3-Way Dance

[Gillberg: 0-175]

I was wondering this for a while...did ECW really invent the "3-Way Dance"? As in, the first ever match with 3 participants? In the Rise and Fall DVD they said they did, but I was brought into wrestling late enough to have seen other triple threat matches so I don't know. However, all the matches I've seen from pre-ECW have never been triple threat matches. Was it really a small fed in Philly that created one of the simpliest ideas ever? Was using 3 singles competitors against each other only around for a little more than a decade? It seems so impossible to fathom, but all the evidence I found leads to it:

1) The DVD claims it.
2) WWF pre 1996 that I've seen haven't had any triple threat matches.
3) Other feds pre 1996 that I've seen haven't had any.
4) I couldn't find any evidence online contridicting it.

[Z-A Sandbaggin' Son of a b!%@h]

3 way dance = Elimination
Triple Thread = one fall to a finish


Just wanted to say that...because you know... that's the difference.

[Mozenrath]

I don't know that the created it, but they definately popularized it.

[Mr Captain Falcon]

In the Early-mid 1990s WCW had "Triangle" Matches. Same rules as 3 way dance.

[WWHHHD]

WCW takes the square with TRIANGLE matches.

[Gillberg: 0-175]

Ah ok. Thanks for clearing this up. I thought it was impossible to think that the first time 3 singles competitors stepped in a ring against each other was in the 1990s.

[krazykarl77]

therealzman said:

3 way dance = Elimination
Triple Thread = one fall to a finish


Just wanted to say that...because you know... that's the difference.

they should really bring that back to WWECW because that would make it stand out some instead of being like heat with its own title

[Lance Uppercut]

krazykarl77 said:

therealzman said:

3 way dance = Elimination
Triple Thread = one fall to a finish


Just wanted to say that...because you know... that's the difference.

they should really bring that back to WWECW because that would make it stand out some instead of being like heat with its own title

I think they did with Tommy, Elijah, and Stevie. McMahon was on there and even called it "Three way dance".

Then where was the Estrada chase for the gold or whatever it was called, which was cool, until BDV just got thrown in there.

[Hiroshi Hase]

malonesr said:

WCW takes the square with TRIANGLE matches.

Yeah that's right, at Starrcade 95 it was Luger vs. Flair vs. Sting to see who would face Savage for the World Title later that night.

[Citizen Snips Has Left]

yjc1019 said:

malonesr said:

WCW takes the square with TRIANGLE matches.

Yeah that's right, at Starrcade 95 it was Luger vs. Flair vs. Sting to see who would face Savage for the World Title later that night.

That match was several months after the first named "3 Way Dance" (Benoit/Malenko vs Public Enemy vs Tazz/Steiner) and almost two years after Funk/Franchise/Sabu at The Night the Line Was Crossed.

What WCW triangle match predated TNTLWC?

[Hassan bin Sober]

Wikipedia talks as if there is no difference between a 3 Way Dance and a Triple Threat. They also speak of a Triangle Match as involving a tag format. Not sure if that info is accurate though as I am certain a 3 Way Dance is elimination.

[Hiroshi Hase]

dothebird said:

yjc1019 said:

Yeah that's right, at Starrcade 95 it was Luger vs. Flair vs. Sting to see who would face Savage for the World Title later that night.

That match was several months after the first named "3 Way Dance" (Benoit/Malenko vs Public Enemy vs Tazz/Steiner) and almost two years after Funk/Franchise/Sabu at The Night the Line Was Crossed.

What WCW triangle match predated TNTLWC?

I know, I was just saying that's all that it was done prior to 96 which I think was asked previously.

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Didn't the WCW triangle match have one person on the apron, who could be tagged in by either guy?