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[2000-01-22-ECCW-Insanity TV] Black Dragon vs Weed


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The Kozina-Dragon match from the previous week, which we see highlights of before this starts, looks far superior by comparison. Weed's gimmick is pretty dissonant in that he's this dreadlocked pothead holding his breath during his promo and then having a coughing fit, only to go in the ring and try to work a fast-paced highspot style. What kind of wrestler with a stoner gimmick doesn't forget he's in a match, or crave Doritos ... SOMETHING that doesn't completely turn off the persona when the bell rings? Anyway, Black Dragon looks fairly impressive in spots, but Weed really doesn't, and not in the way I hoped. I would have sort of admired him for not being very good if he was living the gimmick. ECCW is a group I look forward to tracking though just because it seems like an eccentric indy with lots of mainstays ... and Bryan Danielson.

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Pre-match interview from Weed, and he’s so confident that he can beat Black Dragon that he’s going to put his disgusting looking dreadlocks on the line. Weed, as you might imagine, does a ‘stoner’ gimmick and cuts the interview as if he’s high, gets the name of his opponent wrong and then takes some chocolate from the interviewer because he’s got the munchies.

 

Just as the match is about to begin we go to an advert for the ‘House of Pain’ wrestling school, and return as Weed hits a sloppily executed frankensteiner. Dragon takes him off his feet with a lariat, then a Michinoku Driver followed by a Lionsault for two. He ties Weed in ‘the tree of woe’ and a baseball slide dropkick to the face. Whip to the corner, and as Dragon comes charging in, Weed leaps up and tries to hooks Dragon’s arms with his own legs for a sunset flip roll up, but makes a complete hash of it so Dragon drills him with a right instead! Snap suplex for two. Scoop slam and Dragon goes for the Vadersault off the middle rope, however the camera cuts to a shot of the crowd so we completely miss seeing Weed getting his knees up. He fires back on his opponent and drops him with a flying clothesline. An awful looking handspring elbow, before heading upstairs, but Dragon is up to his feet and swipes his legs out. Suicideplex, shooting star press and its bye bye to those dreadlocks!

 

Well I’d be giving the ‘House of Pain’ wrestling school a miss if Weed is typical of the kind of wrestler that they produce! He wasn’t good at all, blew a simple sunset flip and his handspring elbow looked like horse shit. Dragon seems competent (plus there were some decent looking clips of a previous match he had against Tony Kozina that aired prior), so I wouldn’t mind seeing him against someone better than Weed. No idea who he is mind; although the commentators talk about him beating Ultimo Dragon in Japan, and being the only Gaijin deemed fit to carry on his tradition. Don’t know if that is the truth or a little bit of creative license. The match itself was effectively a squash, and negative marks for whoever edited this together and thought shots of the audience is what we wanted to see as opposed to the actual wrestling action.

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So there is a WEED in Canada and Memphis, that's nice. Black Dragon looks like a Ultimo Dragon clone and has a nice looking SSP. Very indie match and the random crowd shots were weird. I thought it might be because of certain bumps being banned on TV but they show the finish in full. Not very good but interesting to see.

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