- 5/15/2025
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00:00The battle lines are drawn as Dawn Marie reacts to the return of Tami Flynn 6
00:10to extreme championship wrestling.
00:15Plus, tonight, the world television champion, Mr. PPV,
00:21RVP on Hardcore TV.
00:30Extreme...
00:39...Championship...
00:44...Murray!
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01:51Hello, everyone, and welcome to ECW Hardcore TV.
01:54I'm Joey Stiles.
01:55This past Friday on ECW on TNN, Tami Lincich returned to ECW to give a shockingly honest interview about her personal demons.
02:04Dawn Marie has made it clear that this means war, and she is not giving up her spot now that Tami is back.
02:11That storm is on the horizon, and it will most likely hit us next Friday night when Chris Candido goes one-on-one against Landstorm on TNN.
02:20Mike Lawson is still our World Heavyweight Champion, recently had his first world title defense here at ECW.
02:26Check out this recent matchup, and understand two things.
02:30The 23-year-old pinch beast of Steve Carino, Lino, is a real comer and as future champion with an all-overhead.
02:39And the six-foot-six, 292-pound, undisputed ECW Heavyweight Champion of the World is awesome.
02:51Music
03:00Music
03:01Music
03:06Music
03:10Music
03:15Music
03:18And the match is underway, there's a clothesline by the champ.
03:22Referee John Peewee Vaughn to officiate this battle of any ways.
03:27Stuck in the back door at the main review, but with that clothesline,
03:30he just slammed the front door right to the face.
03:32And the 290-pound champion walks the turnbuckles and delivers a devastating back elbow.
03:39Clothesline takes the line over to the outside.
03:43Ryan Olsen!
03:48Unbelievable!
03:52He cleared the top rope entirely.
03:55He almost cleared Rhyno.
03:57I believe Olsen did head first on the concrete and doesn't kick.
04:02Rhyno hits the steel guardrail.
04:08What acceleration he had heading into it.
04:14Olsen's not done yet either.
04:17This match is a huge opportunity for Rhyno, but he's gonna have to regroup and get back in the game real quick, or it's gonna be all over.
04:26You've got to admire Judge Jeff Jones who was vocal complaining about not getting enough airtime and not having an important enough role in Extreme Championship Wrestling.
04:36He made himself one.
04:38He is managing the new Undisputed World Heavyweight Champion, and from the looks of it, it's gonna be a long time before anyone takes that belt off of Mike.
04:47Also, because right now the Rhyno is being man-headed!
04:54Clothesline from the top!
04:57Clothesline from the top!
04:58Clothesline!
04:59Come on ahead!
05:00Rhino showing lots of guts and lots of determination just to be able to kick out of that top rope clothesline.
05:09The champ going for the awesome bomb, it's back body dropped!
05:18Spines busted by Rhino, this may be all!
05:22Two cat only, Awesome kicks out, and now the challenger Rhino taking the fight with the champion Mike Awesome!
05:33Awesome sets of the ride!
05:37And Rhino charges, and we've seen it before,
05:42he gores heavyweight champion Mike Orson.
05:47And now it's the 285 pound Rhino going up top.
05:51We haven't seen this yet.
05:53Diving, headbutt with a swall in the back.
05:55Lateral twist.
05:57Gets to two.
05:59Rhino with those heavy right hands,
06:08delivered to the head of the champion, full head of steam.
06:12Orson gets the big boot up.
06:15Touch the clothesline.
06:18German suplex, no breeze, just dumps the Rhino on the back of his head.
06:25Rhino is stunned, he's stunned.
06:31He's still up and ready to fight.
06:34But for how long?
06:36Awesome, who's gonna awesome bomb the Rhino for that table at ringside?
06:40Rhino escaped once, will he escape again?
06:45Oh my god!
06:55I think Steve Carino just went his new yellow sticklet right here on national television.
07:14Judge Jeff Jones is absolutely ecstatic.
07:18He has obviously passed judgment on Rhino, and that was the sentence.
07:29And the champ is not finished yet.
07:326'6", 290 pounds.
07:36Now ascending the turnbusters like no other big man in the sport.
07:41Awesome split!
07:44Coming up next,
08:08Tom Marie, the Flair's Wolf.
08:11On the returning Tammy Lynn Sitch.
08:14This isn't gonna be a cast back.
08:16This is going to be a street fight.
08:25As Sunny, she was wrestling's preeminent sex symbol.
08:29Now, Tammy Lynn Sitch has returned to extreme championship wrestling.
08:38This past Friday night on TNN, Tammy Lynn Sitch returned to television here at ECW and made it clear she has defeated her personality.
08:57Her personal demons and she wants her spot back in ECW.
09:02Dawn Marie took this as a declaration of war and made it clear that she is not giving up her spot just because Tammy got her act together and decided to return to professional wrestling.
09:15Now, a look at Lance Storm's personal, well, Dawn Marie.
09:22Proudly proclaiming herself to be Lance Storm's personal bitch.
09:26That's B-Y-T-C-A.
09:30Dawn Marie appears to be a brainless bimbo.
09:34Or is she?
09:37Could it all be a point?
09:39Could it be a trap for Tammy Lynn Sitch?
09:43We're gonna find out.
09:45Because the showdown between these two bombshells is about to happen here in ECW.
09:55And you're gonna wanna have a front row seat when it happens.
10:02Spicoli driver in the center of the ring.
10:15And referee Mike Kenner gets pulled out of the ring before the three count comes down.
10:20In comes Carino.
10:25And Francine doesn't like it one-fifth.
10:32Nice come behind.
10:35Carino ducks the close line, boots in the midsection, double underhook.
10:39And Carino eats and bakes.
10:44That victory wants no part of Francine who can blame him.
10:47It's Raven.
10:48Raven's gonna go after T-
10:50Raven stole the match from Tommy because the World Tag Team title belt weren't on the line.
11:05Here comes the ref.
11:10That was last week on ECW on TNN.
11:23Tajiri gets yet another victory.
11:25This time over one half of the World Tag Team Champions, Tommy Dreamer.
11:28Thanks to the other half of the World Tag Team Champions, Raven.
11:31The fact that Tommy and Raven are the World Tag Team Champions is driving Tommy crazy.
11:37And Raven is loving him.
11:39Here's what happened recently at Anarchy Rules.
11:42When Raven made damn sure that whether Tommy liked it or not,
11:46the two of them would still be World Tag Team Champions.
11:49In comes Jack Victory.
11:54He nails Raven.
11:55In comes Carino.
11:57Carino and I are working on Dreamer.
11:59This is broken down into Carino and victory now versus Tommy Dreamer and Raven.
12:14They collide.
12:15They're gonna go at it.
12:16No.
12:17Double DDT.
12:22One, two, three.
12:27Winners and still ECW World Tag Team Champions, Tommy Dreamer and Raven.
12:37Surprisingly good teamwork from those two.
12:39It's Man Cow.
12:40It's Man Who?
12:41Man Cow.
12:42Who are the two fat guys?
12:43I have no idea but I know Man Cow.
12:44Man Cow is a friend of Raven and he won't get to it publicly.
12:47He's that loud love DJ, is he not?
12:48Yeah.
12:49He's a big ECW fan.
12:50Well Raven's got many, many followers of course and some very interesting people.
12:54.
13:02.
13:11I think
13:13those two ,
13:23Anyway, guys, a big load of Toad and Outlook, Virginia.
13:32It's hard to go to life with that, Nick James.
13:36And they're friends of the hangout with Wiggins.
13:39You ever hung out with Raven?
13:42I try not to, I don't think he's surviving.
13:45No, look at Raven, everybody loves him.
13:50This guy's wearing a sweater.
13:53Professional wrestling has gotten so big that sometimes we forget the little things
14:02that make it special to those of us who work in the industry.
14:06Like the great people you meet and have the privilege of working with,
14:11everyone here at ECW wishes a speedy recovery to Darren Drozdorf.
14:17Get well soon, Drozd.
14:19The most popular athlete in the history of extreme championship wrestling.
14:35Listen to the fans, you love to hear it too, doesn't he?
14:49The fans are on their feet for Mr. KTV.
15:02RTV, Rob Van Dess.
15:05And Darren Drozd has a crowd reaction like no other person in the wrestling business.
15:15Joey Styles is phenomenal, the love affair that ECW fans have with RTV.
15:20Not to mention the love affair that RBD has with RDD.
15:33Yeah.
15:34Well, you know what?
15:36What's not to love?
15:37The guy is probably the best pure athlete in wrestling.
15:41The guy has unbelievable flexibility, unbelievable strength,
15:44unbelievable flying ability.
15:45He's a risk taker.
15:46He's a great looking guy.
15:48He's charismatic.
15:49He is, in fact, got the whole ball away, Joey Styles.
15:52What's not to like?
15:53And again, who'd like to wish and well wishes to be a recovery to Rob's life,
16:00Sonya Zakowski.
16:02Weighing in at 335 pounds, from Nutley, New Jersey, Bulls Mahoney.
16:13And to my right, accompanied by the manager of champions,
16:18the man who calls it right down the middle, Bill Alfonso.
16:25Weighing in at 234 pounds, from Battle Creek, Michigan.
16:31He is the current ECW World Television Champion,
16:37Mr. Pay Per View, Rob Van Dam.
16:43Van Dam has been the World Television Champion for 18 months.
16:47He is the longest reigning champion in professional wrestling today since
16:51defeating Bam Bam Bigelow for that title in Buffalo, New York, in April of 1998.
16:57In order to beat Van Dam, he is so good that in order to beat him,
17:00you've gotta collect on an intangible.
17:02And what we've got here tonight, as we mentioned before,
17:04he trained for Johnny Smith, and he's getting Balls Mahoney.
17:08That may be the intangible that means the difference.
17:10We talked about the athleticism of Rob Van Dam, Balls Mahoney,
17:15a deceptively good athlete.
17:17Well, we've had Mike Awesome crown the new World Heavyweight Champion,
17:20unadvertised to be here tonight.
17:23Balls Mahoney also unadvertised to be here tonight.
17:26The lightning strike caught twice, will we close our Pay Per View
17:30with Balls Mahoney being crowned the new ECW World Television Champion
17:35here in Chicago.
17:36It's been a Pay Per View of surprises, Joey Styles, and there'd be no bigger
17:40surprise than Rob Van Dam's winning streak coming to an end at Anarchy Rules.
17:45Yeah, well, if Balls Mahoney lands one of those horrific chair shots
17:54to the skull of Rob Van Dam, he will walk out here to the belt, little surprise nobody.
17:59Mahoney swings a chair harder than anyone in the business, and that covers a lot of ground these days.
18:04And Fonzie looks uncharacteristically concerned tonight.
18:08Well, again, as he overextending himself, he can't be happy about Van Dam.
18:13Van Dam's huge ego would not allow him to walk away from this matchup.
18:16Again, you pointed out he did not prepare for the 325, 350-pound Balls Mahoney.
18:22He prepared for Johnny Smith.
18:26The thing about Van Dam, Van Dam knows exactly how good an athlete he is,
18:29and I'm sure he is not as concerned as we are and as Fonzie would be.
18:33But we're gonna have to see how it plays itself out in this match.
18:38Balls Mahoney is another guy who can absorb a tremendous amount of punishment.
18:43Well, he's pretty much out of his mind.
18:46You know, Balls Mahoney was an outstanding high school wrestler in New Jersey.
18:51Yeah.
18:52He was barred, banned from ever competing, from amateur wrestling again,
18:56because he punched an official in the face.
19:01He accidentally snapped the kid's back in a legal wrestling hold,
19:04and then the referee got him in his mug.
19:06He broke the referee's nose and was barred.
19:09I suppose that was an accident too, was it?
19:11No, he'll tell you, he did it on purpose.
19:16He's proud of it.
19:19Too much power, belly to back suplex by the native of Nutley, New Jersey.
19:25And that's a great technical wrestling move.
19:27Balls can wrestle.
19:28Besides swinging the chair, that's the coup de gras.
19:31Balls can wrestle.
19:32He will show you that amateur wrestling background.
19:34He will Matt wrestle you.
19:35He can also execute a frog splash pretty much as well as Rob Van Dam can,
19:39despite outweighing Van Dam by 100 and so pounds.
19:41Well, Van Dam dropped right on his head, but we mentioned the incredible flexibility of Van Dam,
19:45and that helps him when he's dropped high like that on a suplex.
19:48I wonder how flexible his neck is.
19:50Balls just snapped it backwards.
19:52Cover early on.
19:55Gets a two.
19:56Two counts to senior official John Finnegan.
20:05Go in there.
20:06And that's one.
20:07Uh-huh.
20:08The rest of the year will be open.
20:09Go ahead and play.
20:10Go in there.
20:11All right.
20:20After this.
20:22Go in there.
20:23Go in there.
20:24The rest of the world is now.
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