than just you know, putting the
show together. It's like, it's pretty crazy, how big of
a process it.

Speaker 1 (12:27):
Yeah, I mean if it was just booking the show,
it'd be pretty awesome.

Speaker 2 (12:30):
Oh my god, I'd be fucking sweet.

Speaker 1 (12:32):
On show day and after the show. Leading up to
the show, there's like three or four different juggling acts
and it's just us. So, yeah, it's a lot, and
I wish I I guess I knew it was going
to be more so a lot of juggling acts, because
it turns out we just had to learn how to juggle.

Speaker 2 (12:52):
Kenoski Takesha's large breasticles, asks how did y'all enjoy all In?
We actually got a few questions about aw all In,
so I figured why not, why not to let the
people know because we did watch it. We did. I
watched it in the comfort of James House. I was
eating a big bag of dumb dumbs that he bought.

Speaker 1 (13:08):
Three hundred dumb dumbs in a bag.

Speaker 2 (13:11):
James every benched dumb dumbs last week and I showed
up in his house. I gave him the wristler micro
bowler and he said, dude, I got something for you too,
and he walks into his kitchen walks back the biggest
bag of dumb dumbs I've ever seen, and then I
proceeded to chew all of them and it was good.

Speaker 4 (13:26):
Dude, chew them like skittles or something. Right, what's going
on there, that's what?

Speaker 1 (13:29):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (13:29):
Yeah, And James was like trying to also do that.
He was like, how do you eat these? And I said,
I chew only suckers, and he just fucking wasn't having it.

Speaker 4 (13:36):
It's supposed to suck on him their suckers.

Speaker 2 (13:38):
Well, I mean ice my whole life. So like I think,
maybe it's just been training, prep.

Speaker 3 (13:42):
Me whole life for this moment.

Speaker 2 (13:45):
I just ate a bag of life sabers.

Speaker 1 (13:48):
Yeah. We actually had we had tickets to Superman, but
we decided that let's just stay here watching this pay
per view instead.

Speaker 2 (13:56):
Yeah, because the fucking ad to be started, Like the
pre show was at.

Speaker 1 (13:58):
Like one or something, right, Yeah, I wasn't aware how
long the show was gonna go. And by the time
it got to Superman, we were just like, oh, fuck it.

Speaker 2 (14:05):
Like I was already in, I was tapped. I was like,
I don't want to leave, Like I'm having a good
time watching this. Yeah. No, I enjoyed the show a lot.

Speaker 1 (14:11):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (14:12):
I mean the main event, of course, I thought was
fucking fun as fuck. I mean, always always in for
a good death match. I thought the story was fucking fantastic.

Speaker 1 (14:20):
Yeah. I thought the shit was cool.

Speaker 2 (14:21):
Gave the people what they wanted. The fucking Young Bucks
tag was just fucking ridiculous.

Speaker 1 (14:27):
Like their entrance was so funny because it just kept
going and going and going, and I was like, wow,
Like they walked back, they came out, they walked back
and got on a boat and.

Speaker 2 (14:38):
Then it went around there are youa longer entrance? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (14:41):
Yeah, that was funny.

Speaker 2 (14:43):
Well we have I mean, we'll be remiss if we
don't talk about the biggest moment of the night, and
that is, of course, the four way match for the
vacant AWT and T Championship.

Speaker 1 (14:53):
Gold Dust completed the Triple Crown.

Speaker 2 (14:55):
James and I were sitting there and We're like, Wow,
how fucking like awesome would it be? Of old us
won this match, like not even just because we like
gold Dust, but like what a fun story, like in Texas,
and he went a bunch of belts and then he
fucking inside cradle and I saw it. James was like
about to jump off the couch like he was. He
was so fucking fired up, Like that was fucking like this.

Speaker 1 (15:23):
We watched the Right Show too, So we watched the
Right Show the night before, and then we watched all
In and uh we watched gold Dust win three separate matches.
We watched him win an rh he went on the
pre show and then he won the title, and he
completed the triple crown. He's got the six man tag,
the tag team, and the fucking TNT title.

Speaker 2 (15:45):
Like this is the guy.

Speaker 1 (15:47):
Dude and Kyle Fletcher came out to a new Hot
Mulligan song that they created for just him. I thought
that was cool.

Speaker 2 (15:52):
It sounds awesome too.

Speaker 1 (15:53):
I've been listening to in the car. It's a good song.

Speaker 2 (15:56):
Speaking of the Right Show, by the way, if you
haven't seen it, I mean Takesha against Bandido was fuck
Like that was Ma cried.

Speaker 1 (16:04):
And like I was jumping the air like yeah.

Speaker 2 (16:09):
Legit, like that was my favorite match of the weekend,
which is nuts because all In had a bunch of
great matches, but Takesha Bandido was unbu fucking leievable.

Speaker 1 (16:18):
Yeah. I don't know if there's anyone better than Takeshta
when it comes to the bomb part of a match, like,
but it's time to throw bombs like, He's just the best.

Speaker 2 (16:28):
What a great finish to like, Yeah, I mean I
was an inside Cradle too, Inside Cradle Weekend for the boys.

Speaker 1 (16:35):
Bryan Danielson had his hand in a lot of this.

Speaker 2 (16:38):
Brian Danielson in blue panther.

Speaker 1 (16:40):
Mask, blue panther mask, and he comes in and does
the yes immediately, who is this man?

Speaker 2 (16:48):
Who's that over? I mean fucking Tony Storm and Mercedes
was fucking great, Like yeah, our boy Luthor put lines.

Speaker 1 (16:57):
Yeah, dude, Yeah that was dope.

Speaker 2 (16:59):
That was sick.

Speaker 1 (16:59):
And I mean Avalanche Pile Driver is pretty nuts.

Speaker 2 (17:03):
That is unfucking believable.

Speaker 1 (17:05):
Actually, yeah that was that was real. That shows me that,
like you guys love this. I don't know what it
is about wrestling, but what I can tell someone loves
is I just like I get giddy.

Speaker 2 (17:15):
I feel it, I feel it, and I felt it
on this night. Yeah, I enjoyed the show, uh very much. Yeah,
I mean, like you said, and like I think everyone's
uh see a lot of people talking about the length
of the show. But I think I'm I think I'm
used to it. I think they got me. I think
I don't even think about the link of the show now.
I just assume it's going long and I'm just I'm
hanging out and watching his show. Yeah, right, next question here,

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Hamza asks Fate of the Universe on the line, which
wrestler do you each choose to throw.

Speaker 1 (17:43):
A pitch Knuckleball, Schwartz.

Speaker 4 (17:52):
God the Brooklyn Brawler because he's been comets that guy.

Speaker 1 (18:00):
It's a dh She's not pitching. Come on, that's true.

Speaker 2 (18:04):
What about Dasher Hadfield and his son Boomer?

Speaker 3 (18:09):
I mean, you know I was gonna say Pete Rose.

Speaker 2 (18:13):
Oh, how bad Jr's bar BQ saucehole. Alright, Mawdie Fellas
got a question for all three of y'all. What is
the crown jewel of your wrestling memorabilia collections? I feel
like Johnny has to have some obscure figures or something. Well,

(18:36):
I mean, my first thought I have it's a beyond
the Matt Collectors Edition, which was only sold in Japan.
I got it off a Instagram reseller a few years
ago for actually not as much as I thought it was.
I think it goes for way more now.

Speaker 3 (18:50):
Remember that post.

Speaker 2 (18:51):
I think, dude, because Tony, I've been wanting that forever,
like that was like a fucking like. I Yes, it
was a holy Girl for me. So it comes with
a Beyond the Matt DVD, but it also comes with
the Charipro Terry Funk that has like the easy to
B title in it and has like a cool beyond
the met shirt in it too. But the figure was
really what I wanted. That is awesome the thing that

(19:12):
I really want. I don't know if I mentioned this before.
It's my holy grail, the thing. I've been wanting this
for years and years and years. I don't know if
I forget it because it's super expensive. It's a one
of I think it's one hundred. It's a I think
it's an employee edition Jack's Legends Bloody Terry Funk, and
I think this goes for thousands of dollars now, if

(19:33):
not fifteen hundred. But it's just like they weren't doing
it like bloody wrestling figures like that's a it's a
thing now like a lot more like everyone does bloody
figure now, But for a while, no one was fucking
doing them. They were super hard to find if anyone
did them, ever, and fucking Jacks did like an employee
edition Terry Funk and like the Sterry Funk is like
one that like I super want. So that's he didn't

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ask that, but that's something I do want. So if
anyone wants to give me there is, you should give
it to anything, right. What about you, James? You got
any you got? I mean you, James is a bunch
of ship.

Speaker 1 (20:02):
I have a John zandig char.

Speaker 2 (20:04):
Pro dude that is fucking sick.

Speaker 1 (20:06):
Yeah. I don't know what else I got. I just
have a bunch of random shit. I have a w
CW Women's World title.

Speaker 2 (20:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (20:14):
I just have a bunch of random ship I have.
I have a Rizzler micro Ballar.

Speaker 2 (20:23):
Random ship that I just bring to your.

Speaker 1 (20:27):
I have a Shark Boy.

Speaker 3 (20:30):
Yeah that's pretty good.

Speaker 2 (20:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (20:32):
I mean I have a ton of stuff, but like
it's all like commonly uh purchased.

Speaker 3 (20:39):
Dude, So I was thinking of it.

Speaker 4 (20:41):
I used to have a w sewe cruiseweight title, you know,
like a report one, like a real one, a real one.

Speaker 3 (20:46):
Oh, but it wasn't from a w CW. It was
w W E w CW but it was still the
w CW thing. So I actually just found it. Also
on camera.

Speaker 4 (20:55):
I have the the w W E w CW logo
belt holder thing right next to me, so it came
with the belt. But it was like, but it's like the.

Speaker 3 (21:05):
W W w W.

Speaker 1 (21:07):
The big c you know, and the WS with the
is it the red logo or is.

Speaker 3 (21:11):
It the red one?

Speaker 1 (21:12):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (21:13):
Don't you use the belt anymore?

Speaker 1 (21:14):
But I did Tony Case Wait, oh wait, you're talking
about okay, you're talking about the invasion W. I thought
you were talking about the red the red one, but
the other one is red.

Speaker 4 (21:26):
It is red invasion style logo when they were going
to reboot it or whatever. But uh yeah, so I
have the belt holder like whatever, you know, but I
don't have the belt anymore because I think I like
told it to one of my friends.

Speaker 2 (21:40):
Or the case.

Speaker 3 (21:42):
I forgot even had it.

Speaker 4 (21:43):
It was like in a box of stuff and I
was like, wow, it's got the old the w W
logo that lasted very little.

Speaker 2 (21:50):
Yeah, not long time, voidd g as boys. I was
listening to an old episode where you talked about being
able to rent moms in Japan. I don't remember that.
I mean you can, and you guys wanted to have
a mom section at DPW. Why was this not done
at Spirit Rising? And when can I expect a mom section?
We definitely have talked about doing like a lady's section.

Speaker 1 (22:09):
They would have just put them all opposite hard game anyways, Well,
they would have sucked it up. You wouldn't see him.
It would just be empty chairs and then three hundred
people on the other side of the camera.

Speaker 2 (22:20):
Yeah, it'll it will look empty oddly enough, there's three
hundred people there. Though. That sucks now that happens. Sucks
that have happened period.

Speaker 1 (22:28):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (22:28):
We definitely had talked about doing that though it just
didn't come to be. I mean doing shows in Japan
is hard enough, let alone trying to facilitate.

Speaker 1 (22:37):
That so hard.

Speaker 2 (22:37):
Yeah, yeah, all right, last question here talk Phillips asked
if money was no concern, what's the one gimmick match
type you would each want to see happen in DPW.
Money is no concern, that's fucking god damn, what trouble gauge.

Speaker 3 (22:53):
That's the first thing that came to my minus triple cage.

Speaker 1 (22:55):
Also like, oh, I don't know that.

Speaker 4 (22:58):
McK is so sweet.

Speaker 1 (23:00):
Yeah, can we use the money for something else?

Speaker 2 (23:02):
He gonna be like some for the match. And then
also we can like book the.

Speaker 4 (23:06):
Rock yeah Austin.

Speaker 1 (23:11):
Yeah right, can we do like a Austin retirement toward
deal and all?

Speaker 2 (23:19):
If it has to have the match, I guess I'll
figure it out. But yeah, that'd be I mean, triple
KG is like my default. Like I want to see
that in everything. I want to see that in DPW,
I want to see that video game. I want to
see that everywhere. Like I legit am surprised WWE has
not done the triple.

Speaker 1 (23:34):
Cage with the guitar third Tier.

Speaker 4 (23:38):
Guitar room, dude, I am surprised, Like NXT hasn't done it.
I'm surprised they haven't, you know, like that seems like
something they would do.

Speaker 2 (23:43):
You know, I understand it's like a ridiculous like I'm
sure you know, like you need a fucking obviously high
ceiling for that, and like you know, logistically, I'm sure
it's a goddamn nightmare. But I mean that's like the
one match nobody has tried to repeat, like no.

Speaker 4 (23:56):
One unorganized w ws and they could figure it out.

Speaker 3 (23:59):
Come on.

Speaker 1 (24:01):
Yeah. When I think of money, that would be the
most expensive one, so I'd probably shoot for that one.

Speaker 2 (24:05):
Yeah, yeah, right, it will do six of them, sixty.

Speaker 1 (24:10):
Yeah, the money is no issue. The only thing stopping
us is the verticality of the buildings.

Speaker 2 (24:15):
Uh, I'm doing it the long way.

Speaker 1 (24:20):
That's the match name.

Speaker 2 (24:22):
Oh my god, Oh my god. Triple cages are the
long way match. Wow, I like it. You're tapped in.
You're tapped in, buddy. Well, that is it for the
Q and a thank you for asking the questions everybody,
And now it's time for us to talk about WWE
c W July fourth, two thousand and six.

Speaker 1 (24:45):
All right, let's get into WWE e c W July fourth,
two thousand and six. It's just hitting me by the
way that uh it's July fourth.

Speaker 2 (24:56):
Yes, this was the July fourth Independence Day episode, of course,
to sell it rate not only the birthplace of America,
but that birthplace of extreme But before we get into
this episode, let's talk about what was going on in
the World Wrestling at the time with the Wrestling Observer
newsletter and the Figure four Weekly. I got something from
both just to a little precursor here. I know we've
definitely talked about this bit of time here, like RVD

(25:18):
and Sabu's troubles, but for the sake of posterity and
you know, the for people that may not have either
heard that before from us or you know, or watching
this in future a Figure we'll just go over it
a little bit again here. So from the Observer July third,
two thousand and six. So this is a little tidbit
here about so Hogan. I guess it was being planned
to come back to do an angle with Orton here.

(25:40):
I think it's leading to like a summer slam thing,
or he.

Speaker 1 (25:42):
Was coming back to do an angle with Little Guido.
Actually plans changed after RVD and Sabu got reprimanded.

Speaker 2 (25:50):
Yeah, were they doing drugs on that brand? Brother, Like, yeah,
Hogan's gonna come back to Dune angle with Orton, And
it says here Hogan wrestled a few matches in two
thousand and five for a lengthy layoff. He quit WWE
in the summer of two thousand and three, for a
variety of reasons, including being unhappy with his Rustlemania payoff
for his match with Vince McMahon, which was believed to
have been for two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Later

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that year, he did one Tokyo Dome match with New Japan.
After that time, he agreed to return as a regular
as well as help with booking, but in fact never
returned to WWE, so sadly no fingerprints on the product he.

Speaker 3 (26:21):
Would help book. His own angles is what he wanted
to do.

Speaker 2 (26:26):
I'll hope it a lot, dude. I'll help me whin,
I'll help me win more.

Speaker 3 (26:30):
I'll help the rko it ko.

Speaker 2 (26:32):
Hogan underwent knee surgery after the match. He an thee
surgery tomorrow. It was out of the match backstage just
to show that. He shot an angle where Jeff Jared
hit him with a guitar to build to a return
with TNA. He verbally agreed to work for TNA, even
did promotional work and agreed to dates on several occasions,
but never actually signed a contract. Jimmy Hart, supposedly representing him,
set up a series of angles and even claimed on
TNA that Hogan had signed and would be coming in.

(26:53):
So the sign they had been came when TNA asked
Hogan to do a phone interview on one of the shows,
and he came up with an excuse that he couldn't
because he to watch the kids and didn't have a babysitter.
In all, TNA scheduled and canceled three pap per view
dates with Hogan, who canceled all of them, claiming it
was due to his knee injury. It was clear it
was a way to get back with WWE. I don't
know if I knew that last part that they wanted

(27:13):
them to do some shit and he so got the kids.

Speaker 4 (27:16):
Brother, dude, you said Hogan footage for a million years
ever always the guitar shot, Yeah, we'll bring TNA to you. You
want to come to TNA and we'll bring TNA to you,
and he hit him with the guitar and Hogan blade.

Speaker 3 (27:26):
It's like crazy. It is awesome. Though, that was a
cool press conference thing.

Speaker 2 (27:29):
Jared should have went around doing that. Just a bunch
of dudes that were inside. He just goes to the
fucking Japan and hitsma with the guitar.

Speaker 1 (27:36):
Up.

Speaker 2 (27:38):
He shows up any hits tests. We'll bring a Tnady test.
More news here. Judge Larry Pearsall ruled on June twenty
first that Gene Oakland cannot use the name mean Gene
for his new food company and upheld the Hot Stuff
Foods trademark of Mean Gene Burgers. He also ruled Okerland

(27:59):
can't use mean Gen pizza because it comes close to
the trademark phrase and would cause confusion in the marketplace.
Oakland said he and a few family members were still
starting up their new company and said he's not giving
up on claimed to be mean Gen name for the venture,
indicating he would appeal the ruling, saying he believes he
should be allowed to use his name.

Speaker 4 (28:17):
That is funny, that sounds made up Mean Gene Burger
and mean.

Speaker 2 (28:22):
I mean like, how is beg bezza? That so k?

Speaker 1 (28:28):
I bet that shit was good too?

Speaker 2 (28:30):
Hey put that pizza out.

Speaker 1 (28:33):
Hey put Pepperoni's on there.

Speaker 2 (28:35):
Hey put that burger out. From the figure four Weekly
July tenth, thousand and six, the entire WWE got flipped
upside down following the arrest of Rob Van Dam and
Sabu Sunday night on drug charges. The two were driving
back from a show at the Big Sandy Superstore Arena
in Huntington, West Virginia, when they were pulled over for
speeding in what is actually a pretty well known speed trap.

(28:56):
Officers smell marijuana and search the car. They found Vandam
in possess of eighteen grams of marijuana and five vicodin.
Sabu was fanned with drug quote unquote, drug paraphernalia and
quote unquote nine pills that were not immediately identifiable but
were known to be controlled substances. They were sighted and
posted button on the scene. Word broke the next morning
in the local area of paper, which made a huge

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deal of assortiy, including plastering a gigantic color photo of
both men on the front page. WWE at first made
no mention in the situation, but did change the scheduled
raw main event, from a three way tag match with
Saboo and Van Dam taking on Edgene mcfoley taking on
Johnson and Rick Flair, was changed to a three way
singles match for the w B title. It was clear
very early on that Vandam was about to lose both
belts and his top spot. That match sounds fucking insane,

(29:38):
I don't I don't know. It probably would have never
been anything but Arvidy and Sabo against Edged Foley against
Sena and Rick Flair is fucked up so out like.

Speaker 3 (29:47):
It's a three, it's a six. It's like a three
way tag two so it's like ran tag.

Speaker 1 (29:51):
Yeah, the Rick Flair, the Rick Flair and Big Show
match is that the next.

Speaker 2 (29:57):
Week, I think it's legit. The one after this.

Speaker 1 (30:00):
Wow, they had a plan here. Paul Lee said, we're
gonna make this work.

Speaker 2 (30:05):
He was then suspended for thirty days, joining Kurt Angle
as the two topies to be stars serving suspension time
VANDAMN suspension is without pay, which will cost him more
than twenty eight hundred dollars minimum based on his downside
guarantee he got off easy as a w wellness policy
explicitly states at any time who was arrested, convicted, or who
admits to a violation of law blame's use, possession, purchase, sale,
or distribution of prohiblic drugs will be in material breach

(30:27):
of contract and subject to immediate dismissal. Many wrestlers assume
both guys will be fired immediately and were thus surprised
with W's hanling situation. He writes, obviously, if Danny Dorrigan
Roadkill had been arrested, they had been fired immediately.

Speaker 1 (30:39):
Okay, I don't think that's true.

Speaker 2 (30:43):
Come on, they pulled them over and it's just a
bunch of chickens and Danny Dory has crag.

Speaker 1 (30:52):
It's chickens and nine undefinable.

Speaker 2 (30:55):
Pills crazy times here. So I remember this like half
and thinking that this was the end of my life
because already finally winning the title and like ecwvback was
like super important to me, And I said, no, no,
you can't just give this fucking title back. The edge.

Speaker 3 (31:14):
So pissed, I'm like, he finally has both belts.

Speaker 4 (31:17):
This is the coolest shit ever.

Speaker 3 (31:18):
And then they know.

Speaker 2 (31:20):
I mean, like if e CW wasn't already doomed, which
it was, I just didn't know, but like, if it
wasn't already like this was a fucking so strange.

Speaker 4 (31:27):
What if if he would have kept that belt where
the company or a CW.

Speaker 2 (31:30):
I imagine he was going to drop it the next pay
per view. Anyway, I figured they were setting up for
probably honestly probably the match that they end up doing,
the probably three way at the pay per view with
rob dropping it to one of the Seno Edge but like,
god damn it, Like.

Speaker 1 (31:42):
Yeah, I thought they were going to bring in june
Achaiyama to face.

Speaker 2 (31:46):
Him face fandam Is that because Hogan.

Speaker 1 (31:54):
He was working on negotiations because he babysitter.

Speaker 2 (32:03):
Guitar and said, we'll pre see into you.

Speaker 1 (32:07):
Dude.

Speaker 3 (32:07):
It's it's hard to get a babysitter.

Speaker 1 (32:09):
You feel for her sometimes Domino effect.

Speaker 2 (32:13):
Man, you got one. That's what your here like.

Speaker 3 (32:16):
It's Hogan's babysitter. Is why RVD lost the belt man,
that's crazy.

Speaker 2 (32:20):
That sucks.

Speaker 1 (32:21):
We lost out on r v D versus Junakayamada, which
sucks with hair. Actually he was a demon.

Speaker 2 (32:32):
Yeah, I'd be like that.

Speaker 1 (32:33):
He was gonna come to w w E and take
care of this himself. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (32:38):
The trial of extreme will rise in the hands of
ju Kiama. Caine is very upset about how the Fake
Cane ordeal played out. They promised him he'd be a
major heel by the time the See No Evil movie
came out, and that this deal with the New Kane
would be a career defining angle for him. Originally, the
idea was to try to hold off into WrestleMania. Instead,

(32:58):
w rushed the match on t vn Jins came, did
the clean job and the folks didn't give a rat's
ass and Vince did one of his free cuts and
canceled the whole angle.

Speaker 3 (33:07):
Is the fastest one?

Speaker 1 (33:08):
Right? The hair, Yeah, yeah that was that was actually
slotted to beam, but.

Speaker 2 (33:20):
Eden at him.

Speaker 3 (33:25):
Could get a babysitter.

Speaker 1 (33:28):
Hey Caine, we do not care.

Speaker 2 (33:33):
But my angle angle, we did not care. This is
a dude. That's funny. Ship. They said this was gonna
be a career defining angle for him. They had big
ass Kane with the hair.

Speaker 1 (33:45):
They had fastest with the hair, Like, what did you think.

Speaker 2 (33:49):
Of Ship in his underwear? Like the funk were they thinking? Here?
And last thing here? Kevin want Eric was asked how
much he sold the World Class Tape collection for it
and want to go into details, He said it was
far more money than originally has planned. On seventy four
that figure was two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, So
he got more than two hundred and fifty grand for that.
You should have fucking not sold, right, He should have

(34:13):
kept that for a long time. But I guess, you know,
six probably no idea of how the world was gonna
end up when he you know, fucking out you.

Speaker 1 (34:21):
Guys, Yeah, there's a recession coming soon.

Speaker 2 (34:23):
That's true. He might have predicted it. He felt it
in his iron claw. That is it for the Observer.
Now it was time to talk about WCW July fourth,
two thousand and six.

Speaker 1 (34:35):
All right, so we start with the code. Open here,
good evening.

Speaker 2 (34:39):
You see Hayman and he's in a locker room. I'm
assuming this is his office, and there's, you know, because
he's extreme, this extremely set up, dark, dim room with
RVD and Saboo and Sandman's shirts on the wall because
it has to look like shit here, I guess. And
the first thing I hear is there's just some fans
in the background. Where's the pizza?

Speaker 1 (35:03):
I assume Guidos is standing in the ring.

Speaker 2 (35:06):
Dude, That's exactly what it was. So Hayman opens up,
ladies and gentlemen, good evening. My name is And unfortunately
it's true. RVD lost the WWE Championship in the most
controversial fashion. But please be assured, rv D is still
your east to be champion, a champion that has subjected
himself to a schedule that no title holder before him

(35:27):
has had to endure. And last week Rob Van dam
On three consecutive night stepping in the ring with Edge,
John Cena, and Karangle, and last night he stepped in
the ring with Edge and Sina at the same time.
And this champion has displayed more pride, more passion, more
ambition than any champion that has come before him. And
tonight we probably acknowledge rvd's accomplishments because and then a
fucking just door bursts open, dude, and here's the good

(35:50):
if you goddamn big show, Big show is here and
he's looking while he's looking big as the name implies,
and he walks up to Haman and he puts his
hands on his hips and down on him and says, Paulie,
you said if I made the jump to ECW, I
would get a title match, and Hayman says, you will.
But here on ECW, the priority has always been ECW.
You weren't an original. We have to get Guido built

(36:12):
to the title first. He's got a big Hogan angle
coming up, and we really gotta get him going. You
already had your Hogan angle, you big mastard.

Speaker 3 (36:24):
Right now.

Speaker 2 (36:26):
You're looking Big, Big Show.

Speaker 1 (36:28):
Hey, your traps are looking great, big Man, keep that up.

Speaker 2 (36:31):
Yeah, you want to get pushed, you can go after
Ball's mahone. He gets a run at the belt here.
Hayman says, right now, we're champion already needs your support,
and Show puts his hands on his shoulder and says, Paulie,
understand me. I'm not asking. I'm demanding my title match,
and I'm demanding it tonight. And the crowd booze because
we're in Philadelphia and everyone knows what the fuck is

(36:52):
coming here, and vic Sha leaves and Hayman doesn't look
too thrilled with this. So I think this was going
to originally be Edge versus RVD on this show for
the belt.

Speaker 3 (37:02):
Oh cool, Yeah, that'd be sweet.

Speaker 2 (37:03):
But obviously that's you know, I guess they weren't gonna
give a fucking Edge the EC to be title and
this was the guy now, so well.

Speaker 1 (37:10):
Yeah, I got to give it to him here. They
pivoted pretty well. I think this episode was super focused. Yes,
I think this show could have used maybe maybe just
something else on it. It definitely felt like it was
lacking something uh on the lead up to the main event,
but the way they pivoted here really protected RVD. I

(37:31):
was super surprised. In my head, maybe I thought, you know,
he got caught with drugs, he got suspended, they would
kind of just ship on him really and just get
him out of the company too. Yeah, but they really
set him up for if he you know, when he
does come back from suspension, they're able to at least
go back to it. On ECW, I'm not sure how
it worked on RAW, but on E c W. Uh, yeah,

(37:55):
I thought the I thought the angle they set up
here worked out very well.

Speaker 2 (37:58):
It was a good pivot. I mean, I will say though,
as a teenager in two thousand and six, that was
super pro E c W and A Uh. You know,
I grew up in Philadelphia and Narvidy was my guy.
Fucking Seeing this worked my little ass into ship. I
was pissed. Fuck this fucking Big Show, this guy man.

Speaker 4 (38:18):
Until you see next week's episode, in the entire summer
of the Big Show, and then you turned around.

Speaker 2 (38:23):
On summer Big showman nothing to me as a teenager,
it means something to me.

Speaker 3 (38:27):
I mean something to me.

Speaker 2 (38:28):
They're they're killing my they're killing my vet Tony. This
is bullshit. What this really did that. I'm fucking just
gonna keep watching t and because that's what I was
doing anyway.

Speaker 1 (38:39):
So we get the intro of the show. E c
w's let the Bodies hit the Floor. Paul Hammond sung this.
I don't know if you guys knew.

Speaker 2 (38:45):
That, like he does driving a tribe of extremes risen again,
that's a lyric, and let the bodies at the tribe.

Speaker 1 (38:55):
I gotta say I really enjoyed the kurr Angle screaming this.
I dude, yeah, I think it's one of the coolest
things that ww WE ever produced, was Kurt Angle screaming
and let the Bodies of the floor.

Speaker 2 (39:08):
It just fucking felt right. Well, Kurt Angle's gone.

Speaker 1 (39:10):
So yeah, well he's about to come through the Kurt
Angle elevators. So that's all good. I mean, like you
just have to like go back and put your head
in this time, right, So Kurd Angle leaves. ECW is
pushing test Mike Knox in the Big Show. Kurt Angle
goes to TNA and he fucking fights Samoa.

Speaker 2 (39:29):
Ja dude, fuck e c W stream Well the time he.

Speaker 4 (39:37):
Got there, but time you got the TNA. All the
good like all the hope that maybe ECW is gonna
be something that's been gone, and then Kurt Angle's in
TNA and it's like, oh fuck, let's get.

Speaker 2 (39:45):
Very quickly pivot that Tony and like we were talking
about it before and James have brought it up, like
you know, Hayman's fingerprints are like slowly being wiped away here,
like he wrote I think all of the second episode,
which everyone praised and like Vince didn't have much involvement,
but I read that like around like right after that,
like Vince was not only being more involved creatively, but

(40:06):
he was like wait, he was more hands on on
ECW than he was at RAW, which I was like,
that's fucking crazy sounding, like why would he give a
shit this much about this show?

Speaker 1 (40:17):
Well, we have Joey Styles and Taz introduce us to
e CW tonight packed house here in Philadelphia.

Speaker 2 (40:23):
And it's Independence Day, the birthplace of America and the
birthplace of extreme they keep saying on commentary, so they
really like that, and I mean this being in Philly
is like, what are the fucking odds? One of the
odds that they have to like flip this shit on
its head with RVD and Philly of all places, Like
that's brutal, but you know, looking back at it, like
if you were gonna get heat on the fucking big

(40:45):
show anywhere for this, this is the place to be
great idea.

Speaker 1 (40:49):
There's a dude behind Joey Styles and Taz also with
a shirt that's advertising Hogy Haven, which sounds awesome.

Speaker 2 (40:56):
That was actually if he said we hadn't died in one,
that was like the next would have been awesome to
he called me Hogy Hayman would have been.

Speaker 1 (41:07):
Steve Corino versus just incredible. Yeah, legit would have been
the double Jeffardy fallout.

Speaker 2 (41:16):
Fuck.

Speaker 1 (41:20):
So we start off the show here with Kelly's expose.
This is the Salute to America edition, not to be
confused with the regular.

Speaker 2 (41:27):
Edition of this well, thank god Dan, a special.

Speaker 1 (41:31):
Edition I didn't know was July fourth, So I thought, wow,
this is weird.

Speaker 2 (41:35):
Dude.

Speaker 1 (41:35):
I was like yeah, I was like, okay, she's locked in,
all right.

Speaker 2 (41:40):
It's really patreonic.

Speaker 3 (41:44):
For no reason.

Speaker 1 (41:47):
This is for Rob Van damn.

Speaker 2 (41:50):
So I watched this show at the airport during a
flight delay because I was like, fucking I'll get it
done and legit. The first fucking fucking on like angle
he or is the Kelly Kelly thing? I said, fuck, man,
I can't watch this here.

Speaker 3 (42:03):
You try to close it and it's like, yeah.

Speaker 2 (42:07):
Porn started playing too like on the next tab, its
fucked up, So I close out my ship.

Speaker 1 (42:12):
Huh.

Speaker 2 (42:13):
So yeah, I said, you know, I had to close
my laptop. That's what I said.

Speaker 1 (42:20):
Oh yeah, So in my head in this segment, this
goes a lot quicker. It doesn't really this is so long.
It actually doesn't make any fucking sense. Why Mike knocks
lets this go so long? So like you get the
entire segment and that he is supposed to be that

(42:40):
Mike Knock stops it from happening.

Speaker 2 (42:42):
He cuts off like naked. No, he's like late for it,
or like he just gets it, he finishes, huh. Like yeah, she.

Speaker 3 (42:54):
Dances, but like taking the top of us too much,
you know, like, yeah.

Speaker 1 (42:58):
We don't want we don't want this, we want Brian
Danielson matches, why don't you understand two thousand and six
at all?

Speaker 2 (43:07):
Yes you do, Yes, you do. So. Yeah, Kelly's doing
her expose salute to America and she has an American
flag top on, and she took that off and turns
around and she has her boobs painted blue like the stars,
and that's when Mike Knox is upset and he comes
out and wraps the flag around her and brings her
off stage, and Taz is fucking pissed about this.

Speaker 4 (43:27):
He says, oh, man, well, I think didn't she say
somewhere like she didn't know how to dance very well,
so like it was just like she was just going
out there doing whatever.

Speaker 2 (43:33):
Yeah, that's right. She didn't know what she was doing here,
and they said go out there and could you be
naked pleasing you can do a.

Speaker 3 (43:38):
Chair and then you figure it out when we play music.

Speaker 4 (43:40):
Yeah, okay, that don't word.

Speaker 2 (43:41):
Yeah, And like I mean, this is like it's not
like this is like Adden era, Like this is like
you know, John Cena airw we even more so so,
like there's just kids in the crowd watching her blue boobs.

Speaker 1 (43:55):
So we go to uh, Mike Knox versus Little Guido
here because Mike Knox had to cover up Kelly Kelly asshole.
I think he only did it because he was making
his entrance for his match.

Speaker 2 (44:10):
She was just like in the way he didn't know.

Speaker 1 (44:15):
He looks to us, right, what the fuck.

Speaker 2 (44:18):
It's like the kid cam.

Speaker 1 (44:20):
Yeah, he walks out to his song for his match
with Guido, Like, what the fuck puts his clothes on?

Speaker 4 (44:32):
Hey, dude, seeing little Guido in the ring made me
feel like it was like Kelly Kelly is doing a
special entrance dance for Guido's entrance, Like.

Speaker 2 (44:40):
That was definitely in the ring the whole time. You're right,
where's my pizza?

Speaker 3 (44:46):
You're just sitting there waiting watching.

Speaker 2 (44:49):
Gets a special entrance of Kelly Kelly dancing as Mike
Knox doesn't know it comes out and says, what the fuck? Well,
Joey says, it's an interesting situation. His girlfriend is a
self profess exhibitionists. She likes to take her clothes off
and TESSAs well, you have an letter and Joyce's well,
Mike Knox is jealous and he's making a lot of
enemies by covering up Kelly is Mike Knox like, this

(45:12):
is is he wrong here? This poor guy?

Speaker 1 (45:15):
That's a conversation they need to have.

Speaker 3 (45:17):
Yeah, that's a the relationship, Like you gotta whatever the relationship,
you know.

Speaker 4 (45:20):
They say, it's cool.

Speaker 2 (45:21):
I hope they can work it out.

Speaker 1 (45:23):
So Mike Knox goes to grab the mic here uh
As little Guido gets his entrance. Standing in the ring,
he Mike Dox says, a hard time getting as her
as out here because this crowd hates this guy.

Speaker 2 (45:40):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (45:41):
Mike Knox says they he hates to stop the July
fourth festivities. But that's my girlfriend, not yours.

Speaker 2 (45:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (45:52):
You guys say, hey, I'm just hearing arrest. I haven't.
I'm not doing anything bad yet.

Speaker 4 (45:59):
What's larious about this is he stops talking to hear
the chance of him like you suck dig And then
commentary does the same thing. They stop talking to like
hear them the crowd chance.

Speaker 1 (46:08):
It's really really loud.

Speaker 2 (46:09):
I was surprised that, Like I was like, oh, that's
when I realized it really was live, because I was like,
there's no way, like they would let this fly. I
thought they would bleep this. Honestly, I'm surprised they didn't.

Speaker 3 (46:20):
On Peacock Yeah, on the initial broadcast.

Speaker 1 (46:24):
It'd be so bad if they did, though, Yeah, it's true,
I mean, because I mean it would be forty five
minutes of.

Speaker 2 (46:29):
Just you'd hear nothing on. You don't want to ruin
everyone's Independence Day celebration. And that's his girlfriend and none
of you have the right to look at her like
I do. She is mine. Well, little Guido doesn't agree.
Then he starts kicking. Mike knocks ass.

Speaker 1 (46:46):
Yeah, Gweedo chop blocks him and then kicks them into
a drop kick. Guido looks for the Sicilian slice here,
but Mike Knux moves and takes over.

Speaker 2 (46:57):
Dude, Holy shit, he is in the menager. That's true.
That does happen.

Speaker 1 (47:01):
Taz Bitch is on commentary that Mike Knox hurt Danny
Doring last week, so they're having them run through all
the goats.

Speaker 2 (47:10):
I swear to god, James, I didn't hear that, and
I'm not surprised that you caught that.

Speaker 1 (47:16):
They kissed me the fuck off he that either.

Speaker 3 (47:19):
I did hear the The Mike was in one ear
for a second. That was cool.

Speaker 2 (47:23):
I don't know what that was me. That definitely did happen.

Speaker 4 (47:26):
If you that was in commentary, Yeah, like Taz's Mike
went into one ear and then came back.

Speaker 2 (47:30):
Yeah, well, Mike Knox has to, you know, he's running
through the tribe of extreme all the top guys, Danny Doring,
Little Guido. I'm sure goddamn will is next week.

Speaker 1 (47:41):
Well, Mike Knox hits three body slams in a row,
and the crowd chance, you still suck, so he hits
one more. Mike Knox then misses a knee drop and
the crowd chance boring. So Mike Knox hits a bicycle kick,
and you can hear just one person shout very loudly,
Mike not socks.

Speaker 2 (48:04):
That was fucking awesome, Like the crowd was on his ass. Here.
There was also, of course, I wears my pizza chant,
and of course, uh to a different variation of a
chant from earlier. There was a knock sucks cox chant.

Speaker 1 (48:16):
Oh that's what that was.

Speaker 3 (48:18):
Yeah, that is so funny.

Speaker 2 (48:20):
Knock sucks cocks. And then they cut to the boys
in the ground channing.

Speaker 1 (48:24):
Dude, Yeah, that was crazy. I thought something happened or something.

Speaker 2 (48:28):
But no, that was just the boys going on, the
boys letting them.

Speaker 3 (48:33):
That's crazy. On real early in your run, every people
are chant knock sucks cocks.

Speaker 2 (48:37):
That's yeah, I mean, like that sucks. That sent him
up for a fucking failure.

Speaker 3 (48:41):
Yeah that sucks.

Speaker 2 (48:42):
Yeah, the one the one guy yelling Mike knock sucks.
It was the clearest thing I've heard the entire night, dude.

Speaker 1 (48:48):
He had to be right on the mic. So the
crowd finally gets behind Guido, but it's way too late
and Mike Knox hits the shell shock for the three.

Speaker 2 (48:58):
Yes, Alex Shelley's not on this show, but thankfully it
could have been. By the way I think he calls
that move the knocks out.

Speaker 1 (49:06):
I don't care what he calls it. The fuck you
Alec Shelly is going nuts. Well, it shows a replay
of Edge hitting Sena with the title and pinning rv D.

Speaker 2 (49:24):
Yes there was. It was on Raw the night before
and no Kind outs to no DQ's and seen it
hit the fu on rv D and an Edge hit
Seinge with the belt and then of course pinned rv
D and then Edge just sloppily makes out with the
w title, which is the yeah. I mean his tongue
can get caught on the spinner version. It was a
very scary situation.

Speaker 1 (49:45):
Well, backstage, RVD bashes in the door to talk to
Paul Lee. I love that everyone bashes their.

Speaker 4 (49:50):
Ways like super Light and they think it's heavy, so
they like bust through and its just it's just stuck.

Speaker 2 (49:57):
Well, that's how you enter the badhouse of Extreme here
the Extreme office.

Speaker 1 (50:03):
He just looks up.

Speaker 2 (50:03):
Eh, well, everyone's been doing it all night off camera,
Steven Richards was just in here fucking complaining about broad count.
So yeah, Armidy walks in and says, hey, tell me
what happened and which is nuts?

Speaker 1 (50:19):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (50:19):
And Hayman says, nothing happened, and Army says he did
he try to come in here and challenge me? I
heard he tried to bully you screw that man? Make
the match tonight for the championship. Did he try to
come in here and challenge me? Like that's his that's
the fuck up thing Big Show did? What do you
want to match?

Speaker 1 (50:36):
I didn't write that in brother, How can I work?

Speaker 2 (50:44):
I'm suspended? Well, Hayman says, you know they've been together
on this whole concept of BCW and they've been friends
for ten years. And Halbady says, yes, I don't know
how this was meant to be taken, but I enjoyed
this line a lot, he said. And you know, there's
no way I'm gonna let this place turn into a
place where the bigger guys get the top spots, whether
they've earned it or not, Like, even if show pace

(51:07):
his dues here, he should not get a title shot
because he's not no g it's this guy.

Speaker 3 (51:12):
It was that last live, whether they earn it or not.

Speaker 2 (51:14):
Yeah, what do you mean wrong? Are you high?

Speaker 3 (51:20):
Suspending? We're not giving that matches he was suspended, give
me that title.

Speaker 2 (51:25):
That'd be fucking crazy. He just stripped some of the
bellty here.

Speaker 1 (51:29):
Dude.

Speaker 3 (51:29):
I thought they were gonna do that when he got busted.
I was like, he's not going to strip him, but
they let him do the match.

Speaker 2 (51:33):
Well, if they're gonna have Already do anything Tony, it's
gonna be rustle because he's fucking great at Yeah, you're right.
So Already wants to match set up, and he says
if he can beat me, he's the top dog, and
Paul tries to reason with him, and Already says, Paul
do it.

Speaker 3 (51:49):
You don't all go down there and make him do it,
and then he lies.

Speaker 2 (51:54):
He lies here to Tony says, you don't make the match.
I'm gonna go down to the ring and except the
match face to face, and Paul says, don't do that,
and Already says, fine, thanks, Paul, I got this well,
Rbady does not do that. Like, he doesn't go to
the ring.

Speaker 3 (52:07):
He goes face to face, but not in the ring.

Speaker 2 (52:09):
He does go face to face a ring beck. Here
you in the ring room.

Speaker 1 (52:15):
Whoa. I thought this was a good idea, though, I
think that it turned out well. Yeah, no, sure, Harvidy
looks like a defiant baby face willing to die on
his sword.

Speaker 3 (52:23):
Yeah, cool shit, dude, that is cool for protecting him
for later. I think that's pretty cool.

Speaker 2 (52:28):
I mean, if they're gonna fucking try to save this
at all, it's get some heat.

Speaker 1 (52:32):
So Test gets a hype pre tape for his match
in like seven minutes, dude.

Speaker 2 (52:39):
Yeah, I mean it's Test doing a bunch of kick
ass moves that are awesome and be prepared to not
see any of these moves.

Speaker 1 (52:45):
Why did he want to do him Tony?

Speaker 2 (52:46):
I don't fucking know. Yeah, like what the fuck?

Speaker 3 (52:50):
Like the typeing, it was pretty sweet.

Speaker 4 (52:51):
It was like an old school type one just moves
in his name and like a music in the backyard.

Speaker 2 (52:56):
Yeah, dude, he's doing the big boot and like he's
doing pumpinndle, slam, elbow drop, fucking doctor bombs.

Speaker 3 (53:02):
Send to Stacey. There I thought that was funny.

Speaker 2 (53:03):
They put that in the little hype Steiner with a
chair in the video too, like yez.

Speaker 1 (53:09):
So I mean, let's look at the landscape and shit,
here you got the Test Hype pre tape. Rb D's
leaving Big Show and Mike Knox are taking.

Speaker 2 (53:18):
Over kurd Angle suspended.

Speaker 1 (53:20):
Everybody that ever worked for ECW will be taking a pin.
It's just a tough night of work in Philadelphia.

Speaker 2 (53:27):
I gotta say, boys, it's the place to get heat.
Of course, you know, they knew the crowd was gonna
fucking like they'll use that next week all look and
the crowd fucking was so mad that he won. No,
they're just mad that like they saw him at all.

Speaker 1 (53:41):
So we go to the commentary table. Joey Styles says
Test will make his ECW debut tonight.

Speaker 2 (53:48):
Thank god, that's what I was hoping for.

Speaker 1 (53:50):
But then there's an interference being ran.

Speaker 2 (53:53):
Dude, I fucking thought this was Angel Debaldi or no, sorry,
DeVito deball.

Speaker 1 (53:58):
I was very convinced that it was Da Vita. Yeah,
very very.

Speaker 2 (54:03):
Convinced, dude, it is him. So he made two appearances
for We in six On the June twenty two and
sixth episode episode of ECW, he appeared as Macho Lee
Bray losing the Salmon in a squash match, and then
on the July fourth episode of ECW, DeVito reappeared as
a faux preacher.

Speaker 1 (54:22):
Does he get a h Does this turn into a
gimmick for him? Does he get something out of this?

Speaker 2 (54:25):
It's legit, just a one off, Now, that's a legit.

Speaker 1 (54:29):
That's weird that Taz wouldn't bring it up then.

Speaker 2 (54:32):
Right, yeah, like they were. This was I don't know
how long it goes on for, but like the beginning
until you know, I guess maybe a few after this
they would just have a random person come out and
get heat and then Salmon would come kick their ass.
Like I think before this they did the big Dick
Johnson one.

Speaker 1 (54:54):
Uh yeah, I mean I think it's funny that nobody
in Philadelphia noticed this either. This guy just wasn't over.

Speaker 2 (55:00):
I guess he was on every show like the Baldies
were on everything. Not they were like a you know,
main eventing, but like they were fucking kicking New Jack's
ass every show, every pay per view.

Speaker 4 (55:14):
Well, you know, there was like a lot of fake
old school ECW fans when the DVD came out, they
pretended they liked DCW just because they.

Speaker 2 (55:20):
Saw the baldies weren't very featured on the DVD too, you.

Speaker 1 (55:23):
Know, they were not so featured at all.

Speaker 3 (55:28):
Maybe he had like a match that maybe that matches.
I don't know if they did.

Speaker 2 (55:31):
They were featured on Nu Jack's part of the DVD
where he's kicking their.

Speaker 1 (55:35):
Where Vic grhymes him fall off the thing.

Speaker 2 (55:37):
Yeah he's a bald guy, so yeah, some not. Tony
DeVito jumps the rail and he's dresses a pre journey.
This is nuts, looking like there's a security guard right there.
He jumps the barricade on commentary side and snatches a
mic and then like security does nothing. They just let
him cut a promo and he's a fan and he says,
this is my first time seeing an ECB show. And

(55:58):
I have to tell each and every one of you,
I am disgusted. I just had to watch the knocks
Out finishing. That's Alex Shelley should be here now, but
I gotta watch Mike knocks.

Speaker 3 (56:15):
I had disgusted that Test gets a match tonight. I
cannot believe it.

Speaker 2 (56:20):
The sex, the violence, and the language. I cannot believe
that you people spend your heart money to watch this film.
This program is deplorable and it should not be on TV.
That's what I was saying watching this bag. This should
not be on TV. And then, dude, it's so funny
the shot they have. It's like you know they were
shooting them kind of this promo. And then in the crowd,

(56:42):
like near him is two just dudes and east to
be tank tops that are definitely a few deep and
ready to jump the guard around to kick this guys,
and the preacher says, this form of entertainment should not exist.
And for everybody here tonight and everybody watching home, you
should be ashamed of yourselves. I mean that's probably how
a lot of fans watching felt. Yeah, I'm assumed that

(57:04):
as far as I'm concerned, if you all enjoy e
c W, then you're all sinners. And the crowd pops
for this because they are sinners, of course, and he
says that's right, centners, and you guys are sinners also,
and he points at Joey and Taz and he says,
each and every one of you will burn in hell.

Speaker 1 (57:21):
Jesus, dude, I like that that show is so fucking funny.
You guys should be ashamed of yourselves. He points it, Hey,
you guys do. There's a couple of signs back here
that are funny. There's backyard Wrestler and it has arrows
pointing down. It's a couple of arrows. So I don't
know if they have the old faction here. And there

(57:43):
there was the classic fire legana sign which played WWE
programming forever forgot.

Speaker 2 (57:50):
That was a classic. Yeah, that's fucking awesome. Well, the
crowd pops for being told to burn in hell and
he then he says, and by the way, I'm not
a of the cloth, and he rips off his fucking
like neck piece thing. I don't know what that's called.
What is that called a name? Yeah? Peace thing? And
I'm like, what, you're not a real freeze? No, not

(58:12):
a shoot preacher is. I just use this so I
can express my feelings to all of you. And Tesz
is livid about this, not about the promo. He says,
what the hell it's been due by a guy to
pretending to be a man of a clause. So security
starts arguing with this guy, not ejecting him from the building,
not trying to remove him from the building because of
course he is a man of the cloth, just kidding.

Speaker 1 (58:34):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (58:35):
He climbs over the barricade the crowd then of course, uh.
The only thing to say is, uh, you suck dick.
That you suck dick. Chance at this guy. Yes, he
sits down back in the front row, and they just
let him stay there and.

Speaker 3 (58:46):
The show continues. I was like, all right, the show
is d dude, Tony.

Speaker 2 (58:50):
I thought for a second that like Sammon was just
gonna have a match next. But Samman's music hits and
Tesz says, uh uh and they lay this on so thick,
like we know that like saying, you know, if you've
been watching like the show, like Salmon comes out and
kicks a dude's ass every week. But they were like, oh,
I wonder what Sandman's gonna do.

Speaker 4 (59:12):
I think they flubbed it a little bit, they or
they maybe they didn't flub it, but they should have
played his music earlier, you know, like, well he's about
before he jumps back over and sits back down and
seat and ready to watch the rest of the show.

Speaker 2 (59:22):
This is all awkward. As ship Tony Salmon comes out,
he like does all his ship. He does the corner
taunt stone cold style.

Speaker 3 (59:30):
Dude, minus beer, no beer, no beer, four corners due alright, dude,
I swear there was like an agent down there. I
don't think I heard one, but I swear there's an
agent going I stand out, stay there all right, Go
to the next one, Go to the other one.

Speaker 2 (59:46):
Joey and Tadz are like, oh, I hope he fucking
comes over here and kicks his guy's ass. He's Samon
just stumbling around. He goes outside, stands on the barricade again.
They're like, oh man, hey, come back, this guy's ass. Well.
Salmon then looks over and he points the cane to
the preacher in the front row or a former artist.

(01:00:09):
No he's not, and Salmon goes over to him, and
Taz looks over and he says, coming to get just
something there, Chunky, Hey, fuck you, Taz?

Speaker 3 (01:00:20):
All right.

Speaker 2 (01:00:21):
Sandman of course drags this dude over the barricade and
slaps his bald head and he says, you want to
say somebody'sy tell you, and he slaps him around some
couple more times. Salmon does the thumbs up thumbs down,
and Cane's the guy in the fucking head pops off
a taunt and then the guy tries to climb over
the barricade and then Sandman, I've never seen him do
it this style, he does a golf shot up the

(01:00:43):
guy's ass. It was awesome.

Speaker 1 (01:00:46):
He really got it in there, and he's.

Speaker 2 (01:00:48):
Stuck around up there, and Taz loved it and tz
that fat hass got a shot and a half.

Speaker 1 (01:00:52):
Hun, Hey, I'm about to come back over.

Speaker 2 (01:00:56):
So saman gets in the ring. Now he's got a
beer and he drinks beer and he beats himself on
the head and now he's busted open and then I mean,
this is like this went on fucking forever. I don't
know what happened here, if this is what it was
meant to be, or they just thought it was funny
so they kept the shot. But at the they zoom
in on Salmon's face and he's grimace and crazy, bleeding snotty,
just staring at the hard camera for fucking ever.

Speaker 1 (01:01:20):
So that had to be his thing, right in w
B I remember that, uh it a few times, I guess,
so yeah, yeah, like the times we watched this, he's
always staring at the camera. I wonder if they just said, wow,
he is like revolting man.

Speaker 2 (01:01:33):
He's a fun um looking dude.

Speaker 1 (01:01:36):
See, I always thought saman was like cool as fuck.
I thought he looked cool, dude. Yeah, like I always
thought he looked Yeah, he actually looked pretty good. But
so like they told him, please just make them as
fucked up looking face you possibly can. We're holding this
for a while. I also have to give it to
him for holding the face the whole time and not laughing.

(01:01:59):
I wonder if there was a guy ring side just
telling him to keep doing it.

Speaker 2 (01:02:02):
Hold it, hold hold.

Speaker 1 (01:02:07):
Ugly are So we go backstage. Big Show is putting
his boots on, and rb D comes up and says,
hey dude.

Speaker 2 (01:02:16):
Hey Show. And he walks in the room and he
says he looks at him. Are you challenging me to
die for the title?

Speaker 1 (01:02:23):
Dude?

Speaker 2 (01:02:23):
How many people do you have to ask?

Speaker 1 (01:02:25):
So you want me to wrestle tonight? What's the deal? Rob?
I thought I was suspended. Okay, this is cool, I'm wrestling.

Speaker 2 (01:02:36):
Yes, you're losing. Oh because you're suspended? Wait? What what
did I do?

Speaker 3 (01:02:50):
I don't know what.

Speaker 2 (01:02:53):
The show says, that's exactly what I'm doing. And Army says, oh,
I like that, and then he slaps the dogs ship
out of the picture. He's like, it's really hard.

Speaker 3 (01:03:03):
That was awesome. That was he full said that left,
that was it?

Speaker 1 (01:03:07):
I like that.

Speaker 2 (01:03:09):
I accept and he leaves and Big Show's pissed and
he smiles and wipes his mouth because it's all wet.

Speaker 1 (01:03:18):
Well we go backstage. R VD is walking when paul
comes up and says, Hey, do you ever booked that match?
What match? I thought I was wrestling tomorrow? I know
you're suspended.

Speaker 2 (01:03:30):
What what did I do? And says maybe maybe right
now you could tell me where your head's at.

Speaker 3 (01:03:46):
Oh, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:03:48):
The clouds.

Speaker 3 (01:03:49):
I'm so gone.

Speaker 2 (01:03:51):
Head's not my gimmick, dude, that's somebody later. Brother, Oh
you want to wear heads at? I'll be fine already,
says where's your head at? Where are you at? Where
are we?

Speaker 1 (01:04:07):
Paulie looks at the camera.

Speaker 2 (01:04:10):
All right, e CW's my way around all this crap,
paul the show. What I've got to prove I'm the
best and I'm not doing it too bad of a job.
I'm actually pretty awesome.

Speaker 1 (01:04:22):
Rob, you're suspended?

Speaker 2 (01:04:24):
What you fucked this up?

Speaker 1 (01:04:27):
Rob?

Speaker 2 (01:04:30):
Me?

Speaker 3 (01:04:31):
Did you have the matches, big show.

Speaker 1 (01:04:34):
When are you the match?

Speaker 2 (01:04:39):
No, I'm suspended already says I'm here because we stuck
to our guns. We are E CW Right. That means
we go all out and to be say, to be championed,
I have to be big show. Are you with me?
And Hayman's looking, you know, he's not too happy. He's
looking at the grounding nods and he somberly says, yeah,

(01:05:00):
I was wrong. You're right. Fuck me, I'm wrong. Fuck you,
you're right.

Speaker 3 (01:05:10):
What are you talking about?

Speaker 1 (01:05:12):
How about that pig?

Speaker 3 (01:05:14):
Fuckers? You want to shoot cowboy? Who's a shoot for you?
You're losing the title Tonight I turn it on you
what what freaking party?

Speaker 2 (01:05:30):
Oh? Don't turn the camera off yet.

Speaker 3 (01:05:38):
I've got a few things to say.

Speaker 2 (01:05:41):
Uh so he says, uh tonight, the match is on
and we keep Armity just keeps in the middle of
eastaying yes, yes, yeah ye, and the titles on the
line and it's extreme rules and they dap up and
they go their separate ways. What a dumb ass.

Speaker 1 (01:06:01):
Well, now it's time for the featured vout of the evening.
That test versus al Snow I.

Speaker 2 (01:06:10):
I could not believe this is what I was fucking
looking at. Like, of all the dudes I thought was
gonna come out to face Test, like Al Snow was
nowhere near the scope of It's like, this is a
WWF ninety nine match, dude.

Speaker 1 (01:06:20):
It is nuts, like, dude, and Test is huge.

Speaker 2 (01:06:24):
He's gigantic and even more stunning to me. And I
don't know if this is where they got it from
or this just is a coincidence. Test comes out and
he does the generic CW twirl the right wrist entrance.
That's a holy fuck, let's test.

Speaker 1 (01:06:42):
This is a legendary night in sports entertainment.

Speaker 2 (01:06:46):
Like I was blown away.

Speaker 1 (01:06:48):
Test comes out here and he looks like he got
his ship Mike's away, like he is so oiled. It's nuts.
I can't believe I'm watching. Al Snow is very very
much out of his head character here, like he's not
he's not doing this character anymore. He doesn't even put

(01:07:09):
doesn't even put the help me thing on his head anything.

Speaker 2 (01:07:13):
You gotta be e c w ol SnO, this is
tough enough, Alse Snow.

Speaker 1 (01:07:17):
I'm looking at.

Speaker 2 (01:07:18):
Yeah, that's right with the head, Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 1 (01:07:21):
And someone has an air.

Speaker 2 (01:07:26):
Ship the airhorn comes up way later again too. They
even they have Joe explaining the alse No like mannequin
head story on commentary that I don't even know if
I knew that this was the angle where he went
crazy because w B forced him to be in the
New Rockers and it made him have a nervous breakdown.

Speaker 1 (01:07:42):
That's about to be.

Speaker 2 (01:07:48):
I don't know where it is.

Speaker 5 (01:07:50):
I about to fucking lose it. Please shut the fuck up,
like true, I don't want to work here anymore.

Speaker 1 (01:08:07):
This I do this for seven years, Extreme except the
tribe of Extreme.

Speaker 2 (01:08:19):
I dare you to keep us all the.

Speaker 1 (01:08:23):
Dare you to keep me employed? Do I still have
a job?

Speaker 2 (01:08:29):
Pigfucker's knocks every week and creepy hell all the air.

Speaker 1 (01:08:36):
My face is.

Speaker 2 (01:08:41):
Yours?

Speaker 1 (01:08:50):
So Al snow he has to face Test Test of
course immediately immediately gets chanced from the crowd here you
take steroids?

Speaker 2 (01:09:02):
What makes him think that?

Speaker 1 (01:09:04):
Is it the fact that he looks Mike's way?

Speaker 2 (01:09:09):
I mean he is so early.

Speaker 1 (01:09:11):
Well. Test proceeds to have a very very bad match
with Al like they don't do ship ready to be excited?

Speaker 2 (01:09:21):
Yeah me too. I was like, oh, Test kick and
Alson's ass, Like how could this be bad?

Speaker 1 (01:09:26):
Well, Test hits al Snow with a line in the corner.
Al Snow fights back and Test gives him a big
boot right in the stomach.

Speaker 2 (01:09:36):
Dude, like, that's your fucking like he's so big now
he can't get his leg up all the way.

Speaker 1 (01:09:41):
They had to hurt so fucking bad man. I mean
he just yeah, kicked him right in the fucking stomach.
Oh my goodness. Ow.

Speaker 2 (01:09:51):
And then I'm like, okay, well, so no one sells this,
by the way, Like commentary is not excited for the
big boot, the crowd doesn't really even care, and Test
doesn't go for a pin. I'm like, okay, pump handle right,
like that's probably next or the elbow drop. But sadly
I was disappointed on all fronts.

Speaker 1 (01:10:07):
Test hits the TKO and wins TKO.

Speaker 2 (01:10:11):
TKO come on, man, like fuck just begging to be
a midguarter.

Speaker 1 (01:10:20):
So Test beats Alsona with the TKO. Test grabs head
from the corner, he puts it down on the ground,
and then he kicks it into the crowd and does
the field goal.

Speaker 2 (01:10:32):
Tot was this supposed to be like a boo?

Speaker 1 (01:10:35):
I don't know what he was fucking doing like.

Speaker 2 (01:10:39):
This was definitely like, I don't know like they, I
guess they maybe they thought the crowd wouldn't like this
because Alsona was an easw guy. But like, this is
funny as shit, and they pop for it.

Speaker 1 (01:10:48):
This is well adjusted halfway through a mortgage Alsona.

Speaker 2 (01:10:52):
Yeah right, he's like normal now he doesn't have to
be on any rockers.

Speaker 4 (01:10:56):
He probably told him kick it in the crowd so
I could stop doing the stupid head gear.

Speaker 2 (01:11:00):
Think, oh, ship has gone forever now.

Speaker 3 (01:11:06):
I can't do that gimmick anywhere.

Speaker 1 (01:11:08):
It Well, after that, we get a Sabou pre tape
and he's talking.

Speaker 2 (01:11:20):
Yeah, he's really breathy, and it's like a trippy fucking
promo and it's super zoomed in on Saboo's face and
he says suicide and there's clips of him doing cool shit,
breathing a ton. He says he's homicidal, genocidyl, just super
breathy and he says I'm Saboo and he looks super confused,

(01:11:41):
and then it zooms in on his eyes that are
not looking at the camera anymore.

Speaker 1 (01:11:46):
That's it.

Speaker 2 (01:11:47):
Yeah, man, Like what a bad fucking idea that was.

Speaker 1 (01:11:50):
Yeah, it was very Uh. It was very rob zombiesque.
I like the way that they filmed it. It almost
felt like a rotoscope or something. It was very sure
off kilter. Yeah, it look very cool. Weird they played
it anyways. I mean he's like suspended. He's in the doghouse.
They said, yeah, whatever, not me right, big.

Speaker 3 (01:12:14):
Show made the dogs whirl. He's big. How do you
fit in there?

Speaker 1 (01:12:17):
We let the dogs out.

Speaker 3 (01:12:20):
He's the big dog.

Speaker 1 (01:12:29):
So we're looking at the Wacovia Center outside and there's
that guy.

Speaker 2 (01:12:35):
Oh fully ship he's yeah, we're standing at the back
of the dude's head and Ted says, ah, there goes
that guy again.

Speaker 1 (01:12:43):
Oh man.

Speaker 2 (01:12:44):
Kevin Thorn turns around and spits blood at the camera
and Joey Tells says, geez, he's following us around.

Speaker 1 (01:12:52):
He's like a mark.

Speaker 2 (01:12:58):
He's a guy that they stick it bunny every week.

Speaker 3 (01:13:02):
He has two tickets. I got tickets in.

Speaker 2 (01:13:05):
He really likes the product.

Speaker 1 (01:13:07):
Well, we get the very first CM punk backstage ever here.

Speaker 2 (01:13:12):
That's cool, the first one.

Speaker 1 (01:13:13):
I think, so right, they don't let these tattoos for you.
I think this is the first time he's on the product.

Speaker 2 (01:13:18):
That's a fucking that's pretty cool. Yeah, he uh. He
goes on to do a couple of things.

Speaker 1 (01:13:23):
This guy, see him Punk, He beats just incredible.

Speaker 2 (01:13:26):
He does beat just incredible.

Speaker 1 (01:13:29):
So see him Punk does his backstage, he says, don't
let these tattoos for you. I'm straight edge, I'm a
man of great discipline. I don't don't drink, I don't smoke,
I don't do drugs.

Speaker 2 (01:13:41):
What is this guy talking about.

Speaker 1 (01:13:46):
I don't think he's gonna fit around here. That's the luck, dude.
He just walks in the next week. It's a great
fucking idea for a gimmick here, but ECW has already
changed so drastically that it's suspended for drugs, right, And

(01:14:09):
like the top guys here are Mike Knocks, Tests and
the guy outside the venue. So it's just like you
see him, Punk's gimmick here. If it was in two
thousand and one e c W or any time before,
that would have worked fantastic. And I get the idea here.
Obviously this guy does pretty well for himself. But sure, yeah,

(01:14:29):
it just kind of sucks that. You know, we got
Mike Knox and fucking test and big show and he
comes in and he's like, oh fuck, wait a minute,
should I smoke? And dud drugs.

Speaker 2 (01:14:42):
Way?

Speaker 1 (01:14:46):
It's big show versus RVD.

Speaker 2 (01:14:48):
Yes, World Title Extreme Rules match, Big show. No one's
happy that he's here. Everyone's happy to see RVD though,
and rvdy's gear looked great. And RVD takes a pretty
good amount of time here for his entrance. He's slapping
everyone's hands and he's kind of getting a shit in,
which is like it feels like, you know, he knows
he's going away for a little bit, so he's getting

(01:15:09):
you know, one last hurrah for a little trip here.
And Justin Roberts does championship introductions here. We have a
commercial break before the intros and when we come back
to the match, surprisingly still hadn't started. I'm so used
to them like starting a match in commercial and we
come back to like the heat, but that is not
what happened here.

Speaker 1 (01:15:26):
They just wait, straw hat guy was there.

Speaker 2 (01:15:29):
Dude, he was there. That's fucking unbelievable.

Speaker 1 (01:15:31):
Yeah, that was pretty cool.

Speaker 2 (01:15:32):
That's Philly. I guess that makes sense.

Speaker 1 (01:15:34):
There are a couple of signs out in the crowd here.
RVD and Sabou are innocent sign.

Speaker 2 (01:15:40):
Well that guy's right.

Speaker 1 (01:15:43):
RVD in Saboo Highlanders sign.

Speaker 2 (01:15:48):
Like we're going to DNA.

Speaker 3 (01:15:50):
You're stuck in the epigsl.

Speaker 1 (01:15:54):
RVD gets a huge chant to start things off here,
and then he also gets a big old marijuana chat.

Speaker 2 (01:16:02):
Dude, they chant marijuana for a very long time and
then also chant it again later in the match, like
that's fucking funny.

Speaker 1 (01:16:10):
I love that they chanted marijuana, and RVD starts pointing
to the crowd.

Speaker 2 (01:16:14):
As big well, yeah, hell yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:16:18):
So Big Show hits a line here to start things off.
He takes over and sends RVD to the outside. Big
Show gets you can't wrestle chance, that's not true. RVD
runs Big Show into the post on the outside and
tries to springboard off the guardrail, but Big Show crotches
him on the guardrail and throws him into the crowd.
So the airhorn is back. I thought that was funny.

Speaker 2 (01:16:40):
Someone fires that like nothing even happens, like Big Show
just well okay, Big Show forms the dog fuck out
of RVD and like it sounds awesome, sends him over
the barricade and then someone yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:16:50):
A Big Show goes to chop RVD and he takes
his hand back and he says chops.

Speaker 2 (01:17:02):
I swear. At one point when they're walking by, the
fans are in the front row, there's a dude that
looks like Big AJ with like big tattoo sleeves. I
fucked me up for a sec.

Speaker 1 (01:17:11):
It could have been him.

Speaker 2 (01:17:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:17:13):
Maybe RVD goes over the barricade and that creates separation
for him to climb the guardrail and kick Big Show.
RVD then hits the rail hung spinning leg drop on
Big Show.

Speaker 2 (01:17:24):
That's fucking awesome. Great way to get into that too.

Speaker 1 (01:17:27):
So Big Show gets his heat. During the commercial we
come back, RVD hits a springboard back kick. Show then
crotches RVD on the top rope.

Speaker 2 (01:17:37):
RVD kicks him like right in his fucking head. That
springback kick was gnarly. When they come back from commercial.
By the way, I like this. I don't know if
they were doing this on the other shows as well,
but I remember they were doing it on WECW here.
But when they came back from commercial, the lower it
was like a little lower thirty of the East title
and I said it was easy to b title match.
I thought that would it looked cool?

Speaker 1 (01:17:58):
Yeah, that was cool. Yeah, So RVD is crashed on
the top rope. Big Show steps up on the second
and Taz is like, what the fuck?

Speaker 2 (01:18:07):
Yeah, fucking are you kidding me?

Speaker 1 (01:18:09):
Brought up and Big Show hits a superplex from the
second for a two count.

Speaker 2 (01:18:13):
Dude, that got a holy shit chant in front of
this crowd too, like they were even out. They were cool, like,
oh fuck, okay, we gotta give them this one.

Speaker 1 (01:18:19):
So Big Show then hits the hog log for a two.

Speaker 2 (01:18:24):
Yes, I wrote that, legit Tony All Caps Show hits
the dog super budes acount. Well, I gotta dig into
my bag.

Speaker 1 (01:18:34):
Now, gotta dig into my butt?

Speaker 2 (01:18:40):
What what?

Speaker 1 (01:18:45):
Big crowd chants marijuana. Big Show hits a few elbow
drops for a.

Speaker 2 (01:18:53):
Two, so he was able to connect all these yeah right,
just for two though, And after the second one he
gets a two count and Show now is mad at
the referee and he says, and this might not be
a direct quote, but this is what I wrote or
what I heard. He gets in the referee's face and
says this, there's too many goddamn times too.

Speaker 1 (01:19:15):
That was being math class.

Speaker 3 (01:19:20):
To stand up in the middle class.

Speaker 1 (01:19:22):
Fucking So Big Show locks in a bear hug and
then transitions into the ground crowdchat's boring show it's a
backbreaker and stretches rob over his knee.

Speaker 2 (01:19:35):
I don't know if I'm if I wrote this right
or if I heard this right. Sorry, I swear people
started chanting, you're not Andre.

Speaker 4 (01:19:43):
That's what I thought they said too. Okay, yeah, dude,
I couldn't even make up what they were saying. That's
what they were saying, You're not.

Speaker 3 (01:19:48):
Andre, I think so. Then he did, that's my dad,
what are you talking about?

Speaker 1 (01:19:56):
Yeah? Watch the show? So rvidy hit It's a few
knees to the top of Big Show's head to break
free from the bear hug. RVD tries to line Big
Show down, but it doesn't work, so he drop kicks
his leg and gets him down. Big Show goozles RVD,
but RVD turns a choke slam into a DDT of

(01:20:17):
his own for a double down.

Speaker 2 (01:20:18):
Fucking fantastic, like that Big Show took all of that
shit on his head too.

Speaker 1 (01:20:22):
RVD then hits a zigzag cross body uh and a
rolling thunder for it too.

Speaker 2 (01:20:29):
WHOA, I guess I'm gonna dry some shit before I
gotta go.

Speaker 1 (01:20:32):
So RVD tries to hit the sid kick from the
top rope. The Big Show catches him and literally just
tosses him over the top rope to the floor.

Speaker 2 (01:20:41):
That was fucking horrifying. Yeah, Like, I don't know if
I've ever seen anyone counter that like that. The here
comes the painkick in my brain because that's all the
way I spin the sh RD in those games. Just
leaping kick to the head. Yeah, dump them to the floor,
and then the crowd chance we want.

Speaker 1 (01:20:56):
Fonzie Shoe grabs the steps and he goes to hit
Rob van Dam, but Van Dam kicks his leg out
of his leg m show of course, then slams the
steps into the ground and headbutts the steps. I love that.

Speaker 2 (01:21:19):
I mean, that's like a fantastic wrestling trope. You always
have to drop the hold into whatever you're holding.

Speaker 1 (01:21:25):
RVD jumps at Show on the outside, but Big Show
catches him and throws him into the apron.

Speaker 2 (01:21:31):
That was super fucking impressive. Rvady got height on a
crossbody from the fucking top rope to the floor and
Big Sure just snatches them out of the air and
kills them.

Speaker 1 (01:21:39):
RVD and AJ styles have like two of the coolest
cross bodies ever.

Speaker 2 (01:21:44):
I know they're both very different too, which is how
many you know, how different can you do one? But
I can picture them both in my head.

Speaker 1 (01:21:51):
RVD tries to use a chair, but Big Show slaps
the chair away and hits a choke slam for a two.

Speaker 2 (01:21:57):
Made a cool sound slap by the chair.

Speaker 1 (01:22:01):
Show then grabs the referee dude, puts him in a
million dollar dream and then literally just swings him around
and throws him.

Speaker 2 (01:22:12):
Like this is a creatious I don't know if he
was blown or what, but yeah, showstopper Arvidy kicks out.
Big Show gets up like not angry at all, just
nonchalantly grabs the ref's arm and wraps it around the
ref's own neck and fucking throat the fuck out of here.

Speaker 1 (01:22:30):
Dude.

Speaker 4 (01:22:30):
It is the same movie does to Rick Flair and
the thumb tag.

Speaker 1 (01:22:32):
So yeah, that's right. Yeah it's good.

Speaker 3 (01:22:35):
It looks good when he does it too. Yeah it's awesome.

Speaker 2 (01:22:37):
It was just so nonchalizing, come here for no reason.

Speaker 3 (01:22:41):
There's no reason he does it to the read what
the fuck?

Speaker 1 (01:22:44):
So Big Show says, kiss my ass and then he
goes to power bomb RVD, but RVD hits him in
the head. With a chair.

Speaker 2 (01:22:54):
Dude hit him fucking so hard it made a great sound.
Taz was super confused the commentary. He says, why do
you do that?

Speaker 1 (01:23:02):
Joe says what he means, it's extreme rules?

Speaker 2 (01:23:05):
Why not? I meant, how how do you do that?
That's what?

Speaker 1 (01:23:08):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:23:09):
Right?

Speaker 1 (01:23:10):
So RVD goes to pin him, but Big Shirt throws
him off. Immediately, RVD hits the Van Daminator and then
the five Star frogs splash. Yes, RVD gets the visual
three count. He does, but Paul Hayman runs down and
he goes to count two. It's like the third one.
He stops.

Speaker 2 (01:23:30):
No, no, why why Paul Hayman, because you're suspended. I
had to deal with a.

Speaker 1 (01:23:40):
Jesus. I just had to get out from back there
because it is a fucking pain in my ass.

Speaker 2 (01:23:46):
Yeah. He one night Stand style comes out, gets the
two stops and he stares at RVD, gives him a
shitty smile on the crowd is mad and Lvady's looking
out up at him, and he says, will you do it? Count?

Speaker 1 (01:23:57):
No, ship, well you do it?

Speaker 2 (01:24:01):
Just count?

Speaker 1 (01:24:01):
Oh sorry, I forgot hell. He just gets up and deposes.
So Paul Hayman stands up he smiles, he doesn't count.
He gets out of the ring. The crowd chance, you
sold out.

Speaker 2 (01:24:19):
USA sold out. He's the owner.

Speaker 1 (01:24:26):
So Big Show is now behind Rob with the chair. No,
he hits RVD in the head with the chair killed.
Then Paul Lee slides back in and says, choke slam
him on the chair.

Speaker 2 (01:24:37):
Choke slam him right on that chair, and he does.

Speaker 1 (01:24:40):
So Big Show does choke slam him on the chair,
and Hayman counts the three and Big Show wins the
ECW title.

Speaker 2 (01:24:46):
We talked about this before recently, James, it might have
been on it was actually I think it was the
WCW episode. I just love when the heel not referee
guy being a referee just does normal counts. Yeah, that's awesome.
I guess maybe for this one it was like, you know,
it was a foregone conclusion, so Hayman counted it normal.
But like there's no reason why Hymen could have just
fast counted this.

Speaker 1 (01:25:08):
So Big Show wins the ECW title. The crowd is
now throwing shit into the ring. Him and Paul Hayman
are standing there as he raises Big Show's hand.

Speaker 2 (01:25:17):
It is a fucking crazy visual, like this is awesome,
Like they are showering the ring with just fucking trash.

Speaker 1 (01:25:24):
I love that Big Show is smiling as he sees
all this food being thrown at him. Me too, brother, So.

Speaker 3 (01:25:34):
There's a hamburger.

Speaker 2 (01:25:35):
He that is the funniest thing I've ever thought of
in my like I would have that visual in my
brain is just fucked up. This whole acle. So Show
puts the title over his shoulder. He looks, I mean,
this belt is so small on him.

Speaker 3 (01:25:54):
Dude, it looks funny as fu is awesome.

Speaker 2 (01:25:55):
Him and a Big Show dap up and they hug
and then at one point someone there it's like a
full drink and it hits him and right in the
fucking face. It just goes everywhere. Very cool visual though,
of everyone thrown shit into both of them, and Joey says,
fall him and your son of a bitch. I think
Big Show is the first guy. I'm assuming somebody else

(01:26:19):
has done this, but I can't think of it if
it was, but he first got to win the WWE
WW and ECW World titles. I think is what happens here.

Speaker 4 (01:26:26):
Yeah, they say that commentary they do, Yeah, that's pretty crazy.

Speaker 2 (01:26:29):
Man, has anyone else done that since just incredible. Teenage
Johnny watching this fucking was fucking pissed. Fuck this shit.
I mean, I was unbelievably worked here, Like this is
fantastic show, and the summer of big show begins.

Speaker 3 (01:26:49):
It does begin, let's go.

Speaker 1 (01:26:51):
Rick Flair comes in and does God's work next week?

Speaker 2 (01:26:55):
What a I mean like that's fucking yeah, that's awesome.

Speaker 3 (01:26:58):
So yeah he would take thumb on next week's episode,
Like I never thought that in a million years.

Speaker 2 (01:27:03):
Yeah, Like he must have just been like fired up
to prove something or something. Yeah, man, I mean this
is like to James's point, this episode was definitely missing
some stuff. Maybe some other matches that.

Speaker 3 (01:27:18):
Team wrestling maybe, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:27:19):
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