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Lance Storm vs. Chris Jericho

Rey Mysterio vs. Psychosis

Three Way Match:

Super Crazy vs. Tajiri vs. Little Guido

Eddie Guerrero vs. Chris Benoit

Tommy Dreamer and The Sandman vs. The Dudley Boyz



Plus:

Paul Heyman, Rob Van Dam, Bill Alfonso, Tazz, Spike Dudley, Al Snow & Head, Sabu, Balls Mahoney, Danny Doring, Roadkill, C.W. Anderson, Rhyno, Joel Gertner (they found him), Axl Rotten, Justin Credible, Kid Kash, Masato Tanaka, Mikey Whipwreck managed by Jim Mitchell, Steven Richards as Big Stevie Cool with Hollywood Nova and The Blue Guy

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Ok, for those who don't know...a brief history of Shane Douglas tenure as Head Booker of XPW.

XPW had built quite a reputation as one of the best promotions on the West Coast of America, with a useful mixture of Technical Wrestling and Garbage/Ultraviolence. XPW's downfall began when it's biggest star and former world Champion The Messiah fell out with owner Rob Black over accusations that Messiah had an affair with Black's former Porn Star wife, Lizzy Borden (an accustaion that cost Messiah his thumb, but that's another story). Messiah and Black had previously shared booking duties.

Shane Douglas, who had been extremely critical of XPW after their attempted 'Invasion' at an ECW PPV, turned back on his word and took Rob Blacks money to replace Messiah. Douglas would be in sole charge of the booking. Douglas immediately put the World Title on himself in his debut, booking the World Champion 911 to lose to himself without getting any offence in. Shane was clearly out of shape and there was some speculation about personal demons, particularly as he managed to puke up in the ring, during said title match.

Douglas then went two steps further, booking Borden as his personal valet and his good friend Chris Candido as the company's next biggest star, despite the fact that Candido was clearly in an even more drug addled state than Douglas and was routinely botching moves. Douglas and Candido squashed all the promotions noteable stars, who began to leave. The fine technical wrestling which XPW used to showcase was shown the door and the garbage content increased. Apart from in Douglas and Candido's matches of course, wouldn't want them getting hurt now would we? Crowds plummeted (unsurprisingly).

The only good news for XPW was it was put out of it's misery before it died a death. Federal charges against Black and Borden relating to some VERY nasty porn caused him to bring the fed top a close and Douglas moved on to TNA...

you do for the benefit of people like me who never get to hear about such things :(

plus i know ECW is "all about the attitude, etc", but a lot of those guys (sabu, etc) have huge medical bills to clear and who's gonna have the deeper pockets? douglas or vinnie? exactly.

to me, this event by shane douglas is the equivelent of the older people at punk shows who stand at the back complaining that it's "not as good as it was" and throwing their "but it's my game, you can't play" attitude around at anyone who'll listen (and a load of others that don't want to)

But any show booked by Shane Douglas will be rubbish. The phase where he was assistant-head booker at ECW was probably the worst phase of the Promotion's history and his stint as head booker at XPW, well, I don't need to say anything about that do I?

yeah, well he's doing "hardcore homecoming" from the ECW arena a week or so before the wwe event so a few workers are doing both shows, some are doing one or the other.

Kawada wrote:
> Yup Shane Douglas is setting up another ECW event which will most
> likely be truer to the actual thing.

Hmm, history seems to have conveniently forgotten that Shane Douglas was ECW's Triple H...

Yup Shane Douglas is setting up another ECW event which will most likely be truer to the actual thing.

jakey b wrote:
> vice mcmahon is having the ecw back in business

Please write in English

> and there will not be an invasion that will stop it from happening

You're such a mark, you make Wardy look clued up.

> it will be good as superstars can come and go

See above.

> i have always wanted the rock or undertaker to do a move onto their
> opponent in the crowd

Die.

vice mcmahon is having the ecw back in business

and there will not be an invasion that will stop it from happening

it will be good as superstars can come and go

i have always wanted the rock or undertaker to do a move onto their opponent in the crowd

Very_Metal wrote:
> Cong_Man wrote:
> Oh...you can add Terry Funk
>
> is that definitely confirmed mate?

It was posted on a very reliable wrestling news website, but a couple of months have passed since, so he may have changed his mind I suppose...

> i read a thing about the Shane Douglas event and funk said he was
> working that one instead.

Shane Douglas event?

If ECW is revived, my bet would be on it becoming a 2nd tier development territory (i.e. a step down from WWE, but a step above OVW). Where WWE can really test out some workers by putting them through the Hardcore mill (i.e. weed out the Brock Lesnar's from the John Cena's), with paul heyman in full creative control...

Obviously not as good a full-fledged ECW, but probably the best we can hope for.