11/1/99 Misnik's Musings
This Sunday Night- ECW will be bringing us all its showcase event- the annual November to Remember. Event is being held at the Bert Flickenger Center at Erie Community College in Buffalo, NY. With Raven, Sandman and Mikey back, Mike Awesome’s title defence, Taz taking on RVD- this has the makings of the classic we all know the November to Remember can be.
Last year- on this day (11/1/99)- We converged upon the UNO Center in New Orleans for the November to Remember. People talk about the difference time makes, well this time out, lets take a look back at the tv show that lead up to that edition of the November to Remember.
[ECW] November to Remember Control Centre 31 October 1998
Hello Once Again Everyone--
This Sunday Night, the eyes of the wrestling world will converge upon the Big Easy, New Orleans and the next major pay per view in this business, ECW’s sixth annual November to Remember. The last few events and things are being set up for this major event. You have time to be a part of the festivities still either through being at the UNO Arena in New Orleans or joining us on PPV.
The show was taped during ECW’s visit to Cleveland, Ohio and the Masonic Auditorium therein. We start the show off with last week’s ending of the show in which its Balls Mahoney and Masato Tanaka facing each other in a match and then to be interrupted by the Dudley Boyz which results in the teaming of Tanaka and Mahoney.
Back to Cleveland and a tag team title defence for Sabu and Van Dam who are brought to the ring by someone who calls it right down the middle, Bill Alfonso. The opponents are to be Mahoney and Tanaka- but they dont get to make it to the ring as Balls and Masato get mugged by the Dudley Boyz as the new team gets left laying in a bloody mess are Tanaka and Mahoney and also Axl Rotten who is still recovering from his injuries. There most certainly have to be concussions involved from this and we go to a break with the new team laying in their own blood.
When we come back we do in fact get our tag title match, but its the Dudleys taking on Sabu and Van Dam. Sabu and RVD putting on a clinic in this one showing the Dudleys that they are going to want to end it early until ref Jim Molineaux checks some out of the ring actiions, the original Triple Threat hit the ring and they go to work on Sabu as BBB hits with the Greetings to Asbury park and then Shane Douglas tries to snap the neck of Sabu. Sabu with a history of neck problems going back to the N2R 94 and Sabu being dropped on his head by Chris Benoit. Taz tries to make it to the ring, but he gets ambushed by Bigelow. Back in the ring though, Sabu gets hit with the 3D- the Dudley death drop and we have NEW ECW TAG TEAM CHAMPIONS- Buh Buh Ray and Dvon Dudley as they are now holding the belts for a record tying forth time and they take the belts into the PPV this Sunday night.
Before the next match up which will see Jack Vicory take on Tommy Rogers, we get comments from Axl Rotten about the challenge by Balls and Tanaka for the Dudleys this Sunday at the PPV. Axl promises that the Dudleys blood and guts will be spilled all over the Arena and that he is promising the fans of ECW that Balls and Masato walk out of the PPV with those tag belts.
Match starts and is soon of the ring as also Rod Price getting involved as well. Just as it looks like Rogers is about to get the pin on Victory, Rod Price gets involved and that also brings in Justin Credible with the singapore cane. Credible uses the cane on Rogers head while the refs back is turned allowing Victory to get the win in this one. After the match they all keep beating on Rogers, but that brings out Tommy Dreamer.
Dreamer’s appearance sends Credible and co running as they wont no parts of Dreamer as he will be a part of the November to Remember as Credible will team with Jack Victory and Tommy will have a mystery partner in this one. Highlights of the first night in which Sandman had left ECW and Dreamer ended up being beaten by Credible and his thugs. The, er, highlights of that is shown again.
After the next break we get a review of the upcoming card for the PPV this Sunday night as Joey goes over all the matches and wonders how two guys in the hospitals with concussions like Balls and Tanaka will be able to have the kind of chair swinging match they used to, will the ref stop the match should chair shots start to save further damage to Tanaka , Balls and Axl? We’ll have to find out on Sunday.
Shane Douglas is in the ring with his original Triple Threat and he addresses some of the matters concerning the other threat of Sabu, RVD and Taz- that basicially he had *alot* to do with the Dudleys winning the belts from them, the remaining belts don’t mean shit- he threatens to make Taz tap out in the match and that he calls Taz his bitch as well, saying he is the man who made this organization.
Out on a stoop in Cleveland is New Jack. Jack is here to tell us that the mystery is over- he’s gonna be Dreamer’s partner in the big match. His interest in it isnt that he cares about losing its about satisfaction and laying someone out and that is what he wants to do to Jack Victory. He just wants them to show up and he’ll take care of the rest. Just as he is about to talk more about the whooping of they asses, someone calls out New Jack’s name and Jack Victory and Rod Price show up and smash the guitar on New Jack’s head leaving him there out cold. Hmm, guess that takes him off the list....
After Joey goes over more of what is taking place on Sunday and a look at the Lance Storm/Jerry Lynn match and how its going to be interesting with not only the two guest referees in Mikey Whipwreck and Tammy Lynn Stych in the ring, we will also have Tammy Lynn Bytch outside the ring- should make for an interesting situation.
We end up the show this week as traditionally as we do right before the November to Remember-- the 11 minute video from the Guns and Roses song November Rain as it gets intersperced with the events that got us to where we are going to be this coming Sunday night and all of the matches and also things like Little Spike beating Sal E Graziano, Tammy Sytch ripping Tammy Bytch’s dress off, the historic embrace between Taz and Sabu which formed a “new” Triple Threat, the damage that has been done to Sabu’s neck, the situation with the Dudleys and thier fued with Balls, Tanaka and Axl and it ends with how Tommy Dreamer came to the ring bloodied and battered and wanting to take on Justin Credible at the ECW Arena as a matter of revenge for himself in what has happened.
We get comments from Tommy who is wearing a Hostile Take over Cap,he talks about his history in New Orleans how in his last trips there, he got laid out, New Orleans is where he lost his girl and this time out - its his time for revenge, its his time to shine, he means every word he says- they shouldnt worry about who Tommy’s partner is going to be, but more on how much of November that Justin and Jack are going to remember.
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Main Event- the Battle of the
Triple Threats
Shane Douglas, Bam Bam Bigelow and Chris Candido w/ Francine take on Mr Monday
Night, Sabu and Taz w/ Bill Alfonso
ECW Tag Team Title Match Up
The Dudley Boyz w/ Joel Gertner and Sign Guy face Balls Mahoney and Masato
Tanaka w/ Axl Rotten Tommy Dreamer and a “mystery partner” will be taking on
the team of Justin Credible and Jack Victory
Jerry Lynn vs Lance Storm
- two referees for this one Mikey Whipwreck and Tammy Lynn Sytch