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3PW 8/21 ECW Arena results Posted by Bob Magee 3PW returned to the ECW Arena last night before a crowd of over 400 in a night that featured a great main event and an example of some of the most creative stalling ever seen to wait for a wrestler who was still traveling to a show...important once you see who and the results of the main event.
Christopher Daniels was stuck at Hartsfield International Airport in Atlanta as the show started...with his plane on the runway ready to leave but being held up for heavy outgoing traffic. Needless to say, this required an audible as to how to proceed...and 3PW callled one of the most hilarious ones imaginable in the 3PW Tag Team title match to stall creatively until Daniels could get to Philadelphia.
The evening began with Commissioner Todd Gordon going over the event's events, only to interrupted by the all too well known strains of the ECW TV theme...and then coming on was Paul Heyman...er... Stryker, complete with 57 tags around his neck, baseball cap turned backwards, dark suit...and usual catchphrases.
Here are the evening's matches:
Ruckus beat Slyk Wagner Brown (with April Hunter)
Royal Rumble Tag Match to determine 3PW tag champions with two teams coming out to start, then other teams coming out at 5 minute intervals (teams could be eliminated by pinfall or by going over the top rope).
Double Trouble (Jack Victory and Rockin Rebel) and Stryker and Rob Eckos started. Stryker... and even Eckos... came out dressed as.... the Bushwhackers. People were giving Strkyer and Eckos.
The...um....Strykerwhackers were eliminated at around 5 minutes.
It should be noted for those of you reading this...that the crowd was loving every minute of this...as Stryker's imitations have a been a regular feature of 3PW shows and have become a cult favorite with this crowd.
Next team was Gary Wolfe and Mike Kruel (with Jasmin St. Claire) came out...and no eliminations until the next "team" came out.
Stryker and Rob Eckos came in, complete with "Russian flag" and full gimmicks ("Iron Sheik" with bananas taped to his boots to simulate the pointy shoes, and pretend "exercise clubs") as Iron Sheik and Nikolai Volkoff. Stryker started singing a hilariously bad version of the Russian anthem, and got thrown out of the ring again. He kept singing it as he walked to the back.
Blue Meanie and Roadkill were the next team to enter.
Double Trouble was eliminated after about 20 minutes.
"Iron Man" played over the loudspeaker...and Stryker and Eckos came in as the Road Warriors...and actually got a "LOD" crowd, Stryker came out with what looked like gimmicked footballs pads, and aluminum foil spikes. Eckos came out in I'm not quite sure what. Needless to say, they were thrown out again.
The many faces of Stryker bit was so over with the crowd...and he's so funny doing them... that the crowd didn't even care that this match went probably twice as long as it would have under normal circumstances. They were really over with the crowd, leading to several "we want Stryker" chants during what followed. You can't imagine how hard people were laughing at these skits (I think if they had come out to ELO and doing the Rock and Roll Express, I'd have wet myself laughing).
Remaining were Slyk Wagner Brown and April Hunter against Gary Wolfe and Mike Kruel. Brown and Hunter won the match at 40 minutes, to become the first 3PW tag team champions. Final two teams fought under regular tag match rules.
Then, the show hit kind of a lull for this sort of combination of 3 matches within a match.
Monsta Mack and CJ O'Doyle went to a no-contest, when Slyk Wagner Brown and April Hunter came in trashing both wrestlers. April laughed at O'Doyle, and said she could beat him in under 2 minutes.
April Hunter beat O'Doyle in 31 seconds with the testicular claw. I'm going to guess that O'Doyle may have been hurt coming in, as it's the only rational explanation for this, since O'Doyle is also a cult favorite with a segment of the crowd.
Monsta Mack then came back, called out Roadkill and had a match. Roadkill went over in the end.
Then a long intermission...as 3PW found out that Christopher Daniels was on the ground at Philadelphia International Airport.
In the main event...and the match that the crowd came to see...and fortunately got to see...the Four Way Elimination Match for the 3PW Heavyweight Title..."Fallen Angel" Christopher Daniels beat Joey Matthews in about 40 minutes to become the new 3PW Champion in a fantastic WRESTLING match with pacing and timing.
Here are the eliminations:
* Matthews pinned Sabin at 23 minutes
* Matthews pinned AJ at 31 minutes after AJ was hit with Last Rites by Daniels. The crowd did NOT like this one bit, as they thought it meant that Matthews was going over
* Daniels beat Matthews with Last Rites to win at 40 minutes...with lots of teases that Matthews was going over until the end...
This match was all the more a remarkable performance in a career of remarkable performances by Daniels...given the fact that he touched down at Philadelphia International Airport, was driven directly to the show and practically ran from the back entrance of the ECW Arena, changed into his gear and went straight to the ring.
3PW announced a return date of October 16, with no September show since the Hand/Peltz boxing group that now runs the Arena is holding a closed circuit telecast of the Oscar De La Hoya-Bernard Hopkins PPV scheduled for September 18. Click
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