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00:00Ladies and gentlemen,
00:03he hails from the south side of Dudleyville.
00:08Weighing in at a slim, trim, bump, cut, ripped, chiseled, and
00:15204 pounds.
00:25And he weighs 204, and Joel Dordner is the poster boy for
00:29Ben-Fed.
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00:38Consensus agreement here in New York City.
00:42The scale the Dudleys are using is off-kilter just a little bit.
00:4758 pounds.
00:49The most righteous brother in the building,
00:53Dave Vaughn Dudley.
00:57204 pounds.
01:00All in.
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02:39The only color more glorious than tie dye is gold.
02:46Send out your champion.
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02:54New York City has come alive as Brooklyn's own
02:58Human Suplex Machine.
03:02The Orange and Black Attack.
03:04The World Television Champion is headed to the ring.
03:09.
03:14ECW will return to this very same building.
03:18The El Swaz on Queens Boulevard, Queens, New York City.
03:22The night after Christmas, December 26th.
03:26And you've got to wonder how many of these athletes live will be changed by
03:32what happens this weekend at the November to Remember Live on Pay Per View.
03:39Our next match is for the ECW World Television Championship.
03:50Your referee, John Finnegan.
03:54You have already met the challenger.
03:56Please welcome, from the Red Hood section of Brooklyn, weighing in at 248 pounds,
04:04he is the Human Suplex Machine, he is the ECW World Television Champion, E.S.
04:13This matchup is for the ECW World Television Title.
04:21Will the butthlings take a belt into the four-way dance of death?
04:25Will Kaz face Pitbull 2 simply for one or will it be for the goal?
04:31Bubba Ray Dudley with a 102-pound weight advantage, takes an early advantage.
04:43Taz took the ride, well-placed back elbow floors the champion.
04:51And while Bubba Ray may walk on water in Dudleyville,
04:57he's none too popular here in New York City.
05:00Scooping a slam on Taz, 350-pound elbow across the chest.
05:08And D-Generation Dudley is large and in charge.
05:13Taz is gonna kill you, Taz is gonna kill you.
05:17Taz is gonna kill you, Taz is gonna kill you, Taz is gonna kill you.
05:23Taz is gonna kill you.
05:28Taz, the fan favorite here in the Big Apple,
05:31right now, he's being hammered by the larger challenger.
05:33The champion yet to mount any offense in this matchup.
05:40And this is going to be trouble.
05:44Kass now on the floor with all the rugby boys.
05:49Kass, it's the stick.
05:51Jordan! Jordan!
05:55Robert Ray gets back in the ring.
05:57Big Dick and Diva are now hammering tent.
06:04The Dudleys are taking no chances.
06:08They want to bring the world television title belt
06:12into the Golden Door this weekend,
06:14live on pay-per-view at the November Tournament.
06:17You better put a stop to this right now.
06:19You better put a stop to this right now.
06:21I ain't doing .
06:24Put a stop to the other officials out here to do it.
06:29Ooh, who are you going to get?
06:31Colin Owens?
06:33Lee Lee?
06:34That's the way you want to be?
06:38I need officials out here now.
06:40I need referees out here now.
06:42The Dudleys weigh an average of 300.
06:45It falls Mahoney and it's all right.
06:48Those that have come to the Zebras I've never seen.
06:52The Dudley boys will be in the four-way dance of death this Sunday night.
07:08The Gangstonators, Bolton Axel, and the full-blooded Italians,
07:12four tag teams in the same ring at the same time for the World Tag Team title belt.
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07:24Bubba Ray, Dudley, and his incestuous brothers have this match up while it hands.
07:29Paul's Mahoney and Axel Rodden may have caught the Dudleys a title belt.
07:33And Taz now takes advantage of the distraction.
07:37Bubba Ray's up for the ride.
07:38Drop Toho.
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07:44Crossface, the other way.
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07:52Bubba Ray gets hammered by Taz.
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07:58And just like that, the pendulum of momentum has shifted.
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08:05Taz going for the T-Bone.
08:07Big Bubba Ray blocked it.
08:09Misses a haymaker.
08:10Misses two.
08:11Make it three.
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08:15350 pairs.
08:17Bubba Ray, Dudley, taken out of his boots by a T-Bone Taz plex.
08:22And you see Taz pop those hips.
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08:35The fans want to see the transmission.
08:39Don't give out, don't give out, don't give out, don't give out, don't give out.
08:41Bubba's set for the ride, hit, toss, block, reverse, no.
08:54What the hell was that?
08:55A limp-wristed double-axe handle, Bubba's putter, reverse.
09:05Yes, Cutter!
09:10As is gonna kill you!
09:25Gartner gets folded up like a big, fat accordion!
09:31Bubba Ray Dudley's gonna hit the bubble ball!
09:35Taz hops away!
09:37Pinch Bubba Ray over!
09:39It's anybody's matchup!
09:42The World Television Title Belt hangs in the balance!
09:45350 pounds down across the back leg of Taz!
09:51Taz is up!
09:52There it is!
09:53The Taz mission that comes to Hajime!
09:56Mama Ray Dudley tapped out!
10:00This Sunday night, Pitbull 2 takes on Taz!
10:06After 1997, November to remember, live on pay-per-view, on cable TV, on direct TV, on the Dish Network, on Crime Star!
10:15Call your local cable company, call your local satellite company, call your neighbors, call your friends!
10:23The World Television Title Belt will be on the line on pay-per-view this Sunday night!
10:29I was born and raised!
10:3120 minutes later!
10:33Good night!
10:35In a beautiful red-hot Brooklyn!
10:36Wait time!
10:37There!
10:38I was born and raised!
10:39I was born and raised 20 minutes from here in beautiful Red Hook, Brooklyn.
11:02I'm going to tell you what, at this pay-per-view, I am going to commit AFI Suck, it's your mother
11:18who taught me.
11:19I am going to commit the most violent act on that pay-per-view because I can.
11:31Because I'm credible, I'm a machine that wrestles and I'm from Brooklyn.
11:38I, by my little old self, am going to show the wrestling world what a shoot is.
11:52Bret Hart and Vince McMahon, they think that they did was a shoot.
12:01Watch this pay-per-view and watch the most violent man in this business from Brooklyn hurt somebody,
12:09shoot somebody.
12:11Of course I can.
12:12You see, I am Taz, the ECW World Television Champion.
12:21Beat me if you can.
12:24Survive if I let you.
12:28Extreme.
12:29Champion.
12:30Earth.
12:31Extreme.
12:32Champion.
12:33Earth.
12:34EXTREME
12:38CHEMPIONATION
12:42BIRTHFLEE
13:04CHEMPIONATION
14:14I'm Joey Styles at the Elks Lodge in Queens, New York City.
17:22I've got to tell you, I've been sitting in the back, listening to you crazy sons of bitches,
17:28and I've got to say that Queens, New York, in the heart of New York City, and the Elks
17:37Lodge, and you fans put Philadelphia to shame any given night.
17:44There's spades of spades.
18:14I've got to tell you, New York, you guys are great, you've got some of the best looking
18:29women here in New York.
18:35Next to Pittsburgh.
18:42You've got some of the most intelligent men here in New York.
18:49Next to Pittsburgh.
18:55You guys got one hell of a building here, but it don't hold a to the Golden Dome in Pittsburgh.
19:04I know where you work there, punk boy.
19:11You're one of them.
19:12Step back, because you're a p****** just like them.
19:17Hey, Pittsburgh.
19:19Watch it right now, 11 o'clock.
19:23WPTT.
19:24You are 22 hours away from the biggest event in Pittsburgh history.
19:29And look at what I've got to put up with just to come home and call myself a franchise.
19:36Look, Pittsburgh.
19:41Look at that fat ass up there.
19:44Look at what I've got to put up with.
19:46Over here, cameraman.
19:47Look.
19:48This is what I've got to put up with.
19:53Back here, cameraman.
19:54This is what's important.
19:55This is what we have to put up with Pittsburgh every single stinking day here at ECW.
20:02Because to be a franchise and come home tomorrow night and prove to everybody who is going to be the next ECW World Heavyweight Champion.
20:09Sit down, Queens, New York.
20:10I'm talking to the fans in Pittsburgh.
20:11I'm talking to the fans in Pittsburgh.
20:16Tomorrow night, Pittsburgh.
20:17You'll tell all these fans to go to hell.
20:23And I promise you, you will hear this in Pittsburgh.
20:43And I promise you, you will hear this announcement.
20:47Your winner, and
20:51the new ECW Heavyweight Champion of the World,
20:58the franchise, Shane Douglas.
21:06Scott Charles Bam Bam Bigelow enters
21:12the 1997 November to remember as the ECW Heavyweight Champion of the World.
21:19He won that belt on Thursday night, October 16th, in Queens, New York City,
21:25when ravishing Rick Rude, already freelancing with Vince McMahon and
21:30the World Wrestling Federation, and according to published reports,
21:34in secret negotiations with Eric Dishoff and World Championship Wrestling,
21:40double-crossed the franchise and introduced Bigelow as Shane Douglas' surprise opponent.
21:47Despite the pleas of the rest of the Triple Threat, Bigelow took on the unprepared franchise,
21:53and Douglas caught totally off-guard at the prospect of having to fight.
21:59A fellow member of the Triple Threat was pulverized by Bigelow,
22:04who emerged as the new ECW Heavyweight Champion of the World.
22:11Will it be any different this Sunday night?
22:15It's a rematch for the Heavyweight Championship of the World, Bam Bam versus the Franchise at the 1997,
22:24November to remember, live on Pay-Per-View.
22:31Welcome back to Extreme Championship Wrestling.
22:33This Sunday night will be ECW's 5th annual November to remember,
22:37and this year it will be live on Pay-Per-View from the Golden Dome in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
22:43Check out this lineup. The franchise, Shane Douglas, with his head cheerier, Francine,
22:49challenging the beast from the east, Bam Bam Bigelow, for the ECW World Heavyweight title.
22:57The human suplex machine, Taz, the ECW World Television Champion,
23:02defending the belt against the challenge of the huge Pitbull number 2,
23:06accompanied by Pitbull 1 and Mr. Wright.
23:09A four-way dance of death as the full-blooded Italians defend the ECW World Tag Team title belt
23:16against the Dudley Boys.
23:19New Jack and Kronis, how it's called in the Gangstamators,
23:23and Balls Mahoney and Axl Rock.
23:2723-year-old sensation, just incredible,
23:30takes on ECW Triple Crown winner, Mikey Whitbrick.
23:35I don't know if the Golden Dome can contain this matchup.
23:38No gimmick needed. Chris Candido of the Triple Threat takes on fantastic Tommy Rodgers.
23:44The innovator of violence, Tommy Dreamer, with Beulah McGillicuddy,
23:48takes on Bill Alfonso's Mr. Monday Night Rob Van Dam.
23:52The winner gets to wave his flag after the matchup.
23:54Will it be Van Dam waving Vince McMahon's WWF banner,
23:58or will Tommy Dreamer wave the ECW flag?
24:02Plus, a matchup I know we've all waited for.
24:04It's a matter of pride. It's a matter of revenge.
24:07Three-time ECW World Heavyweight Champion,
24:10the Sandman, the extreme icon, Mr. November collides,
24:14with Bill Alfonso's suicide, homicidal, genocidal maniac Sabu,
24:19tables and ladders not only legal, but encouraged as well.
24:23It's the biggest pay-per-view wrestling event of 1997.
24:28It's the biggest event in the history of ECW.
24:33The 5th Annual November to Remember,
24:35live on pay-per-view this Sunday night.
24:37Call your local cable company, call your satellite provider.
24:40If you missed the November to Remember,
24:42it's a regret you'll never forget.
24:45I'm 25 years old.
24:50In the best shape of my life,
24:53I've been around this business for all of my 25 years.
24:57Started rolling around inside the ring when I was 6 years old.
25:01That's 19 years of experience inside that ring.
25:04My first professional wrestling match was at 14 years old.
25:08That's 11 years of experience, not even 26 years old yet.
25:12You know, as I travel around with the ECW, I go through the airports,
25:16go to all the towns, all the fans that follow us around,
25:18all those smart fans, think they know this business.
25:21They all grab me and they, you know, like to talk about wrestling,
25:24talk about, hey, how about Misawa, how about Kabashi?
25:27The great match they had, boy, those guys are great.
25:29How about Chris Benoit, Ric Flair, can't have a bad match.
25:33And I totally agree with them.
25:35How about guys like Guerrero or Malenko?
25:37Hell, they even sell a tape called the Guerrero Malenko Classics,
25:40because they were so fantastic.
25:42How about a guy like Sabu, Rob Van Dam, put their body on the line
25:45every single night for you people?
25:48How about a guy like Bam Bam Bigelow,
25:50regardless of the way I feel about him personally,
25:52the greatest big man in the history of our business?
25:55How about my partner, the franchise Shane Douglas,
25:57the rightful world heavyweight champion?
26:00Hey, you know what?
26:01I know all you smart fans out there know the way I feel about Shawn Michaels,
26:05but taking nothing away from him.
26:07Every time he's on that pay-per-view, he steals the damn show.
26:12But you know, every time he does it, he's the main eventer.
26:14He's the headliner, the top of the card.
26:18What's in November to remember?
26:20The top of the card is my partner Shane Douglas against Bam Bam Bigelow.
26:24And the next day, they're all going to be talking about Shane bringing the world championship back to the triple threat.
26:31But they're also going to be talking about something that wasn't the main event, or the headline, or the top of the card.
26:37They're going to be talking about me, about Chris Candido.
26:40Because when you put your money down for the November to remember,
26:43you're going to see the performance of a lifetime by me.
26:47Because I guarantee you people this, I am the greatest performer in professional wrestling today.
26:51No matter what you think about professional wrestling, I'm not here to argue that fact with you.
26:56The only thing I am going to tell you is that night I am establishing myself from here on in,
27:01as the greatest performer in this business.
27:03Every time you put your money down to see a pay-per-view event,
27:06and not just a pay-per-view or a TV where other guys work hard,
27:10come to one of our shows, I'm still on the show.
27:13But November to remember is the one I'm talking about right now.
27:16Because it means a lot to me.
27:19It means a lot to me and the future of this business.
27:22Because like I said from here on in, I, I steal the show.
27:26The show belongs to me.
27:27The ECW, November to remember, it's mine because I'm the show stopper.
27:31I'm the show stealer.
27:32I'm Chris Candido.
27:34No gimmick needed.
27:35So Chris Candido wants to steal the show.
27:41Well, to do so, we've got to beat Tommy Rogers.
27:43Talk about two evenly matched athletes.
27:46Chris Candido, no gimmick needed, a member of the Triple Threat,
27:50fantastic Tommy Rogers,
27:52one of, if not the most underrated wrestlers in the world today.
27:57This may be the show stealer.
27:59The sleeper match of the pay-per-view.
28:02All part of the fifth annual November to remember,
28:04this Sunday night, live on pay-per-view.
28:07Coins a local cable company or satellite provider.
28:09You can't afford to miss this one.
28:12What a main event we have for you on tonight's program.
28:17Bam Bam Bigelow being challenged for the ECW World Heavyweight title
28:22by Sabu just days before the November to remember,
28:25live on pay-per-view this Sunday.
28:27Now, during the course of this program,
28:29I'm sure you've seen at least one commercial for an ECW videotape
28:32called Born to be Wired.
28:34That was one week before ECW Hardcore Heaven 97,
28:38also live on pay-per-view, Sabu defeated Terry Funk
28:41for the World Heavyweight title in a bar-fire matchup
28:44and totally changed the lineup for Hardcore Heaven 97.
28:47Will Lightning strike again here tonight in New York City?
28:51What if Sabu defeats Bam Bam Bigelow for the World Heavyweight title
28:56right here on this program?
28:58Then we have pay-per-view for this Sunday night,
29:00the fifth annual November to remember, Jordan to Turboy.
29:04Let's go down to the ring and ring announcer,
29:06Steven Bigelow, as Sabu looks to have Lightning strike twice
29:10as he challenges Bam Bam Bigelow for the Bigelow.
29:13Bam Bam Bigelow!
29:17Bam Bam Bigelow defending the World Heavyweight title
29:21against Sabu here in New York City
29:23just days before the fifth annual November to remember,
29:27live on pay-per-view this Sunday night.
29:31Sabu's scheduled to collide with the Sandman
29:33and the Tables and Ladders matchup.
29:34Bigelow, of course, defending against the franchise Shane Douglas.
29:38Bam Bam Bigelow the most agile big man this sport.
29:45Takes three make and four right hands.
29:47Sabu just unloading.
29:51Bam Bam Bigelow the most agile big man this sport.
29:55Takes three make and four right hands.
29:57Sabu just unloading.
30:00Bam Bam fires big man in New York City.
30:03Big splash of the court.
30:16We want Sabu!
30:22We want Sabu!
30:27Bam Bam kicks up Sabu like a small child.
30:30For Sabu,
30:32climbing over the sunset,
30:34up to 360 pounds down across the skirt.
30:40Sabu getting at a dive.
30:42Baseball slide misses.
30:51One punch from the world heavyweight champion for Sabu.
30:55Chair in the face.
31:00Bigelow never saw it coming.
31:02You can still see the stitches on the back of the head of Bigelow.
31:06He was pro-harbored by members of the Triple Threat.
31:09Who wanted to take him out of the pay-per-view this Sunday.
31:16Baseball slide the world heavyweight champion goes over the guardrail into the first row.
31:22Here comes here, Sabu.
31:28Strayboard Blackjack.
31:37It's a wild scene here in New York City, but it will surely pale in comparison.
31:42The one will go down at the Golden Dome this Sunday night live on pay-per-view.
31:47When Sabu and the Sandman get it on tables and ladders are legal.
31:53And Shane Douglas looks to be a three-time ECW World Heavyweight Champion
31:58at the expense of Bam Bam Bigelow,
32:01who was just put to the Timekeeper's table.
32:04The World Heavyweight Champion is in jeopardy here in New York City.
32:19What would happen to our pay-per-view?
32:20Bam Bam with Shane Douglas.
32:21No title at stake.
32:22The Sabu and the Sandman.
32:23World title at stake in a tables and ladders matchup.
32:26This is anyone's match.
32:27Bam Bam Bigelow is packed up.
32:28This man, this beast.
32:29The second wind out of nowhere.
32:30He may be invincible.
32:31He may be invulnerable.
32:32Powerbomb on the chair, and that is how he defeated Shane Douglas for the World Heavyweight title in this very same building.
32:42Bigelow gonna finish off Sabu.
33:03Dives into the chair.
33:06Sabu has a 90-hand butt wheel scout.
33:19Air Sabu connects in the corner.
33:29Champion and challenger tumbled to the floor.
33:36Here's Sabu took Bam Bam Bigelow over the top rope to the floor.
33:46But again, it's Bam Bam Bigelow on first.
33:52What the hell do you have to do to keep this beast down?
33:57There's a chair between the eyes.
34:03And a chair to the back.
34:10Sabu now ascending the turnbuckle.
34:13Bigelow takes that steel chair between the eyes, and that may be all to the World Heavyweight Champion.
34:20No, two and a half.
34:22Bigelow somehow gets his best shoulders off the canvas.
34:26It's the Sandman.
34:33The Sandman is on the balcony.
34:35We've gotta take a break.
34:36Don't dare go away.
34:38We're back.
34:42The Sandman looking on from the balcony.
34:47Here comes Bigelow's new finisher, the Asbury Park one.
34:54It's Mr. Monday Night Raw, Van Dam.
34:57Raw kicking Bigelow in the part of the knee.
35:00Sandman and Van Dam now, Tommy Dreamer.
35:08Dreamer is in the ring.
35:10Mr. Monday Night, the innovator of violence, will meet this Sunday Night Live on pay-per-view in a flag match.
35:20Now the franchise has joined the fray.
35:23Bigelow is manhandling the franchise.
35:31Mr. Monday Night working over Tommy Dreamer.
35:36And Sandman's got a chip.
35:38Down across the broken heel of Tommy Dreamer.
35:42Van Dam and Sandman now double teaming Tommy.
35:49They don't want Dreamer to make it to remember to remember.
35:56They're gonna break that foot clean off if this keeps up.
36:05My God.
36:08Now Bantor has brought a ladder into the ring.
36:16This is the Sandman, the Sandman has hit the ring.
36:25Jesus Christ, are you okay?
36:30This is the Sandman, the Sandman has hit the ring.
36:35Can you imagine what the November to remember is going to be like this Sunday?
36:55Tommy Dreamer, are you so sure that you're gonna beat Mr. Monday Night Rob Van Dam in November to remember that you're willing to put your flag up against mine?
37:04Well, you've got a lot to lose, Tommy.
37:06You see, Vince would love to have me hang my flag up on his show.
37:09And I'm not telling you anything new by saying Eric Bischoff calls me every few days requesting the same.
37:15I want to hang my flag up on your show, Tommy.
37:18Now, if you were to win the match, Tommy, you could hang your ECW flag up high and proud.
37:24And you could do your company some damn good business on November 30th.
37:28For me and Sabu, we've got much bigger plans.
37:33.
37:38guitar solo
38:08guitar solo
38:38guitar solo
39:08guitar solo
39:38guitar solo
40:08guitar solo
40:38guitar solo
41:08guitar solo
41:38guitar solo
42:08guitar solo
42:38guitar solo
43:08guitar solo