Written by: Heels Inc.
TV 1996/07/30 (matches taped at various dates and locations)
Champions
World: Raven
TV: Shane Douglas
Tag Team: Eliminators
We open with the Taz promo from Heatwave. 911 makes his return but Taz chokes him out.
Opening video
Joey Styles welcomes us to the show. We see some highlights of 911 choke slamming a bunch of people and Taz choking out a bunch of people. Joey questions who can stop Taz.
Raven takes on the Sandman this weekend. We go to fancam footage from July 26th of what happened between Sandman, The F.B.I. and Raven.
At Heatwave earlier this month Louie Spicolli defeated “El Puerto Ricano” Pablo Marquez and then immediately afterwards was defeated by Sabu.
This coming Friday at the Lulu Temple Sabu takes on Chris Jericho.
We get highlights of what has happened between the Gangstas and the Samoan Gangsta Party over the past few weeks and then go to fancam footage from July 27th match between The Gangstas and Bruise Brothers. The Samoans interfered in the match but the Gangstas were still able to pull out the win. Back to Joey and this coming Saturday it’s a 4 corner elimination Tag Team Title match. The Eliminators, Gangstas, Bruise Brothers and Samoan Gangsta Party all go at it for the titles.
On July 27th Taz and “Primetime” Brian Lee beat and laid out Tommy Dreamer and Terry “Bamm Bamm” Gordy. After brief highlights of the end of the match we see the locker room interviews from after the match. Backstage Dreamer says he’s calling Terry Funk as Beulah and Gordy and checked over by doctors. Brian Lee trash talks Dreamer and Gordy. He tells Dreamer to dream up any partner cause the one he picks already choked him out. Taz and Alfonso are wondering who Dreamer’s partner is going to be. Taz begs Dreamer to pick Sabu. Dreamer says his partner is the only guy that Taz sweats. Taz says he once told Dreamer he might sweat somebody but there’s no way Dreamer even remember who it was. Dreamer bursts through the door and hands Alfonso a piece of paper. Alfonso is worried and tells Taz he could call Vince or Bischoff. Taz says he will face his fears on August 3rd.
We see highlights of some of the current feuds over a Metallica song.
My thoughts on the show
Some how ECW is able to put on a show that features only 1 full match that took place 3 weeks ago and have it still be interesting. I generally really like the hype shows and this one was no different. Thumbs up.