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Monday, June 05, 2006

ECW Cyberslam 99: Review

ECW Cyberslam 99: Review by theantichrist4@activemail.co.uk



Jerry Lynn beat Yoshihiro Tajiri in a great opening contest full of
technical wrestling, counters, reversals and risk taking. The crowd chanted
"New Fuckin' Show" at Lynn during the match as a reference to Lynns classic
match with "Whole Fuckin' Show" RVD at the previous PPV "Living Dangerously
99", where many believe Lynn was the uncrowned champion 8.5/10.

Lance Storm comes out wearing a "WCW Monday Jericho T-Shirt", with Dawn
Marie and cuts an interview about Tommy
Dreamer's accusations that Storm is a steroid user. Lance wants to prove
his innocence so much, that he has produced a urine sample in a small
bottle. Dreamer comes out and DDT's Storm then pours the "urine" on him.

Nova beat Rod Price in a dull bout. Reno and Chris Chetti both interfered
during the match for their respective tag team partners and the ending with
Nova and Chetti hitting a double splash/legdrog combo from the top rope on
Price, was great! Nova is now known in the WWE as Simon Dean 4/10.

Super Crazy beat El Mosco De La Merced in a great spotfest with some nice
reversals, mat work and appriciation from the crowd 8/10.

Taka Michinoku beat Papi Chulo in a great high flying encounter. Chulo was
also known as Essa Rios and Augila in the WWE and this match may be better
than the Augila/Taka "Wrestlemania XIV" match 8/10.

Joey Styles is in the ring and introduces the man who celebrates his one
year anniversary as the ECW TV Champion:Rob Van Dam who comes out with Bill
Alfonso and talks about being the "Whole Fuckin' Show" on the mic before
Too Cold Scorpio is introduced as his opponant.

[ECW TV Title]Rob Van Dam beat Too Cold Scorpio in a great, long match full
of high spots. Sabu interferes later in the match and hits one of his
trademark suicide dives on Scorpio through a table on the outside! 8.5/10.

Steve Corino comes out to cut a promo about how he hates "hardcore"
wrestling and how he is going to bring the Wrestling back to Extreme
Championship Wrestling. Taz comes out and Corino looks like he's crapped
himself! Corino makes an excuse up about being injured and not able to face
Taz but he has a substitute in the form of Chris Candido(WWF's former Skip)
who comes out with Tammy(WWF's former Sunny), who's looking as tasty as
ever.

[ECW Title]Taz beat Chris Candido in a good brawl that ended when Taz
locked in his Tazzmission and Tazz-plexed Candido backwards, through a
table set up in the turnbuckle, leading to the ref to stop the match and
order the paramedics to take Candido away 6.5/10.

Shane Douglas beat Justin Credible in a pretty boring brawl. Douglas cuts a
great promo before the match though and the aftermath where Lance Storm and
Tommy Dreamer get involved is much more interesting and exciting than the
match itself! 4.5/10

Balls Mahoney/New Jack/Axl Rotten beat Mustafa/Dudleyz in a single ring,
weapons ridden "War Games Cage Match" that wasn't particularly good but the
sheer
brutality on display in this match warrents it a watch and New Jacks 187
from the top of the cage through a table on Mustafa is the definenite
highlight! 5.5/10.

Overall ECW Cyberslam 99 was a very good show, perhaps the best ECW show of
1999. The card is consistently solid until the last two matches but even
those have their moments. 8/10-no real classic matches, but plenty here
that should be seen. Best Match=A tie between Lynn/Tajiri and RVD/Scorpio.
Worst Match=Nova/Price

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