[2000-01-14-ECW-Danbury, CT] Yoshihiro Taijiri vs Super Crazy vs Prodigy

[soup23]

Brawl in the crowd breaks out so the opening action is ignored. The crowd brawling here seems more frantic due to the fancam as we see the absolute mayhem of RF or whoever chasing up to the action. Tajiri throws condiment packets and a mini food fight breaks out as they had back to the ringside area. Something breaks out in the crowd again so most of the patrons miss a pretty poor missile dropkick from Prodigy. Tajiri and Crazy team up briefly to take out Prodigy then Tajiri turns on Crazy and hits the tree of woe dropkick. A brainbuster to Prodigy eliminates him as shit happens again in the crowd. What is going on here? Crazy talks to the camera. Crazy and Tajiri run through a two minute sequence that is fine with Crazy winning the powerbomb. This was derailed by the crowd stuff making it feel disjointed overall. **1/2

[Loss]

I included this because it was Super Crazy and Taijiri but I really didn't need to, I suppose. Total mess of a match -- partially because of the crowd and partially because Super Crazy and Taijiri have a third wheel they don't need that's dragging them down.

[Migs]

Seriously, why is Tom Marquez here? He literally never did anything related to these two guys on TV. Perhaps a tryout of sorts to see if he'd get included with the Tajiri/Crazy/Guido/Lynn group?

 

Fan cams are always great at reminding you how shitty crowd brawling is for 80% of the crowd.

 

Tajiri throwing candy was pretty amusing.

 

Two crowd fights in one match? This crowd is the worst. Shit, make that three!

 

Crazy and Tajiri are fine, but this one's not really worth checking out.

[goc]

Yea this wasn't very good. There really was no need to stick Prodigy in there.

[Kronos]

I appreciate RF's focus on Taijiri's face as Crazy's music starts. T looks confused, like he thought it was only a 2-man match. Then he makes lot of crazy faces. It's fun.

 

Fuck this crowd's chanting "ECDub" for the fight going on in the stands. They literally have turned their backs to the match.

 

I am not finishing this one.

[GSR]

What on earth is Prodigy doing in this match? His ring attire is hideous and it sound like the crowd is laughing as he makes his way out. Quality entrance from Tajiri with his huge array of facial expressions and giving the finger to someone who is clapping him. Prodigy and Crazy lock up and Tajiri with those snapping kicks to their legs. Side headlock on Crazy, and whilst he’s still holding on, dropkick to Prodigy. Crazy flips Tajiri backwards over his shoulder, ducks a right from Prodigy which connects with Tajiri and sends him tumbling out of the ring. Crazy with a hip toss and a moonsault off the middle rope for two. A fight has broken out in the crowd and the crowd have literally turned their backs on this match. ‘E C Dub’ chant for the fight in the crowd! The wrestlers are clearly aware as Crazy and Prodigy don’t do anything, while Tajiri just waits on the outside. Quebrada for two. Tajiri pulls Crazy to the floor and whips him into the guard rail. Prodigy goes for a pescado, but Tajiri and Crazy just step aside and he crashes and burns! Prodigy is whipped into the guard rail and he then back drops Crazy into the front row. A Tajiri kick to the back of the head and he’s in the front row too. They head to the back of the building, but Feinstein can’t keep up so we just catch the end of Tajiri whipping them both into the wall. Tajiri tries to suplex Crazy back into the ring, however he manages to free himself. He catches a Tajiri kick, but then gets it turned into the ‘Tarantula’. Prodigy is back! He unloads on Crazy before nailing them both with a clothesline and another fight in the crowd has broken out. Prodigy with a one footed dropkick off the top to Crazy and he turns his attention to Tajiri. Handspring elbow gets the quietest response I’ve ever heard as he crowd are pre-occupied with what’s going on elsewhere. Prodigy is tied in the ‘Tree of Woe’, Crazy stands on his balls and Tajiri with a dropkick to the face. ‘Tree of Woe’ for Crazy and he gets the dropkick treatment too. Brainbuster on Prodigy and he’s eliminated, but the majority of the crowd don’t seem to notice BECAUSE A THIRD FIGHT HAS BROKEN OUT!!! Crazy says something to Feinstein in Spanish, probably ‘why the fuck are we even bothering to try and put on a show for these people when they’re more concerned with what’s happening out there?’ Tajiri and Crazy don’t even attempt to wrestle while this is going on. Magistral cradle from Tajiri for two, followed by a dropkick to Crazy’s head and he steps outside for a breather. Tajiri heads around the other way and nails him with a thrust kick, but he’s able to reverse the Irish whip into the rails. Springboard moonsault for two, and a lovely rolling surfboard into a Dragon sleeper. Crazy finally gets the pin after a spinning powerbomb.

 

Prodigy didn’t look good at all and the match was better when he wasn’t involved in it, however the crowd absolutely killed this. When they turned their backs on the match to watch the fight in the stands you could almost sense a ‘why should we bother’ from the wrestlers. Tajiri and Crazy weren’t bad by any means, but this just felt as though they were going through the motions, and to be fair with the way the crowd behaved, I don’t blame them.

[Chess Knight]

Was a big mess thanks to some shit going down in the stands (stands…concrete floor….whatever) distracting the audience and Prodigy just not being any good (there’s no way anybody taught him that’s how you do a missile dropkick) but I had fun with it. Tajiri was his usual Tajiri self in personality and bonus points for chucking candy or whatever in the air just as signal he’s having fun. Like I said Prodigy wasn’t good but him being here was worth it just for when he punched Crazy while Crazy was in the tarantula and some fan went “you’re a little BITCH,” following with “FUCK HIM UP!!” directed at anybody who would take Prodigy out. Like he was genuinely disgusted somebody would do that. It actually got a laugh out of me and you know what I’m gonna go find it again.