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00:00And Van Damme gets lost over the run rail into the second row.
00:10It's Chris Candido, he gets caught.
00:14Bigelow caught Candido in the chair.
00:18Here it comes, greetings from Asbury Park.
00:23Candido gets spun.
00:30That's Sonny!
00:38More place, more time, more promotion!
00:50Sonny!
00:52That's...
00:54Francine!
00:56Francine!
00:58It's Sonny!
01:00Touch the franchise!
01:02The franchise!
01:04The franchise!
01:06The franchise!
01:08Shane Douglas!
01:10The franchise!
01:12The franchise!
01:14The franchise!
01:16The franchise!
01:18Shane Douglas!
01:20The ECW World Heavyweight Champion!
01:24Just low-blown Bigelow!
01:26The franchise!
01:28The franchise!
01:30The franchise!
01:31The franchise!
01:32Rob Van Damme with the sidekick from the top!
01:34The franchise distracted Bigelow!
01:38Rob Van Damme on top!
01:40Frog splints!
01:42What animation!
01:43What impact!
01:44The franchise!
01:45The franchise!
01:46The franchise!
01:47The franchise!
01:48The franchise!
01:49The franchise!
01:50The franchise!
01:51The franchise!
01:52The franchise!
01:54The franchise!
01:55And a matter of respect!
01:56Van Damme actually pinned Sabu!
01:58At the November to Remember 1997.
02:01He buried Tommy Dreamer underneath the WWF flag!
02:04And here tonight at House Party 98, Rob Van Dam defeated the beast from the east, Bam Bam Bigelow.
02:14This has got to rank right up there with one of the biggest victories in the career of Rob Van Dam.
02:22But the bigger story is that Bam Bam Bigelow was once again victimized.
02:34By the Triple Threat!
02:46Who wears muscles?
02:48I got a friend.
02:50Guys, I'm singling you out!
02:54I'm singling you out!
02:56I need a damn party!
02:58Triple Threat is a pain in my .
03:00I need you to help me out.
03:02I need you to come off your high horse, put your ego in your back pocket and help me out.
03:08I'm asking you, Taz.
03:09I need your help.
03:10I don't want to beat the Triple Threat up.
03:12I want to f***ing eliminate him.
03:14I want him out.
03:15I want him dead.
03:16I want him.
03:17I just want him gone.
03:18You're right, brother.
03:20You're asking me because you won't tell me nothing.
03:22Where you been?
03:24I do what I want.
03:25I do what I want.
03:26When I want to do it.
03:27And who I want to do it with.
03:31Come on, Taz.
03:33Taz!
03:34Come on, Taz!
03:35Do the right thing!
03:36You know it's the right thing!
03:38Why don't you help somebody out?
03:40East Coast boys!
03:41Come on, man!
03:43Do the right thing!
03:44Do the right thing!
03:45I need your help!
03:47If I wasn't what we said he was gonna head to the ring, we had no choice but to cue up this
03:52music, he wants the match!
03:55Double A takedown on Big Dick Dudley!
04:01Fishes cross-faces!
04:05Big Dick blocks the Tazplex with those grizzly bear legs.
04:13The grizzly bear leg arm!
04:16Big Dick Dudley has Taz up for the air!
04:20Taz outweighed by over 100 pounds with the waistlock!
04:25German Tazplex!
04:32There it is!
04:33The Taz mission!
04:34The cut to Hajime!
04:36And Big Dick Dudley is tapped out!
04:43In comes T-Bone!
04:46T-Bone can't flex!
04:49We're gonna see a bum-a-bom!
04:52No!
04:53Northern Lights can't flex!
04:56Close line!
04:58Down goes Shine Guy Dudley!
05:01Tonight's the path of rage!
05:06Runs through Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania!
05:12Nobody!
05:13Sing with me out, Bigelow!
05:15Nobody!
05:16On January 31st!
05:18Bam Bam Bigelow!
05:19Philadelphia, Pennsylvania!
05:20ECW Arena!
05:21And all you morons watching at home!
05:23We will raise the three fingers high into the air!
05:29The three members of the Triple Threat!
05:31You can count on it!
05:33Ha ha ha ha ha ha!
05:34Yeah!
05:35Yeah!
05:36Neither could I, Lance!
05:37You really deserve it!
05:38Ha ha ha ha ha ha!
05:39You got enough!
05:40Hey!
05:41Stop!
05:42Stop!
05:43Oh!
05:44Hey!
05:45Where's this car?
05:46Hey!
05:47Hey!
05:48Hey!
05:49Hey!
05:50Hey!
05:51Hey!
05:52Go!
05:53Hey!
05:54Hey!
05:55Hey!
05:56Hey!
05:57Hey!
05:58Hey!
05:59Hey!
06:00Hey!
06:01Hey!
06:02You know, you're the one that's got to prove something.
06:16You're the one that's got the ego.
06:18You're always talking about how big and bad your belt is.
06:23You're the one that says it's the biggest, it's the baddest, it means more to you anything
06:28in the world.
06:29Don't you realize this is your chance to prove it, Taz?
06:31I proved myself.
06:32Don't tell me I proved myself.
06:33This is your chance.
06:34This is your chance to prove it.
06:36You can get Shane Douglas, I can get the triple threat, we can both get what we want.
06:41What do you want?
06:42Money?
06:43I don't want your money.
06:44You want money from me?
06:45No, I don't want your money.
06:46Don't waste my...
06:47What do you want?
06:48I don't want to waste my...
06:49What do you want?
06:50I don't want to waste one.
06:51I'm down on my hands.
06:52Get up.
06:53These are my .
06:54You want me on my hands and knees?
06:57You want me to beg?
06:58Get up.
06:59I ain't here to suck.
07:00Get up.
07:01Get up and be the man you're supposed to be.
07:03Listen, man.
07:04I'm telling you.
07:05I need you in hell.
07:10You gonna be my partner?
07:15You gonna help me?
07:18I'm gonna team with you for one reason.
07:20Cause after I'm done killing the triple threat myself, I'm gonna give you a world title shot.
07:27At the belt that means everything.
07:29My TV belt.
07:31Thanks, man.
07:32Thanks, man.
07:33No.
07:34Thanks, mate.
07:35You gonna be my partner, right?
07:36No, brother.
07:37I'm gonna be your savior.
07:38You gonna be your savior.
07:45EXTREME CHEMPIONATION
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10:33it will be two on three, one fall to a finish.
11:03It will be two on three, one fall to a finish.
11:33It will be two on three.
12:03It will be two on three, one fall to a finish.
12:33It will be two on three.
12:40One fall to a finish.
12:45It will be two on three.
12:51It will be a finish.
12:55It will be two on three.
14:30This is a two-on-three handicap tag team matchup.
14:39Introducing first the team, to my left, accompanied by the lovely Francine.
14:48Introducing first, at a total combined weight of 465 pounds, they are the ECW World Tag Team Champions,
15:05Triple Threat Prospect, Lance Storm, and Triple Threat member, no gimmicks needed, Chris Cardino.
15:18And their tag team partner, Hales from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
15:28He weighs in tonight at 249 pounds, and he is the three-time ECW Heavyweight Champion of the World!
15:42Ladies and gentlemen, the franchise, Shane Douglas!
15:48And their opponents, in the corner to my right, first, hailing from Asbury Park, New Jersey,
16:04and weighing in tonight, at 365 pounds, he is the Beast from the East, Ben Figaro!
16:19And his tag team partner, hailing from the Red Hook section, Brooklyn, New York.
16:32He weighs in, at 248 pounds, he is the ECW World Television Champion, the Human Suplex Machine!
16:46And his team, he is the ECW World Championship, and he is the ECW World Championship, and he is the ECW World Championship.
17:16Bigelow!
17:19They are set for Hostiles City Showdown 98.
17:34As a reluctant tag team partner of Bam Bam Bigelow, Bigelow practically begged Taz to be his partner.
17:44And Storm, the prospect to start with Bam Bam Bigelow,
18:09and he may find himself monster here tonight in Philadelphia.
18:14Oh, my God!
18:23Bandita and the franchise wincing in pain for their partner.
18:32Awesome powerball!
18:36And the prospect, Lance Storm,
18:39may not live to raise his three fingers into the air tonight.
18:44Unbelievable feel out of a corner.
18:53And Storm looking to make a tag.
18:56Suddenly Candino and Douglas have crocodile on.
19:00The franchise tags in.
19:10Now, this is why Taz agreed to be the partner of Bam Bam Bigelow.
19:13Bigelow offered Taz the opportunity to prove to the world
19:17that the world television title needs more than the world heavyweight title.
19:22Taz wants the franchise.
19:24The franchise wants Taz.
19:26Douglas is already in the ring.
19:29And Bigelow makes the tag to the ECW world television champion.
19:36And the wringled those tiers here.
19:44Chase down to the ECW world television champion.
19:46Taz, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, teas, whoop, whoop, whoop!
19:48It was the franchise who tapped out to Jacoped D'Han to vou,
19:52Taz, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop!
19:54Morning Taz, whoop, whoop, whoop!
19:55the world television champion.
20:00Elbow tie-up, face-locked by Taz, standing swift.
20:04Taz the hammerlock, rehearsal by the franchise.
20:09Taz the hammerlock, side-headlocked now,
20:12top wrist-locked by the franchise.
20:14Another arm-ringer.
20:22T-bone, Taz-plex!
20:25Float line on Candido.
20:27Overhead-handed arm-tad-flex on the prospect,
20:32and the beast from the east sends Lance Thorne to the concrete.
20:40Taz, Taz, Taz, Taz, Taz, Taz.
20:44Taz, Taz, Taz, Taz, Taz, Taz.
20:46Taz, Taz, Taz.
20:47He just over the chair, he telegraphed it, Taz caught it.
20:51Taz caught the franchise.
20:52The franchise lands on Candida.
20:59Taz holding up the world television title belt in the air.
21:06Perhaps he did just prove that his belt is superior to that of the world
21:11heavyweight champion.
21:12He told Bigelow he would be his savior.
21:15What in God's name was that?
21:25Bam Bam Bigelow cracked Taz in the skull with the ECW World Television title belt.
21:33And now he's putting the boots to the World Television Champion.
21:39The triple threat, Candida, the franchising.
21:46They're celebrating.
21:50They're taking turns, putting the boots to tag.
22:00And Storm looks a little confused.
22:05Was the prospect not glued in for this game to exit?
22:13Apparently not.
22:16Chris Candido now hammering Lance Storm behind the ear.
22:23It all makes sense now.
22:25It was Candido's fiance, Sonny, who handpicked Lance Storm as the prospect for the triple drop.
22:31My God.
22:32The trail driver on the World Tag Team title belt.
22:35The green eyed monster of jealousy.
22:39Has left Lance Storm a victim in the middle of the ring.
22:45What a crew by the triple threat.
22:51In one fell swoop.
22:54They have lured in.
22:57The ECW World Television Champion, Taz.
23:01And the would-be prospect, Lance Storm.
23:06Double A take down.
23:11Taz is still fighting.
23:12Taz is still fighting.
23:14Taz is still fighting.
23:16Taz is still fighting.
23:23Chris Candido and the franchise Shane Douglas all over Taz.
23:31Taz Storm is motionless.
23:33Taz Storm is motionless.
23:39You see this you piece of .
23:46Bigelow just smashed Taz in the face again.
23:50With the belt that Taz loved so much the belt he lived for.
23:54The belt he elevated to heights he'd never seen before.
23:58You think you got these more big men?
24:00I don't think so.
24:02Who's the world champion?
24:05The franchise has set his feet.
24:11This whole thing was a setup.
24:16Bigelow just begged Taz to be his partner.
24:21For an opportunity to prove that the World Television Champion was superior to the World Heavyweight Champion.
24:30But the World Television Champion just keeps on coming.
24:33Well there you have it.
24:45The three members of the Triple Threat.
24:48The franchise Shane Douglas, Chris Candido, and Bam Bam Bigelow.
24:54They said the three members of the Triple Threat
24:57would raise the fingers in the air tonight here at Hostile City Showdown.
25:02They led us to believe it was the night that Landstorm would become a member of the Triple Threat.
25:08It was all a rude.
25:10It was all a threat.
25:16Candido just hit the right moment to lay out Landstorm and the Triple Threat.
25:24The last one fell swoop also sucked in the ECW World Television Champion tag.
25:31At some point during the last couple of weeks Bam Bam Bigelow made the conscious decision
25:36to rejoin the most elite group in ECW history.
25:40The Triple Threat.
25:43With price.
25:45There's really no need for me to describe what they're looking at right now.
26:00Ladies and gentlemen, we've got to take a quick commercial break and we'll be back in a couple of minutes.
26:12As the wrestling wars entered 1998, we came to the realization that these one of the extreme pseudo-hardcore Monday night wrestling programs
26:32were spending too much of their own time copying ECW.
26:39Well at Hell's Party 98, we decided to fight back.
26:44With perhaps the single most violent match in ECW history.
26:51The Stairway to Hell match.
26:52The Stairway to Hell match.
26:56The Sandman.
26:57One on one.
26:58Gaining his ultimate revenge against Sabu.
27:04This was, without question, so insane.
27:10So severe that even ECW wouldn't dare air this match on television.
27:19The Stairway to Hell match.
27:22The Sandman's revenge against Sabu.
27:25But at what price?
27:27It's all part of the main event from House Party 98.
27:33During this period in the wrestling business where everyone wants to be extreme.
27:40Tabu.
27:41And the Sandman at House Party 98, we defined extreme.
27:45And don't take my word for it.
27:47Check out House Party 98, available now from ECW Home Video.
27:52And make your own judgment.
27:54Who's extreme?
27:56We are continuing coverage of the Reunited.
28:01Of the Shane Douglas, Chris Candido, and Bam Bam Bigelow Triple Threat.
28:06As a matter of fact, we are monitoring your comments on the internet.
28:09On the World Wide Web.
28:11As we are broadcasting live tonight on the internet.
28:14Curse of our friends at Audioscape on www.ecwwrestling.com.
28:21And we thought we weren't alone in cyberspace.
28:24As our friends from the south were up north at the Fleet Center in Boston.
28:28Our friends at WCW.
28:29And apparently they at Audionet, well, crashed.
28:33And thousands of fans are now joining us.
28:35I mean, we didn't expect this as twice as many fans as we expected to join us for live audio here on the internet.
28:40And we're going to do it again in just a few weeks.
28:43Cyber Slam 98, Saturday night, February 21st.
28:48Right back here from the ECW Arena.
28:51Live, play-by-play, on the internet.
28:54Courtesy of our friends at Audioscape at www.ecwwrestling.com.
29:01If you can't make it to Philadelphia for the annual internet convention,
29:06have the convention at your house.
29:08Live audio from the arena.
29:10Now, after what we have seen here tonight,
29:14you can bet that this changes things for the Sunday night, March 1, ECW Living Dangerously pay-per-view,
29:22which will be from the Asbury Park Convention Hall, 7 p.m. Asbury Park, New Jersey.
29:27You can bet that the matchup will be done.
29:31At this time, Bam Bam Bigelow will challenge TAC, the ECW World Television Champion.
29:39Sometime in the past couple of weeks, Bam Bam Bigelow sold his soul back to the franchise,
29:45and Chris Douglas and Chris Candido.
29:47But at what price?
29:49But at what price?
29:51We won't have to wait long to find out.
29:54Sunday night, March 1, ECW returns to pay-per-view with Living Dangerously from Asbury Park, New Jersey,
30:04the convention hall, 7 p.m. Eastern starting time.
30:16It's ECW Living Dangerously.
30:18And, yes, the matchup will be made.
30:20Bam Bam Bigelow challenging TAC for the ECW World Television title.
30:25One young man who certainly would like a spot on the pay-per-view is just incredible.
30:31Now, wouldn't it have been a great matchup for the ECW World Television title?
30:36One young man who certainly would like a spot on the pay-per-view is just incredible.
30:43Now, wouldn't it have been a great matchup to have just incredible against Mikey Wipwreck?
30:50A rematch, but no.
30:53December in Mikey's hometown of Buffalo, New York, just incredible, taking advantage of Mikey's blown-out knee.
31:01Didn't just win the matchup, he injured Mikey Wipwreck.
31:04Mikey now with a torn ACL and meniscus will not be back for the March 1st pay-per-view.
31:09He had a backup plan.
31:10A rematch.
31:11Just incredible versus the great Sasuke.
31:14Remember, he pinned Sasuke back in October.
31:16But just three weeks ago here at the ECW Arena at House Party 98,
31:20he again defeated the great Sasuke, taking advantage of his weakened knee,
31:24and then again injured Sasuke, who now can't wrestle either.
31:28Gran Hamada, also of Mitsunoku Pro Wrestling, came to the ring to help the great Sasuke,
31:34only to be spiked with that's incredible.
31:37Gran Hamada has returned from Japan.
31:41He has healed.
31:43And tonight, he is looking for some payback.
31:46He is looking to teach some respect to the 23-year-old who is making a name for himself,
31:52not by winning matches the way it should be done in wrestling,
31:55but who is making a name for himself by gleefully spitting in everyone's face and injuring his opponents.
32:01Self-proclaimed sexiest man on earth.
32:12Never.
32:13Leads perhaps the most ill-tempered young man we have ever had the displeasure of watching here at ECW to the ring.
32:22Does not play well with others.
32:39Huge.
32:42This 23-year-old upstart has decided to make a name for himself here at ECW.
32:49Not by winning matches.
32:51He proved he could do that by simply pitting the great Sasuke.
32:55No.
32:56Justin Credible is burning his image into the minds of ECW fans by hurting their favorite wrestler.
33:07Namely, Mikey Whitwreck, the great Sasuke.
33:12But hopefully tonight, one of the most world-renowned light heavyweights on the globe will teach Justin Credible some respect.
33:27When Hamada makes his way into the ring.
33:34The look of purpose on his face.
33:39Ladies and gentlemen, introducing at this time, the 70est man on earth, Jason.
33:52And he too can be blamed for the attitude of Justin Credible.
33:58And from Ozone, New York.
34:00He supports Justin Credible.
34:02Everything is perpetrated here.
34:04That's fucked.
34:05Justin Credible!
34:09the United Nations Who misses the flag.
34:10With Damage!
34:11A stand-好像!
34:12For Kiliad, Da- personnage, Da- Active!
34:14Jackson, Da- A stand-oko!
34:15He answers both the Obama Academy of Japan!
34:16He weighs number one hundred and ninety-five pounds, Brian Hamada!
34:17He weighs number one hundred and ninety-five pounds, compression Amada!
34:25This is Brian Hamada!
34:39Hamada clothesline Just Incredible.
34:41Jason misses the clothesline, it goes down, it's wet.
34:45Scoop with a slam, great power by Hamada.
34:49Iris whipped.
34:52And over goes Justin Tenable, catches himself.
34:56But gets driven face first into the kid.
35:00Hamada ran out after Justin.
35:04Reversal, Hamada hits the steel.
35:11Where Hamada teaching this kid some respect.
35:19Justin Tenable!
35:21Justin Tenable!
35:23Justin Tenable!
35:25I'm not gonna lie to you, I admire Justin Tenable.
35:28I admire how hard he works.
35:30I admire his ambition.
35:32I admire his drive and his sport.
35:34He's a jerk.
35:36You're not a lovable jerk like his manager who actually is amusing.
35:41He's just a jerk.
35:43Cover to it!
35:45And the other one, go!
35:47You're looking for a slam!
35:48Let's go!
35:49That's it!
35:52Scoop!
35:53And a slam!
35:54That's it!
35:55Manavada is sending to the turn buckle.
35:58Go!
35:59No!
36:00Stop!
36:01Flags, clothesline!
36:03Lateral.
36:04Press.
36:05To, now!
36:07You can count only!
36:09First, two, three!
36:11Six, three, four!
36:12Justin gets planted again.
36:17Once again, Gran Hamada going all the way up.
36:21Well, Jake, both feet in the tournament.
36:28Just incredible.
36:29Cover two.
36:30Nope.
36:31Just incredible continues to kick out.
36:35And that's what's so sad about this kid.
36:38He's as good as he says he is.
36:40He can win wrestling matches.
36:42He doesn't need to hurt people.
36:47Top rope.
36:48Rana nicely executed.
36:50Madderal pressed this baby all too long.
36:58Just incredible showing fight, showing determination.
37:02Continuing to kick out.
37:04The marks of a great wrestler.
37:08Swinging DDT out of the corner.
37:11Justin Campbell gets spiked.
37:13That should be all too.
37:15Justin Campbell sneaks the left shoulder off the canvas.
37:19Back to his feet.
37:21Lose line to the floor.
37:24Jason pulled Justin out of the way of Gran Hamada's Pescato.
37:35Hamada hits the concrete floor.
37:42Hamada landed on that right knee.
37:44The right knee struck the concrete first.
37:46And now Justin Campbell stomping relentlessly on that right knee of Gran Hamada.
37:55Which is the mark of a great wrestler.
37:58But if he should win the matchup because of this injury, he won't stop with the bell rings.
38:03He'll try to hurt Gran Hamada like he did to Mikey Whipbrake in Buffalo New York.
38:08Like he did to the great Sasuke here in Philadelphia.
38:12This is what I'm talking about right here.
38:15Why?
38:16For what purpose?
38:17Why not pull the man up and win the matchup?
38:20Why not pull a shot right here here?
38:33What did you do to put a secondary pin on the bat?
38:44Okay, so here this is Johnny, his presidency, he's going to start to hit it.
38:48The award of the victory.
39:00Jason tells just incredible a bit.
39:04Sasuke's match.
39:08Jason just tough the great Sasuke's match is just incredible.
39:13And again, in order to make a rep for himself,
39:16injure people, he'll insult people, he'll spit in the face of great athletes.
39:27There it is, that's incredible for
39:30Corkscrew Tombstone.
39:31And mercifully, the matchup is over.
39:35See, it's not about getting his hand raised,
39:39it's not about screening together victories to become a contender.
39:42It's about becoming a star any way you can,
39:45as fast as you can.
39:47It's about circumventing paying your dues,
39:50which is the right way of getting it done in the wrestling business.
39:53It's about hurting people to get a rep.
39:55It's about insulting people like this.
39:58It's disgraceful.
40:00Even for ECW, this punk is disgraceful.
40:15So look at this.
40:1523-year-old punk trying to get his mush in the Japanese wrestling magazine.
40:19Great.
40:20Apparently, you fans on the internet are as disgusted as we are.
40:24I'm reading your responses right now as we do live play-by-play here from Hostile City Showdown at
40:29www.ecwwrestling.com.
40:32Of course, WCW is not doing it from the Boston,
40:35from the Fleet Center in Boston, that is.
40:37Their play-by-play crashed.
40:39My God, Odeonet must have cost them about $50,000.
40:43Well, it's not their money.
40:46It's $50,000 less dollars Eric Bischel has to buy your soul with.
40:50Great commercial.
40:51All you.
40:52Let's get a free bowl of soup with that pay-per-view, huh?
40:55Look on the bright side.
40:56You don't have to listen to Mark Madden doing play-by-play,
40:58and Gene Oakland is already at the ball.
41:00Just incredible.
41:02Mark Madden, 23 years old, he can win wrestling matches.
41:07He can wrestle.
41:08There's no denying that.
41:09He's a great athlete, but he's picking on vulnerable people.
41:15Weakened knees, injured knees, people who are already hurt.
41:19Just incredible.
41:20Pouncing on them after winning the matches, trying to put them out of wrestling.
41:26You know, we have a hotline here at ECW that I've had the pleasure of running for a year
41:31and a half.
41:33And in running the hotline, I've interviewed some wrestlers that I like, and I've interviewed
41:36some wrestlers that it was my job to interview.
41:44This week on auction three, Justin Credible took it upon himself to show his ignorance,
41:52to make an ass out of himself.
41:54His comments aren't shocking or controversial.
41:56He just showed his ass.
41:58So please, all right, this is the first time you're ever going to hear this from any wrestling
42:02company.
42:03Do not call option three of the ECW Hardcore Hotline.
42:07I've got plenty of news on there, scoops about the WWF, wants you to believe about Mike Tyson.
42:11That's not true.
42:12And results from all over the globe and what's going on with everything.
42:15All option three.
42:16The kid is a punk.
42:17He doesn't deserve your time.
42:19He's just showing his ass to the world.
42:22Let's change the subject altogether.
42:24Sunday night, March 1st, ECW returns to pay-per-view with Living Dangerously.
42:307 p.m. Eastern time from Asbury Park, New Jersey.
42:35The convention hall, by the way, Asbury Park, New Jersey, the hometown, as you know, of
42:40the beast from the east, Bam Bam Bigelow.
42:44But as I'm reading here on the internet, the fans in Asbury Park not happy about Bigelow's
42:48treachery.
42:49My question in all this is, what happens to the World Tag Team Championship?
42:54The champions are Chris Candido and Lance Storm, but Candido decked Storm with the World
42:59Tag Team title belt and then pile-drove him on it.
43:02Well, perhaps to answer the question, why, standing by now in the locker room, riding
43:07a wave of momentum into the March 1st Living Dangerously pay-per-view, is the reunited
43:11triple threat of the franchise, Chris Candido and Bam Bam Bigelow.
43:15You know something?
43:22Back in the early days of this great sport, back when the true tough guys of this business
43:27traveled up and down the road from town to town, there invariably was always some jackass
43:32in the next town, say, I don't know, Red Hook, New York, that thought he was tougher than
43:39the tough guy.
43:41That guy usually got his ass kicked and kicked good.
43:43You know what they called him?
43:45They called him the Mark.
43:47Mark.
43:48You know what P.T.
43:49Barnum called him?
43:50A sucker.
43:51And he said, a sucker's born every minute.
43:53And the fact that this business thrives today, thank God there's a sucker born every minute,
43:57cause every damn night ECW runs in the building, it's full of damn marks, both out of the audience
44:03and in the back, Taz.
44:05Hey, brother, 16 pounds of gold on your shoulder, the ECW world's television title, that yours
44:13truly made so damn great, Taz.
44:15It ain't the fact that you made me tap, it ain't the fact that you can suplex people out
44:20of their boots.
44:21But the bottom line is, the belt that you wear and say is so damn great is because of a
44:26franchise, not a Taz.
44:28But let's place it in perspective here, Taz.
44:31World television title, world heavyweight title, Taz, franchise.
44:37I'm sorry, Mark, that's the way it goes.
44:40When the graves are dug, and you and I are put six feet under, our epitaphs will be read,
44:46and one will say, I was a franchise, I built ECW, I made the ECW world television title what
44:53it is, I made this title what it is.
44:57And you, Taz, are second rate, Mark.
45:01Your belt does not mean more than this.
45:05And you, sucker, are not tougher than the tough guy in the bottom rung of the ladder, Taz,
45:11when the last song is sung.
45:14You can be a smart mark, you can be an average or a mill mark, you can be a rich mark, a poor
45:21mark, a Taz mark, or a Lance Storm mark.
45:25Well, hold on on that, Lance Storm.
45:27I know about you, Lance Storm, from day one.
45:29Oh, yeah, we won the ECW world tag team titles, but you care about that?
45:33Now, won't you care about all those fancy moves, trying to win the magic, trying to steal my
45:38glory?
45:39What did you want?
45:40You tried to steal my girl.
45:41I know.
45:42I knew in the back of your mind what you wanted to do.
45:43You were trying to swerve me, you Canadian mark, trying to steal my girl.
45:47You're a man.
45:48You're nothing but a mark.
45:50What?
45:51Come on there, pal.
45:52Crazy, man.
45:53I'm the one that told you he was trying to take her from you.
45:55Yeah, you said it.
45:56Thank God you had your eyes wired open and listen to me.
45:58Lance Storm, you tried to steal from this man the most downloaded personality in AOL history.
46:05You may have biceps bulging.
46:07You may be able to fly like a bird.
46:09You may have wrestling ability coming out the ass.
46:11Yeah, well, you know.
46:12But in the bottom rung, Lance Storm, you're not a no gimmicks needed Chris Candido.
46:17You are a mark, a Taz mark, a Lance mark, a smart mark, a dumbass mark, still a mark,
46:31together again for the very first time.
46:37The triple threat.
46:39Oh, yeah.
46:41Yeah, Lance Storm, you don't get to raise these fingers because you're not a member.
46:46kids!
46:56Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!