ECW TV 2/10/1993: NEW ECW CHAMPION + THE PUBLIC ENEMY!
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Eastern Championship Wrestling on SportsChannel
001
2/11/1993
Radisson Hotel in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Your Host: Jay Sulli
Joined in Progress
Eastern Championship Wrestling
1/16/1993
Radisson Hotel in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
... Don Muraco looks to be within an eyelash of reclaiming the ECW Heavyweight Championship from Sandman. Muraco has clamped on the nerve hold and he is grabbing the rope with his other hand behind referee Pee Wee Moore's back.
Every time Moore turns around, Muraco is a step ahead and moves the arm. However, Moore suspects what Muraco is up to and whips around while Muraco is jawing with a fan. Moore kicks the arm and that knocks Muraco off balance. Sandman rallies back with some elbows to break the hold.
Sandman now with a right hand, big boot and a DDT! Sandman covers here and he gets the one... two... three! Sandman retains the ECW Heavyweight Championship - but Don Muraco is furious! Muraco has grabbed the Sandman's surfboard and he breaks it over the back of the champion! Muraco, the sore loser, cannot accept that he cost himself the ECW Heavyweight Championship!
End VTR
Jay Sulli welcomes viewers to the debut of ECW on the SportsChannel... As we we've just seen, Don Muraco is on a tear after blowing his chance to retain the ECW Heavyweight Championship from the man he lost it to last October, The Sandman. Later, we will hear from the Sandman as well as Don Muraco about this very volatile situation... Also, Hunter Q. Robbins III's ECW Tag Team Champions The Super Destroyers are in action against the team of Larry Winters and Tony "Hitman" Stetson... Plus, words from a new team coming to Eastern Championship Wrestling.
Sulli then welcomes his special guest commentator for the next few weeks - a former NWA World Heavyweight Champion, "The American Dream" Dusty Rhodes... Dusty says word travels quickly in this business and "everybody's talking about Eastern Championship Rasslin" and that if someone is talking about it, that's where The Dream. Sulli points out that Dusty was "hardcore" before "hardcore" was cool. Well, if Dusty says so himself, there's nobody more "hardcore" than The Dream and so he wants to see what ECW is all about first-hand.
In the first match, "Iron Man" Tommy Cairo stepped into the ring against rookie Steve Richards. Cairo battered Richards from bell to bell, wailing on him with taped fists. Richards repeatedly tried to flee the ring but was eventually pinned with a piledriver.
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A taped film shows the outskirts of Philadelphia, zooming in on a railway where abandoned train parts litter a disused track. The camera pans over to two men identified on a crawl as "Flyboy Rocco Rock and Johnny Grunge - The Public Enemy".
Rocco: "Hey Johnny."
Johnny: "Yeah, Rocco?"
Rocco: "You heard about this ECW?"
Johnny: "I heard it's hardcore, Rocco."
Rocco: "Hey Johnny?
Johnny: "Yeah, Rocco?"
Rocco: "Ain't we supposed to be hardcore, Johnny?"
Johnny: "You know we are, Rocco."
Rocco: "But hey Johnny?"
Johnny: "Yeah, Rocco?"
Rocco: "Don't they got tag team champions that got to hide behind masks, Johnny?"
Johnny: "They must be ugly or something, Rocco!"
Rocco: "Hey Johnny?"
Johnny: "Yeah, Rocco."
Rocco: "Maybe we should find out for ourselves, Johnny. Cuz, Johnny, those masked dudes, they ain't nothing like us, Johnny. You and me, Johnny, our generation, we're the first more afraid of living than dying, Johnny."
Johnny: "Yeah, Rocco."
Following those ominous words from The Public Enemy, Hunter Q. Robbins III and his ECW Tag Team Champions The Super Destroyers hit the ring for their defense against Larry Winters and Tony "Hitman" Stetson. The masked man use the switch a few times to keep the advantage and while Stetson and Winters are formidable opponents, one of the Destroyers eventually pins Winters after tapping his boot on the ground a few times and then clocking him with it.
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In a taped interview, the debuting Paul E. Dangerously is standing by with Don Muraco is none too pleased about his recent title lose to The Sandman... Paul E. says that the only reason Muraco isn't the ECW Heavyweight Champion right now is because of that inept referee getting involved. Muraco says he hates activist referees about as much as he hates activist judges - maybe more after the highway robbery! Muraco vows that he will not stop until he becomes the ECW Heavyweight Champion again and if he has to drop a referee on his head once again, he will do it!
Eddie Gilbert enters to assure Muraco that he thinks if they put their heads together, they can take care of a “goof” like Sandman.
Back at ringside, Dusty Rhodes weighs in on the situation between Don Muraco and Sandman, saying he's battered his share of referees in his day - those are not his proudest moments. Dusty thinks Sandman has something to prove after the way that match ended and he'd like to see him do it.
Moving into the ring, J.T. Smith is waiting as Kevin Sullivan leads his wild Tazmaniac down to the ring. Tazmaniac jumps Smith before the bell, dropping him on his head with several suplexes. Smith manages to fight back, until Sullivan jabs him with the golden spike on the floor. Rhodes laughs that move off, saying it's classic Kevin Sullivan. Smith is bleeding now as Tazmaniac drops him on the back of his head and pins him.
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Dusty Rhodes interviews his old nemesis Kevin Sullivan at ringside, with Tazmaniac wandering around ringside. Dusty tips his cowboy hat to Sullivan, saying he might have found one of the wildest men he's ever seen... and that's saying something for "The Debbil". Sullivan tells Dusty that Tazmaniac should impress him because he's more dangerous than The Dream ever was, and if Tazmaniac was around 10 years ago, Sullivan would have succeeded in running Dusty Rhodes out of the state of Florida!
Dusty smiles as he tells Sullivan that Tasmaniac's suplexes are indeed impressive, but maybe he should hold off bragging until his beast gets more than one win here in ECW. Sullivan jabs Rhodes in the chest with the golden spike and asks how many wins Dusty has in ECW or anywhere else in the last two years? Sullivan says "for an announcer", Dusty sure has a big mouth! Rhodes hedges but Tazmaniac gets in his face, then Dusty admits he's yet to wrestle in ECW and he isn't signed for any matches. Maybe that could change. Sullivan maniacally laughs and says it should change - and maybe The Devil has the perfect opponent.
Dusty is left with something to think about as Kevin Sullivan leads Tazmaniac away by the hair.
The scene fades to ECW Heavyweight Champion Sandman - with bandages across his midsection.
"Don Muraco, brother, I think you proved one thing beyond a shadow of a doubt. When you took my surfboard, yeh, and broke it across my back after I pinned your shoulders to the mat AGAIN, after I beat you again, you proved one thing. Muraco, you proved you're nothing but a... BEACH BUM!"
(C) ECW, 1993
001
2/11/1993
Radisson Hotel in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Your Host: Jay Sulli
Joined in Progress
Eastern Championship Wrestling
1/16/1993
Radisson Hotel in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
... Don Muraco looks to be within an eyelash of reclaiming the ECW Heavyweight Championship from Sandman. Muraco has clamped on the nerve hold and he is grabbing the rope with his other hand behind referee Pee Wee Moore's back.
Every time Moore turns around, Muraco is a step ahead and moves the arm. However, Moore suspects what Muraco is up to and whips around while Muraco is jawing with a fan. Moore kicks the arm and that knocks Muraco off balance. Sandman rallies back with some elbows to break the hold.
Sandman now with a right hand, big boot and a DDT! Sandman covers here and he gets the one... two... three! Sandman retains the ECW Heavyweight Championship - but Don Muraco is furious! Muraco has grabbed the Sandman's surfboard and he breaks it over the back of the champion! Muraco, the sore loser, cannot accept that he cost himself the ECW Heavyweight Championship!
End VTR
Jay Sulli welcomes viewers to the debut of ECW on the SportsChannel... As we we've just seen, Don Muraco is on a tear after blowing his chance to retain the ECW Heavyweight Championship from the man he lost it to last October, The Sandman. Later, we will hear from the Sandman as well as Don Muraco about this very volatile situation... Also, Hunter Q. Robbins III's ECW Tag Team Champions The Super Destroyers are in action against the team of Larry Winters and Tony "Hitman" Stetson... Plus, words from a new team coming to Eastern Championship Wrestling.
Sulli then welcomes his special guest commentator for the next few weeks - a former NWA World Heavyweight Champion, "The American Dream" Dusty Rhodes... Dusty says word travels quickly in this business and "everybody's talking about Eastern Championship Rasslin" and that if someone is talking about it, that's where The Dream. Sulli points out that Dusty was "hardcore" before "hardcore" was cool. Well, if Dusty says so himself, there's nobody more "hardcore" than The Dream and so he wants to see what ECW is all about first-hand.
In the first match, "Iron Man" Tommy Cairo stepped into the ring against rookie Steve Richards. Cairo battered Richards from bell to bell, wailing on him with taped fists. Richards repeatedly tried to flee the ring but was eventually pinned with a piledriver.
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A taped film shows the outskirts of Philadelphia, zooming in on a railway where abandoned train parts litter a disused track. The camera pans over to two men identified on a crawl as "Flyboy Rocco Rock and Johnny Grunge - The Public Enemy".
Rocco: "Hey Johnny."
Johnny: "Yeah, Rocco?"
Rocco: "You heard about this ECW?"
Johnny: "I heard it's hardcore, Rocco."
Rocco: "Hey Johnny?
Johnny: "Yeah, Rocco?"
Rocco: "Ain't we supposed to be hardcore, Johnny?"
Johnny: "You know we are, Rocco."
Rocco: "But hey Johnny?"
Johnny: "Yeah, Rocco?"
Rocco: "Don't they got tag team champions that got to hide behind masks, Johnny?"
Johnny: "They must be ugly or something, Rocco!"
Rocco: "Hey Johnny?"
Johnny: "Yeah, Rocco."
Rocco: "Maybe we should find out for ourselves, Johnny. Cuz, Johnny, those masked dudes, they ain't nothing like us, Johnny. You and me, Johnny, our generation, we're the first more afraid of living than dying, Johnny."
Johnny: "Yeah, Rocco."
Following those ominous words from The Public Enemy, Hunter Q. Robbins III and his ECW Tag Team Champions The Super Destroyers hit the ring for their defense against Larry Winters and Tony "Hitman" Stetson. The masked man use the switch a few times to keep the advantage and while Stetson and Winters are formidable opponents, one of the Destroyers eventually pins Winters after tapping his boot on the ground a few times and then clocking him with it.
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In a taped interview, the debuting Paul E. Dangerously is standing by with Don Muraco is none too pleased about his recent title lose to The Sandman... Paul E. says that the only reason Muraco isn't the ECW Heavyweight Champion right now is because of that inept referee getting involved. Muraco says he hates activist referees about as much as he hates activist judges - maybe more after the highway robbery! Muraco vows that he will not stop until he becomes the ECW Heavyweight Champion again and if he has to drop a referee on his head once again, he will do it!
Eddie Gilbert enters to assure Muraco that he thinks if they put their heads together, they can take care of a “goof” like Sandman.
Back at ringside, Dusty Rhodes weighs in on the situation between Don Muraco and Sandman, saying he's battered his share of referees in his day - those are not his proudest moments. Dusty thinks Sandman has something to prove after the way that match ended and he'd like to see him do it.
Moving into the ring, J.T. Smith is waiting as Kevin Sullivan leads his wild Tazmaniac down to the ring. Tazmaniac jumps Smith before the bell, dropping him on his head with several suplexes. Smith manages to fight back, until Sullivan jabs him with the golden spike on the floor. Rhodes laughs that move off, saying it's classic Kevin Sullivan. Smith is bleeding now as Tazmaniac drops him on the back of his head and pins him.
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Dusty Rhodes interviews his old nemesis Kevin Sullivan at ringside, with Tazmaniac wandering around ringside. Dusty tips his cowboy hat to Sullivan, saying he might have found one of the wildest men he's ever seen... and that's saying something for "The Debbil". Sullivan tells Dusty that Tazmaniac should impress him because he's more dangerous than The Dream ever was, and if Tazmaniac was around 10 years ago, Sullivan would have succeeded in running Dusty Rhodes out of the state of Florida!
Dusty smiles as he tells Sullivan that Tasmaniac's suplexes are indeed impressive, but maybe he should hold off bragging until his beast gets more than one win here in ECW. Sullivan jabs Rhodes in the chest with the golden spike and asks how many wins Dusty has in ECW or anywhere else in the last two years? Sullivan says "for an announcer", Dusty sure has a big mouth! Rhodes hedges but Tazmaniac gets in his face, then Dusty admits he's yet to wrestle in ECW and he isn't signed for any matches. Maybe that could change. Sullivan maniacally laughs and says it should change - and maybe The Devil has the perfect opponent.
Dusty is left with something to think about as Kevin Sullivan leads Tazmaniac away by the hair.
The scene fades to ECW Heavyweight Champion Sandman - with bandages across his midsection."Don Muraco, brother, I think you proved one thing beyond a shadow of a doubt. When you took my surfboard, yeh, and broke it across my back after I pinned your shoulders to the mat AGAIN, after I beat you again, you proved one thing. Muraco, you proved you're nothing but a... BEACH BUM!"
(C) ECW, 1993
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