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WORLD WRESTLING ENTERTAINMENT
EXTREME CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING
(AIRDATE: FEBRUARY 17, 2004)
WWE logo appears on screen.
Footage from last week shows Tommy Dreamer becoming one the semi-finalist for the ECW Championship.
Styles: Tonight San Francisco has gone Extreme! Hello everyone I’m Joey Styles along with the Hardcore Legend Mick Foley as we welcome you to ECW. We are sold out at the Cow Palace and tonight Mick we find out the fourth and final semi-finalist for the ECW Championship.
Foley: Joey Styles two men will compete for the ECW Title at WrestleMania and we already know three of the four men of whom those two will be chosen from. Tommy Dreamer, Brian Kendrick, and Shawn Michaels have already qualified. Tonight another man will join them and then we can dwindle those four down to two to see who is going to WrestleMania!
“What does everybody want?” The music of Al Snow plays as he heads to the ring.
Styles: Well Mick here comes a friend of yours and he looks like he’s got a purpose.
Foley: Al Snow and I have had our ups and downs over the years. Let’s find out what the Snowman has to say.
Snow: Last week I should have won the Extreme Battle Royal which would have moved me one step closer to punching my ticket to WrestleMania. But an individual by the name of Shawn Michaels stuck his nose or his foot rather where it didn’t belong. HBK, get out here right now and let’s see what happens when you have to look me in the eyes instead of cheap shotting me with Sweet Chin Music.
Styles: Wow Al Snow is calling out the Heartbreak Kid here to kick off ECW.
Shawn Michaels does not come out, however Marty Jannetty does.
Styles: The former partner and former friend of Shawn Michaels is heading out here.
Jannetty: Al Snow you shouldn’t concern yourself with Shawn Michaels, instead you should concern yourself with me. I am the one that eliminated you from the Battle Royal last week, not Shawn Michaels. So if you have a problem, then you need to take up with me inside this ring right now.
Snow: Okay Jannetty, you’re on!Al Snow strikes Jannetty and a referee hit’s the ring and calls for the bell.
AL SNOW VS. MARTY JANNETTY
Snow kicks Jannetty and pounds on him. He sends him in. Marty slides under and comes back with a reverse elbow. Jannetty nails Snow and sends him to the corner. He whips him across, but Snow reverses. Jannetty gets a foot up. Jannetty drills Snow with a face plant and then connects with two dropkicks. Jannetty goes to the top rope. He comes off with a cross body for a near fall. Jannetty elbows Snow. Snow nails Jannetty in the gut and pushes him into the ropes and rolls him up for a near fall. Snow clotheslines Jannetty and then nails him with elbows. Snow uses a back suplex.
Foley: Snow has always been a fighter. He may be one of the strangest guys I’ve ever met, but he is quite capable inside that ring.
Snow goes to the top. Jannetty crotches him and delivers a back superplex for a near fall. Jannetty delivers a clothesline and then another. Jannetty delivers a suplex and then goes for the Rocker Dropper, but Snow turns it into a power bomb for a near fall.
Styles: Very nice counter on the part of Al Snow.
Snow delivers a big knee lift followed by a neck breaker. Snow then plants Jannetty with a uranage into a back breaker for a near fall. Al Snow goes for the Snow Plow, but Jannetty rolls him up for two. Jannetty pounds on Snow. Snow then dumps Jannetty to the outside. Snow is going to follow, but the referee is pushing back. Shawn Michaels runs out to ringside and delivers Sweet Chin Music on Jannetty. Michaels starts heading to the back. Snow sees Jannetty down and then pushes him back into the ring. Al Snow connects with the Snow Plow and gets a three count. Michaels mouths “your welcome” to Snow as he leaves.
Styles: Well it seems that Shawn Michaels has returned the favor here from last week and has kind of amended what he did, although this victory is not going to help Al Snow get a title match at WrestleMania.
Foley: No it certainly won’t Joey, but tonight we will find out who the fourth and final man will be to advance to the semi-finals to find out who does in fact get a title opportunity at WrestleMania for the ECW Championship.
Styles: That will take place Mick in a special Lumberjack Elimination match. In that match two men will start and the rest of the participants will act as lumberjacks outside the ring. Once a man is eliminated or exit’s the ring, one of the lumberjacks will enter until everyone has been in the match and all have been eliminated down to the last man. When the field gets down to the final three competitors it will become a triple threat match. Right now I’m told that Tazz has caught up with the Heartbreak Kid.
Tazz: Shawn, if I can get a word. Moments ago you cost Marty Jannetty his match against Al Snow. What do you have to say for yourself.
HBK: Well Tazz, it’s pretty simple. Last week I tried to help Marty out so that he would have no excuses. That didn’t work out too well for him. Al Snow didn’t like that and so I just tried to set things right. Now they each hold a victory over each other. So we should all be squared away.
Tazz: Shawn, tonight we are going to find out the final man who will qualify for the semi-finals which then decide who goes on to WrestleMania to compete for the ECW Title. We already know that you, Tommy Dreamer, and Brian Kendrick have moved on. Any thoughts on the final participant?
HBK: Tazz, it doesn’t matter a whole lot to me who moves ahead. Just remember I am going to do whatever needs to be done to be the showstopper like I always am come WrestleMania. If Mr. WrestleMania isn’t at WrestleMania, then it just won’t be WrestleMania.
Tazz: Thank you Shawn Michaels.
-Commercial Break-
WrestleMania is 25 Days Away!
Highlights from the previous three quarterfinal matches are shown.
Styles: Welcome back to ECW as Tommy Dreamer joins us here at ringside for our huge Lumberjack Elimination match.
LUMBERJACK ELIMINATION MATCH
ULTIMO DRAGON VS. CHAVO GUERRERO VS. ROB VAN DAM VS. DEAN MALENKO VS. BALLS MAHONEY VS. WILLIAM REGAL VS. MARK JINDRAK VS. GREGORY HELMS VS. KID KASH VS. SANDMAN
Chavo Guerrero and Ultimo Dragon start the match. They lock up. Dragon applies the side headlock. Chavo sends him for the ride. Dragon knocks him down and goes to the ropes. Chavo leaps up as Dragon rolls through under. Chavo goes for a monkey flip, but Dragon dives all the way over. Chavo takes him over with an arm drag, but Ultimo comes back with two arm drags of his own. Dragon nails Chavo with a dropkick.
Styles: These two athletes are so quick, how Tommy Dreamer will you be able to compete with their speed if one of them becomes your opponent in the semi-final round?
Dreamer: I have to slow down the pace and not let them get that head of steam. I also have to live up to my moniker, the Innovator of Violence.
Dragon chops Chavo and goes to the ropes. Dragon flips back over Chavo and then nails him with a heel kick. Dragon connects with a standing mooncalf for a near fall. Dragon kicks Chavo and then leaps off the ropes with a sunset flip for another near fall. Chavo kicks Dragon and pounds on him. Chavo stomps on Ultimo Dragon and then sends him in. Chavo nails him with an elbow and then connects with a suplex. He hit’s a second one.
Foley: Chavo doing the patented Three Amigos.
Chavo goes for the third suplex, but Dragon goes up and over and hooks in the Dragon Sleeper. Chavo tries to fight it, but taps out.
Styles: The Ultimo Dragon hooks in the Dragon Sleeper on Chavo Guerrero and makes him tap out as our first elimination occurs.
Kid Kash jumps into the ring and nails Dragon. He delivers a neck breaker and quickly drops several elbows and then plants a knee. He makes the cover, but Dragon kicks out. Kash sends Dragon to the corner. He nails him and then lifts hum up top. Dragon fights back and plants Kash with a tornado DDT for a near fall. Dragon chops Kash and then kicks him. He sends him in, but Kash hits an enzugiri and tosses Dragon out of the ring. Rob Van Dam tries to enter, but Gregory Helms trips him up. Balls Mahoney then enters the ring and starts to pound on Kid Kash.
Foley: This is still anyone’s ballgame and I like the unpredictability of this kind of match.
Mahoney sends Kash in and nails him with a big boot. Mahoney slams Kash twice and then plants an elbow for a two count. Balls pounds on Kash and sends him in to the corner. Kash gets his knees up and then plants Mahoney with an arm breaker. Kash drills Mahoney with a knee to the arm and gets a near fall. Kash goes for the brain buster, but Mahoney blocks it and slams Kash down and then rolls out of the ring. Mark Jindrak nails Mahoney on the floor and William Regal rolls into the ring.
Dreamer: Whoever picks up the win here is going to have earned it after this type of competition.
William Regal hit’s the knee trembler on Kash and then delivers a double underhook suplex. Regal applies the Regal Stretch and Kash taps out.
Styles: William Regal comes in and gets the job done on Kid Kash and that is two down as the Sandman enters the fray.
Sandman punches Regal and sends him in for a back drop. Sandman whips Regal to the corner and then clotheslines him. Sandman connects with a power slam and gets a near fall. He delivers a head-butt and then a gut buster. Gregory Helms jumps onto the apron and snaps Sandman off the rope. He falls into a William Regal back suplex. Regal drills Sandman with a knee knocking him to the floor. Helms kicks away at Sandman allowing Rob Van Dam to enter the ring.
Foley: This is going to be good gentlemen. RVD vs. William Regal.
Van Dam forearms Regal and sends him in, but Regal reverses. Van Dam flips back over and then connects with a heel kick. RVD hit’s a standing moonsault for a near fall. He rams Regal to the buckle and kicks away. Van Dam delivers Rolling Thunder for a two count. Mark Jindrak reaches in and pulls RVD out to the floor and nails him. He sends Van Dam to the post. Dean Malenko then enters.
Styles: This is fast and furious action here on ECW as the Man of a thousand holds is now in this.
Malenko and Regal exchange blows. Malenko delivers a Northern Lights suplex for a near fall. Malenko connects with a dropkick and sends Regal in. He buries the knee and then goes for the Texas Cloverleaf, but Regal kicks Malenko off. Regal hit’s a German release suplex and then pounds on Malenko. Regal delivers a gut wrench and goes for the knee trembler, but Malenko trips him and rolls over into a jackknife cover for a near fall. Malenko hooks la majistra cradle for another near fall.
Dreamer: This is some of the finest wrestling I have seen and I could be up against one of these two men.
Foley: Tommy, you have a lot of heart. In fact you have always been the heart and soul of ECW, but if you get in the ring with Malenko or Regal, they are going to out wrestle you.
Malenko delivers a spin wheel kick and then sets Regal up on the top turnbuckle. Malenko climbs and connects with a huge gut buster for a near fall. Regal nails Malenko and quickly tosses him through the ropes to the floor. Sandman gets into the ring and charges at Regal, but he moves and connects with a suplex. Regal delivers the knee trembler and gets the three count.
Styles: Just like that William Regal pins the Sandman. If you are not focused at all times, something like that can easily happen.
Rob Van Dam leaps up top. He comes off with the 5 Star Frog Splash on William Regal. Van Dam holds him down and Regal is eliminated.
Styles: And as quickly as Regal defeated the Sandman, Regal himself is now eliminated thanks to RVD.
Mark Jindrak is in and he attacks Van Dam. He pounds away and delivers a back suplex. Jindrak nails him with a leg drop and then sends him in. Jindrak delivers a power slam for a two count. Jindrak whips Van Dam into the corner. RVD moves and then shoulders Jindrak. Van Dam hit’s a heel kick and then a split leg moonsault for a near fall. Van Dam sends him in. Jindrak reverses. RVD connects with a sunset flip for a near fall. Jindrak drills Van dam with a boot and then goes for a suplex. Van Dam blocks it. He nails Jindrak with a front face suplex and then slams him down. RVD goes to the top. He comes with the 5 Star Frog Splash, but Jindrak moves. Jindrak sends Van Dam flying out of the ring. Balls Mahoney returns to the ring nailing Jindrak. He pounds on him and connects with a bulldog. He sends Jindrak to the corner. Balls moves in, but Jindrak lifts Mahoney and drops him face first on the turnbuckle. Jindrak covers him and gets a three.
Styles: We have really picked up the pace here as Balls Mahoney is sent packing by Mark Jindrak. Ultimo Dragon is looking to get back in this match now.
Dragon flips off the buckle into the ring and takes Jindrak down with an arm drag. He hits another. Dragon leap frogs over Jindrak then takes him over with a monkey flip and connects wit a heel kick. Dragon delivers a corkscrew moonsault and gets a near fall. Dragon chops away at Jindrak. He sends him in. Jindrak reverses. Dragon slides under and then hooks a huracanrana followed by a high arm drag. Dragon uses a back leg trip and then delivers a handspring into a splash for another near fall.
Styles: Ultimo Dragon is rolling! Will he advance to the semi-finals when ECW continues!
-Commercial Break-
Styles: The action is hot and heavy as we welcome you back to ECW. We are in the midst of a huge Lumberjack Elimination match to determine the fourth and final semi-finalist in our on-going series to determine who will compete for the ECW Title at WrestleMania.
Ultimo Dragon hooks a crucifix on Jindrak for a near fall. Jindrak kicks Dragon. He goes for a suplex. Dragon goes up and over and hooks in the Dragon Sleeper. Jindrak taps out.
Foley: Ultimo Dragon has now made two men tap out with that maneuver in this contest. I think Dragon has got this one.
Gregory Helms pushes Dean Malenko to the floor and jumps up onto the ring apron. Ultimo Dragon nails Helms and pulls him into the ring. Dragon dropkicks Helms. He hit’s a cross body for a near fall. Dragon kicks away at Helms in the corner. He sets him up top. Dragon climbs and delivers a super huracanrana for a near fall. Dragon sends Helms in. Helms kicks Dragon and delivers a leg lariat. Helms delivers a back breaker and whips Dragon to the corner. Helms follows in with a dropkick. He delivers a back suplex. Helms goes for the Shining Wizard, but Dragon ducks and rolls him up for a near fall. Dragon goes to the ropes. Helms drills him with a knee and then sends him in. Dragon reverses. Dragon leaps in the air, but Helms catches him with a power bomb. Helms gets a near fall. Helms stomps on Dragon. He pounds on him and nails him with an elbow. Helms sends him in. Dragon slides under the bottom rope to the floor. Helms follows. Dean Malenko slides into the ring. Dragon pushes Helms back in. Malenko nails Helms with a side Russian leg sweep. Malenko elbows Helms and snap mares him over. Malenko hooks a double underhook suplex. He sends him in, but Helms reverses. Helms goes for a tilt o whirl slam, but Malenko lands on his feet and delivers a back breaker to Helms. Malenko drills Helms with a forearm for a near fall.
Foley: This is a clinic being put on by our ECW Superstars.
Malenko nails him with a low dropkick and goes for the Texas Cloverleaf. Helms kicks him off and uses an inside cradle for a near fall. Helms pounds on Dean and then slams him. Gregory Helms goes to the top. Helms comes off, but Malenko meets him with a dropkick. Malenko goes to the top. He hit’s a cross body, but Helms rolls through and gets a near fall. Malenko pushes Helms into the ropes and rolls him back up for a near fall. Helms then kicks Malenko and runs him into the corner. He sends him in, but Malenko reverses him back into the corner and then plants him with a DDT for a near fall. Malenko stomps on Helms and applies the Figure Four.
Styles: Another great submission from the man of a thousand holds as he tries to put away Gregory Helms.
Helms manages to turn Malenko over. Malenko lets go and kicks Helms in the knee. Malenko hooks on the Texas Cloverleaf and this time Helms taps out.
Styles: Gregory Helms has been eliminated. We are down to Dean Malenko, Ultimo Dragon, and Rob Van Dam. One of these three men will be your opponent Tommy Dreamer next week here on ECW.
Dreamer: All three are top notch competitors and I look forward to the opportunity to defeat one of them and head to WrestleMania.
Styles: Now Ultimo Dragon and RVD join Dean Malenko in the ring as we get down to triple threat rules.
Dragon quickly hooks in Malenko. Dean sends him in. Dragon knocks Malenko down. Dragon goes to the ropes. RVD leap frogs Dragon and then drops down. Malenko hiplocks Ultimo Dragon. Van Dam then hiplocks Malenko. Dragon hiplocks RVD and then delivers two quick leg drops and makes the cover, but Malenko dropkicks Dragon. Malenko clotheslines Dragon to the outside. Van Dam levels Malenko with a heel kick. RVD leaps to the top rope. Malenko nails Van Dam knocking him back down. Malenko dropkicks Van Dam and goes for the Texas Cloverleaf, but Van Dam gets free. Van Dam takes Malenko over with a headlock. Dragon delivers a standing moonsault on Van Dam. He makes the cover, but only gets two. Dean nails Dragon. He forearms Van Dam. He sends Van Dam through the ropes. Ultimo suplexes Malenko. Dragon hit’s a springboard into a somersault onto Malenko and has the cover, but Van Dam springs into the ring with a leg drop to stop it. Van Dam sends Dragon into the corner. Van Dam shoulders him and then flips back and shoulders him again. Malenko gets behind RVD. RVD elbows Malenko and goes behind him and pushes Dean into Dragon. Van Dam goes to the top. He hit’s the 5 Star Frog Splash on Malenko.
Styles: This could do it.
Ultimo Dragon hooks Van Dam with the Oklahoma Roll for a near fall. Dragon kicks Malenko out to the floor. Dragon nails Van Dam and chops him. He sends him in. Van Dam does a back flip over Dragon and nails him with a heel kick. Van Dam hits Rolling Thunder on Dragon and plants him with a DDT. Van Dam goes up top. He flies with the 5 Star Frog Splash on Dragon. Van Dam hooks the leg and gets the three count.
Styles: Rob Van Dam is victorious here. Van Dam will face Tommy Dreamer right here next week. Only of these two men will compete for the ECW Championship at WrestleMania. The other side of that equation will be determined next week as well when Brian Kendrick faces the Heartbreak Kid Shawn Michaels. Dean Malenko gets the shaft as the odd man out, but what an impressive outing it was for all of the ECW stars involved in this contest. Thank you so much for joining us. Good night everyone!
EXTREME CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING
(AIRDATE: FEBRUARY 17, 2004)
WWE logo appears on screen.
Footage from last week shows Tommy Dreamer becoming one the semi-finalist for the ECW Championship.
Styles: Tonight San Francisco has gone Extreme! Hello everyone I’m Joey Styles along with the Hardcore Legend Mick Foley as we welcome you to ECW. We are sold out at the Cow Palace and tonight Mick we find out the fourth and final semi-finalist for the ECW Championship.
Foley: Joey Styles two men will compete for the ECW Title at WrestleMania and we already know three of the four men of whom those two will be chosen from. Tommy Dreamer, Brian Kendrick, and Shawn Michaels have already qualified. Tonight another man will join them and then we can dwindle those four down to two to see who is going to WrestleMania!
“What does everybody want?” The music of Al Snow plays as he heads to the ring.
Styles: Well Mick here comes a friend of yours and he looks like he’s got a purpose.
Foley: Al Snow and I have had our ups and downs over the years. Let’s find out what the Snowman has to say.
Snow: Last week I should have won the Extreme Battle Royal which would have moved me one step closer to punching my ticket to WrestleMania. But an individual by the name of Shawn Michaels stuck his nose or his foot rather where it didn’t belong. HBK, get out here right now and let’s see what happens when you have to look me in the eyes instead of cheap shotting me with Sweet Chin Music.
Styles: Wow Al Snow is calling out the Heartbreak Kid here to kick off ECW.
Shawn Michaels does not come out, however Marty Jannetty does.
Styles: The former partner and former friend of Shawn Michaels is heading out here.
Jannetty: Al Snow you shouldn’t concern yourself with Shawn Michaels, instead you should concern yourself with me. I am the one that eliminated you from the Battle Royal last week, not Shawn Michaels. So if you have a problem, then you need to take up with me inside this ring right now.
Snow: Okay Jannetty, you’re on!Al Snow strikes Jannetty and a referee hit’s the ring and calls for the bell.
AL SNOW VS. MARTY JANNETTY
Snow kicks Jannetty and pounds on him. He sends him in. Marty slides under and comes back with a reverse elbow. Jannetty nails Snow and sends him to the corner. He whips him across, but Snow reverses. Jannetty gets a foot up. Jannetty drills Snow with a face plant and then connects with two dropkicks. Jannetty goes to the top rope. He comes off with a cross body for a near fall. Jannetty elbows Snow. Snow nails Jannetty in the gut and pushes him into the ropes and rolls him up for a near fall. Snow clotheslines Jannetty and then nails him with elbows. Snow uses a back suplex.
Foley: Snow has always been a fighter. He may be one of the strangest guys I’ve ever met, but he is quite capable inside that ring.
Snow goes to the top. Jannetty crotches him and delivers a back superplex for a near fall. Jannetty delivers a clothesline and then another. Jannetty delivers a suplex and then goes for the Rocker Dropper, but Snow turns it into a power bomb for a near fall.
Styles: Very nice counter on the part of Al Snow.
Snow delivers a big knee lift followed by a neck breaker. Snow then plants Jannetty with a uranage into a back breaker for a near fall. Al Snow goes for the Snow Plow, but Jannetty rolls him up for two. Jannetty pounds on Snow. Snow then dumps Jannetty to the outside. Snow is going to follow, but the referee is pushing back. Shawn Michaels runs out to ringside and delivers Sweet Chin Music on Jannetty. Michaels starts heading to the back. Snow sees Jannetty down and then pushes him back into the ring. Al Snow connects with the Snow Plow and gets a three count. Michaels mouths “your welcome” to Snow as he leaves.
Styles: Well it seems that Shawn Michaels has returned the favor here from last week and has kind of amended what he did, although this victory is not going to help Al Snow get a title match at WrestleMania.
Foley: No it certainly won’t Joey, but tonight we will find out who the fourth and final man will be to advance to the semi-finals to find out who does in fact get a title opportunity at WrestleMania for the ECW Championship.
Styles: That will take place Mick in a special Lumberjack Elimination match. In that match two men will start and the rest of the participants will act as lumberjacks outside the ring. Once a man is eliminated or exit’s the ring, one of the lumberjacks will enter until everyone has been in the match and all have been eliminated down to the last man. When the field gets down to the final three competitors it will become a triple threat match. Right now I’m told that Tazz has caught up with the Heartbreak Kid.
Tazz: Shawn, if I can get a word. Moments ago you cost Marty Jannetty his match against Al Snow. What do you have to say for yourself.
HBK: Well Tazz, it’s pretty simple. Last week I tried to help Marty out so that he would have no excuses. That didn’t work out too well for him. Al Snow didn’t like that and so I just tried to set things right. Now they each hold a victory over each other. So we should all be squared away.
Tazz: Shawn, tonight we are going to find out the final man who will qualify for the semi-finals which then decide who goes on to WrestleMania to compete for the ECW Title. We already know that you, Tommy Dreamer, and Brian Kendrick have moved on. Any thoughts on the final participant?
HBK: Tazz, it doesn’t matter a whole lot to me who moves ahead. Just remember I am going to do whatever needs to be done to be the showstopper like I always am come WrestleMania. If Mr. WrestleMania isn’t at WrestleMania, then it just won’t be WrestleMania.
Tazz: Thank you Shawn Michaels.
-Commercial Break-
WrestleMania is 25 Days Away!
Highlights from the previous three quarterfinal matches are shown.
Styles: Welcome back to ECW as Tommy Dreamer joins us here at ringside for our huge Lumberjack Elimination match.
LUMBERJACK ELIMINATION MATCH
ULTIMO DRAGON VS. CHAVO GUERRERO VS. ROB VAN DAM VS. DEAN MALENKO VS. BALLS MAHONEY VS. WILLIAM REGAL VS. MARK JINDRAK VS. GREGORY HELMS VS. KID KASH VS. SANDMAN
Chavo Guerrero and Ultimo Dragon start the match. They lock up. Dragon applies the side headlock. Chavo sends him for the ride. Dragon knocks him down and goes to the ropes. Chavo leaps up as Dragon rolls through under. Chavo goes for a monkey flip, but Dragon dives all the way over. Chavo takes him over with an arm drag, but Ultimo comes back with two arm drags of his own. Dragon nails Chavo with a dropkick.
Styles: These two athletes are so quick, how Tommy Dreamer will you be able to compete with their speed if one of them becomes your opponent in the semi-final round?
Dreamer: I have to slow down the pace and not let them get that head of steam. I also have to live up to my moniker, the Innovator of Violence.
Dragon chops Chavo and goes to the ropes. Dragon flips back over Chavo and then nails him with a heel kick. Dragon connects with a standing mooncalf for a near fall. Dragon kicks Chavo and then leaps off the ropes with a sunset flip for another near fall. Chavo kicks Dragon and pounds on him. Chavo stomps on Ultimo Dragon and then sends him in. Chavo nails him with an elbow and then connects with a suplex. He hit’s a second one.
Foley: Chavo doing the patented Three Amigos.
Chavo goes for the third suplex, but Dragon goes up and over and hooks in the Dragon Sleeper. Chavo tries to fight it, but taps out.
Styles: The Ultimo Dragon hooks in the Dragon Sleeper on Chavo Guerrero and makes him tap out as our first elimination occurs.
Kid Kash jumps into the ring and nails Dragon. He delivers a neck breaker and quickly drops several elbows and then plants a knee. He makes the cover, but Dragon kicks out. Kash sends Dragon to the corner. He nails him and then lifts hum up top. Dragon fights back and plants Kash with a tornado DDT for a near fall. Dragon chops Kash and then kicks him. He sends him in, but Kash hits an enzugiri and tosses Dragon out of the ring. Rob Van Dam tries to enter, but Gregory Helms trips him up. Balls Mahoney then enters the ring and starts to pound on Kid Kash.
Foley: This is still anyone’s ballgame and I like the unpredictability of this kind of match.
Mahoney sends Kash in and nails him with a big boot. Mahoney slams Kash twice and then plants an elbow for a two count. Balls pounds on Kash and sends him in to the corner. Kash gets his knees up and then plants Mahoney with an arm breaker. Kash drills Mahoney with a knee to the arm and gets a near fall. Kash goes for the brain buster, but Mahoney blocks it and slams Kash down and then rolls out of the ring. Mark Jindrak nails Mahoney on the floor and William Regal rolls into the ring.
Dreamer: Whoever picks up the win here is going to have earned it after this type of competition.
William Regal hit’s the knee trembler on Kash and then delivers a double underhook suplex. Regal applies the Regal Stretch and Kash taps out.
Styles: William Regal comes in and gets the job done on Kid Kash and that is two down as the Sandman enters the fray.
Sandman punches Regal and sends him in for a back drop. Sandman whips Regal to the corner and then clotheslines him. Sandman connects with a power slam and gets a near fall. He delivers a head-butt and then a gut buster. Gregory Helms jumps onto the apron and snaps Sandman off the rope. He falls into a William Regal back suplex. Regal drills Sandman with a knee knocking him to the floor. Helms kicks away at Sandman allowing Rob Van Dam to enter the ring.
Foley: This is going to be good gentlemen. RVD vs. William Regal.
Van Dam forearms Regal and sends him in, but Regal reverses. Van Dam flips back over and then connects with a heel kick. RVD hit’s a standing moonsault for a near fall. He rams Regal to the buckle and kicks away. Van Dam delivers Rolling Thunder for a two count. Mark Jindrak reaches in and pulls RVD out to the floor and nails him. He sends Van Dam to the post. Dean Malenko then enters.
Styles: This is fast and furious action here on ECW as the Man of a thousand holds is now in this.
Malenko and Regal exchange blows. Malenko delivers a Northern Lights suplex for a near fall. Malenko connects with a dropkick and sends Regal in. He buries the knee and then goes for the Texas Cloverleaf, but Regal kicks Malenko off. Regal hit’s a German release suplex and then pounds on Malenko. Regal delivers a gut wrench and goes for the knee trembler, but Malenko trips him and rolls over into a jackknife cover for a near fall. Malenko hooks la majistra cradle for another near fall.
Dreamer: This is some of the finest wrestling I have seen and I could be up against one of these two men.
Foley: Tommy, you have a lot of heart. In fact you have always been the heart and soul of ECW, but if you get in the ring with Malenko or Regal, they are going to out wrestle you.
Malenko delivers a spin wheel kick and then sets Regal up on the top turnbuckle. Malenko climbs and connects with a huge gut buster for a near fall. Regal nails Malenko and quickly tosses him through the ropes to the floor. Sandman gets into the ring and charges at Regal, but he moves and connects with a suplex. Regal delivers the knee trembler and gets the three count.
Styles: Just like that William Regal pins the Sandman. If you are not focused at all times, something like that can easily happen.
Rob Van Dam leaps up top. He comes off with the 5 Star Frog Splash on William Regal. Van Dam holds him down and Regal is eliminated.
Styles: And as quickly as Regal defeated the Sandman, Regal himself is now eliminated thanks to RVD.
Mark Jindrak is in and he attacks Van Dam. He pounds away and delivers a back suplex. Jindrak nails him with a leg drop and then sends him in. Jindrak delivers a power slam for a two count. Jindrak whips Van Dam into the corner. RVD moves and then shoulders Jindrak. Van Dam hit’s a heel kick and then a split leg moonsault for a near fall. Van Dam sends him in. Jindrak reverses. RVD connects with a sunset flip for a near fall. Jindrak drills Van dam with a boot and then goes for a suplex. Van Dam blocks it. He nails Jindrak with a front face suplex and then slams him down. RVD goes to the top. He comes with the 5 Star Frog Splash, but Jindrak moves. Jindrak sends Van Dam flying out of the ring. Balls Mahoney returns to the ring nailing Jindrak. He pounds on him and connects with a bulldog. He sends Jindrak to the corner. Balls moves in, but Jindrak lifts Mahoney and drops him face first on the turnbuckle. Jindrak covers him and gets a three.
Styles: We have really picked up the pace here as Balls Mahoney is sent packing by Mark Jindrak. Ultimo Dragon is looking to get back in this match now.
Dragon flips off the buckle into the ring and takes Jindrak down with an arm drag. He hits another. Dragon leap frogs over Jindrak then takes him over with a monkey flip and connects wit a heel kick. Dragon delivers a corkscrew moonsault and gets a near fall. Dragon chops away at Jindrak. He sends him in. Jindrak reverses. Dragon slides under and then hooks a huracanrana followed by a high arm drag. Dragon uses a back leg trip and then delivers a handspring into a splash for another near fall.
Styles: Ultimo Dragon is rolling! Will he advance to the semi-finals when ECW continues!
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Styles: The action is hot and heavy as we welcome you back to ECW. We are in the midst of a huge Lumberjack Elimination match to determine the fourth and final semi-finalist in our on-going series to determine who will compete for the ECW Title at WrestleMania.
Ultimo Dragon hooks a crucifix on Jindrak for a near fall. Jindrak kicks Dragon. He goes for a suplex. Dragon goes up and over and hooks in the Dragon Sleeper. Jindrak taps out.
Foley: Ultimo Dragon has now made two men tap out with that maneuver in this contest. I think Dragon has got this one.
Gregory Helms pushes Dean Malenko to the floor and jumps up onto the ring apron. Ultimo Dragon nails Helms and pulls him into the ring. Dragon dropkicks Helms. He hit’s a cross body for a near fall. Dragon kicks away at Helms in the corner. He sets him up top. Dragon climbs and delivers a super huracanrana for a near fall. Dragon sends Helms in. Helms kicks Dragon and delivers a leg lariat. Helms delivers a back breaker and whips Dragon to the corner. Helms follows in with a dropkick. He delivers a back suplex. Helms goes for the Shining Wizard, but Dragon ducks and rolls him up for a near fall. Dragon goes to the ropes. Helms drills him with a knee and then sends him in. Dragon reverses. Dragon leaps in the air, but Helms catches him with a power bomb. Helms gets a near fall. Helms stomps on Dragon. He pounds on him and nails him with an elbow. Helms sends him in. Dragon slides under the bottom rope to the floor. Helms follows. Dean Malenko slides into the ring. Dragon pushes Helms back in. Malenko nails Helms with a side Russian leg sweep. Malenko elbows Helms and snap mares him over. Malenko hooks a double underhook suplex. He sends him in, but Helms reverses. Helms goes for a tilt o whirl slam, but Malenko lands on his feet and delivers a back breaker to Helms. Malenko drills Helms with a forearm for a near fall.
Foley: This is a clinic being put on by our ECW Superstars.
Malenko nails him with a low dropkick and goes for the Texas Cloverleaf. Helms kicks him off and uses an inside cradle for a near fall. Helms pounds on Dean and then slams him. Gregory Helms goes to the top. Helms comes off, but Malenko meets him with a dropkick. Malenko goes to the top. He hit’s a cross body, but Helms rolls through and gets a near fall. Malenko pushes Helms into the ropes and rolls him back up for a near fall. Helms then kicks Malenko and runs him into the corner. He sends him in, but Malenko reverses him back into the corner and then plants him with a DDT for a near fall. Malenko stomps on Helms and applies the Figure Four.
Styles: Another great submission from the man of a thousand holds as he tries to put away Gregory Helms.
Helms manages to turn Malenko over. Malenko lets go and kicks Helms in the knee. Malenko hooks on the Texas Cloverleaf and this time Helms taps out.
Styles: Gregory Helms has been eliminated. We are down to Dean Malenko, Ultimo Dragon, and Rob Van Dam. One of these three men will be your opponent Tommy Dreamer next week here on ECW.
Dreamer: All three are top notch competitors and I look forward to the opportunity to defeat one of them and head to WrestleMania.
Styles: Now Ultimo Dragon and RVD join Dean Malenko in the ring as we get down to triple threat rules.
Dragon quickly hooks in Malenko. Dean sends him in. Dragon knocks Malenko down. Dragon goes to the ropes. RVD leap frogs Dragon and then drops down. Malenko hiplocks Ultimo Dragon. Van Dam then hiplocks Malenko. Dragon hiplocks RVD and then delivers two quick leg drops and makes the cover, but Malenko dropkicks Dragon. Malenko clotheslines Dragon to the outside. Van Dam levels Malenko with a heel kick. RVD leaps to the top rope. Malenko nails Van Dam knocking him back down. Malenko dropkicks Van Dam and goes for the Texas Cloverleaf, but Van Dam gets free. Van Dam takes Malenko over with a headlock. Dragon delivers a standing moonsault on Van Dam. He makes the cover, but only gets two. Dean nails Dragon. He forearms Van Dam. He sends Van Dam through the ropes. Ultimo suplexes Malenko. Dragon hit’s a springboard into a somersault onto Malenko and has the cover, but Van Dam springs into the ring with a leg drop to stop it. Van Dam sends Dragon into the corner. Van Dam shoulders him and then flips back and shoulders him again. Malenko gets behind RVD. RVD elbows Malenko and goes behind him and pushes Dean into Dragon. Van Dam goes to the top. He hit’s the 5 Star Frog Splash on Malenko.
Styles: This could do it.
Ultimo Dragon hooks Van Dam with the Oklahoma Roll for a near fall. Dragon kicks Malenko out to the floor. Dragon nails Van Dam and chops him. He sends him in. Van Dam does a back flip over Dragon and nails him with a heel kick. Van Dam hits Rolling Thunder on Dragon and plants him with a DDT. Van Dam goes up top. He flies with the 5 Star Frog Splash on Dragon. Van Dam hooks the leg and gets the three count.
Styles: Rob Van Dam is victorious here. Van Dam will face Tommy Dreamer right here next week. Only of these two men will compete for the ECW Championship at WrestleMania. The other side of that equation will be determined next week as well when Brian Kendrick faces the Heartbreak Kid Shawn Michaels. Dean Malenko gets the shaft as the odd man out, but what an impressive outing it was for all of the ECW stars involved in this contest. Thank you so much for joining us. Good night everyone!
