From The Rants of Wrestling


That's right boys and girls! Rants of Wrestling is back with some extreme action. My understanding is that unlike the last show this one was tapped so hopefully this week is better then what we got last week.


Right away he have Taz defending The ECW World Heavyweight Championship against "The Japanese Buzz Saw" Yoshihiro Tajiri!


Tajiri has Steve Corino and Jack Victory in his corner. The crowd begins a "TNN" chant. I thought that was funny. I highly doubt ECW fans see Spike TV in the same light today.


Despite being so short this match is really fun to watch. The crowd is super hot and that just makes everything even more fun. Taz puts Tajiri away with The Tazmission. The Extreme Replay returns and without music! They must have gotten the hint that it was dumb to play music over the announcer. Things are really looking up.


Joey Styles is in the ring introducing everyone to ECW on TNN.


It isn't long before he's joined by "The Quintessential Studmuffin" Joel Gertner who announces that he's the new color commentator for ECW on TNN. Joey is not at all thrilled by the news and stomps his feet and Gertner enters the ring. Of course he comes with all his sexual jokes and rhymes.


Styles announces that they're interviewing Jerry Lynn! Lynn comes out to bash WWF and WCW before demanding that Rob Van Dam come to the ring and defend The ECW World Television Title.


Bill Alfonso comes out and gives credit for taking Van Dam to the limit but there's no way he's going to challenge him for the title yet again.


Well Fonzy slaps Lynn and Lynn going to kill him untill...


Van Dam makes the save and the two brawl it out before we take a commercial break.


Back from commercial we get Team 3D!!! We're told by Styles that this is going to be their last night in ECW.


And they're facing ECW World Tag Team Champions Balls Mahoney & Spike Dudley in a title match!


We get Joey Styles "Oh my God!" moment right away when Balls presses and throws Spike right onto his half brothers.


The match is very fast paced. Balls gets a table and spreads some thumbtacks onto it.


Balls gets ready to put Buh Buh throw the table the the tables get turned on Balls as Devon interferes and The Dudley Boys but Balls throw the table!


Spike saves Balls from being pinned but soon after finds himself a victim of The Dudley Death Drop and being pinned! We have new World Tag Team Champions!


Joey and Joel talk about how horrible it is that The Dudley Boy winning the titles and taking them to WWF is before plunging ECW events.


We get another music video this week. This time it's Rob Zombie who the featured artist.


This week we get Lance Storm's entrance music. We get various clips of Storm and his manager Dawn Marie.


Joey and Joel plug Roller Ball before The Dudleys make their way back to the ring to talk down ECW and say how they're going to become legends in WWF and then become gods. He also states that if god could be a heel he'd be The Dudley Boys. Before leaving they want to finish old business and call out Tommy Dreamer to fight them.


Dreamer is held back by Paul Haymen and Francine as Styles puts over how injured he'd been in the past. Buh Buh claims to have raped Dreamer's wife while she was in the hospital. I could have lived without that. Dreamer storms the ring and attack The Dudley Boy, quickly getting the advantage using a tazer on their groins.


Tommy takes out both Dudleys with a ladder.


While Francine takes out Sign Guy Dudley with his own sign.


The Dudley Boys are able to take control when Buh Buh reverses an Irish whip and Tommy's injured back hits the ladder. Sign Guy tries to stop them but Buh Buh hits him out of the ring. Tommy is able to reverse a 3D and DDT D-Von.


The crowd goes insane when Raven storms the ring to make the save! Raven DDTs Buh Buh and pins him to crown new ECW World Tag Team Champions!


Tommy finds out that he's now a tag champion with Raven and he's not happy at all. He gives Raven the finger while Raven goes into the crowd.


A show like this wouldn't fly with today's wrestling fans but we did get a huge return with Raven and he has won The World Tag Team Championship with his nemesis Tommy Dreamer! I think maybe the only problem here is that new fans wouldn't know the history between the two guys but I bet we'll get a extreme history lesson on next week's ECW on TNN.