[2000-09-23-ECW-Danbury, CT] Steve Corino vs C.W. Anderson

[soup23]

This was an improvement over the previous two matches but overall this house show was pretty rough for ECW. This is a meat and potatoes match with Corino really selling his arm and much of the work revolving around good punches. I like that simplistic approach as a change of pace. The finish comes with a distraction allowing Justin Credible to cane Corino and allowing CW to get the win. **3/4

[AstroBoy]

I am definitely enjoying Corino's work set against the backdrop of all the other ECW stuff. Here he gives a lot to CW and makes him look up at his level and CW looks pretty sharp in doing so. It's a bit of a builder and Justin Credible comes out to cost Corino the match. Kind of surprising to see Corino take the fall here.

 

***

[Migs]

Excited to see some more babyface Corino. He's pretty over here - not RVD well, but he's getting a great reaction. I enjoyed Dawn complaining to Gabe about the upskirt shots. Corino shows really great fire at the start here. I like that these guys take their time a bit and don't rush through things - it's not a deliberate pace, but they're giving fans the time to react to what's happening. This builds into something pretty fun. Liked the finish too, as CW looked strong in the match and gets a bit of help but not a crazy amount.

[GSR]

Johnny Swinger is seconding C.W. tonight and he’s been in the wars; a badly blackened eye and some tissue handing from his nose indicating that it is probably broken.  Dawn Marie is out with Corino, so her being with him on last week’s TNN show wasn’t a one shot deal.  She takes offence to Gabe (Sapolsky) looking up her dress with the camera, threatening to tell his girlfriend what he’s been doing!  Corino gets the better of the opening exchanges and a couple of great looking rights drop C.W. who ducks to the floor before Corino can land the bionic elbow.  Back inside Anderson dropkicks thin air as Corino holds onto the ropes, however fails to connect on the elbow drop and C.W. kills him with a superkick.  They’re not in the ring for long as Anderson tosses Corino back out to ringside, although this time ‘the King of Old School’ reverses the Irish whip sending C.W. crashing into the guard rail.  Corino grabs a beer from a fan which he blasts C.W. with, a spot that looks effective with the beer flying everywhere and covering those fans in the proximity but is as safe as houses.  C.W. with a sharp elbow to the ribs and he then throws Corino shoulder first into the railing.  That leads to some nice focused limb work, Corino forced to fight with one hand on his comebacks.  Swinger pulls out a table from under the ring which he passes to his man and you should hear the reaction that gets.  The two trade hard knife edge chops with Corino still selling that shoulder as they do.  He’s forced to go low and puts Anderson through the table with a release Northern Lights suplex.  Corino runs into an uppercut but then drops C.W. with a superkick as he comes charging in.  Swinger is now up on the apron having words with referee H.C. Loc and as Corino is setting up for the ‘Old School Expulsion’ Justin Credible runs out and canes him between the eyes.  Stunned by that, C.W. takes advantage and plants him with a spinebuster for the upset win.

A good little house show match although probably not one that you’d remember come the end up the year.  Both throw really solid looking punches and neither was holding anything back when they were laying in those chops.  Nice to see some limb work in there and, even moreso, see it being sold after.  Pretty huge upset as while C.W. was on a par with Corino in there, with where we are heading I wasn’t expecting him to get the win at all.