"The Quintessential Studmuffin" Joel Gertner and I discuss the big ECW Reunion weekend of 2005, and go over
both the Hardcore Homecoming show at the ECW Arena, and One Night
Stand 2005 at The Hammerstein Ballroom.
First we discuss the beginning of the reunion talk and Hardcore
Homecoming, including:
- if Joel knew ECW was over before or after Paul Heyman appeared on
WWF television
- what happened when he asked Paul if he should consider talking to
WCW
- what he thought of The Rise and Fall Of ECW DVD and whether or not
he was ever contacted to appear
- returning to the ECW Arena for Hardcore Homecoming, and his opening
segment with Joey Styles and his old nemesis Cyrus Don Callis
- the rumors of the backstage dissension between Cyrus and himself,
and whether or not it was accurate
- seeing his old ECW comrades such as Mikey Whipwreck, CW Anderson,
The Blue Meanie, Tracy Smothers and more in the opening matches
- his favorite of the old ECW dance offs
- the Jerry Lynn vs. Justin Credible rivalry
- the ungodly pop Sandman got that night, and where his famous
entrance got over the best
-Sandman vs. Raven
-Terry Funk vs. Shane Douglas vs. Sabu in a Barbed Wire match, what he
thought of the match, and how he feels about seeing those types of
matches
From there we move onto One Night Stand where we discuss:
- meeting Vince McMahon, and how surreal it was to work an ECW show
under the WWE banner
- Super Crazy's balcony moonsault vs. New Jack's balcony dives
- working with Kurt Angle and JBL
- working with Eric Bischoff
- the rabid ECW crowd's chants, including against Edge
- Masato Tanaka vs. Mike Awesome, and whether looking back on matches
like that makes him cringe
-the main event between the Dudley Boyz and Tommy Dreamer & The
Sandman
-Steve Austin's appearance, and the final brawl of the show
-And what if felt like to have to end what he called "the biggest
weekend in his wrestling career."
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