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00:00The credit goes to the man in the arena whose face is marred with blood, with sweat, with
00:18dirt, with dust, and sometimes tears, who errs and comes up short again and again, who
00:37knows the great enthusiasms, who knows the great devotions, and spends himself for a
00:49worthy cause, and who at best knows the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst fails
01:05but does so daringly, so that his place will never be at the side of those cold and frigid
01:20souls that know neither victory nor defeat.
01:28What I have just told you is a professional wrestler that I love.
01:35It's a hundred percenter.
01:37Believe me, I have a place for the winner.
01:41I love the loser, but the man that's in my heart is the one that gives a hundred percent,
01:53night after night, no matter if it's Tommy Dreamer, no matter if it's Mikey Wibreck, no
02:02matter who it is, it's a guy that has a compassion for what he does, for what he loves.
02:17One, two, three, two, come on, hit me.
03:06This is Xtreme.
03:36Over the last three and a half years.
03:38And we would especially like to thank all of you who ordered the pay-per-view.
03:43Now for those of you who could not see the pay-per-view because it was not available in your area.
03:48Keep in mind we will be back Sunday night, August 17th.
03:52And we hope that that pay-per-view will be available in significantly more homes.
03:58Before we went on the air at 9 p.m. Eastern time at 8.30, we put on a 30-minute pre-game show.
04:06Bringing you up to date on how we got to the pay-per-view.
04:09And for those of you who did not even see the pre-game show, we thought we'd bring you some pieces from that program as well.
04:17To let you experience the events, the happenings that brought us to the most defining moment in the history of Xtreme Championship Wrestling.
04:28The pay-per-view this past Sunday night, barely legal.
04:32Here now, for those of you who did not have the opportunity to see it, our pre-game show, which was, to say the least, barely legal.
04:43Ladies and gentlemen, we are within 30 minutes of a pay-per-view that will be so extreme, it'll be barely legal.
04:54Encouragement now coming from Gary Wolf, pitfall number one.
04:58Pitfall, marching on his partner, pitfall two, got to his feet.
05:04He's powering out of the bold outfit.
05:09He escaped.
05:14Oh, no.
05:15Another single RFDT.
05:19Shane Douglas, most definitely trying to break the neck of pitfall number two.
05:25Pitfall, pitfall.
05:28Now marking the pitfall.
05:33Gary confronting the franchise.
05:35It's the pit.
05:36Oh, God, no.
05:50Oh, God, no.
05:53Oh, God, no.
05:55Get out of here!
06:25Get out of here!
06:55Get out of here!
07:25Get out of here!
07:55Get out of here!
07:57Get out of here!
07:59Get out of here!
08:01Get out of here!
08:07Get out of here!
08:09Get out of here!
08:11Get out of here!
08:19Get out of here!
08:21Get out of here!
08:25It's a New Year's thing, Douglas.
08:42And my New Year's resolution is to change the direction of the ECW.
08:59In other words, my New Year's resolution is to change the direction of the ECW.
09:11And my New Year's resolution is to f**k with the franchise.
09:18Do you people want to see somebody f**k with the franchise?
09:26Why are you hiding behind a mask?
09:33If you want to f**k with the franchise, why are you hiding behind a mask?
09:40It's simple, Douglas. I'm hiding behind this mask for two reasons.
09:47If I take it off, you f**k yourself.
09:54And me and all these people have to deal with the steps.
10:01You f**k yourself.
10:02And me and all these people have to deal with the steps.
10:08You know, there used to be a bleached, flawed tub of c**t who called himself the NWA world champion.
10:21And he had the motto to be the man, but you've got to beat them.
10:28Well, it's obvious, Shane Douglas, that you are the man here in the ECW.
10:36But I believe there's somebody in the back who is ready, willing, and more than able to kick your ass.
10:47And I say right now, Shane Douglas, either you prove you got the f**k to beat a franchise,
10:54or you show everybody in this building you're hung like a hamster.
11:07You've got somebody in the back?
11:10Who is it? Who is it? It's not Tommy Freeman, is it?
11:15It's not.
11:17That's because we took care of that piece of s**t.
11:21It's not Pitbull number two, is it?
11:24It couldn't be.
11:26That's right.
11:27Because we took that piece of s**t out too.
11:32Well, whoever it is then, masked man, you bring him out and I'll prove to you and all those pieces of s**t that I am the man in ECW.
11:43Here's the music.
11:51It's no need expensive across the field eh.
11:53Where it is, it's not crazy.
11:55So wait.
11:56Here's the music.
11:57Here comes our coffee.
11:59Here comes our coffee.
12:00We work at first time.
12:01There comes our coffee.
12:04Here comes our coffee.
12:05Care comes any other coffee.
12:06Hurricane problems.
12:07We're having more coffee.
12:08This time we're moving.
12:10We think we're going wiederommying a lot.
12:11It'signee running march.
12:12Yeah.
12:13It's compromising a coffee,
12:14And we're moving flessä.
12:14Come on!
12:16needs some O argla power.
12:17And we're going take too much MORE giving me the morphine continues on.
12:18so now you know the history and this past sunday night the franchise defended the world television
12:30title against pitbull number two the stipulations were simple to pitbull to fail to win the title
12:36from the franchise shane douglas the mysterious masked man who has been chasing francine would
12:42have to reveal his items
12:44extolling on his own virtues while taunting pitbull one gary wolf who was at ringshot
13:06anthony durant's pitbull number two hit the ring with fire and immediately tried to take the
13:18franchise out working on the net trying to receive the franchise for what happened to gary wolf
13:27making gary watch enjoy the pain of the franchise as francine looked on in horror
13:35but the power of pitbull two seemed limitless on this evening but then francine reaching into her bag
13:46of tricks handed something to the franchise one of many foreign objects new this evening
13:52the franchise then resorted back to wrestling
13:56and then tried to break the neck of pitbull number two
14:02gary wolf could take no more he hopped the guardrail and tumbled the franchise shane douglas
14:12and was led away by the riot police made necessary by our insurance company
14:21the franchise then went for a chain in his boots
14:24but fell victim to a punk handle slam at the hands of powerful pitbull number two who got a two and seven eighths count
14:37chris candido torn bicep at all hit the ring in an attempt to save the franchise and got decked for his trouble
14:47but the distraction enabled the franchise to hook an overhead belly to belly suplex for the one
14:56two three
14:58for the stipulations made before the match the masked man came down to the ring
15:05simply ravaging rose and all and laid a simply ravishing kiss on francine
15:11the franchise the franchise tore the mask off of the masked man while one of the riot police removed his helmet
15:21the man behind the mask was the bulldozer brian lee and the police officer turned out to be ravaging rick rude
15:28rick rude who nailed the franchise who spun right into a prime time slag
15:38fellow football threat member bulldozer brian lee had been shown the money by ravishing rick rute
15:46and the whole experience didn't exactly leave a bad case in the mouth of francine
15:53but the franchise was left an angry man another mind game scored by ravishing with rute
16:02april 13th is coming gone and the words mcjagger and the rolling stones sang
16:09oh true you can't always get what you want shane douglas what i wanted was for you to lose your world
16:19television title you held onto it by the skin of your teeth what i wanted shane douglas was for you and francine
16:28to be splitsville well she's got one foot in brian lee's bed and the other on a banana peel so it does hold true
16:39you can't always get what you want but i did try one time and i did find i got what i needed
16:49because what i needed shane douglas was to with the franchise what i needed shane douglas was to take that
17:00stinkin itchy mask off my face
17:03one more thing i need to do shane douglas
17:08that's to let you know
17:11that there's more
17:13in store
17:15more
17:21for one month
17:25saturn and cronus had to hear how they were no longer the best tag team in the world today and
17:31believe me they were fed up
17:33where y'all come from
17:44where y'all come from
17:46y'all don't want none
17:47y'all don't want none
17:48rip your hoods
17:50rip your hoods up
17:51y'all gonna get some
17:53you wanna get some
17:54you wanna get some
18:03i've been all around the world and seen many places and all kind of faces in many different hoods it ain't all good we down in the dungeon with the rats and roaches and the smell of onions it's the dirty where the pimps get pimped the hard term wimp that's the way of life and the fiends go out by the way of the pot
18:12and this ain't just real life
18:21where y'all come from
18:28where y'all come from
18:30y'all don't want none
18:32y'all don't want none
18:42where y'all don't want none
18:44rep your hoods up
18:47y'all gonna get some
18:48you wanna get some
18:50I stay stretched out, my hood is full of fiends
18:53And cats that bleem, that still chase cream
18:55And turn a small money ball into a big stack of greens
18:58And little handguns, they turn them to machines
19:01And life ain't what it seems, but I'ma get through it
19:03I'ma hold up my head and reach for the sky
19:06And let these brothers know I'm in the hood like roaches
19:09I ain't going nowhere until I die
19:12Where y'all come from?
19:15Y'all don't want none
19:18Rep your hoods on
19:20Y'all gon' get some
19:22Where y'all come from?
19:26Y'all don't want none
19:29Rep your hoods on
19:32Y'all gon' get some
19:33Where y'all come from?
19:48Y'all don't want none
19:50Rep your hoods on
19:53If you wanna get some
19:56Where y'all come from?
19:59Y'all don't want none
20:02Rep your hoods on
20:04If you wanna get some
20:08The eliminators were fed up with the Dudleys
20:13The Dudleys were fed up with being called a fluke
20:16And they settled the issue this past Sunday night at Fairly Legal
20:21Joe Gertner
20:21Joe Gertner, signed Guy Dudley and the ECW World Tag Team Champions hit the ring first
20:29And then the former two-time ECW World Tag Team Champions had a look of determination we had never seen before
20:39And immediately totally eliminated, signed Guy Dudley
20:43And then the Dudley boys took over with great double team wrestling
20:52Not to be outdone, the eliminators unleashed new moves from their aerial arsenal
21:01Topped off by 275-pound John Cronus hitting a picture-perfect 450-degree splash
21:13Total elimination on Bubba Ray Dudley
21:22And the eliminators became three-time ECW World Tag Team Champions
21:29Joel Gertner, never at a loss for words, left out two
21:38Total elimination
21:42Total elimination
21:51Welcome back to Extreme Championship Wrestling
21:53This past Sunday night, three of the top contenders in ECW
21:57Big Stevie Cool of the BWO, the extreme icon the Sandman
22:01And the hardcore legend Terry Funk collided in a three-way dance
22:05With the winner to get a shot at Raven and the ECW World Heavyweight title
22:10Tommy Dreamer and the beautiful Beulah McGillicuddy joined me in the broadcast position high atop the ECW arena
22:19And Big Stevie Cool with his Blue World Order hit the ring first to a standing ovation and chance of BWO
22:27The fans remained on their feet to welcome the extreme icon the Sandman
22:36And then the hardcore legend Terry Funk almost blew the roof off of the ECW arena
22:45The match resembled a human demolition derby that was only made worse when the Sandman brought a ladder to the ring
22:54And nailed the hardcore legend right in the head with it
22:58The Funker and the Sandman battled atop the ladder
23:05And then the Funker hit a moonsault off the ladder on Big Stevie Cool
23:11The Sandman was whipped hard into the corner upside down into the ladder
23:21The Funker then toppled the ladder knocking down the Sandman and Big Stevie Cool
23:31And then became a human whirly bird with the ladder on his shoulders knocking down everything in sight
23:38He showed the whole world why he is the forefather of extreme championship wrestling
23:46Big Stevie Cool was eliminated first by a double team powerbomb
23:57And then Terry Funk became the sole survivor of the three way dance with a moonsault on the Sandman
24:05Raven the World Heavyweight Champion immediately hit the ring to take on his bloodied beaten and broken challenger
24:15Terry Funk was busted open he was a mess quite frankly
24:25And Dr. Mark Allen seriously considered stopping the match
24:30But Terry Funk insisted on continuing despite Dr. Allen's recommendations
24:39280 pound Reggie Bennett one of the toughest women ever to compete in wrestling
24:45Dropped the hardcore legend right on his head
24:48To the shock and disgust of Tommy Dreamer
24:52And then Raven told Dreamer he was gonna have Terry Funk driven through three tables right at Dreamer's feet
24:59Distracting the innovator of violence setting up an ambush by Big Dick Dudley
25:07Big Dick looked bigger than ever and tried to chokeslam Tommy through three tables but had the tables turned on him
25:17Dreamer hit the ring only to be stomped by the World Heavyweight Champion
25:25Raven shot Tommy into the ropes
25:29Went for a hip toss
25:33But Tommy reversed it with the DDT
25:37Funk covered Raven
25:39Raven kicked out
25:40But then Funk went for the small package of the World Heavyweight Champion
25:44And Terry Funk became the new ECW Heavyweight Champion of the World
25:50Welcome back to ECW
25:57Savu vs. Taz
25:59How could you possibly explain the significance of the most eagerly anticipated grudge match in professional wrestling history?
26:09We gave it our best shot during our barely legal pay-per-view preview
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27:06Oh my God!
27:10T-Bone has flexed!
27:14And now Taz! He's got the Taz mission!
27:18The lights are up!
27:22And there's someone in the ring with Taz!
27:36The most widely demanded, heavily hyped, most important matchup in the history
28:04of the Extreme Championship Wrestling promotion.
28:08Sabu vs. Taz.
28:12Here now, for the first time anyway, an exclusive look
28:16of the matchup that fans waited to see
28:20for over one year.
28:24You could cut the anticipation with a knife, as Sabu
28:28and Taz finally came face to face. Taz, with a vicious
28:32crossface, broke Sabu's nose early on
28:36in the matchup.
28:38Sabu knew he had to get
28:40the mat off of the mat
28:42and launched into the air
28:44and did just that,
28:46using a chair and the top rope
28:48to hurl himself
28:50at Taz into the third row.
28:52But Taz countered with a vicious clothesline.
28:56Sabu came back at Taz flying through the air.
29:02But then Taz, Taz plexed Sabu over the guardrail.
29:08Sabu went for the swinging DDT,
29:10but Taz countered, throwing Sabu neck first through the table
29:14to the concrete floor.
29:16And that was the injury that caught Sabu the matchup.
29:20Sabu continued to battle
29:22with a top rope Purenkan Rana.
29:24A leg drop from the heavens.
29:28Even using Taz's own suplex, the T-Bone.
29:34And then, went for Taz's finisher, the katahajime.
29:38But Taz countered with vicious Taz plexes,
29:44attacking the injured neck of Sabu.
29:51And then, locked on, the katahajime.
29:55And with Sabu's injured neck,
29:57he was in no position to fight that hole.
30:01Taz extended his hand to Sabu following his victory.
30:08And then, robbed Van Damme, attacked from behind.
30:15Taz tried to take out Van Damme,
30:18but was nailed by Sabu.
30:23Van Damme and Sabu then viciously double-teamed
30:26the human suplex machine.
30:28And while Rob Van Damme held Taz,
30:31Sabu put him through a table.
30:33And then, locked on, the katahajime on the concrete,
30:40adding insult to injury.
30:43And then, the most shocking turn of them all.
30:46Bill Alfonso revealed himself to be a sellout,
30:49now managing Sabu and Van Damme.
30:52Taz, I bet every penny I had on Sabu,
30:59because I know when he put me through that table,
31:03you weren't man enough.
31:05I know, I taught you everything you know.
31:09You were a loser before you met Bill Alfonso.
31:13Now, how am I going to pay for my taxes?
31:18How am I going to pay for all my exports?
31:23You owe me, buddy.
31:25I'm going to wipe my ass with you.
31:28Taz, I hate you.
31:30I hate you.
31:31I hate you.
31:32I hate you.
31:33I hate Taz.
31:35Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
31:36Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
31:37I hate him.
31:38Hey, hey, hey.
31:39Hey, hey, hey.
31:40What's the matter?
31:41Taz, why all the hostility?
31:43You coming after us?
31:45Brother.
31:46Candido.
31:47You want some?
31:48Check this out.
31:49Anybody that wants Van Damme and Sabu,
31:52you talk to this man right here,
31:54Mr. Bill Alfonso.
31:56We're now taking bookings for any Friday and Saturday night
31:59that you feel like getting your ass kicked.
32:01Oh, and by the way, I'm now negotiating Monday nights
32:07because I can do that because I'm Rob Van Damme.
32:13Sabu, thank you.
32:18Thank you for being the that I knew you were.
32:24I loved it.
32:27This past Sunday, I told you I was going to bust you up.
32:34And I busted you up.
32:36I told you I was going to hook my hold.
32:39And I hooked my hold.
32:41And I told you I was going to choke you out.
32:47And I choked you out.
32:50And looked at you laying in the middle of the ring in your own blood.
32:55Busted up.
33:01Being the consummate athlete, I extend my hand.
33:07Show her respect.
33:09Hey, good match.
33:13Then you shook my hand and you hoodwinked me.
33:16I loved it.
33:17I loved it.
33:19I loved it.
33:20You gave me a reason now, Sabu.
33:22You fueled my fire more.
33:26And then your little puppet came out.
33:29Rob Van Damme hopping out with his long little prissy hair.
33:34And nails me from behind.
33:36Hey, Rob.
33:37It's real good that you're getting practice as a puppet, brother.
33:43Because where you're headed, you ain't going to be nothing but a puppet.
33:48And you're so anxious to wrestle on Monday nights.
33:52Well, that's just great.
33:54Because when I get done with you, brother, you might be wrestling on Monday nights quicker than you thought.
33:59And then you, Fonzie, you think you got one over on me, don't you?
34:10You want to play head games with me.
34:12Fonzie, you done up, brother.
34:15So you know me.
34:17But so you think.
34:19You think you know me.
34:21I never needed you, Fonz.
34:27I never needed you.
34:29Just like I don't need anybody else.
34:32I don't need you.
34:34I don't need Team Taz.
34:36I don't need the wrestlers to support me.
34:38And I sure as hell don't need the fans.
34:41I ain't some hokey babyface that's looking for support.
34:44You see, what I am is an athlete with ability and attitude.
34:51I don't need nothing but you, Sabu.
34:56You I need.
34:58You I need to keep me going.
35:02You're my fuel.
35:04I'm a Sherman tank and you're the fuel.
35:08And Fonzie, I'm a savor you.
35:16I'm a let you sit back and watch me tear up two guys that you think have your back.
35:25These two guys, they're such a self-centered, conceited .
35:31They don't even have each other's back.
35:33What makes you think they got your back, Fonz?
35:36Fonzie, Puppet Boy, and Sabu?
35:49I love games.
35:52Let's play.
35:58At this time, if you would just indulge me for a moment.
36:01On a personal note.
36:03When I was 14 years old, I had this crazy notion that I was going to be a professional wrestling television announcer.
36:11And everybody in my life told me to forget about it and give up the dream.
36:15I want to thank all of the fans who supported extreme championship wrestling since we started on one station three and a half years ago.
36:27I want to thank the wrestlers who have all worked for ECW for the past three and a half years.
36:31I want to thank everybody who works behind the scenes.
36:35I want to thank Paul Heyman who returned my phone call when nobody else would and gave me a job.
36:40This past Sunday night was the greatest night of my life and I'm sure the same will be said by many of the wrestlers in the locker room.
36:53And you know the best part about it?
36:54It's just the beginning for all of us.
36:58My name is Paul Heyman and I'm the executive producer of extreme championship wrestling and I wish that there were words that could even begin to describe to you the level of appreciation that the members of this company feel towards you our audience for the fact that you have supported us to such an extent that we would even dare try something like a pay per view.
37:19There are no words that can even begin to convey the level of appreciation that we feel.
37:35Extreme.
37:40Championship.
37:44Mercer.
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