EXTREME CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING TV

August 2, 1996

1. Louie Spicolli vs El Puerto Ricano

Spicolli attacked Ricano before the bell. Spicolli landed a couple chops and a couple short clotheslines. Spicolli blocked a hiptoss and gave Ricano a Death Valley driver. Spicolli hit Ricano with a chair and pinned him at 1:20. NR

2. Louie Spicolli vs Sabu

Sabu was wearing a neckbrace. Spicolli stomped Sabu early and pummeled him. Spicolli snapmared Sabu and gave him a rolling neck snap. Spicolli choked Sabu and punched him. He gave Sabu a neckbreaker for a near fall. Sabu kicked Spicolli but telegraphed a backdrop and Spicolli gave him a swinging neckbreaker for a near fall. Spicolli gave Sabu a slingshot back suplex for a near fall. Sabu flipped out of a second slingshot back suplex attempt and gave Spicolli a mule kick. Sabu rammed Spicolli into the barricade and sat him on it. Sabu launched off a table and knocked Spicolli into the crowd with a cross bodyblock for a pop. Sabu grabbed a chair, launched off a second chair in the ring and hit a springboard chairshot to Spicolli in the crowd in another great spot. Sabu hung Spicolli across the middle rope and placed a chair under his head. Sabu missed a top rope legdrop and crashed onto the chair. Spicolli elbowed Sabu but Sabu countered a tilt-a-whirl slam and gave Spicolli a huracanrana. Sabu jumped off a chair to the top rope, but jumped back right into a chairshot from Spicolli. Sabu grabbed a chair from the crowd. He and Spicolli dueled with chairs, and Sabu won the exchanged and hit Spicolli with a chairshot. Sabu threw a chair into Spicolli's head. He launched off a chair and hit Spicolli, who sat on the middle or top ropes, with a poetry in motion and knocked him out of the ring. Sabu kicked Spicolli and propped a table up between the apron and the barricade. Sabu placed Spicolli on the table and drove him through the table with a moonsault for a pop. Sabu gained a near fall back in the ring. Sabu hit Spicolli with a chair and then hit a triple jump moonsault for a near fall. Sabu kicked Spicolli but missed a clothesline in the corner and Spicolli German suplexed him for a near fall. Sabu caught Spicolli on the top rope and launched off a chair with an attempted top rope huracanrana, but Spicolli held his ground and Sabu crashed to the mat. Spicolli hit a rolling shoulderblock off the top rope for a near fall. Spicolli placed a chair on Sabu's head but missed a kneedrop. Sabu landed a chairshot and dropkicked Spicolli's knee in an unusual display of psychology. Sabu missed an Arabian facebuster and Spicolli stomped him. Spicolli went to the top rope but Sabu threw a chair at his head and hit him. Sabu jumped off a chair and gave Spicolli a top rope DDT. Sabu then hit an Arabian facebuster and pinned Spicolli at 11:59. If you're looking for good chemistry style-wise and logical flow, you're not going to like this match, but for some reason this worked about as well as it could for what they did. Louie just did his thing while Sabu did his, and neither got in the other's way despite the major style clash. For that reason this was really entertaining, primarily because Sabu had his working shoes on and turned in one of his better non-classic (ie, vs someone other than RVD, Scorpio or Eliminators) performances, and looked much better than in the tag match w/Mikey vs the Eliminators from earlier that night. In general Sabu was so much sharper in 1996 than he is now in terms of execution. ***

BACK TO MY TV REVIEWS MENU
HOME