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Match of the Day

Today's match is from January 10th 1999 and ECW's first annual Guilty as Charged PPV.

This is the co-main event, Justin Credible vs Tommy Dreamer in a "Stairway to Hell" ladder match.

ECW November To Remember 1998

Today I am looking back at ECW November to Remember from 1998 and it was a wild affair.

November 1, 1998 from the Lakefront Arena in New Orleans, Louisiana.

• The bWo (The Blue Meanie and Super Nova) defeated Danny Doring and Amish Roadkill (10:54)
  • Meanie pinned Doring following a Blue Light Special.
• Tommy Rogers (w/Chris Chetti) defeated Tracy Smothers (w/Tommy Rich, Little Guido, and Ulf Herman) (7:51)
  • Rogers pinned Smothers following a Tomakaze.
  • After the match, the Full Blooded Italians, assisted by Mabel, continued to beat down Rogers and Chetti until Spike Dudley made the save.
• Lance Storm (w/Tammy Lynn Bytch) defeated Jerry Lynn (w/Tammy Lynn Sytch and Mikey Whipwreck as Special Guest Referees) (16:48)
  • Storm pinned Lynn with an Inside Cradle after Whipwreck rolled him on top.
• Masato Tanaka and Balls Mahoney (w/Axl Rotten) defeated The Dudley Boyz (Buh Buh Ray and D-Von) (w/Joel Gertner, Big Dick Dudley, and Sign Guy Dudley) to win the ECW World Tag Team Championship (15:01)
  • Balls pinned D-Von and Tanaka pinned Buh Buh following a Five Star Frog Splash/Flying Legdrop combination from an interfering Rob Van Dam & Sabu through tables.

• Jake Roberts and Tommy Dreamer defeated Justin Credible and Jack Victory (w/Nicole Bass, Jason, Chastity & Lance Wright) (12:26)
  • Dreamer and Roberts simultaneously pinned Credible after both men DDT'ed him on a ladder.
  • After the match, Terry Funk came ringside and beat up Dreamer for not choosing him to be his partner.

• Sabu, Rob Van Dam and Taz (w/Bill Alfonso) defeated The Triple Threat (Shane Douglas, Bam Bam Bigelow and Chris Candido) (w/Francine) (12:57)
  • Sabu pinned Douglas after an Arabian facebuster.

Today in Wrestling History August 17th

Today in 1997 ECW held Hardcore Heaven and for the first time on PPV.

ECW World Television Champion Taz defeated Chris Candido (with Rick Rude) by submission with the Tazmission to retain the title.
- Bam Bam Bigelow pinned Spike Dudley after a Bigelowsault.
- Rob Van Dam (with Bill Alfonso) pinned Al Snow in a Monday Night Rules match after the Van Daminator.
- The Dudley Boyz (Buh-Buh Ray and D-Von (with Big Dick Dudley, Sign Guy Dudley, Joel Gertner and Jenna Jameson)) defeated ECW World Tag Team Champions The Gangstas (New Jack and Mustapha Saed) by forfeit to win the title, ending The Gangstas' second reign and beginning the Dudleys' third. Mustapha had left ECW.
- The Dudley Boyz defeated PG-13 (J.C. Ice and Wolfie D), when Buh-Buh Ray pinned Wolfie D after the 3D, to retain the title.
- Tommy Dreamer (with Beulah McGillicutty) pinned Jerry Lawler after the Dreamer DDT. Jake Roberts, Rick Rude and Tammy Lynn Sytch all interfered during the match.



- Shane Douglas (with Francine) defeated Terry Funk and ECW World Heavyweight Champion Sabu (with Bill Alfonso) and in a Three-Way Dance to win the title. Douglas and Funk both pinned Sabu after The Sandman attacked Sabu with a ladder, and Douglas pinned Funk with a roll-up. This ended Sabu's second reign and began Douglas' third.

Today in Wrestling History

1964 - Dick the Bruiser defeats Fred Blassie for the World Wrestling Association World Heavyweight Title in Los Angeles, California, ending Blassie's fourth reign. Dick the Bruiser started his own promotion in Indiana that same year, also called the World Wrestling Association, with him as the first champion.

1988 - The WWF tapes the 16th edition of Saturday Night's Main Event at the Springfield Civic Center in Springfield, Massachusetts. The show aired on NBC on April 30. Three episodes of Wrestling Challenge were also taped afterward, featuring the debut of ring announcer Mike McGuirk. The results:
- Jim Duggan defeated Hercules by disqualification when André the Giant interfered, with Ultimate Warrior making the save.
- Brutus Beefcake defeated Danny Davis by submission with a sleeper hold.
- WWF Champion Randy Savage (with Miss Elizabeth) pinned One Man Gang (with Slick) after a flying elbowdrop to retain the title.

- WWF Tag Team Champions Demolition (Ax and Smash (with Mr. Fuji)) defeated The British Bulldogs (Davey Boy Smith and The Dynamite Kid) by disqualification.
- Ted DiBiase pinned Don Muraco.
- Rick Rude pinned Koko B. Ware after the Rude Awakening.

2000 - ECW held its fifth-annual CyberSlam event at the ECW Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The results were:
- Masato Tanaka defeated 2 Cold Scorpio.
- Dawn Marie and Lance Storm defeated Jazz and Super Nova, when Dawn Marie pinned Jazz.
- Little Guido defeated Super Crazy and Kid Kash in a three-way match.
- C.W. Anderson and Billy Whiles defeated Danny Doring and Roadkill, when Anderson pinned Doring.
- Balls Mahoney and New Jack defeated Da Baldies (Angel and DeVito).
- Steve Corino defeated Dusty Rhodes.
- Rhino defeated ECW World Television Champion Yoshihiro Tajiri to win the title.
- Tommy Dreamer defeated ECW World Heavyweight Champion Tazz to win the title, ending Tazz's second reign.
- Justin Credible defeated ECW World Heavyweight Champion Tommy Dreamer to win the title.