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[2001-02-10-JCW-Rugged Valentine] Reckless Youth vs Spike Dudley


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Curious to see Spike on the indies, as he ended up going to the WWF pretty quickly after this and thus didn't have nearly as long an indy run as some of the other ECW alumni.

 

Some solid wrestling to start. Don Montoya and Inferno interfere on Youth's behalf, and they fall into an, um, sexual position that gets some embarrassing retrograde chants. Youth controls off some more interference. This is all totally fine but pretty uninspiring. Spike takes the offense, and that gets the crowd going a bit. Spike accidentally gives the ref the Acid Drop for reasons unexplained, and Youth's cronies interfere some more. The crowd is so dead.Spike dispatches everyone and hits the Acid Drop, and a new ref runs in to count the three. I'll let you put the Dusty finish together on how Youth retains. Nothing to see here.

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Little Spike getting a crack at the JCW championship in his JCW debut, while Reckless has his buddies Don Montoya and Danny Inferno, the newly christened ‘Triad’, in his corner. A bit of creative license from the commentator when talking about Reckless being under a WWF developmental contract, as apparently he felt the WWF wasn’t right for him and decided to come to JCW instead. Hmmm... Tremendous chain wrestling from both men at the onset. Hip toss from Spike before taking Reckless down with a side headlock. Reckless fights his way to his feet and then backs Spike into the corner where he repeatedly drives a shoulder into his mid-section. He distracts referee Shaun Hanson as Montoya and Inferno interfere from the outside behind his back. Spike reverses the whip to the turnbuckle and a big flying splash in the corner. Montoya is in the ring ready to interfere again when Spike sees him coming, catches him with a drop toe hold and his face ends up in Reckless’ crotch. Inferno gets in there to try and drag Don away and we have that same three way visual that we got in the Corino & Whipwreck tag from last month, this time with the fans chanting “homo, homo” at them. Spike clears the ring of ‘the Triad’ and returns to the side headlock. A back drop sends Spike over the top rope and, although he lands on the apron, Montoya swipes his legs away and he crashes head first into it. Reckless is back distracting Hanson as ‘the Triad’ do a number on Spike on the arena floor. Somersault senton by Reckless for a two. More interference and Spike is having his work cut out with these three on one odds. Spike kicks out of the ‘O’Connor’ roll sending Reckless flying through the ropes and out of the ring, taking out Montoya in the process. Another spot that they’ve repeated from the aforementioned tag at the ‘Teaneck Turmoil’ show, looking even worse here due to the distance Reckless had to travel plus, are we really supposed to believe the Spike has that sort of power in his legs? As Inferno is around to help his buddies out, Spike with a crossbody off the top out onto all three. Huracanrana, rolling cradle and this time its Reckless kicking out of there at two. Go behind by Reckless and he drops Spike with a reverse DDT. Spike floats over on the bodyslam, but the ‘Acid Drop’ is countered as Reckless shoves him chest first into the turnbuckles. ‘Blue Thunder Driver’. Spike runs into a back elbow and as Hanson checks on him, he hits the ‘Acid Drop’ on the official. With the ref down its triple team time on Spike until he ducks the double clothesline and nails Montoya and Inferno with a double DDT. ‘Acid Drop’ on Reckless and a second referee sprints from the dressing room, counts the fall and we have a new JCW Heavyweight champion. No we don’t...what we do have is a ‘Dusty finish’ with Hanson disqualifying Spike when he comes back around. Lots of “bullshit” chants from the fans to that decision.

 

The start of this was great and it looked like we were in for a real grappling treat, as it was, that was probably the peak of the match. It was all very insipid from there with hideous ‘comedy’ (that was done on the previous show anyway), lame healing and cheating from ‘the Triad’, the comical O’Connor roll kick out (another repeated spot) and a ‘Dusty finish’ at the end. I’m guessing Spike was supposed to be dazed and didn’t know he was hitting his finisher on the referee, only problem is that Hanson has got long hair and is wearing a shirt, compared to the short cropped vest wearing Youth. Even if he couldn’t see, he could easily feel that it’s someone else he’s got hold of. I wonder how much being cut from developmental has affected Youth? He, to me, feels like a different wrestler to the one who was in Memphis last year, almost like he tried his best, went all out but all that got him was released from a major company. There seems to be something missing with him from what he used to be.

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