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00:00I'm Joey Styles at the jam-packed, sold-out Westchester County Center in White Plains,
00:01New York, as we count down the days to two of the biggest events in ECW history.
00:02Friday night, January the 7th, ECW takes over Center Stage, the historic building where
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04:37Representing the FBI.
04:40Weighing in at 201 and one quarter pounds,
04:45from Sicily, the extreme stud,
04:49Little Guido.
04:56And his opponent,
04:58weighing in at 97 kilos,
05:01from Tupic, Mexico,
05:03Super Calo.
05:07No one cares, no one cares at all.
05:10It's all about the FBI.
05:14Big Sal finds the camera.
05:16A little primetime for Sal.
05:19I'm not gonna tell him he can't talk to the camera.
05:21Good job, man.
05:27Guido, as always, in fantastic condition.
05:31Then take your ass down.
05:37Guido calling his own shots,
05:38telling Calo what he's gonna do to him.
05:41I don't know that Calo speaks a word of English, though.
05:43Waist lock, takedown, float over,
05:45sit out by Calo not once, but twice.
05:50And an escape for Super Calo.
06:01Guido ducks underneath, back to the waist lock.
06:04A pair of elbows,
06:06leapfrogged by Guido.
06:08Inside cradle, small package.
06:10Quick two-count for Calo.
06:13Boot to the midsection.
06:16Calo up top.
06:18Takes Guido over.
06:21Guido charges, tilt the world,
06:23step the ride, Calo up top,
06:25into a victory roll, hook the legs.
06:28Two-count, Guido on top.
06:30Guido gets a two.
06:34Calo now with the arm ringer.
06:36Takes Guido over with the arm drag.
06:38Guido charges, backslide, to him his own.
06:49Super Calo has to be weary of Big Sal on the outside.
06:53Took a swipe at him just to keep him honest.
06:55Big Sal weighs more than Little Guido,
06:58Super Calo, and Jim Molotow combined.
07:03Guido with a slap to the face.
07:07Guido has lost that famous temper of his,
07:10and now just kicking the ribs of Super Calo.
07:15Reversal of the Italian whip.
07:18Tilt to the midsection.
07:20Super Calo now with the arm ringer.
07:22Reversal of the Italian whip.
07:25Tilt the world, backbreaker by Super Calo.
07:34Calo now going up top.
07:37Great balance and a dropkick caught Guido in the chest.
07:41Guido now rolling to the outside,
07:45where he will not be safe.
07:49Calo throws the face.
07:52Guido runs to Sal.
07:56And Calo takes out both members of the FBI.
08:01This matchup will continue.
08:07Welcome back to ECW Hardcore TV.
08:10Big Sal setting up Super Calo on the turbulent ringside.
08:18600 pounds behind that elbow drop.
08:22Big Sal, Big Sal, Big Sal, Big Sal, Big Sal, Big Sal.
08:25And Super Calo has no idea what just hit him.
08:32Molotow saw none of it.
08:34Calo rolls back in, and here's Guido
08:40with the barricada, forget about it.
08:46Your winner, Lil' Guido.
08:48Lil' Guido.
08:50Thanks to an assist from Big Sal,
08:54Guido racks up another victory here in White Plains, New York.
09:07Still to come tonight,
09:08the matchup everyone is talking about.
09:10Masato Tanaka defends the ECW World Heavyweight title
09:16against the former champion, Mike Awesome.
09:22You know, a lot of people think this is a tribute
09:26to Paul E. Dangerously.
09:32Well, I would never pay tribute to Paul E. Dangerously
09:37because he sucks just like each and every one of you.
09:45Paul E. Dangerously is a loser
09:54just like everyone from New York.
10:03And for those of you who don't know,
10:07my name just happens to be
10:16Lou E. Dangerously.
10:22-----------------------
10:45You suck it! You suck it! You suck it!
10:48You suck it! You suck it! You suck it!
10:51You suck it! You suck it! You suck it!
10:52Introducing first, accompanied to the ring
10:55by his manager, Lou E. Dangerously,
11:00and his tag team partner, beautiful Billy Wiles,
11:06representing the New Dangerous Alliance,
11:09weighing in at 230 pounds from Raleigh, North Carolina,
11:15the Enforcer, C.W. Anderson!
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11:24And his opponent,
11:25weighing in at 110 kilos from Mie, Japan,
11:31please welcome Kentaro Kanemura!
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11:37---------------------------------
11:42Sandman, I have no fear, I have no compassion.
11:49I have no mercy, and I act guilty as charge.
11:55I'm gonna kick the **** out of you, so
11:59you can go back and tell all your beer drinking buddies,
12:05you got your ass kicked by a rhino.
12:09I'm gonna kick the **** out of you, so
12:14you can go back and tell all your beer drinking buddies,
12:21you got your ass kicked by a rhino.
12:26I'm gonna kick the **** out of you, so
12:30you can go back and tell all your beer drinking buddies,
12:37you got your ass kicked by a rhino.
12:41I'm gonna kick the **** out of you, so
12:46you can go back and tell all your beer drinking buddies,
12:52you got your ass kicked by a rhino.
12:56I'm gonna kick the **** out of you, so
13:01you can go back and tell all your beer drinking buddies,
13:07you got your ass kicked by a rhino.
13:11I'm gonna kick the **** out of you, so
13:16you can go back and tell all your beer drinking buddies,
13:23you got your ass kicked by a rhino.
13:27I'm gonna kick the **** out of you, so
13:32you can go back and tell all your beer drinking buddies,
13:39you got your ass kicked by a rhino.
13:43I'm gonna kick the **** out of you, so
13:48you can go back and tell all your beer drinking buddies,
13:55you got your ass kicked by a rhino.
13:59I'm gonna kick the **** out of you, so
14:05you can go back and tell all your beer drinking buddies,
14:13you got your ass kicked by a rhino.
14:18I'm gonna kick the **** out of you, so
14:25you can go back and tell all your beer drinking buddies,
14:33you got your ass kicked by a rhino.
14:38I'm gonna kick the **** out of you, so
14:44you can go back and tell all your beer drinking buddies,
14:52you got your ass kicked by a rhino.
14:57I'm gonna kick the **** out of you, so
15:02you can go back and tell all your beer drinking buddies,
15:09you got your ass kicked by a rhino.
15:14I'm gonna kick the **** out of you, so
15:19you can go back and tell all your beer drinking buddies,
15:25you got your ass kicked by a rhino.
15:29I'm gonna kick the **** out of you, so
15:34you can go back and tell all your beer drinking buddies,
15:41you got your ass kicked by a rhino.
15:46I'm gonna kick the **** out of you,
15:51so you can go back and tell all your beer drinking buddies,
15:58you got your ass kicked by a rhino.
16:02I'm gonna kick the **** out of you, so
16:07you can go back and tell all your beer drinking buddies,
16:14you got your ass kicked by a rhino.
16:19I'm gonna kick the **** out of you,
16:24so you can go back and tell all your beer drinking buddies,
16:31you got your ass kicked by a rhino.
16:36I'm gonna kick the **** out of you,
16:41so you can go back and tell all your beer drinking buddies,
16:48you got your ass kicked by a rhino.
16:52I'm gonna kick the **** out of you,
16:57so you can go back and tell all your beer drinking buddies,
17:04you got your ass kicked by a rhino.
17:09I'm gonna kick the **** out of you,
17:14so you can go back and tell all your beer drinking buddies,
17:21you got your ass kicked by a rhino.
17:26I'm gonna kick the **** out of you,
17:31so you can go back and tell all your beer drinking buddies,
17:38you got your ass kicked by a rhino.
17:43I'm gonna kick the **** out of you,
17:48so you can go back and tell all your beer drinking buddies,
17:55you got your ass kicked by a rhino.
18:00I'm gonna kick the **** out of you,
18:05so you can go back and tell all your beer drinking buddies,
18:12you got your ass kicked by a rhino.
18:17I'm gonna kick the **** out of you,
18:23so you can go back and tell all your beer drinking buddies,
18:30you got your ass kicked by a rhino.
18:35I'm gonna kick the **** out of you,
18:40so you can go back and tell all your beer drinking buddies,
18:47you got your ass kicked by a rhino.
18:52I'm gonna kick the **** out of you,
18:57so you can go back and tell all your beer drinking buddies,
19:02you got your ass kicked by a rhino.
19:07I'm gonna kick the **** out of you,
19:12so you can go back and tell all your beer drinking buddies,
19:17you got your ass kicked by a rhino.
19:22Takes the fight to Tanaka here in New York.
19:27Austin and Tanaka certainly no strangers.
19:31No one holds more victories over either one of these two athletes than the other.
19:36And that includes World Heavyweight title matches here in ECW and in FFW over in Japan.
19:46The former World Heavyweight Champion has been at the table at ringside is Judge Jeff Jones,
19:51a former referee who knows all the ins and outs.
19:54He's distracted senior official John Finnegan.
19:57And Austin says he's gonna put Tanaka through the table already.
20:01We saw this last week.
20:03And Tanaka didn't want to see it again.
20:06Tanaka going up top.
20:11High Cross Body takes down the big man.
20:15It was at Anarchy Rules, September 19th,
20:18when Mike Austin, as an unannounced challenger,
20:22defeated both Masato Tanaka and then champion Taz
20:27to win the ECW World Heavyweight title.
20:32Since then, Tanaka has vowed to get revenge.
20:37He did that last week in Nashville.
20:41This week, it's Mike Austin's turn to get revenge on his rivals.
20:47Tanaka.
20:50It was this week in a press conference with CBS Cable and TNN
20:59that Mike Austin made it real that no matter where he goes,
21:04Tanaka has been a thorn in his side.
21:07He said tonight he was going to do an operation, a procedure.
21:12He was going to remove that thorn from his side, Masato Tanaka,
21:16and make him a non-issue in his career going forward.
21:21Now, Mike Austin has to make good on that threat.
21:25But that's interesting, because Masato Tanaka and the rivalry
21:29has been something that has made Mike Austin's career
21:33as successful as it's been.
21:35It's been that driving force that's lit the fire
21:38under Mike Austin for years now.
21:41Excellent point.
21:44Wing shot, splash, and cover.
21:48It's like Ali Fraser.
21:50It's like the Lakers and the Celtics.
21:53It's like Superman and Lex Luthor.
21:56These two define each other by destroying each other.
22:03Chair the head.
22:06And Tanaka's getting up again.
22:15Mike Austin now, the challenger with chair in hand,
22:19ascending the turnbuckle, towering over the world heavyweight champion.
22:24Dropkick by the champion,
22:26steel chair in the face of Mike Austin.
22:29And now Tanaka looking to take advantage of the situation.
22:33Can he capitalize?
22:35Can he put away his nemesis, Mike Austin?
22:40Chair the head.
22:43Mike Austin goes down.
22:48Tanaka now with a pair of steel chairs.
22:52Maybe setting up Austin for his tornado DDT.
22:57As if getting DDT'd on one chair wouldn't be enough.
23:01But Austin tries to fight and he's hooked.
23:05And he gets Mike on the chair.
23:09Cover.
23:12Austin kicks out at two.
23:14And just barely at two.
23:16Snapmare takeover.
23:22One chair in the face of Mike Austin.
23:25The world heavyweight champion Masato Tanaka
23:28takes the other, going up top yet again.
23:33Tries to crush the skull of Austin.
23:36That should be all.
23:38Tanaka will retain the world heavyweight title cover.
23:42Austin gets the left shoulder up.
23:44I don't know if it's his quest for the world heavyweight title
23:47or his personal hatred for Masato Tanaka that's driving Austin.
23:52I think it's the fact that unlike giving up
23:56and living to fight another day,
23:58giving up and living to fight another day,
24:01Austin realizes, as does Tanaka,
24:04that this is the day.
24:06And tonight is the night.
24:12Diamond dust.
24:14Can Tanaka make the cover?
24:16Will this be enough to put away Mike Austin?
24:19Federal press.
24:22Austin kicks out.
24:24Tanaka was too high on Austin's shoulder.
24:28It's put away under men.
24:33German suplex.
24:37Tanaka charges and gets planted by Austin.
24:40But Austin collapses.
24:42He's taken so much punishment.
24:45He's taken the Tornado DDT.
24:48He's taken the diamond dust.
24:51It's unfathomable that Austin is still conscious,
24:55let alone still competing in this match.
25:00Running off the body,
25:02plants Tanaka, hooks the leg.
25:05And Tanaka just barely kicks out.
25:10Austin calls for a table.
25:12And Judge Jeff Jones will apply.
25:16Mike Austin and Masato Tanaka at war
25:20for the EKW World Heavyweight title
25:23in front of a sold-out, turnaway crowd
25:26here at the Westchester County Center
25:28in White Plains, New York.
25:30Austin, the former champion,
25:32who lost the belt last week to Masato Tanaka,
25:36now looking to finish off his longtime nemesis.
25:41The table is set up in the corner.
25:46Austin is going for the kill.
25:52Tanaka wriggles free and saves his own life.
25:55That is awesome.
26:03Oh, my God!
26:05Oh, my God!
26:12Running off the belt for the table.
26:15Cover!
26:19The right shoulder came up.
26:21Masato Tanaka somehow got the right shoulder up.
26:25It's business and it's personal.
26:28It's personal hatred for one another.
26:30And it's the glory of being the EKW World Heavyweight champion.
26:34Driving Mike Austin and Masato Tanaka
26:38here tonight on TNN.
26:42Jeff Jones hoisting another table into the ring.
26:46How much more punishment can Masato Tanaka withstand?
26:52The scary thing is, we know the answer to that question.
26:55It's not a hypothetical.
26:57He can withstand so much punishment
27:00that I don't know what it's gonna take.
27:02That I don't know what it's gonna take to put him out.
27:05And neither does Mike Austin.
27:08Tanaka now laid out on the table.
27:10The 296-pound challenger going up top.
27:15Tanaka's up! Tanaka's up!
27:17Right hand and a chop.
27:19Tanaka now climbing the turnbuckle.
27:22Austin and Tanaka battling on the turnbuckle.
27:29Austin trying to get a handle on Tanaka.
27:31Tanaka trying to superplex Austin.
27:35DDT through the table!
27:38That's it! That's it!
27:40If Tanaka's cover's Austin, it's over! It's over!
27:45That's a big if! Look at Tanaka right now!
27:50He's crawling. Cover!
27:55Mike Austin got the right shoulder up!
27:58Austin got the right shoulder up!
28:01And this is the sequence Tanaka used last week.
28:04The DDT through the table into the Roaring Elbow.
28:07Tanaka's going for the Roaring Elbow.
28:11He hit it, Mike! Good, did you hear that?
28:14Austin kicked out on Roaring Elbow.
28:17Mike Austin just kicked out on the Roaring Elbow.
28:22Tanaka has to be beside himself.
28:25What will it take to knock out Mike Austin?
28:31Reversal out of the corner!
28:34The boot in the face of the Charging Austin!
28:39Diamond dust? No!
28:41Austin plants the elbow!
28:45And plants Masato Tanaka!
28:51And that would toss him up top!
28:54Awesome split! Awesome split!
29:01Tanaka just kicked out of the awesome split!
29:05Both men have given the other their best shot.
29:09Neither man can find what it will take to put the other one away.
29:14This match is for, this battle is about,
29:18This match is for, this battle is about,
29:22and this contest epitomizes the ECW World Heavyweight Title.
29:29What a motivating force that belt truly is.
29:36Austin hammering away on Masato Tanaka.
29:40Both men must be beaten and exhausted and in pain.
29:47Austin setting up Masato Tanaka on the top turnbuckle.
29:54Tanaka fighting Austin.
29:56Both champion and challenger attempt the turnbuckles here
30:00in front of a sellout crowd in White Plains, New York.
30:04Fighting for position, fighting for the World Heavyweight Title.
30:09Oh my God! Get out Austin!
30:16It's over!
30:17Your winner and new ECW World Heavyweight Champion,
30:26Mike Orton!
30:29For the second time in two weeks, the new champion has been crowned!
30:34Mike Orton is once again the King of Extreme.
30:39He is the two-time ECW Heavyweight Champion of the World.
30:49And if anyone has desire on taking that belt away from him,
30:54that is the man and the monster you are.
31:00He is nothing short of awesome.
31:09What?
31:10Don't!
31:14It's Little Spike Dudley!
31:18Just when awesome was on top of the world!
31:23It's Little Spike Dudley!
31:26Just when awesome was on top of the world!
31:30Here comes the giant killer, Little Spike Dudley!
31:355 foot 5, 155 pounds,
31:40coming to confront the massive World Heavyweight Champion!
31:46Richmond, Virginia, Spike Dudley gives Austin the acid drop.
31:51Nashville, Tennessee, awesome launches Spike into the crowd.
31:55This is round three.
31:58Judge Jeff Jones flakes up the acid drop with his gavel.
32:03Judge Jeff Jones and Mike Awesome now all over Little Spike Dudley.
32:10And there's Spike, it's groovy, it's Spanish, it's French.
32:15He is all over Judge Jeff Jones.
32:21She hooked the judge! She hooked the judge!
32:24Acid drop! Acid drop!
32:27That man just dropped the judge!
32:30Wow!
33:01Spike, she's clean!
33:05Spike, she's clean!
33:10Spike, get her out of here!
33:12Get her out of here!
33:31On August 27th, 1994,
33:35Shane Douglas won the NWA World Heavyweight Championship
33:41only to throw it down and create a new title,
33:45the ECW Heavyweight Championship of the World.
33:52On April 15th, 1995,
33:55at the three-way dance,
33:57the franchise lost the belt to the Sandman
34:01who won the title with the help of Woman.
34:11On April 15th, 1995,
34:13at the three-way dance,
34:15the franchise lost the belt to the Sandman
34:20who won the title with the help of Woman.
34:26The Sandman brutalized all challengers,
34:29but in an upset victory,
34:32Mikey Wiprec
34:34became the Heavyweight Champion of the World
34:37later that year.
34:45On December 9th of that year,
34:48Mikey Wiprec defended the title at the ECW Arena
34:52against the Sandman and Steve Austin
34:56in a three-way dance.
34:58Steve Austin and the Sandman,
35:01two beer-guzzling antiheroes,
35:04fought it out for the ECW World Heavyweight Title,
35:08and the Sandman emerged victorious
35:12and became a two-time
35:14ECW Heavyweight Champion of the World.
35:26But right around the corner was Lurking Raven,
35:30and Raven, fresh off of losing Beulah McGillicuddy
35:34to Tommy Dreamer,
35:36vowed to take out the Sandman.
35:39And so he did.
35:41DDT'd his way to his first ECW World Title reign.
36:05It was later that year in an Ultimate Jeopardy! match
36:09that Raven allowed Stevie Richards to put the title at risk,
36:13and Stevie Richards,
36:15mixed with the Singapore Cane,
36:18allowing the Sandman to become a three-time
36:22ECW World Heavyweight Champion.
36:40But just a few months later,
36:42in a barbed-wire matchup,
36:45Raven reclaimed the belt that he had never lost.
36:56It was at our very first pay-per-view,
36:58Barely Legal, April 13, 1997,
37:02that Tommy Dreamer got his revenge
37:05And helped Terry Funk win the World Heavyweight Title.
37:14But the 53-year-old legend fell victim
37:17in another barbed-wire match.
37:20This one, the most brutal of all time,
37:23born to be wired,
37:25Sabu won the belt.
37:30Just a week later,
37:33Just a week later,
37:35still battered and bloodied from the barbed-wire match,
37:38Sabu fell victim to the curse of the three-way dance,
37:42and Shane Douglas regained the title.
37:46His manager, Ravishing Rick Rude,
37:50set Douglas up,
37:52and in Queens, New York City,
37:54on October 16, 1997,
37:58Bam Bam Bigelow
38:00won his very first World Heavyweight Title
38:04by defeating the franchise
38:06at the Madhouse of Extreme.
38:14At the 1997 November to Remember,
38:18Shane Douglas regained the gold
38:21in his hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
38:25But the pressures of being the champion
38:28caught up to Shane Douglas,
38:30and on January 10, 1999,
38:34in Kissimmee, Florida,
38:36at the Guilty as Charged pay-per-view,
38:39an injured Shane Douglas
38:42finally fell victim to the Katahajime,
38:46and the era of Taz was rushed in.
38:54September 19,
38:56the Anarchy rules pay-per-view,
38:58Chicago, Illinois.
39:00An impromptu three-way dance,
39:03Mike Awesome pins not only
39:06the ECW and FTW World Champion Taz,
39:11but goes on to defeat
39:13the FMW World Champion Masato Tanaka.
39:21But it was on ECW's Christmas Eve
39:25TNN Network Spectacular
39:28that Masato Tanaka came back for revenge.
39:43At the historic Municipal Auditorium
39:46in downtown Nashville, Tennessee,
39:49Masato Tanaka,
39:51the 26-year-old grappler from Japan,
39:55finally realized his dream
39:58when he upset Mike Awesome
40:01for the ECW World Heavyweight Title.
40:22But the war,
40:24the war between Tanaka and Awesome
40:27was far from over,
40:29because tonight,
40:31at the Westchester County Center
40:33in White Plains, New York,
40:35Mike Awesome showed
40:37he has the stuff
40:39that true championship made of.
40:41He came back from defeat.
40:44He rebounded from his loss
40:47to become a two-time ECW
40:50World Heavyweight Champion.
41:18Mike Awesome,
41:20I hope you're not thinking
41:22about stupid glasses or tie-dyes
41:24or goofy waves or LSD.
41:26You knocked my girl's teeth out.
41:29I think you've got a problem, Mike Awesome.
41:32I'm the one that Dudley's
41:34kicked out of the group.
41:36I was too violent for the Dudleys
41:38to take me seriously.
41:40I was too violent for the Dudleys
41:42to take me seriously.
41:44I've never missed a goddamn match
41:46due to an injury.
41:48They've dropped chairs on my head.
41:50They've put me through tables.
41:52They've thrown me off balconies.
41:54They've put me through double-burning tables.
41:56I've got up and fought the next night.
41:59Mike Awesome, guilty as charged.
42:01I don't care about winning or losing.
42:03I do what I do best.
42:05Wrestle extreme.
42:07I am going to hurt you.
42:09I am going to hurt you.
42:12I am going to hurt you.