Pitbulls def. JT Smith & Stevie Richards in 11:54. The Bulls beat the hell out of Smith forever, including when he made a false comeback on the floor, only for Pitbull 1 to waffle him with a chairshot to the head. Richards got the hot tag and it was a superkick party twenty years ahead of its time, but Pitbull 1 gave him a quick powerslam for the win. This was a super long squash essentially, but everything looked pretty good. *1/2
911 def. Young Dragons in 0:48. 911 gave them both simultaneous, horribly mistimed chokeslams for the win, then did it again after the match, which looked at least slightly better. The Dragons were stretchered away. 911 was crazy over, but this looked horrible. 1/4*
Tazmaniac def. Al Snow in 8:10. This was Snow’s ECW debut and he did a good job. There was a lot of subplot going on with the Pitbulls and Jason backing Snow, while Tazmaniac had Paul E and 911 backing him up. It kind of took away from the solid action in the ring, but 911 was so incredibly fucking over.Taz won with an exploder kind of out of nowhere. **1/2
Shane Douglas def. Hack Myers in 20:59. This is one of those moments where you have to be happy ECW ran their house shows the way they did, as we get the Shaw challenging for the ECW World Title. I was actually mesmerized by Douglas early, watching him do a fantastic job of getting a good world title match out of Hack Myers. Then, it got really long with Douglas working restholds forever. I mean, they really lost the crowd trying to fill time. Douglas eventually won with the belly-to-belly. **
Tommy Dreamer & Peaches def. Tommy Cairo & Angel in 2:24. Dreamer hit Cairo with a piledriver, then decked Angel with a right hand for the win. That was pretty much the whole match. Sandman and Woman came out to beat the shit out of Dreamer with a cane. Cactus Jack tried to run in to stop it but got his clock cleaned as well, doing a massive This match was nothing but the crowd went nuts for Sandman, who was the heel. 1/2*
World Tag Team Title Match: Public Enemy def. Cactus Jack & Mikey Whipwreck in 10:19. They had Hack Myers take Jack’s place because of the attack in the prior match, but Cactus eventually made his way back out with his head heavily bandaged. To show you Foley’s dedication to the story, this guy was wrestling on a PPV headlined by Hulk Hogan a few months ago, and now he’s getting his brains scrambled and balding in front of about 400 people. This was a lot of walking around the arena and brawling, but pretty wild and the stuff mostly looked good. Rocco was supposed to swanton Whipwreck on top of a table, putting him through it, but it didn’t break, and Whipwreck just rolled off. The finish was flat because the crowd expected the table to cooperate, but this was a brawl that was mostly good. **3/4
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