- 4/15/2025
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00:00The CYC in Scranton, Pennsylvania,
00:06plays host to the hottest tour in Extreme Championship Wrestling history.
00:13And former Triple Crown winner Mikey Wibreck is sent hurtling towards the floor by The Rookie.
00:21And the Rookie is on the offensive.
00:35Triple turnbuckles.
00:39Goes back from the top, looks delayed, and...
00:43And we're half a count away from an upset.
00:47Rookie's going up again.
00:52And he can't pull.
00:59Aaron Elbow sends Mikey back to the canvas.
01:05No water to pull. The somersault leg drop misses.
01:10Here's the banana split.
01:12Here is your winner, Mikey Wibreck!
01:25And former Extreme Championship Wrestling Triple Crown winner Mikey Wibreck
01:31gets a victory over The Rookie
01:33with the most fundamental
01:35of junior high school wrestling moves.
01:52Mutual respect shown between Mikey and The Rookie.
01:55Great match-up.
02:18And taking this last week's show,
02:22it turned out to be a rude awakening.
02:25When the franchise shamed us.
02:28Tommy, turn around!
02:30Behind you!
02:31Oh, my God!
02:36What the hell's going on up there?
02:38What the hell's going on up there?
02:40What the hell's going on up there?
02:41What the hell's going on up there?
02:42What the hell's going on up there?
02:43What the hell's going on up there?
02:44What the hell's going on up there?
02:45What the hell's going on up there?
02:46What the hell's going on up there?
02:47What the hell's going on up there?
02:48What the hell's going on up there?
02:49What the hell's going on up there?
02:50What the hell's going on up there?
02:51What the hell's going on up there?
02:52What the hell's going on up there?
02:53What the hell's going on up there?
02:54What the hell's going on up there?
02:55What the hell's going on up there?
02:56What the hell's going on up there?
02:57What the hell's going on up there?
02:58What the hell's going on up there?
02:59I'm going to go!
03:06Get him back!
03:08Get back!
03:11Is there a deal of support?
03:13What the hell are you saying?
03:15John!
03:17John!
03:23John!
03:24John!
03:27is I have doubled the bounty of that bald head.
03:39Now somebody wants to collect a hell of a paycheck.
03:43I'm paying big bucks tonight to take that bald son of a out.
03:48Now somebody come collect the money.
03:51That's it, big man, right through it.
03:54Yeah.
03:56Oh my God.
04:00He fought his way back up to his feet.
04:02He's got single arm DDT for the remnants of that table.
04:07Triple threat.
04:13Well, there you have it.
04:15Here's the official announcement.
04:18The franchise Shane Douglas has reformed a new and improved
04:23triple threat.
04:30The franchise has struck again.
04:32It was scheduled to defend the ECW world television title against Tommy Dreamer.
04:38The triple threat took him out.
04:44Pitbull 2 would have been the logical replacement for Tommy Dreamer.
04:48That's not going to happen.
04:51With the triple threat in tow, nobody gets to Shane Douglas.
04:57Who's the finish line?
04:59Who's that?
05:00Who's that?
05:01Who's that?
05:03Who's that?
05:05Who's that?
05:06It looks sort of big, can you back up?
05:07Come back up.
05:08I can't stand for it.
05:10It's a new year, Shane Douglas.
05:14It's a New Year thing, Douglas.
05:25And my New Year's resolution is to change the direction of the ECW.
05:44In other words, Shane Douglas, my New Year's resolution is to f**k with the franchise.
06:02There's somebody in the back who is ready, willing, and more than able to kick your ass.
06:11And I say right now, Shane Douglas, either you prove you got the f**k to be the franchise, or you show everybody in this building you're hung like a hamster.
06:23Well, whoever it is, that masked man, you bring him out, and I'll prove to you and all those pieces of that I am the man in ECW.
06:38Here's the music!
06:41Let's go!
06:42Let's go!
06:43Let's go!
06:44Let's go!
08:15Hello, everyone, and welcome to Extreme Championship Wrestling!
08:38I'm Joey Stiles at the CYC Center in Scranton, Pennsylvania!
08:51And this time, I would like to introduce my guest, the ECW World Brothers and Champion, the franchise, Shane Spokes!
09:12I'm Joey Stiles at the CYC Center in Scranton!
09:42I'm Joey Stiles at the CYC Center in Scranton!
10:12I'm Joey Stiles at the CYC Center in Scranton!
10:42I'm Joey Stiles!
10:43I'm Joey Stiles!
10:44I'm Joey Stiles!
10:45I'm Joey Stiles!
10:47You know, Joey Stiles, get in here, because I want to talk to you as I talk to them and as I talk to them and all these others.
10:57My mama used to have a saying, it went like this, if it looks like a rose, if it smells like a rose, if it grows like a rose, well, then it must be a rose.
11:17Are you following with me?
11:18Are you following with me?
11:20Well, I say that last time, that guy with the mask, it looked like him.
11:24It walked like him!
11:25He talked like him!
11:26He talked like him!
11:27And he handled himself just like him!
11:31Therefore, it must be him!
11:32Now, you know something, Joey Stiles, I pride myself on being a student of this game.
11:38And for 14 years, I've sat in dressing rooms and I've watched the greatest that this sport had to offer and then some.
11:45And as I sat in a dressing room
12:12room in the last 10 years there was one man who rose to the top one man who was
12:18as tough as they came one man who took belts and kicked ass as best as any man
12:24in this business has ever done and I watched him and I know what he's all
12:32about now somebody came out here not too long ago Joey Stouts and they looked in
12:39that camera and said their resolution for 1997 was to the franchise
12:52well I know it's you pal I know what you're hiding behind that mask and I
12:57know it ain't this you're coming after and I know it ain't this you're coming
13:02after and I know it ain't this you're coming after
13:07I know what it is you liked because every single night after you kicked asses
13:12you took ladies and you laid them down in the ring what it is you want is
13:21something you can't have it's something that's all mine
13:28and so if that's the game we're playing I could take you masked man and break your
13:34neck just like that but I got my hands full with a Pitbull and with Tommy Dreamer
13:40and with Beulah McGillicuddy and these guys one-on-one or together could take you
13:48out but instead they've got their hands full shut the hell up they got grander
13:57things to go for because they are gonna take the eliminators and show them what
14:01triple threat means and become the next world tag team champions
14:09and so mask man I speak to you since I can't take you out myself and these guys
14:16are gonna be world champions we've hired somebody to make sure that as director of
14:23security personnel for the Francine somebody to watch her back somebody that if you try to go for a mask man he will make damn good and sure
14:30somebody that if you try to go for a mask man he will make damn good and sure
14:36and you pay the price come on out big man
14:40come on out big man
14:47take a look at him mask man he's bigger than you he's tougher than you he's better than you he's more lean than you
15:09he's more lean than you and more than that he's in a rude mood
15:22because the franchise is back
15:28because if you can't take the truth you ain't hardcore
15:32you will lose
15:34guys
15:37you're a happy player
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15:45day
17:22Chokeslam Terry Funk through the table.
17:24Leave him alone.
17:25He can't even stand up.
17:30Oh, Terry.
17:32Terry, please just stay down, Terry.
17:44It would appear a comeback stopped here.
17:48Who left him?
17:50Terry, I bet your father's rolling over his grave knowing his little girl got his ass ripped tonight.
18:00You know, sometimes it takes a loss to bring your life into focus and figure out actually what your goals are.
18:14And I came back to the dressing room and I sat there and I sat there and I sat there and an hour must have went by and I looked down and I haven't even unlaced my shoes yet.
18:26I thought about a lot of things.
18:30I thought about Tommy Dreamer.
18:32And I know I've told you people this before.
18:36There's nobody in this world that tries any harder than that guy right there.
18:40And we're all his fans and no matter how satisfied we are with him, he just always wants to do a little bit better.
18:48And he's got the right name and that Dreamer name.
18:52He reminds me of somebody a long, long, long time ago.
18:56That person he reminds me of is my father, Dory Funk Sr., who was also a professional wrestler.
19:04And in 1973, he was in his 50s and he had this dream.
19:12He wanted to be champion and that was what he wanted to do all of his life.
19:18He wanted to be the world's champion.
19:20Wrestling was his life.
19:22And that was an important thing to him.
19:26But it never happened.
19:30The reason it didn't happen because in 1973, June of that year, my father had a massive heart attack while he was wrestling.
19:40My brother and I rushed him to the hospital.
19:42And on the way to the hospital, he says, how much further do I have to go?
19:48And I looked at him and I knew he was in a lot of pain.
19:51I said, not much further, Dad, just a couple more miles.
19:54And he said, Dadgummit, he says, I can't make it. I'm going.
19:57Well, those were his last words.
19:59And whenever those were his last words, I figured that the Lord had good reason to take him.
20:09And he did take him.
20:11And it was the saddest day in my brother and my life.
20:15And it will be the saddest day in my life probably forever.
20:19Now, 24 years later, here I am trying to figure out my goals after a loss.
20:29And what my goal is right now is that I guess I'm a dreamer too.
20:36I want to be world's champion.
20:39I know if I get in the ring against that ECW champion, if I can get in there against Raven, I know that I can beat him.
20:50I just feel it.
20:52And why do I want to do it?
20:54I thought about that too.
20:56I want to do it for all you hardcore fans out there.
21:00I want to do it for all of us old farts to prove that we don't have one foot in the grave.
21:08But most of all, I want to do it to fulfill my father's dreams.
21:14That's what I want to do is fulfill his dreams.
21:17Now, I know that I can't guarantee a victory.
21:20But, dadgummit, I can guarantee that I'm not going to give up.
21:24And I'm not going to quit.
21:26And I'm going to just keep on going.
21:28And if I can get him in the match, a championship match, and if I can beat him, and they present me with that belt,
21:40I don't want to stand out there and say I did it my way.
21:45I want to invite every one of you ECW fans that are in the arena that night to come in the arena and stand with me.
22:03And I want us to hold our arms in the air, and I want to invite anybody that's watching it on television to hold their arms in the air and say,
22:11We did it our way.
22:15Not like the WWF.
22:18We did it our way.
22:21Not like the WCW.
22:24We did it our way.
22:26Not like AAA, New Japan, All Japan, FMW.
22:32We did it our way.
22:34Not like the ultimate fighting organizations.
22:38We did it our way.
22:40And what is our way?
22:43That's the ECW way.
22:46And what is the ECW way?
22:49It's the only way because it's the most physical, dangerous form of wrestling in the world today, bar none.
23:03We did it our way because we love it that way.
23:09We love it that way.
23:11Welcome back to Extreme Championship Wrestling at this time.
23:23Instead of going to the ring, I am told we are going via satellite to Taz's dojo where the human suplex machine is standing by to allegedly own up to the truth about his shoulder injury.
23:33Tag, sir, the form is all yours.
23:36Early December, I had shoulder surgery.
23:41Tore up my rotator cuff, tore my labrum, popped a ligament, and had major shoulder surgery.
23:49Like I said before, it was an old injury.
23:54I needed to have it done.
23:56You see, I was running roughshod through people here in ECW at like 80%.
24:02I was wrestling hurt for like the longest time.
24:07And as the time came along that Joey Styles and other people here in ECW had this big revelation.
24:15Ooh, Taz might be hurt.
24:17Taz is already on the road to recovering.
24:20And you see, now I'm healed.
24:23Now I'm at 110%.
24:25And that's bad news for a lot of people here in ECW.
24:33Sabu, what do you think it's going to be like now, Sabu?
24:39What do you think the beating's going to be like now?
24:42How hot do you think the path of rage is going to be now, Sabu?
24:48Oh, and you must think that Rob Van Dam is going to slow me up.
24:54By you putting Van Dam in my face, that's going to stop me.
24:58I don't think so, Sabu.
25:00You see, Van Dam, you ain't nothing but a wannabe.
25:07You ain't nothing but a fake karate, taekwondo, long-haired punk .
25:12You make me sick.
25:14You turn my stomach.
25:15I despise you and everything you stand for.
25:20I go into a match with you, figuring we're going to wrestle the classic grappler versus the striker.
25:29But no, Van Dam, you didn't want it like that.
25:33But no, you wanted to use a weapon.
25:37You wanted to use a chair.
25:39You see, Rob, I don't need a weapon.
25:45These are my weapons.
25:48Sandman, he needs a stick to fight his battles.
25:54These are my sticks.
25:58Tommy Dreamer, he needs a garbage can to fight his battles.
26:07These are my garbage cans.
26:10And even the legend, that 169-year-old man swinging a shovel, Terry Funk.
26:17He needs a shovel.
26:18He should be dead.
26:19He should dig a hole for himself.
26:23The rigor mortis is setting in.
26:26He's an old, washed-up punk freak.
26:30These are my shovels.
26:33Hey, Rob, I'm going to do something for you, brother.
26:39I'm going to beat you at your own game.
26:42You want to play with weapons, huh?
26:45No.
26:46We're going to play with weapons.
26:49And Sabu, please, I'm begging you, don't think it's over.
26:57Don't think it's near over.
26:59Because, brother, it ain't but that far away.
27:02That far away.
27:04That far away.
27:06Sabu, when the time is right, and the time is here, and it's coming,
27:11I swear to you, as God is my witness, as this is my dojo,
27:16and this is my world, and ECW is my territory.
27:22Sabu!
27:27Get out of my dojo!
27:29Stevie Richards, with your cult, your following, your movement.
27:42You know what I do for fun, Stevie?
27:46I took a man's wife.
27:48I took a man's son.
27:51And I took a man's sanity.
27:54What would you do for kicks?
27:57What would you do for fun?
28:01Before you decide to fly solo.
28:04Before you decide to fly the nest.
28:07Just remember one thing, Stevie.
28:10No one gets out of here alive.
28:17This can't be a good time for Raven.
28:20He's a world heavyweight champion without a belt.
28:23The Sandman's got that.
28:25And his chief flunky, Stevie Richards, is riding a wave of momentum all his own
28:32as Big Stevie Cool, leader of the Blue World Order.
28:38In fact, earlier this evening, Big Stevie Cool got a big win
28:42over full-blooded Italian Little Guido in a hard-bought contest.
28:48Both men, back and forth.
28:50Great wrestling, great striking, but in the end,
28:54out of the corner, out of nowhere seemingly,
28:57that awesome Stevie kick hit Little Guido on the button.
29:02And that was it.
29:04A one, two, three.
29:06A victory for Big Stevie Cool.
29:09And the noise was deafening here in the CYC Center.
29:14You can tell these fans were definitely pro-BWO.
29:19In fact, I understand right now it's nothing short of a mob scene
29:23outside the Blue World Order locker room.
29:26And that has to be driving Raven crazy,
29:41because tonight he takes on the Sandman one-on-one.
29:45The Sandman is putting up possession of Raven's World Heavyweight title belt.
29:50Raven is putting up so much more.
29:53If Raven loses the matchup, not only can the Sandman keep his belt
29:58as the rightful World Heavyweight Champion,
30:01but if Raven loses tonight, his head will be shaved in the middle of the ring.
30:06Also on this program, you will see Pitbull 2 Kalat with Bulldozer Brian Lee.
30:12But when we come back, Raven takes on the Sandman, putting the title and his hair up for grabs.
30:21Welcome back to Extreme Championship Wrestling.
30:23Remember, later on this program, you will see Bulldozer Brian Lee take on Pitbull number 2.
30:29But right now, it's the Sandman taking on Raven.
30:32The Sandman has Raven's World Heavyweight title belt.
30:35Raven putting the title on the line.
30:38Plus, if he loses, his head will be shaved.
30:41when Travis went down cut off his head.
30:47What's the A-owanie?
30:50What's the A- vender when Dannyрал?
30:52King Bruce Lee doesn't think so much.
30:53We've lost his head to the当ick parti attempt,
30:56Marcus May hascons chili lava and his head.
30:58The last Hadi dernier team is popped up our factory.
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31:04this Premier League comes in for impressive buros.
31:06And we've all seen Shade.
31:08And this man is for the understudy,
31:12experienced in wrestling with World Heavyweight Titles.
31:17Raven is the champion,
31:19but the Sandman has the world title belt.
31:22In this matchup, the Sandman puts up the world title belt.
31:28Raven puts up his hair.
31:34If there was ever a matchup that Raven needed,
31:38Stevie Richards, to help him win,
31:40or that he couldn't afford to have Stevie Richards sabotage,
31:45this is that matchup.
31:48It's a matchup of high stakes, to say the least.
32:08Could Raven possibly give the Sandman any more motivation?
32:14With his ex-wife.
32:16Could Raven possibly give the Sandman any more motivation?
32:19With his ex-wife.
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32:33These fans in Scranton, Pennsylvania,
32:40getting their first live look at the extreme icon.
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33:55Back-up was almost over in a hurry.
34:09Pile driver!
34:13Raven not going through the cover.
34:21Steady's trying to heave the timekeeper's table
34:25into the ring.
34:29Sandman had the presence of mind to roll out of there.
34:39I don't like the looks of this.
34:49Raven thrown into the table!
34:55Sandman pops open another cold one.
35:02And pours that beer to Raven's eyes!
35:10And pours that beer to Raven's eyes!
35:20Pours that beer to Raven's eyes and smashed it right in the face from the cage!
35:24And the same table that Raven put in the ring!
35:34And the same table that Raven put in the ring!
35:37Sandman now!
35:39Front over the guardrail!
35:41Once again, Raven's in control of this matchup.
35:46And he's busted over.
36:06Raven sets up that table again.
36:10And the bloodied Sandman thrown through that table.
36:22And the bloodied Sandman thrown through that table.
36:35Sandman is trapped.
36:45There's a boot right to the table.
36:47The Sandman's head caught underneath there.
36:49Waving up on the apron.
37:05Drops an elbow to the side of the jaw.
37:07Sandman just slumping towards the floor, just hanging there.
37:19Sandman seems to be semi-conscious.
37:33Raven with a very low boot.
37:37Raven throws the Sandman back in.
37:53Raven throws the Sandman back in.
38:07Right in the face.
38:09How much more of this can the Sandman take?
38:13Calls for a chair.
38:15Lori Fullington more than glad to oblige.
38:19Raven takes the chair to the face.
38:25Twice.
38:27Can the Sandman capitalize?
38:31DDT on the chair.
38:41He goes for the cover, but here comes Lori.
38:43And the Sandman's headed up.
38:47Sandman takes the cane to the headwind.
38:55He's wearing a BWO t-shirt.
38:57Raven can't believe it.
39:07Raven can't believe it.
39:09We've gotー!
39:11We're gonna win!
39:12We're gonna win!
39:13We're gonna win!
39:15We're gonna win!
39:16We're gonna win!
39:17Look out!
39:18We're gonna win!
39:19We're gonna win!
39:20We're gonna win!
39:21We're gonna win!
39:22The Sandman�...
39:24The Blue World Order is here!
39:31Stevie's shut by Raven.
39:36He's not backing down anymore.
39:38Raven nailed Stevie
39:42Stevie kick hit Raven in the face
39:47and Raven got the pity
39:51landed on the Sandman
39:52now wait a minute
39:56Raven's still the world heavyweight champion
39:59he gets his belt back
40:01did Stevie try to KO Raven
40:06or did we just witness a master play
40:08this deserves another look
40:13Raven shoves Stevie
40:16and Stevie will not back down
40:19Raven tries to intimidate Stevie Richards again
40:22and the kid will have none of it
40:28Raven slugs his chief blunkey
40:37and he took that Stevie kick
40:41Raven took that one on the chin
40:44landed on top of the Sandman
40:45got the one, two, three
40:46but was he trying to knock Raven out
40:50or was that all part of the scheme?
40:51we're back on the air
40:56we're gonna have to go right back to the ring
40:58because right now Pitbull 2 is going at it
41:00with bulldozer Brian Lee
41:02the massive Pitbull 2 unloads on the bulldozer
41:09back body drop
41:12the chain right to the throat
41:17spinning heel kick
41:23the bulldozer is down
41:26Pitbull 2 is fired up
41:30the bulldozer goes downstairs
41:34and throws Pitbull 2 to the outside
41:37ace first into the steel guard rail
41:46Irish whip
41:59fire time slam coming up
42:03here it is
42:06he's up
42:07Pitbull 2 is up
42:09ducks the clothesline
42:11takes a boot to the face
42:14second five time slam coming up
42:18Pitbull 2 trying to fight his way up again
42:25as the bulldozer drops the hammer
42:28exchanging punches
42:36Pitbull 2 got the better of that exchange
42:41he's mauling the bulldozer in the corner
42:44here comes the rest of the triple threat
42:48the franchise Shane Douglas
42:50and Chris Candida
42:52you knew they had to be lurking in the shadows
42:57Pitbull 2 is down
43:02the entire triple threat working over Pitbull 2
43:06it's Pitbull 1
43:08it's Gary Wolf
43:09Gary Wolf is here
43:11down goes the franchise
43:17Tommy Dreamerton ringside
43:23he's all over the bulldozer
43:24bulldozer
43:24close line down goes the franchise again
43:38out goes can't get up to the floor
43:43the Pitbulls have been reunited
43:46and that doesn't bode well for Francine
43:53Tommy Dreamerton crouched on the board rail
43:58Pitbull 2 keeping Candido at bay
44:09and the franchise nails Gary Wolf
44:13with the back of the neck
44:17the bulldozer takes a cheap shot as well
44:19Pitbull 2 trying to help his partner
44:23what's the matter?
44:30what's the matter?
44:31what's the matter?
44:32what's the matter?
44:33what's the matter?
44:34they've targeted the neck of Pitbull 1 Gary Wolf
44:37they want to go after his neck
44:39and Pitbull 2 won't let that
44:41he's taking the beating instead
44:43Pitbull 2 protecting his partner
44:49sacrificing himself
44:51at the hands of the triple threat
44:54they're picking their shots
44:57Tommy Dreamerton nailed
45:03he's on the floor
45:04the triple threat is struck again
45:13Tommy Dreamerton is down
45:22Pitbull 2 is down
45:25Pitbull 1 would have been down and out
45:28for good
45:28had it not meant for Pitbull 2 absorbing that hellacious beating
45:34I don't think you're going to slide out of Scranton PA that easy
45:50I want a cut to the chase
45:53you got something I want
45:55send a woman to me and I'll let you go free for now
46:01there she is big man
46:12she's all yours
46:14take her
46:16a sacrificial hand cheerleader
46:19from the franchise
46:21for his mysterious adversary
46:24Mike Dawson's in the ring
46:45rude awakening
46:47oh my god
46:49oh my god
46:51oh my god
46:52oh my god
46:53it's him
46:54it's him
46:55I don't want to community to see
46:56it's him
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