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Post by thelonewolf527 on Sept 20, 2012 20:26:21 GMT -5
Ok so I'm looking at the results of this show on Wikipedia and something caught my eye.
Did 2 Cold Scorpio seriously wrestle FOUR "You're Fired" matches on this show? Is there something missing here or did they really do something as ridiculous as this?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2012 20:29:57 GMT -5
Yes, but they were "Loser Leaves ECW for ____ days" matches. It was Scorpio's last night in ECW as he debuted as Flash Funk the next night at Survivor Series. He issued an open challenge, won, and then kept doing it until he lost in the 4th match. All 4 matches were back-to-back, and in each one, the length of time the loser would have to leave ECW was increased.
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Post by Ronny Rayguns Is All Elite on Sept 20, 2012 22:08:03 GMT -5
This sounds hillarious
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Post by Spankymac is sick of the swiss on Sept 20, 2012 22:12:06 GMT -5
More to the point, from the same show, who the hell thought the name "David Tyler Morton Jericho" was a good idea?
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Post by bob on Sept 21, 2012 2:08:17 GMT -5
It's sounds absolutely hilarious.
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Post by chazraps on Sept 21, 2012 2:38:47 GMT -5
More to the point, from the same show, who the hell thought the name "David Tyler Morton Jericho" was a good idea? Taz said the story was that wrestler (who later went on to be Kid Kash) showed up and everybody liked both his style and him as a person, but had no idea what to do with him. They came up with four ideas based on what he looked like, realized none of them were strong enough on their own, so just threw him out there with all four names attached. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2012 8:14:43 GMT -5
Yes he did. They weren't very long. And there's a backstory.
Around this time, 2 Cold had already debuted in the WWF as Flash Funk at house shows. The WWF didn't like how it originally came across at the TV taping, so the "debut" was pushed back until Survivor Series. (The Torch called his Flash gimmick a kind of cross between Huggy Bear and a flashy pimp - I would have loved to see that version of Flash.)
Back at N2R, Scorpio came to the ring boasting about how he was a former 4-time TV champion and was interviewed by Joey Styles in-ring. (Fans were chanting "Whoomp! There he goes! Whoomp! There he goes!") He said since everybody knows he's going to the WWF, he's going to give some guys a shot at him out of respect, and put him out of ECW for good.
First came out JT Smith. Scorpio said the loser will leave for 15 days. He beats JT in under a minute.
Next came out Devon Storm. Scorpio upped the ante to 30 days. He beats Storm in less than 30 seconds.
Then Hack Myers came out to check on Storm. "Oh, the Shah! I'll up the ante to 45 days!" He beats Hack really easily.
Louie Spicolli (fresh from his Rad Radford run in the WWF) came out and 2 Cold told him to tell everybody what they already know. That Louie is going to be the "mystery partner" at Survivor Series the following night. Louie didn't go for it and they had a match. Scorpio said he was upping the loser-leaves stipulation to ONE YEAR!
Louie beats him. Fans were really into Spicolli.
As for David....whatshisface, he wrestled in ECW for a few months and used each last name at least once.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2012 8:54:50 GMT -5
More to the point, from the same show, who the hell thought the name "David Tyler Morton Jericho" was a good idea? Taz said the story was that wrestler (who later went on to be Kid Kash) showed up and everybody liked both his style and him as a person, but had no idea what to do with him. They came up with four ideas based on what he looked like, realized none of them were strong enough on their own, so just threw him out there with all four names attached. Yet in the end, they decided he was Kid Rock instead. In hindsight, David Tyler Morton Jericho would've been better to use permanently than Kid Kash. |
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Sept 21, 2012 9:16:57 GMT -5
I remember this. It was pretty great. Also, in a way it led to Flash Funk  A blessing and a curse in a way. |
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Post by Maffew on Sept 21, 2012 13:19:37 GMT -5
Fans were chanting "Whoomp! There he goes! Whoomp! There he goes!" HAHAAHAHAHAHAHAH |
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Post by flatsdomino on Sept 23, 2012 5:57:50 GMT -5
Honestly, people that give ECW flack for being "garbage hardcore wrestling" are so off base it's not even funny, and it's because of things like this.
ECW was the most unorthodox, experimental, free-form mainstream wrestling company there's ever been, as far as their concepts, matches, storylines, feuds and segments. They did so many interesting, outside-the-box creative things that the show never came across like WWF or WCW - it was a different format entirely. Watching old ECW shows, there's some things that are STILL too advanced for mainstream wrestling to co-opt, but if you hate how slick, sterile and over-produced current WWE is, go watch ECW; it was so off the wall that you couldn't help but get into it. That, not necessarily the hardcore action, was what made it so celebrated.
As for this specifically, anyone else find it funny that The Rock and Flash Funk debuted the same night? It's kinda like how at the '90 Survivor Series The Undertaker debuted...as did the Gobbeldy Gooker.
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Post by Oh Cry Me a Screwball on Sept 23, 2012 6:10:46 GMT -5
As for this specifically, anyone else find it funny that The Rock and Flash Funk debuted the same night? It's kinda like how at the '90 Survivor Series The Undertaker debuted...as did the Gobbeldy Gooker. Or how Sheamus and Yoshi Tatsu debuted on the same episode of ECW? |
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