[1998-02-04-ECW-TV] Taz & Bam Bam Bigelow vs Chris Candido & Shane Douglas & Lance Storm (Handicap)

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[soup23]

This made no sense to me. Bigelow tags in Taz who cleans house. Bigelow gets some licks in as well. Taz grabs the TV belt and rubs it in Shane's face and then stupidly throws it down. Bigelow of course waylays him with it and the swerve is on. Storm looks a little confused and Candido decks him. We have a new triple threat faction of Bigelow, Douglas, and Candido. The booking of ECW feels really off here as this felt like a turn that just happened to happen and try to rile up the fans. It feel really flat on my tv screen and was nonsensical in execution.

[Migs]

I'm trying to remember if there was a good explanation for why Bigelow came back into the fold, but otherwise, the layout of the angle is great. Taz is suckered in because of his immense pride - of course he would think he could take out three men himself and had to prove that his belt was greater (which makes no sense). It played into Candido's jealous character in developing the heat between him and Storm.

[Loss]

We talk about the Kevin Dunn camera shake - check out the camera work here while Bigelow is putting the boots to Taz. They turn on Storm to boot him out of the group as well. We'll see how they follow up on this and I'll reserve opinion until then, but yeah, this is an oddly laid out angle.

[PeteF3]

Well, if I were making a stable, I'd take Bigelow over Lance Storm, wouldn't you? Not sure what's in it for Bigelow but we'll see. This was decent enough, the Kevin Dunn Shaky-Cam was in full-force and you can actually see the cameraman doing it when they go back to the wide shot. Francine is also uncomfortably, downright dangerously skinny here. She can't weigh more than 90 pounds.

[TravJ1979]

Since I didn't have to watch the whole match, I was fine with the swerve/payoff at the end. Nobody cared about Bigelow as a face so why not put him back as the third wheel in a three man group.