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Post by thenatureboy420 on Sept 10, 2008 2:03:36 GMT -5
would have been great to see this go into a fued.....
just came across this and forgot all bout it.
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Post by jfinnomore on Sept 10, 2008 4:47:09 GMT -5
would of been cool if taz stayed in the ring. always loved his matches in ecw.
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Post by Chris Hammers on Sept 10, 2008 5:44:00 GMT -5
Isn't this the whole Mike Awesome left for WCW while still being ECW Champion deal so they had Mike Awesome(wcw) vs Tazz(wwf) for the ECW Championship.
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Post by thenatureboy420 on Sept 10, 2008 9:38:56 GMT -5
yeah
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Post by Cass on Sept 10, 2008 9:53:06 GMT -5
Up until i got the Rise and Fall DVD, I had no idea this match happened.
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Post by Johnny Lawrence - Cobra Kai on Sept 10, 2008 12:52:12 GMT -5
I remember that. It was pretty big news at the time. Mike Awesome jumped to WCW while he was ECW champion and appeared on that week's Nitro. Paul Heyman threatened to sue WCW if Awesome didn't return to ECW and drop the belt in the ring.
Rather than have him job to someone like Dreamer, Heyman "borrowed" Taz back from the WWF for a night, to win the ECW title from a WCW person in defense of ECW's honor.
WCW even sent Doug Dillinger to the ECW show with Awesome as security, because they feared that the ECW locker room might attack him for real, for leaving them the way he did.
Then after Taz (a WWF wrestler at the time) won the ECW belt from a WCW wrestler on an ECW show, he returned to the WWF to wrestle Triple H (reigning WWF champ) on Smackdown.
Crazy stuff!
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Post by ohiochad on Sept 10, 2008 16:57:25 GMT -5
Here is the match:
If you watch the end of the match Mike Awesome puts his arm up to block The Tazmission. I remember hearing him say this in a shoot interview that he blocked it because he didn't trust Taz and thought Taz would try to hurt him.
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Post by HugoOne on Sept 10, 2008 18:28:51 GMT -5
Man, I wish they made a bigger deal out of that, even gone with it for a PPV match. I hate saying when WWE misses out on wrestlers, or screws them up, because most of the time, the wrestler is just not over, or screws themselves over. But man, I'll always say that Vince missed the boat with Tazz. I know injuries started to slow him down but an ECW vs. WWF Championship match could have been huge.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2008 11:40:10 GMT -5
ah pre-politician HHH,he was a great performer.....and yes indeed Vince completely missed the boat with Taz. a long term Taz/Angle,Taz/Shamrock or all 3 guys would have been killer.Shamrock had left by then I think but was still on good terms with Vinnie. think about it........Angle is virtually unbeatable in Jan 2000 Taz comes out wipes the mat with him and MSG explodes. then Vinnie does nothing with him.oh wait he did.he turned him heelfor nothing and jobbed him out to Jerry Lawler.ace booking by Vinnie  |
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Post by samsson on Sept 18, 2008 23:42:15 GMT -5
I AGREE WITH YOU jokerfc  |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2008 14:17:41 GMT -5
I AGREE WITH YOU jokerfc cheers man.still annoys me to this day. |
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Post by spawnsyxx9 on Sept 19, 2008 19:15:10 GMT -5
That was just a damn good match.
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