Bootscrapes ECW B-Sides! a compilation overview!

i have no idea what is on this...i imagine this is a comp of fancam matches, though i could be totally wrong!

-ok, TV opening with Joey in the ring and Alfanzo interrupts about .5 seconds in. It's 1996, and Fonzie rants about things he hates, fan signs, and why Taz isn't getting an interview. Joey tells Fonzie to shut up, here comes Taz, and yep, this is from House Party 1996 and I think we're going to see 911/Rey Misterio Jr. vs the Eliminators. Anyway, Taz is about ready to kill Styles, 911 comes in, Taz beats the hell out of him, and we start the tag match I've seen about a billion times. I think i'll move on and see what else we have here. If you're curious, the match is pretty much 911 laying around while Rey takes a beating while pulling off a few nice hope spots. 911 finally gets back up, and they do the chicken fight ending, with Rey hurricanraning Saturn off of Kronus; shoulders, while he's on 911's shoulders. Decent if you like, have never seen Rey Misterio every.

-and we hit the fancam as Chris Jericho is making his way to the ring, and I'm going to guess the opponet is Sabu...Yep! This match is readily aviable on the Extreme Warfare comp ECW put out. Seen this as well, lets see what else we have here...as for this match, check it out of you haven't seen, if only for the novelty factor of Jericho vs Sabu.

-Next up is the first match between Sabu/RVD against Dan Kroffet and Doug Furnes. I believe this is the first match, as the second one was during the "High Incident" arena show, and there's no "scaffold" to be seen here. I will watch this in full soon, promise

-a bit of Hype Central which leads into a Dreamer promo hyping Ultimate Jeproedy 96 match. Dreamer talks about his pain, and how much he loves it, Beulah stands there dripping wax on him or something. I get that Tommy's character is some ultra tormented masochist, but I was never sure why. I thought he was the popular kid at camp who dissed fat Beulah. Why the heck did she go back to him? Dreamer, as a worker, is kinda underrated when you look at his overall career, but those promos seem Hot Topicy in their "my pain gets me off" kinda way. Still, Dreamer did try as hard as anyone, and his matches were just layered with references to previous bouts in his career (i have weird love of the Lawler-Dreamer blow off for this Tommy Dreamer's career subtext...we'll have to look at that later)

-Now we have the FBI in the ring...it's the Smothers and Rich version. They're going up against then Tag Champs, Storm and Candido. That's a fun pairing. Will definately watch this later. Though...i wonder, what were the requirements for this comp? I totally expected seven or eight Tajiri/Super Crazy fan cam matches and something involving New Jack.

-awesome, next is one of the Michinoku Pro six mans that predated the Barely Legal one. The difference here I think is Gran Naniwa on the face team instead of um...who was it? Sasuak, Hamada, and um...Yoshi something? The heels are of course Kaienti DX. Another one to watch later. I'll probably just edit this post. But I had a fun 10 hours at work today, I can't concentrate enough to review anything.

-Great, the Impact Players vs Jado and Gedo. I heard some pretty good things aobut this when it happened, but never waded through my ECW TV discs to actually watch it. I see this comp is pretty much good TV matches people probably missed or forgot about, which is totally cool with me...

-The next match is Steve Corino vs Tajiri and this is the one that really established Corino later ECW character of "bleeder". The one with the blood on the camera baseball slide dropkick. My problem with this, and the Jerry Lynn "DIE" match that perceded it, was that while they in some way helped Corino reach the main event...he didn't win. I dont remember one major Corino win until he got the title, aside from a number one contenders match with CW Anderson, though there you couldn't buy CW as a possible title contender (maybe after the surprising GREAT Dreamer fued). Still, just a beating as Corino hits a gusher, one of the good matches to slip of the muck that was ECW vs the Network, one of the worst defined heel groups ever. The logic of "TNN wants to replace the hip and cool RVD with the woman piledriving RHYNO, because that's best for ECW" makes no sense from a corporate standpoint

-And that's the comp. I had seen this listed for a while and never knew what was on it (why didn't I ask, i'm lazy...). And now you know, a very nice assortment of TV matches that run a little under two hours. Give it a whirl if you want a nice cross section of ECW.

I'll finish up that Nitro either later tonight or early tomorrow while I'm waking up...stay tuned!