- 4/22/2025
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00:01You don't enter a promotion like ECW without expecting to get hurt.
00:16It's part of the game.
00:18You broke my neck.
00:21I walked around for two days with a broken neck.
00:27Not because I'm tough.
00:31Not because I wore pit bulls.
00:35But I couldn't believe that he could do that to me.
00:42You broke my neck!
00:45Brought me in a room and they strapped me down.
00:50Right there, I mean, I'm like, what's going on? What's happening?
00:56I don't know, I'm tied down.
00:59I'm vulnerable.
01:01I'm like, what's going on?
01:03He said, Gar, we gotta do this.
01:07You see these screws?
01:09That long.
01:11We gotta place them in your skull.
01:14I'm like, why?
01:17It's the only thing we have to do.
01:19We have to do it.
01:20It's gotta get done.
01:22I mean, I'm like, no painkiller.
01:26No Novocaine.
01:27No nothing.
01:31I'm a pit bull.
01:34I'm a bad, bad man.
01:38But that day, I felt more pain than I ever did in my life.
01:44What's that noise?
01:48We're putting them in.
01:50My head's raining.
01:52My body's freaking.
01:57Why?
01:58I'm a pit bull.
02:00Why is this happening to me?
02:02Why did this have to happen to me?
02:05You broke my neck!
02:10Shane Douglas tried to break my partner's neck like he did to me.
02:21So, as an athlete, as a pit bull, I had to try.
02:27Try to prevent it.
02:30Try to stop it.
02:32Even though I had screws in my head.
02:36Even though my arm was dead, numb.
02:40And he grabbed me.
02:42And he shook me.
02:44And he shook me.
02:46And he threw me down.
02:48I didn't feel like an athlete.
02:51I didn't feel like a pit bull.
02:55I didn't feel like a pit bull.
02:59I didn't feel like a man.
03:08A man came to me.
03:11He said, I had my neck broken.
03:14It ended my career.
03:16Don't let that happen to you.
03:22Be a man.
03:23Be a pit bull.
03:25Get back in the ring.
03:29Get revenge.
03:31It's a new year, Shane Douglas.
03:40And my new year's resolution
03:43is to change the direction of the ECW.
03:58In other words, Shane Douglas,
04:01my new year's resolution
04:04is the with the franchise.
04:07Do you people want to see somebody
04:17with the franchise?
04:32If you want to fuck with the franchise,
04:34why are you hiding behind a mask?
04:45It's simple, Douglas.
04:47I'm hiding behind this mask
04:50for two reasons.
04:52If I take it off,
04:54you yourself.
04:55And me and all these people
05:01have to deal with the steps.
05:06You know?
05:08There used to be a bleak squad
05:10who called himself the NWA world champion
05:14and he had the motto
05:17to be the man.
05:19You've got to beat the man.
05:23Well, it's obvious, Shane Douglas,
05:26that you are the man here in the ECW.
05:30But I believe there's somebody in the back
05:34who is ready, willing, and more than able
05:38to kick your ass.
05:39And I say right now, Shane Douglas,
05:43either you prove you got the
05:46to be the franchise
05:48or you show everybody in this building
05:50you're hung like a hamster.
05:51You've got somebody in the back?
06:03Who is it?
06:05Who is it?
06:06It's not Tommy Freeman, is it?
06:08It's not.
06:10That's because we took care of that piece of .
06:14It's not Pitbull number two, is it?
06:17It couldn't be.
06:18It couldn't be.
06:20That's right.
06:21Because we took that piece of out too.
06:25Well, whoever it is then, masked man,
06:28you bring him out and I'll prove to you
06:31and all those pieces of that I am the man in ECW.
06:36Here's the music.
06:37Here's the music.
07:07Our ex-manager loosened the ropes so Shane Douglas could throw me in between them and then she tightened them and tightened them and tightened them and tightened them.
07:32tighten them so he could slap one and a half Nelson and I'm thinking God he's gonna break
07:40my neck again.
07:42Well Shane you took me out again, you put me on the injured list, you cost me my shot
07:56for ECW's first preview. Shane Douglas, now I'm gonna break your neck.
08:26Keep it!
08:56This is Xtreme!
09:03Hi, welcome to Xtreme Championship Wrestling. I'm Joey Styles and it's barely legal weekend. ECW's
09:12very first pay-per-view and to all of our fans who always supported us and knew we could
09:18do it, thank you. And to all of our detractors who said we could never do it, you're about
09:25to get outed. Cause we know you already bought the pay-per-view, we know you're gonna have
09:29a good time, you're wearing the barely legal t-shirt, you've got the barely legal poster,
09:34and you're gonna enjoy ECW just like everyone else. So there! And speaking of enjoying ECW,
09:40this Saturday night will be a lifetime achievement banquet for the hardcore legend Terry Funk.
09:46And thanks to special accommodations made by the Philadelphia Airport Hilton Hotel, more
09:52seats have been made available to that must-attend event for any true ECW fan. And speaking of
10:00must-attend, or at least must-see, this Sunday night, ECW's very first pay-per-view, barely
10:06legal, 9 p.m. Eastern Time! A three-way dance! Terry Funk, The Sandman, and Big Stevie Cool of
10:13the BWO battle it out for the rights to go on to face Raven for the World Heavyweight
10:19title. Who is the best tag team in the world today? Is it the Eliminators? Or the ECW World
10:25Tag Team Champions, the Dugly Boys? A Michinoku Pro Wrestling six-man tag team rematch! The most
10:32highly anticipated grudge match in pro wrestling history, it's Taz vs. Sabu. And will it be revenge
10:40for the Pitbulls? As the franchise Shane Douglas, with Francine in his corner, defends the world
10:46television title against Pitbull number two. Is it really ravishing Rick Rude underneath the mask?
10:52I can smell the estrogen in the air, and it's coming from Francine's underwear. That question
10:59will be answered this weekend. This past weekend, the last show before the pay-per-view and the
11:03franchise struck again. Pitbull two misses the spin kick in the corner and tumbles to the outside.
11:16Pitbull one, Gary Wolf going over to his partner, who hit the concrete hard, and Rob Van Dam looks
11:23like he's ready to pounce. Keep your eye on Rob Van Dam! Van Dam landed on Gary Wolf! Van Dam nailed Pitbull
11:33number one! With that somersault puncher, and he landed on Gary Wolf!
11:42I mean, just when you thought it couldn't get any worse for Pitbull number one!
11:59And you can pick up the comments from our referees. I believe one of them just asked the question,
12:04was that intentional? But you would hope not! You would hope that no one is as low as Shane
12:13Douglas is! You would hope! Van Dam doesn't look very, showing any regret, any remorse,
12:23not offering an apology, not offering any help! Did he do that on purpose? There! Pee-Wee asked it again!
12:47Pitbull two, now going after Rob Van Dam!
12:50Pitbull two, now going after Rob Van Dam! Van Dam catches Pitbull two, getting back into the ring!
12:59Irish whip, reversed!
13:06Unbelievable power of the part of Pitbull two of clothesline Van Dam!
13:13Out of his boots, shoulder! It's the franchise! The franchise!
13:17Shane Douglas has the full Nelson on Gary Wolf! I might get somebody to get the franchise out of here!
13:27He's sick!
13:31He's crazy!
13:34And it comes Pitbull two! Pitbull two is going after the franchise!
13:39The goal of any great athlete is to make history. The obligation of a franchise is to change it.
13:54In one night, I won a World Heavyweight Championship that had historical lineage to 1905.
14:03To most wrestlers, that would be a night to cherish. But for a franchise, it was a night to change history.
14:13This is it tonight, Dad!
14:14God, that's beautiful!
14:23And Rick's Steamboat! And they can all kiss my ass!
14:30Because I am not the man who accepts a torch to be handed down to me from an organization that died R.I.P. seven years ago.
14:46The franchise! Shane Douglas is the man who ignites the new flame of the sport of professional wrestling!
15:01Terry Funk once held that belt!
15:03Tonight, before God and my Father as witness, I declare myself, the franchise, as the new ECW Heavyweight Champion of the World!
15:24I was the first ECW World Heavyweight Champion.
15:35And if there's something to be said about this big day coming, this pay-per-view of ours,
15:40whether you like it or not, whether you've got the guts to admit it or not,
15:45whether you have the intelligence to understand it or not, whether you've got the to admit it or not,
15:54I am the man that has been the catalyst that brought us to this event.
15:59I am the man that laid the foundation for ECW to say we are on pay-per-view.
16:06It's all mine.
16:08The glory's mine.
16:09The wonderful part of this is all mine.
16:11You're welcome.
16:21And then came the dark days of ECW, and there was no franchise.
16:27And as I sat in a dressing room full of entertainers,
16:30and I kept abreast of what was going on here in ECW, and I did watch,
16:35I saw that they needed me back.
16:37They needed somebody that was able to take them to the promised land.
16:42Promised land the nirvana called pay-per-view.
16:47But that's not the reason I came back.
16:49There was something that got my blood racing.
16:52Something that got my heart pumping.
16:55Something that got the blood pressure up just a few points.
16:58And her name's Francine.
17:02Lots of people want her, but only a franchise can have her.
17:06You see, it's real simple.
17:08It's not about going out and who can fly the highest,
17:12or who can swing the chair the hardest, or who can get the one, two, three.
17:16What it is about is who can play the star.
17:20And you people sitting at home right now with those bellies down over your belts,
17:24know whether you like us or you hate us, when you see us walking down the aisle,
17:30when you see us on the TV, you tell the kids to shut up.
17:33Because you know you're seeing greatness.
17:35You know you're seeing a star.
17:37You know you're seeing superstars.
17:41You know you're seeing a franchise.
17:48Sorry, girls.
17:50He doesn't want you.
17:52He's already got me.
17:57You see, pit bull number two, for years I sat in the dressing room
18:02and I watched all these haggard, grizzled veterans.
18:05As their careers were fading and it was slipping away,
18:08I took pages from them and I took them and added them to the book that is called The Franchise.
18:14I took from a man named Terry Funk and I siphoned off him as his career is in his twilight days.
18:21And it's slipping away.
18:23One thing I learned from people like Terry Funk is that you never overlook an opponent.
18:31Never look past the man standing in the ring in front of you.
18:34Never think about the meal on tomorrow's plate before you've swallowed and digested what's there today.
18:40Anthony Durante, I know what kind of man you are.
18:44Two hundred and seventy-five pounds of beat your chest raw power.
18:50A man capable and hell-bent on breaking the neck of the franchise
18:54and on breaking the neck of the sweetest girl in the wrestling today, Francine.
18:58My neck.
18:58My neck.
18:59A man that can do it like that if he's given the opportunity.
19:02A man that can take her and snap her neck like that if I give him the chance.
19:06What do you mean my neck?
19:07But Anthony Durante, there's something that you must understand.
19:11I've not yet decided that this career is over.
19:15I've not yet decided that I am in my twilight days.
19:18And as we come to the morning, to the dawn of the greatest day in ECW's history,
19:23I'm not looking past you, Anthony Durante.
19:26I'm looking for you.
19:28And something you must understand, pitbull number two, is that I'm not the one that's saying you're just a footnote.
19:37I'm not the one that's saying you're an insignificant other.
19:41I'm not the one that's saying you're just a notch in my belt.
19:44It's history.
19:46It's history, pitbull number two.
19:49History is saying that you're going to be a footnote, an insignificant sidebar, nothing more than a notch in my belt.
19:57It's history.
19:59And you see, I just happen to be writing that epitaph, Anthony.
20:04I just happen to be the author of this story.
20:07And it finishes like this.
20:09You become a footnote to the most significant career of an athlete that this sport has ever been offered.
20:21God may have rested on the seventh day, but the Dudleys don't.
20:27Sunday night, April 13th, Eliminators, it's time to testify.
20:35Eliminators.
20:37How does it feel?
20:38How does it feel to lose sleep at night knowing that you ain't the best tag team in the world anymore?
20:51We've taken everything that you guys got to offer.
21:00Hurricane Cronus.
21:03Air Saturn.
21:04Every moonsault, every flip, every punch, every kick.
21:14This Sunday night, in front of the world, barely legal.
21:21What makes you think anything is going to be different?
21:31Apparently, even signed guy Dudley realizes if the Eliminators hit total elimination at the pay-per-view this Sunday night, they will regain the world tag team title.
21:52Speaking of which, this past weekend, we were in Queens, New York City.
21:57It was a rematch, a three-way dance.
22:00And yes, the world tag team title belts were on the line as the reigning champions, the Dudley boys, defended against the Eliminators and the Gangsters.
22:10Check this out.
22:12Ladies and gentlemen, I introduce your manager, a true wrestling genius, signed by Dudley.
22:23Man, what a snappy dresser.
22:26We represent the team that wears the multi-color tie-dye, smold in jet black.
22:36They have an incomparable record of 88 wins, zero losses, 87 wins by way of paintball.
22:47What?
22:48They have, from the legendary fighting town of Dudleyville, one year, a combined weight of a dangerous 608 pounds, ladies and gentlemen.
23:04They are the world tag team champions.
23:17Wish they'd give Gertner a tie-dye shirt.
23:23Vertical suplex by Saturn.
23:26Front kick.
23:29Irish whip.
23:34Hurricane Crotus.
23:37Tear to the noggin.
23:47Bubba Ray goes down and hard.
23:51The Eliminators are in control.
23:53It's a slam on Devon and Bubba Ray.
24:07Stereo moonsaults.
24:08Saturn nails Bubba Ray.
24:25Irish whip.
24:26Ridge hands midsection.
24:28Ridge hands back in the knees.
24:31And a pair of dragon sweeps.
24:33Devon's in trouble.
24:40Springboard sidekick right to the jaw.
24:44Here come the gangsta.
24:45And this three-way dance is about to get extreme.
25:11The World Tag Team belts are up for grabs.
25:13And Cronus is playing video games.
25:18There's no screen in front of him.
25:27And the Eliminator.
25:31Take the page out of the gangsta's book.
25:33Bova Ray Dudley may be out.
25:47Evon up and over the guardrail.
25:49Evon Dudley is in trouble, I'm in big trouble.
26:10Evon Dudley is in trouble, I'm in big trouble.
26:13What's going on?
26:26That's...
26:28New Jack!
26:33Oh, he attempts this from the balcony.
26:35Not even an oh my god will do it justice.
26:38Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god!
27:06I wouldn't believe that if I hadn't seen it.
27:11Would you?
27:14Who does that?
27:19New Jack is fearless!
27:21New Jack!
27:22New Jack!
27:23New Jack!
27:23New Jack!
27:24New Jack!
27:28Power slam on Cronus!
27:31Cover to...
27:31Two...
27:32Nope.
27:38Devon gets nailed!
27:42New Jack going all the way up!
27:46He took the chair right in the face!
27:48Nice!
27:53But his feet were in the ropes!
27:56Perhaps saving the gangsta...
27:57No!
27:58Bubba Cutter!
28:03The gangsters are gone!
28:04The Illuminators are well on their way to becoming ECW World Tag Team Champions again!
28:18They have this matchup in hand!
28:21There's an elbow from the stratosphere!
28:33Leaping back kick!
28:36Sign Guy Dudley now up on the apron!
28:38Saturn's got Sign Guy Dudley!
28:41And there's Powder!
28:45And there's Powder!
28:47Powder thrown into the eyes of referee John Pee Wee Moore!
28:49It was meant for Saturn!
28:51He escapes the Bubba Ball!
28:54Irish Whip!
29:02Brown Hell Sandwich!
29:06And you can sense what's coming next!
29:11Court Elimination!
29:15But Pee Wee can't see!
29:16He's been blinded by Sign Guy Dudley!
29:24Lotus nailed between the eyes!
29:29Side kick on Sign Guy!
29:31Saturn rolled up from behind!
29:33Hooks the tights!
29:35He got him!
29:37And the Dudleys just stole a victory!
29:41And the Dudleys just stole a victory!
29:42And the Dudleys just stole a victory!
29:43And the Batstern síó!
29:44It's gone!
29:45It's gone!
29:45Wow!
29:46And the Dudleys just stole a victory!
29:49Oh, shit!
29:50I'm out of late!
29:51Oh, is he ever going to get it now?
30:14He is just going to...
30:16And man, does he deserve it!
30:21The next sign he sees says, emergency room parking only.
30:45There's no escape for the Dunleys on April 13th.
30:51This Sunday night is the biggest night in the history of the ECW Arena.
30:58It's the biggest night in the history of the ECW promotion.
31:05And it's the biggest night in both the lives of the Dudleys and the Eliminators.
31:12But for you, Dudleys, it's your biggest defeat, your biggest embarrassment, your biggest ass-kicking.
31:24And for the Eliminators, it's our biggest victory because we get to become three-time ECW Tag Team Champions.
31:36And for the first time, win those belts in the ECW Arena on pay-per-view.
31:44And we're going to do that by taking you out.
31:49And we're going to do that with total elimination.
31:54Yeah!
31:55Total elimination!
31:58Yeah!
31:59Total elimination!
32:01Total elimination!
32:02Tottena gedisa!
32:06Sayonara!
32:07A-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a...
32:08Woo-hoo-hoo-hoo.
32:38You can bet the wrestlers from Michinoku Pro are looking forward to being a part of ECW's
32:58first pay-per-view.
33:00Also looking forward to being at the pay-per-view, a man who pulled himself out of the three-way
33:05dance to make way for his mentor, Terry Funk.
33:09Standing by with comments is Tommy Dreamer.
33:13This Sunday night, I'm going to make sure that it's a night that Raven always remembers
33:21and a night that Terry Funk will never forget.
34:35This is my domain.
34:59This is my world.
35:03This is my house.
35:07And Sabu, you're just a visitor.
35:11A very welcomed visitor.
35:16This Sunday night, ECW Arena, barely legal, pay-per-view, Sabu.
35:27Sabu, do me a favor, brother.
35:33Be the old Sabu.
35:36Bring to the ring the old Sabu.
35:40Sabu, the Sabu that I used to know, the Sabu that would give 150%, the Sabu that has a heart
35:54the size of a lion, the size of a lion, the size of a lion, the Sabu that would fight me to the death, to the finish, to the end.
36:05Push me, Sabu, come to Philly and push me.
36:12Bring it all, Sabu.
36:13I beg you, I beg you, I plead, I pray, the old Sabu shows up.
36:22And when he does, he's going to hit a wall.
36:31Me.
36:32I promise, I am not only going to beat you up, I am not only going to blow you up, I am not only going to stretch you.
36:53I'm going to choke you out, Sabu.
36:56It's going to be a war.
36:59I know it's going to be.
37:02And I also know
37:03it will probably change our future careers.
37:10And I love that.
37:12I love it.
37:14I love it so much, I could smell it.
37:17I could feel it.
37:19I could taste it.
37:24I can't wait
37:26to have my hand raised
37:30in victory
37:31and look down on the mat
37:33at your
37:35sweaty
37:36battered body, Sabu.
37:40I'm going to choke you out, Sabu.
37:50I'm going to choke you out
37:51because I have to.
37:56I have to choke you out.
37:58I don't have a choice.
38:01And neither do you.
38:03this Sunday night, Sabu.
38:13This Sunday night.
38:16Two years
38:17of waiting.
38:20Two years
38:22of anger.
38:24Two years
38:25of frustration.
38:27who come
38:30to a
38:31christian
38:32halt.
38:38You
38:38are going to get choked out
38:41by me.
38:44I'm going to make you pay
38:46for making me wait.
38:48I'm going to make you
38:51feel
38:53like
38:54I have to.
39:00Sabu.
39:02I'm going to choke you out.
39:06See you on the 13th.
39:08Welcome back to Extreme
39:14Championship Wrestling.
39:15And the clock is ticking down
39:17to Extreme History.
39:19ECW's first pay-per-view,
39:20barely legal.
39:21Oh, speaking of barely legal.
39:24Uh, Sandman,
39:25thank you for joining us.
39:26And regarding the three-way dance
39:28this Sunday night on pay-per-view,
39:30is there a camaraderie
39:31between yourself, Terry Funk,
39:33and Big Stevie Cool
39:34because you all hate Raven
39:36that would inhibit you
39:37from, you know,
39:38fighting the two of them?
39:48Okay.
39:49Hypothetically speaking,
39:50you win the three-way dance.
39:51You have a shot at Raven
39:52and the world heavyweight title.
39:54He's the man
39:55that stole your ex-wife.
39:56He's the man
39:57that tried to steal your son
39:58and destroy your family.
39:59What would you do to Raven?
40:07Well, we thank you for joining us.
40:12And of course,
40:12we wish you the best of luck
40:14on ECW's pay-per-view,
40:16your first pay-per-view appearance
40:18this Sunday night.
40:20Thanks.
40:21Awesome.
40:21We'll be back to your next week's free.
40:22Bye.
40:23Let's get started.
40:23Bye.
40:28Bye.
40:39Bye.
40:40Bye.
40:40Bye.
40:41Bye.
40:42Bye.
40:44Bye.
40:44Bye.
40:44Bye.
40:45Bye.
40:46Bye.
40:46Bye.
40:46Bye.
40:47Bye.
40:47Bye.
40:47Bye.
40:48Bye.
40:48Bye.
40:49Bye.
40:49Bye.
42:19As we sat down and she went in a trance, she started speaking some sort of gibberish.
42:27And I could make out the words fear and dreams.
42:32And then she started singing a song from my youth.
42:37She went, listen carefully to the sound as the heartbeat drives you mad.
42:47And the stillness and the memory of what you had and what you lost.
42:55And it made me think of the day they first took the ECU World title away from me.
43:09I was sitting in rehab for addictions that were no one's business but my own.
43:17And a junkie walked up to me on methadone to try and clean him up.
43:25And he said to me, he goes, what would you be doing right now if you weren't here?
43:33Because obviously he'd be outscoring.
43:36And then and there it sunk into me.
43:42The pain and the anguish of what it meant to lose one of the only two things in my life that I loved.
43:52And now, I got three gunslingers coming for me.
44:01The Sandman, Stevie Richards, and Terry Funk.
44:08I'm going to have to be Mr. Miracle to pull this one off.
44:15Because those are three determined individuals.
44:18Three men who hate me.
44:20Three men who despise me.
44:23And three men who want to wear my title more than anything they want in their entire lives.
44:33And all that pain that I'm going to have to suffer.
44:38And all that anguish.
44:40And the torment.
44:42And the desperation.
44:47It makes me feel alive.
44:50I feel my own pain.
44:54And I like it.
44:56Quote the world heavyweight champion.
45:00Forevermore.
45:00This is the Texas panhandle.
45:06And this is where my father is.
45:09I come here a lot whenever I need strength.
45:12Sometimes I get a twitch in my eye.
45:14And a death gum lump in my throat.
45:17I'm going to try and not let that happen today.
45:21I loved him.
45:22We all loved him.
45:24And he loved this part of Texas.
45:27I think it's a great place for him to be.
45:31His gravestone says,
45:33Do not stand at my grave and cry.
45:36I am not here.
45:37I did not die.
45:38He did it spiritually.
45:42If I make it through the three-way dance with Stevie Richardson Sandman.
45:47If I make it to Raven and beat him for the ECW World Championship.
45:51I have to do it one step at a time.
45:57Dad, this one's for you.
46:21Dad, this one's for you.
46:32I don't know.
46:33Dad, this another.
46:34That's just fourじゃない?
46:35Did I get really?
46:37I don't know.
46:37Okay.
46:38Dad, this one's for you.
46:40I don't know.
46:41I'm just going to study that little time.
46:44I'm just going to study that little time.
46:45I'm just going to study that little time.
46:47You know, I don't want to study that little time.
46:48I think that little time has to change.
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